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

you live in California, Οὖτις

fair point tbqh

Interesting stuff in the cross-tabs of that Quinnipiac poll:

1. Bloomberg is now #2 among black voters (Biden 27, Bloomberg 22, Sanders 19)
2. Bernie has a significant lead among white non-college voters... (Sanders 30, Warren 13, Biden 12, Bloomberg 12)
3. ...but it's a total toss-up among white college voters (Sanders 17, Warren 17, Biden 16, Bloomberg 16, Buttigieg 16)

wow #3 is def interesting

re #1, stop-and-frisk needs to become universally known

I use it at gay bars all the time, works for me

[Rupert Pupkin gif]

also his speech at the 2004 republican convention, and financially supporting republicans as recently as 2018, and spending $16K on sushi over six weeks

I do like sushi

do you like

booty with your sushi

I hope someone brings up all the sealed sexual misconduct allegations at the next debate.

like, I don't know any millenials or Xers that aren't viscerally irritated by Mayor Pete

― Οὖτις, Monday, February 10, 2020

I enjoyed him when he was a plucky upstart campaigning for future consideration.

he's sort of gone Full Dead Zone since the wine cave criticism

major advantage for bernard sanders: aoc as hypewoman

"As someone who has been told to go back, imma tell you, we're moving forward.

Forward to a multiracial democracy

Forward to guaranteed healthcare

Forward to a living wage

Forward to fighting for our neighbors

Forward for indigenous rights and honoring sovereignty" @AOC pic.twitter.com/TLCLtSASZe

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 11, 2020

bring tha mothafuckin ruckus

jfc did this already get posted? this motherfucker here...

Audio of @MikeBloomberg’s 2015 @AspenInstitute speech where he explains that “you can just Xerox (copy)” the description of male, minorities 16-25 and hand to cops.

Bloomberg had video of speech blocked.

Perhaps because of the problematic explanation he gives for #StopAndFrisk pic.twitter.com/Fm0YCi4ZRy

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 10, 2020

If Bloomberg somehow steals the Democratic nomination, I will be severely disappointed and disheartened. Then I will vote for him rather than do whatever I can to prevent Trump from serving another term.

I won't.

he will get housed by trump in the general

I've never voted for a Republican in my life, not gonna start now.

Ralph Nader 20th Anniversary tour

I won't

Then please shoot Trump for us. I'd give you money for your defense.

if sanders and warren can't make their case with bloomberg as a foil, then we're all fucked anyway

then we're all fucked anyway

but just how frequently and violently we will be fucked still seems like an important consideration to me.

it baffles me to no end that Jennifer Rubin and David Frum are convinced there are tens of millions of people out there just like them. what's concerning is the DNC seems all too happy to buy into this fiction as well.

Rubin and Frum get paid to be morons, it's more surprising to see normal people who think he wouldn't get absolutely steamrolled in the general election.

There are lots of good arguments at the margin about electability but here is the fundamental fact: Any Democratic nominee could beat Trump. Any Democratic nominee could get beat by Trump.

anybody's ball game really

let's see some hustle out there

any given tuesday

there aren't millions of rubins and frums but there are millions of people who believe there are millions of rubins and frums which makes them think they have to vote like rubin and frum

The idiocy of the party insiders, imo, is that Biden was already a centrist reactionary AND he had shored up the black base. And they just didn't trust him, and instead threw all their money at a billionaire + white privilege incarnated. And now Biden has no money to mount a comeback and Sanders is going to win in the south.

Re. “voting for bloomberg” if he wins the nomination through a combination of massive spending and consolidating support in the media and DNC, or something... I would still vote for him I guess but it would be more painful than voting for Klobuchar, Pete or Biden, all of whom I also think are herbs.

good luck usa

if you fuck it up again this time i'll be... displeased

Wow those videos of bloomberg in that tweet thread are ghoulish

tbh Pete’s record as mayor seems like a mini me version of Bloomberg

I’m surprised so many of the centrist candidates have died out—kamala, beto, booker all seemed more likable than pete

It must be because iowa is so significant—klobuchar and buttigieg could hold on there

Every primary campaign everyone under 40 remembers has been a Quaker Gathering compared to how these things used to go https://t.co/lm6SCMorJ8

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 11, 2020

problematic fave #7652

*curb theme plays* pic.twitter.com/HtQcke7bLH

— dan nolan (@dannolan) February 11, 2020

this version of hymnen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDxpa-XPMTo

lol sorry

naw that's also at least as appropriate a soundtrack to that tweet as the curb theme

i dislike performative pronouncements of rage but listening to tom perez’s bullshit “we’re learnin!” wankoff made me wish for an atrocity of extreme violence.

Maybe there'll be a scene in this season of Curb where Larry and Ted Danson debate about Buttigieg vs. Bloomberg.

*moment of clarity* nah, pronouncements of rage, cool i guess.

problematic fave #7652

He just doesn't want to have to do the sanders impression through 2024 and who can blame him

Bloomberg has smothered Florida with ads. I mean, I can't click on YouTube or turn on the teevee without, I must say, a sophisticated Bloomberg ad in my face. They're good. It's obvious what his strategy is.

Pareene's tweet largely right w/ the obvious outlier of the 2016 GOP primary.

lol these people:

A bad night for Warren would come as good news to market participants, who view the combination of her potential to unite the party, detailed regulatory plans, and proven record of efficacy in government as a threat to stocks.

In the eyes of investors assessing the political risks from the Democratic field, those qualities all distinguish Warren from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the candidate who has captured liberal momentum.

Warren and Sanders largely align on economic policy, with both backing a wealth tax, tougher anti-trust enforcement, repealing President Trump’s corporate tax cut and breaking up the big banks.

But Sarah Bianchi, an analyst at research firm Evercore ISI, notes that securing policy changes through executive action, for example, “really take[s] a lot of sustained attention and leadership... You need sustained leadership to get the hard ones across the finish line. As she demonstrated in her time working for the Obama administration, Warren would really drive those issues through the government in a way that I think would be meaningfully different from Sanders's approach."

“There is more interest among investors about Sanders questions now, but not with the fervor of the interest that surrounded Warren," Bianchi said.

Ian Katz, of Capital Alpha Partners, agrees that “there will be a lot of investors who will be relieved if she’s not the candidate… There’s more concern about Warren if she gets the nomination, because she’s seen, at least by some people, as having a better chance against Trump” than Sanders.

I get Bloomberg ads CONSTANTLY in my FB timeline. Partly, I'm sure, because a friend is an organizer for his Ohio campaign, so the algorithm thinks I GAF.