2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Is that another dig at Marvel movies?

NEW: Tis the season

-Bloomberg & Hillary have told folks they'd run if they there was opening
-Kerry has showed signs of regret, is worried about Biden
-Sherrod is getting more calls urging him to reconsider
-Holder still talking about it
-And: Deval!https://t.co/aJZLw3RKOg

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 22, 2019

Carter should run imo

oh cool only the 17,000th time I've read that story since 1992.

Carter just busted his pelvis

he's running

apparently this page just went up today

https://hillaryclinton.com/issues/

Don't do it, Hillary!

it's just a list of all the problems that caused her to lose the election in 2016

1. Russians
2. Emails
3. Comey
4. Racism
5. Sexism
6. My husband's rapes
7. Jill Stein
8. Bernie
9. Obama
10. My politics

11. I care too darn much
12. Americans have forgotten how to love

13. Taylor Swift

14. "sense of humor"

The Hillary issues page is unchanged since 2017.

smdh

The Democrats are Putin's puppets, Hillary is running third party, its the only way

I take back the nice things I said about Chris Hayes the other day

.@chrislhayes talked up @amyklobuchar's appeal and electability during his appearance on @PodSaveAmerica.

Klobuchar, "in terms of an electability argument, just looking at the numbers, probably has the best argument in the field," he said.@dcexaminerhttps://t.co/098bqoDpXz

— Mike Brest (@MikeBrestDC) October 22, 2019

"if you're only looking at the numbers"...even then it doesn't make sense, but especially when you watch her in action. there's just no other reaction that is possible other than "you're not going to be president"

the electability delusion is strong with the punditocracy

hayes is a politics nerd - mostly in the best ways, but sometimes it manifests itself in horserace bullshit

somebody who is broadly electable should probably get double-digit poll support, but what do i know?