2020 Democratic presidential primary

xp was just about to ask about that demarcation.

shit, i became old a few months ago, then. wait, why am i wearing a red maga hat...hold the phone...

noooooooooooooooo

my main takeaway from the black women voter poll numbers shakey just posted is that - after more or less a full year of pre-campaigning - the clear winner for all age demographics is still "Other/Prefer Not to Answer"

Local Right-wing gasbag actor I know's gig today was being Beto's camera test stand-in at the debate, and it amuses me to no end.

Andrew Yang’s campaign manager just called to tell me that at tomorrow night’s debate, Yang will be doing "something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history.” He declined to go further than that.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 11, 2019

Self-immolation would certainly be novel.

He should give a thousand bucks to every person in the audience.

he's going to debate shirtless

get your yang-yangs out!

he's announcing Grimes will be his running mate

actually he's taking off his Andrew Yang mask and revealing that he *is* Grimes

Gonna debate from skype.

announcing his veep would be my guess... as lifted from veep!

proud to announce the disruptive vp choice, ted cruz

maybe gillibrand? woulda bet gravel but apparently he's a berner now

lol Gillibrand doesn't need him

can't find it now but meme describing Yang as "three redditors in a trenchcoat" OTM

gillibrand agreeing to be yang's VP in september 2019 would have to be a low point for her

Gravel and Yang have almost nothing in common.

well they're both idiot cranks

my demographic!

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/political-activist-linda-sarsour-emerges-as-surrogate-for-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign

This is about the stupidest thing I've seen Sanders do. It's like he's trying to lose the nomination. You don't win a national campaign by choosing someone this divisive as a surrogate. What a fucking dumbass.

like, which demographic is he trying to win over with this? the quietly antisemitic challopsy college crowd? nation of islam members? are they a significant voting block?

guess he's gonna lose all those zionist votes

he's going to lose jewish support, not just orthodox jewish support. I just don't get what he gains by this at all.

sarsour has been supporting bernie since 2016 i thought??

that's fine that she can support him, but he hasn't used her as a campaign surrogate. now his campaign will. my question being: to whom is this actually attractive? what demographic does he hope to sway his way by doing this? it makes me question his campaign's decision making skills.

I don’t think anybody except hardcore BDSers and real live actual Palestinian-Americans would care about that.

It’s certainly not a bigger deal than running for the Dem nomination with Sirota as your lead speechwriter.

classic ILX overreaction

never heard of "surrogate" as an official position before. was Rahm one for Obama?

this is inside baseball

With Morbz on this one.

i thought that too, but then i read:

The video, in which Sarsour is identified as a “Civil Rights Activist, 2020 Bernie Surrogate,” was tweeted by the campaign.

maybe this is just the way this word is used now

It’s certainly not a bigger deal than running for the Dem nomination with Sirota as your lead speechwriter.

which, does anyone still care about this?

clearly!

This long-ass article about Warren's fights with the Obama administration is interesting and worth reading.

I see tweets about Sirota now and then, mostly because Sirota is an idiot who can't stop saying and doing idiotic things

I have no idea who Sirota is

neither does America

Literally the only thing I remember about him was the controversy over him writing pro Bernie material when he had already gotten the speechwriter gig, which turned out to be bullshit.

How did that turn out to be bullshit?

Here's a statement from the Guardian calling upon The Atlantic to correct the story by @IsaacDovere regarding the work hats of David Sirota: pic.twitter.com/RSwL8766hD

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) March 19, 2019

and as Morbs said I suspect about 0.001% of Americans even know who he is anyway

Yeah, there's a disagreement on the length of the time he was 'informally advising', apparently Dovere writes 'months' and the Sanders campaign claims it was only 'a month'. Sirota stayed an asshole all the way?

Like, that's not a 'bullshit' article, that's a disagreement about details. And Sirota wrote his last article for Capital and Main in february.

Ok fair enough, apparently the implication was meant to be that Sirota was writing speeches for Sanders back in December, which was wrong. It was never an implication I took from the original article, though. I just thought it was shitty of Sanders to hire an idiot like Sirota.

Anyway, here's another helpful reminder on another subjecf

8 of 10 Sanders supporters would be enthusiastic of Warren becomes the nominee.

8 of 10 Warren supporters said the same about Bernie.

The other 2 in 10 spend all day in my mentions. https://t.co/XnIMymCoI3 pic.twitter.com/EHbFkiaNaa

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) September 8, 2019

I see tweets about Sirota now and then, mostly because Sirota is an idiot who can't stop saying and doing idiotic things

it's clear that most of us don't know what Sirota's faults are. Can you summarize plz

idiot/asshole or not, Sanders' speeches have been better this cycle

oh hey it's here, though it's uncharacteristically light on details

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/health-care

Elizabeth supports Medicare for All, which would provide all Americans with a public health care program. Medicare for All is the best way to give every single person in this country a guarantee of high-quality health care. Everybody is covered. Nobody goes broke because of a medical bill. No more fighting with insurance companies.

I wish she would just tell us if she supports M4A

She supports universal injections of capitalism into your bones.

Sirota in 2012: Romney or Obama and the Supreme Court: Does it even matter? A Romney presidency isn't an automatic judicial disaster. Not if Democrats get principled and oppose his nominees https://www.salon.com/2012/11/01/romney_or_obama_and_the_supreme_court_does_it_even_matter Also, just check his twitter feed. It's whine whine whine whine whine.

This David Simon thread is pretty fun as well (though sketchy on the timeline)

Thread: A few months ago, I cited a particularly skewed take on another Democratic candidate by this fellow David Sirota, called him on his consistent habit of such, and blocked him as a faux journalist and purveyor of hype. I was then treated to foam-flecked herd....

— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 19, 2019