Your 2020 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

Max Weber would like a word with you

What does he say on the death penalty? I’m very uneducated.

I wondered aloud earlier if there was such a thing as "progressive prosecutors" and then someone went ahead and made a list

There are many examples of truly progressive prosecutors: @SAKimFoxx @Rollins4DA @DALarryKrasner @Bell4STL @ScottColom @kimoggforda Eric Gonzalez in Brooklyn, John Creuzot in Dallas. And more. @KamalaHarris is not in that group. https://t.co/ZSSRPdyq3M

— Lara Bazelon (@larabazelon) January 17, 2019

some come closer than others, but as of year 243 and president 45, the usa has yet to elect a truly progressive president. I'm not going to hold my breath.

how many times in that timespan has a "true progressive" been on the ticket?

Does lincoln count?

Eugene Debs ran on the Socialist ticket, as did Norman Thomas.

A list of names of people I don’t know? That’s good enough for me too.

xp someone? I guess you mean Lara Bazelon

I read two comments on that article before I saw someone bitching about Gillibrand and Franken. Sigh.

Way upthread, sorry but

it was broadly the least sophisticated Facebook meme bullshit that only the most addled right-wing kooks and extreme low-info voters would take at face-value

Which is... um, a lot of people

real small clickthrough rate is all you need

i guess i hadn't seen tulsi gabbard on film before. her apology made her seem lame and stilted.

and insincere honestly. i don't know why these people with no chance are throwing their hats in the ring.

attention

Elie Mystal had a great tweet in response to Gabbard's apology.

Good to apologize.
Your punishment is that you can't be president.

wants a show on RT

is it time to include mike pence in this thread

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/18/larry-hogan-donald-trump-2020-election-1110535

lots going on here

help pic.twitter.com/29b0gxpthJ

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) January 18, 2019

That is like one of those Yes Yes No segments from Reply All, and I'm at No.

we're doomed

oh hell no

LAUSD strike over apparently thanks to mediation by garcetti, so look out for him to announce soon (if the ominous real estate corruption probe of city hall doesn't get too close to him). he sucks btw.

he doesn't have a prayer imo

also yes he sucks

Not much more than “bad somehow when people who aren’t AOC tweet exactly the same way”

“Lots going on here
help pic.twitter.com/29b0gxpthJ
— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) January 18, 2019”

i mean its the pretty embarrassing seeming "socialists for beto" that i think is being dragged most there

i was looking at a predictit for most likely dem nom. kamala was #1 which makes sense but beto was #2 which seems totally wrong to me

Maybe I was just reminded of earlier when Carl didn’t get that Chris Murphy and Brian Schatz have been tweeting that way we’ll before he ever heard of AOC

AOC is going to destroy this site by convincing a bunch of elderly rich career politicians and their weirdo staffers to tweet more and tweet worse. God bless her https://t.co/asF6dyW1Rs

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) January 18, 2019

Increasingly don’t think Beto is running

something tells me the socialists 4 beto account is not entirely serious

pic.twitter.com/QLB3rH780F

— Socialists for Beto (@socialists4beto) December 14, 2018

b-b-b-but then who would politico write about

xp

beto was #2 which seems totally wrong to me

this early it is easier to be wrong than be president. at a guess, I'd say beto is number two by representing the fantasy of a "centrist candidate who can appeal to big money contributors, be a southern white male, and still possibly excite many pieces of the democratic coalition because he's young, good-looking and can be sold to blacks as a not-racist".

i'd rate the following as more likely primary winners than beto: kamala, sanders, warren, sherrod, biden, booker, klobuchar, gillibrand. maybe he'd be right at the end there along klobuchar and gillibrand but no higher than that. i mean this is just based on my gut i don't really know anything.

is anyone good running/going to run

no, there are no good people in politics

unless like, Russ Feingold shows up

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wait until Deez Nuts make a formal announcement imo

i deeznuts do solemnly swear

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LAUSD strike over apparently thanks to mediation by garcetti, so look out for him to announce soon (if the ominous real estate corruption probe of city hall doesn't get too close to him). he sucks btw.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:22 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he could check the 'candidate being investigated by the FBI' box that was so popular with the 2016 candidates for potus

i don't know why these people with no chance are throwing their hats in the ring.

My exact statement watching the 2016 Republican primaries, yet here we are.

Kamala Harris Assembles Campaign Staff Of Unpaid California Prison Laborers https://t.co/t3ctLD1zJa pic.twitter.com/mvttaqnr01

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 22, 2019

the onion has been so on the nose for so long did clickhole drain all their funny writers or something

Yes, probably.

the onion is still chuckleworthy a fair amount of the time but that one (and other recent ones) are basically comrade borowitz

Kamala is Hillary already, great.

Do they still do Resistance Hole? Trying to imagine what it would be like if they devoted a whole spinoff to making fun of Bush critics in 04

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/kamala-2020-harris-fundraising-pac-donations-race-13552974.php

The campaign logo and colors are inspired by the historic campaign of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, who, 47 years ago, became the first black person and first woman to seek the nomination of a major party.

is morbz turning over in his grave yet