Last night my wife and I went out after seeing my daughter’s college volleyball debut. 

when I grow up I wanna be z-man and actually live my life 🙂

It’s ironic that Ntilakilla dismisses the Bernie Bro narrative while simultaneously shouting down all non-Bernie opinions.

I like Bernie, I find many of his supporters intolerable.

That’s totally fair, but the “bro” narrative really is empirically false. Here’s just one example from Pew–of all the candidates running, his base is more non-white, and made up of more women, than anyone else’s. If my understanding of the “bro” narrative is correct…it’s really just flatly wrong.

I don’t have any great theories about why people find his supporters so aggravating, but to give it a shot, it’s clear they’re younger, less educated, and more disenchanted with politics than most political coalitions. I would imagine these factors lead them to engage in discourse in a manner most political junkie/media types find unusual.

I like Bernie, I find many of his supporters intolerable.

Is it too early for me to open the Lagavulin 16? 🙂

Never too early for that!

Last night my wife and I went out after seeing my daughter’s college volleyball debut. I ordered a Lagavulin 16 on the rocks and was charged $9!! That stuff is the best!

She cast several votes to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia and voted against tabling S.J.Res.39, a joint resolution disapproving of arms sales to them. So, she’s likely to give less support to one of Iran’s regional rivals.

The doom of the situation in the region is this rivalry. none of them is even an inch better than the other one, but whenver you criticize one of them, they’re apologists come out to point how evil is
the other one. The problem is not one of them, but simply both. I don’t understand why some people in US just want to ignore Iranian regime’s acts, just to criticize US for being ally with Saudis (like @246 in this post)

Her checks on Russia would likely be stronger than Trump’s and would be done with allies.

I hope it would be stronger. though I don’t see how. not like Obama I wish.

What actions by Iran in other countries do you find disturbing?

Israel/Palestine of course. I was hopeful about the deal of the century at first. but now I have no Idea at all about how it will end. what is Warren’s view on that matter?

Her objectives re Iran would probably be similar to current and past ones: reduce or contain its military power and political influence; make it more democratic and friendly toward Western liberal democracies.

She’ll probably want to revive the JCPOA. She criticized Trump’s withdrawal. She’ll reverse Trump’s unqualified backing of the Saudis in Yemen. She cosponsored S.J.Res.7, a joint resolution “to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress” which was vetoed by Trump. She might check Saudi aspirations for greater influence in the region more broadly. She cast several votes to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia and voted against tabling S.J.Res.39, a joint resolution disapproving of arms sales to them. So, she’s likely to give less support to one of Iran’s regional rivals.

She’d probably keep current sanctions targeting Iranian-allied groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

My guess is that neither a republican nor a democratic president are very likely to initiate sustained military pressure on Iran’s direct or indirect actions in other countries. John Bolton, the National Security Adviser, is an exception to what seems like a broad consensus that we should reduce our regional role after years of costly and mismanaged efforts there.

Signals that the US is prepared to go to war with Iran are probably just posturing.

Her checks on Russia would likely be stronger than Trump’s and would be done with allies.

What actions by Iran in other countries do you find disturbing?

Personally I like Warren and don’t think her issues with non-white voters are for lack of effort or care, but man, I think anyone can admit that if Sanders’ base was so overwhelmingly white it would be impossible to go 10 minutes without hearing about it.

Warren has major problems speaking to working class communities of color. You can see it whenever she sits down with their leaders. This recently released video highlights how she fails in that regard. A technocratic wonk like her doesn’t identify solutions to their problems at the grassroots level. Raising abstract housing numbers and Senate floor debates about Obamacare doesn’t speak to the concrete everyday realities these activists face because they know there is a vast difference between crafting a policy and how its implementation will concretely better their lives. And Warren can’t account for that difference which is why she talks around their specific questions.

And, yes, I agree that if Bernie had this same problem during the current primary cycle the media would’ve run with it and shouted it to the hilltops. We should not forget the entire “Bernie Bro” narrative was circulated by Clinton surrogates to reinforce the spurious notion that his base of supporters were confined to white, heterosexual males. Little in contemporary liberal political discourse is quite as simultaneously humorous and offensive as when some milquetoast liberal shows the ignorant gall to call his supporters “Bros” when their majority are comprised of women and persons of color from working class backgrounds.

Haha. Not touching that, Strat.

My gold mining stocks are doing great in this environment. If the crazies bring QE Infinity and negative nominal interest rates to these shores I may be able to buy court side Knicks season tickets next to Spike. lol

a crazy person is driving the car. I know where we are, though.

Crazy people have been driving the car since December 23, 1913 (the day we created the Fed).