2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

lol

more on the Harris "truancy-as-crime" angle

Kamala Harris at an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club in 2010, explaining her decision as San Francisco DA to get tough on truancy.

Critics of truancy crackdowns say such efforts unfairly target poor parents and children without actually helping students. pic.twitter.com/GKkDpayxuv

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 28, 2019

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

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:56 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oddly enough reagan visited the soviet union that year and told a reporter he didn't consider it an "evil empire" anymore.

It wasn't remotely weird. I was on a public high school field trip there in 1986, my sophomore year.

I mean I was sent back with a detailed plan for undermining our kapitalisticheskiy system but whatever

Arvid and Dennis from the high school sitcom “Head of the Class” memorably tried to smuggle “blue jeans and Beatles tapes” into the country at the beginning of a 3 episode arc shot in and around Moscow

Wait, so she preferred give low-level offenders jobs instead of jail time? How is that anything but extremely progressive? https://t.co/dnVzGkKQhF

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

man Grover Cleveland is as boring a Tweeter as he was a president.

his first tweet is usually good, but when someone interjects he always returns with a surprisingly weak comeback.

xxp "the charging and convicting" for having some weed thing, probably

That’s the law, a DA can’t just let people off the hook because it seems unfair, the best they could do is go for productive, non-prison-related solutions.

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

not in San Francisco: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2006/nov/24/marijuana_san_francisco_supervis

xp

And the fact that she considered it a priority to keep mothers out of jail and with their children seems like something she should put into her stump speech?

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

valorizing her for not jailing first time drug offenders is peak liberalism

She should have changed the laws

The solution to "being a DA means you have to do shitty things" seems to be "don't be a DA in the first place."

She should have changed the laws

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 3:21 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not really au fait with the american justice system but in the legal system i am familiar with the equivalent to a DA has discretion as to whether they want to bring charges or not

Wait are we still saying “Liberal Case for Trump” guy’s thread is good and honest or did we shift to “Wellll I don’t think DA’s should exist anyway, man”?

That’s the law, a DA can’t just let people off the hook because it seems unfair

they absolutely can, wtf