2020 Democratic presidential primary

it doesn't matter that the other world leaders make fun of him - that's because he's a genius and they're jealous, etc

sadly and predictably, looks this has already come to pass, this morning:

Conway then argued that she thought that the video from NATO was “a very childish, churlish exchange” given how “they were hardly denouncing him.”

Conway added that the video going viral demonstrates how “people looked at this as they usually do on social media with outsized attention.”

“Oh my god, look what they’re doing — what was it really about?” Conway sarcastically said, before arguing that the world leaders mocked Trump because they are “jealous.”

“It was about the fact that President Trump commands the room and he does,” Conway said. “And maybe that makes a couple of people jealous, and certainly churlish.”

John Kerry has endorsed Biden. I don't know if I'd want to be linked with someone who failed to unseat an unpopular idiot president, but hey...

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commands the room so much that he left early and blew off his press conference.

"I'm not sedentary," Biden said, growing agitated. "You want to check my shape man, let's do pushups together here, man. Let's run. Let's do whatever you want to do. Let's take an IQ test. OK?"

Says everything his campaign has proposed is paid for.

turns out "nothing" is free

Kamala Park in Oxnard is named after a park in Mumbai, India: https://www.latlong.net/place/kamala-park-oxnard-ca-usa-810.html

(which was itself named after Kamala Nehru)

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“My party’s not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much but it’s time for us to start getting into that,” Mayor Pete says in NH

hahah holy shit you little fucking worm

he sucks sooooooooooooooooooo much

the absolute gall of this coming out of ANYONE’S mouth in 2019 (besides an actual republican operating in the worst faith or Fox News mouthpiece) is just breathtaking

I had no idea someone could come along to make Biden look good but wonders apparently never cease

pete "lying mf" buttigieg

jfc

John Kerry has endorsed Biden. I don't know if I'd want to be linked with someone who failed to unseat an unpopular idiot president, but hey...

― blatherskite, Thursday, December 5, 2019

wartime president!

The McKinsey Manchurian

enjoyable post

“It was about the fact that President Trump commands the room and he does,” Conway said.

Is that was Conway calls that pouty, slumping thing Trump does? They really do see him as a muscular Adonis, don't they?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/406953282f7502b87e58df378df4cae433092a0c/0_121_3546_2128/master/3546.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=525bcaada24113dff571df4776effa43

I had assumed Kamala was a type of tree, as it's the "K" street in the tree tract (Ash, Birch, Ceder, Date, etc).

yeah i enjoyed Mayor Pete as a low-polling underdog with a future but as an actual candidate the more he speaks in public the worse it gets. uh, your party is the one that usually gets the financial house in order so that the next republican can wreck it and then complain about the deficit.

See, I told you people that anyone who proudly sports a TV anchor haircut from 1985 would offer DLC bromides.

Yeah I didn’t think it was possible for any of the legit candidates to fall below Biden in my estimation but here we are

meanwhile:

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Thursday calls a man in Iowa a “damn liar” and “fat” and “too old to vote for me” after the man accuses Biden of getting his son Hunter a job with a Ukrainian gas company.

President Donald Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son while withholding military aid.

Biden’s spokeswoman Symone Sanders later claims that Biden said, “Look, facts,” not “Look, fat,” referring to the man.

Sanders and Warren's anger is (rightly) directed at systemic injustices/inequalities and an entire corporate and political apparatus dedicated to entrenching power and wealth. Biden is a centrist buffoon but at least he has anger, albeit (wrongly) directed almost solely at Trump. The only way for Pete to outflank Biden then is to just drop the anger, hence the bromides.

respect for Biden rising

I'm pretty sure "Fats" was in the same doo-wop gang as Corn Pop.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/MinnesotaFats.jpg

The idea of a presidential candidate who isn't Trump saying "Look, Fat" to someone's face is admittedly hilarious

Worth a read:

To my mind, he is the natural end result of a very familiar queer pattern that groomed him for this moment. His religious devotion to mastering the perfect pedigree, his refusal to be single, his denial of any type of popular gay aesthetic (which is, itself, another kind of gay aesthetic) make him legible to me. His academic nerdiness combined with his über-masculine military service is not a genuflection to heteronormativity, as some have claimed, but a familiar gay identity curated among upwardly mobile white gay men who have often turned to politics in one form or another. The only difference is that Schedule Spice is now vying for the presidency.

His academic nerdiness combined with his über-masculine military service is not a genuflection to heteronormativity, as some have claimed, but a familiar gay identity curated among upwardly mobile white gay men who have often turned to politics in one form or another.

lol can you guess who this reminds me of

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/andrew-yang-freedom-dividend-matt-taibbi-katie-halper-useful-idiots-920375/

While “traditional” Democrats scramble to find the right message, Andrew Yang is scoring with the blunt truth

Gotta say I liked that interview, and Yang himself. Definitely would take him over Biden and Butthead.

You’d think they could have found time to address the most persistent left-wing criticism of UBI - that it will get swallowed by rent increases and take away people’s other benefits. Gotta talk about circumcision and why impeachment is actually bad though.

I'd view the Biden ad as psychological provocation aimed at one person, Trump, much like Pelosi's public diagnoses of "imposter syndrome" and the like.

yeah I know he's kind of a gimmick candidate but I like Yang. only person out there talking about legalizing online poker, for one

Pete getting his Grand Bargain to cut entitlements together. More like Obama every day.

(doesn't know McConnell will also refuse to do it with him. or does he?)

too many dealers losing their jobs to automation

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Obama didn't cut entitlements, what is this weird alternate universe you live in

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He wanted to in a Grand Bargain. McConnell basically said "No, we can't let you get credit for that." Do keep up.

If Yang ever woke up and found himself President of the United States, he would flounder and fail so badly that Democrats and independents would soon hate him as much as the Republicans. "Blunt truth" doesn't confer political knowledge or skill.

Obama didn't cut entitlements, what is this weird alternate universe you live in

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― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:36 PM (twenty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

he proposed cutting social security and has cited not getting "entitlement reform" done as the biggest regret of his presidency

Just a year into Obama’s presidency, the White House began to pivot away from fiscal stimulus and toward austerity. The president convened a bipartisan debt reduction commission in February 2010, co-chaired by Morgan Stanley director Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, and former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.), and charged it with forging a fiscal “grand bargain.” That became the catchphrase of choice on the Bowles-Simpson commission — and in budget talks in subsequent years — for a compromise agreement to reduce the long-term debt, through a combination of Social Security and Medicare cuts historically anathema to Democrats and revenue increases and defense cuts hard for Republicans to swallow.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barack-obama-grand-bargain-social-security-expansion_n_5751f92de4b0eb20fa0e0142

Obama didn't cut entitlements, what is this weird alternate universe you live in

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― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:36 PM

he certainly gave it his best shot. remember the "grand bargain" with boehner?

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Shakey puts on his rose-colored Pelosi glasses when he looks back at Racky

omg he assembled some negotiating points what a monster

Christ, yr bullshit

Yang's take on impeachment seems to be pretty bad, though. For one the whole "Senate will acquit anyway" thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, you're essentially telling Republicans "gee if you're really gonna stick with this guy no matter what then I guess there's nothing we can do". If they voted to acquit for purely political reasons, hammer them for it! Trump very clearly broke the law and it's Congress's job to hold him accountable. End of story. Secondly the idea that the Dems aren't getting anything done because of this is...definitely not true. It is a select committee that handles impeachment and there are hundreds of bills stalled on McConnell's desk as we speak but somehow this is a Democrat problem. Funny how I never heard the GOP take shit for this when they chaired nine separate hearings on Benghazi.

do you guys know that when you negotiate it's standard practice to dangle something you you know your opponent wants in order to get them to the table.

and, in this case, it didn't even work, so who gives a shit.

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yeah i remember when extreme leftist pelosi opposed obama's plans

the idea that the Dems aren't getting anything done because of this is...definitely not true

"We've passed 400 bills and Mitch McConnell has refused to vote on any of them" is a pretty simple and straightforward slogan for next year.