2020 Democratic presidential primary

It matters very little who the running mate is, beyond a do-no-harm principle, so I suppose it could be so. But the consultants won’t like it. Two white senior citizens from New England?

A promised Cabinet position might be better than running mate status.

Bernie/Beto 2020, they’ll both make your calves cramp

one of the main reasons I support Warren and Bernie above the rest is that I have a much better feeling about the potential makeup of their Cabinet than the other candidates, who I fear are far likelier to appoint a bunch of Obama retreads and other centrist nullities.

I'm just looking forward to the prospect of ending our long national nightmare of winning.

I’m not sure who qualifies as “some lame-o ilxors like”

enormous missed opportunity here for joke answers here imo

here

Sherrod Brown cozy with bankers?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/sherrod-brown-wall-street-2020-1176016

The senator from Ohio should not give up his seat, not to be president, nor a cabinet member, nor anything. Not worth it.

Moire Donegan: Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?

Bankers! Yikes!! Totally want to fall for that outrage all over again!!!

xp. Progressives don’t have to choose between macho socialism and corporate feminism. Elizabeth Warren offers the best of both worlds

christ

I personally prefer Warren to Sanders, but that's a terrible subhed.

I'm not even going to read that piece to determine whether that's supposed to be satirical or what, I'm just going to admit my brain is fully broken.

When I see Bernie's poor posture, unkempt hair and rumpled suit I can think of nothing but machismo.

She is a woman, an essential identity trait in a party that is increasingly dominated by people of color

she's a corporate socialist! sign me up

She is a woman, an essential identity trait in a party that is increasingly dominated by people of color

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, February 20, 2019 1:45 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

madre mia

The entire sentence is not so angina inducing. "She is a woman, an essential identity trait in a party that is increasingly dominated by people of color and accounts for the votes of half of all white women, who rightly want to see themselves better represented in a party whose leaders have been much older, whiter and more male than actual voters."

There is really no question who Moira Donegan would vote for.

Yeah, I definitely cherry picked that, it just stood out as WTF even in context. Especially since the follow-on about white women elides that a majority of white women voted for Trump (and consistently vote Republican in other races) and if we're the demographics route, Warren doesn't have that much of an edge on the old white guy candidates.

I will be the first to say that white women are a huge disappointment as well. They gotta keep their place of power in the hierarchy.

a reminder that Moira Donegan created the shitty media men list.

and has sparked fights, similar to those that sprung from Sanders’ last unsuccessful presidential bid in 2016, over whether the Democratic base should commit itself to ameliorating economic inequality, or to fighting racist and sexist bigotry.

This is the weirdest question. These things are linked together. It would make sense if other candidates had lots of race and gender specific proposals that Bernie rejected but they don’t.

splitters innit

i'm not sure if americans realise 1) how much helpful editing opeds get in good opinion sections in the US to make them at least read well, even if they're garbage 2) how non-edited the vast majority of the guardian's output is.

Op eds are psy ops. They just want to piss people off and drive “engagement.”

“Are poor people important or are women?” as if these are different categories.

Except Bernie has been bungling when he tries to talk about anyone other than his "ordinary american" who are somehow not inclusive of those other categories.

It was this moment of his: https://www.theroot.com/why-some-black-and-brown-people-cant-trust-bernie-sande-1820017450

although I also have a grudge with him that he would support an anti-choice candidate.

Then that’s an issue of him bungling, it’s not an issue of his campign sparking the question of whether the democratic party should oppose racial injustice or economic injustice, which isn’t a question because the answer is both.

I’m not really defending bernie (maybe a littl) more the premises of that op ed, which seems like it’s trying to purposefully sharpen divisions among the left because that kind of content is viral.

Badly phrased but still

Oh, I couldn't follow some of her arguments but I assumed it was because it was the Guardian and I am tired. Bernie just bungles it A LOT. Ugh even the Gillum thing.

Granted, Bernie was the last white guy I voted for so maybe I will get there again if he gets his shit together.

That piece is awful.

what was the gillum thing?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-was-helped-by-the-neverhillary-vote-what-does-that-mean-for-his-chances-now/

here is a helpful article about bernie 2016 voters

xpost the gillum thing was this quote that he had to later explain away. "You know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American."

NB that the context for this was that Sanders had campaigned hard for Gillum, an African-American gubernatorial candidate, and that the next sentence he said was something like "next time, I think it will be easier for them to do that."

I think bernie was saying something descriptively accurate. It’s a shame, but in southern states especially black candidates face unique barriers, which the republicans understood and exploited by running a racist campaign.

I am unable to recognize what’s offensive though, seemingly

Unfortunately people will be justified in hating him over something like this.

So Bernie Sanders has selected Nina Turner as one of his campaign co-chairs. Here's Nina Turner days before the 2016 US Presidential election saying she's not backing Hillary Clinton. pic.twitter.com/jS2I5Ea2fP

— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) February 21, 2019

He should have said "Southern white voters are hopelessly racist bastards so fuck them and fuck you too".xp

We live in really fucked up times.

I’d rather a president—like warren or bernie—who seems kind of blissfully ignorant of the woke paradigm but remains committed to fighting against racism and sexism than I would someone who is so “in it” that they know how to navigate every interview perfectly, without stepping on a pointless landmine. The more different they are than everyone I know in Williamsburg and ilx the better.

people don’t need to like bernie but the way democrats are vetting their candidates is absurd. it’s 100% reactive and based on how things look and completely eager to misread any little thing

tbf tho treesh, being chill with someone who's not woke but is genially and ignorantly anti-racism is like "i'm okay with fighting racism not being a priority." which i don't think is the position you mean to be staking out but idk i think this form of comfort is a kind of white privilege. one whole point of wokeness is that being a well-intentioned white person isn't enough in and of itself.

It’s not “idpol v. class” either, it’s a form of discourse where the ither side is assumed to have bad intentions and nothing of vaue to say. Chapo is totally like this too—flippant and reactive.

I get that doctor, it’s not even that idea of standpoint theory it’s the way it’s deployed that’s making discourse stop functioning