2020 Democratic presidential primary

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so mayor pete is at the policy braintrust level of a random dude writing a three paragraph "now hear me out, i have this idea" stranger commenting on a friend's facebook post, cool

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

haha for a guy who has been holding back on policy details this is a hilariously specific bad one

Oh you want details? I'll show you details: Capital punishment, yes, but only in states beginning with vowels

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link

...from Sunday to Tuesday, and alternate Wednesdays. The rest of the time, it's states beginning with consonants. I believe this is doable, and as something which is halfway to a total solution, this will, in time, allow us to assess whether the people want us to continue down this path.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link

Only a white gay man from South Bend can view "apolitical" as a kiss.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link

me thinking about how much more “mike gravel” will be tweeting when summer vacation starts pic.twitter.com/9yP8rnNeZN

— andy s (@CIAGoFundMe) May 29, 2019

Simon H., Monday, 3 June 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link

Pete is gay, so no amount of stupidity is gonna dry up the money

what keeps the real money flowing isn't that he's gay but that 1) he isn't bernie and 2) a ouija board told the center for american progress millennials would love him lmao

difficult listening hour, Monday, 3 June 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link

an ouija board made of arugula

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link

is pete a CAP favorite?

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link

i was using them as metonymy i guess but was thinking of when the nyt dropped his name in passing:

The matter of What To Do About Bernie and the larger imperative of party unity has, for example, hovered over a series of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners in New York and Washington organized by the longtime party financier Bernard Schwartz. The gatherings have included scores from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California; Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader; former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., himself a presidential candidate; and the president of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden.

difficult listening hour, Monday, 3 June 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link

all those people are big plugged-in deals anyone might expect to be at such a series of dinners-- except one of them, the one who's a presidential candidate

difficult listening hour, Monday, 3 June 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link

these people aren't just chickenshits, they're also bad at their jobs. if anything, they should be getting behind Kamala.

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link

"Son of a bitch, there he goes again with his hand on the chicken switch!"

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link

Beto: I paid my bill!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tale-invoices-beto-orourke-pays-el-paso-donald/story?id=63350337

The bills came due for both: Beto For America owed the city $28,630.50 for his March campaign launch; he had already paid $7,609.14 of that as a deposit. The remainder was due May 24. They paid on time -- just under the wire -- with a check dated the day prior to the deadline.

El Paso also billed Donald J. Trump for President Inc. for his "Make America Great Again" rally -- for nearly half a million dollars. The invoice was sent to the campaign's Fifth Avenue offices in New York on March 27. It was due April 26, and El Paso has yet to see a dime.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link

I started the New Yorker profile yesterday afternoon, but I jumped into the pool. Forgive me it was so delicious, so sweet, so cold.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link

so mayor pete is at the policy braintrust level of a random dude


I read this as “policy bratwurst level”

Carry on

El Tomboto, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link

i can’t find it right now, but i’m reminded of matt’s observation regarding the west wing that even in liberals’ greatest fantasy they’ve compromised instead of won pic.twitter.com/xhEMUJ0h39

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) June 3, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link

I remember now-- Bartlett decides to nominate two justices--a liberal AND a conservative, because he sees the two of them arguing respectfully

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link

The Booty Judge has also made a point of stating he would not have "forced Al Franken to resign".

Fuuuuuck this dude.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link

he's just losing all the points he won by having read a book

don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link

Wouldn’t buttigieg’s plan enshrine the two party systwm (and thus the republican party) permanently in the constitution?

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link

basically, this dude is a fuckin charlatan

be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link

Maybe it wouldn’t require a constitutional amendment—i forget where the 9 justice thing comes from

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link

It would still legitimize this artificial polarity we have now

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link

Or entrench

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link

There’s no way it is coming anywhere close to happening, anyway.

Which, uh, is not a good sign for a policy proposal. If you’re proposing something that isn’t happening anyway, at least make it aspirational and a vision of the future you want, rather than an idiotic preemptive compromise!

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link

Karl

that IS the aspirational vision of the future

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link

My thing is why don't you kick out the 10 hyperpartisan judges and just go with the 5 androids

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link

Obama waited til he was prez b4 announcing his preemptive compromises

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link

Because the hyperpartisan judges are needed to choose the nonpartisan judges. Every year. It’s gonna be a well-oiled machine

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link

"let's have the worst parts of hyperpartisan stasis and institutional churn, that would be a perfect system"

Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link

managed democracy iirc

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link

nothing changes but there's always something to retweet

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link

he should restate this plan but in Norweigian, that'll sell it

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link

"Jeg kom opp med ideen mens jeg så på The West Wing"

be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link

lol

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link

Wouldn’t buttigieg’s plan enshrine the two party systwm (and thus the republican party) permanently in the constitution?

If only he had been around in the 19th century, the Whigs would still be guaranteed the Supreme Court Justices they deserve.

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link

we need 5 supreme court justices for every political ideology with its own wikipedia page

Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 02:55 (five years ago) link

The West Wing is called 'Presidenten' in Norwegian, and 'Præsidentens Mænd' in Danish, which is, like, one of the most sexist retitlings in the history of television.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link

All the Præsidentens Mænd

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link

he fucked that elephant up

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link

BREAKING: Today the @DNC told the @JayInslee campaign that they will not host a climate debate.

— Jamal Raad (@jamalraad) June 5, 2019

Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link

don't scare the electorate with sacrifice

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link

how about including climate change as a question in any of the debates this year? that would be an improvement over 2016, at least. they could just include the climate question as part of the overall suite of questions. you know, a real "All of the Above" strategy for the climate question

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link

the cool candidates should just organize their own climate-specific debate, honestly. "we are here because while we disagree on some specifics, we agree with the american people and with scientists worldwide that we face perhaps the greatest crisis in our history, and we believe we owe it to the voters to talk turkey" etc. etc.

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link

the cool candidates should just organize their own climate-specific debate, honestly

on that subject

.@JayInslee says in a statement that the DNC turned down his request for a climate debate and "if we participated in anyone else's climate debate, we will not be invited to future debates." pic.twitter.com/uT628MnoS0

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) June 5, 2019

Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link

Counterpoint: I don't care so long as negotiations with debate moderators include climate change questions.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link

xp wow I didn't think I could hate the DNC any more than I already did but there ya go

Ambient Police (sleeve), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link

^^^

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link

the hell

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link

Warren on Chris Hayes' show tonight -- townhall.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link


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