2020 Democratic presidential primary

If Steyer's main issue is impeachment, then running for president is totally illogical. If he wins, impeachment is moot. If he loses, he has no leverage to impeach that he doesn't already have.

I guess the one thing his campaign could conceivably do is to act as a single-issue proxy for democrats who desire impeachment to rally around, so that, if he were to draw strong support around that single issue, it would uncloak the appetite for impeachment in a more compelling way than simple opinion polling. But several of the announced candidates have come out strongly for impeachment already, so what is the point?

BREAKING: Eric Swalwell does not handle sweltering well, cowardly ends presidential campaign

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is reportedly set to end his presidential campaign.

According to the LA Times, Swalwell will abandon his campaign on Monday and announce that he’ll be running for a fifth term as a congressman.

Swalwell, who consistently trailed the polls at 1 percent or less, is the first to drop out from the mammoth Democratic field of more than 20 candidates.

my sensationalist NY Post style headlines need some work.

Swal-ya-later

Swallen to Bursting

That's Swal Folks

Swal's Well That Ends Now

what a way to go out, out like a swalwell

he’ll be running for a fifth term as a congressman.

I'll take it

Swallen Angel

I know he's not a Democrat, but I'm confused, is Howard Schultz still running for President?

He’s going to make a decision after September 2nd

i thought he already said no

He said he was going to make a decision after September 2nd

Well.

ormer Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lead the Democratic presidential field, according to the national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll’s opening measure of the 2020 horse race.

Biden gets the support of 26 percent of voters who say they will participate in next year’s Democratic primaries or caucuses, while 19 percent back Warren.

They’re followed by Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who are tied at 13 percent.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg gets support from 7 percent of Democratic primary voters, and former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and entrepreneur Andrew Yang are at 2 percent.

That’s gonna stay your top 4

maybe most of Biden's voters will die of old age by February

It will be interesting to see if the next debate shakes things up again. I kind of doubt Biden will get caught flat-footed with the segregationist stuff again, but anything could happen.

Too bad the next debate is another 2-night deal with a bunch of people who are trying to get hired as msnbc and cnn commentators

This is pretty amazing but I'm also half worried this will bite her in the ass

BREAKING: Our members in New Hampshire just asked @ewarren if she would commit to pressuring the Israel to stop their 52 year military Occupation over the Palestinian people.

She said YES. pic.twitter.com/8GLhNMQ2gf

— IfNotNow🔥 (@IfNotNowOrg) July 8, 2019

"Too bad the next debate is another 2-night deal with a bunch of people who are trying to get hired as msnbc and cnn commentators"

I just read there are only 7 candidates at the moment who will qualify. so people better get their fundraising up.

Well that would be a pretty significant statement if it wasn't obvious from the clip that she isn't listening to a word they are saying and also if her record wasn't largely made up of AIPAC approved positions. good for the activists for getting publicity, i imagine Warren will have some campaign surrogates quietly issue a correction friday after news hours.

Gravel made it to 65K, and his crew are streaming now:

https://www.pscp.tv/MikeGravel

They had great chuckles that Hickenlooper only had 14K donors

https://outline.com/7hYHUG

The Buttigieg column that the New Republic quickly pulled

complete embarrassment

Why did the outline republish it?

that's not web publication The Outline but a web-based reader app called "Outline" which cached the article

Nevermind I’m an idiot who can’t read domain names

I saw the article before it was pulled, absolutely shocking someone let that go through editing and be published

that link isn't working -- what's the gist?

he's a bad gay

Gay writer says Mayor Pete is wrong kind of gay

representative excerpt:

Mary Pete and I are just not the same kind of gay. (For those of you wondering about “Mary Pete”: a couple of months ago I asked Facebook what the gay equivalent of Uncle Tom was, and this was the answer at which we collectively arrived.)

In May 2011, Peck's criticism of Jewish-American literature in which he claimed "[I]f I have to read another book about the Holocaust, I’ll kill a Jew myself" prompted a public outcry. His editors later removed the statement from his article.[8]

He's also the critic Stanley Crouch punched in the face

tnr what are you doin

lol how many critics has crouch punched? i can think of three w/o strain

I like how right in the middle of Don saying the most outright publicly racist things he's ever said, Beto pops in to the headlines to just real quick inform everyone that he's descended from slave owners.

EVERYONE: Um, thank for you sharing that, Beto.

BETO: De nada.

EVERYONE: Alright, well, anyway, back to the president being a white supremacist...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/new-republic-drops-out-climate-forum-offensive-pete-buttigieg.html

If you want to accept gay people, and not just because it makes you feel better about yourself, you have to accept that they may do things that you find grotesque but that make them no less acceptable and no less human. With Peck, TNR exposed the wider culture to a facet of gay culture with particularly rough edges and when people found it unsightly, they did their best to make it unseen. That the removal of writing that was not found to be plagiarized or factually inaccurate didn’t cause a tenth of the controversy as Peck’s opinion was telling in itself. We only like well-behaved gay men in these refined online quarters, apparently. The rest can go to hell.

https://jezebel.com/define-homophobic-1836367531

Rich included two long equivocating paragraphs in the middle that present exactly what's wrong with the piece.

I'm aware that there are things wrong with it.

ftr I read the piece when it was published, agreed with some of it, shook my head at some of it, and forgot about it. I understand TNR's craven reasons for pulling it all too well.

.... disagree p profoundly with rich but whatever

the piece should've gotten the axe the minute an editor read "gay equivalent of uncle tom"

Dale Peck's attack on Mayor Pete conjured memories of my youth, when literary/political assaults were common, no apologies were given, and readers either rolled with it or moved on to something else. Hypersensitivity is now gospel, which in the degraded age of Trump is "ironic." https://t.co/Fn4owShIbP

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 13, 2019

I started reading it, remembered that Dale Peck is a shitty writer and that I don't care about Pete Buttigeig anyway, and bailed about 1/4 of the way in.

That typically imbecilic Perrin tweet has me convinced Cintra Wilson will start slithering around again any day now.

I guess Reps. Omar, Pressly, Tlaib, and AOC should have "rolled with it and moved on to something else" in response to Trump's recent tweets then, as opposed to succumbing to "hypersensitivity"