2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

yeah that's why Biden has 41% of 'em -- a crucial 14-month youth advantage

Biden is how they see themselves - vigorous, funny, good with the ladies
Bernie is how they fear their grandchildren see them - cranky, shouty, hair all messed up all the time

lol that's about exactly right

Harvard schoolmarm for the win then

why do the olds hate bernie

― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:21 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

more years in captivity, stockholm syndrome

Honestly kind of shocked out how low he is w 35-49. :/

I think fear of single payer/M4A explains these results

When they support Warren?

they don't believe her

I feel like that explanation collides with Occam's Razor...

younger ppl are more open to risky/wide variance choices bc they're more flexible - as you get older you become more risk averse. i think this goes to some of the differences in style & temperament between warren + bernie vis-a-vis revolution vs reform

even tho i think essentially they're promoting the same agenda (and face similar prospects for what can get done in office) bernie frames his critiques as being more radical than they are, and bc of her temperament i think warren's critiques come off as less radical than they are. speaking as someone in the 35-49 demo with a family + a mortgage i see huge issues in our political system and country and believe they need dramatic overhaul but i still desire continuity + stability of some sort so warren seems like a better choice. if i were younger i could imagine being more enthusiastic about bernie.

face similar prospects for what can get done in office

This is definitely the thing that gives most pause for thought. The ability to actually deliver is an obvious issue. Makes foreign policy more important as its the area where they would have most ability to do that. Bernie has improved on this since 2016 but its still not exactly a strong point for either

younger ppl are more open to risky/wide variance choices bc they're more flexible...

Makes foreign policy more important as its the area where they would have most ability to do that.

unlikely tho that either's fp platform will differ significantly enough that anyone would feel the results domestically

part of my pref for warren is confidence in her ability to execute and rally allies more broadly bur still without concessions. and her vigor, even before bernie got all stenty.

part of ongoing evals is how would effectively would bernie face down what obama got from gop in resistance? warren? biden?

i dont believe biden would overcome it all based on his shit.

Scoop: @ewarren has been in contact with @AndrewGillum in recent months, according to multiple sources familiar, who said the talks resemble the kind of courtship that happens when a leading presidential candidate is exploring potential VP contenders. https://t.co/UubzV3FDSm

— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) October 10, 2019

That would be marvelous if Gillum had won.

Also, Gillum did have ethics problems after all.

"Contact" I can easily believe. "Courtship" seems like an extravagant bit of rhetoric.

US labour rights extremely good

THREAD

We keep hearing about the risk to workers' rights and deregulation from a no-deal Brexit and a Trump trade deal.

But what does this really mean?

Here's a short thread that compares the United States and the UK.

(1/6)

— Tom Kibasi (@TomKibasi) October 10, 2019

what are the democratic candidates' stances on each of these

usual "there is no national primary" caveats apply but...

the most 🔥🔥 thing about this is you know Trump is going to have to see it on his next Fox News binge

(& promptly embark on yet another twitter rant) pic.twitter.com/FLekJpUtUe

— Taniel (@Taniel) October 10, 2019

With the Fox poll calculated in RCP, the gaps between the top three Dems and Trump have gotten pretty similar.

Biden +6.9
Sanders +5.3
Warren +5.2

In other words the “safe bet” candidate is now doing, uh, less than 2 points better than the “too left wing to win” candidates.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 10, 2019

if you’re not watching this LGBTQ town hall, wow are you missing something strange. Biden just joked that he was about to come out as gay, then said the public discourse about gays used to be “all about round the clock sex”

— Christina Cauterucci (@c_cauterucci) October 11, 2019

those were the days my friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBwqlP-3ls

TS: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson vs. "Clueless" Joe Biden

One of them belongs in the hall of fame

Warren delivered a quality laff line re marriage

lol I had no idea this was even happening. If CNN were a device in my house, it'd be swathed in cobwebs and pizza boxes.