2020 Democratic presidential primary

I'm impressed by the author's mind-reading skills.

I think the point is that she is leaving us w no choice but to read her mind

not an inspiring figure

inspiring schmpiring

she'll be great as unperson suggests at keeping the cogs turning

ok alfred but it would have helped to have a candidate capable of inspiring voters the last time around

she's on Chris Hayes' show as I type, reacting to the immigration news of the day, substituting empathy for policy, I'm afraid.

seems appropriate that the portrait of harris at the top of that atlantic article is out-of-focus

Beto probably just read comics.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and even then it was probably DC/Vertigo stuff.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's only read two: Watchmen and Batman: Dark Knight Returns

― Trϵϵship, Monday, April 8, 2019 5:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

third in the trifecta is Preacher

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 8, 2019 5:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sandman, duh.

― Simon H., Monday, April 8, 2019 5:08 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

c'mon guys

http://i13.ebayimg.com/04/i/001/24/92/3be3_45.JPG

Beto seems so much more like Eightball than Hate.

nah. Beto reads Hate. Mayor Pete does not read Love And Rockets.

the superman 3 thread derail was better imo

surely the one thing we can all agree on is that bernie is 100% in the tank for will eisner

Warren: Cartoon History of the Universe
Yang: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic TPB

as hoops mod I hereby order you all to stop this bullshit at once

I'll allow it.

buttigieg obviously has back issues of every Mad magazine from 1971 to 1989

wait, wtf born 1982!? dude is at least 15 years younger than I thought. Is he even eligible to run for president? Someone should look into this

the limit is 35 iirc

isn't there a law against someone that young having hair that bad

he'd be inaugurated a day after his 39th birthday, shy of 4 years younger than TR was when McKinley stopped clinging to life and a bit over 4 years younger than JFK at his inauguration, so the youngest president by a lot

whew, thanks guys, it sure would be embarrassing if dems accidentally nominated someone too young to be prez. They'd have to do the primary all over again!

If we elect someone too young they can just have a regent rule until they reach 35

Read that as Reagan rule, which, yeah.

don't think you can necessarily superimpose this over specific candidates in 2020, particularly so early in the race, but it's worth keeping in mind:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

What a useless piece. 'Non-Twitter users are more moderate than Twitter users' - no shit, they're older.

i think the takeaway here is that there's a tendency by people who are extremely online as well as by the media, who make up a significant portion of that extremely online contingent, to overemphasize certain political trends/candidates. as the piece points out, more than half of the Dem electorate has zero opinion or perhaps even awareness of AOC, which if you mistook Twitter for the broader Dem universe (which, duh, you're right, it's not, but which a hell of a lot of media folks seem to act as though it is) would seem inconceivable.

and AOC is just one, relatively harmless example. harmless i mean compared to say, the popularity and potential staying power of Joe Biden, which a lot of folks on the left may be severely underestimating.

yeah i don't think it's age that's the factor (older people vote for donald trump and brexit due to anti immigrant sentiments, that's not moderate). but as evol j says twitter is a self-selecting community that by its very nature contains way more extremely socialist or extremely fascist people than you will encounter irl

I don't think anyone's underestimating him, he leads every poll. There's just a hope that he self-destructs as he has previously.

The most very-online lefty Twitter users know that Obama remains popular, would win in 2020 by a landslide if he could run and that residual glow makes Biden dangerous.

I don't see this landscape where anyone mistakes Twitter for tea leaves that tell a political future.

xp - the key part that's revealing about age is the political correctness question.

NEW: Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns by Monday. He's now a millionaire. “I wrote a best-selling book,” he told me. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”https://t.co/yI0NE1R9gW

— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) April 9, 2019

I hope his campaign pivots on this and just becomes an itemized list of how you, too, can write a best-selling book.

He's right, you know. I'm going to write one.

starting Monday "he's a millionaire / hypocrite / champagne socialist" will be the principal attack line against him in perpetuity, I expect.

i would only be surprised by his taxes if he turned out to be banksy. It would be hard to explain the additional income from arthouse auctions.

bernie claims to be a socialist yet he owns shoes and regularly purchases food with money he has ‘earned’

interesting

well we are going to find out about his payments from deutsche bank so you can understand his reluctance

#kompromatskaya #resist

swallwell eh?

he looks like the dude who played Hugh Sloan in All the President's Men. He's a solid, intelligent congressman who belongs on cable TV.

The hideous Hillaryite gay blog commenters are saying of Bernie "he's never addressed that a lot of his support is fake"

russian bots

i do completely fucking hate millionaires

Write a book about it

pfft sounds like a trap

starting Monday "he's a millionaire / hypocrite / champagne socialist" will be the principal attack line against him in perpetuity, I expect.

― Simon H., Tuesday, April 9, 2019 2:18 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is well and good but i'm happy to stick with 'he's an old fool'

he will still be the "poorest" candidate by some distance, I would think? or is there another contender

it's true that i hate all the candidates

v reasonable stance tbh