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

Bloomberg thinking he can take the high ground on this issue (or any other really, but especially this one) is fucking rich. I trust Bernie will let him have it.

gotta love when trump starts rumors ("supposedly")

Remember when Obama was kind of sleepy for one debate against Mittens and everybody freaked out?

I think Donald Trump is gonna vote for Bernie Sanders for president

lol what? What's the 'evidence' behind these allegations?

It's just a bunch of Sexual Revolution-era pieces he wrote in alt papers in the early 70s. Imho a nothingburger but who knows what will play with the American public:

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/

ffs pete

Chasten’s FACE. I’m HOWLING pic.twitter.com/3FNJJmbx3O

— Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) February 25, 2020

I finally feel bad for someone in Buttigieg's orbit

unsurprised Pete would "jump on" the political advantage of being straight

it all counts

It's just a bunch of Sexual Revolution-era pieces he wrote in alt papers in the early 70s. Imho a nothingburger but who knows what will play with the American public:

Thanks. I can see this harming him among family-values voters who are likely to vote Trump anyway. I do expect a mini-moral panic will ensue, but that was bound to happen no matter what.

Eh. He said he would've but then met Chasten.

He's still terrible.

He wrote pieces in the seventies in which women fantasized about rape. This came up in 2016.

"Children should be able to run around naked! People have fantasies that involve force and violence!" Shocking stuff. xps

young Bernie sounds like a Ron Paul bro--fluoride in the water etc.

Some of us care about our precious bodily fluids.

Terrible url: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained

i cannnnnnotttt imaginnnnee caring about this shiiiiit

The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war, and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has ‘taught’ her and accepts her boyfriend’s love.

if we somehow survive the next ten years, imagine what candidates w/ typical lifelong internet histories will face

"you did WHAT on a white couch??"

gonna be real hard to find presidents in another 10 or 15 years if never having posted cringe is a prerequisite

never having posted cringe

jesus christ stop this usage right here right now

Imagine fending off suggestions that you're somehow morally unfit to run against the living embodiment of human depravity.

I can never run for public office because of the lists on my blog.

So Not Gonna Happen Guy 2032

i would run for office but i am always tripping, 100% of the days
whoooooaaaa

But, yeah, guy with multiple sexual harassment allegations against him should definitely work this angle.xps

sorry for the bad meme phrasing, i will withdraw myself from all future presidential elections

A nothingburger. But so were Benghazi and emails. Repeat a youthful indiscretion often enough and it becomes the truth.

ah yes, hillary’s youthful indiscretions which she committed aged *checks notes* sixtysomething

I mean

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/virginia-candidate-called-bigfoot-erotica-devotee-wins-congressional/story?id=59045913

Imagine fending off suggestions that you're somehow morally unfit to run against the living embodiment of human depravity.

Nothing short of absolute probity will do. And even then…

"you did WHAT on a white couch??"

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:11 AM (fourteen minutes ago)

ex-roommate and her hipster boy toy for 2024 ticket

Beto already lost

re: tim o'brien, this was a _very_ satisfying exchange

Still waiting to hear from the 64 women litigating @MikeBloomberg and his hostile work environment. #ReleaseTheNDAs

— 🌹 Clark Feels The Bern (@Clarknt67) February 24, 2020

Keep pretending that women suing Bloomberg LP - a corporation - is the same thing as suing Mike Bloomberg personally. Because you’d rather smear someone than focus on the facts.

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 24, 2020

if he didn't want people to associate it with him maybe he could've named the corporation something else

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 24, 2020

Very, very sophisticated and enlightened take, Alex. Keep going.

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 24, 2020

ok. remember when Mike pretended he wasn't managing his privately held company for years until the EEOC suit after which he said "I am the majority owner, and I’m absolutely entitled to talk to the senior people and am entitled to know what’s going on" https://t.co/4da82YDoav

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 24, 2020

"The shift came a day after the women at the center of the lawsuit filed a motion saying the mayor had discussed the allegations and other matters with company officials, despite public statements to the contrary."

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 24, 2020

Tim .... I kept going..... Tim where are you

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 24, 2020

sorry that was a lot of tweets. i enjoyed it though.

"if he didn't want people to associate it with him maybe he could've named the corporation something else"

lol

Mikey B, LLC

loool that was some good Twitter ethering

Tom Friedman fantasizing about Bernie naming Bloomberg (or vice versa!) secretary of the treasury. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/opinion/democratic-primary-candidates.html

uh what

I'll pass, thx tho

we need a businessman in charge of the treasury

friedfic

You know who should be in charge of the Treasury, is Martin Skreli

I was wondering what absolute genius would come up with that idea and had it in one guess

enjoy Friedman's idea where he's like.. what if they just appointed a bunch of sitting congress members into all these positions? way to give away the senate, buddy

At this point Tom Friedman is just filling up perfectly good empty space with a stupidity that has to be parked somewhere until he dies.

Sanders cabinet should be exclusively drawn from podcasts

I would argue the "at this point" qualifier

some years ago I went to a department-wide meeting at my corporate employer and they mentioned Friedman by name when referencing something he said in a book, and my first thought was "this guy is not going to be a VP for long if he thinks these are good ideas"

guess what!