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

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

it gives me life, the life that only death can bring

Alexandra Petri captures the absurdity of the NYT endorsement:

In 2020, American voters must choose among several visions of the future. There is a serious debate going on in the Democratic Party about what is wrong with the country and what needs to be done to fix it.

And I, for one, am not going to take a stance on that debate.

Should we be realists? Should we be radicals? Should we be neither radical nor realistic? Yes, yes and yes!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/20/break-tradition-i-am-endorsing-all-12-democratic-candidates

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F416E9GEH1KL.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

I’m more than ready for this to end. Here’s my ranking of candidates by chronological order of muting their names on Twitter because of their obnoxious supporters:

1. “Yang”
2. “Bernie” (also muted “Sanders” to block tweets from “Never Trump” Republicans)
3. “Pete”
4. “Warren” (also muted “🐍” to capture people not muted by “Bernie”).

This was tweet that was responsible for me muting “Warren:”

Get yourself a Warren man instead. #Men4Warren pic.twitter.com/K8CdVcwFSf

— MenForWarren (@men_warren) January 18, 2020

As someone invested in NBA Twitter, muting 🐍 was an extremely difficult decision.

laughing my ass off at that picture right now

i'd avoided having to mute warren until this weekend

They were obviously begging to give it to Bloomberg but he wouldn't participate in their reality competition show for the funniest possible reason https://t.co/R9EbFwLtwi pic.twitter.com/huSXCjVDpn

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) January 20, 2020

My Twitter feed gives me way more Trump nonsense than anything about any of the Democrats, mostly because people still seem to think they can dunk on Trump on Twitter

Another reading of the NY Times' polycephalous endorsement, as Biden continues his sleepwalk to the likely nomination, is that it's really an endorsement of Klobuchar for VP.

I can't see that happening, he's gonna have to try to loop in progressives somehow

Warren and Sanders have been chatting and occasionally laughing a good portion of their march arm in arm to Dome. pic.twitter.com/QiI9Qah74G

— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) January 20, 2020

What Dome?????

a respite before their deathmatch at the thunder dome

Amy Klobuchar has voted to confirm more than half of Trump’s judicial nominees

bipartisanship!

I can't see that happening, he's gonna have to try to loop in progressives somehow

That's not how the establishment thinks. See also: VP nominee Tim Kaine.

who?

I think you mean quien

AOC/Tim Kaine's Antifa Son 2028

whoa did not know about Kaine's son!

P nominee Tim Kaine

an object lesson in why they won't do that again

Biden doesn't learn

If they didn't learn the Joe Lieberman lesson in 2000 they're not going to learn it now.

Biden will pick Doug Jones or something.

"He can win in a red state [against a pedophile]!"

I don't think it was as obvious in 2016 that Clinton needed to court voters to her left, especially not when the historic nature of her candidacy was itself branded as progressive. The calculus for picking Kaine was clearly let's get a boring white guy from the South to appease voters who might be uneasy about the bold choice of putting a woman at the top of the ticket. It seems far more accepted in 2020 that Biden's failure to appeal to progressives is a serious liability and that a VP pick would need to be someone who can stand in contrast to his centrism.