2020 Democratic presidential primary

what about him?

got curious about what he was up to these days:

#GenderReveal #NewVideo #MatisyahuLive pic.twitter.com/Rvbiz54hcR

— Matisyahu (@matisyahu) November 5, 2019

kinda feel like gender reveal parties are a top 1000 worst thing in the world

as is matisyahu

It continues to amuse me that people attribute Dean's demise to the scream and not to the fact that extremely online support grossly inflated people's expectations of his performance.

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, November 11, 2019 10:23 AM bookmarkflaglink

The scream lost my support...for it was a 'false metal' scream

Maureen Dowd on Trump and Bloomberg made my eyes bleed and my brain shrivel.

gamechanger: Don Blankenship is running for president, via the Constitution Party

i t ' s h a p p e n i n g https://t.co/j4YoZ89YOG pic.twitter.com/62ZJdn8QHs

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 11, 2019

Sure that isn't Michael Showalter

The coldness toward Biden and Bloomberg here (which I share) is interesting. There must be a kind of Democrat who wants guys like this, but yet they do command some support.

It's like the old Pauline Kael thing: I don't know anyone who wants this sort of candidate, but they apparently exist. Because these candidates keep appearing.

Welcome to the bubble y'all

I know lots of mods who like this.

These people also have "Truth lies somewhere in the middle" and "If anything can go well, it will" bumper stickers

i will FP the shit out of any mod who likes this, i don't care what the consequences are

"If anything can go well, it will"

...in a cosmology with infinite dimensions, and we have an infinitesimally small chance of belonging to the dimension where it goes well

#bumperstickersthatwrapallthewayaroundtheelcamino

Lol at my unfortunate abbreviation.

There must be a kind of Democrat who wants guys like this

These are mostly apolitical sorts whose ideas are a vague - and often sentimental - mishmash informed by impressions gathered off of mass media and fading memories of a few formative personal experiences. They hang suspended between their desire for a better world and their innate fear of change.

they also love Forrest Gump

I don't think apolitical sorts really gaf? I think these are mostly affluent older people who are "professionals" and do follow politics and read articles in the Economist.

Actually I do know one older lady who is pretty progressive in general but is "Ridin' with Biden" because she has a visceral terror of a Trump reelection. And what she does with that terror is to shut down any consideration of a candidate who doesn't already have gobs of name recognition and national-level government experience. Also national polling shows Biden way ahead of Trump, and that looks like an argument in his favor.

I guess I sympathize with her - kinda - the sort of person who felt very badly burned by 2016 (as were we all) but who has a severely limited imagination about what to do to avoid the same disappointment again.

So not apolitical, just seeing things through a very limited PTSD lens.

Biden has in the neighborhood of 20% support. Buttigeig has something near 12%. I don't imagine there are nearly enough 'mostly affluent older people who are "professionals" and do follow politics and read articles in the Economist' to account for these numbers. Bloomberg, otoh, would appeal to some of those democrats, but he made his rep nationally by strong support for gun control and I think that is probably a significant factor in his early 4% number.

mayor pete is more in the neighborhood of 7-8%

bloomberg has been very good on climate change. he has stuck his neck out for it multiple times and put a lot of $ behind it as well. but sanders and warren are both very strong on climate as well.

The Gabbard campaign’s demand for an apology from Hillary Clinton includes the text they want her to deliver, including "I support and admire the work that Congresswoman Gabbard has done and will continue to do." pic.twitter.com/RldwBFp5cj

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 11, 2019

Being criticised by Clinton easily the best thing that happened to her candidacy (people really hate Hillary!!!) and she obviously knows it

Too bad she can't stop herself from tipping over into "I will shoot one hostage every hour until my demands are met" territory. Yep, she'd make an awesome president.

ok from a very deep catalogue of weird shit this person has said and sone, this demand is...right up there

I really want to make a "Tulsi Gabbneb" joke but it only scans metrically

i moved house this week and someone on my new block has tulsi yard signs (?!)

i notice there are only 8 stars in don blankenship's flag, is he trying to tell us something

he seems nice

There's more in that profile that's worth talking about, some of which has been reported elsewhere. I haven't been able to find it online, but if you have access to a newspaper database you might be able to track it down. The Daily Telegraph, June 2001 https://t.co/bBxFEAlgJH pic.twitter.com/RLmY7arZSc

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 11, 2019

after really far too much speculation

I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia, where the military, after weeks of political unrest, intervened to remove President Evo Morales. The U.S. must call for an end to violence and support Bolivia’s democratic institutions.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 11, 2019

it does look like there was a coup, it also looks like Morales tried to rig the election

^^^ Yeah, this is kind of a no-heroes situation. Morales was clearly well down the road to president-for-life authoritarianism, but the people who are going to run Bolivia now are likely to be an old-school right-wing junta straight out of the 80s.

Actually I do know one older lady who is pretty progressive in general but is "Ridin' with Biden"

There must be a kind of Democrat who wants guys like this,

I think one thing the discussion on the board really demonstrates is that there are.... not very many old people here? There are a few, I know. But my impression is that old people (e.g. a case I know well: my mom) are very pro-Biden. Not because they think he's more electable, not because they are holding their nose and imagining the white diner-eaters in the Midwest swinging to him, because they really really like Joe Biden as a person ("a good man") just like they really really like Barack Obama, and they see a Biden Administration as not very different from the Obama Administration, and on that last point are they really wrong? I know lots of people who see the Obama administration as fatally compromised, too centrist, too tied up with business and McKinsey. But I think it's impossible to reasonably SURPRISED that a huge chunk of U.S. Democrats, especially older people, do not see it this way and think the Obama Administration was great.

At a buddy's birthday gathering on Saturday, two of my liberal, erudite older friends -- a married couple, retired newspaper reporters, in their mid sixties -- like Warren but "wanna win," so Biden -- for now -- has their firm support.

We keep forgetting that we follow this shit every day.

i remain skeptical that this declining version of joe biden could even beat trump after a general election campaign that rigorously exposes his cognitive decline

campaign would be a dodder-off

NEWS: @DevalPatrick is considering a last-minute entry into the presidential race

And his Mass allies are already putting out feelers in early states.

Decision imminent: NH filing deadline is Friday https://t.co/0ZfjyK2Zdc

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 11, 2019

oh come on

tbh I'm considering throwing my hat in the ring, the country is clearly clamoring for someone, anyone - maybe a nobody like me! - to finally shake things up

can anyone lend me a few billion dollars

you'll shakey things up!

look folks, here's the deal, hard working middle class Americans are sick and tired of a system that's rigged against them. They want common-sense solutions that work for them. Which is why, when I'm President, on my first day in office, we will round up America's billionaires, grind them up into dogfood, and have their wealth re-distributed by dropping $100 bills out of airplanes all across this great land of ours. God bless America!

I too am considering a last-minute entry into the Presidential race, if only to protect the nation's billionaires, truly our nation's most cherished endangered species.

Xpost campaign song?

my campaign song is "Never Say Never Again" by the Bee Gees

Asked about what change he is proudest of seeing over the course of his career, Joe Biden says: “Leading the fight to change how women are treated in America."

— Matt Viser (@mviser) November 12, 2019

oh for sure man

an active imagination, that Biden fellow

It's no longer acceptable for creeps in positions of power to sniff their hair.

While campaigning in Iowa, @JulianCastro says:

“We can't say to black women “oh thank you, you are the ones empowering our victories,” and then turn around and start our nominating contests in two states that have barely any black people in them." pic.twitter.com/8M3rKvqpzr

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) November 12, 2019

I like Castro

me too, rip fidel

okay, just hear me out

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