2020 Democratic presidential primary

The results of Iowa and NH are going to alter the standings in subsequent states, perhaps enormously.

Yep.

it def feels like warren's the only one actually gaining new people. bernie and buttigieg have been steady, biden and harris have fallen. harris' fall has really surprised me.

NH is interesting cuz Warren and Sanders are both senators in neighboring states

The bump Harris got from the first debate was temporary, possibly because she had to walk a few of her winning positions back. I think the lack of real momentum caused many of her supporters who are concerned about "electability" to hop back over to Biden and Warren.

yeah, "electability" (and the lack thereof) becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that way.

Brain genius moves

BREAKING — The Biden campaign has written a letter to top executives and hosts at major news networks demanding that they stop booking Giuliani. https://t.co/aLX082Snuf

With @maxwelltani

— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 29, 2019

I support continued booking of Giuliani AND continued pressure from the Biden campaign to stop booking Giuliani. The first makes Trump look worse, the second makes Biden look worse. Those are both good things.

I'm not sure how this makes Biden look particularly bad. Giuliani certainly is spreading a false narrative about Biden, using the enormous megaphone provided to him by those news networks. By lending him that platform when it is clear that he is lying, they are complicit in spreading that false narrative, even if they verbally challenge his version of events. Biden has a legit beef imo.

yeah i agree

Heh

You can laugh at this if you'd like, but how many other campaigns would be willing to hire ducks as staffers in the first place? https://t.co/oD8D6KGiNF

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) September 29, 2019

it def feels like warren's the only one actually gaining new people. bernie and buttigieg have been steady, biden and harris have fallen. harris' fall has really surprised me.

― i'm not a garbageman i am garbage, man. let me handle my garbage, damn (m bison),

Also surprised on Kamala's fall. While its still early, looks tough for her now with the loss of initial momentum. I thought Mayor Pete was falling too. Yang seems to have closed the gap on both more or less and his trajectory still climbing.

Once Brontosaurus Biden collapses and we see who picks off the votes then it starts to become clearer

i’m predicting president warren

feels like it's Yang's turn to be the media's favorite candidate for 2 weeks

Yang is the dems Herman Cain

but Cain actually led all the republican candidates in the polling for about two weeks late in 2011

he's the only one who hasn't had his turn yet & he's doing slightly better in some polls

Gabbard hasn't been adored yet by the media. Nor has Booker. Or Marianne Whatshername. All Yang has going for him with the media is his appeal as a freak, but not more so than Whatshername.

williamson is fewer characters than whatshername

she shoulda put that on her yard signs then

Tulsi won't get adored by the media. Assad alone is enough to see to that. She's probably even more media disliked than Bernie, and also polls too low.

Yang will get his turn I think, but maybe as curiosity. His numbers are creeping into the bottom end of serious (if Pete and Kamala are still considered as serious at this point)

Yang won’t get a turn unless his polls go up 10 points
The media is tired of the low polling candidates

buttigieg, harris, and yang all being in the same "tier" is wild

Who is in which tier right now in your view, crüt?

Pretty clear it's:

Tier One: Biden, Warren, Sanders

Tier Two: Buttigieg, Harris, Yang

Tier Three: Beto, Klobachar, Booker, Castro, Gabbard

Tier Zero: Bennett, Steyer, Williamson, etc.

96 Tiers

Whoa, @facebook's Mark Zuckerberg calls @ewarren an "existential" threat to his business interests, says he'll "go to the mat" and "fight" herhttps://t.co/QwUhD5Vmav

— Summer Brennan 🌈 (@summerbrennan) October 1, 2019

he should chill out, read twitter and find out what a neolib Warren is

He just hates capitalism

What would really “suck” is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy. https://t.co/rI0v55KKAi

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 1, 2019

lol this 'rules'

all in good fun but that Brennan tweet really mischaracterizes the statement

zuckerberg stands to lose a bundle if warren got her policies enacted. the 2% wealth tax alone would amount to billions in his case. boo-hoo.

this is pure speculation but i suspect a lot of multi-billionaires would be perfectly happy moving their companies/personal world domination stations to another country, and/or a floating libertarian island fortress. they're probably just waiting for a good excuse to do it

Can't believe Buttigieg's hanging in there.

the gays and people who prefer soothing bullshit over policy love him

this is pure speculation but i suspect a lot of multi-billionaires would be perfectly happy moving their companies/personal world domination stations to another country, and/or a floating libertarian island fortress. they're probably just waiting for a good excuse to do it

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What are the options for billionaire americans? In Europe there’s always Belgium.

In any case, let them move. It’s time states reassert themselves vis a vis corporations. Facebook exists because the US allows it, in myriad of ways, to exist.

also because most of the people who regulate tech companies are a million years old and still don't "do email"

I’m certain Zuckerberg would be very happy to move most of Facebook’s infrastructure to the Caïmans. That would be much a better option than Silicon Valley.

Most chilling is Zuckerberg viewing Warren the Hypothetical President as some sort of loose canon, an isolated notion, and not someone who has been elected by the citizens of the country, representing their views via the executive power.

sooo disgusting

Pete Buttigieg on Elizabeth Warren:https://t.co/ypW8VyBrI1 pic.twitter.com/MoUhR6rDZG

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 1, 2019

yeah I think we can all come together to say "fuck off pete" to that

lol

no one sent Pete the ilx animation poll?

What about binging? What are you binging on TV?

Not a lot of time for binging but I'll catch a TV show before bed sometimes. Usually Family Guy or Rick and Morty is on as I’m drifting off. I'm trying to get into Succession but I’m struggling. I need a character to root for and I haven't decided if any of them are good people.

none of them are good people, Pete. And neither are you.

buttigieg is a shithead lol

peak pete

It was honestly puzzling me why people were so down on Moulton yet so high on Buttigieg when they're kind of the same?

Moulton is gay?

idk he looks pretty miserable

Buttigieg was a fascinating anomaly for about two weeks