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AG's Official > Charli's Official Sorry bout it! Also I pray we're still getting HIFN deluxe... I will cry if we don't

I think that the socialism/communism discussion is definitely off topic, considering that the 2020 election does not involve socialism/communism. This is an election between a far-right party and a center-right party. I definitely would have said in 2016 that the Democrats were a centrist party, but unfortunately the nomination of Biden definitely speaks to how the Democrats are moving more and more right with respect to class solidarity as their base moves more and more left. The Democratic strategy of appealing to right-leaning centrists just really does not make any sense to me. A centrists that leans would likely vote with the extremist of the same leaning rather than a centrist of an opposite leaning. We saw this with Trump in 2016. The moderate Republicans rejected Trump and Trumpism, but they ultimately voted with their party. The DNC should simply let a primary play out organically without actively trying to curtail the left-leaning candidate, as I'm sure the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho Brigade will vote with a progressive, left-leaning candidate to a greater extent than an uninspired progressive who feels excommunicated from the Democratic Party would vote for a center-right candidate like Biden. The DNC running a centrist over and over again is gonna start giving me "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?" - the primary polls that look like Cuomo is going to be a rising star in 2024 do not sit right with my spirit. Also, though, progressives need to rally behind one candidate in 2024. I do think one of the greatest downfalls of the 2020 primary was simply the infighting between the Bernie/Warren supporters. Both of them were candidates with great policy stances and with personal flaws that were troubling, yet neither of which were as terrible as Biden...yet the infighting between these two progressive campaigns cost us a progressive nominee methinks. Meanwhile the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho crowd was very "bitches be like: I can't stand her fake ass... *candidate who they supported drops out* ...me & the bestie!!!" But anyways, I'd definitely support Nina Turner in a 2024 primary. I just hope that the DNC isn't opening space in the Democratic Party to realign the party to include anti-Trump centrist Republicans meanwhile excluding progressive/left-leaning (former-)Democrats. If this is the ultimate goal of this seemingly near-sighted strategy, it makes me really worried that they're simply aiding the US in going towards the right, and allowing the Republican Party to open itself up to more and more right-wing extremists. We need a left-leaning candidate on the national, presidential-scale in the Democratic Party, otherwise every election (until global warming causes this planet to expire within the next century) will be a corporate politician versus increasingly more blatant fascists. Lastly, I fear that Trump already has the 2020 election. Rather, I'm afraid that there is no election. The USPS is being torn apart. This election is illegitimate, and our best bet to saving democracy is electing a progressive Democrat in 2024 when the pandemic is hopefully gone and we can go out and vote in person.

Imagine a Namasenda album that begins with Dare(am) and ends with Dare(pm)...a dream

Yeah, the big race in my state is between Sen. Ed Markey (yay) and Rep. Joe Kennedy III (boo). But I guess that's because I'm in the liberal heartland of the US, and it's just assumed that everyone here is gonna vote for Biden. --- Is it just me or did HRC feel so much more likable than Biden ever did? I mean, sure, she had as many scandals and controversies as he does, but at least she was never directly implicated as a predator... I guess the DNC is hoping that Trump's wrongdoings will outweigh Biden's controversies, but in 2016 Trump's potential to do wrong didn't outweigh HRC's lessor controversies, so I'm worried about that. I think that the real general election cycle will begin sometime in mid-September. I definitely see some rather last minute dirt being released on each of the candidates a la the Trump tape/HRC's emails. And honestly? I see Trump more likely to adopt at least one progressive policy before the general. Whether it's DACA citizenship like he's been teasing, or something like M4A, I definitely see him doing something like this in September/October to juxtapose Biden's do-nothing, change-nothing platform. The unemployment executive order shows that he's stepping in that direction, and although he failed miserably and has thousands of deaths on his hands, we know now that as a politician he is the type that will spin every failure of his into leverage for his own personal gains. I hate when people imply that he is some sort of dummy because it almost feels like it absolves him of any wrongdoing. He is very calculated. Let's not call him an idiot, let's call him a fascist who is playing a long game. But anyways, if Trump does that, I fear that the Biden campaign would be more likely to point fingers and say "wow, what a power grab! That is not presidential!" and argue of the morals/ethics of the action itself. If Trump uses his current power to try and sway the election using a progressive action (even if it is out of his authority, as it has been reported with his talks of DACA citizenship), then the smart thing for the Biden campaign to do would propose a reform to what Trump did. For example, if Trump implements a last-minute progressive policy, an appropriate response from the Biden campaign would be along the lines of: here is an alternative approach to the policy, which has been collaborated with X, Y, Z members of Congress, and works out the kinks in Trump's action. Unfortunately though if Trump does something like that the Biden campaign will just go onto Twitter and send out some gif of Biden in sunglasses with some sort of moral-high ground caption. I think I need to lower my faith in electoral politics, or at least the Biden campaign.

I would like to see it, but the Democratic primaries really feel like a reality TV competition where the DNC is able to get their favorite in the top spot no holds barred... But I would like to see it. In 2020, I see a lot of people who once were non-political come out and support progressive candidates and causes after experiencing 2016, so maybe in 2024 we will finally overtake DNC shenanigans.

Something most baffling to me in this election cycle is how the establishment/centrists coalesced around Biden. Although a candidate like Harris, Buttigieg, or Klobuchar as the nominee would not guarantee a win in the general, it is still shocking to me that these campaigns were suspended for a Biden victory into Super Tuesday. He is so controversial and he gives the most ammo towards opposition both from the left and the right, so it feels really unwise that they're hedging their bets on him. Look at how Trump is responding to Harris now, calling her a radical left extremist... Any Democrat/anyone left of the Democrats would see that claim, and it would not have any influence on their opinions of Harris. Meanwhile, the largest opposition would come from those to the left who are currently now scrutinizing Harris's record, yet she would elevate her campaign by selecting someone to her left as the VP. Biden being the nominee really makes no sense to me. Were the centrists really that afraid that if they didn't coalesce around Biden that Bernie would get the nom? In any case, I will be voting for Biden-Harris, emphasis on Harris, considering that I am praying that Joe Biden dies in the near future, Harris becomes president, and she will be open into signing Medicare For All into law as she's a cosponsor. Yet this is likely never going to happen and my faith in electoral politics are fleeting. All of it just seems so narrow-sighted. Sure, Biden may win. But I doubt the anti-Trump Republican support for his campaign outnumbers the uninspired progressives who feel absolutely unheard and torn down. Ultimately though, come 2024, the Republicans will simply run a moderate candidate along the lines of Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) or Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA), both of whom are Republican governors that are well liked in extremely blue states. A candidate like that will easily win the election in a landslide. Unfortunately, it makes me worry for the Democrats. 2024 will either come with the end of a second Trump term, which would likely result in the Democrats running another center-right candidate for a third consecutive general election, or it will come with the election of VP (or perhaps re-election of President) Kamala Harris (considering re-election of Biden seems unlikely at this point). Harris will likely face extreme scrutiny from the left and from moderate Republicans for being "coronated" with a 2024 election. She will either have to adopt some real left-leaning policies if the Dems are going to win 2024. But my greatest concern is that the 2016 and 2020 elections have turned off so many progressives/left-leaning citizens from voting and also that the DNC will never open up to an actual left-leaning candidate to such an extent that we may never see another Democratic President in our lifetime. Lastly, I just hate how individuals take politics nowadays, particularly on social media. So many keyboard warriors who will scream at you if you share an honest critique of a politician. It feels extremely eerie for people to get upset when anything negative is shared about a politician. If my action should lend someone the power to be in the highest office of this country, I feel that I would be doing myself a disservice if I did not critique these individuals. For example, critiquing Biden is not campaigning for Trump – it's simply fostering open and constructive criticism within the Democratic Party. So many of these centrist/establishment Democrats make such a fuss over any dissent to an extent that it turns so many people off from politics when really everyone involved should have a seat at that table. I mean, it's not stan Twitter, after all.

Does anyone have a list of songs intended for Sucker that didn't make the cut?

does this girl ever sleep... how are there constant leaks

I wonder if we'll hear snippets of 2hot and i hate all this gravity in the documentary...

I really have had no interest in her since 1989 (which I feel like she wasn't able to top with rep/lover no matter how much I tried getting into them I just couldn't). Maybe this new release will reignite my relationship with her, I have to say I'm intrigued by this rollout.

I've done a lot of thinking and I've come to the conclusion that Nightride is my favorite album of hers. SFY is a close second though.

tell me why last week I got a targeted instagram ad of someone promoting their c2.0 remix...

Her tweets recently make it feel like Rascal is gonna be the lead from a new project...

I wonder when KiCk ii + are coming... I know the album came out less than a week ago but I've been bopping since March so I'm curious

I remember seeing a tweet once about someone having a nightmare that Charli and Sophie sold Taxi to Meghan Trainor... Imagine, lol

I wonder if Charli still intends on releasing the HIFN "special drop"

Okay that Types snippet is very cute. It sounds like it would fit on a Charli sophomore album that was just focused on pure pop without the punk influence and just songs like Boom Clap and Die Tonight. On a totally unrelated note, how do you guys think Charli would sound on a Jack Antonoff-produced track with her current artistic mindset? His production style seems to embody an artist's signature sound but meanwhile still sounds fresh (re: NFR, holy terrain by FKA twigs)...so I have to wonder how he and Charli would sound together in 2020.

Inchresting.... To this day I've never heard the famed Types then

Wait... OG Official (Types?) is so much better than the album version for me...

It still feels surreal to me that Charli was able to get Sky on a track on XCX3. Never thought that would have happened in general to be honest, let alone in 2019. Remembering the autumn of 2012 when Charli dropped Super Ultra and Sky dropped Ghost... What a time it was to be alive. Though I can't say I'm shocked that Charli's managed to put out 3 albums, 2 album-sized mixtapes, an EP, and countless droplets before Sky has even put out her sophomore album. Truly an embodiment of their respective energies exhibited when they performed Grins together.

These sound like pretty rough demos, but I'm intrigued. I can't really tell anything from these snippets though. Hopefully the mixtape comes soon + doesn't get scrapped! I wonder if she's going to do another LP1/M3LI55X sort of thing where she releases two bodies of work in a row and then disappears for a while.

Imagine Charli doing something along the lines of All the Things She Said... Wasn't she teasing a Sky collab that sounded similar to that a long long time ago?

An album that's a mix of Mow That Lawn, I'm A Dream, and a little bit of Sky Ferreira's Red Lips sprinkled in there would be delicious

The way most of you have excluded Super Ultra from your rankings... Shameful.

My post was in response to this tweet. https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1273325066982273025 Also, she can experiment without PC Music (see True Romance, Super Ultra, etc), but right now it feels that so many people in pop music are making 80s/90s inspired music (The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Doja's Say So, Chromatica's 90s house influence)