- i sure do hope the faucets at @JoeBiden's house are strong, with the amount of Iraqi blood on his hands #Gravel2020 #GravelGang
Only five declared candidates noted the wars today. (Mike Gravel has not formerly declared as yet.)
- "I’m not running for president to BE president. I’m running for president to be able to bring about this sea change in our foreign policy that is so necessary for us and for the world, and I’m most qualified to do that." #ServiceBeforeSelf #Tulsi2020
In the 16 years since the Iraq war began, we've lost many thousands of American and Iraqi lives and spent trillions of dollars. I opposed the war and it gives me no pleasure to say that much of what I feared came true. Our foreign policy must focus on diplomacy, not endless war.
You can be old enough to enlist today and not have even been alive for 9/11. Congress needs to reassert its war powers because we've got to put an end to the forever wars.
Climate change is about national security. Wars for oil have cost us thousands of lives and billions of dollars and must end once and for all.
The rest?
Beto, we're thrilled you can dance and drink milk products and what other else b.s. you care to Tweet about. We're just not seeing ideas -- or signs of intelligence -- are we? God gave you a cock? Guess what, in 2020 that's not enough to be president. And "Look At Me, I'm So Pretty!" isn't a winning campaign slogan. If there's a reason you're running, a reason to vote for you, how about you find it and start letting the American people know what it is?
Amy Klobuchar, you're campaign is already a disaster. "Bitches get things done" might be a rallying cry but it's not a presidential slogan.
.@amyklobuchar it's hard to fight the big tech firms that abuse American workers when you also like to abuse American workers
And the footage with elderly weepers? Amy, no one gives a damn that someone's crying over what Donald Trump said about War Criminal John McCain. No one. You really cheapen yourself and your campaign when you substitute that crap for real issues. But, hey, way to signal just how White your campaign is by bemoaning the death of the man who refused to honor MLK. Way to go, Amy, you're running an early 20th century campaign about 100 years too late. Instead of hiding behind a grown man embarrassing himself with tears in public, why don't you find a campaign slogan. I know "I'll Whore For The Corporations" probably won't get you a lot of votes but it would be honest at this point, wouldn't it?
Then there's Kamala.
- #KillerKamalaHarris just came around to supporting marijuana legalization, even though she smoked it herself in college. Meanwhile, I've served as the CEO of two marijuana companies. #GravelGang #Gravel2020
At least the people in charge of her campaign make her look like a real candidate. At least she can convincingly stand before the American people and speak about issues. And she will be able to hold her own in the debates. Looking at Beto, Amy, Julian and Kirsten's campaigns, it's as though they're just handing the nomination to Kamala.
Yes, Kirsten, we didn't forget you. Strong women? America loves strong women. Strong women built the country as much as strong men did. But we really don't need to see you in your workout shirt pressing weights. Sorry, Kirsten, someone lied to you. And you're lying to yourself when it comes to the cost of college. First off, no one needs you tinkering with the Post-9/11 GI College Bill. That was drafted and passed long before you got into the Senate. Second of all, the GIs are not the ones suffering under crippling debt. Even before that bill, even in the 90s when the debt really rose, there were ways for the GIS and the vets to go to college without amassing the debt. So you're really talking garbage -- while trying to woo the military vote (a small vote getting smaller and smaller, let's be honest) -- when you make that the focus of your college debt issue. Third, you look like the most idiotic person on the face of the earth when you start tying it to public service.
Grasp, Kirsten, that I support your run, I'm often impressed with your work in the Senate, but you lose me with your stupidity as you campaign for the presidential nomination.
Put on your thinking cap here. Who can do public service? My kids could. So could Lori Loughlin's kids. And they could do it because they didn't have to pay bills.
But your b.s. about public service in exchange? The kid coming out of nowhere, the one with no financial support because their families aren't well off, the one who works two or three jobs just to pay for college? That young man or woman cannot afford to do public service because they don't have that time to spare. All of their time? When not in school it has to go to a job because they have bills have to pay.
I'm getting really pissed that, through her stupidity, Kirsten is watering down the needs of Young America with regards to college. Even goofy looking John Delaney -- running for the niche market that believes Gerald Ford was America's greatest president -- has a stronger grip on college debt than Kirsten does.
I'm really getting tired of the stupidity that we can ignore these ongoing wars -- and all the costs they result in -- while also having time to address needed changes to healthcare, housing, college, you name it.
We can't have these never-ending wars and also have the money to provide the citizens and the country what they need.
Julian. You're in Puerto Rico because you have some of Hillary's old 2008 staff who helped make Puerto Rico such a win for her that year. Stop pretending otherwise or pretending that you 'packed a house' when you chose the tiny Deep Ellum eatery because it can't house more than 200 so the fifty or so supporters and friends that turned up -- along with the media -- made it look like you had a turnout -- unless anyone looks closely at the pictures. Want to have a turnout? Stop talking about Shelia Jackson Lee. Honestly, Queen Enron? Corruption from Houston, that's what you're going to garner votes with? If you don't have any ideas of your own, drop out. No one needs you. If you can't advance and improve the lives of Americans -- which would require concrete ideas -- then drop out. No one needs you.
Cory Booker, no one ever needed you.
- .@CoryBooker melodramatically declared releasing inconsequential files on Brett Kavanaugh his "Spartacus moment." This is me, in 1971, reading the Pentagon Papers into the record for hours on end, risking expulsion from the Senate. That's real courage, Cory.
And going on Ellen, Cory? Unless you're coming out, there's no real reason. Her audience doesn't vote. That's a reality. Here's another, your sudden discovery that corporations are putting family farms out of business? I'm shocked both by your inability to formulate a response to that and by the fact that all these decades after FARM AID was created, all these decades after the holy trinity of farm movies came out (COUNTRY with Jessica Lange, THE RIVER with Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson and PLACES IN THE HEART with Sally Field) that you're just now becoming aware of the family farms issue. You're a bit like Andrew Yang with your desperate search for celebrity and mistaking pop culture for real issues. If you loved KARATE KID, Andrew wants your vote! He doesn't care about wars mind you, but he does like tacky movies from the 80s -- and that's a bit more attention than even Andrew deserves. Wayne Messam, you're finding your footing a bit too slowly. Yes, you speak like a mayor, that's not a good thing when you're running for president. John Hickenlooper, that last name alone is a challenge. That's before we get to how are you going to pay for what you claim to want -- that brave, new American workforce program? Because you can't have it and never-ending wars.
Tulsi, Marianne, Bernie, Pete, Jay and Elizabeth Warren (see yesterday) grasp that we can't throw all of the money into wars and destruction and still have the funds to meet the needs of the American people.
It's early in the cycle. But too many stupid mistakes are being made and opinions are starting to form. I haven't decided who to support yet. I'm not friends with Kamala, who I've known for many years, but her campaign is focused, her campaign is hitting the right notes. Too many others can't say the same.
Tulis, Marianne, Bernie, Pete, Jay and Elizabeth are dealing with real issues. And they grasp that you can't fund forever wars and still have the money to address real issues. That's something all the candidates need to be grasping.
