2020 Democratic presidential primary

well, yeah

a Republican Supreme Court judge won a statewide race in Wisconsin last week too

Yeah, that was a really eye opening. You'd think by now that the Dem base would learn that every voting opportunity is important, especially things like Supreme Court justices, and would fucking turn out to make sure the wrong people don't win.

But nope.

You'd think by now that the Dem base would learn that every voting opportunity is important

When you think that the USA began with a revolution, has been a democracy for more than 240 years, has given the franchise to all citizens of 18 years of age or older, has compulsory education provided by public schools, and has just about the fewest restraints on freedom of the press of any nation, it is gobsmacking just how poorly US citizens understand their own political system or how to effectively exercise their own power within it. The conservatives in the media who rail against how the 'liberal' schools and universities are brainwashing the nation's youth must secretly be chortling in their soup at the inability of liberals to teach people how to seize and hold power.

You'd think by now that the Dem base would learn that every voting opportunity is important, especially things like Supreme Court justices, and would fucking turn out to make sure the wrong people don't win.

Dem turnout was in fact high -- Neubauer got well more votes than the liberal candidate in the last Supreme Court race (who won.) In this particular race, conservative voters turned out in much greater numbers than they usually do in judicial races and that was the difference. Sometimes liberals get cringey and feel like conservatives have some kind of manically effective voter delivery service, but they don't! Conservative voters, just like liberal voters, don't bother to show up most of the time unless there's a federal candidate on the ballot, and often not even then.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/beto-orourke-on-benjamin-netanyahu-racist/2019/04/07/313e34e0-598c-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html

In response to a voter’s question about his policy toward Israel and Palestinian rights, O’Rourke reiterated his support for a two-state solution and accused Netanyahu of having “joined forces with far-right parties who are inherently racist in their speech and the way that they want to treat their fellow human beings in that part of the world.”

He then went further, telling reporters in a gaggle afterward that Netanyahu is a “racist.”

“The U.S.-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet, and that relationship, if it is to be successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist as he warns about Arabs coming to the polls, who wants to defy any prospect for peace as he threatens to annex the West Bank and who has sided with a far-right racist party in order to maintain his hold on power,” O’Rourke said.

As far as I'm concerned, O'Rourke is welcome to say that as often as he wishes.

best I've heard from him so far (cept for the opening dribble)

He could have added "corrupt" while he was on the subject.

Beto had a solid record in the House re: Palestine, enough to have an AIPAC bigwig lean on him in the last year or two.

You'd think by now that the Dem base would learn that every voting opportunity is important, especially things like Supreme Court justices, and would fucking turn out to make sure the wrong people don't win.

The Democratic base is younger, poorer, busier and has more obstacles in place to getting to vote. Nor do they (black churches aside) have a twice-weekly meeting where they're reminded to vote the right way.

If some 'good guy' billionaire wanted to save their neck from the guillotine, they should privately fund all the work ACORN was doing. Its entire budget was only like $20mn a year.

Nor do they (black churches aside) have a twice-weekly meeting where they're reminded to vote the right way.

wait, what thread is this?

This is offensively stupid. pic.twitter.com/Li6GYNmSQ5

— Sebulba (@Tankie_Viciedo) April 7, 2019

in lockstep w/ Maddow

Do you not believe this to be true? There are heaps of evidence.

I mean, Tim Ryan may be "stupid," I don't know. But it is not false to claim that Russia has exploited controversies here to sow discord.

can we ban politicians from ever appearing again in public wearing open-neck shirts w/sleeves rolled up

either go full dirtbag and wear stained cargo shorts and a ripped tshirt or put on some goddamn neckwear and a jacket and stop pretending that this stupid halfway-business-casual look is somehow more approachable

I dont want to go back to the days of ties

Would love a #streetwear president though who wore yeezy boosts and limited edition supreme hoodies and stuff

the time has come for America’s first cosplay-enthusiast president

definitely not

i want a president who dresses like the cool kids at my local coffee shop

five panel caps and the rest

i have some stuff i can loan to warren if she wants to pursue this

don’t be such a stick in the mud, dude, free your mind and imagine the prez giving a state of the union in full sailor moon regalia

addressing the un in a gundam

pardoning the thanksgiving turkey as sexy scrooge mcduck

visiting arlington national cemetery as voldo from soul calibur

serving food in a soup kitchen as steampunk freakazoid

it is not false to claim that Russia has exploited controversies here to sow discord

I really don't think a lot of the over-60s who think Colin Kaepernick is a commie Muslim are on Twitter.

go full dirtbag and wear stained cargo shorts and a ripped tshirt

i'll consider a 2024 campaign

xp thank goodness it's only over-60s who believe such things

I am worried that you slept through the internet these past couple years

anyway the president is 72 and I understand he's got a twitter acct

if social media did not exist, do you think there would've been no anthem kneeling furor? And mass shootings -- everyone would be as quiet as lambs?

DJT, just your average 72-year-old cheating country-club golfer

I really don't think a lot of the over-60s who think Colin Kaepernick is a commie Muslim are on Twitter.

You're right. They're on Facebook. Every single one of them.

Where have all the wingnut gone, long time passing...

p sure Fox News and Ben Shapiro convinced 100000x more of those ppl that shooting unarmed black guys is good, actually than Russia ever could

anyway this seems not great

Poll: Warren places third among likely 2020 primary voters in her home state https://t.co/d44tx0N1qV pic.twitter.com/ueUQAtwJH5

— The Hill (@thehill) April 8, 2019

It is early days. She's been throwing some good proposals into her speeches and there's a lot of time, yet. Warren may never be president, but she can assist the cause from the Senate, too.

Anyway, 1968 taught me never to hope too hard on any one leader. Grassroots is where change has to grow.

yup.

I've warmed up to Buttigieg.

MA's Emerson poll, which covers April 4-7, has Sanders leading at 26%, Biden at 23%, and Warren at 14% (Buttigieg 11%).

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ma/massachusetts_democratic_presidential_primary-6786.html

RCP average still has Biden first, followed by Sanders, with Harris and O'Rourke neck and neck

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

This is all definitely changing all the time, of course. I just enjoy tracking these things.

"I've warmed up to Buttigieg."

Worst Belle & Sebastian Single

this quote is interesting because I think it shows Mayor Pete has the same hangup Obama did where he thinks he's the left-most person in the room and so he doesn't ever actually read or pay attention to anyone on the actual left. The psychoanalytical answer for both is their dads https://t.co/u2JA70lKz4

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 8, 2019

the time has come for America’s first cosplay-enthusiast president

― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 8, 2019 11:36 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all those alt right guys jack off to anime

Dr Morbius, I believe that quote is from the Morning Joe interview posted here a while ago, right?

When he said that, I thought that was such a non-answer. He has given better answers than that.

the fact that warren's candidacy isn't taking off is an indictment of america

I don’t think that makes the top 100 of things that are indictments of America.

all those alt right guys jack off to anime

Wang and Pete Buttigieg probably the only candidates out of the field who could have possibly cosplayed

Beto probably just read comics.