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

tagging myself as "gay inexperienced liar"

Uh, how is it that republicans are more otm re: Bloomberg than democrats?

independents are amazed at the womanhood of warren and klobuchar

Everybody seems pretty otm: Klobuchar.

Klobuchar 2020: I'm okay, I guess.

Republicans embrace President Bumbling Jerk

lol

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2020/2/28/21157477/garth-brooks-bernie-sanders-jersey-fans-upset-barry-detroit-lions-nfl

and

Somebody pointed out that David Brooks is going through the stages of grief in reverse.

acceptance -> bargaining -> anger pic.twitter.com/Bh44BiwjQj

— Ad Infinitum (@Ad_Inifinitum) February 28, 2020

independents are amazed at the womanhood of warren and klobuchar

― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone)

for real. This was my biggest takeaway.

https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience

In 2017, I wrote a personal essay about a much older, married cable news host who inappropriately flirted with me in the makeup room a few times before we went live on his show, making me noticeably uncomfortable on air. I was afraid to name him at the time for fear of retaliation from the network; I’m not anymore. It was Chris Matthews. In 2016, right before I had to go on his show and talk about sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump, Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?”

When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. “Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.”

Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. “You going out tonight?” he asked.

I said I didn’t know, and he said—again to the makeup artist—“Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show. We don’t make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this.”

This is simultaneously unsurprising and super upsetting

what a shithead

Uh, how is it that republicans are more otm re: Bloomberg than democrats?

"He makes Cheeto MAD"

FLASH: Bloomberg currently has no TV ad spending booked beyond Super Tuesday

— Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) February 28, 2020

in 2020 we get flashed by news

https://i.imgur.com/ukhjO4S.jpg

how hard is it to book more tv ads at short notice when you have a bottomless bucket of money?

I think that’s the news - perhaps he’s getting out of the race.

Which would be worse for Bernie, I think

I don’t know where ex-Bloomberg votes go, but they don’t go to Sanders

So far nobody has even had the opportunity to vote for Bloomberg and it remains to be seen if a meaningful number of people actually will when it comes down to it so

my guess is ex-Bloomberg voters will spend some time in the purgatory of "undecided" and then apportion themselves among Biden, Buttigeig, and Klobuchar for seemingly random reasons.

I think that’s the news - perhaps he’s getting out of the race.

My assumption is all this means is he's adopting a "wait and see" tack before he dives back into the interest he "earned" over the last few hours.

I think any interest he gets here will be decidedly unearned

Not good

Hope everyone's ready for JOE BIDEN THE COMEBACK KID narrative that's going into full effect tomorrow

Unless Trump supporters ratfuck him into second place, which would be hilarious

Bloomberg's going to save his pennies for his third party run

Hope everyone's ready for JOE BIDEN THE COMEBACK KID narrative that's going into full effect tomorrow

A significant # of ppl will already have voted in the Super Tuesday races, yes?

I’ve already voted for March 10th!

Just confirmed my ballot has been received and counted. I’m LOCKED IN, narrative be damned

Warren on Hayes' show now; he's asking about the super PAC

I need the shittiest take you have . . .

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/28/opinion/bernie-sanders-goes-campaign-kill/

Warrenbros have more faith in Sanders being the nominee than Berniebros.

Report: my mother-in-law was for Warren but switched to Bloomberg because she doesn't believe a woman can win but I have convinced her to go with Biden instead

oh well we've won

I like Warren. I'd prefer her to Bernie in many ways and I hope they come to an amicable détente, but Eliza's shitty take has no redeeming qualities. and btw it was the work of this guy:

Scot Lehigh is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at s✧✧✧.leh✧✧✧@gl✧✧✧.c✧✧

I had a sudden thought of the coronavirus killing everyone over 65 leaving November being Pence v Buttigieg

Beto can get back in the race

Klobuchar is only 60, in a heads up situation she’d murder Pete on national TV if necessary.

Meanwhile my teenage son thinks Bernie is too left to win in the general

your son, has he been watching the west wing?

Dang, my son is a hardcore Bernie bro, constantly telling me how everyone from Warren on down are horrible people.

I learned it from watching you, dad!

voted on campus last night (1.5 hour wait) and the kids, they are excited about Bernie

it's kind of impressive how things have worked out to make it so unlikely for anyone to give up or endorse another candidate. how I break it down to an extent -

Biden: hasn't lost enough support to be totally dead, good numbers among black voters, will likely win SC, still retains some front-runner loyalty; looks to other candidates like he's doomed
Buttigieg: has the most cult-like energy, did well enough to inspire optimism despite total lack of future wins on the horizon; everyone else hates him and doesn't think he's got a prayer of winning
Klobuchar: seems to have the most dedicated focus on being the last moderate standing, fucking hates Buttigieg and will likely refuse to drop out before he does; hasn't actually won anything or done better than Buttigieg
Bloomberg: has money; everyone fucking hates him
Warren: inspires fervent belief among supporters that she is the best and most qualified candidate; hasn't won anything or significantly expanded her base to make her seem more electable to the moderate crowd
Steyer: has money; "yes let's endorse the 'Back That Vote Up' guy"

This will probably end up looking dumb in a few days when all of a sudden its a Sanders vs Bloomberg race or some bullshit but I really don't know how this thing gets whittled down until everyone's money is spent.

your son, has he been watching the west wing?

No but he skims The Economist, my idea was that it would give him more news about places outside the US than the newspaper does (and it really does) but it also has a take on US politics which is, well, a little foreign

My pre-teen daughter is ride or die Warren, my wife is undecided, also thinks a woman can't win, might vote for Warren anyway. My mom, in her 70s, thinks Biden is a good man unfairly maligned. My dad I actually have no idea but I can easily see him voting Sanders, even when I was a kid he was always telling me about big companies and "that's how they get you" and I think he's gotten a little more that way over the years.

JoeStork, I also don't see people dropping out until the money gets spent but it could be spent pretty soon, right? I can easily see Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out after Super Tuesday unless they do much better than expected (which they might!)

My son (8th grade, who has little to no interest in politics in general; oh, his humanities teacher the scourge of the right-wing, Yvette Felarca, the one who punched the white supremacists in Sacramento a few years back) told me he got into an argument with another student in class because he and another student told a girl that Bloomberg was no better than Trump (this was a day after him listening to NPR in the morning and exclaiming, of his own accord, 'he's the democrat Trump!') and chanted 'Bernie! Bernie!" at her. Her whole family is going for Bloomberg. I assume because they are rich (I know them, they are).

Anyway I think I decided I'm going to vote for Warren. And the only reason is because Sanders is going to win California handily, but she is neck and neck with Biden here, and I'd rather progressives take 1st and 2nd place.

wot if Biden surges to win California by ONE VOTE and it's all because of you

I learned it from watching you, dad!

Lol, he 100% did not learn it from me.