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

going to pass out to laraaji after that shit show

yeah why tf did red zinger become so hard to find? I blame the overabundance of sleepytime and its knock-offs

I'm streaming the CBS feed from the debate and I would just like to say I am getting massive Arrested Development vibes from Major Garrett http://images1.fanpop.com/images/quiz/27729_1215375020961_500_278.jpg

missed the second half of this yesterday

https://66.media.tumblr.com/09f9e7508fbbfaa687b70ccfb7035e99/809a6b16314c5b22-f3/s500x750/90ab2fdde4d60cea5e8a27040c66d751906f8a1d.jpg

I drink a diet Coke every day, you commies

the dr stands for dronaldtrump

yeah why tf did red zinger become so hard to find? I blame the overabundance of sleepytime and its knock-offs

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah it's vanished here too. also roastaroma which is the goat celestial seasonings and no one stocks it except like 50% of whole foods, 50% of the time

Not to be rude, but why are we discussing varieties of tea in the restroom hygiene thread?

There was a girl I went to school with that everyone rumored was the daughter of one of the Celestial Seasoning's founders. Her name was (and still is) Saasha Celestial-One. Turns out, afaik, that her parents were just hippies.

So I guess enough polls have come out since the Nevada debate to verify that Bloomberg’s “disastrous” performance did not in fact have much effect on his poll numbers.

Red Zinger tastes like reheated Theraflu that someone puked in.

kombucha?

Unelectable

if you think Sanders online cru is the only "toxic" one, plz read comments here

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/02/dems-shoot-down-claims-about-debate-ticket-prices/

(it's a Dem homo blog that gen worships Bootyjudge)

My two favourite answers to the pointless last question ("what is the biggeat misconception about you and what is the motto you live by?") were: Klobuchar wanting to correct the record that she is not boring and then giving such a tedious exposition on her motto that the moderator forgot what the motto was and had to ask again; and Buttigieg dispelling the myth that he is not passionate by providing a nuanced breakdown of all the ways in which he tries to restrain outward demonstrations of passion in the interest of reason and civility.

from what little I saw, I liked the part where the candidate who is definitely not a CIA agent leapt on the chance to say that old American/CIA foreign interventions and coups weren't relevant to the present day

that stuff happened BEFORE I WAS BORN

How many people actually have a motto? Someone could have converted thousands of voters with a simple "My motto? Are you serious?" reply.

"not until i've had my covfefe"

Bloomberg essentially did that when he said his motto is "I've trained for this job for a long time and when I get it I'm going to do something, rather than just talk about it."xp

somebody appears to have had one:

Many mornings, Sanders would greet his roommate with a simple statement: “We’re not crazy.”

“I’d say, ‘Bernard, maybe the first thing you should say is “Good morning” or something,'” Sugarman recalls. “But he’d say, ‘We’re. Not. Crazy.'”

Yeah...That's a terrible answer (or non-answer, actually), but it's better than making up some dumb motto on the spot. (xpost)

agreed, they even gave him a commercial break to come up w/ something

I would vote for whoever would borrow Groucho's motto, "Whatever it is, I'm against it"

"The best a man can get"

re: Bloomberg, "I'll buy that for a dollar!" was sadly taken.

I wondered if something from Glengarry Glen Ross or Wall Street came to mind first and he decided against verbalizing it.

"greed is me"

I would just hold up my phone and start playing "Ass n Titties"

writing in DJP

“Tonight I’M the judge..... of that booty!”

happy to learn all the dem primary candidates are separate html elements on the new york times pic.twitter.com/JykQfcf4ob

— kat! (@gothfemme) February 25, 2020

THE SPIRIT OF THE WEB IS ALIVE

I don't wanna look at Biden's page because in my mind it uses Frames and has a counter at the bottom

William Dafoe in Platoon: "Feelin' good's good enough." Words to live by.

just got done early voting. all things being equal, I still can't say whether I prefer Sanders or Warren, but it just doesn't look like it's gonna happen for Liz so I used good old-fashioned strategery to break the tie.

Now is not the time to cling to a handful of delegates as a sign of viability when you are running out of money. Nor is it time to cling to a pile of money when you have yet to win a single delegate. Now is the time to do what I am doing, not what they are doing.

I call on them to stop calling on me to drop out on the grounds that I lack some combination of popular support, a staff, pledged delegates, cash on hand or a path forward. In fact, I am the only one with a path, assuming that several of them drop out, in which case I will be the clear front-runner to stop Sanders. The only reason I have not yet demonstrated my ability to beat him is because everyone else is still here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/25/we-must-stop-bernie-sanders-i-see-no-path-forward-my-opponents-drop-out/

it's funny after years of handwringing about citizen's united that it's actually internet-enabled small donors that have completely fucked up the primary process

Sanders is tied in Texas and could win it. If Bloomberg weren't running, Biden would be up six points.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 26, 2020

haha nice

remember the alabro

2 polls today showing Biden might dominate in SC, which could stick a small fork in Bernie's Nevada bounce

He really hasn't come under any fire since Bloomberg dropped in. He just got caught in a pretty big lie about Nelson Mandela and it didn't even come up. I think everyone knows that Mike's hit his ceiling and they're just beating a dead horse because it's the popular thing to do. Sneaky Joe's gonna steal it.

another poll showing Bernie in third place and Biden ahead by 18 points fyi

One of the poll pundits on twitter mentioned that Clinton and Obama both massively overperformed in SC because the polls underrepresent elderly black voters

So that's cool

538 didn't seem to adjust its primary forecast much due to the new polls.

good news is the 'comeback' narrative is only gonna last like a day before Super Tuesday where Bernie is probably gonna dominate

Although my default assumption has been that Bloomberg pulls support from Biden, another possibility is that he helps Biden by redefining the spectrum of views in a way that repositions Biden closer to the center of the party mainstream. In other words, he may turn out to be a better foil for Biden than for Sanders.

Pete Buttigieg showed up to a Fight for $15 event in South Carolina hoping for a photo op. Instead workers chant “Pete can’t be our president, where was $15 in South Bend?” Then he literally runs away. Amazing.
God bless these workers. Their cause is just, their words are true. pic.twitter.com/RdG6xyZv9Y

— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) February 26, 2020

pete made the first noise complaint at stonewall

— harrison (@harrrithon) February 26, 2020