2020 Democratic presidential primary

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Going for the OA stan vote

smdh

If we truly care about lifting up every voice and fighting on behalf of the issues that keep Americans up at night, let’s start by making our conversations civil and productive. #YouDontHaveToYell pic.twitter.com/OLsP1qeSze

— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) July 31, 2019

WHY IS THAT IN ALL CAPS THEN

to which the only sane response is: stfu tim you suck

did Jeb! actually print stickers that said "Please Clap" in 2016?

lmao at the replies to that tweet

Who is that sticker directed at?

some of these guys would do better applying for an hr position.

to which the only sane response is: stfu tim you suck

honestly if Bernie replied to that with literally just "shut the fuck up" he would absolutely clinch the nomination

BETO 2020: YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN

WHY IS THAT IN ALL CAPS THEN

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have images off so just imagine the laugh I had clicking through.

LET'S GIVE COURTESY AND RESPECT A TRY, YOU FUCKING SAVAGES

HICKENLOOPER 2020: SIR, THIS IS A WENDY’S

some of these guys would do better applying for an hr position.

― Yerac, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 2

isn't that what Mayor Pete is

Ryan should come to Brooklyn to learn THAT'S NOT "YELLING"

I didn't know Sarah Vowell is now a political pundit, wow she has some...odd...takes

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/opinion/debate-winners-losers.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

I totally blanked out that Tim Ryan was present at the debate last night.

A reminder to eff Claire McC

obama won re-election because of the auto bailout. midwest economies are dependent on farm subsidies. ethanol is a fake fuel. mccaskill owns a vacation home with a guy who does medicare fraud. they seem to like free stuff ok https://t.co/Mqi1nxhSer

— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) July 31, 2019

Note too McCaskill is doing The Bill Maher, whereby one creates a theoretical racist or backwards Working White Man to launder their own reactionary views through. “I dont object to it BUT Joe Six Pack will! You see, poor white people are forcing us to defend insurance companies”

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) July 31, 2019

“Launder” is a great way to describe this phenomenon

Colbert had Marianne Williamson on his show and straight up asked her if, "love aside", she'd be willing to order people to kill in the name of the United States and the utterly blase tossed off manner in which she replied "Of course" suggested to me that anyone who ever aims for this office must have some serious moral failings as a prerequisite

it's a big help

I didn't know Sarah Vowell is now a political pundit, wow she has some...odd...takes

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/opinion/debate-winners-losers.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:19 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what the fuck even is this? half of the respondents are treating it as a joke and half are taking it seriously, but they all come across as deeply stupid. even Bret Stephens' idiocy doesn't jump off the page like it normally does.

i like Vowell's books but this shit is sub-Borowitz

Haha only just watched this. Matthews sucks. Bitch if my taxes go from $1000 to $1100 but my usurious, useless insurance premium goes from $800 to $0, I SAVE MONEY YOU BLATHERING STOOGE. He 100% cried & apologized to his boss for not making Warren buckle. https://t.co/RbAZ5SRA3S

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) July 31, 2019

Michelle Goldberg did herself favors by offering scores and no blurbs.

The range on Williamson was kind of funny. 1 from Kristof, 10 from Dowd, 5.5 overall.

Sarah Vowell (3/10) — When Senators Warren and Sanders dismissed legitimate critiques of their similar health plans, particularly the radical proposal of abolishing private health insurance, as “Republican talking points,” I was enraged to a degree that I cannot adequately describe in a family newspaper. An apology would be nice.

i find this nauseating to a degree that i cannot adequately describe beyond "fuck you sarah vowell you annoying npr weenie"

i'm always referencing the daily and i think no one irl or online has ever responded, but there was a good one today with kamala harris which lends some insight into how she makes decisions. it's a really good interview, very unlike normal interviews with candidates, and it had the odd effect of making me like her (even) more as a person, but less as a candidate. just mentioning this because it seems more revealing than just about any other interview i've seen with her, but i know it won't be picked up by other news outlets because there's no bombshell or quoteworthy individual sentence in there. but anyone who is interested in harris should check it out

thank god we're finally rating the policy decisions of our potential presidents the same way we judge drake singles.
I GIVE BERNIE SANDERS THREE AND A HALF GOLD STARS... TRY HARDER BERNIE
i swear, everybody in this country would be happy eating pig intestines and sleeping in ditches as long as they could write a yelp review expressing their indignation.

how is bret fucking stephens one of the few people who is correct on williamson, what is fucking going on

Listening to the Daily thing now. The host is fucking awful. Is this what most high-end news/politics podcast hosts sound like?

you might be thinking that the correspondent who conducted the interview that takes up most of the episode is the host. he's not. michael barbaro is the host. he interjects "HMM!" a lot. i don't think he's awful.

No, Barbaro is the guy who whispers the intro and the interstitials, and it's him I hate. The interviewer is fine.

oh, gotcha. well to answer your question, no. other hosts don't sound like him, superficially. do you mean you don't like the sound of his voice, or you don't like the things he says?

It's the tone. He sounds like a call-in radio therapist. I find it very patronizing, a fundamentally false attempt to be soothing.

Isn’t this just the miserable npr/industry standard voice? Or the voice of most podcasts? It’s a dealbreaker for me too.

well anyway, also there was an interview with kamala harris in there that was interesting, if you can make it past the style of voice that you've also heard literally millions of times before

Yeah, the interview was interesting - thank you for recommending it. I'm generally pro-Harris anyway, and her discussion of highway infrastructure reminded me of how Danica Roem got elected to the state legislature in Virginia in 2017 - she made the shitty local highways one of her signature issues.

extremely boring start to this debate, I fell asleep during bennet droning on

I have no problem with Barbaro's voice. I think he's just fine.

attempts at translating the protestors welcome. I heard "FIVE CENT SNAIL! FIVE CENT SNAIL!"

Harris is the only person on this stage who knows how to actually talk

well biden can too I just am bored with him

That was kind of noticeable last night too how a lot of the candidates could not communicate naturally, which is prolly why M Williamson looked so good. (of course Bernie and Liz too).

attempts at translating the protestors welcome. I heard "FIVE CENT SNAIL! FIVE CENT SNAIL!"

― akm, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 7:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the people shouting in the crowd are saying "fire Pantaleo," ie the cop who got off in the Eric Garner case.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 1, 2019

I think Inslee just won my vote by popping on these glasses

Apart from Biden and Harris these ppl are all really fucking bad at TV. Can you imagine Trump on this stage.

thankfully Biden and Bennett are looking like the outlier on health care here. SEriously, who the fuck likes their insurance company? What employer likes having to provide health care? Remove that and US companies will be able to compete on the world stage because companies outside the US don't need to pay for this fucking shit and frankly they shouldn't have to. If my taxes go up but I don't need to remove $500 from each check to pay for my inadequate plan, I fucking win, my employer wins.

NBC illustrations need some work

Biden: "This is America and we are strong and great because of this diversity...not in spite of it" #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/fnwJdAjZJE

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 1, 2019

terrifying