2020 Democratic presidential primary

ffs can we just ban gabbneb for the nth time

like, this is watching someone troll boringly and voluminously in the comments under a fivethirtyeight article

well, glad I missed today

Lol, Yglesias squares the circle:

Why are so many Bernie voters assholes?

Well, there were ~13 million of them, so if you figure ~2% of them are two standard deviations more assholic than the typical person that’s like 260,000 extreme assholes which is a ton of people.

Math!

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 27, 2019

If you think about distributions and figure the average Bernie voter is slightly more likely to be an asshole (it’s a younger and maler group) you end up with a much larger number of right-tail extreme assholes without them being in any way representative of the overall group.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 27, 2019

Lmao I just realized Bernie hasn't even actually announced yet

Literally all I’ve been asking for thanks. Tree and Casino couldn’t say the below for whatever reason.

what she said was good btw
― david waster phallus (darraghmac)

that thread is just a long retread of hoary old "he's not even a democrat," "this was all about his dumb ego," and "he should have dropped out at X unspecified time" material, which have all been worked over here ad nauseum since late 2015. bernie ran to shift the window and demonstrate that there was support for a labor/new-deal left nationwide, and succeeded massively. i wonder how many of AOC and her peers we'd be seeing in action in national and local office, or whether M4A would now be a baseline dem position, if the sanders campaign had packed it in when he was "supposed" to.

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, January 27, 2019 12:56 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

xpost one reason might be that your dumb schtick of baiting people by casting aspersions on their commitments if they don't jump when you say jump to denounce someone that has been dragged into an argument for no reason of all is p much like that of a tedious high school student

No that’s not it. This is over anyway. The Britisher lady said what you couldn’t say.

will you knock it the fuck off

You’re calling darragh a Britisher lady? Bc wrong on both counts

Oh sorry my mistake

Confused with someone else

The good news is that if we ban gabbneb now he should sneak back in by the time the primaries actually start.

silby did u just assume my empirical subject status

cos..wow

xpost Bernie was never the savior. Everything from his platform has been what some/ a lot of people have been thinking, endorsing, or fighting for their entire lives. Just now, like exactly these last two years since a dirty pervy diaper got elected and people are acknowledging trash sexual predators shouldn't be reaping all the money and power in society are people feeling more compelled adn empowered to run for public office and say these things out loud.

Lmao at the replies

I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

No one is a savior, and American lib politics will be safer if we stand behind causes first, then look to the candidate who best fulfills them at that moment.

Does "lib" there mean liberal or liberatory

god, why would anyone run as an independent centrist anything in life, ever.

yerac otm

x2

He should run with Bloomberg on the too-much-fucking-money unity ticket.

The ralph nader masochist party ticket

They should hearken back to the old days by touring the country in a small plane

Bicycle tour of all 50 states

“Don’t call it a gimmick: Starbucks Whatshisname is brining his vision directly to the people.”

Unicycle tour

I’m tired. Bye guys

#bernie2020 is cancelled now, sorry

NEW: Recently discovered footage from 1988 reveals a shirtless Bernie Sanders with his wife, Jane, on their honeymoon in the USSR, drunkenly signing “This Land Is Your Land” with a group of presumed Soviets.

H/T: @mgranville1pic.twitter.com/bpUsYRdZ7R

— TOᑭ ᖇOᑭE TᖇAViS (@TopRopeTravis) January 28, 2019

not something a drone like Sen Harris would do, eh?

The feuding between Bernie's camp and Beto's camp is hilarious because a) why those two? and b) neither of them are even running yet.

wouldja rather he'd sung "The Internationale"? xp

hmmm, I somehow missed that you would call citizens of the soviet union "soviets."

Somebody asked upthread who had the best climate policy but it appears no one has anything. Harris talked about it in her speech but there’s no plan or anything. Bernie, Warren and Gillibrand have signaled support for the Green New Deal but there’s no unified understanding for what that actually is. Maybe it’s just shorthand for “bold climate action” at this point and that’s what it just needs to be for now

Yeah, it's still January 2019. If there are still no specifics by summer 2020, that'll be a problem.

Harris could at least come out in favor of this, which was already written and introduced in the last session by Coons and Flake: https://www.coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Energy%20Innovation%20and%20Carbon%20Dividend%20Act%20One-Pager.pdf

Bloomberg sitting it out (again)

Mike Bloomberg on SCHULTZMANIA: "In 2020, the great likelihood is that an independent would just split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the President. That's a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can't afford to run it now." https://t.co/qhhHbcF6Zf

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 28, 2019

"It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders,” said the CEO of another giant bank...
(I assume Warren and/or Sanders will put this on a bumper sticker) https://t.co/maP8t64nZ1

— David Dayen (@ddayen) January 28, 2019

The Internationale is a better song than This Land is Your Land tbh

I like both

The Internationale goes better with booze

Has some cheeky brewery made an Internation-Ale yet?

If not, they should

should be these guys, obviously - https://www.partizanbrewing.co.uk/

Yeah, those cats could also be trusted to nail the Socialist Realism Soviet style art on the label. A few backwards letters, a muscular farmworker scathing through a sheaf of golden grain....

I know technically the Cold War was still going on but I don’t think visiting Russia was considered weird or anything in 1988

it was a campaign issue in 1992. AIM still has a page up about it:

https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/

Half measures. A school principal. It won't work if you don't run against what got us here. https://t.co/h5gl7AcSzV

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 27, 2019

This is the “let’s remember who we are as Americans” crap that did so well last time. Good luck.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 27, 2019

Hope the new Lion King film addresses the massive plot hole left over from the first film: how exactly did all the animals learn to speak English?

— Grover Cleveland (@GroverCleveland) November 27, 2018