beta o'rourke.

right.

how about bert?

i like bert.

it's not beta.

why is it so hard to find an electable candidate with a decent platform on this continent?

fuck.

is bob too complicated, or what?

his name is robert.

and he runs under the name "beta"?

what?

something else.

have we all sat down and contemplated what the internet is going to do if the democrats - particularly - run a candidate name "beta o'rourke".

i mean, really.

where is "alpha mcmann" when you need him?

it should be clear that i actually don't want to do any of this at all.

i don't have a lot of choice.

monday.

i'm going to start making calls on monday.

this is good: halfway between obama and clinton, and nowhere near sanders.

again: obama and clinton won the primaries. repeatedly. it's not like there's not a base there. and, if you liked obama, you'll love warren.

but, the actual left needs to be pushing back hard against her, or we're going to end up in the same situation we were in in 2009: a squandered opportunity.

she is the logical successor to barack obama. if that's what you want, great. if it's not, don't be tricked.

it's so edgy and post-modern, i can't find a reference point to modernity any more.

but, it's complete bullshit.

yeah. it's clinton 2.0 - any criticism of her policies, which are broadly right out of the heritage institute, is just being sexist. and, that's not some kind of authoritarian ploy to deflect criticism, it's backed up by a freudian psychoanalysis, which is perfectly valid as science.

you have to wonder, though. 'cause that's exactly what trump wants, right?

it almost seems like they set this up years ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/elizabeth-warren-unpopular-it-depends-who-you-ask/579247/

i think i'd rather vote for ed markey...

apparently, warren actually loses to both sanders and biden in massachusetts, itself.

i wonder if she'd even beat ed markey.

or if the end result of running just opens her up to the dangers of a primary challenge from the left.

she also won re-election mere weeks ago. she should have stood down if she was planning to run for president.