2020 Democratic presidential primary

The whole clip seems to be here:

Sanders whole response to Anderson Cooper re NYT article and staff harassment and pay disparity allegations. pic.twitter.com/7qLtcHGAWK

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 3, 2019

On the one hand, OK, the organization grew really fast and he probably WAS busy and it probably was hard to keep tabs on everything going on. He probably did just mean that he was unaware at the time and has already taken steps to try to address this going forward (or in the just-past Senatorial race). On the other hand, that REALLY doesn't seem like the ideal tone to use there: it just comes off as callous, especially for a labour advocate.

lol he sounds like a ceo. <3 bernie. bernie 4eva. he was the good one! he would have fixed everything!

Pathetic response from Sanders

go warren I guess

My gut feeling is to put some sort of early bet on Warren, but this far out I'm DGAF unless someone does something more than performative outrage.

So, I'm really trying to be consistent here. Clintonistas have noted on twitter that there was the same kind of problems on her campaign, and that it happens on every campaign, especially one that takes off like Sanders' did. The ramshackle nature of the beast means it's very hard to get proper standards in place from the start. And he seems to have learned from the experience, and is doing better. This is exactly why you should focus on whether or not people seem invested in being better in the future, rather than what they've done in the past, if they have 'credibility' or are 'authentic'.

But dear God what a pathetic response. He just doesn't seem to get it, seems mostly annoyed that he has to answer for these things, angry that his big accomplishments are being blemished by something so trivial. He just doesn't seem like he has credibility on the subject... Sigh.

The next two years are going to be so ugly :(

I mean, if you agree that he learned and is doing better, what is it that he doesn't get? Just the right tone to use on TV?

make america cool again. republicans running the show results in refugee child concentration camps, no joke. the next two years are going to be righteous

lol absolutely not what dimension are you living in

in the dimension where people happily voted for 2scoops despite people they don't know laughing at the possibility of him winning

ok so what here is pointing to righteousness. please I wish to understand qualmsley thought

The next ??? years will be hellish. Our society is falling apart.

Not that it was “good before” but right now is a disheartening time. Everything is dysfunctional and our entire public discourse is divided into two camps: a sucidal cult of stupidity, and a very reactive, panicked left prone to escapist fan fic about robert mueller.

hopes may rise on the grasmere

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-rising-dems-take-house-pushing-massive-government-expansion-as-party-lurches-left?

The Bernie thing is whatever. It's pretty much the standard still that progressive men are still golly gee about harassment and pay gaps "existing".

I like when I see a member from one of my favorite 90s indie rock bands going for Klobuchar.

really wish jennifer granholm had been born in the US

can we have AOC in 2024 or will she still not meet age threshold even then? Ro Khanna if not?

She’ll be 35 then

But come on, she's not going to primary Biden.

People that I like are actually expressing enthusiasm for Biden on my fb and it blows my mind. We literally have learned nothing.

oh wow, thats....something

Joementum part 2

McAuliffe starting to put in the work

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-beat-trump-democrats-must-counter-his-lies-with-realistic-solutions/2019/01/02/511c2344-0d1a-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html

biden is a likable guy. he did some boneheaded things prior to being VP but I think he distinguished himself as VP. I'd certainly vote for him for President. But he's like, sixth on my list of people I want in that job.

GO AWAY
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/03/dianne-feinstein-2020-pick-joe-biden-1079024

Xpost agreed

expressing enthusiasm for joe fucking biden as next dem presidential candidate = enjoy trump's next term

I like this Dame article that coined #SomeWhiteGuy2020.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2019/01/02/we-need-to-rethink-the-way-we-talk-about-women-in-politics/

O'Malley says he's out and Cuomo was probably never likely in the first place. Kaine seemingly last commented "nope" on 2020 shortly after 2016. Duckworth and Lundergan Grimes aren't really making themselves known right now and I don't know if either of them will even comment if they aren't running. The remaining 8/13 on my list are all at least in the liminal phase of running for president as we speak, though it's unclear what party banner if any Bloomberg would be running under. I'll give myself a B-.

On Maddow, @ewarren says she would pull troops out of Syria (and unprompted, Afghanistan), says the metrics of what winning could possibly look like in both places hasn't been sufficiently explained.

— David Dayen (@ddayen) January 3, 2019

what i'll remember about martin omalley

Martin omalley you got a children's book ass name. You sound like the mailman in a town where everyone's a bear

— Breakfast Haver (@weedguy420boner) January 17, 2016

hmm

voting for Biden would be 100x more depressing than voting for Hillary. at least with the latter I caught some feels about the prospect of a female president.

seems like Biden's constituency is someone's relative who didn't vote for Hillary but says they would have voted for him

biden doesn't stand a chance in the primary imo

I really REALLY hope yer right

yeah i can definitely picture a debate stage full of candidates who are a) young b) full of passion and ideas or both, and ol' Diamond Joe looking like a rickety old relic.

he's gonna drop into that hectoring, "come on" posture that was fun when he was debating joe biden, but will seem very out-of-touch when he pulls it on kamala harris or someone

*debating Paul Ryan, d'oh

or when he goes on about how billionaires are not the problem or whatever

yeah he'll get eaten alive in the primary for being out of touch on various hot button issues re: women, financial industry, foreign wars take yr pick

I'd welcome a return of Onion Biden as a heel.

biden doesn't stand a chance in the primary imo

otm

I sorta hate Onion Biden in retrospect for helping to build him up as anything but an old creep and sellout

right, every time i think i hate him i just imagine him installing above ground pools.

biden doesn't stand a chance in the primary imo

Third time's the... what's the opposite of charm?

multiple Anita Hill questions per day would not go well

Hoping Biden doesn’t become the nominee but out of the curiosity, is the “creep” thing based on the Anita Hill questioning or are we talking about stuff on the level of the right wing memes where they have freeze frames of him hugging people as evidence he’s a pedophile?