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

I pay them $25 and they can’t spring for a stamp?

appearing at a Tom Steyer rally tomorrow night in Columbia, S.C.: Yolanda Adams, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Juvenile

back that cazzh truck up

I pay them $25 and they can’t spring for a stamp?

you pay them $25 and can’t be botherd going to the meetings tbf

I pay $25 for a lot of stupid things I don’t take advantage of.

Probably one of the more common amounts of money for me to spend fruitlessly.

Feel like this thread is Carlo Rizzi getting Sonny worked up

I pay 25$ every time I visit ILX. doesn't everyone?

Do we tell him?

Chris Hayes kicking ass now on MSNBC.

whose?

white centrism

I buy all my Campbell's Soup at the White Center

must be nice to work someplace where everyone else is so shit that you look like a genius

Οὖτις at 5:38 27 Feb 20

a political party that requires dues paying is a) elitist and b) inherently corrupt

what if you pay dues....in the streets

https://i.ibb.co/1QPHpCh/8ff8dcf66691eb396bb609e97708d6b7.jpg

iirc you "pay your dues" by doing your politicking in dive bars, then in dinky clubs, then touring regionally in spightly better clubs. Then you ink a deal with a major political party. Suddenly you're voting in stadiums and traveling in a tour bus with your logo on the side. Then you have a nightmare descent into drugs and groupies. Then rehab, a return to form, and a comeback tour. That's paying your dues.

Only after you have done so may you properly sing the blues.

....turn the page

Major label gives you 250k votes up front but then you're in debt to them forever. Election cycle after election cycle you've just got to go up on Hardball and and dance for your masters.

somebody’s forgetting “back to the basics”

Every politician has their "New Jersey"

correct, it’s New Jersey

...and you know it don't come ersey

Kicksturt my urt

well that was quick

NEW: Warren super PAC plunges $9 MILLION into Super Tuesday states.

Warren likely now has the biggest super PAC of the cycle, or at least close to it. pic.twitter.com/TOoIP0GW31

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 28, 2020

i know there's tight competition for worst debate of the election but both this and biden's mandela lie going completely unquestioned was ridiculous

Let’s be clear: I won't take a dime of PAC money in this campaign. I won't take a single check from a federal lobbyist, or billionaires who want to run a Super PAC on my behalf.

And I challenge every other candidate who asks for your vote in this primary to do the same.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 9, 2019

it's cool that pledges just don't mean shit

Not gonna troll a couple of friends who decided Bernie's medical records thing made him unfit for office.

Why should pledges mean shit, these people want to be president, they aren’t good

Reversals this brazen tell you some things.

haha just learned that my cousin, whom i met once when i was like eight, is bloomberg's chairman in mass

generally when candidates do bad things they receive some degree of pushback in the media/debates. if bernie started accepting super pac money or was caught lying about his history with nelson mandela it'd dominate the news cycle for a week. both of these things came and went with little comment.

imo warren building her brand as "the other progressive candidate who can't be bought" and then parroting the bullshit dark money line against bernie before turning around to accept more super pac money than anyone else in the race is buttigieg-level slime. it should be a story. and it's not like it's just a bullshit purity test - she's been bought, and if she somehow made it to the white house she'd get there owing a debt to millionaires or billionaires.

this is a failing of the bernie campaign, they've generally resisted going after her directly and they've completely eased up on biden since iowa.

xps

i don't know what she should have done here, but the castigation makes me depressed.

sorry?

she could've... not done the thing she pledged not to do

This is the scene in Blue Chips where Nick Nolte bribes Penny and Shaq

listen -- i love to be clear

yeah wat

are billionaires running her Super PAC?

No way it would was done without deep pockets if it got put together this fast, but it doesn't appear there will be any way to get a breakdown for a while.

This should be disqualifying imo but I understand Bernie campaign laying off at least *for now*—by and large her voters will soon turn to him, and she's not posing a threat that is yet worth inflaming them

I for one find it easy to believe the person who created the CFPB and wrote the book on how bankruptcy fleeces Americans is owned by corporate interests #roseemoji

It's because they love the wealth tax iirc

You don't have to think she's "bought" to think this sucks ass

Nice to see this thread has turned into the “stop stop he’s already dead” meme. Warren is no longer a threat y’all; Bernie cultists, look elsewhere to get your persecution jollies.

Oh, piss off. She may not have a straight path to the nomination but she can certainly pick up a healthy chunk of delegates, which could certainly matter down the line.

indeed if you are bummed Warren is taking PAC money after vowing not to, you have clearly been indoctrinated into a CULT

You have clearly been indoctrinated into a cult if you think this is disqualifying.

We know Our Revolution is willing to receive six-figure anonymous donations, and has. We won't know how much money they're receiving in the election year and how they're spending it until after the election because their structure as a 501(c)(4) allows them to escape the interim reporting requirements that PACs are subject to.

I haven't seen reporting on how much the National Nurses Union super PAC is spending supporting Sanders this time round ($5 million in 2016). Others?

I really hate that Sanders is in the pocket of Big Nurse

haha just learned that my cousin, whom i met once when i was like eight, is bloomberg's chairman in mass

Good money, I bet.