2020 Democratic presidential primary

have any stupid libs come out for "right-sizing" poverty, incarceration, healthcare, famine, or cancer today? because it's been that way

Howard Dean otm

Tariq Nasheed going after a black woman shocker.

nasheed also challenged terry crews to a boxing match this week to settle who is more of a man

what a card

Nasheed's books on dating and finding women include The Mack' Within, The Elite Way, and The Art of Mackin'.[5][6][4] Nasheed has also authored two advice books for female readers: Play or Be Played: What Every Female Should Know About Men, Dating, and Relationships[5][7] and The Art of Gold Digging.[8]

never heard of him but yeah telling black women what to do with their hair is uh

nasheed also challenged terry crews to a boxing match this week to settle who is more of a man

oh THAT guy. he's having a big week

He says he is an “anti-racism strategist.” What a world.

So, uh, Richard Ojeda left his state senate seat to concentrate on running for president. TEN DAYS later he quit the presidential race. In the meantime, WV's GOP governor replaced him with a more conservative senator. https://t.co/lMINPeoUed

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 25, 2019

whoops

lol I knew there was a reason I was getting putz vibes from that guy

Good call by The Intercept for elevating that dude

Greenwald's batting about .073 since 2016

what's goin on there

Bernie's in, apparently.

well, this should be interesting

Insuring we definitely never leave 2016

i don't think it makes for any kind of repeat of 2016.
i'm all for both he and warren running, if they can avoid attacking each other and eventually one unites their following with the other. i guess that's an unlikely scenario. it's just hard for me to imagine at the two trying to tear each other apart or something.

I'm curious to see how their proposals stack up / contrast

And yeah, nothing about this will be a repeat save for the tiresome sycophants. Except there'll be more of them this time stanning for more candidates lol

I am all for every single dem candidate running a slightly different heavily tax the wealthy, universal healthcare, uber workers rights/familial leave, dem socialist platform. I think that would actually be a hilarious winning strategy.

And i really like Bernie a lot but fuck him. He should know people by now and pick and stand behind a candidate that is not him from the very beginning.

Yeah the more candidates is a better situation actually. Really helps dilute what was this false dyad of only two serious candidate in 16 primary. I don’t expect things to get ugly between Warren and Bernie and can’t expect him not to run given some of the polls he’s looking at.

Yglesias made a similar prediction as this awhile back and I find it a plausible scenario. My hope is people who are mad are able to make peace with it as a possibility

Bernie is going to be the nominee. The anti-Bernie vote will be split among a million candidates all afraid to criticize him because they think they can pick up his supporters. Screencap this then sit back and wait a year for the meltdowns as everyone slowly realizes this.

— $ean P. McCarthy (@SeanMcCarthyCom) January 22, 2019

I'm still putting my money on Harris

*screencaps*

*sits back and waits a year*

i should have ordered some food first

We should all kick in to a tontine of some kind

why order out when we can cannibalize each other

i haven't talked about this on ilx for a while, but suddenly i want to remind everyone that i have trouble gaining weight and definitely don't have any nutritional value, all bones over here

why order out when we can cannibalize each other

literally every american ILXor not in a safe blue state is voting for the dem so let's maybe relax

It's Friday night and ya'll have been at this since this morning, let me joke.

marginally less boring and tedious than work

lol you all hate bernie now

this place is crazy

Bernie is fine for a guy who wants to be president

bernie is just too old. that's the only major strike against him, and it's a serious one IMO. he's not a wonk--sometimes his knowledge of his own policy positions is pretty thin-- but i don't think a president has to be.

still Bernie for me, at least until the end of the season!

If he gets top 4 then he's the guy

#feelingTheBern

i really dont know how to assess bernie in this race. he was the lone candidate articulating a new deal/great society presidency in 2016, but a lot of the candidates have already adopted a lot of the bernie platform (m4a, etc) and have the added benefit of not pushing 80 in 2020. also, i feel like home-state advantages will be bigger than usual. i guess i'm glad he's in the race to continue pushing the party leftward, but he's going to continue struggling on race and gender issues.

someone will do the "Bernie supports sex between children" hatchet job

re race, wasn't Bernie in Mississippi in 1964?

also i dont get whats so bad about there being lots of candidates or them scrapping. It should help strong candidates ideally? Certainly coming under attack has boosted AOC exponentially. Granted none of the candidate have anything like AOC's ability but still

I actually wasn't being sarcastic at all about a lot of candidates possibly being good. If you have 20 dem candidates going really progressive and all hammering it in as reality, the GOP would likely look like 1960 (not that they don't already). I think most of us still really like Bernie but he's not the guy anymore.

The candidates aren’t really scrapping at this point and no one things that will be the problem. It’s the bad faith relelentless smearing of all the non-Bernies from his worst supporters that could get tiresome.

AOC is a new congresswoman in a safe blue district you found out about 3 months ago.

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I think it's going to be a big field in the sense that 2016 was - Castro and Sherrod Brown are this year's Jim Webb and Martin O'Malley, it will quickly settle down to Harris/Bernie/Warren, maybe Booker for a bit until he figures out that he's in completely the wrong position for 2020.

it's totes "bad faith" to point to Harris's actual record and things Joe Biden has actually said and done

Not necessarily. But definitely some right wingers will claim Trump is better on criminal justice than Harris and at this point the “she’s a cop!” lefties will totally fall for it. Not thrilled w Biden but maybe people accusing him of being a pedophile is insane and bad for progressivism.

But definitely some right wingers will claim Trump is better on criminal justice than Harris and at this point the “she’s a cop!” lefties will totally fall for it.

*are