2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Booker just got my vote tbh

I've kinda warmed to Booker's persona. Still wouldn't vote for him and some of his policy ideas are wtf. Coolest thing about him is probably his gf tbrr.

If Rosario Dawson is ur partner ur automatically second fiddle tho come on

I can't stand his voice.

I suspect that Tulsi accusing Hillary of having "proxies" in the current field of candidates and her attempting to confront Elizabeth Warren with questions at the debate are part of the same game.

She's never been serious about winning a Dem nomination. This has been a setup to an independent/Green run from the jump. Her press is almost exclusively on Fox and her biggest online supporters are Breitbart types.

the only person I know who likes tulsi or has ever even talked about her is a big time qanon fifty-something who is the hugest trump guy I’ve ever met

for the thousandth time, Booker is in bed with the worst NJ bosses (yes they still exist) and is corrupt as hell

you mean like the mob?

just sayin'

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/06/25/bookers-problem-with-new-jersey-progressives-1072617

surprised the article failed to mention he gets pharma money

The Democratic establishment has got to stop smearing women it finds inconvenient! The character assassination of women who don’t toe the party line will backfire. Stay strong @TulsiGabbard . You deserve respect and you have mine.

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) October 19, 2019

MW knows something about how the political Twitter game is played.

ummm wouldn't that apply to Tulsi's statement as well? o wait "establishment", cool dog whistle Marianne

there's a truly awful response from HRC on this btw

Political Twitter game worth 1million crypto delegates

I will pay The Media *checks wallet* 10 dollars to not talk about this story anymore

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC9cgvtkRs

this is the business model H@treon should actually have gone with tbrr

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/zuckerberg-privately-recommended-staff-hires-to-pete-buttigieg.html

my “liberal” friends in the group chat are whining about rearranging chairs on the titanic “while the arctic melts”... and steady stanning Pete fucking Butteigeig.

I wanna fuckin die.

Buttigieg ahead of Bernie in the new Iowa poll

Better Things Aren’t Possible

We have compromised, and we are prepared to compromise further

Why Not the Best? Well, here are several reasons...

In some quarters of the internet (ok, one person I know) there is a huge amount of agitation about the Warren campaign not more forcefully denouncing Ashlee Marie Preston for her tweets and the confusing messaging that's come out of the campaign about her (they said she didn't work for them in an official capacity, yet they've kept an official campaign video featuring her up). My GUESS is that they don't want to come across as transphobic and are trying to come out of this looking good.

I don't know what any of that is nor do I care to

yeah whatever that is it’s exhausting

I don't see the problem. First of all, I never heard her name until reading your post just now, and secondly, Preston's own apology (see below) seems thorough and sincere to me.

Taking accountability for the past, staying rooted in the present, and absorbing lessons for the future. pic.twitter.com/yDGXLKX8jU

— Ashlee Marie Preston (@AshleeMPreston) October 14, 2019

experienced teenagers can tell you that staring at a pimple makes it enormous

You don't often see "I was on meth and talkin' a lot of shit" in political apologies, so kudos to her.

Impressively bad tweets. This won't amount to anything and it's better for Warren to just move on imo. Ashlee Marie doesn't really look big enough to matter anyway. That said, why have people not learned the lesson by now that if you're tweeting with your government name, go back to 2011 and delete all that shit before you start to work on campaigns for public office or children's movies?

And that is a pretty good apology.

I delete all my tweets after 30 days because none of the fucking trash I post needs to get saved for any reason

The problem was she was posting racist stuff in 2018 so her apology doesn't really cover it all.
The most irritating thing about all of this stuff for me is...ok, so your campaign courts someone (buttigieg and someone else courter Preston as well). Due a little fucking due dilligence? It's not that hard to investigate someone's tweets these days. Spare yourself the embarrassment later on.

let's be real, all tweets should be deleted

also, I do think it's a tempest in a teapot, the one person I know who is raging about it is a centerist midwestern middle aged white gay man who is firmly supporting Buttigieg. He didn't take kindly to some people saying that those tweets didn't really amount to homophobia. Internecine queer politics isn't somewhere I feel like treading so I kept my mouth shut and agreed Warren should take the video down if they're trying to actually distance themselves.

all posts should be deleted too

not this one though

let's be real, the whole world was a bad idea