2020 Democratic presidential primary

michael sweeney thinks her grift is to run for the green party nomination, which makes sense.

Totally

re: Harris and the LA Times article linked earlier

The decision to visit South Carolina first — where black voters flex significant muscle in the Democratic primary — stands in contrast to other contenders, such as Warren and Gillibrand, who made Iowa their first stop.

A bunch of not-announced candidates did election endorsement tours back in October for the 2018 election, with the implication some of them were feeling out support for a possible primary run. Harris was in Iowa about a week prior to the election and it might just be that returning after two months is a little soon. Not sure if she visited SC on that trip, though.

Biden boasted about his role in passing the 1994 crime bill in his memoir, which was published 14 months ago https://t.co/BJc4mUYyXI https://t.co/ikMK8rqOk3

— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) January 21, 2019

Biden has to do quick work cleaning up his last 40 years

This from @briebriejoy on Harris's career as a prosecutor and how we ought to judge it is very sharp. https://t.co/GZdAtJEesw pic.twitter.com/hPeDdJDllA

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) January 21, 2019

Kiese Laymon wrote a really good post:

"...But I hope all of us who know what Kamala, Cory and Barry did or had to do to be presidential in this country question also what we had to do to be hired, to be tenured, to not go to jail, to pay for our families' needs. It ain't the same thing, aint same scale, but in dissing and critiquing folk who need critique as anti-black public servants, I hope we also critique the varied ways we satisfy, titillate and bargain with white power in order to eat. We can do both. I teach at a school called Ole Miss and not a school called Jackson State because a school called Ole Miss pays me more, though a school called Jackson State raised me and loved my mama, father, aunties and cousin. All critiques of these feckless politicians have to start there."

kiese <3333

hm

anyone perfect show up yet

hi sorry I'm late

Lol she had to criminalize truants! She had no choice ; )

“We are putting parents on notice,” she said in her inaugural speech as attorney general. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law.”~Kamala Harris

she has already explained that

she thought it said tyrants

this primary is going to be so awful

Yeah, I think so too. But since there are so many women running maybe everyone can get it all out of their system in one go so I won't have to hear unlikeable and uncharismatic in the same sentence ever again.

lol

I feel like, if only Bernie and Biden - and probably Beto - got out of the way, then it could be a really inspiring and interesting primary. But the idea that we'll have a rerun of 2016 except with Biden/Beto in the role of DNC candidate is indeed horrifying.

Is Beto still livejournaling?

Bernie should absolutely still run, even if only to keep pushing the policy discourse left.

I feel like, if only Bernie and Biden - and probably Beto - got out of the way

could you get out of the way?

I still don't want the primaries to be referred to as a primary. There are a shitload of them.

You guys do know that JFK-Humphrey-Johnson in 1960 was also "awful," right? Politics ain't beanbag.

you would think polls like this would push it to the top of anybody's agenda:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426411-record-number-of-americans-consider-climate-change-a-personal-issue

I'm not about to go searching for it now but some asshead on Twitter yesterday basically said that there is no good-faith way to criticize Harris from the left without doing Putin's bidding. He got more or less mercilessly dragged, but good lord.

it's really impressive (and sad) how many regular ass people love playing DNC mouthpiece dress-up

speaking of which, more Putin stooges at work!!

More on Kamala Harris. I'm especially troubled by comments from SF public defender Jeff Adachi and lawyer Anne Weills, both of whom I respect. They asked Harris to investigate local police departments for killing black citizens. She ignored them. https://t.co/I0pNAMvodv

— James Forman, Jr. (@JFormanJr) January 22, 2019

well BLM was created by the FSB obv

The primary lesson Dems learned from their 2016 debacle is that they should slime socialists *before* the primaries. Waaay before.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 23, 2019

Perrin thinks Harris is a socialist?

hardee har

her minions are da shmearers

Some of Hillary's flock have anointed Kamala Harris as the Dem nominee, and if you don't like her you can piss off, but she's still owed your vote because you must follow orders. It's early, but I believe the Dems are gonna fuck this up even bigger than before.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 22, 2019

I, for one, am on the edge of my seat with what Perrin has for us next.

xp - Yes, those are two complete grammatical sentences containing many words which have been assembled into an opinion.

are we even sure that Perrin is not just a Morbs sock account he made to have someone to agree with?

I’ve never seen them in the same room

say what you will about perrin, didn't i post the email i got from a harris supporter last summer who googled me to find my work email address after i was quoted in an article being gently skeptical

the attack-readiness is real

harrisment

though let me qualify that by mentioning that after my prior org asked bernie people to support hilary i got harassed over several days by many people

so we just live in hell now, is the thing

it's a big country and 0.03% of everyone living in it is still roughly 100,000 people. so, citing the harassment done by 'many' people proves that many people are willing to harass others over your position on X issue or over your opinion of Y candidate, but accurate generalizing from that fact is very tricky.

no I’m pretty sure everything said about “bernie bros” was totally accurate and generalizable

Yeah I'd rather it was a false narrative but it just isn't

didn't i post the email

LITTLE DIGITAL STRATEGIST

Seems fair: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/2020-primary-biden-and-betos-aid-to-gop-candidates-in-2018-is-disqualifying.html

I think publicly backing republicans is incredibly shitty but I’m also a little squeamish about the word “disqualifying” getting tossed out when we’re over a year out from the first primary. At this rate everyone’s gonna be disqualified in the next six months. I’ve already seen the same verdict (no pun intended) passed down on Harris for her prosecutorial record. And I’m not defending that either, it’s just I already see the precise battle lines of 2016 getting redrawn again.

Robocop for prez

when we’re over a year out from the first primary

Debates begin in June. The field will be heavily culled by Thanksgiving.

it is happening again

It never stopped

New (as yet unread-by-me) Bernie profile in GQ

https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-unfinished-business/amp?__twitter_impression=true

This is interesting, if true

“When Bernie Sanders ran for president four years ago, it was something he didn’t initially want to do. Before the 2016 campaign, he’d tried to persuade Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and his closest friend in the Senate, to run against Clinton. It was only after Warren told him no that Sanders decided to enter the race himself. “He said, ‘Okay, I have to do it, because someone has to represent this viewpoint,’ ” a Democratic strategist with ties to Sanders told me.”