ShadySands

No, it's more that they're just pandering during the primaries, selling themselves as more left/liberal/progressive than they actually are. Its not as if their hearts and minds actually change so pander to the base and then resume course after the nomination rather than become more moderate/centrist. And as you said the current base wants their own Trumplike candidate that doesn't really even bother trying to appeal to the other side and keeps pushing for the same things in the general that they did in the primaries. They don't want to just mark time, they want to move forward for better or worse and a more fear based approach of "I have the best shot of beating Trump" doesn't reverberate as well for them, especially with the younger and more fickle voters who want to be inspired. As to whether it would be succesful or not, who knows in the current bizarro world political landscape. But as Gromnir aready mentioned, if they can get their party to the polls they win no matter if they go far left or moderate.

Who knows. Conventional wisdom says to pick a middle of the road type to pander to the base and then pivot hard to the middle but that hasn't really been working out all that great for the Dem's since Slick Willy. They'll probably try to syphon off the Obama-Trump voters and hope that works but they might actually try to fire up their own voting base with something more than Trump bad, us less bad. It's a mystary. That's my hot take anyway so feel free to discard.

That sucks, TN For some reason my mother-in-law decided that the best place for all our grilling utensils was in the oven and that it was for the best to not tell us. Yeah, the whole house smells like burnt rubber now. My wife is livid and this isn't even the first brain scratcher that she's done in her 3 months here.

The green thumb skipped me but my mom could grow anything in her gardens and we had so many indoor plants that I felt like I lived in the Amazon. I'm only good at growing weeds apparently. Figures that I went into tech and the rest of my family went into things like farming and landscaping or at least kept gardening as a hobby but still generally work with their hands. TN, hopefully your wife is getting some enjoyment out of her pregnancy. My wife had no really bad issues, no morning sickness and no weird cravings, but referred to the experience as body horror of the highest order.

I think my all time favorite will always be prickly pear jam or prickly pear jalapeno but that might just be because it was a very popular flavor that I grew up with. My in-laws make a red berry jam that's pretty good too. I think it has strawberries, red currants, and something else from their garden I can't remember at the moment. Sad thing is that I can't eat any of it anymore because I find it all way too sweet.

Warren overtakes Biden in UK betting #AnyoneOtherThanBidenOrHarris

I don't recall having those issues on PC either but maybe I just blocked it out.

Human smuggling isn't the same thing as unlawful border crossings and in my experience coyotes, with rare exceptions, aren't in it out of the goodness of their hearts. I'll concede that I'm no expert on it but I did grow up and live near the border for about 20 years. Mind you, I'm also not for throwing open the gates but I think GD's idea a little while back was a pretty good one. Issue work permits and have them pay taxes and heavily fine anyone who is caught trying to pay them under the table. I think that's a decent start for an incredibly complicated issue.

The Nintendo tax

Yeah, I've never had salt brined peppers but other garden veggies can be quite good prepared like that. My grandma and great uncle would do that quite a bit but they almost always pickled hot peppers in vinegar. They either pickled them or they'd make a jam with strawberries, or with mulberries, or whatever else we had available, and even occasionally just the peppers on their own.

Boogie Cousins tears ACL and will likely miss his Lakers season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4dgTRaWFk Won't embed for some reason but the dancing and the beats make me smile

Bruce, I preferred the wife to the spy.

He also blew his campaign plug at the end of the last debate and has had a few other slip ups (poor kids, white kids and Parkland) over the past week or so. I've seen some coverage of his blunders but it's usually spun as at least he's not as bad as Trump which isn't a great argument in his favor as far as I'm concerned.

GD, Biden also called out the wrong places. I think he said Houston and Michigan. He's really been on a roll.

Good to know Biden is still a gaffe machine

I thought Avatar was just ok and even though I don't like time travel I liked End Game much, much more.

We watched it and enjoyed it but I thought the pacing was weird

And his campaign account is restored. Yay!

I'm a big fan of carne asada but I just do pico de gallo, cheese, and sour cream for both burritos and tacos. I then dab a little hot salsa on each bite, usually tomatillo but not always. I had the breakfast of champions this morning, 4 pills.

Is it everything I hoped and dreamed? Oh wait, I pre-ordered it. Time to download it.

I think I'm on Star Forge. I've got a lot of 70s but only a couple are decently geared and managed to get through the KOTXX stuff

I think his Netflix stand-ups were pretty hilarious too but then again News Radio was one of my favorite shows when I was younger.

Here's Tulsi and Joe Rogan. But yeah, it's long. Really long