2020 Democratic presidential primary

come on, the main SNL cast has to have a white guy who can do Buttigieg

a lot of the time, when I picture Buttigieg in my head, I think of Celtics coach Brad Stevens instead (another Indiana boy who's somehow older than Mayor Pete)

Thanks! The commute can be rough but it's all worth it when you get results like a revived urban core or seeing Irving reach his potential. https://t.co/Bz70oqIN2B

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 13, 2017

I'm in love with him, despite the regrettable hair.

I larfed. (evidence for Keyes)

https://joebiden.info/

keep 'em coming I guess

Meanwhile, sources tell the @denverpost that @MichaelBennet is near a presidential announcement https://t.co/uwGXh9Zozf

— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) March 21, 2019

jesus christ enough

also mikey day = buttgieg. but not sure there's really anything funny about buttgieg aside from his name.

oh they'll lean heavily on the "butt" gag

i usually assume they'll take the most rote possible angle on a politician, and i'm rarely mistaken

the actual president’s name is slang for ‘fart’ tbf

still discussing this with my family but I am putting together an exploratory committee

i'm honestly kind of feeling like this guy could do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJC-L5WtJug

he has an amazing knack for answering questions in a pithy way that acknowledges the complications of the issue and doesn't just descend into platitudes.

if Alfred's got a crush going then who am I to not get on board

lol just realized that this thread's poll only includes 5 of the people running (and one Biden.)

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:57 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like I did pretty well for Feb 2017

I also feel the same about Buttigieg but I also have a horrible track record of supporting losers in primaries (Jerry Brown, Howard Dean, Bill Bradley, Bernie Sanders) so what the fuck do I know.

if Alfred's got a crush going then who am I to not get on board

― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:04 PM

Jake 4 Prez

https://i.gifer.com/6DJl.gif

I have friends, barring some weird debacle, seem pretty firmly on the Buttigieg vote.

He's so good. His entire background is pretty impeccable.

so far the only things I dislike about Buttigieg are his stances on Chelsea Manning and the folding of Bill Kristol's stupid magazine

Holy shit, it's been so long since I watched Morning Joe (2012 election maybe?) that Mike Barnicle has aged about two decades.

Yeah, it took me a few minutes to recognize that asshole who would shoplift from the store I used to work at.

well, Barnicle shoplifted words.

He stole cigars from the tobacco shop I worked at

srsly?

who among us!

any candidates arguing that McCain was NOT a hero? scratch Bernie

McCain was a piece of shit who should have been buried head down so he'd go to hell faster, but that's not a winning opinion.

Things are heating up

cory booker (overgrown chrome dome) wants your kids to die in foreign theaters but rosario dawson was in daredevil so evens out

— Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 21, 2019

"overgrown chrome dome"!

any candidates arguing that McCain was NOT a hero? scratch Bernie

McCain was a piece of shit who should have been buried head down so he'd go to hell faster, but that's not a winning opinion.

He can be two things. If you accept the premise of a war hero as a concept that can exist, then riding out his solitary camp confinement presumably counts in context. Every piece of shit thing he did in getting his position, in entering the war, in bombing during the war, in campaigning for carpet bombing over and over and over again after his release, every policy he pushed, every wife he abused or abandoned... These things might, on any moral scale, outweigh the worth of his taking the imprisonment, but they don't make it not have happened.

any candidate statements on the Israel move?

any candidates arguing that McCain was NOT a hero? scratch Bernie

yes if you count the teens running the Gravel account

lol is Gravel running? no idea

his position is that he's trying to get on a debate stage and push candidates to the left via the medium of having #teens shitpost on his behalf on twitter iirc

which is extremely good and should be supported 100% imo

Asked if he had a chance of winning, Gavel said, 'Oh God, no'

he's 88 years old

I think the party is actually doing a pretty good job of moving to the left on its own. This Gravel thing is funny and fine as long as it's restricted to Twitter. I can't imagine him actually earning a spot on a national debate stage and personally I'm totally OK with that. Not everything has to be for the lulz. And that's not to say he or whoever is running his account isn't raising valid points about the other candidates, but so far it just feels like a lot of bomb throwing.

I really hope he's invited to the debates again.

I don't watch Morning Joe often, but that Buttigieg interview felt weird--like there was no pushback at all on any of his answers. I'm not sure if it was because he's not well known, or because he was dropping the right code words (bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan) or because his status as a veteran put him on the right side of the current Trump vs. dead soldier narrative. He seems to swim pretty easily in establishment waters. Not really a criticism.

but so far it just feels like a lot of bomb throwing.

https://i.imgur.com/23zHCNF.jpg

to me it feels like the politics equivalent of the Steak-Umms account but maybe it's more fun if you follow sincere political accounts?

the fucking ego on this Starbucks guy, just now: "I will bring dignity back to the american people."

shut up already, nobody's asking you, what don't you get about this

v cool and good stuff from uncle joe

https://preview.redd.it/ha6rr3xsnin21.jpg?width=507&auto=webp&s=629f9b91bb0acba47120bc34be395e887df4b198

I think Buttigieg did amazing at that interview but during the debates he needs to say less because the real average joe doesn't have the attention span to process that much information.

DSA has endorsed Sanders

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21803/inside-the-democratic-socialists-of-americas-big-decision-to-endorse-bernie

game changer

ha, not a huge surprise, but it's a few dozen thousand more volunteer boots on the ground.

well except for all the chapters disgruntled about it

maybe we'll see a splintering in the usual left fashion (i almost wrote "faction"!)

well except for all the chapters disgruntled about it

hence my hedge of "a few dozen thousand" and not "60k"