2020 Democratic presidential primary

favorite movies:

Kamala Harris: My Cousin Vinny
Pete Buttigieg: The Godfather, Gangs of New York
Julian Castro: The Breakfast Club
Cory Booker: Star Wars, Rocky, and In the Heat of the Night
Michael Bennet: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jay Inslee: The Wizard of Oz
Bill de Blasio: Seven Days in May
Steve Bullock: Fletch
Marianne Williamson: The Mission

It’s settled- I guess I’m for Bullock

My Cousin Vinny is a pretty good choice too. Really anything that actually feels a little personal and not like you were going for the “right” answer (*coughmayorpetecough*)

Pete Buttigieg: The Godfather, Gangs of New York

God, he can't even be gay in movie taste.

MCV is fairly accurate as far as court proceedings go too.

mayor pete was created by committee in a basement lab of the progressive policy institute

all these people have shitty taste

gravel's favorite movie is Warhol's Empire. go ahead, chuck todd, fight me

Beto: Dead Poets Society

warren: mr smith goes to washington

Biden: Two Hands

trump: birth of a nation

Pence: Salò

nah Beto's is Repo Man

O RLY?

https://imgix.bustle.com/rehost/2016/9/13/16350431-457f-4589-8d56-239ad6e4e561.jpg?w=970&h=546&fit=crop&crop=faces&auto=format&q=70

Betos is stand and deliver

BETO: It never occurred to me, that a desk, a simple classroom desk, could be stood on. As I lift the theatre and headed to a Punk Show, I wondered what else I could stand on. A world of possibilities was opened...

BETO all desk, no legs

surely beto's is slacker

This is the most traction Beto's had in ages.

waiting for Bernie to let loose with The Battle of Algiers

the Beto thing sucks so much because he basically is a dipshit but would be far better than whichever Texas chud senator sociopath he had a shot at beating

now his presidential campaign has been such a shitshow I think he's probably toast as a Senate candidate

yup

he'll be lucky if he gets a low level cabinet post out of this

...or an opening slot for Mars Votla

But seriously, here's what's up Re: Unseating Cornyn.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/19/local-democrats-hoping-statewide-appeal-texas-us-senate-race/

do Bullock/Ryan/Bennet really have better polling numbers / more donors than Gravel? let the old bastard in imo

Gravel has more donors but the DNC deliberately left him off polls to juke his numbers down, so that he wouldn't be able to accurately say that Biden sucks, on TV

I thought the debate rules had to do with how people did in various national polls, not any polling the DNC was doing itself? Or am I misinformed?

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/19/local-democrats-hoping-statewide-appeal-texas-us-senate-race/

When I saw MJ Hegar's campaign video with her riding a Harley, I knew she was doomed. Old, white and moderate is not what's going to get anyone excited against someone who's not hated nearly on the level of Cruz.

Not THE Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation?

lmao

If someone proposed a “radical” idea called public education today, Beto would try to warn us that 180 million Americans would be kicked out of their schools.

Let’s leave the lazy fear mongering tactics to Trump. https://t.co/qKJ6IrlGWT

— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 20, 2019

I thought the debate rules had to do with how people did in various national polls, not any polling the DNC was doing itself? Or am I misinformed?

the DNC is counting polls that don't include him as an option aiui

de blasio otm

you hate to see it

the DNC is counting polls that don't include him as an option aiui

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), 20. juli 2019 21:33 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Has he otherwise polled at 2%?

DiBlasio has been A+ as a presidential candidate

Has he otherwise polled at 2%?

― Frederik B, Saturday, July 20, 2019 3:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

According to 538, there's only one poll in which Gravel has met the initial 1% requirement. In that poll, he got 2% in response to the question "Which of these candidates are you considering supporting?" -- with the ability for respondents to choose multiple candidates. On the narrower question of which ONE candidate would you choose if the election were held today, he got 0%.

The problem with being a presidential candidate who says openly that you're not in it to actually become president is that people tend to write off your campaign as self-serving bullshit.

Or even if they like what you're saying, people might plan to vote for someone else.

you can think it’s quixotic or a waste of time or annoying or disrespectful or a distraction from real issues, but it’s literally impossible to read David Oks’ & Henry Williams’ campaign for someone else to call out the DNC on television & shame worthless candidates as “self”-serving

So who does it serve?

The 9th grader they hired to triage their email?

Yeah, these two teens whose names you all of a sudden know could definitely never be thinking they would get something out of this... lol

The purpose of the Gravel campaign is to expose the US to political perspectives further to the left than Bernie Sanders. They want to do this for a few reasons:
-Expose those watching the debates to leftist ideas
-Call out the imperialist records and intentions of the more centrist candidates to damage their campaigns
-Provide a further-left foil to Bernie Sanders, allowing the Sanders campaign more room to maneuver and potentially pull them further to the left.

Those are the stated goals of the Gravel teens from their interview on the Current Affairs podcast. In an interview with Gravel on the Srsly Wrong podcast, he stated similar goals, but also emphasized that he wants to promote an idea he has of changing the political system to promote direct democracy.

Y'all are way to cynical. You should remember that the thing that tends to differentiate the far left from other political tendencies is that they actually believe what they're saying.

xps - Of those three goals, there's a chance that the first could be achieved in a quite minimal way, but wholly dependent on channels outside broadcast or print media. The other two goals cannot be achieved without success in the first one more substantial than what has been achieved so far. In presidential politics numbers don't have much meaning until they reach at least a million.

Right, they’re just thoroughly incompetent at achieving it, and yet still really, really good at blaming everyone else when they fall short.

Y'all are way to cynical. You should remember that the thing that tends to differentiate the far left from other political tendencies is that they actually believe what they're saying.

these two teens whose names you all of a sudden know could definitely never be thinking they would get something out of this

I had to look ‘em up just for the purpose of typing them itt. And if they do get something out of it, then that’s proof that it wasn’t serving Gravel.

Their stated goal from the start was to get Gravel on the debate stage. They actually did get enough donors to fulfill the DNC's initial requirements for a candidate to get on the stage, but the DNC changed the rules in a way that excludes them. From the start, they've planned to give away all campaign donations to charity.

BTW, apologies for this admittedly stupid post of mine:

Y'all are way to cynical. You should remember that the thing that tends to differentiate the far left from other political tendencies is that they actually believe what they're saying.

I wrote that way too quickly and didn't express what I wanted to. What I was trying to say was this: I tend to trust that far-left politicians believe in what they're saying more often than politicians from other political tendencies because there's not the kind of organized money and power behind the far left that exists for the center and the right. Gravel's rhetoric was never going to win him an election or get big money donors. People don't get rich off of radical left politics.