2020 Democratic presidential primary

could we also have a non-war tax to pay for the healthcare of the non-military families

I wonder if there's a distant chance that this might make non-military taxpayers more circumspect about getting into wars because of cost flagging? It's the only potential upside I can see, anyway.

The second part of Beto's plan is to federally legalize polygamy so we can all marry military personnel.

I would almost be for this if it meant that Congress would have to start declaring war again. No more "authorizing military actions."

But then, they'd start declaring war on countries every other week. And then where would I be? Trying to pay my war tax with war bonds?

Your War Taxes at Work!

TS: War Tax vs Tar Wax

wax trax! ftw

T/S: war tax vs 15 member supreme court vs new coke

Hint to dems who want to be prez: I don't think announcing dumb and completely out of left field policy ideas is going to distinguish you from your fellow candidates in quite the way you might prefer.

howbout putting the war tax on military contractors

Robert o’rourke is a goober

I wonder if Ian MacKaye is as disappointed with Beto as Springsteen is with Chris Christie. Greatest one-sided love stories of our time.

I think there is a type of politician that can’t decide if they wanna be cool or powerful bc buddy ya can’t be both

lolling hard @ P Keyes here

Like Paul Ryan talking about his RATM fandom, like shut the fuck up you narc, this band of communists would throat chop your dumbass if you tried talking to them in the cafeteria

It sure has been marvelous reading FB posts from old people commenting on Sanders' plan. The usual I-worked-my-ass-off crap.

i worked my ass off to hoard this wealth, how dare u

Too bad!

These greedy shitbirds should be ashamed of themselves for wishing a lifetime of crushing debt on today's young people. They profited from the system when it worked, now they don't want to fix it when it doesn't? TOO BAD FUCK YOU

i built this ladder, kid, it's my right to pull it up behind me

They need to lose. People like that just need to lose, again and again. Their entire worldview needs to be broken and the pieces scattered to the fucking wind

move in with your kids, old hoarding folx

hnnnnggggg yessssssss

If we could bail out Wall Street, we sure as hell can #CancelStudentDebt.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 24, 2019

Exactly, nobody gets to chat shit about the moral importance of honoring debts ever again. Sorry!

I think the reform of student debt should include radical changes in how (at least) public universities are funded in the usa, but I am on board with canceling student debt as part of that.

meanwhile, over at mayor pete's entirely legit online base

I thought this account had a suspiciously high number of followers, given its name and everything. Then I looked at who was following and LMAO pic.twitter.com/5np178f6gv

— GGAllinFans4Pete (@PeenerSweden) June 24, 2019

And also payments to all the people who decided to forgo college because they didn’t want the debt.

these people who got cheap educations decades ago wanting them to remain punishingly expensive for people today have a whole cloud of rhetorical constructions they teach each other but it's really just being a petty asshole. i'm reminded of how we learned in the Eagles documentary about how when the reunion tour happened, it was really important to don and glenn, not so much that they make a lot of money, but that everyone else in the band make less than them.

DON: Well, yeah.

The US flag really should just show a picture of crabs in a bucket.

said bucket would be on the backs of people of color

there’s not a single life lesson that cannot be found in the eagles doc

def curbed my coke habit

Now that we have millenial jubilee plan can we finally do reparations

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/joe-sestak-president-2020-1377514

calling all joes

https://magemusiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/JoeWalshPrezPin.png

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/obamacare-democratic-candidates.html

^^all 20 candidates answer (sort of) basic campaign questions. a good watch

Booker lies down with pigs

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/06/25/bookers-problem-with-new-jersey-progressives-1072617

it's June 25, 2019.

it's going to be one of these five, right?

Warren
Sanders
Harris
Buttigieg
Biden

i will be very happy with either warren or sanders. they are trying to do very different things, but i think the country would be much better off with either one of them.

i still need to learn more about harris. it'll be interesting to see how she does in the debates.

i'd vote for buttigieg or biden if it came down to it, but it would be awful

agree with all of that other than the fact that even though I think Buttigieg is a mediocre candidate at best, I think Biden is several rungs down the ladder worse.

I have the feeling that Mitch McConnell would tear the limbs off Mayor Pete with all the glee of a sociopathic child torturing bugs.

learning about the problems with the south bend police has lowered my estimation of buttigieg even further. it would be a real shame if democrats respond to 4 years of trump by nominating someone whose own community doesn't even trust him with law enforcement

but yeah, biden is a few steps below that, still

Yeah Pete would get eaten alive. Dukakis vibes off the charts

but imagine how many more brilliant policy positions he has besides the 15-seat 'nonpartisan' Supreme Court!

Surprised the current president hasn't gone, "Know what? Let's add another one, make it 10."

this is good

Bernie Sanders is using his massive email list to warn immigrants about ICE raids https://t.co/1PEI5SCKne via @voxdotcom

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) June 25, 2019

that's awesome

Elizabeth Warren made it to the #Homestead detention center this morning. @WLRN reports many who showed up were also at Warren’s town hall last night, where @ewarren made a last minute decision on stage to bus protesters to the facility where thousands of children are detained. pic.twitter.com/UKE6Ln8FP9

— Lily Oppenheimer (@LilyOppenheimer) June 26, 2019