2020 Democratic presidential primary

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.

Mayor Pete is like my rich, gay, white banker neighbors - lefty in some ways, but capitalist to the core, generally clueless about race and class, and with a mean conservative streak when it comes to "law and order" and "propriety" and shit like that.

"rogermexico"

he's campaigning to pundits, not voters. which may not be the worst strategy in the world considering so many voters nowadays think they're supposed to BE pundits.

Pete obvs. xpost.

(I originally typed Peto just now, a fun slip).

that Lazare piece is a solid overview of policy positions, I don't really see anything up its own ass about it

who these candidates select as advisors on foreign policy is certainly important

he's campaigning to pundits, not voters. which may not be the worst strategy in the world considering so many voters nowadays think they're supposed to BE pundits.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, September 16, 2019 11:14 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm and this is the most infuriating thing.

Working Families Party endorses Warren.

― Frederik B, Monday, September 16, 2019 3:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ppl in my twitter tl now saying WFP is dead to them. O___o

are those ppl riding hard for 'Bernie or Die'?

that Lazare piece is a solid overview of policy positions, I don't really see anything up its own ass about it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, September 16, 2019

the facts reported are 100% accurate and the rhetoric is 100% Jacobin. nothing wrong with in context tbh, just didn't want to leave the provocation unacknowledged since morbs wanted a morning thumbwrestle and shakey was unavailable.

What cheering in the Quiet Car looks like. Thanks @WorkingFamilies! pic.twitter.com/kuPZlWBlbp

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 16, 2019

warren is such a mom. that's a compliment btw.

I'm glad that Warren hasn't felt compelled to put motherhood too front and center in her campaign, except when it was relevant to the topic at hand, like paid family leave. For a long time I didn't even think she had any children.

one of her kids is a pharma exec no? i like warren, but maybe that's why she doesn't bring up her children often.

i think she doesn't bring up being a mom that often because, while it's a compliment from my perspective, a plurality of americans seem to hate "moms"

they also hate women without children

they also hate women

one of her kids is a pharma exec no?

she had a pharma start-up back in the 90s. Now runs some kind of business staffing agency.

ah. too much twitter not enough news for me, sometimes.

a plurality of americans seem to hate "moms"

tbf if you are a human who has chosen to breed at any time after 1980 then you are probably a sociopath

Warren gets away clean though

fp’d you for racism

it's a fair cop

A whole species of primates aged 36 and up, all of us aging badly into the future. In 2070 the last 90-year-old woman dies while getting her chin wiped off by the last 89-year-old woman. She dies a year or so later in a pile of feces and expired tuna cans.

Thanks for that vision sic