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

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i mean it's not that big of a tent if by opening it to lifers you push the choicers out of it

besides, do you really need a big tent? the GOP's tent is basically a used rubber

After last Friday’s Democratic debate, Chris Matthews waxed apoplectic about what electing a socialist could mean for America. “I have an attitude towards (Fidel) Castro,” he said. “I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park, and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, OK?” Matthews’s colleagues pointed out that Sanders was more of a Danish type of socialist than a Castro type of socialist, but to little avail.

jfc

Matthews then stared at the camera for 10 minutes without moving

certain other people would be there cheering, OK?

can't say he's not self-aware

ok, here are the titles of the last several emails from Biden's campaign:

apologies
I need $5 for the final push
politely asking
I won't regret this ask
nothing left to say
emailing for $5 (John Kerry *on behalf* of Joe Biden)
exclusive campaign strategy for you (please read)
Final goal
sorry to bother you
If everyone who reads this gives me one dollar...
reaching out to you
emailing for $5
no regrets
please read and confirm
please read
I'm coming to you
are you on the record?
Thank you
re: tonight's results
in case you missed Joe's note (his HQ on his behalf)
will you vote for Joe in Florida?
Iowa was just the start. Now help me win the rest of the Democratic Primary.
This is my most important ask of you to date
I don't want to fall short
Gut punch
Need $5 to elect Joe Biden
please grant me this request
need your eyes on this ASAP
emailing for $5
need 5 from Orlando
please read this before tonight's debate
I fought like hell tonight
Tell us what you thought of last night's debate
Here's the truth:
I don't see your response
Two days left and I need your help
this email is critical
Did you see this?
humbly asking you
Let's get real
I'm coming to you directly
time is running out to pitch in $5
I'll be damned if I'm going to stand by and lose my country
We're just getting started
The truth about last night
It's important that you donate today.
please

Wow

8 of those from the last two days

and all shaped like early William Carlos Williams poems

i like reading this like a long rambling voicemail

I am going
to lose
the no-
mination

which will pro-
bably hurt
Robby Mook

Forgive me
he is delicious
so techie
so cold

lol

damn! no mention in those about what da fuck Joe Biden wants to do for you, the voter, except panhandle a couple of bucks off you

Only posting this 'cause it comes from the singer of Hatebreed, whose lyrics do not seem like the work of someone capable of metaphor.

Mayor Pete is like the band you never heard of that gets the huge opening slot on a tour (cause their label bought on) & all the sudden they have ads everywhere & write ups in big mags but you go to a show & never see 1 shirt of theirs in the crowd. #FakeBig #FollowTheMoney

— Jamey Jasta (@jameyjasta) February 12, 2020

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how can you just leave me standing
alone in a world that's so cold
need $5 from you
extremely urgent (for your eyes only)
where were you
really could use that $5 about now
if a picture paints a thousand words
let's be frank
needing $5 from <street address redacted>
beginning to think you're a fucking coward

This is what it sounds like
What Joes die

@ddayen

Joe Biden has never finished higher than 4th in any primary or caucus in 32 years of running for president

apparently this is not quite true -- he finished third in the 2008 delaware primary (after having dropped out)

ah so that's what he's doing wrong

That list is amazing.

Here's the truth:
I don't see your response

were these separate emails or just one?

separate

need 5 from Orlando

rofl

What was the “what was your response?” email about?

I have to get on this list

Sorry, I mean the I don't see your response email

lol I hadn't actually opened it.

apparently this was the body of the email (pretty boring tbh):

"Hey it’s Pete, Joe Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager.

Here at campaign HQ, we’re hard at work forming our strategy for every state straight through the Democratic Convention.

To help form our plans, last week, the team sent out a poll to see if we can count on your vote in the upcoming primary election in Florida.

But, I just reviewed all of our responses, and your name was one of the few supporters I didn’t see listed."

sent u an ilx email neanderthal

Did you ask him for five dollars

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-queer-opposition-to-pete-buttigieg-explained

column reads in its entirety "He's a cop."

lol nice. just replied.

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lol Tom

alfred, that piece answers a question i had in mind after the debate when butti faced off against o’rourke and said like, “don’t tell ME about courage,” and my instant slam reply internally was “duuude, you came out at age 40 after it was legal, did you really just ‘figure it out’?”

This sub playground instinct was and is obviously pretty inappropriate in several ways and way outta my lane, but still i wondered “do any gays object to his posturing in this respect?” i was too afraid to bring the question even here as a result. i’m still embarrassed at my instinct then, but it’s interesting to get such a clear answer.

i mean, john rechy (like buttigieg, a veteran) told us this would happen

Wait, Cornel West knew Mayor Pete's dad and met him when he was a baby? I thought this was a joke but no!

mayo pete’s dad seems pretty cool tbh

also he once wrote a book with a guy called ‘peter mayo’, which suggests the authors of this post-21/12/2012 hell dimension are running out of names

Mayor Pete is like the band you never heard of that gets the huge opening slot on a tour

lol Pete reminds me most of Weezer

Weezer has done more good for mankind than mayor Pete come on now

now that the Yang Gang has disbanded, Pete might as well court the Cuomo vote

Weezer has done more good for mankind than mayor Pete come on now

this is intensely debatable

I will stan first two albums but nothing beyond its true

Buttigieg 2020: What a Hundred Men or More Could Never Do

Great combo of headline and photo: https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-democratic-establishment-2020-0f6ee9ad-8665-4620-9a1b-db5abb0b537e.html

Mayor Pete is like the band you never heard of that gets the huge opening slot on a tour (cause their label bought on) & all the sudden they have ads everywhere & write ups in big mags but you go to a show & never see 1 shirt of theirs in the crowd.

Ok I kinda see where you're going with this my dude, but I thought the conventional wisdom was that you DO NOT go to a show wearing a shirt that is of the same band.

I mean, sheesh. I thought this is common knowledge?

^^ people who insist on this are cops

If the band were a true plant they'd throw a bunch of t-shirts into the crowd

I think this deserves its own thread: Wearing a band's t-shirt to one of their concerts: Classic or Dud?

Heh. This is why when I went to Obama rallies I always wore my authentic Paul Wellstone 2000 shirt.

For tonight's Warren speech in Arlington I am thinking of bringing out some vintage Mondale/Ferraro merch that I've been saving for a special occasion.

good tweet

Growing up as a bi kid in the 2000s I heard a lot of homophobic jokes about Republican men being closet homosexuals, so I can’t tell you how inspiring it is to be alive now during the era of Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay man to be a closet Republican

— 🅺🆁🅸🆂 🆁🆄🅵🅵 (@BuffTuffKRuff) February 12, 2020