Elizabeth Warren 2020 campaign megathread

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Breaking News

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Trump tweeted that he'll see her on the Trail of Tears

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The debates will be crucial for her.

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Who keeps unstickying these campaign threads?

Has to be all of the major ones, or none at all

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No one cares. Just like no one cares about Gillibrand forcing Al Franken out, Klobuchar abusing her staff, Harris sleeping with a married man, Sanders and whatever he does, and Biden's policy atrocities. This doesn't have a hook to sustain months of media coverage like Hillary's emails (which was an active investigation in real time). Nothing to see here.

Except it already has sustained months of media coverage, Klobuchar abusing her staff robbed her of a positive launch and young voter enthusiasm, and so did Gillibrand's actions leave her without a base.

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Honestly, her use of "Latinx" in the first debate was much more ridiculous than this.

How and why does that bother you? LOL.

Because no words in Spanish end in two consonants, and the word is grammatical nonsense in Spanish.

The people I know whose first language is Spanish liked it when Warren said Latinx.

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Honestly, her use of "Latinx" in the first debate was much more ridiculous than this.

How and why does that bother you? LOL.

Because no words in Spanish end in two consonants, and the word is grammatical nonsense in Spanish.

The people I know whose first language is Spanish liked it when Warren said Latinx.

Is this a sample that's likely to be representative of the general Spanish-speaking population, or is it limited to young third-generation Mexicans with purple hair?

1st-generation Mexican-American.

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I don't think her plan will pass, and even if it does, it will be held up in court for years due to a number of constitutional issues.

Exactly.

This is the question all the Warren/Sanders voters need to ask themselves.

When you vote for your candidate, what are you actually voting to change?  What are you voting for to happen?

Twenty-five years ago the Democrats tried Hillarycare, lost, and got massacred in the midterms, leading Newt Gingrich to control Congress for four years and Pedo Hastert for another eight.  Ten years ago the Democrats tried Obamacare, won but did not get the public option through the Senate, and then got massacred in the midterms, leading Mitch McConnell to control Congress to this day, and Obamacare has had to be rescued by the thinnest of margins by John Roberts and John McCain.

In light of this, do you really believe that, without even controlling Congress, your candidate (who in Sanders case has never gotten a single bill passed in forty years) will be able to pass something ten times more expensive and a hundred times more controversial, and then have it survive the courts and the Republicans when they take power?

Or deep down do you know that they won't be able to pass this bill, and that you're just voting to make a statement?

At least Sanders would deliver on shifting the country in a more antiwar, anti-military-industrial-complex pathway. As well as have the best executive orders.

It's not like Buttigieg or Biden would be able to get much more done legislatively, unless they're as naive as early-2009-Obama.