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

they want joe cool who fucks and gets drunk, but they have joe FOOL who SUCKS and gets DUNKED

I'm sort of constitutionally wired to dislike Biden's "mayors aren't shit" ad

electroconstitutional crisis

a new WPA but it's for putting pretty lights on bridges across the country

Let's just be thankful Joe hasn't stumbled a certain cinematic chestnut known as Bulworth

This was the first time I heard of the Best Little Boy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/fashion/weddings/mayor-peter-buttigieg-wedding-democratic-party.html

Obama namedropping him was what started this

I will donate to the Biden campaign if he performs "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" in front of a camera.

Before that NYT article about his wedding there was this Frank Bruni column from 2016:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/opinion/sunday/the-first-gay-president.html

Everyone thought young Harold Stassen was a golden lad, destined to be president, too.

as one ages one dngaf about criticism, which may explain the plethora of over-70 candidates

"America is a country. A country that we live in.": https://www.teens4pete.com/?fbclid=IwAR0fDuLwSjO29WZTDbImFHUqXxL8F7cOnU4hsIN3kPpLC_cy0NO2gGOX69I

lolll

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This is the world we live in imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0

Joe's next ad:

"Pete Buttigieg probably eulogized his Marxist dad... I eulogized Strom Thurmond"

http://youtu.be/erlAy21R7P8

erm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlAy21R7P8&feature=youtu.be

ugh never mind. it's pete on stage 'jamming' on keyboard

all my idiot friends are feeling this dude now. cable news has poisoned their brains every bit as much as it has my parents'.

Spotted on Dave Weigel's Twitter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQVmvjKWoAIcj6h.jpg

makes sense, tulsi is a republican

damn, the guitarist is as bad as pete, nice drumming though

tulsi is no republican, she's just a self-aggrandizing narcissist

you don't have to be a republican to be fascist supporting islamophobe

it helps!

Also, Tulsi Gabbard is actually the cynical party switching power-grubbed that people accuse Elizabeth Warren of being.

^^^^^

I'm not sure if I buy that Tulsi has ever had a particular party allegiance. I think she might have actual stances, but I get kind of a culty grift vibe from her whole enterprise

absolutely

cd def see her on precious metals investment commercials in 5 years

Petition to change thread title to "Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now you’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier."

A young woman asks Biden "How do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win a national election?"

Biden's response: "You ever been to a caucus?"

Woman says yes.

Biden: "No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier."

— Jon Ward (@jonward11) February 9, 2020

lying dog-faced pony soldier? that's soooo cute!

now imagining a bojack/mr. peanut butter hybrid

wtf

Also, Tulsi Gabbard is actually the cynical party switching power-grubbed that people accuse Elizabeth Warren of being.

^100%

one of my least favorite tendencies rn of the very online Left is that many appear willing to give Tulsi (and even Yang) fans the benefit of the doubt that they do not seem ready to extend Warren partisans. like i "get" that T & Y represent some vague notion of 'anti-establishmentism'. but for folks who argue (correctly) that we should be focused on policy above all else, this seems pretty dumb

and tbh everything about Tulsi just screams grifter to me

Maybe grifter, maybe her parents' reactionary Hindu surfer cult.

Anyways, I'm sympathetic to her pacifist leanings, but she lost me when fronting for Modi's Hindu nationalism and al-Assad's murderous regime.

reactionary Hindu surfer cult

My favorite REM side project btw

my least favorite tendencies rn of the very online Left

How many people does this actually encompass, though? I follow all the old Splinter people and some Jacobin people and Chapo people and so on down the left twitter line, and there's not some swelling undercurrent of "Yang and Tulsi are okay, really..."

I haven’t endorsed anyone because there’s more than one good progressive and everyone has to vote their conscience. But I submit to my supporters that someone with no real agenda and no real vision for our country beyond a vague notion of inclusion is nothing but a corporate tool

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 9, 2020

mostly it's leftbook folks but i've seen it on twitter as well.
and no, they're not pro-Yang or Tulsi (well, some kind of are pro-Tulsi? or were?), but do seem more forgiving of those respective fanbases than they are of Warren folks.

xpost

"voting present" was the final straw for a lot of my pro-Tulsi friends, though many had tapped out before that

Warren asked by a voter who will look at her fondly and unquestioningly, essentially "who will be your Mike Pence"?

"I already have a dog," Warren quips.

— Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) February 9, 2020

seems like the michael tracey/greenwald wing that loves tulsi

I've only seen the anti-Warren stuff in the context of very online Warren people being the most ardently anti-Bernie outside of Buttigieg people. Yang and Tulsi fans aren't (as) anti-Bernie.

(Which is to say, it doesn't represent real world Warren voters intentions any more than it represents real world Sanders voters intentions.)

I had assumed the "lying, dog-faced pony soldier" story was satire but there's video: https://disrn.com/news/biden-calls-woman-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier?fbclid=IwAR0WlwCzTdKNiAltNrq3ySqm9573mecfUsDzRoQjUm2kO4kSKxJ2NTsr3S4

apparently it's a quote from a John Wayne film. lol fitting

elvis was a hero to most...

i got a letter from the government, the other day, i opened it and read it, it said they were suckers

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 June 2016 13:38 (1 hour ago) Permalink

it's always weird when the government sends that letter

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 24 June 2016 13:44 (1 hour ago) Permalink

lmao