2020 Democratic presidential primary

And the thing about that is Clinton won all of those counties and there are still entire towns in there that are wall-to-wall Trumpville

A reasonably effective first ad. Too bad about the candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrmpp0unPY

misread that as BONERS: Joe Biden for President

Boners for some, miniature American flags for others.

The crazy shoplifter lady running against Ilhan Omar was led out of a Warren rally in handcuffs.

imagining gillibrand sitting alone in her campaign bus bumping jocelyn flores

Kirsten Gillibrand removes XXXTentacion from her campaign playlist.https://t.co/Fa0Y3xw0Dh pic.twitter.com/QUhfa0pJYz

— The FADER (@thefader) August 20, 2019

coward

no that's a good move, XXXTentacion sucks

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/08/19/elizabeth-warren-more-popular-joe-biden-among-demo

lmfao KIRSTEN!🤣🤣🤣

no that's a good move, XXXTentacion sucks

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, August 20, 2019 2:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

well yeah, never shoulda made it on the playlist in the first place.

It was a song from the Spider-Man soundtrack with a Xxx verse on it

I like the song and all but I'm not an elected official associated with the #metoo movement who is running for President, plus there are better songs on the soundtrack ("What's Up Danger", "Sunflower", "Way Up", "Invincible", "Memories", "Let Go", "Elevate", "Home")

I love when politicians and their consultants look at the 2016 election and come to the conclusion that Hillary's problem was that she didn't dab hard enough and often enough.

many advisers are saying that one more reference to pokemon go could have sealed the deal for the millennial vote

she should've said "pokemon GO to the polls" more tbh

Minority whip, majority nae-nae

lmao

The most Democratic thing imaginable is having a hand-wringing panic about "electability" when the incumbent president struggles to crack 42% approval. https://t.co/qVZ3cKi6S1

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 21, 2019

W was in the mid 40s when he got reelected IIRC. Of course, the candidate we put against him was the "electable" one. Meanwhile we collectively sank a more progressive candidate for being excited.

Can we stop repeating that nonsense, please? Dean was beloved by online people and... hardly anyone else, and the online community was much, much smaller in 2004 than it is now.

But I do think that the trauma of 2016 has left democrats in this weird, battered position where they treat Trump almost like he's some kind of supernatural force rather than a candidate that can be defeated like any other. And the "russians" thing dovetails with that nicely -- sinister outside forces beyond our control are at work.

eat off everyone
https://www.eater.com/2019/8/12/20802166/iowa-state-fair-democratic-candidates-2020-eating-corn-dogs-pork-chops

Trump is quite beatable, more so than Bush in 2003-2004.

Yeah I agree at the moment -- hard to say whether his fortunes will rise or fall in the more than one year between now and the election, but for now he looks beatable.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/cl3yE-bXgMhzrmdkrKJ8LUAQ7Fk=/0x0:4140x2760/1720x0/filters:focal(0x0:4140x2760):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18962703/07_RYAN.jpg

SO NOT GONNA HAPPEN

involuntary lol @ IOWA PORK QUEEN

I mean, god be with her, but you'd think that with the title you'd get training on not pulling that face.

I went to the page to see if that was actually Ryan (it was) and I am now giggling at the smoldering look he's giving the pork dude

The Other White Meat

hard to say whether his fortunes will rise or fall in the more than one year between now and the election

Is it? Is it really? You can look at that 538 polling-average chart day by day. 15 days into his presidency he crossed the line where he was underwater - 44.2% approval, 47.1% disapproval. His highest approval rating ever was on March 12, 2017 - 44.8%. His next peak was 43.1% on October 23, 2018. People hate him, and that's not going to change in the coming year, because they've got three years' worth of reasons to hate him already and to cancel all that out and bring them to his side he would have to do something so massively different from anything he's ever done before - not just as president, but in his entire life, that you might as well just abandon the possibility of it ever happening. He will absolutely go down in history as this country's most hated and incompetent leader; the only question is whether he destroys the entire country on his way out the door, or Budd Dwyers himself in the Oval Office when the election results come in.

Trump is quite beatable, more so than Bush in 2003-2004.

So what you're saying is... Iran invasion, spring 2020.

Inslee tells Rachel Maddow he's dropping out

— A.P. Joyce (@AndrewPaulJoyce) August 22, 2019

Sensible choice by Inslee. Now we need about five more to follow him out.

Too bad. About 10 candidates I’d rather drop out before him.

Same here. But he was going nowhere and could see the writing on the wall. A national campaign needs a national campaign organization and that was not happening for him.

https://prospect.org/article/inslee-difference

he was going nowhere and could see the writing on the wall.

Inslee was openly running not to become president, but to try and ensure that climate change was discussed at every debate. He's a smart & apparently honourable politician, could estimate that his polling numbers weren't going to twitch enough to get him in the next debate, and would (I take it) rather focus on doing worthwhile things in his actual job than waste donors' money.

He should definitely run for a third term, but should also be appointed secretary of the interior by President Bernie or head of the EPA, with sweeping new powers, by President Warren.

otm

Hickenlooper is running for Senate. Good for him.

WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday released a $16.3 trillion blueprint to fight climate change, the latest and most expensive proposal from the field of Democratic presidential candidates aimed at reining in planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Mr. Sanders unveiled his proposal one day after Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who made climate change the central focus of his campaign, announced he was dropping out of the 2020 race. Mr. Inslee’s absence could create an opening for another presidential aspirant to seize the mantle of “climate candidate.”

Mr. Sanders was an early supporter of the Green New Deal, an ambitious but nonbinding congressional plan for tackling global warming and economic inequality. He is bestowing that same name upon his new plan, which calls for the United States to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050.

It declares climate change a national emergency; envisions building new solar, wind and geothermal power sources across the country; and commits $200 billion to help poor nations cope with climate change.

...Mr. Sanders’s plan would be funded in part by imposing new fees and taxes on the fossil fuel industry. He described the proposal as putting “meat on the bones” of the Green New Deal resolution and laying the groundwork for a rapid energy transformation.

...Though the Vermont lawmaker was an early proponent of a carbon tax — he once called it “the most straightforward and efficient strategy for quickly reducing greenhouse gas emissions” — his new proposal makes no mention of one.

Instead, he calls for converting the electricity and transportation sectors to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 and achieving “complete decarbonization” by 2050 through a massive spending plan.

nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html

Sounds great to me, though of course you can count on the New York Times to emphasize how expensive this proposal to save our collective asses is in the very first sentence of their article.

converting the electricity and transportation sectors to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030

a laudable goal

completely unrealistic but hey, shoot high says I

Yeah, but that dollar figure is important for people who care about it, too - it demonstrates that the scale of the plan is beginning to approach the scale of the problem

xp

"beginning to approach"

still waiting for that $100 trillion proposal

We’ll get there eventually, proactively or not

With continued growth in emissions at historic rates, annual losses in some economic sectors are projected to reach hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century—more than the current gross domestic product (GDP) of many U.S. states

just tbc "hundreds of billions" != 1 trillion and the US economy by comparison to this plan is about $20t large

If it's Biden I think he takes Harris. If it's Warren, a two-woman ticket doesn't fly. You need a minority, so take Castro. He's talented, young enough not to stab you in the back, and he's happy to be your son of a bitch.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 21, 2019

biden in 2008

Pop quiz: Which 2020 Democratic candidate said this about the future of health insurance? pic.twitter.com/9hCPzk5yYV

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 22, 2019