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

I just had a vision of Buttigieg Slow Jamming the News and cranked up the meter a little on my ambient desire for death

lol whomst amongst us

So there was a NYT article about online bullying by Bernie supporters, and I keep thinking about this tweet I saw in response:

"The thing I don't understand is why would we want to go up against Trump with someone who doesn't have an online army?"

A perfect example of how fan culture has invaded politics, as Amanda Hess has written.

The Bruenig tweet they were responding to also provides some examples of the grossness/nastiness of supporters and opponents of all kinds of candidates.

not sure where to put this but jesus christ

The members of the team around Bernie Sanders "are about to experience what happens when a militia faces off in on an open field against a ruthless modern army armed with cluster bombs and napalm," warns @DavidFrum. "They will be shredded and torched." https://t.co/jNEfppdtrk

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 27, 2020

Kinda like the embattled farmers in Concord. And you all remember how that went.

willing to bet an atlantic editor had to roll their eyes and remove at least two "literally"s from the copy

the atlantic fucking sucks and harbors transphobes

A ragtag militia of copyeditors facing a well-equipped modern army of highly skilled metaphors

metaphors be with you

there's been a whole ream of "bernie is destined to lose" pieces published today and yesterday, not sure why, weird coincidence

david fucking frum

expert on modern military conditions, such as a militia facing off in on an open field against a ruthless modern army. he sounds exactly like every american dipshit who thought the last half dozen wars would be easy

one of the worst canadians

frum is canadian?

i expect this nonsense from americans, but canadians should really know better imo

born in toronto, dual citizen I think

In 1980, Sanders joined a left-wing party whose presidential candidate condemned “anti-Iranian hysteria around the U.S. hostages” being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, suggesting “that many of them are simply spies … or people assigned to protect the spies,” as Ronald Radosh reported in The Daily Beast. Imagine what Trump and his team will do with that.

Yay. A new Jeremiah Wright

The Mornine Joe hens clucked this morning about Bloomberg replacing Biden as The Moderate Choice should the latter fade in Iowa and New Hampshire. I thought, "Michael who?"

Son of a famous Canadian journalist and brother of a Canadian Senator, lived in Canada until university, moved back as an adult and edited a major Canadian literary magazine, still a foreign national when he was appointed to the White House. We send our best, ugh.xps

there's been a whole ream of "bernie is destined to lose" pieces published today and yesterday, not sure why, weird coincidence

pundits run in herds

Hold up. A US embassy has spies in it?

Re-litigating the Carter Administration seems like a wonderful idea to while away the time as we wait for the Iowans to make their momentous announcement about who is electable.

i expect this nonsense from americans, but canadians should really know better imo

― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, January 27, 2020 12:01 PM (one hour ago)

grim, grim lol

if david frum is good at one thing, it's accurately predicting who will win a war between a guerilla militia and a ruthless modern army

thank fuck the long-predicted Biden erosion has finally, blessedly, (apparently) hit - changes since December

#National @EchelonInsights Poll (1/20-23):
Biden 26%
Sanders 23%
Bloomberg 13%
Warren 10%
Buttigieg 7%
Klobuchar 3%
Yang 3%

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) January 27, 2020

sorry meant to say that's -11 Biden, +9 Sanders over that period for their polling

if the people trying to make klobuchar happen would just try 7 to 9 times harder

bloomberg # would be more worrisome to me if he weren't suicidally skipping the early states

worrying that the 4 centrists are still pulling in 49% collectively

unless three of them drop out in the near future, that doesn't concern me too much

If there is “Stop X” movement, put your money on X.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 25, 2020

This is how @BernieSanders operates. He sends disrupters to @JoeBiden events and now he sends a pack of gypsies to his campaign office to cause a scene.

Is this really what you want, Democrats? https://t.co/XlG0p5KWPE

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) January 28, 2020

Back to the gypsy that I was
To the gypsy that I was

Pobrecito!

In early December, more than 100 members of Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign staff gathered at the South Bend City Church a mile from headquarters for a mandatory half-day retreat about diversity and inclusion. Less than two months remained before the start of voting, a time when most campaigns are focused full-time on politics.

Buttigieg advisers say the retreat was part of an ongoing effort to foster a progressive culture that empowered employees of color. For some of these staff members, however, the workplace itself was a problem, and working for a candidate with so little support from black and Hispanic voters had become demoralizing.

In interviews, current and former staff members of color said they believed that senior Buttigieg officials didn’t listen to their concerns and ideas about the campaign. One said there was a daily “emotional weight” on people of color who felt they were employed in order to help the campaign meet its ambitious diversity targets. Some Hispanic employees felt disrespected when managers asked them to translate text, even if they didn’t speak Spanish.

Who is Chris D. Jackson, aside from a dick?

Ibram X Kendi

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-i-fear-a-moderate-candidate/605608/

Like, that this shit has 2,000 likes

Hillary Clinton https://t.co/M5VFcfS9p1

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 29, 2020

is testament to the "internet of beefs" theory

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

No one can seriously believe for a second that Hillary Clinton would support Donald Trump over nominee Sanders, or that Sanders would support Donald Trump over nominee Joe Biden. It's just a huge amount of bullshit people say without believing it in order to elicit "hyuk hyuk you showed 'em" from people on their "side." Fuck it. Sorry.

Not even Morbs would say so.

No, he’d just post the Trump wedding photo again. And again. And again...

It's just a huge amount of bullshit people say without believing it

Like... a joke?

people repeat bullshit without even knowing what it means. and other people believe it

Plus she's had more friendly dinners with Trump than Sanders so I mean...

it's a joke. like most of the rest of her tweets

ted nooooooo

https://i.imgur.com/Uit0Vg1.jpg

in her heart of hearts, she'd like to. to own the Bros. xxp

xp all our heroes end up disappointing us

Brandy is definitely joking.

I don't think that takes away from eephus's point. The joke "works" because it relies on and reinforces her followers' negative opinion of Clinton.

The Biden/Bernie age gap in the Democratic Party continues to be absolutely WILD. Per latest @QuinnipiacPoll Biden wins 5x as many senior Dems as Sanders. Sanders meanwhile wins 17x (!!!) more under 35s than Biden. pic.twitter.com/d0UVsjtYec

— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) January 29, 2020

Ready for the “Bernie is grooming young voters” attacks

Lol, the seniors have Bloomberg 2nd and Klobuchar 3rd.

Dish of Licorice Allsorts 2020