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

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

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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.

It seems far more accepted in 2020 that Biden's failure to appeal to progressives is a serious liability

Accepted by whom? The Democratic Party thinks ol' Joe is the goddamn savior. The press wants fucking Klobuchar. For these people, "failure to appeal to progressives" is the very quality they're after.

The press wants fucking Klobuchar.

Six people at the New York Times are not the entirety of the press.

it's definitely true that many ppl in the press have tried to make her A Thing

Chuck Todd in November:

"There's only one running mate for him... It's the same running mate Joe Biden has to pick and it's the same running mate Pete Buttigieg has to pick. It's Stacey Abrams, by the way," Todd told the panel. "There's nobody else that Bloomberg can match up to beat out someone in this nomination than Stacey Abrams."

Todd added, "I think he has to have a person of color. I think he needs diversity on the ticket, person of color."

Now, Abrams isn't a socialist or anything, but Todd (who seems to embody dumb pundit-class conventional wisdom) at least acknowledges that a safe white guy isn't the way to go.

Chuck Todd has also repeatedly said things like "But don't forget about Amy Klobuchar!" or "What about Amy Klobuchar?" when MTP panels start to get too excited about Warren or Sanders for his taste. Believe me, he's one of her biggest media boosters.

the candidate i think is really interesting is that senator from vermont. bernie sanders, i think.

Are you quoting from Pete Buttigieg's Profile in Courage essay?

huh hadn't read this before. kind of an interesting time capsule -- in the first paragraph he says cynicism and apathy are the main problems in american politics. today i guess high schoolers would talk about paranoid rage and information warfare and online radicalization

He was an old millennial reacting against Gen X values.

the quiet part loud

Word to God, I actually think this is Biden's biggest hidden strength. I think after nearly 4 years of Trump, the country is going to be ready to zone out and Biden can give us that. I'm 100% serious. https://t.co/ltCST7iiXV

— Liz Mair (@LizMair) January 15, 2020

Bernie apologizing to Biden for an op-ed Zephyr Teachout wrote once again making clear this has been a kids' glove primary. Which has been great news for Biden.

this has been a kids' glove primary.

the campaign is young. iowa hasn't even caucused, yet. By late March, we'll see how gently the survivors are playing with each other. By the time it's down to two or three apparently viable candidates the odds are they won't be aiming to inflict shallow paper cuts and light scratches on each other. They'll still joust as cleanly as they can - but they'll look to draw blood and maybe break a bone of two.

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 Dem establishment's assumption is that progressives will have to suck it up and vote for the candidate - and if left doesn't (or... even if they do and the candidate loses anyway) they get even more reason to punch left on a regular basis.