2020 Democratic presidential primary

We're all so lucky that Obama found a way to circumvent term limits and run again as Joe Biden

21st century Marshall plan

*heavy guitar riffage*

wish Bernie didn't have so much vocal fry in this debate. honestly he's as bad as Gavin Newsom. I love both of them but can't they change their register? It's off-putting

― Dan S, Thursday, September 12, 2019 9:54 PM

but Newsom's hair.

booker lost the vegan vote

The Marshall Plan https://g.co/kgs/i7ifwC

i have to admit this is a legit good tweet. if beto pivots into aggressive gun nut troll this will be a much better race https://t.co/mnAQeQolXg

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) September 13, 2019

i like beto the mad oaf

lmao just saw the clip of Biden's dentures falling out. good stuff

lol alfred!

I do want beto to pivot into a gun nut troll

Harris seems like she's had a couple pino grigios

I'm not convinced that Kamala Harris is responsible for cleaning up the smog in L.A.

lmao just saw the clip of Biden's dentures falling out. good stuff

― Simon H., Thursday, September 12, 2019 9:03 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

not unlike george washington

"I'd like to have an academic discussion about education. Mr. Yang, I'll stay with you"

"I'm pro-good school"

Yang sucks

"My kid's school was so good that I didn't need to be there for my son's first day -- I was running for president!" *applause*

"crime boy i don't know"

I like what Kamala had to say about eduction

lol bernie "guess what"

Biden is such a trainwreck

yeah i almost had to turn it off

Glad Biden's aware of the spike in vinyl sales. #NYT

Some rabble rousers, not sure what they were saying

Ok, I'm tapping out. ENOUGH!

The crowd may have been too exhausted to hear Buttigieg's Mike Pence burn.

Hey, I really liked March of the Penguins. It had cute penguins doing cute stuff.

I like a lot of these closing statements

It should surprise no one that I give not a damn about life lessons and what your dad told you.

and should Trump choose to debate Joseph Biden, Democratic nominee for president, he will kill Biden.

I'm not convinced that's true. I think Trump has lost whatever ability he once had to make any kind of clear point about anything. His brain is fried. Biden is a mess, but can generally be at least semi-coherent

Trump just needs a dumb one-liner, like what he said to Jeb! about his mom.

Clinton did very well in the debates vs Trump.

Who cares now

I feel like it's utterly predictable that I'd like Eizabeth Warren so I've been resisting it but whenever I see her I realize I actually do really like Elizabeth Warren

My wife, who has never seen Beto, on Beto: "Why not this guy? This guy seems good."

I think Beto got the biggest boost from the debate. Castro had a lot of good moments but felt too much like he was auditioning for VP. Buttigieg and Booker also had some decent answers, but I doubt it will help them. Klobuchar and Yang were both terrible and should drop out immediately.

I don't think much changed for the top 4. I was ready to call Harris' natcotized performance the worst of the top runners, but she started to come to life after a while.

Klobuchar; “I’m your VP Joe!”
Everyone else: “Thank you Beto for saying the swear words that we’re all think!ing”

eephus!: just give in. Many of us want the spry involved grandmother we never had.

fuck! pic.twitter.com/VDUEROLPE9

— guy fieri 2020 campaign manager (@libbycwatson) September 13, 2019

Biden is a mess, but can generally be at least semi-coherent

semi-coherent lies and crap

Sure, but didn't see anything happen all night that's gonna knock him off his perch

neither did most of the voters because they weren't watching

I just came from seeing Lily Tommlin and Jane Wagner (I bet they're going Warren)

Presumably some people watch these things that haven't yet made up their minds, but maybe not. Polls definitively seemed to shift here and there after the previous debates.

the fact that he can count on coverage like this is a ib help I'm sure

Analysis: Biden delivers the debate performance he needed, despite occasional missteps https://t.co/O1MZqmeyN7

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 13, 2019

*big help

I always enjoy political analysis by pundits who tell me what I saw and heard and how to think about it. It saves me so much trouble not having to think about things for myself.

Morbs, how was the tomlin and wagner talk? Woulda like to have gone.

Well, they rambled charmingly like smart octogenarians. Lily has the same laugh.

Warren keeping "middle-class families" going. God I hate pandering.

I saw another querulous Biden performance, but the coverage this morning is the equivalent of a fire blanket.

He’s not quite doddering yet but a debate between him and Trump would no doubt be a travesty of grammatical logic. Best case scenario is he picks a younger (well that’s a given) more progressive vp and retires after 1 term.

Yeah, the thought of Biden trying to debate anyone in four years is...