To improve your trolling be a little less spot on next time.
I know that’s the conventional wisdom but saved the economy how? Since then we’ve had 40 years of stagnant wages rising costs and increasing inequality.
More inflation would have been worse how? Oh yeah, we pay, back our loans with cheaper money. What a problem. Hyperinflation was never a risk. Sometimes inflation is better than not.
Otoh, idk, the alternative may have been worse still. not gonna die on this hill just worth considering both sides of it for a minute.Apologies for the derail.
This is preferable to letting Trump get to make more SCOTUS picks.
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I’m not going to die on it either, but I think stagnant wages and rising inequality are caused by stuff at a deeper structural level than interest rates and inflation (and there was plenty of inflation as it was). But I dunno. Interest rates are certainly adjacent to the financialization that I think is the mechanism for the splitting of productivity and income growth, but I don’t think raising interest rates speeds that along.
Grunch: has Pete declared victory in any states yet?
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No, the flattening of the marginal tax rates was maybe the biggest thing. I meant the economic contraction I caused intentionally by the raising of interest rates created conditions in which the incumbent party was extremely vulnerable, giving us Reagan and supply side economic nonsense which we still haven’t broken from never mind recovered from. Then again, maybe it would have happened anyway.
So around this time tomorrow we’ll be talking Ukraine instead of M4A… Cool cool.
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Yeah, it was a nice hot second there where M4A was a bigger story than Ukraine or Russia or Emails or even Tweets. Back to the regular programming soon.
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Alright, enough infighting (looks in mirror).
Bernie has the potential to take a huge delegate lead tonight.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
If he runs up the score in CA and wins TX the nomination will be his to lose. Don’t get negative. Don’t get discouraged. We can and will prevail.
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I think he’s going to do well in CA. from what I saw on the ground, literally no one else had a campaign infrastructure here until it was too late.
I was all about CA voting earlier, but after having been on the inside of a campaign, now I’m not so sure. The state is so big and so expensive, I think you need the timing of a May or June primary to build here. Bernie was the only one with offices and staff here, probably left over from last time. No one knew how to run a primary campaign here because they never had to before. I think this also explains how Bloomberg was able to poll well here so quickly…no one else could afford to advertise here, so what he lacked in ground game, he made up for in ad spending. Pete and Elizabeth and Joe (and the rest) were really doomed here by the early date.
That was much more the Dem establisment convincing the good moderate Dem footsoldier candidates to bail right before Super Tuesday rather than continuing to campaign for 3 more days than it was the press.
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It’s really a tough conundrum whether or not to have early voting. It allows people who work to be able to vote when they can, but it does essentially disenfranchise people like you, and that’s wrong.
Not sure what a good solution is, but it also doesn’t make sense to have different rules for different states, IMO.
Maybe a good argument for a national primary day.
Welp.
Congrats, Joe.
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The big change is that Bernie was looking to get ~all CA delegates, but now essentially all remaining candidates will get over the viability threshold.
sky’s talking about the date CA’s primary is in the overall race, not letting people vote early.
I think the solution is to have primaries on weekends. Unless we go with short, publicly funded elections immediately, having one day for all primaries is inherently unfair to anyone but the most well-funded/well-known candidates. Bernie never would have risen in 2016, for example.
But yeah, early voting for a primary is less than ideal. As a note, I don’t feel disenfranchised. I still cast my vote for the person I thought would make the best president. I have no regrets.
November general election should be a national holiday. To me that is one of those no-brainer reforms that should have zero opposition.
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And yes, that too ;)
CA used to be in June.
I voted a couple weeks ago. Lots of older people voted well before today in CA.
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