2020 Democratic presidential primary

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?

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
― Simon H., Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:08 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I actually listened to the pod and he made it explicitly clear that he was divorcing his comments about Klobuchar from ideology, it was simply an acknowledgment that she won fairly handily in a purple state.

how do numbers in one state give her an "electability argument"

it really wasn't about comparing Klobuchar with Warren or Sanders but moreso Mayor Pete, wondering why Pete has emerged as the centrist favorite when he's never won an election where he had to convince more than like 10,000 people to vote for him.

how do numbers in one state give her an "electability argument"

― Simon H., Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:19 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

presumably Klobuchar has convinced a fair number of people who identify as Republican/conservative to vote for her in the past. I think that's the extent of the argument, it certainly wasn't any kind of endorsement of her as a nominee

gotcha

yeah they should try that converting the moderate republicans in suburbia tactic again

so diamond joe criticized the republicans for the foul use of lynching to describe the impeachment only for it to come out that he used lynching to describe the impeachment of clinton.

just like with Trump you can always say "there's a Tweet for that" with Joey B it's always "there's a gaffe for that"

Reagan called the Iran-Contra hearings a "hi-tech lynching."

did he?

that was the Thomas hearings

(and it was Thomas that said it iirc)

clarence thomas, 1991:

"When Thomas returned to the witness table shortly after 8 p.m., he was even angrier than he had been in the morning. "This is a circus, it's a national disgrace and from my standpoint as a black American...it's a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks," he said. "It is a message that...you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree."

https://www.newsweek.com/anatomy-debacle-204540

xps

some Reagan supporters said the Iran Contra hearing were run by a "liberal lynch mob"

those were actually the last words that clarence thomas ever spoke out loud

oh he probably had some things to say about some websites he saw

Reagan called the Iran-Contra hearings a "hi-tech lynching."

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:04 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

did he?

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:29 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that was the Thomas hearings

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:29 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

(and it was Thomas that said it iirc)

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:29 PM

Yeah, that's from Thomas' hearing, sorry, but Reagan did refer to the lynch mob attacking him for Bitburg and I-C.

I knew I hadn't dreamed it: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Phillips-t.html