2020 Democratic presidential primary

to blame for temporary Biden image rehab: the neolib war criminal rock star Himself

Morbs Mad Libs

Wishful thinking

Well, yeah.

Re me earlier point, I will say this, Daniel Biss endorsed Warren and his Twitter mentions are about half supportive and half people who are mad at him, and the people who are mad at him are like 30% Bernie diehards and 70% Yang Gang, so who even knows anymore

Ladies and gents, your Washington press corps:

Two women in a Michigan cul-de-sac fret over the Democrats’ leftward lurch and another Trump term -- a warning sign for Bernie & Warren et al via @wpjenna & @GregJaffe https://t.co/fTeY4ljJ7s

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 17, 2019

mmmm, love that anecdata

bernie and warren should definitely be worried about two beckys in a cul-de-sac rather than, oh i dunno, the tens of millions of americans who chose not to vote in 2016

I thought that was an onion headline

why can't we just tie a rope between universal healthcare and our openly corrupt white nationalist administration and their enabling republican pals? then we can mark the point exactly in the center of the rope, saw it in half. that's where i want my new president to be. split the difference of the two, right in the center. but leaning toward the right. and then the new president calls out to the representatives of the two positions where the rope is tied off - "hey you there! and you, over there! come, untie your halves of the rope and meet me here in the center. for we will get more done if we join our ropes again in a cooperative manner and "cut the ties" to our partisan past, new friends."

also I love that “beckys” has gone transatlantic

we can't go back to the 50s. that time is gone. but maybe we can go back to the early 2000s

No thx

Skinny jeans have been the most reassuring of fashion reappraisals/revivals.

in a way we are all in a Michigan cul-de-sac

I was thinking more politically. Dubya was worse than Trump tbh.

some of these people are in a mental ponzi scheme with only themselves.

This was by far the best mab-libsian

Weston was in the family room with her 19-year-old son, Connor Dopke, who was home from college and playing video games.

Dopke was steering his video game motorcycle down a digital mountain trail and sharing his limited-government philosophy with his mother. The country, he said, could get by just fine with just 10 basic laws. All the others, establishing things such as the minimum wage, Medicaid and Medicare, were unnecessary. He even doubted the need for Social Security.

“Oh, honey, now you’re worrying me,” his mother said.

The two briefly discussed affirmative action. Her son said it was unnecessary and “another form of racism.”

Karl, are you saying we can't build a bridge to the 20th century

hey good job, you raised a classic dipshit xp

Bernie & Warren have been "warned" more than hockey enforcers

you two had better start talking like centrist surveillance-lovin' technocrats RIGHT NOW

all these limited government, 10 basic laws guys are mostly just concerned about their stash of child porn and why age of consent laws exist.

I blame reddit

Ha -- I just wrote about a woman in a similar dilemma: teenage son flirting with white supremacist views. Andrew Sullivan mocked her.

Uh oh, Warren and Sanders are too extreme, had to vote Trump, lol.

Are these people for real?

they are completely real

thankfully most of them seem to live in the UK though

maybe we can go back to the early 2000s

State university tuition was 1/3-1/2 then what it was now, and I think it is important to remind people of that, that affordable higher ed wasn't something from way back in boomers' early adulthood and an utterly different economy, it's something the older millennials had!

more of this pls

We will go to war with White Nationalism. pic.twitter.com/HVtDI0eweQ

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 17, 2019

Good stuff

Mom's basement Libertarians are the fuckin worst

Biden at a Cape Cod fundraiser tonight: “There’s an awful lot of really good Republicans out there. I get in trouble for saying that with Democrats, but...every time we ever got in trouble with our administration, remember who got sent up to Capitol Hill to fix it? Me.”

— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 18, 2019

this article is infuriating: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/24/joe-biden-tax-cuts-mitch-mconnell/

the cros has spoken

Biden really worries me Democratic Party picks him We will lose 4 more years of this shithead and we are dead as a free country

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) August 17, 2019

Okay Bernie has definitely learned some lessons from 2016

Wow @ the number of comments interpreting that video as meaning Bernie Sanders plans to wage war against white people.

if ur a white nationalist, i guess thats true

Has he said what sorts of executive orders he has in mind to combat the racial disparities he mentions?

Yeah I love Bernie but he’s still saying no to eliminating the filibuster right? Hard to take a lot of his plans seriously until he changes his tune on that

drone-striking nascar events iirc

Can't filibuster the dronez

Sanders + Warren should just team up, idc what order, feel like that's the best shot against Trump. idea that VP needs to be a stabilizing force (i.e. a tomato can from the midwest) is obsolete imo. just go for it, they're the only ones that can win. Biden is an embarrassment, Harris will never get over her prosecutorial record (plus, as far as electability, black woman), and everyone else is way behind. Buttigieg is the Obama candidate, young, novel (gay), excellent speaker w/o being specific at all, but he's going nowhere bc of homophobia in the black community.

I agree with the Croz... so far Bush 43 is still much worse than Trump, but another 4 years? Dystopia fast

Where are you getting stats about Buttigieg and black voters?

2 days ago from SC

Black voters comprise more than 60 percent of South Carolina’s Democratic electorate. But an overwhelming majority of African Americans — 79 percent, according to a recent Pew study — also identify as Christians, which some church leaders note can contribute to internal strife between their religious convictions and how they feel about a gay candidate, if they think doctrine says it’s wrong.

“I’m interested to see how Buttigieg is going to play,” said Darby, saying that the mayor “does the best job of articulating his faith of any of the candidates” but is inherently running up against barriers with those to whom he’s still an unknown. “The most damning comment was at a clergy breakfast, and when his name was brought up another guy said, ‘Yeah, that’s the guy who kissed his husband on TV.’”

Jon Black, an AME pastor along South Carolina’s coast in Bluffton, said that he presumes the church will ultimately move past any divisions over homosexuality and same-sex marriage, as it did previously with divorce.

“If we can get in a time machine and go down the road 25 years, I think the issue would be resolved,” Black said. “It may take us 25 years to make that turn, but we’ve always supported the disinherited, disenfranchised. ... We’ve got to stand with those people who may be the most threatened.”

The church as a whole may not make that change anytime soon, but Black said he didn’t feel that the issue of Buttigieg’s sexuality would override his support if his policy positions prove strong.

“If it gets down to two or three candidates and one happens to be gay, I don’t think that would be a problem for black communities,” Black said.

Have you looked at Iowa polls?

no

I still think Harris is the most electable precisely because she’s a black woman but her campaign just can’t seem to get off the ground. She already seems to have squandered all of her momentum from the first debate.

It’s well known that the A-A community only ditched Hillary for Obama once it became clear the latter had a legit shot. I wonder if Harris ever gets to that threshold...and we all know who the Hillary is in 2020.

Sanders + Warren

Warren + Castro seems the most attractive combo for leveraging anti-Trump sentiment and Latino awakening to the GOP's nativist agenda into a decadal progressive majority. The two have the lowest negatives of any candidates among Democratic primary voters. Texas is in play.

"Texas is in play" gives me bad flashbacks to 2016 "Arizona is in play" and makes me want to just say, win Pennsylvania and win Wisconsin, those are eminently winnable states where Dems won statewide elections in 2018 and where there are lots of super-energized liberals, and if a Democrat wins those two states they probably win. (But I see no particular reason Warren + Castro wouldn't do as well there as anybody else would.)