2020 Democratic presidential primary

there are a lot of policies here: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

Imagine an AI life coach with the voice of Oprah or Tom Hanks trying to help parents stay together or raise kids.

also, still deeply suspicious of UBI

I would hope the 2020 Democratic nominee wouldn't need an AI life coach.

it *is* annoying that the Bernie site has no policies up, presumably he's banking on ppl knowing his principles and maybe on future announcements of stuff added there to create future publicity, but it's still not a great look

Sherrod Brown is officially not running.

I'd be pretty surprised if Beto and Biden wind up announcing that they'll run at this point.

Really? I think Bloomberg and Brown opting out is evidence a path for Biden is being cleared.

I would interpret it that way too.

I'm delighted Brown saw the light.

let's hope Biden's light is an oncoming train

Didn’t you already wish him death by train in this thread?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-tough-talk-on-1970s-school-desegregation-plan-could-get-new-scrutiny-in-todays-democratic-party/2019/03/07/9115583e-3eb2-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html?utm_term=.4cb353c4a51e

didn’t know the absolute boy was running

Meet the face of the future for House Democrats. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/pbxwfOfFLz

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 7, 2019

metaphors, silby

i have no idea who that is

first name Jeremy last name Corbyn

Corbyn, to whom "Morning" Joe compared to Rep. Omar in his use of "anti-Semitic tropes."

love when these dumb ass WASPs tell us what anti-semitism is.

i should hire myself out as a professional jew to people who want to verify if something is anti-semitic. seems like a decent racket. askajew.com

ugh another ugly piece of these conversations are all the ppl on the right marshaling their jews and the ppl on the left theirs to demonstrate that their opinion is kosher

saw a picture of a bunch of netueri karta taking a photo op in tlaib's office urgh

So, I’m working with a client today to conduct a focus group of black women who are likely to vote in the South Carolina Democratic Presidential primary. I have the client’s permission to tweet out anecdotes and observations, but they’d prefer not to be named.

— Danny Barefoot (@dannybarefoot) March 5, 2019

worth a glance

nothing terribly surprising there to me

nothing too surprising in there I don't think. I was wondering what their take on Bernie would be, but

I would rather starve than work for him :)

— Danny Barefoot (@dannybarefoot) March 5, 2019

I actually think Kamala’s best path to shoring up support among black women in SC (and beyond) may be for white liberals to keep attacking her for stuff they assume black people find salient.

— Danny Barefoot (@dannybarefoot) March 5, 2019

there were at least two things on Biden in the news today (that desgregation talk from the 70's, and another where he talked about superpredators being 'beyond the pale'...ok yeah maybe that's stretching it and I doubt he was really trying to speak in coded messages there) and I really think he's done. People are not that forgiving now. I seriously doubt he's a racist and if he had attitudes about bussing back then that were maybe fairly prevalent.... people aren't willing, now, to extend a lot of forgiveness over that shit. But who knows. In some cases it seems like white liberals who are more angry about it than the Af Am community.

I don't think anyone ITT has argued that arguments about her prosecutorial record would ever resonate with Dem voters. (I think once or twice I've even argued the opposite.) xp

it resonates with fringe super far-left people I know who are antifa and think everyone who isn't with them is a cop

white liberals to keep attacking her for stuff they assume black people find salient

like the Snoop Dogg scandal?

yeah but they're like 1% of primary voters at best xp

I posted the tweets to show the timidity and brainlessness of pollsters btw

sherrod brown out (or rather, not in)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sherrod-brown-wont-run-for-president

i like him, but this is probably a good idea, even if it was motivated by Brown's sense that he couldn't win; he can now protect his senate seat.

Danny Barefoot found a fan

And two follows ❤️

— JEN KIRKMAN (@JenKirkman) March 5, 2019

What Barefoot says he does is so wildly unethical that I actually kinda hope it's all made up, rather than merely strongly suspecting that it is.

As Sanders begins to crisscross the country for his 2020 presidential bid, proving he can consolidate the Democratic base will be his biggest test.

“We were criticized for being too white; that was a correct criticism,” Sanders said on the Breakfast Club radio show in March. “We were criticized for being too male; that was a correct criticism. That’s going to change.”

It’s starting to. An analysis of recent polls from November of 2018 to March 2019 shows Sanders is more popular with people of color than white people, and women like Sanders as much as men do, if not more. He leads every other possible 2020 contender with Latino voters and lags behind only Joe Biden — who hasn’t announced a bid yet — with African-American voters. Sanders’ polling numbers with black voters are double that of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), according to a March Morning Consult poll.

so on the campaign trail he's going to be a non-white woman of color?

if does that he's got my vote

Hey, it worked for Cuomo

Anyway, I think his insistence on collective rather than individual language, especially pronounced this time, is an interesting tactic

thumbs up

NEWS: Elizabeth Warren is proposing a new regulatory plan that would break up big tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook and roll back acquisitions like Facebook's deals for WhatsApp and Instagram. https://t.co/xZboYv9Cby

— Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) March 8, 2019

Huh.

Yeah, I am stoked for a President Sanders or a President Warren.

legislation that would prohibit platforms from both offering a marketplace for commerce and participating in that marketplace.

Does this mean that e.g. Amazon couldn't sell AmazonBasics products on its marketplace website?

i imagine they'd have to split their product-making arm off as a separate business. like the Bell breakup, which divorced western electric (the entity that made all the phones and wires) from AT&T. or the hollywood studios having to sever from their respective theater chains. different situations in several ways, but it wouldn't put us in uncharted waters i don't think.

Tbc, it sounded reasonable; just checking that I was understanding it right.

shes trying to place a volcker rule on them too.

even if Warren doesn't win the nomination, I hope her relentless injection of good ideas into the Dem mainstream will have a lifting-all-boats effect. hell, you could probably argue it's hurting her actual individual campaign to have so many relatively concrete proposals on the record, such is the deeply depressing nature of 21st century politics.

how i'd rank candidates' chances of winning the primary currently

Biden > Sanders > Harris > Booker > Warren > miscellaneous cipher

I like Liz Warren and I will probably vote for her in the primary

xp god I hope you're wrong about Biden

Biden is a nonstarter

he will be Anita Hill'd 24/7