2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Now that that’s over, please watch my friend Stacey Abrams share her message for the country. https://t.co/j6oL1eLFkF

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 6, 2019

Not sure it’s remotely “disqualifying” level bad.

Haha I was gonna share the Bernie tweet

Two of my grandparents were from Oklahoma, we had the same bullshit "great great grandma was Cherokee" story. It's the Okie version of stealing valor.

Would there have been e.g. affirmative action benefits associated with Native identity on a TX bar registration in 1986?

There's a pretty wide gap btwn bullshit family lore and this imo

Not willing to say it's disqualifying but it's fucking embarrassing

Sund4r's question makes the difference I think

Yeah, I'm just saying that re: her explanation about the family lore and how it all started.

Didn't she already admit to listing herself as a Native American in directories in the '80s?

no, she said the schools did that on their own.

it's embarrassing because she certainly gave the impression that she'd never actually written this herself on anything. But here we have her handwriting. So, she either forgot about this, or lied about it. which is why I say she's lost credibility.

Yeah, I kind of don't really care too much about that too because I remember so much about the 80s and 90s and randomly choosing to identify as white or asian pacific islander or two races just based upon how I was feeling that day. Even now I randomly select it. She should still acknowledge it and move on.

I’m making a big announcement on Sunday. Join me there: https://t.co/Hz91NGE8hB pic.twitter.com/7Yz1dgaa31

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) February 6, 2019

Is it about Game of Thrones?

I like Amy a lot.

I'm gonna need a refresher course on whomst the fuck she is tbh

"Idgaf about anything any candidates did in 1986 really

― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), "

it's not like the 80's were the goddamned middle ages. It's not cool that Northam did blackface, and it's not cool to insist you're native american when you have like, no relatives who lived on a reservation, weren't steeped in the culture, have zero tribal registration, etc. I'm tired of white people expecting to get a pass because they were naive.

blackface is different than parents telling you what to bring to school for international heritage food day though. Racism was always bad. 23&me wasn't really a thing in the 80s.

But I am not native american so I don't really have a say in it

Can we not use parents/school language for discussing this even as an example, warren was almost 40 at the time

I am 40 now and I still have no clue what to put as my race. The US is so messed up.

But whatever, I like Klobuchar too.