Elections 2018. it was truly a 2018 elections

[Feech La Manna]

::Marist Poll is released::

"HEIDI, FIRE UP THE TWEETER"

[brent]

What

yeah i keep reading it and it doesn't make any sense

[joe]

The American people are now costars with Kevin Bacon in this movie called life

[joe]

All thanks to Beto

[palmer eldritch]

texans > flag > the nfl players > beto > kevin bacon ?

[blurst of times]

i don't want to get my hopes up, but how sick would it be if ted cruz lost?

that beto video about kneeling for the anthem was good. i rolled my eyes a bit when he said "reasonable people can disagree about this" -- how reasonable is it to deny athletes' first amendment rights? -- but he's running in a deep-red state, so that approach probably makes sense. anecdotally at least, he does seem to be winning over republicans, somehow. (that buzzfeed profile of him was a good read.)

[Feech La Manna]

It probably helps that Ted Cruz can't help but be one of the most unlikable people on the planet

[palmer eldritch]

NC-09 to lean D at crystal ball

[palmer eldritch]

I think most raters had this as a toss-up but it's 2018 and Lamont seems well liked

[Ted Pikul]

I think most raters had this as a toss-up but it's 2018 and Lamont seems well liked

[Feech La Manna]

love to roll out some good ol' birtherism, but for State Senate candidates

[endless dave]

love to do a bunch of reporting on what is very clearly and obviously a giant oppo dump from the incumbent

[Feech La Manna]

75% if it is about how she used to be a Zionist conservative before she talked to a Palestinian person

[super gas]

Available from a box right next to the heavily trafficked Bogart Street exit of the Morgan stop on the L train.

well that's a bridge or tunnel too far for me.

[super gas]

florida is amazing

[Big Oil]

love to roll out some good ol' birtherism, but for State Senate candidates

As with Ocasio-Cortez, who had worked as a bartender in Manhattan less than a year before her primary victory, the value proposition behind a state senator Julia Salazar is only tangentially related to her past accomplishments

fuuuuuuuuuuck you

these freaks just cannot resist this kind of shit

[Skerple]

i think it's cool as hell that lebronny tweeted about beto. beto actually seems to kind of rule.

[mcwop23]

[tgk]

excellent news

[coop]

my wife

[reversemigraine]

my wife

Anytime I hear Duncan Hunter speak I just think of:

[endless dave]

so re-reading the Salazar article, it's definitely this gross hit piece that (I suppose understandably for a center-right Jewish publication) is mostly concerned with the apparent "fluidness" of Jewish identity, especially her move away from Zionism, but the stuff about how she's definitely said she's an immigrant and a lot of major publications have run with that idea and how she's definitely not an immigrant is a bit of a harder thing to square away. would feel a lot better hearing how they response to that part of it

[john plainman]

love to roll out some good ol' birtherism, but for State Senate candidates

As with Ocasio-Cortez, who had worked as a bartender in Manhattan less than a year before her primary victory, the value proposition behind a state senator Julia Salazar is only tangentially related to her past accomplishments

fuuuuuuuuuuck you

these freaks just cannot resist this kind of shit

this article is very strange. it seems like its trying to poke holes in her bio, but also seems to recognize that they're unable to do so, nonetheless they're still... suspicious? of the evolution of her views. they also seem completely baffled by the fact that she grew up in a house with both jewish and christian heritage.

and bari seems to be boiling this down to a bad faith basic take

[Feech La Manna]

so re-reading the Salazar article, it's definitely this gross hit piece that (I suppose understandably for a center-right Jewish publication) is mostly concerned with the apparent "fluidness" of Jewish identity, especially her move away from Zionism, but the stuff about how she's definitely said she's an immigrant and a lot of major publications have run with that idea and how she's definitely not an immigrant is a bit of a harder thing to square away. would feel a lot better hearing how they response to that part of it

I don't really care. It sounds like her parents were going back and forth between Colombia and Miami and she was actually born in Miami.

[john plainman]

the rigidity on who is or isnt an immigrant is really gross to me.

[john plainman]

bari weiss is the arch troll

[endless dave]

the rigidity on who is or isnt an immigrant is really gross to me.

agreed but "born in America and spent most if not all their life here" I think is firmly "not an immigrant"

[surly]

[transitive]

so re-reading the Salazar article, it's definitely this gross hit piece that (I suppose understandably for a center-right Jewish publication) is mostly concerned with the apparent "fluidness" of Jewish identity, especially her move away from Zionism, but the stuff about how she's definitely said she's an immigrant and a lot of major publications have run with that idea and how she's definitely not an immigrant is a bit of a harder thing to square away. would feel a lot better hearing how they response to that part of it

So her claiming immigrant status is a bit , but I can understand the fluidity of the whole half-American, half-Colombian thing. Speaking as someone with a similar background (swap Puerto Rico for Colombia), my hispanic/latino identity is absolutely something I can turn on and off and I do depending on the circumstances and situations I find myself in. I can also relate to wanting to make more out of it than it actually is. I think it's something a lot of people with one parent who came from somewhere else struggle with.

Now, whether she's inflating it or using it in some sort of disingenuous way is another matter all together.

[Kenny]

What did she say?