2020 Democratic presidential primary

Luke 15:7 says there's more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over 99 people who didn't need to repent. Smart dude, Luke.

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, September 20, 2019 3:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

with all respect for my guy luke, I think it was a different dude who said this

In which the NYT publishes its version of the POLITICO article about Warren.

So are these Sanders "proxies" the same as his "surrogates" and does he give them their marching orders every day? Or is that for the "fellow travelers"?

Morbs you know that Sarsour was brought on board by the Sanders campaign as a “surrogate” explicitly right

The New York Post is a shit rag - a newspaper for people who think reading's for pussies - but this is an admirably savage burn:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE_GVjIXUAAkH2Q.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE_GVjOWkAA2fJl.jpg

huh i guess the right is getting better at comedy and etc etc

I know she is taking most of her new voters from Sanders, but Warren is polling ahead of Biden in Iowa, and how is that not extremely thrilling?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/22/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-iowa-poll

That’s wonderful!

Looks like her platform of corporatist forever wars is really paying off!

This is the first time I've noticed a major Bernie surrogate taking a negative tone (albeit a limited one) w/r/t Warren.

Under Bernie’s workplace democracy act, Warren’s campaign would be subject to compulsory mediation for failure to reach a collective bargaining agreement.

There is only one campaign that has put its money where its mouth is WRT organized labor. #Bernie2020 https://t.co/6QkC8XT29M

— “Residue” for Bernie (@briebriejoy) September 23, 2019

i know this is a couple news cycles ago, but i want to put in a prediction.

i think biden is setting the stage to announce corn pop as his running mate, a touching story about how in the united states you can turn your life around.

no politician is thrilling

corn pop died in 2016 so that would be a remarkable turn of events on a number of levels

First elected hologram. (Maybe this should go in the 'terrible ideas' thread, but if I was a more terrible person getting Trump to record rallies and play them in cinemas etc. would be a good money spinner).

That's the Bernie surrogate who had the Twitter meltdown over having to wear espadrilles to a fancy wedding in Bahrain, right?

I have no idea. I don't keep track of every single stupid thing that has ever happened

that's what ilx is for tho

briahana joy gray is good. i enjoy her articles on current affairs.

*in current affairs

the website edited by the english fellow

She's his National Press Secretary. I think the last thing she did was publish the private information of some random Kamala Harris donor. She seems like a very bad hire, like David Sirota.

I mean Sanders is my #2 candidate but his campaign is no less full of tut-tutting asshole one-percenters than any other.

She was complaining about having a bunch of flights cancelled and being stuck in Chicago on her way back from a wedding in Bahrain. Why would she be complaining about wearing her own outfit?

She's his National Press Secretary. I think the last thing she did was publish the private information of some random Kamala Harris donor. She seems like a very bad hire, like David Sirota.

― Frederik B, Monday, September 23, 2019 10:04 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

seriously, does a bot write this shit?

best. presidential candidate. EVER!

if a bot writes on ilxor and 65 active users are there to read it, that woman still comes across as a dolt wrt espadrillegate.

espadrilles are a smart summer look

on men?

there aren't many other kinds of shoes that are equally at home at the office and at the beach

on men and women, alfred. more on women, though.

Fred is it possible you can find a second note somewhere?

brianna joy grey regularly appears on a leftist podcast with a segment where they throw enemies into the gulag. so she's cool.

Espadrilles were good enough for Don Johnson in Miami Vice; they are good enough for me.

New: Cory Booker now says he opposes school vouchers. But he backed D.C.’s voucher program just months ago, and is still listed as a cosponsor of it. His campaign and Senate office did not offer clarification. https://t.co/1dDjbQzqN9

— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) September 23, 2019

idk about this terrible byline, but this articulates how I feel at the moment tbh
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/462654-krystal-ball-democrats-on-track-to-nominate-warren-lose-to-trump

i thought worrying about electability was a mug's game

I don't think I've ever put forward that argument

krystall ball is her real name

fine i thought worrying about electability was is a mug's game

if america picks trump over warren, fuck america

Just consider the number of non-ironic takes on the incredible brilliance of Warren's selfie line.

this sentence gave me pause. has ilx weighed in on Warren's selfie lines? i don't think she'll be able to keep doing them (even now they sometimes run til 3-4am), but i non-ironically think they're a good idea. if acclaimed political analyst Krystal Ball doesn't understand why they're a good idea, i doubt she gets anything else.

But what really terrifies me is that Warren is likely to lose to Trump.

i like how Krystal Ball ignores head-to-head polling showing Warren beating Trump (just like pretty much all the major democratic candidates) even as she makes the premise of her entire article an Iowa poll showing Warren in the lead. why is the Iowa poll she cites a good poll that is justification for saying that Warren is going to win the nomination, while the numerous polls that show that people prefer her to trump are not worth mentioning?

And then there's Pocahontas. Is it a culturally acceptable nickname? No it definitely is not. Is it brutally effective? Yes it is.

Because what it really signals as my friend Saagar has pointed out is that Warren is fake. That she says she's the beer drinking Oklahoma girl when all of the cultural signaling is Harvard professor.

...

"To put it quite simply, Warren is a wine track candidate. As much as she wants to run as the down home Oklahoma girl, she hasn't been that betsy for a long time."

I can barely parse these sentences.

beer drinking gatekeepers, pulse of america.

do people actually talk like this? do people say "you haven't been that betsy since high school"? no, they don't.

lmao "Pocahontas" is not "brutally effective"

and to the people that are swayed by it, the reason isn't that it subliminally references her supposed fakery. people that are swayed by it are giant fucking racists who love hearing their favorite dumbshit president say racist things.

It's no accident that the first to fully fall for Warren were the post-grad types. The folks who have successfully ascended the meritocracy and jumped through all the collegiate hoops.

They fundamentally believe in the system because it's worked for them. They want to help working and lower class Americans, sure, but they don't actually trust them. "I've got a plan for that" is like a magical elixir to this group.

warren is not the candidate who "fundamentally believes in the system" though. that would be joe biden and pete buttigieg.

you're just saying that because you went to college

krystal ball's wiki is pretty thin but she does have a scam PAC in her credentials. And she was a UVa transfer.

what did I just read