OMG! Tim Ryan has dropped out! This is so unexpected and devastating that I think I will have to lay down. Among the declared candidates, he was definitely among my top 20 choices. barfo
Here's your new song barfo...... Amy...what you wanna do; I think I could vote for you, for 4 years, maybe longer, if I do....
Tim Ryan Derangement Syndrome....you should start a podcast for this condition and get a million subscribers in about half a day! A support group for the TR devastated amongst us!
Trying to imagine a Pirate ship docking in port with 70s country rock ballads coming from the captain's cabin
This is from The Dispatch..... 2020 Watch: Tom Steyer, Odd Man … In? With the fifth Democratic debate just weeks away, those 2020 Democratic hopefuls vying to remain on the fringe of relevance are racing to qualify. Of the 12 who made the stage in October, three—Tulsi Gabbard, Beto O’Rourke, and Julian Castro—have yet to meet the debate’s polling threshold. One candidate who has made the cut may surprise you: Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire who built a #Resistance political brand in 2017 by starting a campaign to get President Trump impeached and who hopped into the 2020 race this past July. Steyer failed to make enough of a splash to qualify for any of the debates before October’s, but has now already punched his ticket for November’s. Even more remarkable, while he has yet to qualify for December’s debate, he’s already closer to doing so than a whole assortment of the cohort’s B-tier pols, including Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Andrew Yang. Why the modest breakthrough? His campaign would tell you it’s because his outsider message is just getting through to people: “Tom has picked up momentum because his message is resonating,” Steyer spokesman Alberto Lammers told The Dispatch. As president, he would “end the corporate stranglehold on our government and return power to the American people.” And hey—maybe there’s something to that. But there’s also this: Steyer is pouring an extraordinary amount of his own money into the race, flooding the airwaves of crucial early primary states like South Carolina with ads touting his feel-good biography and slightly lemony smile. The Steyer campaign spent an eye-popping $47 million during this year’s third quarter, more than double the $21 million shelled out by the race’s next-biggest spender, Bernie Sanders. For some on the left, this makes Steyer a bit of a thorny subject. Longtime Democratic strategist Max Burns told The Dispatch that the billionaire is “showing how easily money can corrupt the process even when the party is purportedly guarding against it.” “This to me is another example of Howard Schultz syndrome,” Burns said. “You get very successful in one thing, people stop telling you ‘no,’ people start giving you awards just because you’re a valuable draw for their events, and suddenly you start thinking, ‘How hard can this be?’ “He’s seeking the nomination of a party that at least superficially believes money should not buy you the presidency. And yet that is his sole strategy.” Steyer’s case is interesting because it simultaneously shows the power and the limitations of big-dollar campaigning. In a crowded field where plenty of established and successful politicians are struggling just to get a seat at the table, Steyer has been able to separate from the pack simply by hammering his name into voters’ heads with a wad of cash. But while infinite funds can certainly help a candidate get voters’ attention, odds are he’ll need to do more more to keep it. After powering his way onto the debate stage in October, Steyer turned in a snoozer of a performance in which his most notable moment was using the word “frenemies” to describe working with hostile nations to combat climate change. If he can’t use the November and December debates to better effect, all that money will have gone to waste. And the grumbling will grow louder among Democrats who believe that his money would have been better spent funding down-ballot candidates than a presidential ego trip. As an aside.... Let Us Know What should Tom Steyer have spent $47 million on instead of running for president? Buying every single ticket in the stadium to three straight 49ers home games Procuring a second tie Supplying 470 million meals to the hungry through Feeding America Producing a show on Netflix and casting himself as the president Buying a pastoral English village or two Seriously, a second tie
Yeah, I like him but he isn't quite up to the task. However, what's this about torturing stuffed animals?
Those three plus Tom are not going to make the final cut. Not this time and for two of them not ever. What should Tom do with his money? Not for me to say.
I'll have to admit I thought Beto would run a better campaign, but perhaps he lost his balance when you called him Beta. I think he'll make the eventual winner a good Secretary of Labor or whatever. barfo
Don't look at me, I've got nothing to do with it. The New York attorney general seems to think he can charge Trump and I'm betting he knows more about New York law than you, I and the entire Trump clan. I doubt if he feels there's much luck involved.
I heard the Venezuelan embassy in N Korea doesn't want Trump to have any company except for Dennis Rodman and conjugal visits from Kellyanne
I thought you were gonna say conjugal visits from Dennis Rodman. That's the kind of living hell he deserves.
