2020 Democratic presidential primary

It’s a weird situation when politicians are lying to say they DID smoke weed.

Arguably, not remembering it clearly might be evidence for the authenticity of her claim.

it's too hard to judge second class treatment from weirdo shaving incident, it sounds way weird as fuck, but it's a bit sui generis.

now, calling a staffer's new employer to get a hiring rescinded isn't "treating as second class," it's some grossly improper interference in someone's career, and if true as presented should end her career imo.

agree that trajectory and timing of this round of klobey reveals seems target-y, but anytime you shave you could put blood in the water. xp

Snoop's first album came out in 1993.

before which no one had ever heard of him

lol thank you

who knew kamala was so deep into west coast rap that she was bumpin snoop at least seven years before his first album, when he was in his mid-teens

Yeah i think i agree Hunt3r. I’m with workers and against bosses who think they are superior to workers and can mistreat them.

maybe she continued smoking weed after college and now she's busted?

What you don’t hear in the transcript is where she catches herself from saying lil pump

she probably thought mentioning Too Short would make her seem old

I don't so much care about if/when she smoked pot as the fact that she was pretty severely anti-legalization as recently as 2014

well, yeah

Yeah. Tbh the fact that she smoked in college but was OK with people going to jail with it is worse than if she was an unchill narc from an early age.

86 West Coast I guess Ice T? "The Batterram" by Toddy T has a powerful anti police state messages

a pity about Brown cuz he has impressed me every time on the teevee with his cut-this-crap attitude

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People are fretting about the way AOC talks, but I honestly can't listen to Brown's hoarse, gravelly voice for more than a minute.

Harris also went to law school yo

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/veep-amy-klobuchar-leg-shaving-rumor.html

Brown's voice, Sanders' voice, Warren's voice, are all fucking annoying when having to listen to them for any extended period of time. None of them are as bad as the braying idiot who now inhabits the WH though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn-1LSCqQ4

delusional

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/bill-de-blasio-is-still-thinking-about-a-2020-run

i cannot imagine how many reporters right now are trying to get the shaver on record

btw this is amazing:

A young Klobuchar staffer was sent to explain the senator’s lateness to the Franken staffer.

“I’m supposed to tell you,” she said, with a look of terror on her face, “Senator Klobuchar is late today because I am bad at my job.”

all this stuff is pretty silly but the union filing in the yahoo story seems to suggest real concerns and stuff wrt to keeping wages down

It’s not silly, though. If she’s ordering staff to humilite themselves.

de blasio as delusional as eric holder. I guess everyone feels they may as well run now.

I wouldn’t vote for anyone who treats their employees like that. I loathe people who act that way. Wasn’t going to vote for her anyway though so nbd

meanwhile, some breaking 'extremely kamala harris' news

she doesn't say she listened to Snoop and Tupac while she was smoking weed in college, she laughs at that question and then, turning to answer a different question from one of the other presenters, says she listens to and likes Snoop and Tupac

she probably thought mentioning Too Short would make her seem old

In this piece where she was facing one camera and not being asked overlapping questions by people sitting on opposite sides of her, she reps Too Short and says that Push It was a big jam for her in college, because it was a hit when she was in college

xpost trees yr right, i wasnt really going to vote for her anyway but yeah that stuff is beyond the pale

i just meant that a union filing a grievance and threatening to pull an endorsement of a DFL candidate is serious and not something that ever happens (as opposed to shaving rumors)

lots of fun stats in here

Net favorability rating among Dems/Share of Dems with an opinion of each candidate, per new CNN/SRRS:

Harris +48, 60%
Warren +46, 64%
Castro +20, 36%
Gillibrand +18, 34%
Buttigieg +6, 18%
Gabbard +2, 16%
Schultz -17, 37%https://t.co/0Z1LR5Loiv

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) February 12, 2019

are those all the folks who have officially declared?

btw the local barnes and noble, which as with most barnes and noble locations, has partnered w/ starbucks, was advertising some kind of simulcast meeting/talk with/by Schultz. surely that's violating some campaign finance laws, if he is actually running (even if he hasn't formally declared). i mean, a corporation that's partnered w/ his own business is effectively giving him free, extended nationwide advertising. i'd call that a contribution in kind.

fuck this country. but fuck howard schultz especially.

imagine if jeff bezos was running for prez and amazon offered some kind of bezos livestream with purchase of prime.

it's easy if you try

Among Democrats/likely Democrats it goes Biden-Bernie-Harris-Warren which I'm guessing is pretty much the order of name recognition at this point.

you think harris has better name recognition than warren? that would be surprising if so.

Right-wing outlets have been gleeful today about Harris supposedly lying about...what music she listened to while smoking weed as a young woman. But as @AsteadWesley notes, these outlets omitted a key part of the exchange. It's not at all clear she was dishonest. (Weird thread!)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 12, 2019

xp warren has barely outside the margin of error better name recognition than harris according to the poll simon posted

"It's not at all clear she was dishonest" might not be the best line to run with.

yes, go with mine instead

Well the thread makes it clear the framing has been dishonest since she was asked two desperate questions. “She’s lying about the music she listened to” may be a worse thing to run with/share in the “being extremely part of the problem” sense.

Right-wing outlets have been gleeful today about Harris supposedly lying about...what music she listened to while smoking weed as a young woman.

I'm not expecting those gleeful right wing outlets to make any retractions or extend their apologies to Harris for getting the story wrong and calling her a liar.

It doesn’t matter if it gets corrected by the right wing. People outside they sphere are too eager to fall for the “Hillary lied about hot sauce” thing again

Well the thread makes it clear the framing has been dishonest since she was asked two desperate questions

I think my use of "different question" is probably clearer tbh

wow fucking inspiring stuff here

Amy Klobuchar on Fox: "The green new deal? I see it as – by the way, I see it as aspirational. I see it as a jump start. So, I would vote yes, but I would also, if it got down to the nitty-gritty of an actual legislation... that would be different for me."

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) February 13, 2019

Aaaand I’ve shifted from neutral to anti

Same

It’s just the planet guys, chill

Amy Klochubar's vision for America under her leadership: aspirations patted on the head, then kicked to the curb; maximum grit for everyone!

“Better things aren’t possible”

not really bothered by that statement tbh

she's not even canny to bluff on this through the primaries?

This Twitter thread is interesting. Does it help Harris? (Maybe.) Booker? (Probably not.)

This really is an important milestone in American history, and a long time coming.

Let me explain.https://t.co/tJG8a6vQq0

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 14, 2019

I am thrilled to endorse @kamalaharris for our next President of these United States. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of equality, fairness, and dignity for all. I know Kamala will be a president truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. pic.twitter.com/HSPjr5N0Yo

— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) February 15, 2019