2020 Democratic presidential primary

leaning in this direction tbh

http://orig12.deviantart.net/af34/f/2009/039/9/0/kneel_before_zod_by_p5ychic.jpg

I see a lot of chatting but I don't see anyone polling that motherfucker.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/road_rules_7051.jpg

Warren coming for Biden in CA...

Elizabeth Warren's veiled jab at Biden: "Some say that if we just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses. But our country is in a crisis. The time for small ideas is over." #CADem19

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 1, 2019

"When a candidate tells you about all the things that aren’t possible, about how political calculations come first... they are telling you that they will not fight for you."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 1, 2019

wow mom

light it up

It's Liz, fam.

that is the good stuff

she has my vote

yep

Time for me to pony up a bit more money. She's earning it.

meanwhile, elsewhere https://splinternews.com/a-deeply-depressing-story-about-kirsten-gillibrands-sin-1835146804

misleading URLs

Pramila Jayapal otm as usual; should be speaker imo

This is why Democrats should remember we have to inspire our base, instead of focusing on elusive swing voters. In 2018, even in many swing districts, progressives helped provide margins of victory. Don't ever take these folks for granted. https://t.co/1Fm1Gvy0Fr

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 1, 2019

which is why they should open an impeachment inquiry

I hate Splinter. that Gillibrand article just reads like gossip

As far as I can tell, Gillibrand has not given people a single reason to support her candidacy. Forget sexism - Warren and Harris are eating her lunch.

(BTW, I think today’s incident where some man-bun douchebag invaded the stage and stole Harris’s mic - and was somehow not immediately butchered in the parking lot) is gonna give her a serious boost in cable-news and Sunday-show land.)

Based on recent observation, unless Gillibrand is corralling some heavy hitters in Iowa or New Hampshire to help her stump for votes, or lightning strikes and she suddenly captures the hearts and minds of Iowa soybean farmers and assorted NH small town dwellers, she'll be toast by March 1, 2020. She's drowning in obscurity along with Inslee (who at least has a signature issue) and no one's tossing her a life preserver.

there are really only like 4 legit candidates rn. biden, sanders, warren, and harris. i guess buttigieg but im struggling to see how he passes up all 4 of the aforementioned.

buttigieg is the "just happy to be in the conversation at all" candidate

isn’t pete basically running for governor of Indiana via the presidency rn

could be. it's hard to tell what he thinks he is doing, other than gaining prominence via free media coverage.

i can imagine him "winning" debates in the media narrative sense and staying up with that top group. he's one of those candidates who seem like they really have to win iowa (klobuchar too). that's not outside the realms of possibility, but it's not likely and even then he's going to get like 1% in SC. this has been a horse race post, i'm sorry.

Pete is the closest thing to a “next Obama” not to be confused with Biden’s “next to Obama” so for that reason alone I still think he has a shot.

Is he the youngest white man who’s not a *complete* pud?

Hillary ran as the "continuation of Obama" candidate in 2016. It's a strategy that can float you through the primaries, but may not work any better against Trump in 2020, mainly because anyone with a brain can see that Biden is not Obama. Nor is Pete Boot-Edge-Edge, which he'll prove decisively in SC.

Liz wants to fight green wars

Bernie Bernie Bernie

that's not what liz wants morbs

and bernie has his flaws too

That guy who stormed the Kamala's stage should be arrested for not being able to read a room.

"sir you are under arrest for bad vibes and not getting it."

I just saw the video, some fucking stupid beardo running at and taking the mic from two black women, I would've stabbed him myself.

ugh, correction he wasn't running because I know someone will bring that up

Never trust a man with a bun.

Warren tackling Biden.

Here’s the thing: When a candidate tells you about all the things that aren’t possible, about how political calculations come first, they’re telling you something very important. They’re telling you that they will not fight for you. Not me. I’m here to fight for our country. pic.twitter.com/SZBBUkfomi

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 2, 2019

I wish the video had been of Warren tackling Biden.

^ That bit should be in her stump speech from now to the convention. After the nomination it wouldn't work against Trump because he happily promises five impossible things in any quarter hour and his most serious political calculations concern how to nickname his opponents.

Beardo also rushed the stage with Bernie in 2016 so I guess that's his thing.

oh no I meant that Warren should have physically tackled Biden.

^^She's got a plan for that!

lol

"It calls for expanding the number of justices from nine to 15, with five affiliated with Democrats, five affiliated with Republicans, and five apolitical justices chosen by the first 10." https://t.co/G0xSW1D2cC

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) June 3, 2019

fun fact, pete: everything is political

you fucking doofus

lol wasn't this a West Wing episode or something?

if it wasn't aaron sorkin must be kicking himself rn

idk--if it was really possible to pack the courts I would expect that McConnel and Trump would have already raised the number of justices to the membership count of the Federalist Society

You’re not my mayor, Pete. That’s fucking dumb.

Overton and all that. Love the Overton, always the Overton. Yay Overton.

when does this thing wrap up

Under the plan, most justices would continue serving life terms. Five would be affiliated with the Republican Party and five with the Democratic Party. Those 10 would then join together to choose five additional justices from U.S. appeals courts, or possibly the district-level trial courts. They’d have to settle on the nonpolitical justices unanimously — or at least with a “strong supermajority.”

They final five would serve one-year, nonrenewable terms. They’d be chosen two years in advance, to prevent nominations based on anticipated court cases, and if the 10 partisan justices couldn’t agree on the final five, the Supreme Court would be deemed to lack a quorum and couldn’t hear cases that term.

oh okay so this is a way to ensure the supreme court never, ever gets to hear a case ever again, mayor pete is actually lowkey down to subvert the entire system and i'm 100% behind it

so lower court rulings would stand which have been packed with federalist society dickholes, cool