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

Maybe someone should call the local police and to do a wellness check on Glass Joe. Maybe he actually died of coronavirus last week and no one knew?

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i continue to believe that joe would be an improvement on trump and will likely pass whatever can get sent to him no matter how left-wing and i think if dems do well in nov and the crisis is still going we could pass unprecedented policy goals, but also i agree that at this moment it would be preferable if someone more vivacious and outspoken were the presumptive nominee like for instance bernie

has Trump vetoed anything? He'd probably sign whatever gets sent to him too, but nothing gets sent

if a Dem congress sent Trump a clean medicare for all bill, billions for trains, and defense cuts, he'd sign it and call it amazing

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/TrumpDJ.htm

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OTM

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-sanders-relationship-to-guide-next-phase-in-democratic-race-11584648197

lol

Rep. James Clyburn (D., S.C.), whose endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primary helped fuel Mr. Biden’s surge, said in an interview that Mr. Biden “should incorporate as much of the efforts being proposed by Bernie Sanders as he can.”

there's a legislative tactic called "gut-and-stuff", where an existing bill that has been referred to committee is amended to replace all its text with an entirely different bill that couldn't make it to a floor vote some other way. I would approve of stuffing Biden with Bernie's agenda.

Woah, woah, woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves Mr. Clyburn. First, step is to wake up Mr. Biden and tell him it's time for his juice.

Joe Biden is currently sitting in a hotel room near ORD watching rail slide videos on youtube

there's a legislative tactic called "gut-and-stuff", where an existing bill that has been referred to committee is amended to replace all its text with an entirely different bill that couldn't make it to a floor vote some other way. I would approve of stuffing Biden with Bernie's agenda.

The Face/Off reboot we didn't know we needed

Lmao

oh man someone post that img

Sounds like a job for KM.

What is it that people are wanting Biden to say? What could he possibly have to say?

Οὖτις is right, he's best off sitting this one out. If people wanted a return to normalcy before, they'll certainly want one now!

don't get me wrong, I expect him to do things like this https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-to-trump-on-coronavirus-stop-saying-false-things-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-hero/ar-BB11tC3e, that's par for the course. bad but christ it's only been like 48 hrs since his last public appearance/speech, ppl expecting him to be in some 24-hr war room mode is just rmde shit.

bad

Remember, be careful removing Joe from his packaging as he is very fragile. If you are under the age of 12, get a parent to help you.

shame on us for expecting the front-running candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States to demonstrate some goddamn leadership, for fuck's sake

silby, the presumptive nominee whom every democratic politician of any influence has endorsed has no political clout. please grow up

there is no point in demonstrating leadership until after the election

Cool -- two ephemeral Biden arguments in two threads.

i agree though, his current silence doesn't really matter though.. he's obviously not a leader who everyone is going to rally around. he's going to be nominee because everyone united to make sure a progressive wouldn't get it. he's a vessel for everyone else to put their hopes and dreams in - the more he talks, the more he damages his candidacy. which is why he is the perfect candidate for president of the united states, lol

let's just not mention Joe Biden again until 2021-01-20, he's not relevant

Can't wait to vote for Generic D. Candidate of the great state of Winnemac in November!

I mean, people aren't voting for him because of his policies or his ability to lead, they voted for him because he's got "electability" and they foolishly think that their Republican friends will vote for him for the sake of "sanity"

[]he's going to be nominee because everyone united to make sure a progressive wouldn't get it[/i]

you drew the right conclusions from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, etc.

a candidate's qualities should kind of sneak up on you right after the voting part, keeps things fresh

so did you!

we did a great job!

xp

there is no point in demonstrating leadership until after the election

Tony [to Joe]: “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you show leadership.”

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Remember, be careful removing Joe from his packaging as he is very fragile. If you are under the age of 12, get a parent to help you.

is that because he's made of glass? thank you for clarifying your point wasn't quite crystal the first hundred times you dropped this sub-Morbsian nickname

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/punchout/images/4/41/R7P_C18_GlassJoe_E_ad--article_image.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20090520154705

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" they foolishly think that their Republican friends will vote for him for the sake of "sanity""

look, I voted for Warren and was hoping for Sanders in the end but I do in fact know a few people who are essentially Republicans (I think they maybe are registered 'no party preference' but they always vote Republican) who will vote for him for exactly this reason.

cool they can form the base of one of the two post-Democratic-schism parties together.

I take it no one is watching Bernie's live town hall right now? He's killing it, as usual.

Never mind, some bozo is now singing a very terrible song

i continue to believe that joe would be an improvement on trump

challopsy!

Inslee giving a live presser right now that's a horrendous reminder that if voters wanted an old white guy who sounds reassuring, at least it could have been one with good policies, a strong legislative record, who does research, and who cares about people.

(and speaks in long, coherent sentences)

Inslee is great, I wish he would have gained some sort of momentum

In theory I agree that the Democratic nominee does have political power and shouldn’t be making himself scarecrow, but when that nominee is Joe Biden...maybe it’s not the worst idea. I don’t think anyone on this board really thinks he’s capable of delivering effective rhetoric that will benefit the country and his electoral chances right now. Instead I feel like people just want him to get out there and make a bumbling ass of himself so they can say “shoulda been Bernie!” Which is not super helpful to anyone right now. For better or (mostly) worse, Joe’s the guy we’ve got.

Haha scarce not scarecrow though honestly maybe scarecrow is more apt here

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My man.

For better or (mostly) worse, Joe’s the guy we’ve got.

Half the states still have to vote. If Joe did appear in public and have a complete meltdown, would you think folks should still rally behind him?

For anyone who was still curious (if there's anyone...feels like a million years ago now), the donor makeup of Persist PAC is out now.

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00739110/1391696//sa/ALL

lol, the biggest donor there basically just writes checks to every Democrat... and Joe Arpaio

Money to Candidates JURVETSON, KARLA
LOS ALTOS, CA 94022 PHYSICIAN 05-09-2018 $2,700.00 Arpaio, Joe (R)