2020 Democratic presidential primary

*hillary voice* Me so HORNY...for your votes!

sad lol

POP that COOCHIE on down to the polls!

please stop

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— G̸l̵i̶t̷c̷h̸ ̵T̵V̶ ̸B̴o̷t̵ (@GlitchTVBot) September 5, 2019

first iconic poster design of the whole election

I was gonna say, her team should be sliding into Glitch Bot's DMs.

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has Williamson suffered any for saying 'mind power' moved Dorian away from FL, the loony ****?

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She dropped 10% in the polls

has Williamson suffered any for saying 'mind power' moved Dorian away from FL, the loony ****?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

IT WORKED

If I were to credit any place on earth with an abundance of "mind power", I don't think Florida would be my top choice.

that's a trick question. the state with the most mind power is whatever state of mind marianne williamson is in

the collective force of ataring at the Early Bird Special menu

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— Fidel Martinez (@fidmart85) September 5, 2019

oh shit yang is done

hardsonned in an Irving Place beef

he took down that elephant 6 thing HARDCORE

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he's no longer considering an independent presidential bid in 2020. https://t.co/aosbGYhYYl

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 6, 2019

phew

The four Starbucks assistant vice presidents he would have coaxed into voting for him as a third challenger.

so are WaPo determined to prove Bernie right about them? this is horseshit

Bernie Sanders’s formulation smacks of population control by limiting nonwhite births, @JRubinBlogger writes https://t.co/9kSTKnkqkY

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 5, 2019

It's Jennifer Rubin, what do you expect?

fuck rubin

fumerican recordings

the CBS/yougov polls out from the early states are v v interesting

IA: Biden 29, Sanders 26, Warren 17
NH: Warren 27, Biden 26, Sanders 25
NV: Sanders 29, Biden 27, Warren 18
SC: Biden 43, Sanders 18, Warren 14

also a Globe poll in MA: Biden 26, Warren 24, Sanders 8

if biden loses IA, NH, and NV, idk if that SC lead will hold.

gotta figure out where the harris and buttigieg votes go, too

For the well-yeah file

A briefing memo accidentally left behind at a restaurant here showed Kamala Harris’ staff expected her to be grilled on her lack of presence in the state as well as her campaign’s “summer slump.”

The document, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, detailed intricacies of her campaign’s relationships with Granite Staters she was set to meet last weekend — from how much her campaign has donated to local politicians to advice she received from a local TV reporter. It included talking points to rebut expected criticisms from voters or reporters, such as the limited number of visits she’s made to the first-in-the-nation primary state and her lackluster poll results.

“You haven’t traveled to New Hampshire as frequently as some of your Democratic rivals,” the memo, titled "Briefing and Talking Points," said. “Is the state a priority for your campaign?”

Harris has struggled to break out of single digits in nationwide and New Hampshire polling over the past several weeks. In a CBS News poll released Sunday, she placed fifth in New Hampshire behind Pete Buttigieg and was 20 points behind frontrunner Elizabeth Warren

From this scoop, we discover that Harris and her staff can read polls.

I like how Biden's current plan appears to be to lower expectations so that when he doesn't win any of the first four primaries he can still portray himself as a viable candidate because of his foresight/honesty

decisive turn for Harris will be if she can pick up Biden's african american support in time for NC. if that doesn't pan out for her it's game over.

If I had to bet at the moment I would put money on Warren, Bernie has a ceiling that she doesn't.

A decide turn for Harris would be if her staff stopped planting briefing memos in Applebee's.

I've been putting money on Warren, without it being a bet.

i won't have time to read it til tonight, but harris released her criminal justice plan

The plan, perhaps the most ambitious effort of Ms. Harris’s campaign so far, focuses on reducing the prison population, creating national standards in policing, ensuring humane treatment for incarcerated people and prioritizing historically vulnerable communities. It also embraces ideas that have gone from the policy fringe to largely consensus positions popular among Democrats, including ending mandatory minimum sentences, eliminating private prisons, legalizing marijuana and incentivizing states to untether themselves from a cash bail system that disproportionately burdens the poor.

...There are several progressive policies in Ms. Harris’s new plan that she opposed during her career as a prosecutor. She pushed for higher cash bails for certain crimes in 2004 as San Francisco’s district attorney, declined to support marijuana legalization in 2010 and, as California’s attorney general, refused to back independent investigations for police shootings as recently as 2014.

...When asked about her apparent evolution, Ms. Harris said the political environment had shifted — not her core ideology.

“I was swimming against the current, and thankfully the currents have changed,” she said. “The winds are in our sails. And I’m riding that just like everybody else is — because it’s long overdue.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html)

this is kind of what i meant by her recent The Daily interview, from which i came away feeling like i understood her better, especially her motivations in making decisions, while simultaneously thinking less of her as a candidate. she is a very pragmatic person, it sounds like. and that may very well be the right path to the presidency, who knows. obama was very pragmatic. he underwent a noteworthy "evolution" as well. i can understand being wary of political currents. they often limit what is possible and what can be achieved in the short-term, which is paramount for her, as i understand. but there's a difference between lying low and choosing to shift priorities when political currents are against you, vs being in a position of political power and actively pushing WITH the dumb political currents.

i've digressed into too many current metaphors and now i am on a boat, working all the live long until i see some shore again. anyway, looking forward to reading her plan. i'm sure it's packed with good stuff. i just wonder how much of that will be in there after she assesses the political currents of 2022 with a deadlocked senate.

or maybe there's no point in talking about plans because they don't become laws (?)

“I was swimming against the current, and thankfully the currents have changed,” she said. “The winds are in our sails.

But the evidence of her actions show that swam with the current, not against it, and that she is happy to sail where the prevailing winds take her. This is pretty common among politicians who would like to prolong their careers, but her saying otherwise is pure pretense.

feel like if you look at what’s been happening in boston with the straight pride parade protesters — essentially a judge throwing a tantrum because the DA wanted to drop charges, even saying that the nazis weren’t getting enough of an airing — you can surmise what sort of roadblocks harris might have encountered in a decidedly more pro-throwing-the-book time

i’m not entirely defending harris mind you, just noting that the discourse has evolved a lot and there are still institutional factors at play

Why look at the complicating factors of a situation when you can instead pretend the DA's office is an autocratic fiefdom immune to any and all outside forces and the person who holds it can do whatever they want, whenever they want?

hahaha sigh. yeah

otm.

yeah when you can look at her donors and immediately write her off on the merits

It would have been perfectly accurate for Harris to say the current was too strong to swim against and rather than waste her strength, she chose to go where it took her and stay in office so she could be effective in other ways. But her saying she 'swam against it' denotes that she actively opposed it with the strength she possessed, and I don't see evidence of that.

I also believe her when she says she would have preferred a different direction at the time and likes the present direction better, but in using that imagery she is falsely crediting herself with being an active leader in opposition to that past "current". This is also very politician-like, and easily understood and forgiven, but it is not attractive when compared to some others in the race, who have taken stronger and more consistent stands over time.

Harris and foreign policy:

http://inthesetimes.com/article/22051/kamala-harris-foreign-policy-war-aipac-iran-north-korea-russia

"She's got to be stopped."

Jim Cramer and a @CNBC panel discuss Wall Street executives being absolutely terrified of Elizabeth Warren and how they've never seen anything quite like it before. This is the greatest Warren campaign ad possible. pic.twitter.com/VCrGOfxOX0

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) September 10, 2019

lol @ that bullshit hitpiece, I mean just check out this well-reasoned geopolitical critique

Kamala Harris has ... repeatedly depicting the North Korean peace process as a nefarious example of Trump cozying up to a dictator—rather than a de-escalation Korean people desperately want. In May, for example, amid climbing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, and days after U.S. seizure of a North Korean ship, she said, “We cannot put our arms and embrace this North Korean dictator in the way this president has done.” And in June, during the Democratic debate, she declared, “You want to talk about North Korea, a real threat in terms of its nuclear arsenal. But what does [Trump] do? He embraces Kim Jong-un, a dictator, for the sake of a photo op.” The implication of this statement is that engaging Kim Jong-un in talks makes the world more dangerous, when—in fact—it’s the only path to formally ending the Korean War and reunifying families. Social movements in South Korea have long been calling for demilitarization, and they do not have the luxury of waiting for more desirable negotiating parties.

can anybody tell me why Alfred's latest post is blank for me? I have images turned on...

do you have an add blocker or something? it's an embedded tweet.

I have a DuckDuckGo privacy extension and something called Cyberhaven download monitor as add-ons in my browser, but that's it

lol

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