2020 Democratic presidential primary

Then-District Attorney Harris formed a partnership with the [San Francisco] school district to inform parents about their legal duty to ensure that their children attended school, provide parents of chronically truant students with wrap-around services and school-based mediation, and prosecute parents in the most severe cases where other interventions did not work. The initiative also served as a model for SB 1317 (Leno), which defined "chronic truancy" for the first time under state law and established the initiative's model of combining meaningul services with smart sanctions in the California Penal Code. The bill was sponsored by then-District Attorney Harris and enacted into law in 2010.

I would guess that prosecution/conviction numbers are quite low but having trouble finding hard data, since there's already so much noise/crap in any search results related to Harris

many xps

neither here nor there, but I liked her speech yesterday

When did being more law and order require anyone to burn political capital before the last 18 months of Democratic politics?

Okay that’s honest at least and I think that’s more direct distillation/represents where other people here are actually at with this

“I'm concerned that she was a prosecutor, full stop. All else being equal I'd rather vote for a non-prosecutor. My current mayor was a US Attorney and she sucks!”
― Norm’s Superego (silby),

I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, lol. she says it was controversial in the bay area and it's not hard to imagine that being the case xp

Schultz: “Mike Bloomberg has built a great business, was a great mayor, but I don’t agree with his conclusion” that running as a 3rd party candidate helps Trump

— g a b y (@gabydvj) January 29, 2019

well, yeah

I look forward to this guy crashing and burning spectacularly

is he gabbneb?

looking fwd to seeing what happens to this clown's nascent campaign when his company's stock plummets during boycott

off to a roaring start

About 10 minutes until Howard Schultz speaks. A lot of people here have expressed admiration for Schultz, and there are people in the back standing to see the talk.

Two people spotted: Mic co-founders Chris Altchek and Jake Horowitz. pic.twitter.com/ThqQ60tdaM

— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) January 28, 2019

Nerdstrom is not gabbneb, he was posting before gabbneb was banned

i know that. i was talking about howard schultz.

Seconds into Howard Schultz’s remarks here at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells: “Don’t help elect Trump. You egotistical billionaire asshole.”

— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 29, 2019

Tucker Carlson endorses Warren:
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/26/salon-interview-tucker-carlson-bashes-capitalism-says-he-might-vote-for-elizabeth-warren/

"I wrote a whole book on this and I want our economy to support parents on one income, families on one income, not so we can hire some person from the Third World to work at minimum wage and raise your kids, but so that you can have an intact family. You can live in a way that we all know is better."

cool, woke white supremacy!!

this is a bannon position. he calls himself an "economic nationalist" and, in mixed company, tries to downplay the xenophobic aspects of his ideology

Seconds into Howard Schultz’s remarks here at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells: “Don’t help elect Trump. You egotistical billionaire asshole.”
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 29, 2019

god i dream of saying shit like this to our overlords. good show, heckler.

my congressperson never shows his face in public, but if he did, and i encountered him, i would have to choose between one of a few dozen vicious put-downs that i've practiced (in my mind) while trying to fall asleep. i hope he is patient.

lol

a few weeks ago i mind-owned trump so hard in front of a fake camera, totally improvised, that i thought it would go viral if real

trump-based psychodramas are best owns ime

the one i keep returning to is simplicity itself: "you are garbage"

not proud but my fantasy own is a wordless flurry of left and right crosses to all parts of his face

read that post to the tune of "mama said knock you out"

i'm kinda like shaft so you can say I'm shafting

at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells

god bless new yorkers

I feel like 60% of the reason they keep B&Ns open in manhattan is for heckling people.

I almost went to see alan dershowitz at union square last fall for the heckling action

I'm not sure what Fox are floating with Tucker but they are definitely floating something (or he is floating it himself), the warren thing, agreeing with AOC, the feud with Shapiro. I don't know indicative it is of changing times but there's definitely something there

This is not an original thought, but I think Tucker is already anticipating post-Trump conservative talking points.

Tucker probably wants to run for President as a successor to Trump with all the racism but a more populist economic policy.

I'm not sure what Fox are floating with Tucker but they are definitely floating something (or he is floating it himself), the warren thing, agreeing with AOC, the feud with Shapiro. I don't know indicative it is of changing times but there's definitely something there

― anvil,

ratfucking

Yeah. They can mess with the left this way—centrists also like to cast economic leftists as “nationalists” but they do it disparagingly

Warren would be less appealing to many liberals if she was cast as one of these olde tyme white union leader democrats. Liberal candidates would be less appealing to Warren supporters if they felt their person had been unfairly smeared in this way. Win-win for the right wing.

xps
i feel like tucker carlson is these days superficially at least (based mostly on his book and floating these ideas from time to time) often concerned with a struggle against elites rather than left vs right fox and friends material, predicting finally left and right populism having a final showdown to see who gets to put tech billionaires, bankers and both party old guard and evil rich people in a gas chamber.
so i think it kind of makes sense to see him champion some left populism that aims at some of the same goals.

i don't know how tapped into those streams tucker carlson and his crew are but just interesting to see, like, dai1y st0rmer had a sailor moon/girl idol aoc mashup thing as their header until last week (changed since i last looked to a save steve king campaign), much was made of her triggering boomers because she wants to increase minimum wage and raise the top marginal tax rate, etc. there's definitely a portion of the reactionary youth (not sure how to describe this group in one word) that i think isn't deeply invested in a right wing program, but more the populist aspect (and triggering libs and because they sincerely hate jews), which they saw on an upswing. but now with the right populist thing not very exciting, afloat by retirees waiting for the iraqi dinar rv, evangelicals, gateway pundit comment section, smug catholic high school teens getting trolled on a trip to dc, an ascendant left populism is cool? maybe?

The daily stormer likes aoc? That’s wild

see also: At Richard Spencer’s secret conference, white supremacists denounce corporate capitalism
these people are pushing for the end of neoliberal globalization and finance/real estate-dominated economies, etc. policies like m4a or breaking up the banks or nationalizing facebook are not something the "alt-right" (which is not all youtube koch-funded guys like crowder or "classical liberals") and guys like richard spencer are particularly opposed to.
tucker carlson is on message.

xp

the daily stormer has no clear editorial line but they did love aoc for at least a couple months (you can dig it up yourself, if you're interested but big part of it is an anti-elite thing where they're into smashing the banks and also like her triggering old guard dems and uh... yeah)...

Obv it is “trolling” at some level but still—the weird splintering of our normal cultural divides is interesting. I don’t pay attention to the right enough to know what’s going on over there though.

i do HOPE the alt-right (not referring to gateway pundit readers and boomers but sub-35yo 4chan people and shit) attracted plenty of disaffected people that saw in right wing populism and triggering libs a way out of a shitty timeline and are getting [hammer and sickle emoji]-pilled by an analysis of the world that is built on something deep and real.
to get it back to the topic we started on, that's not the case with tucker, who's on an anti-elite/anti-neolib/anti-globalization bannonite worldview thing.

to get back to the poll, i don't remember who i picked but i like kamala to take it all with bernie never entering.

someone remind me, who's actually *officially* running so far? Warren, Gillibrand, Harris -- that's it, right?

i assume they'll all be dropping out now howard schultz is on the scene

Clinton, Biden, Richardson, Hart, Mondale, "Scoop" Jackson, Humphrey, McGovern.

Pat Paulsen

Harold Stassen

don't blame me, i voted for dick gephardt

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/kamala-harris-would-end-private-health-insurance.html

love this answer!

classic chait concern trolling also

this is tangential, but given the talk of Harris' record I found it interesting. the comments on this piece (as well as, of course, the story itself) tell you something about the kind of pushback one can expect when trying to act as a reformer in a DA role

http://www.philly.com/news/larry-krasner-conviction-integrity-unit-philadelphia-district-attorney-judges-20190129.html

Castro is definitely in. I thought Bernie was too but I don’t recall him making an official announcement

I forgot that Gabbard was official as well, lol