2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

Nicely put, srsly

Lol sarahell

Xps

there is nothing baffling about not wanting to tie yourself to a sinking ship. is it good for her reputation as a politician to endorse a dying campaign and for that endorsement to have no effect? like you guys seem to have absolutely no capability to put yourself out of the mind-frame of 'the only thing that matters in american politics is bernie sanders winning the democratic nomination'.

if biden and sanders were tied and she had the ability to be kingmaker, this would be a very different discussion. but in this world it's just another way for you to avoid putting any accountability on sanders for losing.

― iatee, Saturday, March 7, 2020 3:40 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is pretty much the same conclusion I came to when I was thinking about this earlier today. I don't necessarily think she is planning as far ahead as 2024, but keeping her options open now may give her more influence in the party down the line (say, in a potential Biden administration).

Yeah, she's in a different position than Buttigieg and Klobuchar. Their maximum leverage was before Super Tuesday, because they both knew they were going to have to drop out afterward. They both got whatever they could from the Biden and party people, while their endorsements would still mean something. But Warren has already dropped out, so she has no leverage over anything by dangling it -- which, if she was really going to be manipulative or cunning or whatever, she totally could have. "I'll drop out if you xyz." But as far as we know, there was none of that, she just did her own math and quit. So I suppose she's figuring out what she actually wants out of all this -- personally or policy-wise or whatever -- and then she'll do her own math again.

But regardless, I seriously hope she does not run again or even make noises about it. I was on her side, but this was her best shot.

I know I'm treading old ground here but I fuckin hate Joe Biden.

My cousin's wife had the honor of making the first "you may hate Biden, but think of the Supreme Court" FB post I've seen in 2020. One of her friends replied, "How could anybody hate Joe Biden?"

btw "you may hate *****, but think of the Supreme Court" has replaced "Happy Days Are Here Again" as the Democratic Party anthem

most ppl i know like him including a number of republicans but most ppl's concern seems to be mental acuity & if the democratic party can cyrano de bergerac him into the wh somehow i'm sure biden will sign whatever legislation pelosi can manage to send to him

oh, Pelosi's gonna be back as Speaker, eh? til she's 90, maybe? Christ, I wish I had money to send to her primary opponent.

we can always hope she'll step aside for Jayapal next year.

The silver lining of Shithead's second term.

Biden will pick Mondale for veep, right?

I, personally, am hoping he picks the Northeast Regional

xp silby, I think you've mentioned Jayapal before as a possible Pelosi replacement. Is there reason to think that she's interested in or has the support for the speakership?

She is cochair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, lead arm-twister on Medicare for All in the House, likely to keep her seat for decades if she wants it, an effective and diplomatic interface between the CPC and the present house leadership, and can’t run for President as a naturalized citizen. And if the generation between her and Pelosi has a standout leader I haven’t heard of them. But I admit I hear about Jayapal more than most bc she’s my rep lol

I don’t think she’d be so bold as to start mooting her own name for the gavel without Pelosi announcing her intention to step aside but she’s made the most of her first two terms and I get the sense she has at least something of a national profile, by the standards of House members

Yes, I'm aware of her and like her! She was interviewed on Pod Save America last summer lol.

quick question, do ye spell dennis one n or two

what is the difference between life and this thread?

life doesn't go on forever.

Mark Pocan, the other co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, is 55 and would be a superb Speaker.

Maybe they’ll Rock Paper Scissors for it

Nothing to see here pic.twitter.com/Qyu7S5XaFA

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) March 7, 2020

Warren was on SNL

so still kiiiind of a Republican

...because she was on SNL??

yes everyone who is on snl is a republican

This made me look up Victoria Jackson to see if she was still out there Trumpin' it up and yep

Bernie’s been on SNL

That's (legitimately) disappointing (as a matter of taste).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dallas-county-asks-to-recount-super-tuesday-election-results-after-44-thumb-drives-discovered/ar-BB10SAMK?ocid=st2

We are the dumbest country on Earth, it's a miracle we've never accidentally nuked the Florida Keys.

btw "you may hate *****, but think of the Supreme Court" has replaced "Happy Days Are Here Again" as the Democratic Party anthem

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 7, 2020 10:16 PM (yesterday)

So? Imagine if they'd hummed, sung, or played this tune in 2016. You're so silly.

Jesse Jackson has endorsed Bernie Sanders #breaking pic.twitter.com/ScNyu8gAZX

— David Caplan (@DavidCaplanNYC) March 8, 2020

Imagine if they'd hummed, sung, or played this tune in 2016.

I see you focused on the wrong half of the joke.

the other tune didn't really work for HRC did it

Brad didn't get my Lorne is a scumshit line either so i'll show myself out

did she ever get Henry Winkler on stage with her?

Jesse was MeToo'd, correct?

Candidate's Twitter followers don't differ much in the chance someone's tweets are negative.

New Update: Adds Microsoft's Deep Learning-based sentiment analysis algorithm. It predicts the chance of positive text. Textblob's algorithm rates tweets from -1 (neg) to 1 (pos). pic.twitter.com/1tIyoRI5g2

— Jeff Winchell (@CompSocialSci) March 7, 2020

SNL appearance kinda undercuts some of the earlier speculative Warren fanfic lol

is textblob's mascot the blobfish?

Breaking: Dallas County officials are seeking a recount of the March 3 primary results after discovering that an unknown number of ballots were not initially counted. https://t.co/Ws5dhcQMwX #txlege #texasprimary #texas2020

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 7, 2020

milo just posted this less than a dozen posts back??

okay that's two

don't worry, it's not like they might have someone going door to door and collecting people's ballots to send to the haw river algae board of elections

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-operative-faces-new-felony-charges-that-allege-ballot-fraud

🍩 👏🏻 🍩 👏🏻 🍩 👏🏻 🍩 👏🏻 🍩

Gather round everyone, come learn the story of the donut emoji, the mocking symbol you won't hear about MSNBC. In 2017, the DNC held a meeting to discuss the election and possible changes going forward. Nina Turner and a delegation of Sanders activists traveled to the meeting... https://t.co/3avmwrPQEc

— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) March 7, 2020

Donuts and corncobs and snakes oh my

milo just posted this less than a dozen posts back??

― sarahell, Sunday, 8 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink

okay that's two

― j., Sunday, 8 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink

We need more posts, quiet weekend

no good way to work in the blood-and-teeth emoji Warren people unfortunately

Btw is this thread's subtitle a 'Hollow Men' quote or…?

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, March 7, 2020 6:20 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this is the way the world ends

Headpiece filled with straw alright.

Hillary Clinton: Joe Biden "is building the kind of coalition that I had" https://t.co/MTzU5mXIDY pic.twitter.com/e76UNM5b9j

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 8, 2020

When posting flags while we enjoy our weekends, it's good to know someone can post a Clinton quote or interview to shake up the citizens.

Clinton is wrong Biden is doing better with wwc voters than she did

The effort to PROVE WITH DATA that Betniebros are a myth is p hilarious. I guess it keeps intact the storyline of media/DNC conspiratorization that everyone can retell around the fire. Because surely neither the candidate nor his acolytes could have run a better, purer, more open and loving campaign. Indeed, no one ever has. He was just too good for this world.