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

how soon do we discover the Bloomberg Twitter teens?

Court documents also provide a window in Bloomberg's private investment portfolio. Last year, White Star Petroleum, an Oklahoma fracking firm, went bankrupt. The disclosures that came out in court show that Bloomberg's family wealth fund was an investor in the company.

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) February 24, 2020

Shocked, shocked to find fracking in this portfolio

btw Chris Hayes is at this moment during an admirable job admonishing members of his own network for "freaking out" about Sanders.

No also California has been voting for like a week already xp

Something like twice the total number of votes cast in the first three states added together have already been returned in CA? Washington’s ballots went out last week too

SC polling all over the place, but Biden looks like he will win
Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in South Carolina has narrowed to just 4 points as the state's presidential primary nears,

It's so, so dumb that anyone spends any time thinking about who "wins" each primary when the difference in delegates between Biden 25 / Sanders 23 and Biden 23 / Sanders 25 is, well, basically nothing.

Re Scocca's theory on the establishment kneecapping Warren, of course as a Warren supporter I'd like to believe that but the honest truth is that most people aren't particularly like me, and don't like what I like or want what I want or care about what I care about, and so they don't support the candidate I like, it's not a conspiracy, so be it and too bad.

How did they kneecap her? Idg that. And is she more capable an administrator than Sanders and thus more likely to effectively implement eat-the-rich policies that hurt the Establishment or is she less threatening to the Establishment because ... why now? Didn't say good things about literacy in Cuba? Supporters don't make rat jokes?

Secured 50% of the NYT endorsement?

Or is the point that they should have boosted her to split the left vote?

Re Scocca's theory on the establishment kneecapping Warren, of course as a Warren supporter I'd like to believe that but the honest truth is that most people aren't particularly like me, and don't like what I like or want what I want or care about what I care about, and so they don't support the candidate I like, it's not a conspiracy, so be it and too bad.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, February 24, 2020 10:28 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

shh, everything is a conspiracy

All conspiracy theories are essentially antisemitic

That's what they want you to think.

Uh

I guess he means they could have all rallied to her so that it was heads-up against Bernie but that's a pretty ridiculous idea (from the standpoint of what people who have wine caves want).

(see also: 'whoever vandalized bloomberg's office was clearly a false flag, no actual protester would... use posterboard!' as if there are not thousands of people who (correctly) think bloomberg is an oligarch but also possess the capability to center a sign)

I mean I do think that the “Bloomberg office vandalism” is fake

If it’s not fake it was performed by vandals who wanted to give the impression that it was fake which is also hilarious

a false false flag

GODDAMMIT i was just about to post that

I think Bloomberg made it, but he outsourced the making

the "oligarch" one is definitely, hilariously fake at the very least

are any of these "Republican claims they were attacked by Obama voter who wrote Obama on her face, but it was backwards" level

Oligarch board was actually a very expensive Banksy that Bloomberg had delivered to that office, just a terrible mixup

maybe Bloomberg....IS...Banks-

If it’s not fake it was performed by vandals who wanted to give the impression that it was fake which is also hilarious

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, February 24, 2020 10:54 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflag

or it was performed by the bloomberg campaign to give the impression that it was performed by vandals who wanted to give the impression it was fake and at some level of the wine being in front of me one should probably consider that someone actually did it

(which, to be clear, is not me saying it was coordinated by any anti-bloomberg campaign, which, why would they need or care to do that)

Whoever was responsible, I'm guessing it wasn't Bloomberg's intent for people to see the graffiti and think 'yes, that's correct'.

Oooooof

“My names Joe Biden I’m running for the United States Senate” pic.twitter.com/sDIaZwTE8q

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) February 25, 2020

I think I've tipped fully over into just feeling bad for him.

please clap

For all the jabs at Jeb!, he was cognizant of his surroundings, and fairly likeable as a person.

vote Jeb - he's polite and he always knows where he is

It's a start. Most of us would be ecstatic to be on the Jeb timeline, and not the Trump/worse fascist/global war timeline.

o really, couldn't tell from the last three years of posts

Sanpaku don’t add counterfactual speculation to your ledger of sins

mandated clapping, I mean what next

Aside from muh norms, Jebworld would look pretty much identical. Except maybe we'd be at war with Iran because he didn't get distracted by the season premiere of The Bachelor.

I forgot Jeb signed Stand Your Ground into law here, fuck him forever

Jeb! also responsible for:

- keeping Terri Schiavo alive

- Growth of charter school/voucher industry

I don't think it's safe to assume a Bush would have steered clear of war lol

In what world would Jeb! have won over Hillz

Hey remember when we were worried that the Bush and Clinton dynasties would have a permanent hold over the Presidency?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DnPwaEn8aGE/TROiiebTc3I/AAAAAAAANOo/GGY1KvIFMYE/s1600/main.png

Hey remember when we were worried that the Bush and Clinton dynasties would have a permanent hold over the Presidency?

I remember people using the word "coronate," as a back-formation from "coronation." People, we have the perfectly good verb "crown." In a coronation someone is crowned. Makes me want to get out the Grammar Hammer and SMASH.

crowned means getting bonked in the head

means you've just been born cuz you're a big baby iirc

very cool stuff, definitely good faith and definitely some new material we haven't heard yet

JUST NOW: @MikeBloomberg Senior Adviser @TimOBrien goes there on @BernieSanders.

Orgasms. Rape fantasies. Children running naked. All there.@NewDaypic.twitter.com/EUckLVYNR0

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) February 25, 2020

jesus would you look at the forehead on that motherfucker

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