Your 2020 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

At the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an event in Washington, DC largely devoted to political humor, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole told a story about a recent event when he saw former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon standing together on the podium. Dole claimed that he told people to “Look! Hear no evil, see no evil, and evil (Nixon).”

maybe this is an unpopular opinion but idk trump isn't funny

he's not but he was at least funnier than Hillary "Pokemon Go to the polls" Clinton. the way he destroyed and humiliated Jeb is still hilarious. and in retrospect clearly the peak of his political career.

when you realizing his dissing of anyone and everyone isn't outright hostility but his incredibly poor attempt at banter, it makes more sense

he's not but he was at least funnier than Hillary "Pokemon Go to the polls" Clinton

ok why are you doing this

howard stern lives in his brain iirc

Explains the rest of his post

ok iirc howard stern lives inside of flappy bird's brain let's not get it twisted

Trump not funny ever. Hillary so cringey and awkward, no wit. Biden funny like my pervy uncle. I would imagine WJ Clinton to be pretty funny--I'm sure someone can weigh in on that.

Reagan had pretty good wit, if you're into that sort of thing. Gore's always seemed forced in public.

Al Gore never quite 'belonged' as a seminary student, but he came mighty close.

I think the candidate who has the best vision for America always wins

― had (crüt), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:19 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got it, you think Trump had the best vision for America

― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:29 PM (one hour ago)

did you seriously just post this right after saying "Gore beat Bush FYI"

Yes. Had the vote been properly counted, Gore would have "won the electoral college" as well as the popular vote.

Moo, I flagged your posts for blabbing incessantly about an argument we all established was "incredibly dumb"

But if you want to hang the response on those ties, crut can feel free to defend Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

"we all" - sorry, you don't get to decide that, but I can flag you in kind if you'd like

i thought Moo Vaughn was a reference to moveon.org in the first place

― had (crüt), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought it was a cow-based pun on the former mets first baseman

― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 3:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It definitely can't be both

And speaking of dumb arguments - Clinton can be funny, but I don't understand the notion that funny is one of his generally recognized characteristics. Hillary reportedly can be quite funny and almost scarily broadly-informed behind the scenes.

speaking of unfunny pedantic nerds

Maybe instead of writing nine long-winded paragraph, you could've just written an Animaniacs-style song about how old each president was.

Yes. Had the vote been properly counted, Gore would have "won the electoral college" as well as the popular vote.

I will never ever tire of seeing this.

ok iirc howard stern lives inside of flappy bird's brain let's not get it twisted

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 4:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i keep him on the porch now

lots of things are going to come into play in 2020 that will be different, i think most obvious being that I can't imagine many Dem candidates if any having the same baggage via reputation and years of whispers about fake crimes that Hillary did

― omar little, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"years of whispers" (i.e. bullshit), ok, but otherwise this is potentially naive - some anticipate that something will be trumped up against any prospective nominee, quite possibly with falsified evidence.

― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 5:52 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/what-we-can-learn-about-the-ludicrous-kirsten-gill.html

See what I mean?

ah yes, paste magazine, beloved political commentary journal

I didn't realize paste was doing non music until earlier this week when I read them getting slammed for not paying writers. fuck a paste.

paste has been a lesser jacobin for a few years now

That’s the joint where Imani Gandy took a huge personal beefshit on Walker Bragman for writing for and I couldn’t figure out which one of them was punching down

I see. No right-wingers have started a whisper campaign about Kirsten Gillibrand (as was obviously inevitable), because one of the many responses pointing out that it was bullshit (and one of the two or three most prominent among google-pushed news search results for Gillibrand today, which also include beloved political commentary journal WaPo - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/03/29/fake-kirsten-gillibrand-flap-reveals-double-standard-in-our-politics/) was published by a source I've previously called out, got it.

stfu

stfu

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, March 30, 2018 7:18 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for the update, Brad. I had no idea, I still think of it as a paper magazine that seemed to sell middling rock/indie/folk acts to white dudes in their 30s

I still think of it as a paper magazine that seemed to sell middling rock/indie/folk acts to white dudes in their 30s

Get u a mag who can do both

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/eric-holder-2020-decision-next-year/index.html?sr=twCNN033018eric-holder-2020-decision-next-year0823PMStory

when was the last competitive mustachioed candidate

Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential nominee, 1944 and 1948.

As for elected national politicians, Charles Curtis, VP from 1929-1933 and Thomas R. Marshall, VP from 1913-1921

The last fully bearded presidential nominee was Charles E. Hughes, GOP nominee in 1916.

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1988/1101880411_400.jpg

Jesse!

https://i.imgur.com/rKyfpla.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdXSrM0m9w

2012 was such a good GOP primary. Everybody had the lead for two weeks.

i remember newt being like "oh i'm going to be the no-minee" and he kept repeating that and emphasizing the first syllable of "nominee" for some reason

I was pumping gas last night and a guy at an adjacent pump asked me "so who ya voting for? newt?" I was kind of dumbstruck as to why anyone would ask a complete stranger who they're voting for in the GOP primaries.

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, March 2, 2012 10:11 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy might have been Newt in a wig fwiw

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, March 2, 2012 10:12 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

lol

Is this supposed to be reassuring? She loves wealth derived from uncompensated labor? https://t.co/WdJ93Gklmk

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 17, 2018

she is the most left-wing senator in the country, apparently (ignore the tweeter, the data is neutral)

DW-NOMINATE scores say Elizabeth Warren is the most left-wing senator. pic.twitter.com/kZf3FoUxDp

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 17, 2018

i'll investigate their methodology and get back to you

(j/k)

yeah the cory booker thing made me look twice

Cory Booker can eat a hill of butts. But Warren’s capitalism is hardly a surprise — she’s written three books about it.

why do we insist on feeding the troll every time Morbius posts a dumb Henwood tweet

why is it our fault

well at least I got to encounter the phrase "eat a hill of butts" today

I am way more interested in the Warren quote than who provided it, honeybunch

and i'd like to kick "markets" and all their supporters all the way up the ass

how bout flea markets? farmers' markets?