[OOC] The Fourth Horseman Came

[Vilageidiotx]

I've been procrastinating but where the heck are the rest of ya'll.

@Pepperm1nts

i posted last, bruh. your turn.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Working on it. Was just thinking about how a post needed to be posted too.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I'mma work on update stuff tomorrow, so don't feel let down everyone.

In the meantime, I thought I'd drop for Byrd that I'm listening to an audiobook of the rise and fall of one John Edwards.

[Byrd Man]

Ah, John Edwards. The poor son of a South Carolina millworker... who could also afford 200 haircuts and hush money to staff members and mistresses.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Ah, John Edwards. The poor son of a South Carolina millworker... who could also afford 200 haircuts and hush money to staff members and mistresses.

@Byrd Man

So far in the story it's coming to the end of the 2004 campaign and John Kerry's misuse of him as a VP during the time.

But based on Andrew Young's POV for the story, Edwards sounded a lot like a Clinton than he did a Sanders, just younger, a dude, and with a young almost 1960's Kennedy family.

[Vilageidiotx]

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So far in the story it's coming to the end of the 2004 campaign and John Kerry's misuse of him as a VP during the time.

But based on Andrew Young's POV for the story, Edwards sounded a lot like a Clinton than he did a Sanders, just younger, a dude, and with a young almost 1960's Kennedy family.

@Dinh AaronMk

Has there even really been a Sanders equivalent after McGovern? I mean, one that was making real numbers, not Kucinich or anybody like that in the little leagues. It seems like milquetoast liberal has been the norm for the Democrats for a generation or two.

[Byrd Man]

I think it's because of how McGovern did that you had the rise of centerism and Clintonism in the Democrats. FDR and Woodrow Wilson were the only two really liberal/progressive democrats elected in the 20th century and their elections were due to flukes and disasters.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Has there even really been a Sanders equivalent after McGovern? I mean, one that was making real numbers, not Kucinich or anybody like that in the little leagues. It seems like milquetoast liberal has been the norm for the Democrats for a generation or two.

@Vilageidiotx

Hearing what sort of platform Edwards was going on and some of the campaign promises he made in '04 ("Free college for all!") he comes off in that respect as a proto-Bernie with all of his promises to end elitism in Washington, while unironically being elite himself (as the author, Andrew Young contends when he drove him out to donor's places and if they lived in a gated community Edwards would ask, "How rich are these people now, rich like me or way richer?") He tried to get off on a "populist" platform and when he failed, and Kerry failed with him on the VP ticket he sort of stuck to it, but the issues then seemed to focus more on Iraq than the post-Occupy field on the left; as I recall too being a half-aware Middle Schooler at the time.

Also of interesting note: among Edward's camp was a lawyer named Bird/Byrd/whatever, I think his first name was John. But at one point Young was detailing a celebration party they were at where the lawyer Bird stepped out to go to his room to lay down to sleep. Eventually Young and Edwards follow him up and try to get into his room and spend half an hour knocking on the door. But Young dropped a quote from Edwards at the time: "Let's go get the Bird Man".

tfw Byrd's in a non-fiction book detailing a campaign worker's trails and tribulations with the tabloid-tier meltdown and collapse of a man Democrats were calling their Rising Star pre-Obama.

[Dinh AaronMk]

[Vilageidiotx]

woo! a post!

[Dinh AaronMk]

It's like nothing was ever in danger!

[Dinh AaronMk]

OK, so where the posts be?

[Vilageidiotx]

ask hugs, we gave them all to him

[Dinh AaronMk]

@Pepperm1nts

Where my posts be.

[Pepperm1nts]

Keep this alive. I know I'm a fagt and all that, but one of these days the stars will align, I'll post something and everything will be great.

[Vilageidiotx]

Keep this alive. I know I'm a fagt and all that, but one of these days the stars will align, I'll post something and everything will be great.

@Pepperm1nts

Been busy dealing with regular adult BS. I do have a mostly written post in place, but I admit I've been lax because I figured everyone else but Aaron jumped ship.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Everyone needs a'whoppin'.

[Byrd Man]

Give me a few days. I'll have your post by Friday night. Please don't break my legs!

[Dinh AaronMk]

Give me a few days. I'll have your post by Friday night. Please don't break my legs!

@Byrd Man

_{I'll break yo dick}

[Byrd Man]

Don't make promises you can't keep. <3