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

A podcast host or something said the Republicans would try to run to the Democrat’s “left,” especially in the time of coronavirus, by offering more robust emergency aid than they’d be comfortable with. I haven’t really seen that to be honest, and DJP is right that Trump’s empty populism isn’t “left” it’s more like a “scam”

I just wasn’t sure if he was talking about the GOP, the democratic party, or biden or sanders in particular, etc. you can bet your buttons that biden and the democratic party will be pushing to means test our way out of this mess

but I'm wearing a kimono

I haven’t really seen that to be honest, and DJP is right that Trump’s empty populism isn’t “left” it’s more like a “scam”

No doubt, but it has a good chance of working for him.

Of course this doesn’t really demonstrate that Trump or Republicans have any special political genius. It does show how feckless and tone-deaf the Democratic leadership is for not coming out with this earlier and more forcefully

Good thread on twitter about this

years of austerity politics has left too many democrats completely unable to think outside of its narrow constraints https://t.co/ajwCmy2MBm pic.twitter.com/U8XDvfZCAK

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 19, 2020

means testing is good because we can’t trust the white people to vote for universal programs

I think that’s how it goes

lol tulsi endorses Biden

michael tracky to follow suit

Huh, genuinely surprised. Does that mean a 3rd party bid is off the table?

It means she's angling for VP?

She's not good but I never had her down for running 3rd party

I was convinced her plan all along was to be a 3rd party spoiler. I'm feeling weirdly relieved now.

same. she is one of the more curious people in national politics and I honestly can’t get a handle on what makes her tick. assumed she was just laying the groundwork for a long game grift operation to prey on horny chuds and assorted cranks, but this move doesn’t really comport with that.

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— PBF Comics (@PerryFellow) March 19, 2020

I figured Tulsi's aim was to be Fox News's go-to Democrat for criticizing whatever a President Biden does.

I figured Tulsi's aim was to be Fox News's go-to Democrat for criticizing whatever a President Biden does.

Still a very strong chance of that. "You'll remember, Bret, that I even endorsed him during the campaign, but I have to say I'm very disappointed in the way he's handled..."

a long game grift operation to prey on horny chuds and assorted cranks

the parallels with Sarah Palin are probably not a coincidence

/I figured Tulsi's aim was to be Fox News's go-to Democrat for criticizing whatever a President Biden does./

Still a very strong chance of that. "You'll remember, Bret, that I even endorsed him during the campaign, but I have to say I'm very disappointed in the way he's handled..."

are we still pretending Tulsi is right-wing?

what is she claiming to pretend?

Bernie's campaign donation page now a multi charity donation page.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

true lurker gauge

plus my 70 sock accounts

more even spread than I would have expected really. Did Biden meet the delegate threshold?

bernie is turning things around and should not drop out

the people's champ

you won't hear about this on CNN, MSNBC, faux news

Tom Perez would like people to vote for Biden, and then die.

DNC Chair Tom Perez et al., however, are threatening to sanction those postponing states with reductions in their delegates (etc)

― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:17 PM (two days ago)

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21 hours later

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Tonight at 7pm ET @BernieSanders is set to hold a virtual town hall on Coronavirus response from his campaign office in Burlington.

It seems pretty clear he has no plan to exit the race anytime soon.
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— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) March 20, 2020

Well WTF is Biden doing? Spending time leafing through binders of women?

Biden has no official capacity to do anything right now, except talk.

and take naps

yeah Sanders is a senator; Biden is a septuagenarian

but yeah, what is he supposed to say in this scenario? "Here's what I *would* do"? Sanders is in a different situation, he's still a Senator.

but yeah, what is he supposed to say in this scenario? "Here's what I *would* do"? Sanders is in a different situation, he's still a Senator.

Yeah, because presidential candidates *never* do this, only sitting Senators.

But that would require his handlers to break the seal under which they are keeping Glass Joe.

Biden has a justifiable platform to talk every day, he's the presumptiove nominee, there's no excuse except as noted in the other thread he's mostly brain-dead

I see Dems are planning to go with the old "people will surely see through this guy if I stand back and stay quiet" strategy. Again.

Yeah, because presidential candidates *never* do this, only sitting Senators.

― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR),

Is there a candidate and campaign you have in mind?

Bernie isn't hosting Covid roundtables and holding press conferences every 3rd day because he's a *senator*

He's doing it because he has visibilty atm and knows enough to exploit it

Biden has the same and should be piledriving Trump every night at 6pm

Trump had a front row seat for Giuliani's rehab-by-catastrophe

Biden's strategy all along has been to keep a relatively low profile, so it's not too surprising he's continuing with that, but it does indeed seem like a golden opportunity to get out there and lead.

It is absolute negligence that the Dem frontrunner isn't out there every night

Biden has the same and should be piledriving Trump every night at 6pm

this sounds awful and boring and essentially just setting himself up for failure/gaffes imo

like I get that you guys need "content" but this would just make Biden look weak and irrelevant

ha as oppposed to

Giuliani's rehab-by-catastrophe

Giuliani was a sitting mayor!

And wildly unpopular. Donald Trump is a sitting president.