2020 Democratic presidential primary

if he doesn't embarrass himself on the national stage first, i mean

can't wait

Hoping that dunking on beto will unite this thread at last

lol was he even ever really likable ? there was that one video that seems cool but i forgot what the hell he was talking about tho

I haven't seen any video of him speaking ever.

i was rooting for him to clown Cruz but i never got much of a read on him, i mean i doubt many people outside of texas really "got to know him".

He had one speech where he said some good if not necessarily unique or profound things about kaepernick iirc.

it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWmh-maevk

the video that went around where he talks about the Taylor Branch books? that’s the only one I’ve seen of him. it was charming; he seemed really nervous

xp yeah that’s the one

i'm gearing more towards harris, but i will say
beto seems to have (or at least want) the
social media savviness that got trump
in office.

this was on the la times front page:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-president-election-20190314-story.html

the video is intense

"some good if not necessarily unique or profound things" = white people pontificating in 2019

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/orourkeablog

Is this an accurate picture of his fundraising so far today?

btw inside scoop but one of his main online fundraisers from 2018 is working on kamala harris' campaign this year, heads up

What do they say? The bar for white men is the core of the earth.

from what she talked about on fb, beto campaign was a good experience, but i know she's always championed women candidates (she worked for a state rep when i met her).

here's cnn about her: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/politics/shelby-cole-beto-orourke-kamala-harris-2020/index.html

I'll keep saying this, but the best possible outcome for Castro & O'Rourke is they get bounced early enough for the former to go for the Senate in '20 and the latter to take on Abbott for the governorship in '22.

Beto seriously has developed the mannerisms of a fledgling southern preacher. Or high school physics teacher.

both castro twins and o'rourke need to be running for the two US senate seats and the governor's office goddammit.

^^Gets It.

Beto's very 'Cool Youth Pastor', it's true.

Actually, if we could get somebody on Lt. Governor too, that'd be great.

http://d3m2ca683sarz5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/17143501/sopranos-tan-paul-schulze-then.png

“I don’t ever prepare a speech,” he says. “I don’t write out what I’m going to say. I remember driving to that, I was, like, ‘What do I say? Maybe I’ll just introduce myself. I’ll take questions.’ I got in there, and I don’t know if it’s a speech or not, but it felt amazing. Because every word was pulled out of me. Like, by some greater force, which was just the people there. Everything that I said, I was, like, watching myself, being like, How am I saying this stuff? Where is this coming from?

He's Owen Wilson in Zoolander

I would in no way want to put any blocks in the way of Stacey Abrams doing whatever the hell she wants to do, and people always tell young, usually female, almost always black, politicians to work their way up or wait their turn, and I want to make sure this doesn't come across as that, but she's the only Democrat in the state of Georgia right now who could conceivably beat David Perdue in the 2020 senate election and David Perdue reeeeeeeally sucks and needs to be taken out. If she runs for the White House, he might not be.

That quote is actually kind of endearing him to me. Would totes read his zine.xp

NB a year before he became PM, everyone made fun of Justin Trudeau this way too so.

I hated JT then, too, but I also assumed his being PM was an inevitability. Not getting that vibe with Beto and the presidency just yet.

I don't think Trudeau would do that well in the Dem Primary field. Like Hillary and Bernie were both much more impressive to me as public speakers.

Yeah, relating to the other thread, a last name can make a big difference.xp!

How is he worth 9mil already?!? Is this inheritance?

Whatever, no wonder he got mad he didn't get to eat because he was too busy.

his dad was rich, set him up in business, his wife's father is worth half a billion.

money begets money

like by some greater force

It's really nice he's taken time out to save America with spiritual vagueness and bro-thusiasm.

obama --> beto seems like textbook then-as-farce

BetoBros...you heard it here first!

Johnny Fever OTM, I'm really looking forward to Stacey Abrams taking that Senate seat away from Perdue

when will these people realize the Senate map is fucking horrible and we need them more than we need as much if not more than a Dem president?

@WarrenIsDead:

pic.twitter.com/dxerLiL6aO

— michael lutz (@WarrenIsDead) March 14, 2019

both castro twins and o'rourke need to be running for the two US senate seats and the governor's office goddammit.

Seriously.

Beto reminds me more of Macron than Trudeau, to be honest. Not a compliment.

that's a good call

Lol yup. Waiting for him to descripe himself as Jupiterian or whatever

https://i.redd.it/7q7y9n7yr5m21.jpg

Not seeing it with Beto? Lost the attention momentum he built up before the midterms and now he's coming across as something of a clown. Media is (currently at least) more in the can for Kamala? Without that I don't see it

Beto's a superficial choice. There's a video of him skateboarding around a hamburger parking lot, the cameraman rooting for his boss man to go viral. I'm not sure how Obama era cynicism of our down home grass roots sleeves rolled friend of a good friend's spiral into drone war public policy rug sweep managed to just be forgotten but.... I guess America has always been a bit nostalgic for it's more artificial years.

I think I almost missed my opportunity to declare him "Blade-O'Rourke" before Trump inevitably has his A-Ha and tells whoever's local he's got a good one for him

I like the phrase “hamburger parking lot”

^^Underrated Little Feat Jam.

Beto was in the cDc!? https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

has this been posted yet hahahahah

https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/beto-orourke-cites-minor-threat-and-fugazis-ian-mackaye-key-influence