2020 Democratic presidential primary

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.

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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

oh shit, yeah, christ.

ha ha she said she was running in an interview and that she'd have a formal announcement the next week. Two weeks have gone by with no announcement.

Buttigieg has launched an exploratory committee, does that count

guys, you're forgetting John Delaney

Today I announced I'll outline a plan for a Green New Deal, accelerating US transition to 100% clean energy. The 1st pillar will be investing in people & communities that powered our economy for decades. The econ benefits of a Green New Deal must reach every corner of the country pic.twitter.com/Fvjdondyu4

— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) January 29, 2019

whoa

reducing the size of soda cups everywhere to save plastic

good for Bloomberg on doing this

and also not running

bloomberg is ok on a lot of things tbh

if he wants to bankroll the campaign for GND then i'm extremely fine with that

Kamala Harris's comments of "using the stick" to make poor families behave, or be arrested, is deeply disturbing. This is much worse than Clinton's "super predator" comments, because Harris's conviction belies a far more deeply held political philosophy. pic.twitter.com/WhFkO4HOE4

— Jermane Lee Willis (@WillisJermane) January 28, 2019

sorry, did not know Simon posted that video yesterday

don't tell me you're getting tired of being repetitive

since i didn't see it, i am not being repetitive

tell us how much you love Tarantino tho

I'm dreading his next movie, that's how much

is it an adaptation of No Exit?
Are we in it?

if you type "boycott" in google the autocomplete is " starbucks"

gotta say this arms race to see who can propose levying the highest taxes on the rich absolutely fucking rules

Our bill only applies to the richest 0.2% of Americans. It would establish a:

-45% tax on estate values $3.5M to $10M
-50% tax on estate values $10M to $50M
-55% tax on estate values over $50M
-77% tax on estate values over $1 billion

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 31, 2019

can I vote for downtown boys' proposal

https://youtu.be/h_AaTM-IKxM

What's funny is that while the party hates the idea that Dems should identify villains -- they don't even like saying they want to defeat *conservatism* -- they do actually know that it *works.* It's what Obama did in 2012, to the horror of people like Booker. https://t.co/7Pe7Ssjhkg

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) January 31, 2019

Does the story of the middle-class's decline need a ruling-class villain?

yes