2020 Democratic presidential primary

well, they are kinda pre-people

(gen to their credit)

C-Span

oh god he's making a thing of it

.@JoeBiden after being introduced by @IBEW International President Lonnie Stephenson: "I had permission to hug Lonnie."

Watch full video here: https://t.co/WnmNr3JGba pic.twitter.com/CceP38VuZr

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 5, 2019

Interesting strategy

ugh, fuck you uncle joe

Interesting strategy

It's not a gaffe. It's a strategy (maybe motivated partly out of pique and more instinctual than deliberate) to appeal to the sorts of Democrats who aren't very well represented on Twitter. And it might work. The crowd seemed to like it. https://t.co/0PclopNwLD

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2019

yeah, HRC saying "not gonna make any promises cuz we've had enough of that" was a strategy, too

permission kid actually runs off the stage!

so...is anyone else getting a little annoyed about Bernie's foot-dragging with releasing his tax returns? I've already decided, for now at least, that I prefer Warren to him anyway, but this is really an idiotic thing to be so obstinate about.

hiding russian dollars

kompromatskis

bought a van

well, Andrew Sullivan likes Buttigieg, so y'all can cool the enthusiasm.

rip

ahaha of course

@evol j: Ryan Grim agrees with you.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/05/bernie-sanders-tax-returns/

yeah that's the right take, particularly this bit:

Sanders refuses to engage with things that annoy him. But he is no longer a protest candidate and can no longer escape the old adage that you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. He’s running not to make a statement or drag the conversation to the left, but to be the leader of the most powerful country in the history of the world and to rescue it from its collision course with a dystopian future.

it is a different sort of campaign, that is true

Bernie's taxes has come up in every single friend post as one reason of many reasons why they are likely not voting for him this time around.

He made money from his book, so what? Will this upset his easily miffed fans?

I have to imagine there are ppl in his camp quite anxious to get them out and over with.

It wouldn't upset his fans, but it would provide ammunition to his critics. But that's a lose-lose anyway

That article is weird. Does anyone actually fill out their taxes by hand? He has properties, I assume investments, other sources of income. I completely doubt he isn't using some software.

I completely doubt he would.

The Sanders household adds and subtracts with an abacus.

They are being very obliging by saying he could be filling his out by hand and needs to locate them.

If Bernie sanders is doing his own taxes, he is disqualified from running for president due to his time management and delegation problems

Maybe he too is being audited in perpetuity.

I think anyone who has this as a reason not to vote for him is looking hard for reasons. That said, he should release them.

I kind of just assumed he takes enough deductions so it won't be a good look for his platform.

morbs otm

I heard Bernie say this next filing will enable him to release an even 10 years all once, so after whenever he files

Quite clearly too stupid to understand the premise of the question being asked. The differences between this guy and Trump are better hair & he only ruined 1 professional sports franchise instead of an entire league https://t.co/WUAnD5FuEa

— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) April 5, 2019

morbs otm

*checks* damnit damnit damnit! true

anything that gives fox news the slightest patina of competence or objectivity is bad imo

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:58 (three days ago) Permalink

I don't know why he would turn them down. He did the townhall in 2016.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:04 (three days ago) Permalink

Bernie seems very single minded. I don't think he gives a shit who his audience is.

― Yerac, Wednesday,

Bernie should absolutely go on Fox. Voters watch it. Objectivity, real or imagined, is meaningless. Get out there, sell a message and get some votes. Need to win a presidency not worry about if it gives Fox a patina of credibility or not. Credibility with who?

I don't even like Buttigieg and even I want to yell "it's a trap!!" here

YIKES pic.twitter.com/H4idByvRpp

— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) April 6, 2019

Lol

I think pete knows what he is doing maybe

The fact that he waited two months to respond to the invite is lol

“peculiar,” you say...

I hadn't even noticed that, which makes it worse cause it suggests his camp did their research

Looks like his response is also from February, doesn’t seem like anything came of it

Hopefully not.

Maybe mayor Pete is planning on taking down the system from the inside

one butt at a time

My take on Buttigieg is he's the type who would sincerely say something like "the American people deserve a leader who is as good as they are" and believe he'd said something deeply optimistic. He's seen just enough ugliness in this world to think he has a good handle on it, but I doubt that South Bend is the right place to learn about the ugliness that resides at the pinnacles of wealth and power.

Trump came in and reshaped the administration to his own level of corruption and incompetence in mere weeks. Maybe a Buttigieg could reshape it to his own optimism?

(Buttigieg is not going to be the candidate.)

Indiana is like the place where you learn about the kind of ugliness that emerges where there is no wealth or power. And where it's ugly, too.

Bernie's strength as a candidate is in foreign policy, where he's articulating a social democratic internationalism that is distinct from neocon/neolib nostalgia for American global hegemony & Trumpist unilateralism. Lots of credit to @mattduss for this. https://t.co/2po3hS0Ido

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) April 6, 2019

This is quite a shift from last time when this was one of the main things he got knocked for.