2020 Democratic presidential primary

you might be thinking that the correspondent who conducted the interview that takes up most of the episode is the host. he's not. michael barbaro is the host. he interjects "HMM!" a lot. i don't think he's awful.

No, Barbaro is the guy who whispers the intro and the interstitials, and it's him I hate. The interviewer is fine.

oh, gotcha. well to answer your question, no. other hosts don't sound like him, superficially. do you mean you don't like the sound of his voice, or you don't like the things he says?

It's the tone. He sounds like a call-in radio therapist. I find it very patronizing, a fundamentally false attempt to be soothing.

Isn’t this just the miserable npr/industry standard voice? Or the voice of most podcasts? It’s a dealbreaker for me too.

well anyway, also there was an interview with kamala harris in there that was interesting, if you can make it past the style of voice that you've also heard literally millions of times before

Yeah, the interview was interesting - thank you for recommending it. I'm generally pro-Harris anyway, and her discussion of highway infrastructure reminded me of how Danica Roem got elected to the state legislature in Virginia in 2017 - she made the shitty local highways one of her signature issues.

extremely boring start to this debate, I fell asleep during bennet droning on

I have no problem with Barbaro's voice. I think he's just fine.

attempts at translating the protestors welcome. I heard "FIVE CENT SNAIL! FIVE CENT SNAIL!"

Harris is the only person on this stage who knows how to actually talk

well biden can too I just am bored with him

That was kind of noticeable last night too how a lot of the candidates could not communicate naturally, which is prolly why M Williamson looked so good. (of course Bernie and Liz too).

attempts at translating the protestors welcome. I heard "FIVE CENT SNAIL! FIVE CENT SNAIL!"

― akm, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 7:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the people shouting in the crowd are saying "fire Pantaleo," ie the cop who got off in the Eric Garner case.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 1, 2019

I think Inslee just won my vote by popping on these glasses

Apart from Biden and Harris these ppl are all really fucking bad at TV. Can you imagine Trump on this stage.

thankfully Biden and Bennett are looking like the outlier on health care here. SEriously, who the fuck likes their insurance company? What employer likes having to provide health care? Remove that and US companies will be able to compete on the world stage because companies outside the US don't need to pay for this fucking shit and frankly they shouldn't have to. If my taxes go up but I don't need to remove $500 from each check to pay for my inadequate plan, I fucking win, my employer wins.

NBC illustrations need some work

Biden: "This is America and we are strong and great because of this diversity...not in spite of it" #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/fnwJdAjZJE

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 1, 2019

terrifying

joe "salad fingers" biden

i think michael bennet is worse than biden, what a fucking dick

too many neoliberals on this stage

Harris the only one conveying actual human emotions

Here’s the deal

Take a drink every time biden sez

God I hate that happy horseshit, we are strong because of diversity, though we should definitely not enact any policies to support or foster that diversity

Why is Biden so popular?

Name recognition

because he doesn't represent massive change

cory booker said "shithole" on CNN lol

booker had a great point there.

were there ever articles or talking points about how universal healthcare might cause military enlistment to decline and how the big dicks are scared of that?

yeah the phD thing was a big eyeroll here. so classist.

Biden doing better on the whole tonight than last time but he definitely seems to just quit when his time is up which makes him look like he doesn't have the energy to finish.

yeah, that, and also he just called Cory Booker the "future president."

of these candidates, who here would actually throw their support behind Biden if it came down to Biden and Sanders or Biden and Warren? I honestly can only see Bennett doing that. Biden might be leading now but there are 23 other candidates with followers who will go probably anywhere other than Biden.

Biden looking horrible against Booker and Harris imo

of course he does, they are not shriveled up ugly old white people

Biden always looks terrible unless he's in a meme.

Warren and Bernie's combined numbers are a bit more than Biden. you have to think whichever one drops out first most of those will go to the other

Except when they both decide to cling on to the bitter end

Glad Harris is getting hammered on her tough on crime record though

tulsi!

Name recognition

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 6:06 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

plus The Onion and the one tweet about his fav wu-tang album

"bennett: why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide?" hahahahahahahaha

lol Harris “fancy speeches” “fancy opinions” wtf

How does Bennet eat a sandwich? His mouth is so small.

Why is Biden so popular?

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 9:06 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seems rather obvious.

I know. It just drives me nuts

Bennet garbles all his words, I had to look up where he grew up.