2020 Democratic presidential primary

'work that' is also one i approve of but i don't speak for the true critics of the board

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if biden came out to this though maybe people would rethink him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAEqvP_Cgw

lmao

i am forever awaiting the candidate who will finally bring in the katz

^^^

(but the real answer is 1 thing)

if biden walks out to that, all of it, i will vote for him

when i had twitter in 2012 i tweeted at some seapunk artist and asked if they would vote for romney if he dyed his hair aquamarine and declared himself part of the subculture. they just said no.

Can we talk for a minute how Yang walked out to a song that everyone remembers mainly for the lyric "YOU LIIIIIIIED TO ME"

― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Monday, June 10, 2019 1:17 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

America: “Andrew Yang, stop lying about your big break... for God’s sake, I need a real man”
Yang: “The return of the Mack”

I’ll vote for the first candidate to play Joe Smooth’s “Promised Land”

^^^ rt

Lemme Smang It

Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart will moderate the debate, which will take place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami over two nights on June 26-27.

expect many idiotic questions

nice center too

y'all are welcome to join me for Negronis before, during, after the debate

will there be questions about the encroaching seawater

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-dont-need-23-presidential-candidates-theres-another-important-role-to-fill/2019/06/10/f7b5012c-8bbd-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html?utm_term=.bf7950724174

Yes agreed

Especially abrams. She should be a senator.

i want to hear each of the candidates scream their fucking guts out, a real neighborhood-shaking primal scream

the rising seawater will be the surprise action finale of debate #2

Will there be seawater in the Negronis is my question.

I use a drop of Italicus; beyond that, my mixology secrets I don't share.

hm

Biden mentions that Trump made fun of him for “abandoning” Scranton.

“I was nine years old. I guess that’s how he feels about the kids coming across the border. They’re nine years old, they should say, mom, leave me behind!”

This gets mixed laughter and he moves on.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 11, 2019

The Economist/YouGov Poll June 9 - 11, 2019

26% Biden
16% Warren
12% Sanders
8% Buttigieg
6% Harris
3% O’Rourke
2% Booker
1% Bennet, Castro, de Blasio, Gillibrand, Inslee, Klobuchar, Swalwell, Yang
0% Bullock, Delaney, Gabbard, Messam, Moulton, Ryan, Williamson

individual polls are almost meaningless

national polls of primaries are almost meaningless

individual national polls of primaries are ...

de blasio moving in the right direction I see

joe biden's base

Scoop — Howard Schultz held a meeting with staff today and annonced he was essentially letting them all go (except those in senior leadership). He might relaunch his campaign after Super Tuesday too if Biden isn’t the nominee https://t.co/jUYkTeYTRd

— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) June 12, 2019

letting them all go (except those in senior leadership)

those guaranteed 'personal services' contracts == making money while they sleep.

I'm pretty certain a "new frontrunner" will be anointed after the first debate (and possibly after both 1A and 1B)

The Democratic National Committee is set to announce the candidates who qualified for the first debates of the 2020 presidential campaign on Thursday, chopping the historically large field of 23 contenders down to the 20 available slots.

A New York Times analysis of the criteria indicates that Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Mayor Wayne Messam of Miramar, Fla., did not qualify, and will be left out of the debates on June 26 and 27 in Miami.

The candidates who made the cut — a full list appears at the end of this article — did so by registering 1 percent support in three polls, receiving donations from 65,000 people, or both.

I guess if they set that bar any higher the candidates run the risk of barking their shins.

Mayor Wayne Messam

so sneaky to include a fake guy in a real news article

of Miramar, Fla.

they even invented a fake city!

de Blasio hadda be #20

lol @ Seth Moulton

(he is a decent representative and should remain a representative)

Thing i would love to see that will never happen but would hopefully end all this for the better: Sanders should voluntarily drop out with the proviso that he is committing to a ticket as veep to Warren.

why the veep thing, is that for him or for us?

Gravel also failed to make the cut, fwiw.

Bernie should stay in as long as possible so that together he and Warren can set the policy standards and pull Biden or Harris or whichever centrist prevails in their direction.

Anyway I know we've done this a thousand times here but neither of them is going to pick the *other* New England progressive from the Senate. It doesn't add any votes to the ticket.

xp as a general act of clearing the way for a female candidate, so both? And as a statement that they would both be committing their full intellectual and financial resources to a workable ticket for change instead of bickering about who gets to hold the rudder. it's a better narrative than anyone else has forwarded at this point imo
i agree that it doesn't present a broader ticket but anyone voting in 2020 is voting for or against trump full stop.

I mean he doesn't need to be a running mate to do all those things. Whichever of them is behind the other after March 10th should drop out.

how about this for narrative... Warren wants to fix 21st-c capitalism, Sanders knows that's too 'incremental.'

They're not identical ideologically.

Yeah, Warren's ultimate long-term goal is to fix the parts of capitalism most likely to cause its collapse, so it can continue exploiting people at a more sustainable pace. The ultimate long-term goal of Bernie and his movement is to transcend capitalism entirely.

Warren's ultimate long-term goal is to fix the parts of capitalism most likely to cause its collapse, so it can continue exploiting people at a more sustainable pace

i'm pretty sure the second half of that is not her goal. but yes, she believes it can repaired.

Sounds like projection. AFICT, Bernie is a social democrat in much the way Swedish social democrats are. Capitalism is alive and well in Stockholm, but there a consensus that it exists to improve general welfare, not to create a hereditary plutocracy.

i think there is probably a reason that warren and sanders generally support each other's agendas

I tend to think that Sanders presents a social democratic agenda to the public because he sees that as the most feasible route to mitigate capitalism on the way to socialism. Whether or not that's the case, the DSA and other socialist orgs are 100% behind him, and their goal is absolutely to end capitalism. This matters because Bernie is currently running explicitly as part of that movement. He believes that his agenda can only be passed if he has a mass movement behind him, and his campaign's statements and actions have consistently reflected that.