2020 Democratic presidential primary

what does weaponizing pedantry mean

I know you were joking, and it's already June, but I can't think of anyone else who could get in at this stage and actually upset the apple cart except for Stacey Abrams. I wonder how much support she'd siphon off from Biden, Harris, and Warren.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, June 9, 2019 6:30 PM (three hours ago)

what...makes you say this?

― k3vin k., Sunday, June 9, 2019 10:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was just a reply to the joke about Tim Kaine, ffs. I do feel her presence would shake things up, though, because she would immediately get a ton of press in ways people like Tim Ryan and Bill de Blasio haven't and the DNC itself loves her.

We have twenty other people shaking things up who would do well to shake thing sup in their Senate and local House races, among whom is Stacey Abrams.

We are in June 2019 more likely to retake the White House than to win back the Senate, a prospect which should terrify Democrats, and if the DNC had any strategy it would be prefacing every fundraising email with this terrifying possibility.

Y'all, I'm not saying she should or will enter the race for the presidency. I'm just saying she's the only person left out there who'd make waves. I was super disappointed she opted not to chase David Perdue out of the senate, but I'm not the boss of her.

shes not though because no one know who she is

Sure, ok.

I see, Harris lying about 'always fighting against the death penalty' is bullshit. as you were

That article was standard NYT “hobble any Dem showing actual potential” bullshit.

fwiw they've run them on Sanders and other candidates too. Because *adults* know that ALL pols lie, exaggerate, dissemble, etc.

How pathetic is Kamala Harris? Even DiFi signed this exceedingly modest resolution opposing Israeli land theft, while Madame Prosecutor refused...https://t.co/jZqnsF1dUN

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 9, 2019

okay i'm backing eric swalwell now

Eric Swalwell: "To my fellow candidates, I consider us all a part of being the Avengers. The Republicans in 2016, that was the Hunger Games. We are in this, and with your help and support, to save this country we love so much."

— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) June 9, 2019

did someone post his "please clap" moment here cause it's incredible

I know virtually nothing about the Avengers but Swalwell is definitely Hawkeye, right? aka the useless one?

also his merch rules

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-fdvi4n7ufr/images/stencil/500x659/products/41/25/ericSwalwell_shoelaces__02337.1554502048.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on

if "swallowed" isn't his campaign theme song i'm not interested

c'mon feel the ericmentum #swallwelling in your heart

oh man I had no idea #swalwelling was a thing

it sounds like a medical condition

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Gavin_Rossdale.jpg/220px-Gavin_Rossdale.jpg

SWAWELLED
BORREWELLED

if your #swallwelling continues for more than four hours, seek immediate advice from a physician

so Swalwell began a meme by posting pictures of his own feet
sounds like a qualification

Swallwell addressing the fervid foot fetish contingent of the Dem primary base iirc

what does weaponizing pedantry mean

i've had irritations with politifact over how they've stated the "fact" under interrogation, creating an easy set-up to address it in a way that's contrary to the common understanding. some things that they present for evaluation make no sense without the particular context of the original quote, so through omission you gain the ability to create context

I can't keep track of who works for whom anymore, and why it matters.

for me, it's realizing that my friends who attended/organized backyard gatherings for Clinton in 2015 are being contacted by the same people to arrange events for Harris, now

I think I'm completely done thinking about this shit for a couple weeks, or at least until I'm trying to drive home from work and there's one of these candidates blocking the street again

more likely to retake the White House than to win back the Senate, a prospect which should terrify Democrats, and if the DNC had any strategy

i honestly believe that nothing terrifies the current leaders of the democratic party more than being in charge of both chambers & the WH and *actually* having to govern. things are so much better when gee whiz your hands are just tied but hey there's a villain to fundraise off of

also animates the GOP tbh

I was gonna say, there's an axis where "Democrats and Republicans are the same" pans out

imagine a world with leaders who want to govern

(hashtag elizabeth warren)

Bill dB. tied with Wayne Messam

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Mayor-Bill-de-Blasio-Gets-Zero-Votes-President-in-Major-Iowa-Poll-511043892.html

Blomentum!

poll

Here is the walk-out song playlist for the candidates at the Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame campaign yesterday. The songs were chosen by the campaigns. pic.twitter.com/Aphykxt322

— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) June 10, 2019

Yang wins

Not if Sanders used the Public Enemy track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6slqBRZsY

unsure if Gravel can still walk but based on his advisors I can only assume his tune would be "Goop on ya Grinch"

xposts -- eh i'd say the GOP is more than happy to exercise their power when they have it, polls/ pop opinion of their objectives be damned.

that's just too many fuckin candidates

Who says they're fuckin

First debate question: raise your hand if you’re still fucking

*Mayor Pete triumphantly raises his hand*

plz don't feed the Biden

Can we talk for a minute how Yang walked out to a song that everyone remembers mainly for the lyric "YOU LIIIIIIIED TO ME"

did di blasio really do "rudy can't fail"?

that feels like a joke

much like etc etc

at this point I'm just here to make easy jokes

(note: when the primary season turns serious, I will also be here for easy jokes only interspersed with intermittent anguished "YOUR POLITICAL ENNUI WILL MURDER MY CHILDREN" rants)

i sat one table from de Blasio at a szechuan restaurant before he was mayor and he talked about how Giuliani snubbed him at Yankee Stadium.

https://www.spin.com/2019/05/bill-de-blasio-cnn-interview-ska/

if he used tosh's 'legalize it,' maybe he would've gotten at least 1 vote

did di blasio really do "rudy can't fail"?

I approve of Warren using "9 to 5"