2020 Democratic presidential primary

it seems like a really petty thing to pick on. I could see a non-politician having the save awkwardness and curiosity.

We just Dean Scream everything now

Take a break nerds, it’s hilarious she wanted to use a knife on her fried chicken, she’ll be fine

i just wanted to say fork lickin' good

what i wanna know is, why could she not just look at what other people were doing, surely as a career politician she has a knack for that

i guess no one wants to be gerald ford trying to eat his tamale with the wrapper still on

other than idiots, who cares whether she eats chicken with a knife and fork

it seems like a really petty thing to pick on.

Have you met our electorate?

um, kiki?

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https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/hillary-clinton-announces-2020-nomination-run-1

jesus. she's never gonna give this up is she?

sometimes you just have to roll the dice

i'm with her

klobuchar's announcing this afternoon, in minneapolis.

does she have a chance? just in terms of name recognition she's already fighting an uphill battle. i don't know a lot about the kinds of policies she's pushed in the past. i thought she handled herself quite well during the hearings for the golden boy kavanaugh, but she didn't exactly scream "presidential contender" either

I welcome her, unless that leg shaving thing is true. Can't imagine her gaining a lot of traction, and don't know that she's really pushing any ideas anyone else has missed, but go for it I guess.

the main thing i've seen in her favor - and a point i think she's also pushing - is that she would be able to win the upper midwest states that clinton lost in 2016. that's a plus, sure, but it's not exactly inspiring

I think the pundit class consensus fwiw is that that is also true of Gillibrand.

Which seems wildly off to me

I misunderstood the leg shaving story with klobuchar—i thought she made female staffers shave THEIR legs, not hers, which is much weirder.

Agreed xp

That tweet about eating the fried chicken make me want to stab. Shit is hard to eat with your hands if you don't have a hairtie. Places need to do what ramen places do and have a little jar of rubberbands for your hair.

One thing that's been bothering me from the Bernie/AOC left on twitter is the cries of bandwagon jumping and opportunism from Harris, Gillibrand, et al regarding the Green New Deal.

THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS TO PICK UP SUPPORT FROM OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Worth remembering:

Some keep asking what can beat Trump? He lost by over 4 million votes. He got in b/c of voter suppression swinging 80k votes in a few states. How do you beat him? Fight voter suppression, turn out votes, don’t write off any states & fight him in the South.

— Rev. Dr. Barber (@RevDrBarber) February 10, 2019

*promiment politician looks around him and thinks that democrats crave a "centrist"*

Are you ready for MICHAEL BENNETMENTUM? https://t.co/YFOY0xGIEV

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 10, 2019

This seems like a good way to go hard against Trump in tandem w the “he’s a symptom of bigger problems” imo

Warren didn't mention Trump by name during first Iowa tour, but she hits him at the start of this one. "By the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not be president. In fact, he may not even be a free person."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 10, 2019

Sure, borrow revolutionary rhetoric but pretend the American justice system as it currently exists is capable of doling out commensurate punishment to the wealthy.

But yeah, sure, it'll piss him off.

I just think to resonate w Dem primary voters you have to ride the line between “the problems/goals are bigger than him” while also acknowledging that he’s uniquely bad in many ways.

ok so I messaged a friend who has worked on many big state and national campaigns, I guess I messed up the story, but yes AK made a male staffer shave her legs.

he's pretty jaded about weird politics and actually thinks she's a really effective senator, he says all the mean stories are true but he just sees it as her being demanding...but yeah I know I sound crazy but if he says it I would bet on it

looks like it's percolating on Twitter now

Will require razor sharp reporting

— Caitlin Legacki 🤦🏼‍♀️ (@caitleg) February 9, 2019

Seems a clear case of sexual harassment?

Medicare Fur All

Some keep asking what can beat Trump? He lost by over 4 million votes. He got in b/c of voter suppression swinging 80k votes in a few states. How do you beat him? Fight voter suppression, turn out votes, don’t write off any states & fight him in the South.
— Rev. Dr. Barber (@RevDrBarber) February 10, 2019

this dude gets it, consistently. more consistently than pretty much anyone IMO.

That's kinda why the "Dems need a long look in the mirror" takes post 2016 infuriated me. The guy limped across the finish line through a grotesque star alignment and suddenly electoral victories are sorcery?

Dems lost two elections like this to the same terrible candidate and turned it into an 8 year White House stint (pre-emptive stfu Morbs)

southern af and I eat fried chicken and hot wings with fork/fingers combo.

Fork to scrap the remains

my bones are hella clean

Here's how NYT covered Trump eating fried chicken the same way Gillibrand did -- with a sycophantic oped chastising themselves for having ever questioned Trump's choices pic.twitter.com/uRkXQKXjrJ

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) February 10, 2019

that wasn't NYT, that was an op-ed by frank bruni. but yeah, NYT sucks for continuing to pay him.

re: klobuchar, lots of people hold themselves and their teams to high standards and are not assholes.

iirc being a dick to subordinates is a thing people do to affirm to themselves and others that they are important and that their standards are very high.

the leg shaving thing is just wat.

you do not recall correctly

I left a position due because dickishness had caused my mental health to deteriorate. I had high standards myself that I ceased to be able to meet due to the bullying.

Caek otm

apparently something got lost in the layers of irony there. I think we’re agreeing?

David Klion profiles Sanders' foreign policy guru, not named Blob despite the url

https://www.thenation.com/article/matt-duss-bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-blob/

lol that's Professor Blob to you

That Duss profile is really good.

that wasn't NYT, that was an op-ed by frank bruni. but yeah, NYT sucks for continuing to pay him.

― Karl Malone, Sunday, February 10, 2019 6:09 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is a pet peeve of mine, something said by an op-ed columnist is not something the “NYT said”

also, sarah kendzior

I don’t know much about her. Did she say “Trump won’t be dangerous” or something?

I'll be very curious which candidates will step in to defend Ilhan Omar (assuming this remains a controversy)

what did she do?

oh, twitter, israel...she's done similar before she was elected. she's not gonna stop.

lol at c&p-ing kendzior in 2019

Did I miss some memo about Sarah Kendzior not being ok anymore?