2020 Democratic presidential primary

for all the public affirmations of collegiality among the SC Justices, it's funny how absolutely no one - ever - has anything positive to say about Clarence Thomas.

I get why Kagan, who has to work with the rest of her life with conservative assholes like Alito and Gorsuch, not to mention newly minted centrist John Roberts, has to make nice. For a young feller like Buttigieg -- who grew up during the Bush II and Obama Years -- not to understand how much these people hate the fact that he likes the aroma of cock stuns me.

he is not very smart

Sotomayor spoke to students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and said the justices have mutual respect for one another, according to reports.

She cited Thomas as the colleague “with whom I probably disagree the most,” but spoke highly of his character.

“He knows the name of every single employee in the building,” Sotomayor told students, according to reports. “I can stand here and say I just love the man as a person. He has the same value toward human beings as I have, despite our differences."

lol ok, there's a first time for everything!

For my part I have always had the utmost respect for Justice Thomas, and have greatly enjoyed discussing the sportsball with him on various social occasions

it pains me to say it again, but the boy Mayor is Worse Than Beto

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will),

It kinda helps Beto is the only person that thinks Beto is still running, and the Mayor guy is like The Mayor That Just Won't Flush, but above is true regardless

yeah I've never heard a nasty word about Thomas as a person from colleagues.

Anita Hill and EEOC people will disagree.

Aroma of cock is my favorite Bongwater album

It stinks.

The secret meaning of "the great unwashed"...

it's crazy to me that he's doing so well

You can smuggle a lot of privileged white male thru this gay trojan horse.

I thought the justices had rules where they were not allowed to say anything materially critical about any of the other justices during appearances/interviews so all of that makes sense.

yeah I've never heard a nasty word about Thomas as a person from colleagues.

it's not that they say nasty things, it's that most of the time it seems like he isn't referenced at all when it comes to being all chummy. As opposed to fishing trips with Scalia or whatever.

Those Toobin books about the modern SCOTUS era have lots of Thomas anecdotes, including his chumminess with clerks. I was creeped out when Toobin reported that Thomas kept a photo of a former clerk and her female companion on his desk, though.

thought this was good
https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3839&context=facpubs

also
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race

I've got Corey Robin's Thomas book on reserve at the library.

Mayor Pete was always questionable, and the people on the left who correctly sized him up as a cynical careerist early this year deserve full credit, but even so, the speed and thoroughness of his selling out in the past few weeks has been breathtaking.

— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) October 24, 2019

Once Tulsi cashes out, tho, he'll have that lane back to himself again, et al.

You can smuggle a lot of privileged white male thru this gay trojan horse.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:22 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

surprising number of pals (well-educated rich gay dincs) who are totally in the tank for him (like, volunteering for the campaign and shit) who i would've totally expected to be bernie bros or warrenistas, was a little taken aback. like, ppl that are definitely into things like actual universal healthcare and seemingly just haven't scrutinized the Real Mayor that closely or something

eric H otm. this has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with perspective and priorities

I went out for drinks a few months ago with a law student who told me she was voting for buttigieg. reader, I ghosted her

He has the same value toward human beings as I have, despite our differences

this statement is completely contrary to the practice of jurisprudence

eric H otm. this has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with perspective and priorities

― k3vin k., Thursday, October 24, 2019 6:22 PM

well, yeah, but don't underestimate the therapeutic uses of calling a guy stupid.

thought this was good
https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3839&context=facpubs

also
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/clarence-thomass-radical-vision-of-race

― Mordy, Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:32 PM (one hour ago)

corey robin was on jacobin radio discussing the book, was pretty interesting (though probably just goes over what's in that new yorker piece - which i haven't read) https://blubrry.com/jacobin/50969277/behind-the-news-corey-robin-on-clarence-thomas/

Tulsi announced a bit ago that she's not running for re-election to the house. If she honestly believes she has a path to the Dem nomination, she's getting terrible advice. That's why it seems pretty clear she's about to embark on a third party candidacy. For whom? The Greens? The Libertarians? Dunno. But it's happening.

Either that, or she's going on the Fox News payroll.

her not running for re-election counts as one win, at any rate.

xp Tulsi Gabbard is not a libertarian though! Like her platform simply does not line up with that of the Libertarian Party. She seems like a Green Party candidate if anything

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/tulsi-gabbard/

maye I'm naive but I don't see her as a threat to Dems if she runs 3rd party. She has barely any actual support from Dem voters. She'd probably be more damaging to Trump.

there is 1 person i know specifically who would vote Tulsi on a 3rd party ticket in a heartbeat if anyone other than Bernie (or Tulsi!) were the Democratic nominee

I'm sure there's more than 1 person on that bus

Gabbard on Hannity last night:

Tulsi Gabbard appears on Hannity and criticizes the impeachment inquiry process by saying she doesn’t know what’s going on behind closed doors and that she wants transparency pic.twitter.com/au4Zyyhv0B

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 25, 2019

Hannity is a great place to reach Democratic primary voters

lol wtf is wrong with her

i guess her political views are continuing to "evolve"

Might have something to do with her decision:
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/10/tulsi-gabbard-with-hawaii-donors-house-challenge/

Hawaii state Sen. Kai Kahele, a Democrat, has raised $345,616 from Hawaii donors in his bid to unseat Gabbard. That’s more than Gabbard’s presidential campaign has raised from donors in the Aloha State — $221,501 — over the same time period through September.

tulsi supports modi and assad, she loves fascism

https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2019/10/24/caucuspoll

Mayor Who Doesn't Know About Moisturizer moves into 2nd place in Iowa.

But, Eric, he knows about meat.

His presence at the Iowa Steak Fry last month was better than any other candidate,” Peterson said.

Better as in he ate more meat?

Don't answer that.

fwiw, a friend of mine helps run a harm reduction organization in iowa, and last night she moderated a talk with beto on the subject. her take: "honestly, he has some pretty solid drug policy plans. lifting the federal funding ban on syringes, allowing safe consumption spaces to open, decriminalizing drugs, removing the X waiver, and more."

idk Beto's been growing on me a bit but I still wish he'd just run for Senate. he'd make a cool VP I guess.

goes without saying i guess, but fuuuuuck gulsi gabbard, damn what a fucking moron

yeah i said it, gulsi

if she runs 3rd party the net effect will be worse for democrats (she'll pick up votes from republicans; she'll pick up more votes than that from democrats).

the distribution of democratic voters has a long tail, and way off on the end there's a group of people that has no idea wtf is going on in their lives or in the world, and all they know is that there's someone to vote for that their friends aren't voting for (or are even advising them not to vote for! even better) that is a democrat, sort of, and that it could be a wildcard gutsy voting move that might be a fun conversation topic at the dumbass bar the following day. this is the tulsi gabbard bloc

ugh, that rings all too true

fwiw she has repeatedly and explicitly said she will not run as a third party candidate. she sucks, but i wouldn't worry about her until there's a reason to.

But the totally unfair and rigged Democratic primary process has kept her in the bottom tier of candidates, so she kind of has to go third party, really.