2020 Democratic presidential primary

i am serious, THAT is one of my nightmares

Um. They may be laughing on stage, but as someone who’s been there, they are swearing like sailors in the control room.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 27, 2019

he'd know

Looking forward to Donny’s take on this snafu

at 87, Dan remembers at least

the last couple years i did some freelance baseball audio gigs. every once in a while something fucking terrible would happen and a reporter's audio gear would just stop working, and it would be terrible. just humiliation as everyone angrily turns to you to fix it and it's gonna take a while to troubleshoot it. one time i even got yelled at by the main broadcaster guy, for a long time. it usually wasn't my fault, but the thought that it could and would happen at any time was so incredibly stressful, i had to stop doing it

holdonineedanegroni

Man I went to bed and missed the lineup change.
What I last saw was the edge guys speaking out of turn (?) and immediately getting shut down by the moderators.

everyone's answers to the gun questions will suck

fucking cowards

Classic Sparklepants answer:

I obviously disagree with everything Warren says, but she’s shown tonight why she’s leading the rest of the candidates on this stage

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) June 27, 2019

Rich Lowry is full of shit, I agree with everything Warren says, but other candidates have been stellar in this debate

I know Rachel Maddow's intention: she wants candidates on the record about packing the court. Booker blew it.

I like gabbards hair

Booker is doing a good job frankly, impressed me more than I expected.

I like booker’s hair too

no one replaced his larynx like the doll in Toy Story 4 did.

lol

most of the men in this debate have been just blaring and awful

lookit

Alfred, the dems are not going to pack the courts

How do you pack the court if you don’t have a majority in the senate? If McConnell is still majority leader and a dem is President and a seat comes open, it’s just not getting filled. I don’t see how you get around that.

I'm not watching but did Beto stand on the podium yet?

Yeah it’s a stupid question. Someone should have just said they’d have McConnell killed.

really disappointed that "Here's how we have that conversation in Texas" wasn't the setup for a "Texas belt buckle"

I thought Beto was great, Castro too

thanks chuck fucking todd for implying that putting a price on carbon is "politically impossible" in your question to the guy who just had his bike stolen, tim ryan

how does chuck todd have a job, who on earth likes this twerp

How do you pack the court if you don’t have a majority in the senate? If McConnell is still majority leader and a dem is President and a seat comes open, it’s just not getting filled. I don’t see how you get around that.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednes

If you get a majority, you eliminate the filibuster.

so here is tulsi gabbard answering a question about gay rights

Gabbard: "My record in Congress goes back six years."

If Pelosi cut my balls off as cleanly as she did Ryan I might want to spend time in Iowa too.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 27, 2019

I like this exchange between Gabbard and Ryan

Tim Ryan’s a chump

China’s wiping us, gross

tim ryan and klobuchar ate a turd on that one

sorry, xp, inappropriate given the wiping context i know

DELANEY: please let me talk
RYAN: working class whites
TULSI: im a troop
INSLEE: climate working class
DE BLASIO: i have a black son
O'ROURKE: so uh ya wanna come back to my place or uh
WARREN: im smart and mad at bad people
CASTRO: why are these non-latino dudes speaking spanish around me do they think they are more mexican than me?
KLOBUCHAR: no
BOOKER: my neighborhood kinda sucks

lol

Trumbull's painting of Washington?

delaney is an imbecile

oh right it's a debate, good luck America

THANK YOU mbison for that superb summary

castro's from san antonio, though

Ryan is so fucking stupid I can't believe it. did the guy blink once?

they should only ask De Blasio questions about the subway.

the graph and chart dork can fuck off

whenever I watch these things I totally wish a candidate who was asked a question would have spaced out and been like, "wait, uh, what was the question?' because that's how I am in every work meeting.

lol m bise

I think John Delaney is not going to be president

I totally wish a candidate who was asked a question would have spaced out and been like, "wait, uh, what was the question?'

delaney is the candidate for you! he's done it twice now