2020 Democratic presidential primary

can you stop

ever

most members of Congress have egos even bigger than Frederik's

Yeah I get that Trump wants to fuck his own daughter. His supporters love it when you make fun of him wanting to fuck his own daughter. How do you plan to defeat him politically?

still, one has to admit that as troll games go this one is hard to counter

he's just not one who leads from behind like Pelosi...

lol there's a reason Bernie's never led anything, let's see if you can figure it out

i think bernie doing his own response is a ridiculous thing to get worked up about, not least because the way we do SOTU responses now is hardly some sacred ritual. as late as the mid-80s the response consisted of a moderated discussion featuring a dozen or more ppl:

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/RespondStateUnion2.pdf

i'm too young to have seen any of these when they aired but personally i think it sounds more appealing than the current format; every single SOTU response i can remember has been stiff and boring. (in fairness, most of the SOTU speeches i can remember were no better. maybe some of obama's were ok?)

he led the battle against Rodham, you legislative fanboy halfwit

xp

yeah, it's not a big deal, it's just silly. I will be watching no SOTU events fwiw

ah back to namecalling

ILX Dems seem to live by THOU SHALT NOT UPSET DONNA BRAZILE

every single SOTU response i can remember has been stiff and boring

lol I just remembered that "I am a democrat, but first and foremost, I am a proud republican" one from a couple years back

the Clinton SOTU where they forgot to upload his speech into the teleprompter and he ended up improvising it was impressive at the time as oratory even if you didn't know the background story. That's all I remember. Oh, and "The era of big government is over."

The Speaker's job, strictly understood, is not to innovate or inspire passionate resolve, but to manage the flow of legislation and secondarily to hold the caucus together during votes on important legislation. She has tremendous power over what bills are passed or are allowed to die, and over committee assignments. Therefore she has great power over individual representatives, so as to whip them on certain votes, but she does not have enough power to overcome the collective will of the caucus. She can't lead in the way morbs seems to imagine she can. She facilitates, by judiciously distributing rewards and punishments.

i would say that's a booming post if the speaker's job weren't reexplained to morbs 3-4 times a month

.@SenSanders in 1989 when asked about Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign. Thumbs up except for @TheDemocrats affiliation. cc: @mgranville1 #NeverBernie pic.twitter.com/6atNKjBd4x

— NeverBernie (@never_bernie) February 4, 2019

lol yeah how is that supposed to be remotely damaging

can't they find a video of him w a shark bong or something

Brad honey, i don't give a motherfuck about the Speaker or ppl who lust to occupy that chair

i don't give a motherfuck about the Speaker

other than to express your disappointment and disdain, which sounds suspiciously emotionally involved for someone not giving a motherfuck

i'm grateful she's better at her job than Schumer is at his, how's that?

BACK TO THE CANDIDATES

i will enjoy not seeing your posts at least on mobile for the next 1.5 years, see you on the other side honey

if alive

Super ready to never hear Tulsi Gabbard's name again

genuinely surprised even some of the sharper posters here are falling for this bernie non-issue. it’s a response on his facebook page he’s been doing every year since trump took office

With the willing cooperation of the media, which has endless quantities of air time to fill, Tulsi will drag out her moment of notoriety long past what it deserves. Somewhat like the comedian Gallagher.

This is the only place I frequent where Tulsi even comes up.

'i was thinking about supporting bernie in the primary because i want medicare for all and the war in yemen is awful and we've got to tax the rich, but then i heard he gave a speech on facebook right after stacey abrams. i'm a harris guy now.'

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, February 5, 2019 1:14 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm pretty wary about getting angry at any Dems right now for perceived issues w/decorum let alone using social media gotchas, it all feels like a lot of gleeful infighting and sometimes it feels like it's spurred on by people "throwing their voice" a bit in the left's direction.

which is to say people should make a nice educated decision on who they're going to vote for and try not to participate in the endless bullshit cycle

^^^ Russian psy-ops

otm

proud of yall for seeing this is nonsense

def has that feel. i guess what's crazymaking, and why i've been venting in this thread (Morbs, sorry i got snappy) is the number of people in my online orbit who i also know and like to some degree irl who seem glad to pile on.

roger, rog

the pile-on instinct--which is really something separate from ideology, you can use any justification for a pile on and different sides do it--is a pretty horrible characteristic of our era. every day it's a new one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/428517-kamala-harris-to-deliver-address-ahead-of-trumps-state-of-the-union%3famp

take it easy on her, JCLC

That's before, it's completely different, duh

I’m giving an address

During abrams’

well shit guess I better give an address too

You’re on in ten minutes

the primary will be decided by their stances on Yemen

Welp, when life hands you Yemens...

http://i.pinimg.com/236x/37/29/ed/3729ed4c5be49b119f15a8ffc421dfd6--dad-jokes-fathers-day-cards.jpg

yemen aid?

gods work itt

https://hmmdaily.com/2019/02/05/choose-a-different-hill-to-die-on/

The Hill is awful

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/warren-american-indian-texas-bar/index.html

alright, this lady has lost all credibility with me. Stay in the Senate and do good work there, but this was fucking stupid and she can't be president. Sorry.

Lol fuck

Idgaf about anything any candidates did in 1986 really

I am pretty sure at this point that even though my dad told me I was a quarter German and Polish it was more of an excuse of why he ate so much sausage.

Looking forward to the Facts page entry