2020 Democratic presidential primary

nate bronze predicting it makes me feel more assured it won't happen

This campaign has at least 9 months to go

ffs

NBC took one of Bernie’s best quotes from the debate and attributed it to Warren. Totally shameless. pic.twitter.com/TN2xd05Bnq

— Samuel D. Finkelstein II (@CANCEL_SAM) October 17, 2019

NYMag did this too apparently?? can't decide if malice or incompetence

what is the longest ilx thread?

pitchfork is dumb has 15k+ posts

That one needs to remain longer than any politics thread if this site is to maintain any kind of coherent identity

idk Buttigieg as Warren's biggest threat in Iowa and possibly winning isn't out of the realm of possibility

looking at the polls right now, Pete is doing surprisingly well in Iowa right now. is his ground game there really that strong? he's way out of contention in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

I would say we shouldn't give Iowa so much power but South Carolina Dems seemingly can't wait to put Uncle Joe in the White House.

A chunk of them are black voters.

do we have to restate the obvious

I understand, historically, why black voters would favor Biden but that doesn’t make it a GOOD choice.

i don't know, if your main concern it defeating Trump and you believe Biden has a better chance of that than Bernie or Warren, then it's not a BAD choice

is

"I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She's the favorite of the Russians," Hillary Clinton to @davidplouffe https://t.co/DKH7BLTWs8

— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) October 18, 2019

dear Auntie Hil, stfu, thx bye

what is the longest ilx thread? we should never switch to a new one. listen, naysayers, first of all use bookmarks (it's one of the three options under every post), secondly if your computer can handle 12K posts it can handle 25K, let's do this

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, October 18, 2019 1:45 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

pitchfork is dumb has 15k+ posts

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 12:41 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk? has 20K+. I think stet actually posted a list of the top threads a couple years back, but I can't find it at the moment.

It was keith, not stet. And more than a couple years back.

Is there a way to determine the longest threads on ilx?

If we'd kept all the LOST seasons in one thread like we did with GoT it would have been 26,000 posts long

I'm not sure why "Tulsi Gabbard sucks" is such a controversial stance.

it is not, you are good to go, podner

Gabbard sucks. I'm not sure why it's necessary to make unsupported claims that she has allegiance to a foreign government to make that claim though, and I'm also not sure what makes democrats think that any of the tiny slice of voters who would consider voting for her would take those claims seriously or give a shit.

I appreciate the Post including this though:

The “again” referred to Stein, whom some Clinton supporters have accused (rather baselessly) of serving as a spoiler for Clinton in 2016. Stein got around 1 percent of the vote in the three decisive states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but exit polls showed most of her voters wouldn’t have supported either Clinton or Trump if Stein weren’t running.

But then I feel the same way about the whole "Putin's puppet" thing, which is by far the weakest, least credible, and least likely to influence voters of the many bad things you can say about Trump.

Even ex-armed services people I know hate Gabbard.

trump is the puppet of the last powerful person he talked to

these ppl who automatically assign protest votes to their losing candidate are... morons

there's a difference between hating gabbard and baseless conspiracy theorizing around her. though of course clinton has to justify to herself why she lost so...

you got less votes than obama in 2012 despite the size of the electorate having grown by 10 million in the interim. that damn jill stein!

Even ex-armed services people I know hate Gabbard.

Gabbard constantly references her military service, which is about the only asset she has going for her in this race, but that kind of throwing your service into everyone's face also gravels a lot of ex-military members, regardless of her policy positions.

you got less votes than obama in 2012 despite the size of the electorate having grown by 10 million in the interim

It's true, every individual vote was just a little bit smaller in 2016

XP Exactly. I've got a good friend who's ex-Marines (two tours in Iraq), and she has a good line about Gabbard needing a daily quota of people thanking her for her service.

Re: Hillary vs. Tulsi, it's extra LOLsome when you rush to your favorite candidate's defense by validating the insinuations.

this is some very impressive legal analysis pic.twitter.com/MHG3tTRxSO

— Adrenochrome Harvester (@ClenchedFisk) October 18, 2019

pobrecito

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/466515-biden-struggles-to-reverse-fall

Biden aides use a drum emoji on social media to bolster their candidate’s statement that he’ll beat Trump “like a drum.”

look, here's the deal, I will beat him...like...a...drum. I've done it before, as part of the Obama administration, I can do it again. Look, here's the deal.

lookit

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Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019

This is a totally stupid and inconsequential story, and I'm loving it

folks, let me tellya

boy i really just dislike them both so much

if she positions herself as the anti-hillary clinton and runs 3rd party, this could be a fucking mess

enemy of my enemy is my friend + millions of really dumb voters

chances dark $$$ would get behind that?

and no, not "russians". just fucking assholes trying to fuck up the dem nom

why can't we have both

https://t.co/wS8OHq1au0 pic.twitter.com/3l6GEm3Wa2

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) October 18, 2019

the full tulsi tweet:

Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...

... concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and ...

... powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.

It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.

weird

is she high

lmao that Booker tweet is amazing

thank you so much, tulsi gabbard, for your call to hillary clinton to official join the race so that we can finally end this charade of a primary and narrow it down to the two people that we are all thinking about

Pretty powerful rant except for the use of "cowardly" as an adverb.

that's teh touch of authenticity as any whomst use twitter kno