2020 Democratic presidential primary

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.

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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.

if he can't turnout the black vote and the youth vote, he's essentially worthless. Biden can at least claim one of those.

they'll worry about that later, after they're done capturing the lukewarm vanilla pudding vote.

not terribly worried about his thin resume if he were to go head to head donald trump. the proper response would be "yeah, the other guy is donald fucking trump, go fuck yourself" ...unfortunately i don't see Pete mustering that, but maybe that's another convo.

i am however baffled by the dorks i count among my friends who are falling for this guy. all i can chalk it up to are that a couple of them have, or will have, a nice chunk of change at some point. also, "mayor pete looks, sounds, and thinks a lot like me and I'd make a really good president" def rings true.

just because the other candidate is an unqualified idiot doesn't mean it's okay for us to run our own unqualified idiot!

oh i agree. i just don't think that's what would sink him against trump.

i'm afraid a lot of people are looking for Obama 2.0 and Pete--depsite whatever brains or talent he may possess--just ain't that. not by a long shot.

also tbh Obama 2.0 doesn't seem like a silver bullet in 2020

Current president of Ukraine’s prior experience consisted of playing the president of Ukraine on TV. Current president of Iceland was a history professor. Vaclav Havel was a playwright and dissident before becoming president. I guess maybe that’s more common in smaller countries.

No one is qualified to be the most powerful person on the planet.

some people are less qualified than others

Not really. There's not another job (in or out of government) comparable to being President. Clinton and Bush were both multi-term governors (the closest job, maybe) and were complete disasters out of the gate.

"Qualified" is just a cover for "I do or don't like" this person or their policies. It's bullshit - nothing that's horrible about Trump has happened because he's 'unqualified,' it's because he's a monster with monstrous policies.

I don't agree w that at all

majority of Trump's foreign policy disasters are based on some combo of his total ignorance of how foreign policy works + his monstrous policies, they work in tandem to ensure that he gets taken advantage of by savvier leaders of foreign countries like Erdogan and Putin and Kim Jong Un.

yeah, though to be fair it is increasingly difficult to separate indifference to governing with ideology/'policy'

Trump's foreign policy has been far less disastrous than what we've gotten (or would have gotten, ie if Bolton had his way) from 'qualified' Republicans.

I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals

you wanted an example of the impacts of being unqualified, I cited some

I consider his policy to the undocumented a "foreign policy disaster."

trump's drone policy is a human rights nightmare that basically no one ever talks about

*trump holds deck of disaster in hands, introduces concept of 'disaster 52 pick-up', figures out personally profitable angles*

xxp - but those aren't the "impacts of being unqualified" they're the impacts of being a Republican and if anything they've been blunted by his ineffectualness.