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

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.

Like, it could be true, and prob is, but idk that people could be blamed for thinking it was a sock. It's not a conspiracy theory to think that one person was being an ass on the Internet.xp

So basically it's been a productive Sunday on Twitter.

No it was definitely reasonable to believe it was a sock. It was sus as fuck.

no, it's lis smith. don't care

ashley feinberg is on the bloomberg payroll now

i do think it's funny that the Pete campaign had to walk back their announcement that Michael Key would be endorsing him in an upcoming NV appearance, and instead MK will just be there encouraging early voting and voting registration and hasn't formally backed any of the candidates.

i mean, i guess he still could formally endorse Pete, but i'm going to enjoy this lol for now.

I hate that I learned about lis smith/eliot spitzer today. Being off twitter was supposed to spare me such cursed knowledge.

Chinedu was a key and peele character all along

Chinedu B.

We have Danes into the minutiae of the Iowa caucuses, not that much weirder than a lonely dude in Nigeria getting hooked on Pete.

people are weird. Posters are even weirder.

like it

People are weird
Posters are weirder
Twitter is lonely
When you're a sock

^Quality content

Bernies are bro-ey
When you're a centrist
Bloomberg's uneasy
When you're brown

so exactly how much corroboration has to exist before people, if not themselves convinced, at least concede that it does not make you evil incarnate to believe that it is an actual guy

i accept that it's a real person. honestly the evidence that it wasn't was pretty paper thin to begin with and I suspect most of us (me included) wanted to believe it because it was funny.

Left-twitter is just taking the #resistance job of calling everyone they don't like/understand on Twitter a Russian bot, it's cool and funny

I accept that it's a real person but c'mon it was weird as hell and he literally called himself Lis in one of 'em. That's a bit of an outlier.

Also, ppl turning up as supportive socks in their own mentions, only to forget to switch accounts later, is not exactly a rare occurrence.

more corroboration: https://theoutline.com/post/8681/pete-buttigieg-nigerian-supporter-lis-smith-chinedu?zd=1&zi=cnavtorp