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@JonathanCohn I am a tier one Clyburn hater (happy to point to some recent receipts), but this isn't it. SC dem voters are blacker than GA & it's a way cheaper media market when we don't want the Early states to be a coronation for who has the biggest warchest to spend on adds.

The only reason you would choose South Carolina over Georgia -- a state that both (a) has a larger Black population and (b) is a swing state -- is to appease Jim Clyburn, and that is not a way to run a party.

@RoKhanna He was a civil rights activist who still probably doesn't know the implicit bias in this tech. He's washed & deserves condemnation for his current self interested behavior as much as be deserves praise for who he was.

@RoKhanna Every time you take a step forward, you do some bootlicking, moderate shit like this. Clyburn was a titan 50 years ago. He now sucks at his job so bad that he doesn't know what the greatest threads to working class people's jobs is.

Jim Clyburn went to jail so that this country could have civil rights and so that my parents could come to America with the Immigration Reform Act. Many of the techies at OpenAI are here because of doors HE opened. Show some respect and humility for a man who sacrificed more for justice than almost any tech whiz in my district!

@dianelyssa She's not black. She's Puerto Rican, Cherokee and has a white grandpa based on her own self identifying, which tells every thing you need to know.

@james_mtc @janekleeb @jonfavs @mburns2009 The fact that she said that they chose SC to reach black voters (& I do acknowledge some validity in your critique of the black voters) & then proceed to offer NV as a better first state is telling to your ignoring of how crucial black voters are to the Dem coalition

Okay, I’ll take your arguments at face value, since you seem to be arguing earnestly. So let's start with order. Within your own "collective story" framing, SC isn't third or fourth or fifth, it's first. First has primacy. For 40yrs, the first primary day has regularly pulled around 20% of the entire season's network and print coverage. In 2024, nearly 80% of candidate campaign events through mid-January happened in just the first two states. And candidates often dropout before the voting even starts in states 3-5. In 2016, 40% of the candidates dropped out before Iowa. In 2008 and 2004, 20% dropped before Iowa each cycle. First is different. First matters more. And yes, South Carolina does have strong Black voters. But those voters skew older, more conservative, and more churched than the rest of the Democratic Black coalition and the country. They are statistically NOT representative of the Black voters a Dem candidate needs to win the general. They're on the margins of that definition, perhaps even contradictory to the general-winning coalition. On rural voters: most South Carolina Democratic primary voters are not rural. If you want the primary to reflect rural voters, you'd pick a state where that's true, like Wisconsin. On states willing to move their date: in this very thread, you explained how the party would punish New Hampshire for not moving, and you've already done that once. You can't have it both ways. Either willingness matters OR you are punitive and set the maximal strategy regardless. Willingness is not a serious argument here. But… let’s put it all in context of your “collective story.” If we take your own stated goals seriously, we'd look to the following states instead: - A bellwether state that actually tests general election viability in the South: Georgia, not SC - A cheap media market that's broadly representative of the country: Nevada, not SC - A single state proxy for the coalition that wins the presidency: Michigan, which you put fifth, not first Every one of your stated criteria points at a state OTHER than SC. That tells me your list might be right for states two through five. It just makes South Carolina all the more conspicuous, because it doesn't meet any of your stated criteria better than the states that follow it, and yet you gave it primacy. @jonfavs am I crazy here or is SC conspicuously a strange choice for first against their own criteria?

Yes. They will run a party-run primary on the date given. The government run primary will not count towards delegates (no different than when MANY states held party-run caucuses in 2008 and their government primaries results didn't count towards dnc delegate count). New fines and penalties written into rules also. Happy to come on to discuss :)

@BigEastSavant3 Hoya

Alright whoever gets most responses I will preview first with a projected spread and who I think I would lean.. DePaul vs West Georgia (comment “Mons”) Marquette vs Mercyhurst (Comment “Eagle”) Creighton vs Kansas City (comment “Jays”) Butler vs Lafayette (comment “Dawgs”) Providence vs Nebraska (comment “friar” is this right?) UConn vs Gardner Webb (comment “Huskies”) SJ (doesn’t look locked up yet) will do later Nova vs Notre Dame (comment “cats”) Georgetown vs Loyola Marymount (Comment “Hoya”) Hall (doesn’t looked locked up yet) will do later Xavier vs mount st Mary’s (comment “X”) 109 days…

@ADirector33 Don't be so hyperbolic. No one is recruiting players these days with the idea that they'd keep them for 4 let alone 5 years

The redshirt is dead — and most programs aren’t ready for what that means. Every scholarship now starts a 5-year clock the moment a kid enrolls or turns 19. No extensions. No medical freezes. That changes recruiting, roster building, and player development in one stroke. Birthday math is now part of every offer conversation. A kid who turns 19 before he steps on campus has already burned time. Coaches who ignore that will regret it. The portal gets leaner but more expensive. Fewer players with extra eligibility means a smaller pool — and the ones in it will cost more. The programs that win this era won’t be the ones with the most NIL money. They’ll be the ones who evaluate 17-year-olds better than everyone else and stop hiding developmental needs behind a redshirt year. The margin for error just got really small. @jrichardgoodman @VinnysCorner1 @SergeantMartee @BeholdPaleH0rse #portal #NCAA @latsondheimer @KasselMedia #recruits #eligibility #hssports #coaches #coach

@DianeCPiette @AnnaSpiegs Oh no! Whatever will this very successful DC restaurant do without the patronage of an old Karen who lives in Massachusetts?!?!

Add D.C. sandwich shop Bub and Pop's to the growing list of people and organizations distancing themselves from the Great American State Fair. Owner Jon Taub tells Axios he “politely declined,” despite being included in the lineup from Freedom 250. axios.com/local/washingt…

@MangeoFla @JosinaAnderson George, post your address, so everyone knows the closest public restroom in your area.

@JosinaAnderson It was just a piss. You're being an overreacting diva. Poor lady needed to go. Would you have let her use your bathroom? F no! Right? You wouldn't want the riff raff that delivers your food to enter your home, right? It's not like she laid a turd on your lawn.

Materials sent. I need the email to the lady who called to forward full vid, as your app only permits still images. Thank you.

@Benjami58210259 @spencerpratt I guess I don't have good reading comprehension. Mind dumbing it down for me? Does he live with family in Santa Barbara? If so, why'd he claim to live in a trailer?

@BringinSaxaBaxa @spencerpratt How are you possibly confused? If you have any reading comprehension at all the answer is clear.

My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything. God help you if you try to make things right for your community…if you lose your entire town, “journalists” mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot. Who raised you, dude?

@RedBenzoid @ElliscbIV Do you know Abdul calls himself a socialist?

@ElliscbIV Dems are starting to understand retail politics. If Abdul gets the nomination, mom & pop in Greenville, who have voted blue for decades, will be asked to support an openly socialist candidate. Dems are not the brightest people, but how many older democrats support socialism?

The issue for McMorrow right now goes far beyond endorsements. It’s the result of a clear momentum shift away from her and toward El-Sayed, prompting the establishment to rush to Stevens’ aid and making it much harder for McMorrow to stay relevant in the process.

@trouble_man90 ? x.com/danpfeiffer/st…

Notice how leftists and Pod Save America type liberals have nothing to say about the Supreme Court decision??

@BigYapman75837 Weren't you Providence fans whining about Georgetown fans shitting on Mack very clearly downgrading degrees? I don't think Providence is what you think it is....

Since Bryce Hopkins in all likeliness is going to be undrafted, and may never end up playing under the bright lights, I wonder if he regrets his decision Obviously he made millions in NIL (borderline fraud), and had a plethora of connections, but that St Johns degree might offset all that and spawn him back at level 1

@JamarVip Georgetown will have Jaylin feeling like '92 Jordan. We will start of movement of blocking that singular idiot Georgetown fan to put him into the Abyss of Georgetown Twitter reserved exclusively for Providence trolls. PLEASE

These visits will have you feeling like a LeBron James lol…

@3arod83 @formalhoya1984 Go be a Friar fan.

@formalhoya1984 I always thought he looked like what they call a “stud”

After reading crap from the PCBC about Malik Mack, with them questioning his sexuality for 2 years, it is only appropriate he is their new PG. Now for the past few weeks these bitter clowns are posting about Ed Cooley's marriage and also claiming Ed is in rehab. This is disgusting false slander and just makes PC look so bad if these idiots are the face of the program. When are the adults tied to PC, the proud alums and donors, going to speak up and put these children in their place? It is unacceptable behavior from a supposed Catholic institution.

@Footahh Truly want to get excited about anything about Georgetown, but I'm missing what makes this stop different. Do you have insight why his numbers were so pedestrian despite planning 20 min? Can he actually shoot? Best offensive player potential?

Have to say I’m a fan of this as well Right type of talent gamble. Has the burst/toughness of a Cooley guard If u want to convince yourself he unlocks something in a bigger role, he’s played 25+ minutes in 13 games (11 vs P5 teams) - 10.6 ppg - 46.7% FG - Kansas: 11-2 record

@LauDefender This is so lowbrow & embarrassingly Providence like.

Devin Vanterpool warming the bench at the AMP rather than living forever

@hoyasszn Really hard to rate without a full picture. If Lowe is the best player we & others are his level/below, it's a 6.5. If we go get a stud PF who can block shots from the weak side with a little stretch & a Vanterpool type guard, this could become a 9.

We are officially one week into the transfer portal in a few hours and Georgetown just landed their FIRST(!) portal player in Jaland Lowe. Rate the first add a scale of 1-10 👇

@hoyasszn Is this foreshadowing two impending portal additions?