2020 Democratic presidential primary

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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Mayor Kate wears too much blush

help

i think i’m all ready for high strung arguments over whether iowa being first in primaries was more responsible than russians, hills, zuck, or divine justice for trump being preznit, good times. (i like castro and think the position is fine, it’s a hierarchy of needs thing in my head).

It's a good point but seems a little strange coming from a candidate in the late stages of a losing campaign.

Trump lost in Iowa?

And yeah, it's a very good point, although the two first primaries being so white unfortunately helps Warren and Sanders, and hurts Biden, this year. In the long run it's good for centrists like Buttigieg.

i like the idea of telling steve king or the grassley mummy that iowa that it is not representative of america enuf to go first.

I like Deval Patrick and all but dude, come on

the bros are at it again

Bernie Sanders will pick up an endorsement this week from National Nurses United, the country’s biggest nurses union and a key ally in his fight for “Medicare for all” https://t.co/8DwGvDT9yv

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 12, 2019

<3

the two first primaries being so white unfortunately helps Warren and Sanders, and hurts Biden, this year.

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Mayor Pete surging in IA. I truly don't understand why he's got the wind at his sails all of a sudden. I guess maybe it's just one or two states and perhaps his team is just objectively doing a good job of getting him support.

he has been doing a Beto-barnstorming thing in Iowa for months now plus he is young, white and squeaky clean

although I do think it's baffling that anyone thinks a kid mayor like this is remotely qualified

white men, failing upward yet again

I've got a couple of otherwise reasonable friends (Latin, naturally) who think he's got it. As Nas said, it ain't hard to tell.

I'm really not eager to find out the extent to which right-wing media is willing to dog-whistle homophobia in 2019 if Pete ends up the nominee.

to be clear, I'm mostly not eager for that possibility because I don't want him to be the nominee because he mostly sucks.

I do think it's baffling that anyone thinks a kid mayor like this is remotely qualified

people who aren't remotely qualified, but who think "mayor pete looks, sounds, and thinks a lot like me and I'd make a really good president". he's a pure Wendell Willkie play on the part of centrist 'status quo' kingmakers in the moneyed democrat establishment.