2020 Democratic presidential primary

Like I said.

ya ya yeh

Mayor Pete's all in on embracing the stern, but fair, wisdom of Mr. Potter of Bedford Falls.

The full exchange:

I heard you hadn't read anything that caused you physical pain recently pic.twitter.com/96JVROvTIP

— whole genius (@jaubert_moniker) December 12, 2019

Unless he was fed that line (which I guess it'd be idotic to bet against), that's the first thing he's ever said that made me think he might actually be gay.

from the people who brought you “Pokémon Go to the Polls”

Nominees pointing out that a DNA test does not matter into determining Nominee ancestry

something something warren something something

actually the test said 100% a snitch

Biden and Buttigieg would nominate Federalist Society-approved hacks to the SCOTUS just to appease a Republican Senate and then brag about how they got stuff done by working with both sides. They aren’t running against the GOP in any meaningful way at all, they’re just running against Trump and Bernie.

if it came down to it, would anyone on this thread vote for buttigieg over biden in a primary?

man, i hadn't even considered that could happen. I assume it'll be progressive vs establishment in the primaries

ah the classic "shit or piss" conundrum

in like 2017, my guess was biden/warren as the ticket and i suppose that could still happen

I would go with Biden tbh because of the increased odds that he will die in office and a younger/better VP would assume the presidency

tough question. Might slightly prefer Biden for better-the-devil-you-know reasons

also Biden knows a few black people

I would reregister as an independent

i would stay home but biden, that's how much i hate pete

I would go with Biden tbh because of the increased odds that he will die in office and a younger/better VP would assume the presidency

― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:41 PM (two minutes ago)

raises the specter of a Biden/Buttigieg ticket

biden/kaine please

That just sounds like a prescription medication that comes with a lot of warnings

bidocaine

i'm skeptical that there would be material differences between their presidencies, but i hate buttigieg more on a personal level.

yeah that about covers it

maybe i'm missing some angles but Pete seems like a terrifyingly likely veep for Biden.

president pete even if he governed the same as biden would be more damaging long-term as a symbol of the party and what's possible. biden winning is like well ok unsurprising, he's old and well-liked and white people thought he'd appeal to other white people and beat trump.... not much more of a message to take away from it. pete winning would be like "the future face of the democratic party," and it's a cocktail of irrelevant center-right means-testing and reaching across the aisles and blah blah blah... barf

I would 100% vote for Biden over Pete Butts in the primary.

Same. I like my neoliberalism on the bumbling side.

Buttigieg definitely comes with 100% more malarkey

I think I marginally prefer Buttigieg because I can see him governing like a Trudeau or Macron, which is comparatively not bad in the present world climate. I have a hard time even imagining Biden governing anything.

the worst thing about Buttigieg is ppl would mistake his bullshit for something new

yes

yes

at least Bill's craven centrism had at least Reaganism to respond to.

Buttigieg talks as if he woke up, smacked his lips, said hello to Chastity or whatever his husband's name is, and thought it was 1995 and he didn't have to deal with seething leftist activists

American Macron is a nightmare scenario, that's how you get President David Duke in 2024

at least Justin Trudeau never thought TV anchor hair from 1985 was hot.

Buttigieg definitely comes with 100% more malarkey

you may be using the metric system or sumthin

if Biden becomes prez, it's all over, just a little more slowly

American Macron is a nightmare scenario, that's how you get President David Duke in 2024

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, December 12, 2019 8:33 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm, the macrons and trudeaus of the world are the neoliberal black holes that suck in the racist demagogues

Afaict, both of them kept racist demagogues out of power.

I strongly prefer Sanders and Warren tbc!

Buttigeig appears to have no core values or principles and his emerging campaign 'agenda' is so content-free that putting him in the highest office in the nation would be "buying a pig in a poke", an unknown quantity who has done not one thing to earn our trust. His nickname should be "Mystery Meat".

Biden's agenda seems even more content-free to me tbh.

there once was a mayor named pete
whose platform was mystery meat
his court stuffing plan
was underwhelming and bland
and the rest of his ideas smelled like feet

Booty's a Let's Make a Deal candidate, just more polite than the other guy(s)

I think Joe's "Dems shdn't have too much power" is extreme content

The Supreme Court idea may be bad enough to dq Buttigieg, it's true.

I would go with Biden tbh because of the increased odds that he will die in office and a younger/better VP would assume the presidency

― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:41 PM (two minutes ago)

Biden/HRC - By any means necessary

something I never would have thought even as recently as 3 years ago: the Democratic Party is absolutely going to crack apart before the GOP does. can’t say if that’s good or bad...

The GOP is the true big tent party. As long as you don’t believe in anything, you’re in