• Amy Klobuchar enters the race for president
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-president-2020.html She's ok. I like how she's announcing in the middle of a snow storm. the stories about her being mean to staff is something I frankly don't really care about. https://www.facebook.com/amyklobuchar/videos/2097609030282567/ oh please god don't autoplay.
The boomers here love her, but otherwise a fairly moderate Neo-liberal. I corresponded through emails to her office about some changes to the FCC rules that might effect my job, and her and her staff seemed okay.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/497/a1ab122f-7033-4b2a-b4d9-bf59548c5200/image.png yawn, next please
God, it's getting crowded.
Who? Get the fuck out of here, you know you don't have a chance.
This is how democracy should be in the United States people. More than ever we should always have a diverse selection of runners to choose from rather than 1 or 2 of least bad and worser bad.
Here's an article by Nate Silver about Amy. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/amy-klobuchar-2020-democratic-nomination-kickoff/
uhh she definitely does. She's probably a second-tier candidate but she's not a joke like Ojeda was or something.
No, almost nobody knows who the hell she is, and she has zero defining or interesting characteristics.
The 2020 Democratic primary debates will have random candidate selection so any rando can get national exposure if they're a good debator
I guess we ought to just stick to celebrities for president then, only ones that everyone knows which of course is the sole requirement for running for president.
I actually thought she was already in lol. Starting to hit that point where I can't remember who's running or what their key points are, and I'm sure the field is still far from full
How do we know if she has defining or interesting characteristics if she's such a complete unknown then? I thought having a competitive and diverse primary was good, guess we should just hand the nomination straight to Biden then
Its good until it was also what helped Trump take the GOP. What did they cap out at? Like 19 candidates at one point? Each one stealing their little piece while that shitbag just sleezed his way to the top? But more importantly, who gives a fuck about having 30 candidates if only two or three are worth a damn? Also we know she has no defining or interesting characteristics because she is so entirely nameless. She has no identity in politics up to this point, and now her big, identifying trait is, "Wants to be president."
Please welcome president Kim Kardashian!
She's been making headlines for the past week due to horror stories about the way she treated staff. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/amy-klobuchar-staff-2020-election But behind the doors of her Washington, DC, office, the Minnesota Democrat ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame, according to interviews with eight former staffers, one that many employees found intolerably cruel. She demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office, according to interviews and dozens of emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News. That anger regularly left employees in tears, four former staffers said. She yelled, threw papers, and sometimes even hurled objects; one aide was accidentally hit with a flying binder, according to someone who saw it happen, though the staffer said the senator did not intend to hit anyone with the binder when she threw it. “I cried. I cried, like, all the time,” said one former staffer. In the emails seen by BuzzFeed, often sent between 1 and 4 in the morning, Klobuchar regularly berated employees, often in all capital letters, over minor mistakes, misunderstandings, and misplaced commas. Klobuchar, in the emails, which were mostly sent over the past few years, referred to her staff’s work as “the worst in ... years,” and “the worst in my life.” When staffers made mistakes, the emails show, she reamed them out — and sometimes, emails show, threatened to fire them — over threads that included many of their colleagues. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amy-klobuchar-mistreat-staff-harry-reid_us_5c5db1ece4b03afe8d674530 A former aide to ex-Sen. Al Franken recalled an encounter at a Veterans Day event to which Klobuchar was running late. (Franken, another Minnesota Democrat, resigned from the Senate in December 2017 after multiple women accused him of groping them or forcibly kissing them, often at political events.) A young Klobuchar staffer was sent to explain the senator’s lateness to the Franken staffer. “I’m supposed to tell you,” she said, with a look of terror on her face, “Senator Klobuchar is late today because I am bad at my job.”
The reason so many people are putting a bid in is because anyone can beat Trump
This stinks of "I've never heard of her, therefore she's a shit candidate". And if you want to compare it to the GOP, then it's obviously good because the GOP won that election with 10,000 candidates.
And lost the popular vote. And elected the single worst president ever. Though I suppose "race to the bottom" is the ideal for conservatives.
She probably could have been a strong contender in other times, but right now we're extraordinarily flooded with incredible candidates. I like her okay, but I don't see her making it too far after the first debate.
I don't think she's that bad. Depends on what policy she supports in the coming months I guess. But she does have a lower profile than other candidates. She did have this incredibly weird exchange with kavanaugh https://youtu.be/3ISkRhmv87Y
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