2020 Democratic presidential primary

abortion answer could be punchier too. i think his pitch of mayoral competence and working stuff out and making the calls that keep a city functioning is definitely interesting, but by itself it doesn't tell me much about the values and priorities that would inform how he would make those calls.

In 2012, @BetoORourke called for significant spending cuts and said we need to address extravagant government spending and out of control debt. It was true then when the federal debt was $16T and it's true today with the debt now $22T.

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) March 20, 2019

yeah we need lower T

Schultz has finger on the pulse of the Democratic electorate, focusing the conversation on the real issues

such a weird approach. "hey kids, betcha don't think deficit reduction is so uncool now that you know the punk rock counter-jumping candidate was talking about it seven years ago, do ya? so vote for him! I mean me, vote for me!"

He's also a good "all politics is local" example. Indiana (for example) at large is getting more right wing by the election, but not every crazy red state is thoroughly red or crazy. Mayor Pete can hold office in Indiana just as some of the more extremist ideas Pence pushed didn't make it. It's an important reminder that no matter how 2020 goes, local and grassroots stuff can't let up.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:56 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree w/ your general conclusion, but in re. south bend, it's a sizable college town, those have a tendency to have democratic leaders, even in very red states.

howard schultz is really working toward a remarkable density of hatefulness.

Buttigieg on how running for the Presidency is more like Ulysses than Finnegan's Wake. That's it, I'm totally Gay 4 Pete

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26861236/peter-buttigieg-interview/

god a president who has read a book can you imagine

I don't believe Barack Obama's annual reading lists one bit

nor his film lists. it's like he takes the average of critical taste.

I know South Bend, but my broader point was not that there is a place Mayor Pete could be elected but that even against the state's conservative tide his voice can still be heard and amplified, and there are people listening.

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

for whatever it’s worth at this point, this is the same bill Gillibrand introduced last year, one that aiui is based on existing nys law (with plenty of exceptions), one that died in its senate committee last year and will likely do the same now. My endorsement here, such as it is, is based on the conviction that we would be better off addressing pain management from a position of opiate scarcity that compelled greater service monitoring and treatment. I agree with your desire for greater dependency screening tools, as I expressed upthread, and see this as an intermediate step towards creating a better pain management regiment around lifestyle coaching and other approaches. I was trolling a little yesterday since I think we not only need a different approach to pain rx but a more expansive conversation about the psychosomatic nature of pain and the ability to address it through the window of greater opioid regulatory scrutiny, the kind that existed prior to 2000. I don’t think we get anywhere by assuming the current regulatory and prescriptive norm is the only path to addressing the very real pain many people suffer from but are not given the tools to understand. And I think the layperson’s understanding of this issue is even further eroded at this point, as we see various posters expressing upthread.

Warren/Mayor Pete is Dream Ticket stuff.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:52 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was literally just thinking this the other day.

is Pete more critical of Israel than Liz?

He mentions I/P issues in the esquire interview upthread I’ll let you decide how his answers fit your rubric

I don't believe Barack Obama's annual reading lists one bit

― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:36 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nor his film lists. it's like he takes the average of critical taste.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, March 20, 2019

I believe his book more than film lists. He's a rabid NPR/NY Book Review reader/consumer of taste.

damn that was a good joyce answer

I don’t think we get anywhere by assuming the current regulatory and prescriptive norm is the only path to addressing the very real pain many people suffer from but are not given the tools to understand. And I think the layperson’s understanding of this issue is even further eroded at this point, as we see various posters expressing upthread.

damn that was a good joyce answer

I will never stop laughing if teen shitposters actually manage to get Gravel onto any of those debate stages.

Warren/Mayor Pete is Dream Ticket stuff.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:52 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, I just said nearly this exact same thing elsewhere.

Asked at #CNNTownHall why he saw X-rated film w/his mom, Hickenlooper says he didn’t realize how graphic movie was and he planned to see it with friend. Home from college, he was about to bolt during dinner. He asked if she wanted to join. “So I took my mother to see Deep Throat”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 21, 2019

OK, you guys are pretty smart. It was indeed Buttigieg—who on the one hand is very much in his element among the self-selected audience at a 538 live podcast @ NYU. But on the other hand, we've done quite a few live shows and have not seen many reactions like that. https://t.co/nmsoaVot7b

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 21, 2019

buttigiegentum

wonder if he’ll get enough free media over the balance of this year to make his candidacy viable, and does that even matter if activists start flocking, these questions have no answers

If the campaign press take a shine to him, as they appear to be doing, it would boost his profile considerably. The flip side of that is that they'll then tear him down because they can.

I think America is ready to hop on the Butti train.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FeelTheButt&src=tyah

https://i.imgur.com/F1d0Y0O.jpg

lol

That mullet is plausible.

so now the chatter is about Biden Shocking the Press with a VP nominee, and it's...Stacey Abrams.

shiyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyet

does stacey abrams know about this?

Waking her up now iirc

Everything I know about Stacey Abrams involves her sticking to some kind of plan/outline she's set up for her career, and being a veep for Biden seems at odds with all the rest of it.

big if true

Trump will nickname her Stacey LAMEbrams though, america couldn’t survive it

good luck usa

hmm idk at this stage

Seems like a bad idea to me but I am not new to being wrong

Fuck you, Biden.

Abrams is needed in Georgia.

Yep.

how normal is it to be discussing a running mate this far ahead of even the primaries? seems desperate

https://i.imgur.com/OeVN8t7.jpg

Not just Abrams! NYT:

Among the people Mr. Biden’s close allies have discussed for the role are Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who narrowly lost a race for governor last year, and Ms. Harris and Mr. O’Rourke, if their campaigns appear to flag in the coming months.

leave Stacey alone, she has work to do

yeah, exactly. run on your own merits for a while (like the rest of the field is doing) before trying to spackle over your deficiencies with a running mate

if biden runs on his own merits he's gonna run out of road v quickly