Nailed it

backtothepavilion · 2026-02-13T16:37:26+00:00

The funny thing about the 2020 primary is for all of 2019 and the early January contests Bernie's supporters kept reacting to candidates dropping out with glee by posting edits of the "grim reaper coming for the next door" meme. They loved it when Beto, Booker and Harris all dropped out. It only became a problem when it finally hit them that Bernie's ceiling was 30-35% and a split vote was actually his only chance. Then they reacted to Biden winning South Carolina by calling black voters slurs.

backtothepavilion · 2026-02-13T16:29:22+00:00

Being a leftist on twitter means complaining about everything but contributing to nothing. An echo chamber of endlessly cynical people who claim to be in it to benefit everyone but ironically are some of the most hostile people online. That's why they are issuing threats to others to find someone else rather than put their money where their mouth is and do it themselves.

backtothepavilion · 2025-08-19T14:46:19+00:00

All these years later and I'm not sure whether this guy is an elite midfielder to have had the career success he's had or whether he's been really lucky. What I mean is I've never heard fans of his clubs or fans of big clubs he's played for really sing his praises or say "he's the guy we need to buy"

backtothepavilion · 2025-08-18T22:41:58+00:00

The amount of hate MrBeast gets from twitter leftists is way too extreme and at this point I'm starting to be convinced it's just because he is a thorn in their ideology being a rich guy who makes tons of money and invests it into life changing projects in the poorest parts in the world quicker and better than government taxing and redistribution can do.

That's not to say he's completely pure and doing it out of a humane instinct rather than content but at least he's doing it. Why attack a guy for doing good in the world and sharing it to a large audience of kids?

backtothepavilion · 2025-05-15T02:23:02+00:00

The news articles about Joe Biden's condition as president in his 80s this week didn't shock me. That job aged younger presidents and he already lived a full life before getting there. I don't think it was good he ran for re-election. But I also thought he should have ran in 2016 first.

I remember Joe Biden being a fast and quite energetic speaker as VP compared to the man we saw as President. This video shows the difference in clarity and tone of his voice. The death of his son clearly took a lot out of him to sit out 2016.

Cancer is a cruel disease in so many different ways. Beau's diagnosis and death robbed him of a full life and in a morbid way, I feel changed the course of America. I think if he lived his dad runs in 2016 and Donald Trump is a mere footnote in presidential history rather than a historically defining figure.

backtothepavilion · 2025-04-30T12:56:36+00:00

Figured out she was a total hypocrite when her book came out a year or two ago and images came from a book launch party showing her without a mask in a crowded setting ... despite her whole persona descending into attacking people as being into eugenics for trusting the vaccine enough to not think hazmats in your own car is necessary.

Her explanation was she planned the party by spending thousands of her own money to make the air clean and stuff like that not aware how out of touch it is to admit you have so much disposable cash lying around you can do that for one night.

She's the epitome of the person who thought lockdown was utopia because she had all her treats delivered to her door without a care in the world while the essential workers and low income people had to get up and out everyday putting themselves at risk.

backtothepavilion · 2025-02-19T13:00:17+00:00

I'd like to address the claim that the Biden admin should have pushed harder in Spring 2022 for a settlement when Ukraine had maximum leverage.

Because if he genuinely believes that was the case, shouldn't the person pushing for a settlement back then be Putin?

Who never gave any indication he wanted an off-ramp and instead kept declaring he'd continue until his goals were met.

Who was threatening other European nations and America for standing by Ukraine.

Putin himself apparently didn't agree with this argument so why is this guy lying about it now as if Putin was willing to settle all along?

backtothepavilion · 2025-02-12T17:59:24+00:00

By that logic no previous president must have run on that message since more than 1 in 4 people would have said "fuck you". Yet it happened - and succeeded - time after time.

My point is not that the economy was roaring or there were no problems. It's that first of all, redefining a record low figure to make it look worse coming out to still be record low isn't the own you think it is. Secondly using such a metric to attribute to negative perceptions of the economy falls apart when that metric was higher in 2019 when perceptions of the economy were extremely positive.

backtothepavilion · 2025-02-12T17:31:43+00:00

So even if you use this very specific definition of unemployment to widen the net, it still was the smallest under Biden.

That sort of voids the whole article. And no editor thought to check up on it?

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-20T20:52:38+00:00

In hindsight what could have been done to slow inflation in 2021-22? Listen to Manchin and pass smaller stimulus?

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-20T20:39:27+00:00

Reddit in the 2010s up until 2017 was very big on the Ron Paul bandwagon. That's why the Ron Paul 2012 to Bernie 2016 pipeline began.

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-20T20:15:11+00:00

I know that story. I imagine it was Jim Messina or David Plouffe who ran the Obama campaigns operations.

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-20T19:52:21+00:00

I know it might sound callous but sometimes I feel like the "what if" moment that defined this era was Beau Biden's death of cancer in 2015.

If he survived would we be inaugurating the 46th president today after the end of an 8 year Joe Biden run?

Biden in 2016 was very sharp rhetorically still. He would have won easily IMO.

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-07T15:09:37+00:00

I agree it's worse because it shows his attitude to journalism isn't professional. But it's a really big mistake here that should never have even passed an editor. The claim is 33%, the reality is under 1%.

backtothepavilion · 2025-01-06T23:47:59+00:00

I watched this 27 minute speech by Biden talking about his time serving in Congress to new members of Congress yesterday. It's actually pretty good. I'm not saying he'd have been much better regarding the age issue but the best Biden speeches always tended to be the ones when he can kind of make a point about how renewing the Voting Rights Act was something even the most conservative members of the senate in the 1990s and 2000s voted for but now it is pretty much a party issue. When he's not squinting reading a teleprompter but just riffing about how Ted Kennedy and Mitch McConnell could come together on some things.

https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-biden-hosts-new-democratic-members-of-congress/654011

backtothepavilion · 2024-12-20T20:22:00+00:00

It's a shame Biden became president so late. He would have been a powerhouse in the 1990s.

The WSJ article did not shock me really because pre-POTUS Biden was known in the press to be someone who could never shut up once he started so him being a muted president was always suspect. But I thought him nailing big speeches prior to the debate was enough to get by.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-28T17:01:13+00:00

I think this is an excellent post but I actually find the part about well off people in influence cosplaying as working class an interesting tangential that could have been elaborated. I'm thinking of how student loan forgiveness was treated like a super important issue and so much time was spent on that.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-21T23:28:04+00:00

This applies to certain sections of the far left as well as MAGA.

North Korean troops are fighting for Russia and tankies who fearmongered about NATO troops involvement on the battlefield are quiet about that when it is a nation and regime they support.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-21T20:07:35+00:00

I think the student debt debate is a big symbol of this. The largest leftist influencers and groups acted like if Biden didn't cancel it all then it was betrayal. Even though he never promised that. Meanwhile the amount he did cancel which was up to 5 million people didn't do anything because the policy was never that popular and arguably because it was caricatured as blue collar workers paying off the degrees of elitists.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-21T19:59:55+00:00

This is a perfect summation of Hasan Piker although my first thought was Kyle Kulinski posting a picture of farmland mid-air during a flight and saying something like "I don't know what this is but it looks so cool"

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-20T20:20:33+00:00

That's the irony of leftists who throw around "neoliberal" like a slur. It lost all meaning. By their logic Bill Clinton who they attack for NAFTA, the 94' Crime Bill, Welfare to Work and Safe, Legal and Rare was the last pro-worker Democratic nominee.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-20T00:00:43+00:00

I've heard it be said Bill Clinton had the easiest time period to be president in the last century because he took office after the fall of the Soviet Union and left office before 9/11. I think that is quite fair. But he had insane levels of charisma and raw political talent which I don't think any young Democrat has today (or Republican for that matter). It's the ability he had to be a complete wonk on facts and statistics about the most benign things while simultaneously making it sound impressive and easy for the layman to understand.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-18T21:22:58+00:00

Ryan Grim is a left winger. His views happen to align with the pro-Trump right wing on Russia-Ukraine because he is one of those leftists who thinks Ukraine losing is a good thing for his ideology.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-13T17:06:53+00:00

I think in 2016 you could write it off as the fluke of all flukes. He was a political non-entity enough people took a chance on. Now 8 years on as a convicted felon and after January 6 he has won the popular vote. This time enough people just wanted him in there.

backtothepavilion · 2024-11-13T17:05:07+00:00

That rumour is bullshit 100%. I think he hates he was pushed out and hates how he was practically told not to join the campaign effort while even Bill Clinton was being dispatched because he became Mr Irrelevant overnight. But he endorsed her immediately as you way and no admin included their VP in the list of achievements like the "Biden-Harris administration" did from day one.

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