2020 Democratic presidential primary

it means something different to everyone

maybe by “politics” he means /pol/

Don’t see “math” in this,thread, not sure what you mean Karl

people at his rallies keep chanting "math"

i honestly don't know what it means

it's possible that i'm basing all of this off of one tweet, i admit

i mean, i like math too, don't get me wrong. being against math is like being against water

maybe that's what's going on

if you are for UBI you ain't really good at math.

how many Andrew Yang supporters have harassed McDonald's employees for being out of Szechuan sauce

if you aren't for UBI than you're not good at externalities

THAN

friday niiiight

Just make it basic income for the bottom 20% imo

that would really piss of the decile between 21% and 30%.

piss off

UBI proposals from technocrats = bye bye social programs of any kind

basic income for everyone (a living annual income) progressively financed by the incomes of everyone above a living income imo

xp

is yang a technocrat? i literally know nothing about him other than a few posts on this thread and one poll where he was at the bottom

I work with/for tech "solutionists" who think there's such a thing as non-ideological, "common sense,""evidence-based" solutions to problems so I'm predisposed to hating/distrusting Yang. Maybe he has merits I don't/can't see.

Beto buys his campaign staff Subway one Friday, slaps a shoulder, announces, "Eat up guys, it's a long way to 2020", realizes he ordered for everybody but himself, says shit!, runs back out, staff cries and hugs one another, he is such an amazing man

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/beto-orourke-or-karl-ove-knausgaard.html

12/14

11/14. tougher than it looks!

https://i.imgur.com/e6RqyW2.jpg

Ha. I like Beto, but I feel he really misread the room. He waited until like 20 other people announced, from veteran candidates to women to people of color, then suddenly swoops in like a belared white knight. He should have stuck to Texas and run for senate again. Or gov or something. His momentum might have been enough to make more inroads in state, but I am not sure his momentum at this point is great enough to make more of an impression outward.

This O'Rourke business is something Sorkin cooked up when he was holed up with that suitcase of dope.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 15, 2019

Back in my day, if your deadbeat kid wanted to get into a prestigious college, you had to found a prestigious college.

— 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐁 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬 🇺🇸 (@PresRBHayes) March 13, 2019

Beto O’Rourke said Friday he is “not … proud” of fiction he wrote as teenager about murdering children, while acknowledging its surfacing could hurt his campaign https://t.co/anpajnsDpA

— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2019

He just needs to spin it as being highly influenced by Henry Rollins's "Get In The Van."

goodness! he wrote fiction!

Reporters are so illiterate.

I need to get used to seeing UBI. I am combining UTI and IBS and thinking it's Urinary Bowel Infection.

I like Yang. The most annoying thing about him is his fans. But I guess we have to integrate those guys into society somehow.

I don’t like Beto but why would writing horror fiction be bad?

exactly

no one should care about that any more than they do about Bernie's college poetry, I just find the fact that Beto has to talk about it amusing

At least he has the good sense not to be "proud" of his juvenile writings. It's a rare prodigy whose fictional productions as a teenager aren't total shite.

Why do none of these bitches write some decent homoerotic teen fiction? That would get my vote.

...wrote an online article about how society could work without money and, in a more disturbing missive, about killing children.

srsly fuck Politico (again) for making these two things adjacent and for describing a short story as a "disturbing missive"

lazy shit-stirrers

also not a good sign for the Beto campaign if he is apologizing for anything more than bad prose here

Kamala Harris and the mortgage settlement

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamala-harris-mortage-crisis/

A true story about @PeteButtigieg. pic.twitter.com/ojFXa8IguU

— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) March 16, 2019

Beto cover reminds me

Things You Just Don't Care About

Housing is one of the biggest purchases most Americans will make in their lifetimes. My new Housing plan would address some of the most pressing issues that have kept homeownership out of reach for too many families. Here’s how we’re going to do it: https://t.co/oNTX9VT97W

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) March 16, 2019

>>>>> kamala harris's plan for a massive wealth transfer to landlords

I think I’m on board for Buttigieg based on that autodidacticism story.

xxp to Simon

I agree with everything in that housing plan except the rent control part at the end. But I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.

I mean, Wall Street companies shouldn't influence localities initiatives wrt to rent control but rent control is a failed policy that has tremendously benefited the rich over the working classes.

disagreed on rent control (but we have a thread for that). it's a pretty good housing policy package! i wish it did more in a mission-to-the-moon sense but it's amazing to see a campaign where candidates even bother to *have* a housing policy - and to talk about cities and low-income renters and redlining, not just tax breaks for the "middle class."

Yeah Warren’s policy posts have been fantastic, kinda bummed she ain’t even in the top 3 in the polls.

she's my top choice, but she's def speaking to ppl who sweat the small stuff. kinda feel like she'd be a good vp pick for anyone who wins. except biden, cuz he'd probably pick o'rourke.

If she's not the nominee, I want her in the Senate where maybe some of her policies have a chance if they manage to take it back in 2020.

If Warren doesn't win, she's still in the senate until at least 2024.

Joe Biden says that he stopped his driver on the way to tonight's state Democratic dinner to give a homeless woman "whatever was in my pocket" — stops sparking applause by saying "no, no, no, it's not about me."

— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) March 16, 2019

he's running

“stopped his driver” sheesh

noblesse ojeez