2020 Democratic presidential primary

Warren’s campaign strategy of proposing major policy initiatives that will be popular with the electorate seems sadly likely to be ineffective.

it does put folks like Beto in the position of being asked if they support these initiatives

Elizabeth Warren is very good at keeping focused minus the family heritage blip.

to hear Shithead say "Pocahontas" for 9 months...

bleh, I am sure she has been called worse her entire life.

can use "Beth" by KISS as campaign theme song

no matter what he's going to say something horrible for nine months xp

Racist man saying racist thing is no one else's responsibility.

I hope I can get pregnant and get this fetus aborted before this 9 month cut off.

i'm pretty sure i'm going to be voting for warren

yeah same

Among new staff hires announced by @BernieSanders campaign: @briebriejoy as national press secretary and @davidsirota as Senior Communications Adviser & Speechwriter

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) March 19, 2019

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lol Sirota

Pocahontas blip seems overplayed in retrospect, and Warren has been good other than that

And I'm just happy to have someone in the race that goes by their last name in amongst all these first name people,. The fact she has a first name as a last name shows some ingenuity as well, in being able to appeal to different crowds

what

Imagine if Warren Christopher had run!

wait, why does sirota suck? don't know much about him.

xp I could have used this over and over

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idk why I should care about campaign staff unless they've done like hate crimes or something, AFAICT they just kinda pulled a bunch of ppl from the lefty journosphere

Sirota wrote a column about Hugo Chavez' economic miracle. So that should keep the right occupied for awhile.

How long ago?

2013

Meh. Kinda

Is this what would be needed to abolish the EC (2/3 of both houses + 38 State legislatures)?: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution

here is another way to effectively abolish the EC without amending the constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

it has already been passed in 12 states, totaling 172 electoral votes. it would take effect when enough states have passed it to exceed 270 electoral votes. i wish it was a litmus test for every governor's race

I mainly know Sirota from twitter, but he's a purist butthole who loves to play gotcha with completely reasonable people.

xp Karl otm, I think that's a more effective path

"One time, according to a friend, Beto collected an especially verdant turd from one of their kids’ diapers and put it in a bowl, telling Amy it was avocado." https://t.co/qNqipzIaSh

— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) March 19, 2019

if Trump was actually good at nicknames he'd start calling Beto "the verdant turd"

v uncool to share this at lunchtime

gonna pass on the guac now thanks

I have yet to read a profile of Beto where he doesn't come off as still adjusting to being a full grown boy.

Yam can call him Pinocchio

Glimmers of actual policy ideas from O'Rourke.

"When are we going to get an actual policy from you, instead of just platitudes and nice stories?" Beto O'Rourke is asked.

O'Rourke discusses health care, education, criminal justice reform: "I'm trying to describe not just the goal...but the path that we will take to get there" pic.twitter.com/SmIrc33CsE

— ABC News (@ABC) March 19, 2019

it does put folks like Beto in the position of being asked if they support these initiatives
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bingo. warren isn't just running for pres, she's running to shift the conversation. as was (is?) sanders.

i don't think o'rourke is nearly as amazing as his fans seem to think, but i also don't think he's as lightweight as many of the left folks dunking on him have been portraying him as.

He's completely inert. Just what we like in presidential candidates.

How the F did he get into Columbia when he failed a math class and supposedly was in remedial algebra (just kidding, I know).

i dunno, he's given some decent extemporaneous answers on policy questions, even if they included a fair bit of hedging.

For reasons I can't explain -- a Texas Democrat? -- he performs inartful fan dances around policy questions that he might've learned at the feet of Bill Clinton in 1995. Is he thinking, "The vague and more colorless I am, the more it distinguishes me from the competition"?

Is he thinking, "The vague and more colorless I am, the more it distinguishes me from the competition"?

Close. He's thinking, "The more vague and colorless I am, the more the mainstream political press will hold me up as the necessary counterweight to all these shouty radicals, plus I stay an empty vessel people can pour their dreams into."

He's tall ---> mistakenly handsome and smart.

This is Bernie’s new press secretary? Really? https://t.co/rYcFi0uJRc

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 19, 2019

Beto sucks and is pointless.

xpost -- I just saw this tweet in the context of Aaron Rupar interpreting it as Gray claiming the hacks were an inside job by the DNC, which is somehow even dumber than the tweet itself.

I think I thought the same in 2016, tbf, not that I should be anyone's press secretary.

*Sept 2016

more feigned outrage from the usual twitter shitheads. "Ugh. Really? So over Bernie."

I want to flag another thing about this @PeteButtigieg interview. He talks about race and the economy in a way that gets beyond the tedious "LOL but economic anxiety" versus "not everyone in Trump country is racist" debate:https://t.co/2IqZ9MlFsn pic.twitter.com/QH0dch2d09

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 19, 2019

there need to be alternate sources for food and lodging

TIL a Buttigieg stance that gives me pause

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/

I've enjoyed Buttigieg's statements and policy positions, and he's one of the best speakers in the pack, but can't he run for governor or senator?