2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 1:01 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

I don't quite know which thread to put this on - Krystal Ball w Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNr9YM-gy0

interview starts at 26m, she's good generally anyway I think, but is more succinct here

I feel like one thing very politically active people are often blind to is that lots and lots of lots of voters sincerely hate what they see as "fighting" or "divisiveness." On the other hand, robust progressive policy changes are broadly popular in general and really popular with Democrats. So Buttigieg is in my view doing something reasonably smart here: he's saying, "I'm the guy who unlike Joe Biden is actually devoted to making thoroughgoing progressive policy changes, but who unlike Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders I'm going to do it in a nice-guy Indiana way and not in a fighty and divisive way." Now he is of course not being truthful when he says he can do this! An actual President Buttigieg would immediately be cast as a bomb-throwing Marxist and half the country would see him as "divisive". In fact, I think Warren has as much of an ability to promise that as he does. But I can't say it's a dumb thing to promise. It's what Tony Evers ran on in Wisconsin, and he won, and to be honest he seems to actually be carrying it off here.

i think it's weaselly

xpost I see no one brings up Krystal Ball's scam PAC in that podcast.

they didn't bring up Jimmy Dore's Assad prize in the episode before that
what's up with all the left wing grifters these days

That Onion Headline from 2013
Report: 250 Million Americans Still Need Guests On Their Podcasts This Week

#notallsiliconvalleyassholes

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/silicon-valley-ready-to-back-elizabeth-warren-despite-tech-break-up-plan.html

The hatred for Buttigieg escapes me, at his worst he seems rather harmless and he polls below 10%.

"Harmless" reads as "harmful", when your own position is that there are quite a few targets out there which must be harmed in order to accomplish anything good.

i know he's dwarfed by the Orange Blob, but Booty's disregard for people's intelligence is annoying.

I work at a company that Warren wants to break up and I’m going to vote for her.

The hatred for Buttigieg escapes me, at his worst he seems rather harmless and he polls below 10%.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 3:09 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't really hate him so much as I hate the phenomenon -- narcissistic urban liberals voting for their reflection basically

I can't imagine a better endorsement of Warren for Sanders voters than these recent attacks from Silicon Valley and Wall Street

if Bernie wins NH he'll get more of those

"Harmless" reads as "harmful", when your own position is that there are quite a few targets out there which must be harmed in order to accomplish anything good.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:18 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Like what specifically? Maybe I missed some stuff

We've just been talking about billionaires, Wall Street tycoons, Facebook and Google getting up in arms about the harm that would be done if they were more closely regulated and new taxes imposed on them. They'll do as specific targets, for starters.

I don’t see Buttigieg as being particularly being pro-big business, but perhaps once again I’m missing some statements or policy plans.

also bad at keeping his police dept from murdering brown people

uh VHS, he sucked at this teat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company