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

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

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/02/26/warrens-increasingly-desperate-health-care-messaging/

good explanation of a lot of the issues sanders supporters have with warren's campaign and messaging especially on m4a

The explanation for why she failed to sell her plan made sense, but the worst was bullshit. A writer should never use "wonk" in serious writing, ironically or seriously, especially when Sanders supporters make the argument.

worst = rest

Respected news media outlets are using the term "wonk" to describe Warren. It's a mere fact of her campaign.

sorry for how i misused the word "mere" there. feel free to give me an F minus.

policy bobbins 2020

Respected news media outlets are using the term "wonk" to describe Warren.

This only proves that they should not be "respected" by any intelligent person.

Wonk is a bad term. It makes it sound like it’s embarrassing to know too much about stuff, which of course I believe but still...

what's the word formal writing wonks use when they want to call someone a doggone wonk

treeship otm -- it represents the Beltway press' contempt of knowledge.

"I don't know if Bernie Madoff got his idea from there, but if there's ever a Ponzi scheme, people say Madoff was the biggest? Wrong. Social Security is, far and away," Bloomberg said in 2009 on the radio program “Live from City Hall” in audio reported by CNN’s KFile.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484825-bloomberg-called-social-security-a-ponzi-scheme-as-mayor

I have good friends who are definitely policy wonks, vote for policy wonks, and are among the best-informed people I know. iirc all the Iowa ones caucused for O’Malley (!) in 2016 and Warren this time around

The active form of wonk is wank IIRC

you could say “meticulous about policy detail” or something similar if “wonk” is seen as derogatory

the weirdo anglophiles would probably say “boffin” lol

watch out everyone, the policy boffin has logged on

Calling someone a wonk as a pejorative reminds me of the USEnet days where people would write "oooh mr fancy,busing a bunch of big words" when you used a single SAT word in a post.

I know the meaning is pejorative inherently but it's often used to describe people who are merely studied

the writer of the article is a self-described policy wonk so i didn't see it as particularly derogative there

The word itself has become associated with derogatory context in recent years so it often gets read that way

One of the candidates should adopt #notBluefuckyou for Bloomberg

I don't think wonk has any derogatory context outside of left-twitter types