2020 Democratic presidential primary

andrew yang just said trickle up

swalwell looks like someone injected novocaine into one side of his neck

Dayum Kamala brought her game

Swawell looks like Hugh Sloan in All the President's Men.

harris is doing well so far

that food fight line was getting cold in her pocket

you do get the feeling that she would pick trump apart in a debate

bernie smirked a little bit at the end of pete's 'medicare for all you want it' plan description, and i thought maybe he was pleased that even his more moderate democratic competition is strongly advocating for medicare to be open to all who want it, even if it's not full single payer

lol this row of dudes looking at Marianne Williamson confusedly

is williamson a vaccine truther?

Marianne Williamson sounds like the lady in a Horton Foote film who's about to lose the estate but won't admit it.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 28, 2019

Marianne Williamson, bustin’ the paradigm

oh my god i had forgotten marianne williamson was in this debate. that was amazing

m bison - please do this one too

Karl Malone: yes she is

Lots of people polling at or below 1% shouting on top of each other

swalwell, we don't care what you're saying, just shut the fuck up

did not know Williamson was a vaccine truther, bummer

xp lol for a sec i thought swalwell was the name of an ilx poster not a presidential candidate

I can’t get over my antipathy to Joe Biden

not watching but just in re: sanders in 2016 - we discussed this a bunch at the time, and probably since then, but I've never understood what was supposed to be bad about him staying in for the last month of the primary or whatever. it's not like he spent that time dragging clinton hardcore or proclaiming "if clinton wins it's all over and you should stay home." as someone in a late primary state i was pretty fucking jazzed to have the chance to vote for him and have that count towards the numbers that could be waved around to show that more democrats wanted socialism/progressivism than had been assumed.

considering how many other progressives were inspired by the campaign - like, it was one of AOC's big influences, right?? - I gotta say that if bernie had packed it in when it first appeared clear he would lose (that is to say: the day he announced), we might be in a very different place. 2019 is not 2015, obviously, but it still feels like this weird thing to resent somebody for: he insisted on LOSING when it was obvious he was going to LOSE! like oh no how dare he.

once the field narrows, this will be an interesting series of debates. all of these candidates can hold their own on a debate floor:

warren
sanders
biden
harris
buttigieg
booker
castro

branwell 2020

well, this is a "better" debate than last night insofar as the hacks are less prominent.

warren
sanders
biden
harris
buttigieg
booker
castro

yeah I think this is the final seven

doc casino otm

is williamson a vaccine truther?
Karl Malone: yes she is

tbh I don't even think Marianne Williamson knows her position on this issue

m bison - please do this one too

― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:31 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry bud, thats COACH bison and i just got back from practice so lemme just say

BERNIE: "YUGE"
BIDEN: VENEERS
KAMALA: CLAPBACK
BUTTIGIEG: DOOGIE
THE REST: SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO HOME

xps yes this is a stronger group, Liz kind of towered over everybody else last night and I'm not getting the sense that someone else will do the same here

COACH

Harris has been fiercer than I expected even when I don't know what motivates her fierceness.

lol their faces pic.twitter.com/U6LV3Rvxl9

— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 28, 2019

Marianne bringing good substance

marianne williamson is more fun if you imagine every sentence she says is preceded by "Auntie Em!"

coach bison is leading a group of mostly 4-year-old playing hoops and LEMME TELL YA IT WAS AS DISORGANIZED AS THIS HERE DEBATE

new basketball rule: anything near the hoop wins

Lookit Mayor Pete!

i hope the people yelling Woo for Biden in the audience are figuring out how lame they are tonight

they are olds, they will never be cool and they dont care

Mariane Williamson the first openly anti-plan canidate. lets just do it and be legends. big fan

— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) June 28, 2019

that person [the topic of the question of a person who has no criminal record other than not having acceptable documentation] "should not be the focus of deportation", says biden

the crowd roars

swalwell!

STFU!

The only candidates worth paying attention to this evening are Harris, Sanders, and Buttigieg.

your speeches only work swalwell in the hallway mirror just after everyone leaves in the morning

THE CHINA CHALLENGE. "The perfection of dictatorship" -- Buttigieg is coming up with wonderful Foreign Affairs articles.

We don’t have a health care system in the United States, we have a sickness care system. #BigTruth #DemDebate

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) June 28, 2019

vote for marianne, the galaxy brain candidate.

i expected pete to be more...engaging? hes boring.

Howard Fineman has wisdom for you young sheeple:

.@PeteButtigieg’s elegant intellectual formulations impress writers and journalists and VC execs but sometimes are over-the-top and way above the average voter. He may be the Adlai Stevenson of his generation. LOOK IT UP!!

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) June 28, 2019

this is depressing me

biden would be a good guy to have as your 12 step sponsor