2020 Democratic presidential primary

What are the chances Cory Booker isn’t a crook? Iirc as mayor of Newark he was presented as a technocratic reformist but if DC is any exemplar actual technocratic reformists don’t end up with long careers

Corey Booker/Cory Gunz 2020

Presumably, Harris's position on Israel is more solidly grounded in practical domestic politics than in any firm philosophical commitment to the right of conquest over the right of self-determination.

I would go further than this and say that this is also the case for US politicians with anti-Zionist politics. I don't think there's such a thing as a politician with a philosophical commitment to the right of conquest, the right of self-determination, the right of self-defense, or any of the other so-called rights politicians bring up when defending the foreign policy commitments their domestic politics lead them to have.

chris christie spoke highly of booker today

Let’s not relitigate Christie’s wet farts

What are the chances Cory Booker isn’t a crook?

He may have other problems, but even before he was elected mayor he was almost painfully presenting himself as corruption-free.

http://nj1015.com/rand-pauls-wife-blames-booker-for-having-to-sleep-with-loaded-gun/

What are the chances Cory Booker isn’t a crook?

as p4reene once pointed out, Booker is "an actual scam artist"

https://newrepublic.com/article/114197/cory-bookers-role-startup-waywire-shady-unsurprisingly

The New York Times’ front-page report on Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s involvement in a fledgling web-video start-up called Waywire contains some troubling and surprising revelations. The article details that the majority of Booker’s wealth—and up to $5 million—involves shares in the company, for which he tapped both celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and campaign donors for seed money. Unusually for someone who does not work on it day-to-day, Booker received the largest stake of its three co-founders. In both federal and municipal forms, Booker was late to formally disclose his ownership. Waywire employs a couple associates of Booker’s, and, as the Times drolly notes, it “has put Andrew Zucker, 14, the son of Jeff Zucker, president of CNN, on its advisory board and given him stock options.” Booker’s buckraking was brazen enough that it is likely he never could have gotten away with it had he been a senator—as he soon shall be, assuming he wins next Tuesday’s Democratic primary, which he is nearly certain to do, and a subsequent special election in October.

I'm not really seeing the crime here

I said a crook, not a criminal

he's a Betsy DeVosian too

Booker's not a serious contender imo

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, February 1, 2019 2:38 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 1, 2019 2:41 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the primaries will be chaotic, and he may be the last person standing, but i haven't seen anyone, literally anyone, except chris christie say he's their favorite candidate.

he might be running for vp

Oh lord I hadn't considered that

very Dole-Quayle of him

VP was my thought too. he seems much more like VP material tbh lol

So far he’s the candidate I can most immediately see lending themselves to comedic impersonation.

he might be running for vp

Buttigeig/Booker 2020

ya can't have two (could be) gays on the ticket

That’s in the constitution iirc

would be a pretty lol way to finally answer the question "what do you call the 'First Lady' if it's a dude?"

He’s gotta weigh what benefits him more in the race for the presidency, sticking w Rosario Dawson or coming out?

I may not be the most discerning voter on here, but I kind of like the way the Democrat field is shaping up.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/428060-brown-medicare-for-all-not-practical?__twitter_impression=true

That core Democratic constituency of, uh, aging Rust Belt white people.

Fav/unfav of Howard Schultz

4% fav to 50% unfav with Dems (!), 4/43 with Republicans (!!), and...........4/31 with independents (!!!)

https://t.co/EDnEXl91vN pic.twitter.com/47OsMZ1lVV

— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) February 2, 2019

If it was job to spin these numbers for him I’d say it means he’s the “bad boy of politics” and people grow to love their villains eventually.

*my job

Harris already on the pointy end of the meme primary

https://hi.spooky.camp/system/media_attachments/files/000/026/089/original/962c8173c753d092.jpeg

lol

ok that's pretty good

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/428060-brown-medicare-for-all-not-practical

That core Democratic constituency of, uh, aging Rust Belt white people.

well on my way to eliminating everyone but Bernie

A case for Booker as the candidate who's best on criminal justice.

but his crimes

No one on ilx said he was a criminal!!

🚨 Scoop: Biden, Bloomberg, McAuliffe rattled by liberal lurch, rethinking runs: Internal polling shows socialism surging in Iowa https://t.co/X8cyYiy1lV

— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) February 2, 2019

socialism surging in iowa!

too bad, without surging socialism mcauliffe would be a shoo-in

Hasn't Bloomberg already said he wouldn't run?

Yes

Bloomberg said he wouldn't run as an independent. If he runs, he'll be seeking the Democratic nomination.

https://i.imgur.com/o4RpEJC.jpg

fixed

Bloomberg said he wouldn't run as an independent. If he runs, he'll be seeking the Democratic nomination.

― grawlix (unperson), 2. februar 2019 18:10 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh dear :(

My in-laws from Arlington Virginia are in town, and when the Northam stuff broke they were all, well that scuttles the presidential run everyone was talking about. And I was like, who was seriously talking about that guy running for president?

Mrs. Northram.

Bernie must be feeling pretty good about having backed his opponent rn

The Northam campaign communicated to Sanders before the election that it didn’t want him to campaign for him. Their choice more than Sanders’s. https://t.co/s3xKnzovGR

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 2, 2019

Bloomberg is a fucking loser that no one likes let's not sweat that

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/obama-staff-tom-perriello-virginia-236367

Bernie must be feeling pretty good about having backed his opponent rn

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), 2. februar 2019 18:52 (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know, this seems like the worst oppo research ever by Northams opponents?

worst oppo research ever

The number of those yearbooks in existence by now is undoubtedly quite small, and accessing them difficult.