2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Joe Biden should have done it and kept his mouth shut about it.

hasn't he done this before? he did, I remember...but he was quieter about it

He only told his canadian girlfriend about it.

did that homeless woman even want his lint and Amtrak ticket stub

also some expired credit cards

so wait, I'm not keeping up with this because democracy is a farce, but PsychedelicWarlord from the Cult of the Dead Cow is running for President?

has kibo announced yet?

Acid Phreak 2024

Biden said last night he'd be the most progressive candidate in the race

throw that coot a dictionary

He's talking about his age.

Perhaps Biden can bearhug that young wife and talk about it. https://t.co/7syGodnONI

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 16, 2019

lmao he also made a reference to being a "tactile" politician and that this also gets him into "trouble"

don't blame me, i voted for razor 1911

A person from the American midwest knowing some of a Scandinavian language = magic?

Uh, ok I guess. Musta slept through the Garrison Kiellor presidency

I just saw this: Buttigieg (pronounced BOOT-edge-edge)

Indiana aint the heartland of the Scand emigrants

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Did Joe Biden accidentally reveal his plans to run for the White House? Or was it just another slip of the tongue by the former vice president with a reputation for veering off script?

In a keynote speech at a dinner for the Delaware Democratic Party, Biden boasted Saturday that he has “the most progressive record of anybody running.” The only problem is that Biden hasn’t announced whether he will launch a third run for the White House, despite repeatedly teasing the possibility.

He quickly corrected himself, clarifying that he meant to say “anybody who would run,” then adding “I didn’t mean it” while a cheering crowd in his home state nearly drowned him out.

step aside Joe

gillibrand is official

I’m running for president. Let’s prove that brave wins. Join me: https://t.co/I1vp93LBUR pic.twitter.com/Giu4u4KEZQ

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 17, 2019

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