2020 Democratic presidential primary

Bernie Sanders did Joe Rogan yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng

Trump a couple of minutes ago: "Joe Biden has lost his fastball." So Biden will have to reinvent himself as a knuckleballer, become very unpredictable.

i assume joe rogan is a marxist now

Isn't Joe Rogan a 'worldview of whoever he's currently interviewing'-ist

he has what can only be described as a very powerful brain, yes

looool

The combo of Bernie plus his usual guests is going to turn Rogan into a Strasserite.

It's very possible that politics just doesn't make sense, but it's also very early. I think Warren will gain with the Sanders crowd over time -- she's had a lot less national attention than either Sanders or Biden.

In response to the "Plan B" thing. Biden is also perceived as more liberal than he is due to Obama imo. Most people don't dig into the "Senator from Citibank" type stuff. Name recognition and association go a very long way. And people who post in primaries threads tend to forget just how little attention most people pay this early--I often make this mistake myself.

yeah I think there are a lot of reasons to believe that Biden's polling numbers are going to steadily go down. especially since he's going senile and can't really make a good case for himself.

why liberals think The Great Deporter/Droner/Surveiller/Would-Be Grand Bargainer was a liberal is the big question

you can think of better nicknames

stop trying to make O-bomber happen

lol even the debaters threw 'Racky under the bus last time

yeah I think there are a lot of reasons to believe that Biden's polling numbers are going to steadily go down. especially since he's going senile and can't really make a good case for himself.

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 7, 2019 5:36 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Warren is the exact person in the primary who will eviscerate Biden on his coziness with banks and the bankruptcy bill and they haven't been on the same stage yet.

The Great Deporter/Droner/Surveiller/Would-Be Grand Bargainer

morbius you need to think first and commit to an insult rather than jumping in and flailing around until you've worn yourself out

well he was a multitalented neolib fool

it's a meritocracy

this is not a good person to be hanging around with

I see @AIDSHealthcare’s Michael Weinstein in the back campaigning with @SenSanders in LA yesterday. Weinstein, whose AHF funded last year’s state rent control initiative Prop. 10, has been a Sanders housing adviser https://t.co/bcLmxohhj7 https://t.co/ce7uUi9Hlh

— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) August 7, 2019

Droner/Surveiller

cassette only harsh noise

I guess you could say he was an O-BUMMER, hyuk hyuk.

"this is not a good person to be hanging around with" why?

(asking seriously becvause I don't know anything about him)

He and the foundation are known for blocking construction more than helping people with HIV.

https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2015/06/24/op-ed-10-worst-offenses-aids-healthcare-foundations-michael-weinstein

seeing people getting mad at bernie for going on rogan makes it hard to shake the impression that for a very loud but tiny fraction of leftists being a fringe subculture forever miles away from power is their whole purpose

— Garbage 🦍 (@GarbageApe) August 7, 2019

He’s a nimby and a prep crank

that’s no way to talk about bernie ffs

99% of everything people say about politics on twitter doesn't matter

you're off by a percentage point there

The revered 2%

if that's the direction you want to go in

Has Biden even said one goddamn thing worth a shit in the last week? Why is he a target for Trump tweets?

who cares, let him drain the orange ape's aggression, maybe it will be worn out and wasted by the time someone other than biden gets the nomination (yeah I know that won't happen but I can pretend)

he gave a speech today in Iowa that got under Trump's skin: "his low energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don't believe fooled anyone"

only fooled the new york times

yes lol

On Warren's formidable Nevada campaign machinery:

Kamala Harris hired a dream team of operatives. Joe Biden has solid establishment support. Bernie Sanders heads a volunteer army. And Julián Castro is seen as a “sleeper.”

But of the two dozen Democrats running for president, none matches Elizabeth Warren when it comes to the size of her campaign operation, the crowds at her rallies and the buzz among activists and operatives in Nevada.

“Elizabeth Warren just has a gigantic campaign,” said Laura Martin, executive director of the social justice organization Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. “There are counties all over rural areas where some campaigns are just doing tours, but she has staff there. And that was a strategy President Obama had in 2008 when he won Nevada.”

Another Democratic operative put it more bluntly: “Warren has built a monster.”

Among 17 Democratic strategists, activists and experts interviewed by POLITICO for this story, Warren’s campaign was mentioned most often as the most impressive of the field, followed by Harris'.

That's encouraging. Turnout is what's going to win this.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/elizabeth-warren-teacher-presidential-candidate.html

really enjoyed this long piece on warren

yeah, that was excellent.

can you feel the Joementum

.@JoeBiden was asked again at the Iowa State Fair if he thinks Trump is a white supremacist, he responded: "Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am...

— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) August 8, 2019

good answer, Mr Vice President

"Sir, do you have the time?"
"Why are you so hooked on that? You want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else. I’m not everybody else. I’m Joe Biden. I’ve always been who I am..."

I'm actually with Biden on this one. At this point Trump's racism and white supremacist mindset is established; reporters just want every Democratic candidate to say the magic words.

but will he say the words "Islamic Terrorism"

Do you have the time
to listen to me whine

Meanwhile:

Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist. I said yes.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 8, 2019

Gee, all he's ever done was make dozens or hundreds of disparaging public remarks about people of color, their criminal dispositions and their shithole countries, and launch his political career by endlessly asserting that the first black president was a native Kenyan who occupied his office illegally, while pointedly courting the approval of avowed white racists.

hahaha fuck you Joe Biden

ie a hard question for Joe Biden, eulogist for Strom Thurmond