Your 2020 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

the Strangelove candidate

I thought Louis Abolafia was dead

"The Love Candidate" just voted in favor of the $717bn military spending budget

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:35 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in his defense, he never specified what he loved

charter schools

Responses to the HuffPo piece about Soros et al. being butthurt with Gillibrand over how she handled the Franken thing have been awesome.

https://splinternews.com/liberal-donors-are-snubbing-kristen-gillibrand-1828041390

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/08/assassination-al-franken-coward-kirsten-gillibrand-absolutely-nobody-else-contd

I'm seeing people with "Al Franken 2020 Anyway" bumper stickers

I’m so glad we don’t drive

Gillibrand's endorsements are the one thing holding her lefty cred back

Sen. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND endorses GRETCHEN WHITMER for governor. pic.twitter.com/dApnVpbirr

— Daniel Strauss (@DanielStrauss4) August 2, 2018

(The lefty favorite is Abdul El-Sayed.)

that sucks even worse than her endorsing Cuomo over Nixon, at least in that case you could make the argument Nixon isn't "qualified" (whatever the fuck that means/is worth) but El-Sayed certainly seems to be the real deal.

at least she didn't endorse the guy who murdered all those puppies!

What is El-Sayed's appeal? What makes him better than Whitmer? A cursory search turns up no evidence of evil on her part. They both seem fine, and I can understand Gillibrand endorsing another woman.

god I just looked at a recent poll and El-Sayed isn't even beating the puppy-murderer. blue, red, doesn't matter, there are a lot of dumb motherfuckers in this country.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/02/could-abdul-el-sayed-be-the-real-deal

Chucklebee's son is running for gov of Michigan?

xp

From that Current Affairs link:

I am limitlessly suspicious of Shiny Young Political Wunderkind types. Frankly, I don’t really trust anyone who runs for political office, and think that the desire to be elected should itself disqualify a person from holding public office. (I prefer the idea of randomly selecting our representatives, so that we’d end up with fewer people who harbor the mad delusion that they are competent to hold power over others.)

Now I want the author to have the job, because this is literally my core position w/r/t electoral politics, and has been since high school.

so that we’d end up with fewer people who harbor the mad delusion that they are competent to hold power over others

this seems like a foolish assumption at best

cuz I'd say the vast majority of ppl harbor that delusion

tbh i distrust ppl who want to run businesses way way more than i distrust ppl who want to hold public office

I like NJR generally but since he's (I assume) his own editor he lets a dopey line or two slip through on occasion

lol J.D. otm

it's like, yeah we should be skeptical and critical of politicians, but the "i don't trust anyone who wants to have power" line strikes me as kinda libertarian-y

Power’s great, who wouldn’t want it

The next president should be a tree

Frankly, I don’t really trust anyone who runs for political office, and think that the desire to be elected should itself disqualify a person from holding public office.

this is literally Douglas Adams, who people on the internet seem to frequently forget was a satirist

this is literally Douglas Adams, who people on the internet seem to frequently forget was a satirist

And satire is always flippant, empty jokes with no real truth or meaning behind it.

I see what you did there

my distrust of Gillibrand comes from the gun-lovin' centrist she was when appointed to the Senate. what year does she change back?

Her views on revolvers were evolving.

And satire is always flippant, empty jokes with no real truth or meaning behind it.

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, August 2, 2018 4:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

satire is always meant to convey meaning, but is not to be taken literally. unless of course you ate irish babies for breakfast this morning under the orders of jonathan swift.

they were delicious

The next president should be a tree

― President Keyes

if you were the president what kind of tree would you be?

Pretty sure Americans would vote for the tallest money tree without thinking much about it

my distrust of Gillibrand comes from the gun-lovin' centrist she was when appointed to the Senate.

jfc, that was almost 10 years ago. Her voting record since entering the senate has been very anti-NRA and Sandy Hook was a pretty hard/permanent reset for her on the issue.

Gillibrand's endorsements don't seem to be strategic outside of the Cuomo one. She endorsed Kelda Roys in WI, who's polling at less than 5% in the dem primary poll for gov.

God forbid a novice politician should appropriately represent the wishes of her constituents

Xp

my distrust of Gillibrand comes from the gun-lovin' centrist she was when appointed to the Senate.

This identifies her as a pol who knows which side her bread is buttered on. So, the best approach is to keep buttering her bread on the side you agree with.

The next president should be a tree

― President Keyes, Thursday, August 2, 2018 4:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how about a skeleton

They have more life experience

I fucking hate all you idiots

I come to this thread to learn about what Jeff Flake and Rudy Giuliani are up to, not to read about how some goddamn internet randos feel about BIG IDEAS that were covered to death by my fellow wind instrument players in our AD&D group in 10th fucking grade

Oh wait this is the 2020 Speculation thread not the main US politics thread. I’m still mad at everyone though. Except Morbius, he’s just doing his usual Method bullshit.

Can we vote for you?

I look forward to Morbius explaining why this is evil, and just another example of Booker serving his true corporate masters like the might-as-well-be-a-Republican he is.

i don't answer cherrypicking strawmen

scuse me i have a Method class

now i have "method man" stuck in my head, only it's "m-e-t, h-o-d, MORBS"

Or you could o the Hall & Oates route. m-e-t-h-o-d-o-f modern morbs

lol Doc

Cory Booker would rather be seen as unbelievably dumb than as sympathetic to Palestinians https://t.co/dUTeFJNMbR

— Rob (@robbryan86) August 3, 2018

To be fair his housing policy is >>>>>> Kamala harris’s

lmao

https://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/sen-kamala-harris-cozies-up-to-the-base-but-will-they-believe/88474

https://i.imgur.com/zLxpGHI.png

hahaha