2020 Democratic presidential primary

Beto was fucking awful wtf

Tim Ryan is a dough-eating bore but he didn't look focus grouped-tested like the #betohaircut

wait Beto was tonight?

Is this still going? I was at a city council meeting hashtag act locally

Really wish warren had been on stage with basically anyone else who has a legit chance of winning. Strictly keeping to her performance tonight I don’t think she knocked it out of the park but she was mostly sharing the stage with clowns.

Chris Wallace: "The winner tonight was Joe Biden."

thats chris matthews and he's also v dumb

warren and castro, winners

most of these domineering men were so repulsive. I don't think Beto has a chance of winning the nomination but I really liked him and I hope he has a future in politics

Chris Wallace: "The winner tonight was Joe Biden."

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 11:10 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thats chris matthews and he's also v dumb

― hollow your fart (m bison)

lol yeah

Beto has a future as (a) senator from Texas (b) Wells Fargo bank manager in San Antonio

pleeeeeeeeeeease dont let him come here, there already enough post hardcore middle aged dads who moved away from austin bc they wanted a bigger house so they moved to stone oak, keep his ass in el paso

(b), but managerial track

so why does Gabbard have a louder-than-usual claque from lib Twitter readers? She's a war machine zombie, according to the evidence tonight.

Saw a meme that I didn't bother to check the veracity of, but it showed a graphic of every dem candidate atm and who they were a superdelegate for. Every single one of them were for Clinton but Gabbard, who was for Sanders.

I did appreciate Beto not going for the little league dad vibes of some of the other dudes but Castro was also pretty measured and actually had something to say

gabbard was an early sanders ally and she was v popular with hardcore berners

also she's a troop, which is a magic qualification that makes conservatives respect your position on universal health care

Chris Wallace: "The winner tonight was Joe Biden."

Shit, we all knew going in that Biden out-polled everyone on that stage but Warren by a laughably large margin. All Chris Wallace was saying is that Biden didn't get knee-capped by the likes of Beto or Gabbard, and that was never going to happen anyway.

Next up tomorrow, Joe Biden once again shoots himself in a non-vital organ in front of the cameras and a modest audience of people who might care, thus having only a minimal effect on his poll numbers, which mean next to nothing at this stage anyway.

This full thread is unloadable at 8000+ posts. Can we have a new one now that the debates have started?

lots of xposts

I liked what gabbard had to say, but i'm just so suspicious of her background

I don't really think Beto is likely to ever be senator from Texas. I wish he had some kind of political future

i hope biden gets dragged by everyone onstage tomorrow

i think ppl tend to exaggerate how toxic gabbard is, i wouldn't vote for her in a primary though

I haven’t watched the Beto doc and haven’t seen him speak a whole lot in general, I have to say I was pretty surprised tonight at how scantly he connected to the audience, I thought that was supposed to be his strength

there was a sound blackout in the last 30 mins of a Ford-Carter debate in '76, prompting the Chevy Chase line, "Mr Ford won the first half-hour, Mr Carter the second, and the American people the third."

There are too many candidates and it did everyone a disservice. Way too often, a candidate went without saying anything for 15-20 minutes at a time. They need to start weeding out the weaklings or it’s gonna be another shitshow

I haven’t watched the Beto doc and haven’t seen him speak a whole lot in general, I have to say I was pretty surprised tonight at how scantly he connected to the audience, I thought that was supposed to be his strength

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 10:26 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

O'ROURKE: ok so when will we be allowed to stand on the podium
LESTER HOLT: at no point should you even walk away from let alone on top of the podium
O'ROURKE: fuck

What they’re gonna do—take out several laggards, but put 12 people on stage at once, somehow making the problem worse

They need to start weeding out the weaklings

Prompting yells of 'rigged system' from those whose sense of grievance outbulks their sense of reality.

xp voodoo chili, I agree. there were so many voices that it was hard to see that anyone won the debate. it's early days though

One thing we can all agree on though, is that chuck todd needs to either fucking shave his head or wear a wig or grow a full beard or fucking SOMETHING

they should do a debate that's just tim ryan and john delaney and see what happens

Tim Ryan would blame the Taliban for school shootings and John Delaney would forget to show up

Unfortunately none of these candidates is going to be demonstrably better at debating trump than Hillary was. They’re all going to treat him like a normal human being with a functioning brain and a semblance of a conscience.

Actually maybe Bernie wouldn’t. And honestly maybe Biden which is possibly the only reason him being the nominee might not be terrible. I can picture him treating every one of trump’s insane nonsensical rants with an air of “can you believe this fucking asshole?”

This full thread is unloadable at 8000+ posts. Can we have a new one now that the debates have started?

― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 8:21 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago)

agree, maybe make the same poll again and lock this one?

is this the most posted on poll thread in ilx history?

The dc thred is like 12 years old

We can’t lock the thread til the poll closes! Surely we can make it six more months.

Warren needs a proper sparring partner. This debate didn’t move anything for her, primary-wise.

Castro was great btw

this is exactly how y2k started

pretttttty sure y2k started when me and my friends started the street on fire with kerosene because we were bored and couldn't drink yet

We can’t lock the thread til the poll closes! Surely we can make it six more months

In six months there'll be 10,000 more lol Beto and/Biden posts.

why can't we lock the thread before the poll closes

you want to take away people's right to vote???!?!?!?!?!?!?

lol

the System won't be able to tell us the results are in

I can picture [Biden] treating every one of trump’s insane nonsensical rants with an air of “can you believe this fucking asshole?”

Real Biden or meme Biden?

Real Biden did that to Paul Ryan, so...

I wouldn't believe either fucking asshole in a Yam-Joe debate

and shame on anyone who did

I'd rather have the New York Times Styles section moderate a presidential debate than the national politics desk but they'd still do a better job than any network or cable channel

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 27, 2019

Two women are not going to fly. You need a minority. As you saw, he didn't do a bad job. He came prepared and pushed buttons. As opposed to say Booker he's not a show horse, and more importantly is young enough not to have a solid political orbit that will weigh down the boss. https://t.co/c3A3ZteS6G

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