2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

an ouija board made of arugula

is pete a CAP favorite?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fuuuuuck this dude.

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

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

basically, this dude is a fuckin charlatan

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

It would still legitimize this artificial polarity we have now

Or entrench

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!

Karl

that IS the aspirational vision of the future

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

Obama waited til he was prez b4 announcing his preemptive compromises

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

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

managed democracy iirc

nothing changes but there's always something to retweet

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

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

lol

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.

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

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.

All the Præsidentens Mænd

he fucked that elephant up

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

— Jamal Raad (@jamalraad) June 5, 2019

don't scare the electorate with sacrifice

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

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.

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

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

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

^^^

the hell

Warren on Chris Hayes' show tonight -- townhall.