2020 Democratic presidential primary

or you don't know how to rep your home state fair as the greatest in the world!!!!!!!

the world series of state fairs

I do think Sanders can get under the Grifter's skin the most

but this is unprovable

They should see if Trump will join one of the D primary debates. Bet he would.

oh my god yes, tell him he can join the debates if he switches back to being a Democrat (from the Democrat party)

Sanders can get under the Grifter's skin the most

Possibly. Trump has a small but potent bag of tricks to grab the spotlight and make everything be about himself and what he just said (though hardly ever what he just did). Bernie has his own set of talking points and he is very hard to derail, which sort of non-response really does annoy Trump a lot.

oh tulsi

.@realDonaldTrump

Trump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters. Having our country act as Saudi Arabia's bitch is not "America First." https://t.co/kJOCpqwaQS

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) September 16, 2019

I mean shes not wrong exactly

for someone who wants to be president, this falls more under the heading of 'use other words, plz'

I think for anyone nutty enough to want tulsi gabbard in the white house, those are the words they want.

yup

no interest in tulsi (who is my rep) but as geopolitical critique that tweet's closer to the mark than p much anything more allegedly tasteful dems say about putin

Bernie Sanders

don't have a problem w/ those words

This is a Tulsi "greatest hit." She called him that a few months ago and got positive feedback.

I mean, she's crazy and all, but it don't make her always wrong.

I keep saying she might win Iowa when her supporters chain the doors closed and refuse to let anyone out until they say "Tulsi."

lol why do ILXors act like Tulsi is radioactive

because she's basically Ron Paul?

uhh she’s not a libertarian

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/tulsi-gabbard-2020-ron-paul

People also don't trust Gabbard because of this:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-tulsi-gabbard-lgbtq-rights_n_5c3e250ce4b0922a21d93a93

It was, she says, the days in the Middle East that taught her the dangers of a theocratic government “imposing its will” on the people. (She tells me that, no, her personal views haven’t changed, but she doesn’t figure it’s her job to do as the Iraqis did and force her own beliefs on others.)

*Rolling aquamarine waves*

*Palm trees sway in the breeze*

*An attractive woman with a determined look in her eye looks straight into the camera, unblinking*

"Bashar al-Assad deserves our support."

*Sun reflects golden crystals across the horizon*

PAIDFORBYGABBY

Just stopping by to say wow Mayor Pete sucks

what's his latest Stepford Consultant moment?

Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and agreed with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., saying the clip of the former O’Rourke’s statement about AR-15s and AK-47s “will be played for years at Second Amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying Democrats are coming for your guns.”

Medicare for All Who Want It will create a public alternative, but unlike the Sanders-Warren vision it doesn’t dictate it to the American people and risk further polarizing them. pic.twitter.com/V7uuA8z0Y9

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) September 15, 2019

*centrism intensifies*

he sucks

concern centrolling

like Beto sucks too but I honestly think m if god forbid it came down to between the two of them I think I’d go w Beto. fuck it and be legends I guess.

buttigieg seems to be leaning hard into this "don't scare conservatives!" thing

at least Beto seems willing to piss off a few powerful people rather than just kick hippies like Mayor Pete

^yes

Veto’s also said things on race that are pretty dece, particularly coming from a white man that age of extreme privilege

Pete’s stint as mayor of South Bend sounds... not exactly great.

Beto’s

Medicare for some, miniature American flags for others

made for Shakey to pooh-pooh

War-making is the area where presidents have the greatest power to act unilaterally, yet it's also the area that is most under-examined by US media. Here's my look at the war and militarism records of Buttigieg, Harris, Biden, Sanders, and Warren: https://t.co/pVjhyrh8Sd

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) September 15, 2019

I’d do it first, but the piece is too far up its own ass to bother pooh-poohing.

I read far enough to get my bonus Jacobin Bingo points for the scare quotes around “management consultant”...

"rogermexico"

as always, God Fuck America

Mayor Pete from the County Seat

that was a useful summary actually

Beto >>>>> Pete at this point. iirc Beto supposedly put out a decent climate plan, plus as has been mentioned he's been great on guns lately. I think Pete peaked with a couple of articulate moments on like Morning Joe and The View.

ah well he'll have plenty of time to tackle finnegans wake now

didn't Pete literally say "who cares what the GOP thinks" during the last debate

yea he said 'we should just do what we think is right', but then still advocated for meek means-tested third way shit

But he'd never say "we should jus do what we think is left"

Working Families Party endorses Warren.

made for Shakey to pooh-pooh

I can't see tweets now for some reason, altho mostly that seems like a blessing.

I've never been remotely pro-Mayor Pete fwiw. he is not as serious candidate.

a serious candidate

Mayor Pete is basically a vanity candidate for the gifted adult children of Manhattan and similar places.