2020 Democratic presidential primary

jury duty is the inverse of that Starship Troopers meme bg posted. CITIZENSHIP MEANS SERVICE!

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So he's the young, male HRC?

he's got way more personal appeal

she had her moments? ironically, among the politically-aspiring, screwed over by men class. Clinton was offering slightly better, or at least the status quo of struggle to workers and wonks in women’s health, organizers, etc

people got up in arms when Sanders put PP among the status quo, but it’s not wrong: women’s health lobbying is a necessary force, and the clinics need to aspire to but can’t conceive of a world where they’d be equal citizens as healthcare providers after being beat down for so long

it's hard to hate any of the democratic candidates for the most part

i think i hated delaney

wait is delaney still in the race?

(deleted my mini essay on reasons everyone is suspect)

I honestly can’t remember about Delaney but laughed at some new friends in town describing him as a thumb

It's pretty easy to hate Biden.

(Periodic reminder that Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the US in 2013)

Also fairly easy to hate Gabbard. And the self financing billionaires.

I had a week-long infatuation with Buttigieg as the candidate. I'm definitely his target audience: we're a month apart in age, his father was one of my professors in college, I like that he has the Obama seal of approval, he's obviously intelligent, I like that he served in the military (though I can't imagine he didn't see it as a resume-building experience for a national politcal career), he seems nice?, and so on. But his brand of milquetoast technocrat appeal won't do jack-crap in Michigan or Pennsylvania, let alone Florida. He's not going to energize any of the key voting blocs. Still, it's quite extraordinary that the mayor of South Bend is running fourth in a presidential race, so I give him that.

Opinion: If you’re scared of Trump’s foreign policy, Warren’s should terrify you https://t.co/E1pbOpBTgh

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 5, 2019

this dude's columns are just concern trolling:

Democrats should confront their revolutionaries before it’s too late

Amy Klobuchar is Trump’s worst nightmare

The Green New Deal is a declaration of an unwinnable ‘World War G’

Bernie Sanders is probably just another one-hit wonder

Ilhan Omar is the Steve King of the left

Tesla’s new SUV model shows just how silly the Green New Deal really is

Democrats, beware the path of the tea party

Joe Biden’s climate change plan is a gift for Trump

Of course Elizabeth Warren would raise taxes on the middle class

what was the last time anybody polled the idea of unilaterally withdrawing troops from afghanistan/the middle east?

policy: make them pay, get the oil

that column makes warren sound fantastic

Go WAPO go
Read more:

Jennifer Rubin: The eight big problems with Warren’s Medicare-for-all plan

Megan McArdle: The math for Warren’s health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise

Paul Waldman: What Elizabeth Warren’s new health-care plan gets right

Greg Sargent: A small dose of realism in Elizabeth Warren’s new health proposal

Leana S. Wen: Can we please stop talking about Medicare-for-all?

lol, poor Leana

Gabbard will be on The View tomorrow. That should be a real meeting of the minds, her and McCain.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/05/how-kamala-harris-went-from-female-obama-to-fifth-place-229901

Unmistakable signs of a floundering campaign are all around her: Harris’ town hall crowds are thinner and more tepid than they once were. Applause lines are scarcer. Network embeds who have followed her for months are plotting their next moves. Inside her campaign, staff morale sinks lower with each new poll. Aides sometimes talk about the campaign in the past tense before catching themselves. Unrest over the choices made by top campaign leadership has grown. Some Harris staffers felt blindsided by a decision to lay off field organizers in New Hampshire when they previously were led to believe that they could be redeployed to Iowa.

what a URL

i’m still surprised how poorly she’s done.

Yeah, she's doing no better even in California.

Even I thought "Hey, maybe do a little senatoring before you go for the brass ring."

people said that about Obama too but as has been said he was a unique talent who made an instant connection with millions after the '04 convention and was drawn into the presidency as if by gravity. Harris ain't that, I guess

also Harris didn't consolidate the black vote; she tried to run out the gate as the establishment candidate and, since everyone still thinks the establishment candidate is a white man, confused the fuck out of everyone who wanted her to be The Political Mo'Nique

^^^this is a key point

Biden basically hogged both lanes that she wanted/needed to get into

And she bodyslammed him and had an opening, but then walked back the attack rather than dropping the other elbow and the electorate en masse went "WEAKSAUCE" and put her on the Klobuchar pile

nobody wants to be on the bottom of that pile

poor Cory Booker

Obama being a supernaturally charismatic politician has likely ruined the chances for another black politician to be President for the next several decades because every white person is going to assume that because he was like that, every black politician who comes after him will be like that, and they will be judged more harshly when they aren't.

until michelle ran...

i don't like her because she's a COP COP COP COP and...wait a minute she's actually a prosecutor and maaaybe not the worst, and a poc ... oh well i guess it just is not her time, it's lil biden time now.

Don't rule Harris out yet, she has one more ace up her sleeve...

Met our newest pawlicy advisor today—say hi to Newton! pic.twitter.com/oRv0ik5lUr

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) November 5, 2019

i blieve it was johnson who said “puppies are the last refuge if a scoundrel.”

lol if works too

she's a COP COP COP COP and...wait a minute she's actually a prosecutor and maaaybe not the worst,

Prosecutors are worse than cops

huh can't remember the last time a prosecutor just straight-up murdered an unarmed person but maybe that's me

https://www.innocenceproject.org/cameron-todd-willingham-wrongfully-convicted-and-executed-in-texas/

+ actively taking part in the cover ups of murders of unarmed persons

prosecuting anyone other than cops and frauds is a poor use of resources

violent crime and property crime are basically fine

Gabbard will be on The View tomorrow. That should be a real meeting of the minds, her and McCain

This was lame. Behar was the only one even remotely on the attack. Gabbard Gabbard'd, brought up her service a bunch, and McCain thanked her for 'not wanting to take my guns'.

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*Of course* a US politics thread wiggles his way out of this one!

hello there

oh god this is the only thread that works. the full huis clos scenario

turn back you tulsi gabbard