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

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.

xxxpost

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

I thought the conventional wisdom was that you DO NOT go to a show wearing a shirt that is of the same band

Counterexamples (some now defunct, but still): Iron Maiden, Slayer, Slipknot, Rush, Motörhead, AC/DC, Grateful Dead...

So basically, that was a "rule" promulgated by indie-rock pseuds.

:|

No one should attack @Culinary226 and its members for fighting hard for themselves and their families. Like them, I want to see every American get high-quality and affordable health care—and I’m committed to working with them to achieve that goal. https://t.co/onVqAcZRoB

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 13, 2020

vicious, man, vicious!

this is already the Olympics of bad faith

when neera tanden turns up approvingly in yr menchies there's a pretty good chance it's a bad-faith attack

it really bummed me out to see

I don't know. I hear someone got hit with a flower.

typical exchange on the Gay Clintonite Centrist blog:

Why even go through the charade of primaries anymore? Just give Bloomberg the nod already and get it over with. He's paying for it, isn't he?

At least Bloomberg is paying in dollars, not rubles.

the mayo pete platitude generator is fun

Pareene:

Bloomberg has explicitly argued that “our interpretation of the Constitution” will have to change to give citizens less privacy and the police more power to search and spy on them. In fact, he does not seem to believe that certain people have innate civil rights that the state must respect. If the NYPD wanted to spy on Muslims, even if they lived outside New York City, solely because of their religion or ethnicity, Michael Bloomberg thought it was a great idea. And as Jack Shafer recently pointed out, his dedication to ensuring submission began before he was an elected official—when he was the boss at a company notorious for its tyrannical treatment of employees.

Bloomberg’s three victorious mayoral election campaigns are depressing evidence that a substantial number of Americans are amenable to authoritarian politics and uninterested in protecting civil liberties. So long as the person overseeing the police state claimed to be surveilling people for their own good, it was easy to turn a blind eye, especially if the surveillance was concentrated in certain neighborhoods. ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/156560/michael-bloombergs-polite-authoritarianism

xp probably thought he was some kind of gay blade

Unions who block universal benefits to protect their own private welfare states are killing the labor movement. https://t.co/o8YhvcL5Ec

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) February 13, 2020

wow liz is sounding a lot like amy

it's all moot, says Ryan Grim (Intercept/Sanders stan):

Hey @Culinary226, check in with your government affairs people. There are not 60 votes in the Senate to ban the private health insurance you got in your union negotiations, nor will there be after the election. You're gonna be okay.

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 12, 2020

"You should vote for the guy whose signature policy is M4A because M4A has no chance of being enacted" is a weird pitch but OK

Yeah I think the much better argument is "not having healthcare as a bargaining chip actually harms the bosses and benefits unions."

which seems correct to me. The idea that having healthcare as a negotiating chip is good for unions somehow reminds me of the same flawed thinking that says it's good to have a mortgage for the tax breaks.

xp (I mean it's actually a very good general election pitch for anti-war, pro-choice, pro-LGBT Dem voters who don't want to ban private insurance when/if Sanders is nominated!)

What’s a good basic primer on ways to address healthcare as negotiated compensation for labor in the face of restructuring to governmental universal insurance?

there’s at least issues of the comparative coverage, and the value of the private coverage as compensation in contract, and i’m sure tons more-

the same flawed thinking that says it's good to have a mortgage for the tax breaks.

you'd be amazed how many people think this makes sense though