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

"Also not sure what the basis for regarding her as acceptable and appealing to the broadest coalition of Dem voters when she is clearly not acceptable and appealing enough to get their votes" She's almost everyone's second choice, just not everyone's first.

I havne't filled in my ballot yet and was going to vote for her in CA since I assume Bernie is going to win CA in a landslide; but now even people locally are urging everyone to vote Sanders and not her to avoid this convention thing. Maybe I'm naive but IMO if it comes to a brokered convention between Warren and Sanders, that should be a win/win. That said I guess everyone is a fucking whiny bitch who will throw a fit if it's not their candidate.

It wouldn’t be a brokered convention between Warren and Sanders, though.

a simp is a person lacking common sense. Is this ableist now or something?

ffs, this thread.

The 'second choice' section here doesn't support the idea that Warren is almost everyone's second choice, except for Sanders voters: https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/

Are there other polls showing this?

Warren has no constituency here

in MN my professional-management-class friends my gen and older are quite sold on her, in a way that seems to replicate the common observation about academic voters, that the tenured go for warren, the adjuncts go for bernie (not just an age thing, as jaymc says, but a class thing). but these are people for whom it would basically be too normie to boost klobuchar as the hometown centrist, so it's hard to say how much of a showing warren will have against that expected effect on the outcome. i think warren is not having much of an actual impact here outside the hopes of those fans. sanders beat clinton pretty decisively here but iirc that was perceived to have something to do—aside from an affirmation of sanders' politics and the winnability of caucuses—with the mysterious combination of clintonian baggage and midwestern reluctance to put a woman in leadership, i.e. maybe idiosyncratic to HRC, maybe not.

a simp is a person lacking common sense. Is this ableist now or something?

Aside from real political concerns, the best reason to nominate Bernie is to test centrists commitment to the bit.

I feel like that commitment is not even slightly in doubt, and that fact is indeed the core of Sanders's electability case.

xp I don't know "simp" this way, it seems sort of antiquated if anything, like a dig you'd make in the 50s

“Simp” has been blowing up on the webs this year which is why Simon H had it ready to hand

xxp - me too... mostly. We should find out!

The best reason to nominate Sanders is to beat Donald Trump.

I mean, no one in the Democratic party is casting a primary/caucus vote for the candidate they most want to see lose to Trump

I thought we decided itt that there’s no such thing as being in the Democratic party

Now you're getting it!

Tulsi voters might be cool with getting to look at her for 8 months then lose to Trump.

Yes, but "sticking it to centrists" is not on my list of priorities xpost to DJP

Well no, because you aren't white

the "parasocial relationship projection" Discourse is starting to really bug me, because it doesn't acknowledge that "bernie sanders would totally rhapsodize about paris is burning, or have heard of it at all," while funny, is also an example of parasocial projection by the definition put forth by The Discourse

what?

I don't know. They had to perform as "Public Enemy Radio" when they were w/o Flav

didn't have to: it's a seperate entity without the live band or Flav, so Chuck and DJ Lord could play benefits more economically

It’s a memeword

this is erasure of your city's biggest rap song tbf

sic I don’t know any rap songs

it's hard out here for a simp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEXCexsfB_o

Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby be a simp kind of man

I got a letter from the government the other day, it said they were simps

that squirrel in my pants video is genuinely fucked up in multiple ways
not the least of which is the Disney cartoon depicting an adolescent girl whose genitals and anus are being ravaged by squirrels

so they're branching out into ASMR?

Anal Squirrel Mauling Response

xpost katherine, akm. I think I said once awhile ago that I can't imagine having this kind of emotional/active investment in someone (in this case Bernie) unless they are paying me or I am having sex with them. It's weird but I also don't follow teams or engage in fandoms.

sic I don’t know any rap songs

omg you're such a Becky

Klobuchar out

BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar is ending her Democratic presidential campaign, plans to endorse Joe Biden. https://t.co/omRIv4O3nP

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2020

Put in my primary vote for Warren today. I mean a lot of good that’ll do in this go around but had to stick with my first choice.

everybody duck!!

And the sounds of wailing and rending of garments were heard from the Meet The Press studio...

In the three minutes of "Morning" Joe I could stand, he urged her to drop out, so it's not unexpected.

I admit I am kind of cracking up that black voters in a state we already know won't be won by Democrats have now successfully bounced three moderates from the competition solely by saying "none of you motherfuckers are Joe Biden"

A singing acquaintance yesterday was posting mournfully on Facebook about how he never got a chance to cast a vote for Buttigieg and my main reaction was "you were that hype for your mans all over Facebook for months and you couldn't even be bothered to vote early?"

the "parasocial relationship projection" Discourse is starting to really bug me, because it doesn't acknowledge that "bernie sanders would totally rhapsodize about paris is burning, or have heard of it at all," while funny, is also an example of parasocial projection by the definition put forth by The Discourse

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xp: I'm sorry, as what

There's a compare the candidates meme with Bernie and Petey and their reactions to "Paris Is Burning."

You have to search for it, though, so it really might be an issue of timeline curation.

This whole package on politics-as-fandom was pretty good:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/11/arts/how-fan-culture-is-swallowing-democracy.html

xp The horny Beto tweet is so much better than all that has come since.

Ojeda and Avenatti as candidates are like the guy who thinks good sex is pumping away while you’re making a grocery list in your head wondering when he’ll be done.

O’Rourke is like the guy who is all sweet and nerdy but holds you down and makes you cum until your calves cramp.

— Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈 (@leahmcelrath) November 12, 2018

uh

The safest thing is probably just to think of the nomination as a toss-up between Sanders and Biden now.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2020

I'm not sure if our model will say that, but **it's getting pretty close to saying that** and the factors it isn't considering (i.e. that Biden could pick up a disproportionate share of Klobuchar and Buttigieg voters) would likely push it in that direction.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2020

someday I will realize that when these questions come into my brain, I don't actually want to ask them