2020 Democratic presidential primary

We crossed the line first, sir. We squeezed him, we hammered him to the point of desperation. And in our desperation, we turned to a man we didn't fully understand.

say what you like, at least Rockism is an ethos

oh man i keep forgetting to 😎 in all this excitement

😎

What Can't You Find On The Internet?

^^^^^^^

doesn't work; please advise

Gerald Ford dead today

he was eaten by wolves

he was delicious!

Now we'll never know NV's poll options :(

or if Roger Stone is really dead

they were:

Yes
No
Ban Bee OK

http://www.themissingthread.com/

lol i think we need to re-run that poll

^^ this

what the

fwiw I was also in Neanderthal's underoos

(a different set, but still)

lol anybody not around during the temporary outage is gonna be really confused by the temporary turn in the threads that were still working.

So ... Ayanna Pressley will be joining Thin Lizzy Warren at a town hall in NC tomorrow. Curious to see how much stumping she ends up doing for her.

this was interesting
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/06/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-policies-taxes.html

osita today, otoh:
https://newrepublic.com/article/155639/debt-hysteria

Progressives, when asked about our fiscal situation, have correctly taken to pointing out the Republican Party’s fiscal hypocrisy and the press’ ambivalence about certain kinds of spending. “All of us can be a little forgetful sometimes,” Sanders tweeted last week. “My Republican friends launched trillion-dollar wars and passed huge tax cuts for the rich. Then they ask why the deficit went up.” But responses like this only sidestep the substance of the concern that our deficits and debt have grown unsustainably large—an idea debate moderators, centrist think tanks, and others will promote no matter how many times Democrats appeal to Republican irresponsibility. If the campaign so far is any indication, progressive candidates will lend credence to that idea by cobbling together elaborate funding proposals.

They shouldn’t. Instead, progressive candidates should challenge the premises of the questions they get about affordability. The soundest response to queries about how we might fully pay for Medicare for All or climate policy is a simple one: We will not.

otm

also acceptable: "hey Tapper you look rich. you'll pay for it you big dumb bitch."

^ Nursery rhymes of the future.

wait a second...isn't this primary race missing a really rich person?

feels like a hole where a bunch of money should be...

hold the phone

BLOOMBERG is filing to run for presidenthttps://t.co/ii6si47Cuo

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) November 7, 2019

RIP Biden

the field did seem short on 77-year-olds

Jesus, why?

wants to burn another giant pile of money

makes sense to people scared of M4A (which is a lot of democratic voters) - if you're narrowing your picks down to biden or mayor pete, bloomberg is an intriguing third option

i feel sorry for people wrestling with that decision, but it is quite a few people

i know exactly who we could've stuck in Obama's empty wal mart FEMA re-education camps

When we look back at 2019, I think people will ask why the moderate rescue plan was a Bloomberg candidacy and not, like, Bloomberg giving $100 millon to a Booker super PAC.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 7, 2019

Without a landslide where Democrats decisively retake the senate and increase their majority in the House enough to shut out the blue dogs, M4A would still be on hold until the 2022 mid-terms at the earliest, but try selling that idea to voters, including both those who love M4A and those who fear it, and 90% of the electorate would just look blank. The legislative process is mainly a mystery to them; they think presidents just wave a wand and things happen. Even the president seems to think that.

*looks at aura left behind by magic wand*

but trump did build the wall...and mexico is paying for it..

Would be a nightmare if he runs third party but I’m ok with him in the primary, likely to siphon off Biden’s most loathsome supporters but seems highly doubtful that he’d get above single digits in many states, and he’s a useful foil for Bernie and Warren.

nobody supports this idiot

wants to burn another giant pile of money

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:31 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's like when i, non-weed-devotee, sees a "FEDS BURN 10 TONS OF SEIZED MARIJUANA" headline, and i'm, 'well, that's a fucking campfire to chill next to.'

enough people apparently care about him to make dent in the overall election, if he stays in. here's how he was doing last time around, january 2016

https://i.imgur.com/MsVF7bZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/ONw6fi6.png

about half of people had no idea who he was, but he still pulled in 13% as a hypothetical alternative to trump or clinton

hopefully he'll continue to equally entice moderate democrats and republicans

he still pulled in 13% as a hypothetical alternative to trump or Clinton

I'd attribute that more to Clinton aversion than to Bloomberg attraction.

probably could have gotten even more if fewer people knew who he was xps

When people learn that he's 5'3", that'll be the end of that.

a further reminder, after today's fracas in the Bernie thread, that she knows how to sass the competition:

Welcome to the race, @MikeBloomberg! If you're looking for policy plans that will make a huge difference for working people and which are very popular, start here: https://t.co/6UMSAf90NT

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019

Orlando Bloomburpz for presidetn

Shocked to find out this guy is not a bot

Bloomberg’s here. There is a real player on the field.
Time for you to crawl back under your rock. pic.twitter.com/oH7zi80G3d

— Lewis Feldman (@lwsfldmn) November 7, 2019

who would support this guy?

"Morning" Joe.

other billionaires

and millionaires, don't forget them

People who are rude to all their servants, not just minorities.