2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

would you say she's the kind of candidate that you can imagine eating a breakfast sandwich and chatting with at a diner?

you should have passed her a dirty comb

lol i almost got caught in one of those in a lovely cafe in decorah, you've got to book as soon as you spot the hungry politician as they enter the room, scanning for authentic connections

you've got to book as soon as you spot the hungry politician

by this i assume you mean pull a howard zinn book out of your bag so they don't come near

is she the sort of candidate around whom I can fart my bacon and eggs?

haha or a book w/ a big pic of the Unabomber on the cover

xp

with amy some muttering about abolishing the police should do the trick

our orders were already in by time she showed up, we had both physically and mentally a lot riding on that breakfast I could not have bailed tbh

should have asked her what's her plan for Andrew Wiggins.

college loan and timberwolves max contract forgiveness should be part of the party platform

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-iowa.html

followed quickly by people on Twitter posting videos of him interacting with people

Almost want to give Sydney Ember the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant he wasn't literally kissing babies but...

the msm haaaaates Bernie so damn much

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/politics/tulsi-gabbard-active-duty-training-two-weeks-national-guard/index.html

"While some people are telling me, 'Gosh, this is a terrible time to leave the campaign. Can't you find a way out of it?' That's not what this is about," the Hawaii Democrat said in a news release. "I look forward to joining my fellow soldiers for a joint-training exercise with the Indonesian military, focused on counterterrorism and disaster response."

Amy Klobuchar, telling the hard truths in Iowa.

"I’m off to see the butter cow and pretend it’s as good” as the Minnesota State Fair's butter princess (which, TBH, looks like it might be better). https://t.co/ohhPmyNUvQ pic.twitter.com/3eNkWVgTTQ

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) August 13, 2019

look I have issues with Klobuchar but I will 100% back her on making fun of Wisconsin and Iowa

I am going there and stating on the record that De Blasio looks better than usual in the corndog pic.

OMFG UMS !!!

lmfao

Did she eat with a comb or a brush?

Finally! Our long national nightmare, etc

JUST IN: John Hickenlooper considering ending presidential bid to run for Senate: report https://t.co/XmnrTGNhJd pic.twitter.com/LYRMfT9Oyo

— The Hill (@thehill) August 13, 2019

yes. get rid of Gardner plz

He's among the most vulnerable GOP senators.

Let's see if Beto follows this advice.

He Beto...

<shows self out>

Is Hickenlooper still popular enough in Colorado for this to be a good idea? Would be nice to have a senator who hasn’t consumed fracking fluid.

i don't think hickenlooper is especially popular. there are a bunch of candidates already. it won't be an easy primary.

politically vocal and active buddy who lives adjacent to fracking zone/longmont is a never-frackenlooper— swears he will sit out rather than ever vote for him. and he loathes loathes loathes gardner and mitch, but NOPE

no idea how many of this type exist, i expect not a ton tho.

this was obviously hinckeblooper’s plan all along

I decided not to fix that typo

Hinckebloops for presidetn

NEW: Biden allies float idea of scaling back events to limit his verbal flubs https://t.co/Q2Ym6GoBwK pic.twitter.com/aeI6l1Gn5r

— The Hill (@thehill) August 15, 2019

biden stops running for president to scale back his verbal flubs

win win!