2020 Democratic presidential primary

it's fucking risible that the full-time internet Richard Nixon RPer finds a politician goofing on The West Wing beyond the pale

Internet Dick Nixon and Aaron Sorkin doing basically the same shtick with different budgets

no wonder I don't pay attention to either of them.

for the best

I'm very surprised to see Warren and Harris poll so low, though.

If you lived here, you wouldn't be so surprised.

Fred B not having the keenest insight into US politics shocker

Twitter Dick is in character

also Sorkin is the devil

Mayor Pete's dad >>>> Mayor Pete

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttigieg

I'm very surprised to see Warren and Harris poll so low, though.

somewhat surprised and significantly bummed, hopefully Biden fucks off by the end of the week. the only good thing abt the campaigning starting so soon is that we get time to run him off early

I wish the US had an equal time rule that applied to tv and print.

finally got around to the CA article on mayor pete and nathan j robinson seems pretty otm about him, though he probably didn't need 11k words to do it

he's his own editor, is the problem.

to repurpose an old saw, a man who edits himself has a fool for an editor

Not going to vote for the Butt but I hope he sticks around to keep driving the right kind of people nuts

https://imgur.com/VnfF6K2

https://i.imgur.com/VnfF6K2.png

^^^ this makes me like him more.

I can't even with that Nathan J Peterson guy.

errr Robinson. Sanderson. Making 'white dudes type paragraphs'.

NEWS: Two more women have come forward telling the NYT that Joe Biden touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable. By @SherylNYT & @melbournecoal https://t.co/jlFDSl3dJL

— Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) April 2, 2019

shocking.

i gotta give it up for "chip off the ol' eastern bloc," that is an A++ headline

robinson is pretty much an idiot, but i assume current affairs will eventually write a terrible attack dog piece on any candidate who isn't bernie sanders

I did not know Pete B did not come out to the public until 3 years into his first term.

In the 2010s, I'm not sure that's very flattering to him.

enh NJR has written definitive, useful takedowns of a lot of right-wing goons we all hate, "idiot" seems unwarranted xp

That piece fairly used Mayor Pete’s own words to identify him as a likable technocrat who hasn’t demonstrated an interest in economic justice.

Don’t really get the objection to it.

nathan j robinson: harvard is a terrible place that produces terrible people. don't trust anyone with ivy league credentials.

also nathan j robinson: I am completing a harvard PhD to go with my yale law degree. trust me.

also nathan j robinson: allow me to say in 20,000 words what Hadrian just said in 10, but i'll make it less convincing and more irritating and more about me

otm

Agreed he belabors the point but knocking Harvard from the inside doesn’t scan as hypocrisy to me

In the 2010s, I'm not sure that's very flattering to him.

I'm pretty sure each person gets to choose when and how they come out, morbs. Whether it flatters them is kind of a tertiary consideration.

Yeah, I don't really get the hate for Robinson's piece. 'Overlong' is the only criticism here that makes sense to me. Even the Ivy League thing, he basically addresses in the piece, using Abdul El-Sayed as an example of someone who came from elite schools but is critical of technocratic solutions and has generally good politics. I assume he sees himself in a similar way (or hopes to convince the reader to see him that way). As he poses it, the valedictorian/Harvard/Rhodes pedigree is a reason for skepticism, but not outright rejection. You can disagree with this, but I don't see the hypocrisy.

t's just hard not to come away from that article without thinking Robinson is projecting his own feelings and agenda on Buttigieg

*hard to come away

not to just roll the otm back and forth but yeah, the piece told me a lot about nathan j robinson but not much about pete buttigieg.

I'm pretty sure each person gets to choose when and how they come out, morbs.

Haven't been able to discover any further details, but when one is a politician, other elements enter the picture, like whether it was delayed until he could secure power.

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i regret to inform you that the bernard brothers are at it again

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign Tuesday announced that it raised $18.2 million from more than 500,000 donors since he entered the 2020 presidential campaign in February.

The haul is the most of any Democratic presidential candidate so far. California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg have also reported impressive totals for the first quarter of the year, which ended on Sunday.

Harris has raised $12 million, while Buttigieg, largely unknown before his presidential campaign announcement, has taken in $7 million. The political world is watching to see what ex-Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke has raised after saying he had pulled in $6.1 million in his first day, topping Sanders' one-day total of $5.9 million.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper each said they raised $1 million in 24 hours. Another candidate to watch is Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the biggest names running, who raised a relatively modest sum of $300,000 on her first partial day in the race.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5u6MugHQz0o/hqdefault.jpg

NJR is a very good essayist but it’s not exactly the toughest gig, he’s not responsible for actually solving any problems.

CNN assesses Bernie's odds.

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com%2F81%2F79%2Fb783aeb4e6990a538518b755378d72e5.jpg&f=1

Building a national organization is about a lot more than money, but money helps to pay staff and open campaign offices, so it does have an impact this early.

Oh ffs

INBOX: FOX News to host Town Hall with Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders pic.twitter.com/kLw7NiOBrk

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) April 3, 2019

why not

I like this

Bernie will do his thing, and maybe some regular Fox viewers who wouldn't normally watch or hear Bernie speak will tune in.

Maybe if he doesn't win the nomination, he can become a regular guest on Tucker Carlson.

anything that F.B. disapproves of has got to work

Somebody explaining to a live audience of confused ppl how social security and medicare work

i for one am looking forward to bernie putting bret baier in a sleeper hold and going off the top rope on martha mccallum before cutting a promo where he says trump is too chicken to fcae him in a rage-in-a-cage match

annoying, but on balance not really worse than Mayor Pete going on Bill Maher, which I didn't notice anyone here knocking him for

i would suggest that njr isn't a good essayist but when a deserving target is in his sights he can be very entertaining

I don't have a problem with anyone "going on" Bill Maher (or Fox News) per se.