2020 Democratic presidential primary

Asked which 3 African Americans she’d want in her White House, @ewarren says she won’t name any current politicians, but drops @DevalPatrick’s name, adds “someone like” @MelodyCBarnes pic.twitter.com/wkDOwuUNRS

— Zak Hudak (@cbszak) November 7, 2019

He's against investing in tech education in public schools because -get this- "we invest in computers and then they're used for porn and to plagiarize homework" , verbatim.

I could spend a whole thread just on this but there's more to cover.

— Federica Pelzel (@federicca) November 8, 2019

is he wrong tho

Yeah that's ironclad tbh

If porn and cheating is wrong, do we want to be right?

I gotta say, my middle schooler is pretty adamant that the "every kid gets a school laptop" policy at his school leads to 75% of kids dicking around playing games all through class

school laptops should have screens on both sides so everyone can see what everyone else is doing

They have this at my son's high school and it's a fucking disaster. Not least of the problems is that the teacher's aren't adequately trained and have varying levels of tech savvy, which leads to online tools being used in very inconsistent and confusing ways.

I think the "handing out iPads" approach to Ed tech really sucks

it's also really shameful when some districts have money to had out iPads and in many others the teachers are forced to pay for their students' supplies

chromebooks, tech etc works fine in some classrooms (sometimes great), it really depends on implementation etc etc

Yes I should add that my middle schooler reports that some teachers are able to keep a lid on it and some teachers just can't but he's not really able to articulate what it is that the teachers who are good at keeping kids focused on class are good at -- like, he's definitely not saying those teachers are more interesting, he portrays it as those teachers being more "in control of the classroom" but he can't explain what MAKES them more in control of the classroom.

anyway

I bet Bloomberg withdraws again tbh. He's jumping in in Alabama, after a bunch of other states have already voted? He's not gonna have a prayer, he has no constituency, no signature issue, and the base absolutely hates him. He'll take a bunch of flak in the next few weeks, appear at the bottom of some polls, and then ditch it.

but he can't explain what MAKES them more in control of the classroom.

I assume it's because they're armed.

I bet Bloomberg withdraws again tbh. He's jumping in in Alabama, after a bunch of other states have already voted?

No, Alabama just has the earliest filing deadline (today), so he prioritized getting on the ballot there before he filed elsewhere.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/politics/2020-primaries-deadlines.html

but he can't explain what MAKES them more in control of the classroom.

it's called authoritah!

ah thx for the clarification jaymc

can't wait to see what his ground game in Iowa looks like

dropping hundred dollar bills from helicopter probably

https://i.imgur.com/pWIJX7B.png

wait, which guy is the maker? the one who owns buildings or the one who started businesses? and who is the taker? the one ripping everyone off or the one who took full advantage of the many tax benefits available only to the very wealthy?

oh wait - thought that said maker and a taker. faker, though. well, trump is the faker. ok, guess by process elimination, bloomberg must be the maker

god i'm so lonely

<3

I'm a maker I'm a faker I'm a midnight taker

Apparently the strategy is to basically skip the earliest primaries/caucuses where the other candidates have already built up big advantages, and go all in on Super Tuesday where the wide number of states in play will minimize the importance of old-fashioned person-to-person campaigning and maximize the leverage of big ad spending.

anyone want to participate in a wild friday night party game?!?!

surely they're polling bloomberg vs the rest of the field right now. who wants to guess how bloomberg will do in a national poll (which, yes, is pointless for primaries, but that's what the first legit polls will probably be)?

i'm gonna go with 4%.

Sounds about right.

National poll? I’ll go with 3%

same

3% only if he's had a chance to blow tens of millions on ads.

1% if you asked next week.

He'd only outpoll Steyer or Schulz with people who appear on Sunday morning talk shows, I don't think they have the numbers to boost him.

hope he polls hire and it all cuts into biden

hope he polls hire

artificial intelligence has a ways to go

that’s one of the meanest thing’s anybody’s said about treeship!

so should I mic drop?

Bloomberg is just a remote plutocrat, how he could possibly be a factor

Oh yeah, the man who approved this logo has the presidency in the bag for sure.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI5Q845U4AAXSwm.png

mike, i think mostly you own it and the rest of us are renting

cool logo imo

I'm sold

Getting pwned together

If mayor mike implemented some sort of retroactive rent to own policy where all my rent payments for the last 15 years went toward a mortgage, that might be cool

Mayor Pete, mayor mike, mayor joe, and standing suburban lawns over, mayor Amy. They’re all mayors in my book, and I wish them all the best during this cutthroat competition to compromise the most tactfully

https://www.eater.com/2019/11/7/20953442/pete-buttigieg-diet-iowa-election

warning cursed images

Rosario Dawson eats fish!?

36 hours of IPAs, Dairy Queen, and pad thai on the road to the 2020 election

Hipster Runoff

Buttigieg often begins his stump speech by asking voters to imagine the sun rising on the day that Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States.

I hate this shit, it reminds me of how GOP politicians pander

Founders All Day IPA is watery piss and Founders are a bunch of racists who are selling out to a conglomerate, in short, Pete is lame and isn’t paying attention to the issues that matter.

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/2019/10/21/founders-brewing-company-racial-discrimination-case-tracy-evans/4056515002/

And Lagunitas belongs to Heineken FFS.

I didn't know that about Founders, because I'm apparently not paying attention to the issues that matter

Pete's press secretary did their job. Pete gets some People magazine-style free publicity where he gets to look roughly human, while reminding voters he is not 80 years old. Plus, doing it all without having to address any of those tiresome policy issues that people hate to think about.

Buttigieg often begins his stump speech by asking voters to imagine the sun rising

hate it when politicians just talk about themselves

xpost also Buttigieg having Bulleit around seems side-eye too.