2020 Democratic presidential primary

I am considering running in the 2020 Democratic primary. The goal will not be to win, but to bring a critique of American imperialism to the Democratic debate stage. The website (https://t.co/j5qZdJoH7S) is under construction. Official announcement will be in the coming days.

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

more honest about his goals that a few entrants already in play, I think

https://i.imgur.com/Yxa93Nk.gifmikegravel.orghttps://i.imgur.com/Yxa93Nk.gif

Senator, question: why is your campaign headquartered in Westchester?

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) March 20, 2019

The teenagers who convinced me to run live there.

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

Bernie's got competition for the 'wish I had a cool grandpa who wasn't glued to Fox News' demographic.

switching to supporting Mike Gravel for the next eight to twenty minutes based purely on that last tweet

Senator Mike Gravel is at the very least a shoo-in for the great real names thread

that whole thread is hilarious, he’s just talking with that kid and the kid accuses him of buying not followers, what a website

The 2020 Democratic field pretends to progressivism, but don't buy the lie. @KamalaHarris kept innocent men on death row. @JoeBiden voted for the Iraq War. @CoryBooker invented a drug dealer friend (and voted with Big Pharma).

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

[fire emojis]

I’m a #gravelguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcMUZAXMW4

i mean, where's the lie?

grandpa :)

Does nobody remember Gravel from ‘04-‘08 and the infamous rock in the pond video?

I literally cannot remember ever hearing of him

I was 15-18 those years tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcMUZAXMW4

Oh fuck I just pasted the wrong thing lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

whoa that is fucking rad

is he in on it?

I mean it’s him in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65K9CgZIXIA

Accent on the second syllable in his last name believe it or not

doing some wiki-ing — what an interesting career. favors free college tuition and a carbon tax but ran as a libertarian one year

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

― moose; squirrel (silby)

that was one of the most compelling campaign videos i have ever seen

I like that his mentions already have people doing oppo research, he voted against the same bussing bill that Biden did.

perhaps, but what was joe biden's position on staring blankly into a camera for nearly 2 minutes before throwing a rock into a lake and then slowly walking off into the distance?

lotta pain docs itt

a hard-stop, legislated(!!), 7d limit rx on opiates is pretty fucking dumb, even for acute conditions

Legislators love to introduce legislation that fits in a tweet and makes them look concerned about the issues

just spitballin but a good clinical screening tool pre-op that identified people that might be at risk of addiction or dependency could help lay out a tapering program that involved both treatment of pain and maybe a lil buprenorphine taper afterwards so as to avoid long-term addiction and/or diversion, darts at the wall ppl

I think we should all just be given a morphine ration to help cope with life.

How had I never seen that ad before? Incredible.

Mayor Pete's on Morning Joe, impressing me.

That rock video is kind of beautiful.

Pain experts of the Democratic primaries thread! I have a question about pain medication that is off-topic. I'm putting it here and would love feedback.

90% of the people running for president this year would be better off (and far more productive and useful) doing this instead (this is @pareene's point that i am stealing) https://t.co/Xew4RlwIaw

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) March 20, 2019

this
(sorry for those triggered by reposting tweets)

Just watched Mayor Pete too, agree that he’s really sharp. Not a fan of him contract-shaming Mike Trout at the end though (kidding).

I particularly appreciated how he seems, at least here, to want to treat Trump as just the guy he thinks is doing a bad job who he wants to replace. He looked physically pained when Mika started indulging the sideshow by reading Yam’s latest tweet.

NEW: @BetoORourke reveals to supporters in NH that he had 128k unique contributors for an average of $47 a person in the first 24 hours.
By comparison- @BernieSanders had $5.9 million from 223k donors for an average of $27 a person in the first 24 hours.
via/ @ericbradner

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) March 20, 2019

beto publicly owned by socialism

Good on Gillum for focusing on voter registration.

yeah, def

maybe mayor pete would be the best candidate

i didn't know much about him before (lol) monday, but i've read a few profiles and watched him speak and i like the way he approaches things -- essentially pragmatic without being obtuse. he cuts through a lot of the nonsense of our moment

But does he have a favorite Jesus Lizard record?

he’s got a knack for positioning presumptively “radical” notions like m4a, ubi, or court-packing as midwestern common sense.

When asked this morning if he thought eliminating the Electoral College was a good idea, he said, "Yes" without hesitation. When asked about reparation, he spoke for two minutes on the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. The guy isn't afraid to use his obvious brain.

yeah that's the other cool thing about him--he is actually inquisitive and has interests outside of burnishing his ego

he taught himself norwegian because he was interested in an author (forget which one)

my kind of bro