2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

The passive voice on politico tweets is weird - "Today I was asked" "Today I announced"

Liz, you can just tweet "Fuck Donald Trump, he's a white supremacist" and embed the YG song.

oh my fucking god

oe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”

i thought he liked to live dangerously

Joe Biden slip-up in Iowa tonight.

"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

Yikes...have fun mitigating that one. pic.twitter.com/m2VxZbnFHF

— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) August 9, 2019

imagine if any other candidate said this

Is it me or does Joe look like he's aged years just since campaigning started?

tbf he is old af and has been doing things to mitigate his oldness for a while (hair plugs, teeth, etc.)

that only mitigates his appearance and doesn't touch his oldness. after 60 aging accelerates as you enter each new decade. believe me, I know.

Biden referred to Theresa May as “Margaret Thatcher” tonight, the second time he’s done that since May.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 9, 2019

Bernie has fire in the belly

Biden has bile

Cool of Biden to pick up the Doddering Well-Meaning Racist mantle

Kindly Racist Grandpa

I know, I know, it's serious

lol

haaaaaa

Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that “those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” https://t.co/QiWHMCI8uo

— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) August 10, 2019

he needs to quit the fuckin race man

Ed Kilgore explains how it's a mistake to dismiss Warren's chances:

In this phase of the 2020 Democratic presidential contest, there are a number of interesting story lines for political observers: the huge candidate field that keeps resisting its “winnowing,” the apparent indestructibility of front-runner Joe Biden, the constant fears about electability and Trump’s efforts to paint the Donkey Party as a bunch of socialists who hate America and love open borders, and the intermittently sharp elbows the candidates are displaying toward each other.

But the development that currently demands attention is the emergence of Senator Elizabeth Warren as something other than the candidate of policy wonks, dismissed as nonviable even among people who think she’d make an outstanding president. Her strong debate performances, a knack for organizing (based on her outstanding retail political skills), and the misfortunes affecting some of her rivals have combined to give her the clear path to the Democratic nomination that she really did not have in the early going.

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

same people who aren't dismissing biden lol?

who's dismissing Warren? she's never left the top 4 in like any polling AFAIR (and she's been my assumed winner for almost as long)

― Simon H., Saturday, August 10, 2019

Pretty sure he means the Dem leadership, which, ugh.

I think they'll come around

Slipknot appears to be doing its sound check while Cory Booker is giving his speech right nearby at the Iowa State Fair soapbox.

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) August 10, 2019

Hey there, @ewarren! pic.twitter.com/0rcL3sV9Js

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2019

PLUR

Dem leaders want those billionaires, baby

If Corey Booker hired a guitarist to crank out floor-punching riffs behind him during his speeches, he'd be up ten points in the polls inside a week.

As @CoreyBooker spoke about war and death at the #IowaStateFair, you can hear @slipknot’s sound check in the background and it’s hilariously metal. pic.twitter.com/LWAFSG2NuV

— Ryan Smith (@RyanSmithWriter) August 10, 2019

corey booker + slipknot = tom morello

I have that Consolidated album

these did not do a great job in 2016 (worse than the polls iirc) but warren just overtook biden for the first time among the gamblers

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination

lol at yang in 5th

yang is not running on ideas, he's running on techie id pol

Yeah that’s one of the ways you know the group of people setting these odds are a little unusual

I hope John Delaney gets to go on the slide at the Iowa State Fair again pic.twitter.com/vI5Md3xS2a

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) August 9, 2019

"yang is not running on ideas, he's running on techie id pol"

elon musk just endorsed him so you know he's a terrible idea

thats perfect. i want all these assholes to fly to the moon and die in a week when they cant figure out where to shit.

like returning to any other venue for a fiftieth anniversary so

perfect picture pic.twitter.com/O962UOINN3

— 🕳⚰️💨 (@a_alesy) August 11, 2019

glad to be entering the food-on-a-stick-photo-op portion of the precaucus season, hope we can get some good ones from the other 0%-to-1% candidates before they drop out

precaucus season

If the ability to eat a corn dog were the deciding factor, I'd be president already

It's hard to find clothes that fit properly when you're seven feet tall.

de blasio looks so out of place hahaha

The Return of the Precaucus Seven (and Seventeen)

Bill wishes he was at the Szechuan place in Park Slope

After Pete's corporate donors take their slices, there'll be nothing left except some half-eaten breadsticks and ranch dressing stains. pic.twitter.com/KLDRvcEl0A

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 12, 2019

so I had a fairly weird experience and became part of a campaign stop photo op.

went to a underground/punkish fest in Iowa this weekend that was held on a farm outside of Lone Tree IA.

after the first night of camping at a state park on the way, we rolled the RV up to Strawberry Point IA to get breakfast, v typical small town diner place...
noticed a bunch of overly friendly and oddly well dressed younger ppl all over the place w/Macbooks and DSLR cameras and stuff which was a bit odd considering where we were....

anyway finally a campaign person for Amy Kloubacher came over and engaged in that sort of forced "small talk" that campaigners do, she said Amy was coming through Strawberry Point, but I figured later on and they were prepping....

but then like 10 mins later Amy K and her husband rolled through the door. There was a classic small town older couple and friend at the table beside us old timer with a farm baseball hat on etc....they sat down with them, so we tried to pull our table back so they could just focus on that, but Amy K's husband (nice dude) pulls our table TOGETHER with them and I was like oh god no...

keep in mind we were going super hard this whole weekend so we were super hungover, etc....

anyway, thankfully my one friend is super gregararious and a special ed teacher so he had an issue to talk about...

it was so fucking exhausting, keeping up this level of superficial friendliness and small talk about "issues" while out of the frame there are all these ops circling around you with cameras and clipboards and boom mics....jeeeesus i can't imagine the life of being on campaign so terrible

i did get to hear Amy deliver her "my uncle Dick in his deer stand" line that went over in context.....they asked us what we did and my friend told them he used to work for Planned Parenthood and they scooted by that quickly haha

anyway strange ass morning esp with that sort of diffuse weird feeling that comes with being hungover in a new place

you can see the back of my head in a black hat as i'm trying to keep my head down and not get called on

You know it’s good conversation when you end up joining tables together so everyone can sit & talk about the issues that matter - the importance of education, access to mental health care & fixing tariffs. It was great to meet Dick, Betty & their friends in Strawberry Point. pic.twitter.com/7zJd6qYMsR

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 9, 2019

oh man lol

this is likely why only giant egomaniacs run for president

that is amazing