Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

Almost makes me feel like they should have just gone ahead and endorsed Booker in a "You fools won't listen what does it matter" kind of spirit.

Ms. Warren often casts the net far too wide, placing the blame for a host of maladies from climate change to gun violence at the feet of the business community when the onus is on society as a whole. The country needs a more unifying path.

omfg

would it be more or less unifying to place the blame for climate change on society as a whole

There will be those dissatisfied that this page is not throwing its weight behind a single candidate, favoring centrists or progressives. But it’s a fight the party itself has been itching to have since Mrs. Clinton’s defeat in 2016, and one that should be played out in the public arena and in the privacy of the voting booth. That’s the very purpose of primaries, to test-market strategies and ideas that can galvanize and inspire the country.

Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren right now are the Democrats best equipped to lead that debate.

May the best woman win.

did the nyt editorial board just make a verb out of test-market

The embarrassing breakdown of NYT Editorial Board members' "top two candidates" picks - 30 votes in total - are as follows:

Warren: 8
Klobuchar: 7
Booker: 6
Buttigieg: 4
Biden: 3
Sanders: 1
Bloomberg: 1

— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) January 20, 2020

"Many Democratic voters are concerned first and foremost about who can beat Mr. Trump. But with a crowded field and with traditional polling in tatters, that calculation calls for a hefty dose of humility about anyone’s ability to foretell what voters want."

haha, ok then. i'm going to bed

The NYT opinion page is broken beyond repair.

lame bourgeois fux gonna bourgeois fuck

It's pretty hilarious. They think both Bernie and Biden are too old, but 'good news!' there's someone else ready to take over as leader of that wing of the party. Except with Klobuchar it's clearly not true, she is absolutely nowhere in the polls. They are just trying to will a centrist standard bearer into existence, because, well, they would like for it to seem like centrism isn't completely debunked. It's the definition of insanity.

This is not a serous intellectual exercise. This is the losers of history, grappling for relevancy..

So, I guess @AmyKlobuchar and I are now both undefeated in elections and undefeated in New York Times endorsements! https://t.co/8848fMGc16

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) January 20, 2020

'In conclusion, the Democratic primary field is a study in contrasts.'

"Something dumb like that" is the winner https://t.co/2dx97F2GFV

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 20, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY

It’s probably just my own faulty memory, but can anyone remember the media collectively trying this hard to will a candidate into existence in the past? AMY KLOBUCHAR IS NOT GOING TO BE PRESIDENT.

lol tracer

This is seriously demented. One that you can have it both ways. Two that EW is “radical." pic.twitter.com/iv5xQ3lmBQ

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 20, 2020

just wanna give a shout-out to karl's expertly nightmarish #klobuchar2020 gif from upthread, which is an accurate summary of my immediate reaction to the nyt's endorsement

this could only have been topped by a Booker endorsement after he dropped out

KM's gif would give David Lynch nightmares.

Love to affirm the realist model with a candidate who has no realistic chance of winning.

look she might have never have even come close to cracking double digits in the primary polling but i'm backing amy klobuchar for president because [unintelligible]

this is great

Also a possibility

Betcha anything that the NYT Ed. Board itself overwhelmingly chose Warren, but Sulzberger, who has the last word, couldn't abide that so insisted they dilute the value of the endorsement by also giving it to the corporate, non-viable Dem Klobuchar.

And this is why plutocracy sux

— Kathleen Geier (@Kathy__Gee) January 20, 2020

That's not the case, if the vote breakdown I spotted somewhere is accurate.

(I don't remember all the specifics, except that Warren and the Klobberer got 7 apiece. Bernie got 1, presumably Liz Bruenig if she got a vote.)

opinion columnists don't have seats on the editorial board apparently

warren got 8 in that breakdown. klob still inexplicably 7

vote breakdown is upthread, apparently EW got 8 to Klobber's 7

as someone asked, why would Bernie want the NYT's endorsement?

the klobmentum is palpable

oh durr I missed that it was already posted

obv she threatened them with a klobbering

Wasn't the vote "who are your top 2"? I can see Klobuchar being a viable 2nd choice for the NYT editorial board demographic

opinion columnists don't have seats on the editorial board apparently

― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Monday, January 20, 2020 9:02 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Opinion columnists do. Op-ed columnists don't.

possibly the only context in which it makes sense to refer to her as "viable" (except maybe "viable threat to low-level staffers") xp

Here's who's on the board:

Serge Schmemann, Charlie Warzel, Jesse Wegman, Lauren Kelley, Brent Staples, Kathleen Kingsbury, Jeneen Interlandi, John Broder, James Dao, Nick Fox, Aisha Harris, Alex Kingsbury, Binyamin Appelbaum, Mara Gay, Michelle Cottle

I wanna know who cast the lone Bernie vote

"fuck you, it's Booker" is honestly the only result I would find more enjoyable than what they actually did

NYT endorses two sets of capitalist bones shockah

they've also endorsed every war Sanders has voted against

"fuck you, it's Booker" is honestly the only result I would find more enjoyable than what they actually did

it's astonishing and/or hilarious how close they came to backing booker

And the only sets of capitalist bones to boot. How could they!

"Now We're Serious!"

Booker would definitely have been the funniest option.

i'd post my klobuchar gif on twitter but i'm afraid that her legion of fans would get mad and...oh wait, none of her supporters are on twitter, i have nothing to fear

i guess i'll post it if she ever reaches 7% in a poll

rip to our chances of ever seeing that gif on twitter then, smdh

post it karl!!!

you should also post it here again bc it slipped under the cut

you're right, i should just post it every 3 hours so it never goes away

https://i.imgur.com/hjXRJUO.gif

long live the new flesh