2020 Democratic presidential primary

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.

she's fucking killing this.

good, let's put the damn stake in Biden's heart already:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-supports-hyde-amendment-splits-2020-dems/story?id=63506190

Fuck Tom Perez.

Gov. Inslee is exactly right. Climate change is the biggest challenge we face. Every candidate running for president should have a serious set of policies to address it, and should be eager to defend those proposals in a debate. https://t.co/6uprXIJKa2

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 6, 2019

Jay Inslee Says He May Defy the DNC on a Climate Change Debate

I sure hope he does.

seconded

totally makes sense for him to do it. it helps the cause he's trying to promote. even if he were to participate in one of the main debates, he would get 1/12th of the questions. he could make all of his answers about climate change in some way, but it would be easily drowned out by the rest of the debate. a sacrilegious climate change debate would be entirely about his primary issue, and would get much more attention than it would have without the DNC's unwelcome boner.

is warren insinuating that she would also 'defy the DNC' and attend a non-sanctioned climate change debate? it seems like it, and i hope all the other leading candidates do the same. if there's critical mass perhaps the DNC will relent

Whew! That didn't take long.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday reversed his support for the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits most federal funding for abortion, after facing nearly two days of vigorous backlash from many in his own party.

Mr. Biden denounced the amendment in a speech before a Democratic National Committee gala in Georgia, where the Republican governor recently signed into law a far-reaching anti-abortion bill. A number of Republican-led states, mostly in the South, have passed restrictive abortion laws in recent months.

Mr. Biden cited those efforts, calling them “extreme laws,” as he explained his decision to change course on an issue that had been the latest example of Mr. Biden’s refusal to bow to Democratic Party litmus tests.

“If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s zip code,” Mr. Biden said.

When Joe Biden sexually harasses 14 year old girls, do you think he ever goes, "hey, they call me Grow Biden. Wanna see why?"

no

True. That's why my vote is committed to Elizabeth Warren. She talks the talk, baby.

Hail Jupiter. Hail Rome.

oh god another "comedy" account

I haven’t figured out who they’re targeting. Hope they don’t think they’re getting Zion