2020 Democratic presidential primary

no one is saying that

and your argument a second ago was "actually biden supporters are poorer but they just donate more"

I said ‘it may be that...’

raising such an unlikely and obtuse point shows some sort of support for it as a contention or why mention it?

Because I didn’t think it was an obtuse notion? Are we right now absolutely certain than the donor base of Biden’s funding represent the entirety of Biden’s base? Are we absolutely certain Sanders and Warren’s donor base represents lower income population than Biden’s base, donor + non donor? What makes a lower income Biden voter not give money to Biden? Can we translate Bernie’s success in crowdfunding and directly compare it to Biden and draw conclusions? I don’t know the answer to any of these so I have no clue if I should love the fact that Biden numbers are lagging.

What makes a lower income Biden voter not give money to Biden?

among other things, the low income

also he sucks and his supporters don’t care that much about him

i don't think biden's campaign's tone is nearly as "let's give this everything we've got!" as warren's & sanders'

nice and easy, biden style

Warren campaign fires senior staffer for 'inappropriate behavior'

Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has fired its national organizing director, Rich McDaniel, after an investigation into allegations of what it called “inappropriate behavior.”

“Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior by Rich McDaniel,” campaign spokesperson Kristen Orthman said in a statement after an inquiry from POLITICO Friday morning. “Over the same time period, the campaign retained outside counsel to conduct an investigation. Based on the results of the investigation, the campaign determined that his reported conduct was inconsistent with its values and that he could not be a part of the campaign moving forward.”

...

In a statement, McDaniel said, "I have separated from the campaign and am no longer serving as National Organizing Director. I have tremendous respect for my colleagues despite any disagreements we may have had and believe departing at this time is in the best interest of both parties.

"I would never intentionally engage in any behavior inconsistent with the campaign or my own values. If others feel that I have, I understand it is important to listen even when you disagree. I wish the campaign and my colleagues well."

"i'm just gonna kumbayah right on outta here," mcdaniel added

axiological inconsistency, that's a new one

Apologies if this one has already been posted

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/04/joe-biden-2020-age-president-campaign-229093

ilx I beg you to watch that Jacob Wohl press conference that is the greatest thing I've ever soon

I clicked on it the other day just to hear the heckler say “Do you realize the idea that Elizabeth Warren fucks really slaps?” and by the time that bit arrived I knew I was going to watch the whole thing

are there 9,000 Wohl / Nathan Fielder memes already or

One detail on Biden’s fundraising: 38% of the money he raised in his first two months came from 2,800 people who are maxed out and can’t give to him again in the primary.
w/ ⁦@KThomasDC⁩ https://t.co/0GzjPTyDyK

— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) October 4, 2019

sic - I haven't seen but it was uncanny how much it seemed like nathan for you

when he said "we have voluminous Amazon receipts" I fucking died

The accuser losing it after saying “lime green dildo” was amazing

for some reason the way he said "cat o nine tails" very solemnly killed me to

LCPL Underground provides. I dunno about that last part though...

3/3 > 1/3 🤙 pic.twitter.com/w6lfmlJQKS

— Maximilian Uriarte (@TLCplMax) October 4, 2019

still can't believe those degenerate hecklers were mocking this man's military service

obnoxious

At Imperial Kuttz, Harris told this young woman, who is a polisci student in undergrad, that she should learn to code. It’s the second time she’s suggested that today — at an event earlier this morning, she told a student interested in law the same thing pic.twitter.com/QX8gjWvnFc

— Deepa Shivaram (@deepa_shivaram) October 8, 2019

Nobody should learn to code. So that we may be free of this curse. It’s too late for me. Save yourselves.

tbf, if you're a poli-sci major you better learn how to code, because you'll probably end up with some shitty job in middle management where you have to work with a database

tbf if you're poli-sci major you're probably already comfortable with Python

what a weird go-to; sounds like yer trying to be down with millennials

i have no idea what LCPL tweet is referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Battalion,_3rd_Marines

Coding jobs are definitely not easily outsourced and eventually automated.

"Learn to code" is the most generic career advice out there, inevitably given by someone who doesn't know how to code. Also reminds me of this weird, ultra-condescending "we just need to teach poor people how to code and they'll pull themselves up" strain of policy I find pretty annoying.

There's a nurse shortage, but not a coder shortage.

Standing in line, marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The candidate in the pants suit hurries by
As she catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun she says, "Learn to code."

everyone entering the workforce and expecting to work in some kind of office environment should have basic coding skills.

Plastics

"handguns. disposable handguns."

People should learn to GIS, making maps and spacial statistics are more fun than statistics and coding without maps.

my grandma would tell me to "learn the computer" she was an immigrant and english was not her strong language kamala harris just triggered me w that coding thing

i've been in 'new media' jobs since 1996 and i don't know how to write a single line of code. to be fair that's why i moved out of the 'actually building things' part of new media because i could see that was going to become important. but still.

In every office I have worked in, the majority of the people had super elementary knowledge of how to use computers or how to figure things out on their own despite needing to use computers every day. It was really annoying and inefficient.

i once taught an adult - for money - how to use a desktop computer. she was in her 20s and had never learned because she was incredibly rich and had never had to. it was wild. you forget that things like 'hold down the mouse button on the top border of a window and drag it to move it, and let it go when it's where you want it' isn't just a natural intuitive thing to know, somebody has to show you.

I once taught an adult how to load a stapler.

Lol

Dianne Feinstein officially backs Joe Biden for president over fellow California senator Kamala Harris https://t.co/UoWk3roowc

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 8, 2019

Why do Californians keep re-electing this woman?

She sucks. I voted for De Leon last time.

sigh... olds gonna old i guess and feinstein knows how to politics better than i do but it seems like a poor calculation to commit so early when harris is already doing a fine job of taking herself out of the race.

Cardiac Bern has the kids!

That Quinnipac poll is wild when it comes to breakdowns by age.

18-34 year-olds: Sanders 44%, Warren 22%, Biden 9%

65+ year-olds: Biden 41%, Warren 26%, Sanders 2%

— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) October 8, 2019

Hilarious headline on Frank Fucking Bruni's NYT column today:

"Buttigieg's Agonizing Imperfection"

Nearly as funny pullquote under it:

"So talented yet so flawed -- like all the top Democratic contenders."

Welcome to reality, Frankie.

of course I didn't read the column, what do you take me for?

makes sense that 18-34 year olds are for Sanders and 65+ year olds are for Biden, but Cohn didn't include the bulk of the electorate:

35-49 year olds: Warren 34%, Biden 28% Sanders 8%
50-64 year olds: Warren 35%, Biden 28%, Sanders 7%

why do the olds hate bernie

fear of their own imminent death

they themselves, being old, know that bernie's too old