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

DeBlasio to endorse Bernie. This should be a fun year!

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/14/de-blasio-to-endorse-sanders-115138

deblasio endorsement is proof the establishment is trying to take him down

why do people care about the betting markets again?

i feel like besides Bush/Cheney it's been concurrent primary candidates almost exclusively for decades now?

i think what's rare is when they don't actually kind of (or very much) hate each other, eg Obama/ Biden

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, February 14, 2020 5:48 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

from what i can gather: pence, kaine, palin, cheney, lieberman, kemp, gore, quayle, bentsen

yeah, I wd send deBlasio to campaign in American Samoa maybe

why do people care about the betting markets again?

from what i can gather: pence, kaine, palin, cheney, lieberman, kemp, gore, quayle, bentsen

life of me*

he did get a single vote at the DNC for some reason

Gore ran in '88. I remember that Ed Koch endorsed him bcz Israel. (In some circles Gore's nickname was "the senator from Likud.")

which circles were those

the circle that's a venn diagram of morbs and dennis perrin

NO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8007521/Mike-Bloomberg-wants-Hillary-Clinton-running-mate-say-sources.html?fbclid=IwAR057JISGvPfeJd0GcsWbXY693n7keekV5b3--azo6JAXbQzWgO2sUUblpg

In which case: Kissinger as Secretary of State

the full Telemundo interview w/ Klobuchar is tougher. Good on Guadalupe Venegas for pressing.
GV: Do you, I'm sorry to ask this, but do you know who he is? Do you know his name?
AK: Yeah, yeah— I know that he is the Mexican president.
GV: But can you tell me his name?
AK: No. pic.twitter.com/0g3MTzDUYr

— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) February 15, 2020

it's sad, you just know a staffer is gonna get fired for this, beaten, and then fired

And then cooked and eaten with a hair-care implement

Oh boy. Telemundo write-up says Klobuchar ended the interview early (so abruptly she took her mic with her). that day, she did name AMLO in another interview and then came back to Venegas to say: "So you see that I know more than you think"

YES

Lmaoooo

Lopez KLObrador morelike

AMYLO is right there too

Biden's sent three more "gimme $5" emails since my last megapost

I'll Come Right to the Point: A thread for political e-mail speak

I'd expect a Biden email to say 'I'm not going to dilly-dally or shilly-shally or dance around the Maypole before I spit it out'.

They're usually in caveman speak

That's why he's my candidate

nice

Verbatim of @BernieSanders going after Bloomberg in Las Vegas just now pic.twitter.com/6qsxpONT5u

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 16, 2020

Good call hitting him on the redlining quote

something something WHAT ABOUT UNITY something something

which circles were those

ppl whose noses weren't up Z*****t ass

Shocker. https://t.co/IOgStfajHX

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) February 15, 2020

I take today's "Sanders might choose TULSI GABBARD as VP" float as hostile anti-Sanders disinfo exactly parallel to the anti-Bloomberg "Bloomberg might choose HILLARY CLINTON' floated by Drudge the other day. Just people out there methodically taking each Democrat and attaching to them the person with the highest negatives who might from 10,000 away seem like a plausible running mate. If De Blasio had had a real campaign they'd have said he was considering Al Sharpton. If Biden's campaign survives they'll probably say he's considering Hunter. I wonder who they'll come up with for Buttigieg if he makes it through Super Tuesday?

my butteigeig bro all of the sudden real damp about a bloomberg/ clinton ticket

there's going to be even more noise than there was during 2016 during this election period. best to think to yourself "will I read my 30th speculative article on <development> in the last 3 days, or watch Robocop again".

lis smith's fake nigerian account reveal is making me laugh so hard

just... lmao

I’m sobbing pic.twitter.com/LzxLWH7EmP

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) February 16, 2020

why do so many public figures with sockpuppets/burners leave so many obviously hubristic bread crumbs to follow

john barron worked

lol i remember friends sharing that breathless politico profile on lis smith last year. i guess i'll never not be shocked at how fucking cringey and unremarkable these genius political king-makers end up being

lmao oh my god xxp

"genius"*

"I'm not just running for president, I'm also running for you - which is why I need your help to unlock my campaign matching funds. All I need is your SSN and your bank account number"

Per Buzzfeed, that account is in fact an actual Nigerian guy who likes Pete Buttigieg
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/pete-buttigieg-campaign-sockpuppet-nigerian

Uh huh.

Okay, I've changed my mind and I was wrong, Lis Smith isn't actually behind that Nigerian account unless she went *really* hard into making a fake account. The FB account of the guy with the same handle has the same avatar (the Curb/Republican one) from 2017. pic.twitter.com/BF1OfXlrCF

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) February 16, 2020

Even Ashley Feinberg agrees this is a real guy

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/nigerian-man-twitter-lis-smith.html

Heartbreaking.

What about the posts by smith under his handle?

Addressed in the interview.

He is a passionate Nigerian supporter of Buttigieg who impersonated Smith in public as a joke because this... helps Buttigieg?

And he is unaffiliated with the campaign but tweeted encouraging messages to its communications advisor because that is what unaffiliated supporters do?

It's weird, but people are weird. Posters are even weirder.