Would like to note that in Texas, people driving on the wrong side of the highway is pretty common given how our roads are laid out. It happens a lot on 281 between San Antonio and Austin - even I had to double-check a couple of times that I’m on the correct side and I’m always stone-cold sober.
Oh, Beto filed that he got $6.1 million in donations in his first 24-hours of the campaign, topping all Dem nominees:
IIRC Bernie came in a close second at 5.9 million. It’ll be interesting if it comes down to Beto vs. Bernie given how the Bernie Bros are already going after Beto.
I notice that Beto did not disclose how many donors got him to that number, and there’s some good evidence that 4.5 million of that comes from returns of his senate run contributions. Or maybe his billionaire father in law made sure his numbers were up. Sure took him a while to let the numbers out, though. I’d sure like to see the real breakdown of where the money came from.
From examples of his campaign style, all you have to do is ask.
I love the way Beto successfully trolled Bernie backers. One of them was gloating just the other day on my page about how Beto must have had a very disappointing first day of fundraising if he wasn’t releasing the numbers. Then when the truth came out, he looked dumb–and maybe most important, he couldn’t pooh-pooh the importance of the huge number, since he had committed to a low one being so bad. 
So you’re of the opinion that Bernie progressives aren’t aware of the fact that when you take the 4.5 million returned from senate race funds out of those first day numbers it actually means O’Rourke’s first day fundraising from actual donors is more like 1.5 million and significantly below Bernie’s first day fundraising? Aware of it and snickering over the baldfaced idiocy of claiming he earned six million when in fact he just moved 4.5 million out of one fund into another and called it donations? And did it just to try to fake it that he beat Bernie’s first day take? It’s fucking hilarious, is what that is. Fucking rich kids posturing and blustering and insisting they’re important and relevant. Political incels lol.
Dude, you’ve been here long enough to know you can’t make statements like this and not provide a site.
Yeah, that sounds a lot more like seething rage than snickering SmartAleq. Please tell me “political incels” is not a phrase floating around the Bernie camp.
Cite that this happened.
After all, he ended the Senate campaign with $.4m cash on hand. So we need a cite.
We won’t know until he makes his first FEC filing.
True. But we do know how much money he had remaining after the 2018 race and it sure as hell wasn’t $4.5m.
(Correction: he ended it w/ $300k, not $450k.)
The Bernheads really hate Beto, don’t they? I wonder if that will tank both campaigns, or just theirs. Seems unlikely it will have the effect they are desiring.
Can you imagine what office Beto will run for after he loses the Democratic nomination for POTUS? Secretary General of the UN?
In a way I can see it, at least on a superficial level.
Beto is non-threatening, so he won’t drive away moderate republicans who are wary of Trump.
He has appeal to latino voters
He could make Texas a swing state
He has a lot of Obama in him (he is a good looking, charming political moderate).
It may be a bit more than mere preference. Of the last five Democrats who captured the presidency (excluding Truman and Johnson, who ascended to it), the oldest was Carter at 52. Democrats do not fare so well with candidates beyond their mid 50s.
Pretty sure Beto has done the same math.
And, sadly, ladies and gentlemen, I am loathe to be the bearer of bad news, but God made us a cruel world, a harsh world, and we can no longer deny the truth, but submit to the honesty of the whispers I keep reading on the blackest websites deep within the Dark Web: that our man, Beto, this week just… just… just killed the ever-loving shit out of Joaquin Castro.
RIP Joaquin2020. Oh, we will still see you around… I don’t even know if you have admitted to yourself the seriousness of this wound, but it is mortal. Please, Joaquin, just don’t go broke. Make it to a few debates, I know you want to get to Texas, so… yeah. Just don’t go broke.
*Julian
Case in point.
RIP Julian.
And I even went to his announcement!
A good find, and certainly provides further support for Slackerinc’s contention that Sanders and his people are very, very worried about O’Rourke. Sirota is known as a “zealous advocate” (some would say an “attack dog”) for the Sanders campaign (in addition to the Atlantic article, see ElectoralVote). We could wave away random people on Facebook or even random people in this thread as “not really working for Sanders,” but it seems doubtful that Sirota’s a Russian bot.
It’s interesting to me that Sanders’s negative efforts are being focused on O’Rourke. I guess they see him as the candidate at present most likely to cut into Sanders’s base of younger white men…Anyway, I’m not seeing anything like this leveled by Sanders supporters at Elizabeth Warren, say, or Kamala Harris, or Amy Klobuchar, just O’Rourke. Maybe I’m wrong.
That being said, does the thrust of the Sirota article strike anyone else as…odd? It’s fine for one candidate to complain that another doesn’t toe the party line as often as he should (“voting against his own party’s positions”). But when the candidate making the charges is someone who is proud to say he is not a member of that party–well, that’s a peculiar complaint to make. Or maybe it’s just me.