Can you guess what pundit said this?
Here's a cache of 2019 quotes by someone you've heard of. Can you guess the pundit?
“I don’t see a lot of lasting energy for Bernie,”
“It’s different from last time when he was the alternative to an unfortunately flawed front-runner, and there were just two of them. Right now, the mantle of ‘progressive’ can be carried by any number of candidates and potential candidates,” including Senator Kamala Harris and former representative Beto O’Rourke.
"Bernie, with his universal name ID, has little room to grow."
'Sanders' moment has passed'
Sanders has failed to ‘grow his base of support.'
Gee, I wonder who was that brilliant pundit who was saying all the things that the political establishment wanted to hear, like a little bitch for the ruling class?
He must have known what he was talking about based on today's headlines.
Comments
Nate Silver?
"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush
Nope, but good guess
I'll give you a hint: when you see his face on TV you want to punch it.
I dunno. All of ‘em?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
It's Markos
I pulled the quotes from a random sampling of news articles he was quoted in.
I happened to see him quoted (for some gawd awful reason) today, and I realized that he had totally changed his tune when it came to centrist candidates.
So I went back to see just how often he was wrong this year.
Doh! I should have known. He keeps begging me for money.
I hope he holds his breath.
Edited have to hope.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Markos?
'mantle of progressive' is classic kos phrasing.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Bingo
You win. I wish I had a prize.
Their grand strategy is backfiring bigly.
Harris, Booker, Beto and all the other faux-gressives who were supposed to chisel away at Bernie's Progressive support have fallen by the wayside (Warren's next), while the remaining establishment candidates are still fighting with each other to be the Anti-Bernie.
So now, less than two months out from Iowa, instead of a fracturing Progressive vote and an Establishment unifying around a single candidate, exactly the opposite is happening.
No wonder NYT and Politico are finally sounding the alarm - hopefully way too late.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
I would have won
but I was eating when you posted this.
These are what gave it away that it was kos.
"Bernie, with his universal name ID, has little room to grow."
'Sanders' moment has passed'
Sanders has failed to ‘grow his base of support.'
He actually said something positive about Bernie's campaign this week. This was in a diary on the end of two decades of DK. He wrote about the highlights of the blog starting with the response to the Iraq war. He noted a few big events and he said he was proud of the way the site rallied around Bernie in 2016. No one called him on it.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
What!?!?
You're pulling my leg.
That can't be true.
Sadly no
I'll look for it...
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Here you go
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
"2015 around Bernie Sanders"
I remember the surge in real new Kossacks around 2015 -- and yes, it was all about Bernie.
A year later, on March 15, Kos himself purged all those hungry hearts, and sent them here.
Of course, he's silent about that part!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
No DK did not rally around Bernie
The site was for Hillary from the get go. I thought kos was pulling people's leg to see if anyone would catch it. But typically not many read the full content.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Actually you are right
The site rallied around Bernie meaning the people who supported him, but management did not and of course kicked many off for telling the truth about Herheinous.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
2011 rallying around Occupy; 2015 around Bernie Sanders;
Erm, no. I don't remember much love for either. The well-heeled 'meritocracy' poo-poohed both.
Seems il capo is trying to finger out which way the wind is blowing these days, for his next gig.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Erm, a little bit, no thanks to Kos.
Here we must draw a line, a moiety between the genuine progressive Joe Users over there at TOP who were supportive of Occupy and Bernie (like snoopydawg, Meteor Blades, several others I've surely forgotten, and myself) and the rightward-moving management of the place.
We did exist over there. Most of us are now here, to the great mutual benefit of us and good old c99.
(It's better over here!)
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Granted....
Il capo di capi was never enthusiastic for either.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I didn't come over here
because I liked this place. I came because I was bojo'd from there.
And the symbolism of the life raft.
Since then though, I've come to love this place.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I got out before I was kicked out
Sampled several other places, settled in here.
I didn't even bother to say goodbye, just snuck out the door. I don't think they've missed me yet.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I resemble that remark!
I resemble that remark!
My first Essay here was a request for those of us who were here then to help the large numbers of incoming new users that I foresaw would come here from "there" once the Ides of March 2016 had passed. Those users materialized, and my request of no crossposting to DK was not honored.
I went back and read the "fucking moron" Diary once again. It was the publication of that Diary which sent me here, full-time, once and for all, for good.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Whatever happened
to that life raft graphic, anyway?
JtC?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
the ship
We became the ship.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
@thanatokephaloides
Well well well look at who was the actual f'cking Moran. Did he ever do a I'm sorry I was wrong diary? Probably not...but hey weren't we the ones who didn't have egg on our faces?
Saying hey to M..poa.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Hahahahahahaha!
How is this asshat still a thing?
Wow
That takes balls the size of watermelons.
Or a complete state of denial.
Granted, the site did rally around Bernie. While Markos and most of the rest of the staff fought against him tooth and nail, and continued to do so right up until recently.
How exactly does Markos square this, I don't know.
OMG! You were right. No one pushed back.
This shouldn't be overlooked either...because it's not true.
Site traffic declined in 2017.
And finally the last 3 months...
DKos was one of the top 1,000 web sites in the entire world in late 2015, when everyone was rallying around Bernie.
It's now number 6,000 and sinking fast, and it's all your fault Markos. Because you hated Bernie because he didn't toe the party line.
I thought you'd get a kick out of this
That no one called him on just shows how the site has fallen in line with the daily talking points. I will see someone post a definitive headline about something, but down below they post something that completely destroys it. Sumner is really good at doing it. Especially if someone bashes Trump and calls him silly names and then says something mean about Vlad.
Have you noticed the site disclaimer on the content of diaries? "This has not been subject to review by DK staff." Do you know why it's there? A fact checking website told kos that they couldn't rate him honest because,,,,well basically it's not. But if he put that disclaimer up they would give him a pass. Funny thing is though that Sumner is staff and he writes some whoppers frequently.
lol.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
toe the line
[video:https://youtu.be/XTGmTrQXrwg]
Toe the Clinton line is more like it.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I got tombstoned
Gold medal with clusters
Around these parts, you get a medal, extra points or something for that honor.
How about a second medal?
white male vote
You would have received your second bottle of Bojolais for any assertion that the white male vote so much as mattered. And Markos was seriously in De Nile about Bernie's strong support among people of color, especially in the never-disloyal States. Her Heinous won the popular vote largely because of conservative, evangelical Protestant women of color in the Traitor (ex-Confederate) States, who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Jew (emphasis on the "eewww!") or anyone else who wasn't a conservative evangelical Protestant just like them. This advantage evaporated like smoke once "the rubber met the road" in the Electoral College, however, and The Chump became President whether Kos liked it or not.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Man, is Moulitsas full of hypocritical
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
The guy with a very large flower shop?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
30 Months ago
I shelled my DailyKos account and started posting here. That's all I've got to say about that.
RIP
When I read the quotes I pictured them coming out of gasbag
Chris Mathews.
I got banned too
I'm sure I was wasted and totally deserved it, but i was fed up with that place.
There's only so much centrism i can take.
"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." Yossarian
I thought I'd check out DKos today
Same old, same old.....
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0iengeKbOw]
DKos has turned into a cheering squad for CIA engineered interventions in Iran, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Bolivia as well as a MIC mouthpiece for Russophobia and Sinophobia.
This is why Tulsi Gabbard has become the bête noire of that cesspit:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omJBGD_kr8o]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJctrCVXUT8]
That sounds about right.
I hate to think of how many conservadems are surfing the hidden comments on that site at any given time for the only purpose of feeding their egos.
A woman of color is running for president and she's a liberal...
They won't back her because...politics!
"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." Yossarian