2020 Democratic presidential primary

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:

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— 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

had to check it wasn't the onion the hard times

someone ask Beto about GG Allin

someone sent me that earlier and I thought it was satire until just now

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/02/lessons-from-fugazi-on-taking-down-donald-trump/4/

"13 Songs" has gone triple platinum? Plausible, I guess, and super-impressive if so. Is that US only? Because that's maybe twice the official numbers of, say, "Never Mind the Bollocks."

plz, no straight-edge presidents

I doubt it's triple platinum

https://books.google.com/books?id=5xAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=fugazi+13+songs+platinum&source=bl&ots=jlUyKp6ACI&sig=ACfU3U2wmKnpTnhGOqDzLUzY8IlqdPzsjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj7rvg2oThAhXxna0KHQEjD0YQ6AEwG3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=fugazi%2013%20songs%20platinum&f=false

As of 2002 it had sold 150k, kinda doubt it's sold 2.85 million since.

"Today I've signed this no slam-dancing at shows bill to protect the scene's most vulnerable class."

and on the celebrity gf front

https://blindgossip.com/she-is-also-in-it-to-win-it/

fp

Rosario should run

aw, i thought rosario was still with eric andre
RIP supercool power couple

i did not realize cory booker had never been married

I just want to apologize to anyone who runs into me irl for the next week because this cDc thing is all I am going to care about talking about

like this for instance is every twitter joke about beto (including the calves one for obvious reasons) made actual flesh http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0121.txt

I still don’t know if Beto O’Rourke is Latinx or not

xpost lol I remember when Rachel Maddow ended a segment saying-- I was friends with Corey Booker in college. For the record, he's not gay.

xp he's not

where does he get off with this "Beto" shit

xpost Eh, I bet 13 Songs has sold more than 150K, though. Kill Taker was the first Fugazi to even have a UPC code, so no way was Soundscan tracking the earlier stuff.