One of the more perplexing candidates for office registered as a Democrat in the 2020 elections was Justin Lecea, who was running for U.S. House in Texas’ 20th Congressional District to challenge the generally beloved Rep. Joaquin Castro. Lecea was a former Occupy Wall Street protester and a Bernie Sanders acolyte who refers to the Democratic establishment as “entirely beholden to their corporate donors” and regards the Affordable Care Act as “worthless”.
As the primary election approached, Lecea completely melted down against the party he was supposedly a part of, leading off by calling for Pete Buttigieg to be hanged. And if that wasn’t concerning enough, Lecea decided to call Barack Obama a “war criminal”, and wished cancer upon him:
“I just want you to think about all the people who have and will die because Obamacare is pointless and your entire presidency was a waste. If god was just, you would get the most malignant cancer imaginable.”
Justin Lecea lost the Democratic primary to Castro by a mere 87 points, getting only 4.7% in a three-way race. He can at least be content that he didn’t finish third, we suppose.
Marianne Williamson was a Democratic nominee for President in 2020 whose resume includes author, philanthropist, and Oprah’s “spiritual adviser”. She announced she was running on Jan. 9th, 2019, to a general reaction by Democratic voters of, “WHO?” (Honestly, though, her charitable efforts are very commendable.) However, she immediately turned heads once the crowded debate state opened up and she used her roughly five minutes of speaking time to say that her first act as president would be to call New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and tell her, “Girlfriend, you are so on,” and viewers were generally perplexed by her, particularly how in her closing statement, she advised Americans to “harness love” (which, don’t Google that unless you want to research S&M gear).
The second debate, however, was where she turned heads in a big way. While seeing her voice her concerns about the fact that Flint, Michigan was a promising moment, she otherwise shined… her crazy diamond. While making observations about the white nationalist, racist, hateful rhetoric of Donald Trump was toxic to the country may have been the best way to voice her concerns, Williamson chose to get metaphysical and interrupt a relevant policy discussion by other candidates to voice her concerns over the “dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred”.
Williamson failed to gain enough momentum to qualify for any debate after that, started blaming the media for not taking her candidacy seriously enough, and ended up suspending her campaign a year and a day after it began.
The sitting Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is Justin Fairfax, who was elected in the 2017 Blue Wave election there, beating Republican Jill Vogel with 53% of the vote. Simply put, Fairfax has been accused by two separate women of sexual assault, one alleged assault in 2000 and another in 2004. He insists that any encounters with the women were consensual, and has refused calls to resign from his office from the Virginia Democratic Party. Fairfax seems determined to not just not resign, but has designs on higher office, planning a run for Governor of Virginia in 2021 that we hope he does not win in the primary for.
Also known as Tulsi f***ing Gabbard, a Republican’s favorite choice for who should win the 2020 Democratic nomination. Which might have something to do with the fact that she’s used Project Veritas (i.e. James O’Keefe’s conservative dirty tricks site) videos to bolster her campaign, appeared in repeated interviews on Fox News, including during Tucker Carlson’s White Power Power Hour. Tulsi Gabbard, the woman who is bizarrely unable to criticize Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. The candidate who doesn’t want Democrats to talk about her wildly anti-LGBTQ history with her intolerant pappy. The candidate whose campaign was mysteriously being propped up by Russian bots and hackers, who speaks more kindly about Vladimir Putin than she does Barack Obama, and who seemed only in the 2020 race to blunt the momentum of Sen. Kamala Harris. Did we mention that when Hillary Clinton mentioned there was likely a “Russian asset” in the 2020 Democratic field, Tulsi lost her s***, self-identified as who Clinton was talking about, and now has contracted a case of Steisand Syndrome by making that allegation only seem more true by filing a $50 million lawsuit for defamation that she’s unlikely to win (because Clinton didn’t say it was HER, of course).
Tulsi Gabbard has won two delegates in the 2020 Presidential Election so far, is not qualified to appear in any further debates per the Democratic debates before mercifully dropping out. Her bizarre presidential campaign that will not end will effectively end her career as a Congresswoman, as she’s not running for re-election. Rumors abound that she might make a “comeback” as a Republican candidate in two to four years’ time.
We hope the nation responds by telling her, “Hard pass.”
The host of The Young Turks, the progressive Youtube show, is Cenk Uygur, who admits he grew up conservative, but in 2003, the Iraq War made him rethink his entire political views. Uygur has a long, troubling history of derogatory comments aimed towards women (including that women are “genetically flawed” because they don’t want to have sex often enough), who had designs on becoming the next Congressman from California’s 25th Congressional District after the resignation of Katie Hill, a victim of revenge porn.
In December of 2019, Uygur bizarrely imploded any hopes he might have still had of winning office, when he defended the deranged outgoing Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin’s pardon of a convicted child rapist, while simultaneously accusing Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of mass murder. (That’s not a good look.)
Cenk Uygur’s carpet-bagging attempt was in vain, as he finished fourth in the open primary for CA-25 with only 6.6% of the vote, and thus will remain the host of the Young Turks, and likely will spend the next eight months complaining about the Democratic establishment when he probably should be digging in to help them stop the re-election of Donald Trump.