2020 Democratic presidential primary

I will not vote for a president who kisses his/her grandchildren on the lips. You all have your things, whatever they are; this is mine.

**ahem**

Caleb Hull - Political strategy and content. Avg. 150M video views per week on conservative videos. See website for business inquiries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZM92GtPno

like basically I'm saying, "be like Hadrian even though the entire thing of Twitter is to try to trick you into not being like Hadrian"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, July 22, 2019 3:35 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

barely preserving my invulnerabilty by limiting Twitter exposure to tweets posted on ILX

I scrolled through the rest of that guys twitter feed for about 5m before realizing I got played.

xxposts

I hate to sound like a paranoid nutter but we are going to see lots of right-wing operatives launching scrubbed online identities as "concerned liberals" to post shit like this

more than likely

FUCK THE PLANET, rages mayor pete

Pete Buttigieg has spent roughly $300,000 on private jet travel this year, more than any other Democrat running for the White House, according to an analysis of campaign finance data.

The expenditures have enabled the South Bend, Indiana, mayor to keep up an aggressive schedule, shuttling from his campaign headquarters in his hometown to fundraisers and political events across the country. But his reliance on charter flights contrasts sharply with his image as a Rust Belt mayor who embodies frugality and Midwestern modesty.

oh ffs

“Relatively unknown candidate spends money on personal appearances over online ads. The shocking details tonight at 11:00...”

Want to get anywhere but these places? You'll have a Chicago layover.

https://flysbn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SBN-Flight-map-Jan-2018-1024x660.png

wow a legible route map

I uh don't see any international destinations on there btw

detroit to windsor, only an extra 8 minutes added to your trip

Beto seems to be the only one doing proper trv kvlt push-ups in that clip, which probably makes it dorkier.

Read the Petey profile in last week's NYT Mag; he uses "model" as a verb like the marketing shitbird he is.

That's actually substantially more nonstop routes than I expected South Bend to have!

major university in town!!

"BREAKING: Hickenlooper polling at 2%"

You did this. This campaign is gaining serious momentum and we're just getting started. #GiddyUp https://t.co/9IVJ4tsBk3

— John Hickenlooper (@Hickenlooper) July 25, 2019

Hickenloopermentum! You brought this on yourselves!

Maybe in a month or two we'll exceed the polling margin of error!

"Suck it, Gillibrand!"

But his reliance on charter flights contrasts sharply with his image as a Rust Belt mayor who embodies frugality and Midwestern modesty.

Is that his image? I thought he was the young hip millennial.

XP <Gillibrand knocks back another glass of Jim Beam>

maybe gillibrand should try chugging fracking fluid like hickenlooper instead, it's clearly working for him

This is so boring and wonky and pragmatic, but probably true nonetheless: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/26/8910009/progressive-agenda-popular-decriminalize

Biden’s campaign is gonna be 8 months of rightwing talking points not just against socialized healthcare but govt programs in general & has potential to do a lot of damage not just to any non-Biden nominee but dems for the next 30yrs just an FYI for the “dont sow division” crowd https://t.co/P8FfOO97Nj

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) July 26, 2019

lol like we’ve got 30 years left

it's a conceptual 30 years

Kamala Harris told The Times she doesn’t want to “restructure society” or promise “beautiful sonnet” policies.

I demand universal beautiful sonnets

Robert Frost wrote the last beautiful sonnets iirc

I demand a tax on ugly sonnets, to be ratcheted up annually thereafter with the growth of inflation, at a minumum, until all ugly sonnets are eliminated

I read on the front page of the NYT (I’m old-fashioned, I still read print) that Harris is a pragmatist, not an ideologue. There is nothing ideological about something this convoluted, right? https://t.co/7rzAa6lih5

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 28, 2019

lol that pell grant forgiveness program sure is... catchy

Robert Frost wrote the last beautiful sonnets iirc

Robert Lowell to thread!!

An unaccustomed ripeness in the wood;
move but an inch and moldy splinters fall
in sawdust from the aluminum-paint wall,
once loud and fresh, now aged to weathered wood.
Squalls of the seagulls’ exaggerated outcry,
dimmed out by fog . . . Peace, peace. All day the words
hid rusty fish-hooks. Now, heart’s-ease and wormwood,
we rest from all discussion, drinking, smoking,
pills for high blood, three pairs of glasses—soaking
in the sweat of our hard-earned supremacy,
offering a child our leathery love. We’re fifty,
and free! Young, tottering on the dizzying brink
of discretion once, we wanted nothing,
But to be old, do nothing, type, and think.

oh kamalapaws :(

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To every thing on earth the compass round,
And only by one’s going slightly taut,
In the capriciousness of summer air,
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

ok finally gonna start reading this thread again

Nah dog Ted Berrigan’s sonnets rock

great, another Berrigan Bro is here to mansplain at us

lmao

hearing this extract in the voice of Darrell/DaRILL from Kids In The Hall

Honestly, the way @PeteButtigieg writes about his time at Oxford in his book essentially disqualifies him from the presidency pic.twitter.com/HrY8nyO22p

— Will Klemperer (@will_klemperer) July 26, 2019

that's a stellar punchline

cosine

Lol, crüt OTM.

The wall surrounding them they never saw;
The angels, often. Angels were as common
As birds or butterflies, but looked more human.
As long as the wings were furled, they felt no awe.
Beasts, too, were friendly. They could find no flaw
In all of Eden: this was the first omen.
The second was the dream which woke the woman.
She dreamed she saw the lion sharpen his claw.
As for the fruit, it had no taste at all.
They had been warned of what was bound to happen.
They had been told of something called the world.
They had been told and told about the wall.
They saw it now; the gate was standing open.
As they advanced, the giant wings unfurled.

--Donald Justice

written at Iowa under the tutelage of Berryman, fwiw

thought u said David Justice at first

daRILL and/or Frederik B

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