The 2020 thread....

so…Tusli isn't actively doing this…this was some fan
I did notice she is still getting votes in the thousands in primaries in the last month

6/2
DC - 351
IN - 2531
MD - 3140

6/9
GA-3721
WV - 4066

Oddly 5/22
HI - ZERO

hutch wrote:
Elizabeth Warren is black?

I thought she was Native American?

No, she isn't black. I was saying Klobs comment is a direct shot against Warren and for Kamala.

Yeah I figured


Just couldn’t resist




I think it’s such a dumb thing to say I have to think she did so to make trouble and also cover herself as she wasn’t getting picked

Old wrote:
I heard word that Team Trump is trying to roll out an App for news, so they can skip the middle man

well, they already have an app that is a social media ecosystem unto itself, so i imagine that any "news" service they roll out will be part of that app.

i won't post a link to the app, lest i boost its google juice (yeah right…) but for a description of and discussion about it, check out The Daily DC: "Welcome to Team Trump Online"

sweetcell wrote:

Old wrote:
I heard word that Team Trump is trying to roll out an App for news, so they can skip the middle man

well, they already have an app that is a social media ecosystem unto itself, so i imagine that any "news" service they roll out will be part of that app.

yeah but twitter and FB allow people to post negative and contradictory responses (even if they are true)
In their own ecosystem, they could just delete those comments with no repercussions

Old wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Old wrote:
I heard word that Team Trump is trying to roll out an App for news, so they can skip the middle man

well, they already have an app that is a social media ecosystem unto itself, so i imagine that any "news" service they roll out will be part of that app.

yeah but twitter and FB allow people to post negative and contradictory responses (even if they are true)
In their own ecosystem, they could just delete those comments with no repercussions

right, and my point is they already have an app with hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of users.  circumventing "lame stream" social media platforms is exactly the point of the app. 

it wouldn't make sense for them to release a separate "news" app.  i would think they'd add a "news" page/tab/section/etc to the existing app.

Wait, we are bombing Bolton now?
Does congress have to approve that?


I have a feeling tonight’s rally is going to be a thing for the history books of the future

Remind me again who the snowflakes are in this country?

NPR posts photo which inaccurately illustrates story

Conservatives lose their minds and start hashtag #defundnpr which of course fails spectacularly.. because checks notes listener supported

Also feel sorry for the poor analyst who gets to try to figure which rally ticket requests were legit verses bogus

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/6/22/elizabeth-warren-leads-the-vice-presidential-choice

New polling in which Warren continues to be the favorite VP candidate among virtually every subgroup of voters including youth and POC.

Julian, wrote:
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/6/22/elizabeth-warren-leads-the-vice-presidential-choice

New polling in which Warren continues to be the favorite VP candidate among virtually every subgroup of voters including youth and POC.

But I just know that Kamala is going to be better with African Americans.

gavroche wrote:

Julian, wrote:
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/6/22/elizabeth-warren-leads-the-vice-presidential-choice

New polling in which Warren continues to be the favorite VP candidate among virtually every subgroup of voters including youth and POC.

But I just know that Kamala is going to be better with African Americans.

Not sure if you’re being serious.

I doubt it…

hutch wrote:
I doubt it…

agreed, was ready for a response, but then realized

Side-Cooping wrote:

hutch wrote:
I doubt it…

agreed, was ready for a response, but then realized

Kidding aside, the problem with Warren is the gymnastics that the D's have to do to hold onto her seat.  Cannot risk letting Mitch keep the Senate, even for 160 days.

gavroche wrote:
Kidding aside, the problem with Warren is the gymnastics that the D's have to do to hold onto her seat.  Cannot risk letting Mitch keep the Senate, even for 160 days.

I agree…the MA gov is a Republican and will certainly appoint a MAGA diehard and that will be bad

Side-Cooping wrote:

gavroche wrote:
Kidding aside, the problem with Warren is the gymnastics that the D's have to do to hold onto her seat.  Cannot risk letting Mitch keep the Senate, even for 160 days.

I agree…the MA gov is a Republican and will certainly appoint a MAGA diehard and that will be bad

I believe the Dems are trying to quickly pass a “senate replacements must be someone of the same party” bill. But yeah, that’s in play.

Julian, wrote:

Side-Cooping wrote:

gavroche wrote:
Kidding aside, the problem with Warren is the gymnastics that the D's have to do to hold onto her seat.  Cannot risk letting Mitch keep the Senate, even for 160 days.

I agree…the MA gov is a Republican and will certainly appoint a MAGA diehard and that will be bad

I believe the Dems are trying to quickly pass a “senate replacements must be someone of the same party” bill. But yeah, that’s in play.

never gonna happen

Side-Cooping wrote:

Julian, wrote:

Side-Cooping wrote:

gavroche wrote:
Kidding aside, the problem with Warren is the gymnastics that the D's have to do to hold onto her seat.  Cannot risk letting Mitch keep the Senate, even for 160 days.

I agree…the MA gov is a Republican and will certainly appoint a MAGA diehard and that will be bad

I believe the Dems are trying to quickly pass a “senate replacements must be someone of the same party” bill. But yeah, that’s in play.

never gonna happen

If I am not mistaken, MA Dems have veto-proof majorities in both houses of their legislature.

EDIT: I have confirmed.

I think if you are conservative about the choice (don’t care to make a splash) you go with Kamala Harris…if you are into rocking the boat you go with Val Demings…Susan Rice could be a sort of compromise choice


So I agree with the betting markets

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/event/28009878/multi-market?marketIds=1.168954647


Picking the VP based on how she is polling seems a bit fraught to me… making comments like “Black people like Warren better than Kamala” or “Kamala is not really black” seem bizarre

More likely people have their own preferences and look for anything they can to back it up…someone who is a “progressive” left winger is obviously going to prefer Warren and see it from that perspective

And anytime I make an argument for why Kamala Harris is a better pick they are going to ignore it and say “I just don’t see what Kamala Harris brings..”

Obviously there must be some reason she has been the favorite this entire time…

Still can’t get over Klobuchar saying it should be a black woman.. it’s tempting to think she is in communication with Biden and would have “cleared” it..after all even if she is not VP she must have her eye on a plum job in a Biden administration.. it’s not VP or nothing… running a Department is a pretty big deal.. she wouldn’t want to say something to really tick off the Biden camp and endanger her future prospects in a Biden administration….and yet, who knows? It struck me at first as tone deaf but what if she’s working with Biden to lay the terrain for the Kamala pick? Or Demings or Rice or?

For the record, I’ve never said Kamala isn’t really black. I just think she adds nothing to the ticket.

Warren is a unity ticket that reaches out to progressives and young folks, which is Biden’s weakest democratic bonafides. No one has explained to me yet what Kamala adds to Biden’s coalition (who won the nomination on the back of AA votes) other than a ton of baggage around her times as a prosecutor.

I’m more interested in Lujan-Grisham than Kamala if I’m Biden.