2020 Democratic presidential primary

he just called andrew yang a thumb with a face iirc

like Chris Christie!

as always, i invoke MODOK

O’Rourke is a woke, moronic bigot, who believes we live in a white-supremacist country

the person who wrote this sentence published charles murray's racist "bell curve" nonsense in the new republic against the wishes of the entire editorial staff and defends that decision to this day

meanwhile, Sully:

i mean hard pass but this made up for it

his nearly expressionless, wrinkle-free face, which seems to spring directly from his chest

excuse me what

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, October 25, 2019 8:25 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

asian don't raisin.

― Yerac, Friday, October 25, 2019 8:30 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/LfFpPSR.jpg

yeah i said it, gulsi

yeah i said it, rub on your gulsis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHwO7_0WsAEWpkO?format=png&name=large

i saw weezer live once, at an event celebrating the opening of portland's first Microsoft Store. checks out

Yang Chung were unavailable

what, he couldn't get Y'Angelo

Yang Starr

The Wu-Yang Clan

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Yang

Because of the yang

I would be very surprised if Gabbard pulls any Dem votes if she ran 3rd party, but what do I fucking know. I know two people who support her: one is a strident anti-interventionist, the other is a fucking weirdo who lives in my neighborhood who I'm pretty sure is insane. I think she appeals to some horny former Bernie Bros.

This is random but because Gabbard has a tinge of Gal Gadot I think it's appealing to those that are subliminally pinged by that too.

israeli, strength of a superhero, and yeah the horniness of people.

tulsi isn't israeli?

en serio?

si

she is samoan american via hawaii via israel's gal gadot via a nice white suit

I see she announced she is not seeking re-election to Congress

i follow on fb some o'ahu politicians and what's been going on with Mauna Kea protests and commentators always mention that she is fully absent from her current elected duties. And she would be a republican except republicans have an extremely hard time being elected.

yup

or at the very least: it means almost nothing about any politician that they are a democrat in hawaii

for the record and despite a distinct personal bias i find the mauna kea protests extremely depressing and do not think they could be better designed to siphon anti-imperialist anti-development rage safely off in the direction of something haole capital couldn't care less about if someone had actually been trying

(not the thread obv but don't think it had come up on-board before)

spouse is an astronomer and observes/works in hawaii sometimes/we've spent months there/will be back again soon for a couple of months. It took about 2 conversations about ethical science and colonialism to sway him to my side but I honestly think that most astronomers have't even thought holistically about what they want to do and the "fairness"/impact.

there were a lot of negatives in your statement so I had a hard time being certain of your bias. xpost.

sorry, i said despite when i should have said "acknowledging". my bias is pro-telescope so i usually only talk about it if asked, tho unfortunately i am asked pretty often lol.

ah, weird.

I just returned from a happy hour at which a good friend, a Wells Fargo communications VP, shared her horror at the thought of a Warren presidency (Bernie wasn't even a threat because "he won't be nominated"; he's not on their radar at all). IF she gets the nod, she says, Warren'll lose. When I confronted her about the evil of voting for Trump instead of the Democrat, she said I needn't fear about her -- her fellow corporatists who understand "charisma" ("We help create it!") know that Warren hasn't got it, therefore we should look for another candidate.

That candidate is Buttigieg.

It got ugly for about ten minutes as we traded insults about our respective backgrounds (she's the employee of one of the world's worst institutions; I'm an academic).

WF has terrible employees.

You can tell her I said that. It's known in the industry.

I've told her and she knows it.

I at least was a VP at a much higher tier bank.

"charisma" ("We help create it!")

Drink-in-face territory there.

I don't know if I hate departments like hr, communicatons, marketing because they are ultimately worthless or because they got categorized into women's work and got all sorts of messed up. It's probably both.

she sound intersting

She's a good friend and terrified of losing. Fear is a terrible political crouch.

this is almost as depressing as when my boss told me she found out her nanny who was in nursing school and an avid cross fitter in nyc couldn't vote for HIllary because she couldn't see a woman being president.

i have no idea why mayor pete seems to be the favored candidate of so many of the "warren can't win!" folks. he seems like the most useless of the major candidates by far.

He's replaced Biden. It's that simple. Biden didn't come up once tonight.

a buttigieg vs. warren primary will be especially insufferable b/c of all the nerds

Somehow it does seem Buttigieg has become the chief non-Biden centrist. I would've thought Harris or O'Rourke would be in that spot at this point.

Idk what’s the deal with Harris, maybe her campaign staff just sucks, seems like she can’t ever manage to get any attention which gives the impression she’s just not trying very hard to win.

Harris seems to have ceded the territory of 'candidate of bold ideas' to Sanders and Warren, and has decisively settled to be the candidate of whatever sounds kind of bold, but which polls show will safely appeal to a broad segment of the party and to independents. OK, except that her chosen 'safely bold' territory is already well occupied by Buttigeig and Booker and some others even less relevant than her.

She has no signature issue so far, aside from flogging her backstory, and she seems disinclined to claim a noteworthy signature issue that might generate excitement and propel her into relevance. All the signs I see indicate her campaign has already failed and she just hasn't realized it yet.