2020 Democratic presidential primary

curious to hear why he shouldn't call himself Beto

people get caught up in such trivialities because they are so much easier to think about than complex substantive issues - and solutions to those substantive issues are so far out of the control of any one elected office holder that even performing one's due diligence on them often turns out to be a wasted effort.

he can call himself what he likes, doesn't stop it from being an irritant

obviously his support of local GOP candidates is a bigger problem (to cite one example)

For whatever reason, Beto has been his nickname since childhood.

He was in the Cult of the Dead Cow, which is cool (maybe this was posted already?).
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

I kept wondering why people were posting about the Center for Disease Control

I know lots of people here and on lefty Twitter love to shit on the Pod Save guys but I think they're generally pretty good. However, I reserve the right to flip-flop on that position if Beto announces his candidacy and they go fully in the tank for him, as I fear they might.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (three days ago)

Generally agree with this. Jon Favs and Dan seemed to take a measured, pragmatic view of his candidacy on the most recent pod, which is good. On the other hand, I just discovered that Lovett and Beto's wife were a year apart at Williams.

Crooked Media produced the Beto documentary.

That's right.

That triple platinum thing is completely bogus or a joke, right?

Amy Klobuchar defends her staff treatment, says toughness needed when dealing with Putin https://t.co/rOu32SwJzx pic.twitter.com/FHdlKjkNC8

— CNN (@CNN) March 15, 2019

Accurate sales figures are really hard to come by but e.g. the numbers I've seen for Sonic Youth's Dirty are in the neighbourhood of 400k. Anyway, "triple platinum" is a RIAA certification so should be easily verifiable.

xpost yes, abusing underlings is always a sign of confidence and strength

her staff are in fact all Putin relatives

lol

‘I choose not to’ — @BetoORourke , when asked if he could share fundraising figures pic.twitter.com/AkJqA92rJC

— David Siders (@davidsiders) March 15, 2019

very humble of him not to share these numbers, courageous even

Have we talked about the fact that according to a recent NYT article, Beto was roomies with a former(?) ilxor?

an old ilxor noize dude was in that nyt article as a prior roommate. I would vote for the noize dude over beto.

― Yerac, Thursday, 28 February 2019 02:11 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beto is kind of a Brooklyn roommate archetype, now that I think about it.

Same.

xp!

OKAY, so the Fugazi 3 million thing is probably this quote being misinterpreted. In this interview Ian says Repeater sold around 500K, the entire Fugazi catalog cumulatively sold between 2 and 3 million. That sounds very reasonable

On Dischord’s best-selling records:

If you took the first Minor Threat single—we put the two singles on one 12-inch. You include that, and you include the cassette version of that and then you include the discography CD, which is all of the songs—if you add all those up, it’s just shy of a million, or maybe it’s over a million copies now. I don’t know. It’s a lot.

Fugazi, on the other hand, we had I don’t know how many records, eight or nine albums. And I think Repeater, probably the first one and Repeater were close to 500,000, maybe over, I don’t know. I don’t actually really keep too close a count. But cumulatively, we sold over 2 or 3 million records now.

however, given that it was independent and Ian owned Dischord, the amount of money he'd see from 500K would probably be more than a major label act would see for 5 million after they were done getting fucked by the label etc

Beto: America's Roommate

"I choose not to"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

he preferred not to use "prefer"

but he still has made a choice!

i know someone who played music with Beto and knew him when he was younger; she's super progressive and was a big proponent of his Senate run (though she lives in NYC now). But I haven't heard what she thinks about his presidential run or anything since the criticism that he was too supportive of Republicans in TX gained traction.

honoring his Rush forebears

papi rush

The Spirit of Beto

I just looked through the tweets from today. Gillibrand, Booker, Buttigigigig and Yang were the ones that didn't have cut and paste platitudes. Actually naming white supremacy/nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment.

hmm interesting assortment

Bravely coming out to say he's not sure about single-payer healthcare today.

Beto: is it ok if I have a couple of friends crash for a couple of weeks? And can we park in the driveway? Sorry I didn't have time pick up toilet paper or your whiskey that I finished last night. Man, I was so tired from working all day.

He was an English major skilled enough with computers to introduce roommates to the culture of early-1990s chat rooms, once pranking a girlfriend by posing as a romantically interested woman online.

That crazy hacker prank of, uh, using a different name on a BBS.

Watches Shop Around The Corner once

Bravely coming out to say he's not sure about single-payer healthcare today.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, March 15, 2019 2:42 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

welp

what's the point of slow-walking M4A in the current field? What constituency are you aiming at? Whose territory are you trying to move in on? Joe Biden's?

does beto lurk?

it's not just that he's not sure about single payer. it's that he's "no longer sure".

I think this makes him the only Democratic candidate actually moving rightward on this issue (not that he ever genuinely supported single payer) https://t.co/47kKWZFOo1

— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) March 15, 2019

this is your more cautious, prudent kind of Psychedelic Warlord

he skateboards though

Hope this inspires more campaign staffs to organize

.@BernieSanders campaign announces that they have unionized pic.twitter.com/rpzvMe3eX0

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) March 15, 2019

😍

What constituency are you aiming at?

I'm guessing there's a lot of donor money out there for any Democrat who's opposed to single-payer.

yeah, it’s a pretty obvious move imo. he needs a lane

man would be nice if some non-healthcare/insurance dark money donors would support single payer, surely Amazon wants to stop having warehouse workers whine at them about benefits

He has a lane! young charismatic Biden.

I feel like the Beto thing is just starting and I'm already exhausted.

Some words for South Bend's Muslim community. pic.twitter.com/CyLZOrah7b

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) March 15, 2019