2020 Democratic presidential primary

we have a corrupt game show host as president. buttigieg as president would be a relief

nonetheless I do think someone more qualified would've seen through Putin, or Erdogan or Jong Un's machinations (and we know that relatively qualified people in the State Dept *did* see through those machinations, but Trump ignored them).

Greta Buttigieg?

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.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 2:13 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, November 12, 2019 2:14 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

these people seem to be overlooking everything that made Obama an exceptional and electable politician

Yeah I’m afraid that Obama may have done to my generation what Reagan did to my parents’, if that makes sense.

Has anyone tried "Buttigieg Lord" yet?

... to the tune of "Jubilee Cloud" i assume

NEW: Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is telling friends and allies in phone calls today he has made a decision to run for the Democratic nomination for president, two people familiar with the matter tell @CNN, and is poised to make it official by Friday or sooner.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) November 13, 2019

goddammit Deval

weird way to thank Warren for the plug she gave him the other week

I predict he enters the race with commanding poll numbers of ... 3%

dang, was hoping he was included in this poll. still a change for Duckworth, Kaine, O'Malley and Grimes to jump in i guess

I am currently against this idea, but if he takes the stage in a glittering robe and chants "It's after the end of the world, don't you know that yet?" I may change my mind.

(For those who don't know, Deval Patrick's father was a baritone saxophonist and longtime member of the Sun Ra Arkestra.)

continuing the trend of 2020 candidates being the lame, square offspring of cool parents

^^^god yes

Joe Biden's dad killed Hitler

beat him like a drum iirc

holy shit joe biden’s dad was hitler???

look folks, here's the deal, it was a different time back then, you had to be able to reach across the aisle and say "hey, let's get this done", he's proud of what they got to achieve by working together with reasonable Nazis

I predict he enters the race with commanding poll numbers of ... 3%

i'm going with 2% (+/- 2% MOE)

i didn't even know Moe Two-Percent was running

loool

NEW: Leon Cooperman has responded to Elizabeth Warren's ad. "She’s disgraceful. She doesn’t know who the f--- she’s tweeting. I gave away more in the year then she has in her whole f----ing lifetime” he just told me. https://t.co/8g6VEY3sVl

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) November 13, 2019

I love how rich people think that's a good argument! I had a boss who told me once "I paid more in taxes last year than your whole salary." Uh. Good?

I’m sure Leon has given away more money than most of us will earn in our freaking lives. That’s the problem, not the defense
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^^^

I love how rich people think that's a good argument!

lol yeah it's remarkable that these guys don't get how attacking Warren actually works in her favor.

“As king, i have pardoned more than twenty of the thousand men that my courts sentenced to death. How many men’s lives have YOU saved?”

reads a lot like the common defense of Jeff Bezos "but he's created so many jobs!!"

I was just searching if anyone has developed a logarithmic scale (or similar) that would measure magnitudes of personal wealth and Bloomberg just did recently. But it kind of sucks. Maybe because it's still difficult for most people to visualize. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/everyone-has-a-wealth-number-what-s-yours

Leon Cooperman's quip reminds me of something Ric Flair would say

we all agree with that shit but 48% of the electorate sympathises with these billionaire assholes

Not really, the wealth tax has a supermajority of support IIRC.

oh... oh no

Bernie would never ask his supporters to debase themselves by doing this. pic.twitter.com/pSS55mQXNV

— matt (@burgoonm) November 14, 2019

he should try flash mobs next

That's EXACTLY the kind of shit we had to do in public for City Year, so hey, Pete continues to be the candidate of cutesy, culty neoliberalism.

to be fair, pete's supporters are precisely corny enough to come up with something like this on their own

Centrists have lost their freaking minds

It will be kind of funny with all these centrists jumping in late when Biden still wins this in a walk.

I really don't want to dampen the enthusiasm of young people engaged with the political process but I can feel my face melting from projected rage and embarrassment

these Pete fans kind of remind me of the young Lamar Alexander supporters in Iowa back in '96.

somewhere around must also be the ghost of Mike Doonesbury, listlessly cheering at the back of a Steve Forbes rally that year and wondering why it doesn't feel quite like the 60s anymore

"didn't have a dime but i always had a vision" eh

New from me: Pete Buttigieg touted 3 major South Carolina supporters of his Douglass Plan for Black America. They were “alarmed” when they saw it. https://t.co/8zxmNwGcVN

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 15, 2019

Deval Patrick implicated in covering up some sexual assault shit. Why is he running again?

Warren backing off M4A.

In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state's Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993.

In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape. 1/https://t.co/dPbQ6ElSml

— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) November 14, 2019

vile.

Warren backing off M4A.

― akm, Friday, November 15, 2019 11:15 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/article237402154.html

won't push for it until the third year of her administration.

I think she announced a phase-in

"Elizabeth Warren announced Friday that she won’t immediately push to give every American government-funded health care and instead will work to oversee passage of a sweeping “Medicare for All” program by the end of her third year if elected president — a significant step away from a plan she’s long championed.

The Massachusetts Democratic senator released a health care transition plan that vows to build on existing programs, including the Obama administration’s signature Affordable Care Act, to expand public health insurance during her first 100 days in office. That’s different than sticking fully with a “public option” over a government-run system, which is backed by Warren’s more moderate presidential candidate rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden.

Warren then says she’ll work with Congress to pass pieces of a universal coverage proposal more gradually, with the whole thing being ready “no later than” her third year in office."

not that I disagree with this approach but this is going to piss a lot of people off.

Anyone think it could take a year?