2020 Democratic presidential primary

we have a criminal living in the white house. everyone was in the loop

Nobody wants to talk about working w Republicans at least

more talk about peeing on Republicans would be nice

Harris goin in on Gabbard is gratifying

think gabbard’s gonna fuck off after tonight’s debate

good

Oh god the threat if AI someone save us

Yang cracks me up

Fact check:

Steven Seagal IS

Above The Law

this is not much of a "debate" is it

Nope

kind of impossible to do w/ 10 ppl on the fuckin stage

finally a climate change question... for Tulsi Gabbard!

She’ll get to the bottom of it!

oh boy someone is about to get a lot of twitter comments

I was thrown for a minute when Biden mentioned a million wiggers in concentration camps in China.

Oh cool is warren about to bring back the draft? Wtf w this nonsense question

Oh god the AI thing again?!? I’m out

I was thrown for a minute when Biden mentioned a million wiggers in concentration camps in China.

Oh cool is warren about to bring back the draft? Wtf w this nonsense question

I guess that is basically the right pronunciation. I'd been saying something more like "Ooh-ger" in my head. xp
Actually Biden is pretty strong when talking about foreign policy, esp. in comparison to e.g. Yang.

lol Booker on Biden's wanting weed illegal

"I thought you were high when you said it."

booker has had some good energy tonight imo

Lol Biden fucking this up

it's been a good debate for Booker & Harris I think

Yah

Can’t believe anyone can stand to listen to these freaks talk

it's how i quietly deal with my trump derangement syndrome

Fair enough

Booker apparently got a donation bump, not sure about Harris

also

"Biden. I wouldn't say he was a house of fire in any of the debates that we've been to," Axelrod said of the top-tier Democratic hopeful's debate performances.

"And yet he comes, kind of bumps along, kind of Mr. Magooing his way through this," he added, referring to the popular cartoon character known for being nearly blind.

A little shocked no one really went in on Pete for endorsement-gate.

The McKinsey stuff and his spotty record as mayor are a little harder to condense into an ADHD media-sized bite but this one seems like an easy mark.

a little surprised cable news hasn’t made more hay of it

lol j/k not really

I wouldn't say he was a house of fire

A mistranscription by someone who doesn't know it's "house afire", since afire is such an archaic word now.

without a direct question about it I'm not sure how any of his opponents could've worked it in

xp

i suspect pete is very hard to run against because a lot of the people who like him, like the general idea that he is very nice and smiley and "above politics" and "not divisive," and these same people interpret any kind of critique or challenge as "being divisive."

he's only hard to run against because apparently no one in the mainstream media cares to hold him accountable for stuff like his dumbass college tweet or the endorsement thing

probably discussed upthread, but the Quinnipiac poll from Monday found 0% support for buttigieg among african-american voters in South Carolina.

xp what's the endorsement thing? just how he doesn't have any?

here's the first line of the story from NYT today:

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has 154 endorsements from current or former black or Hispanic elected officials. Senator Kamala Harris has 93. Senator Bernie Sanders has 91. Senator Cory Booker has 50. Senator Elizabeth Warren has 43.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg has six.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-black-voters.html

i suspect pete is very hard to run against because a lot of the people who like him, like the general idea that he is very nice and smiley and "above politics" and "not divisive," and these same people interpret any kind of critique or challenge as "being divisive."

yes, these are the nice friendly smiley democratic voters who live in an area that is almost entirely white and don't support the idea of reparations

There is only two real candidates

what's the endorsement thing

google "Mayor Pete Douglass Plan"

yikes, i see what simon means about mainstream media not picking this up. the most reputable news source on the google results is newsweek (yikes), which leads with a paragraph highlighting what the Black Voters for Trump organization thinks about the situation....

but yeah, that seems bad! hopefully that'll bring him down a bit. i also noticed, in last night's debate, an exchange between harris and buttigieg regarding something buttigieg did that recently required an apology to harris, but she kind of talked around it. seems like SC is a bit of a problem for him

yeah the news trail is interesting - afaict Intercept first picked up that it was a lot of non-endorsements, and then the right-wing mediasphere picked that up and ran with it while most mainstream outlets buried it.

(full disclosure, this is the first time I've ever seen the Intercept break any actual information)

an exchange between harris and buttigieg regarding something buttigieg did that recently required an apology to harris

this was the Kenyan stock photo thing that Ilhan Omar called Mayor Pete out on

the general gist of both "stories" is Pete does not know any black people

except for the police chief that he fired because the chief was outing racists on his own force

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/18/pete-buttigieg-black-american-douglass-plan-kenyan-photo/

(full disclosure, this is the first time I've ever seen the Intercept break any actual information)

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what lol