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Election Update: The First Polls Since New Hampshire Show No Big Bounces

@revelette3,

Historically, no one gets nominated without coming in first or second in New Hampshire.

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Sometimes I enjoy Trevor Noah,... but I believe his dissection of Mike Bloomberg’s disgustingly lame ‘nopology’ to black Americans for his outrageous statements —- about mimeographing a rap sheet and ‘throwing them up against a wall’ should be seen.

The first part of this video is for the show, sort of for laughs, but when it approaches minute 5, Noah begins to rebut Bloomberg’s response to questions about his horrific policy and excuses.

Then, the show ends and Noah is about to speak frankly about how Bloomberg’s policy affected generations of young black men that began to see cops as enemies, began to change their behavior toward cops and ‘authority’ and changed the paths of their lives.

There’s no apology for that. I had no idea this man is so heinous.

https://youtu.be/MPFdpmTYMvc

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@hightor,

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Interestingly enough, he seems to benefit from the negative coverage and the elite panic.

It's been that way from the beginning. Which is why I always thought the constant whining about not receiving positive treatment from the establishment press was totally off the mark. Sanders is supposed to represent a threat to the status quo and his movement shouldn't seek or expect its approval.

That's an astute point. Sanders' "brand" is not merely socialist or social democrat, it is at least as much that he's a contrarian of the poke-a-sharp-stick-in-the-eye-of-the-establishment sort. This clearly appeals to some and is redolent of the rather immature and intellectually lazy Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor Marc Lipsitch told the Wall Street Journal this week that “it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic” of the coronavirus with up to 70 percent of people infected worldwide.

“I think it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic,” Lipsitch claimed, adding that “If a pandemic happens, 40% to 70% of people world-wide are likely to be infected in the coming year.”

What proportion of those will be symptomatic, I can’t give a good number,” he continued.

Others have also predicted that the coronavirus could infect between 60 and 80 percent of the planet.

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Obviously, lots of unknowns here. But if anything close to those possible projections prove true, there will be consequences for the next US election. And how that might play out is equally unknown. But it certainly could be that demands for a highly authoritarian set of responses could come about. And we know who'd help foster that. If it hasn't happened yet, it won't be long before "coronavirus carriers are coming across the southern border" becomes a Fox theme.

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It seems to me that in much current political terminology, "centrist" means a person who doesn't hate on every candidate other than one's favorite and doing so with each waking breath.

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@blatham,

Does anyone care if I wait for all 50 states to vote before I acknowledge a winner?

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@RABEL222,

Fine with me.

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At the WSJ, Kimberly Strassel writes

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Democrats and the media are in a tizzy over the department leadership’s Tuesday decision to file a sentencing memo calling for Mr. Stone to receive a shorter prison sentence than four line prosecutors originally recommended. The reversal came not long after President Trump tweeted his own outrage over the initial sentencing memo, leading to the inevitable conspiracy theories and calls for investigation.

Here is a transcript of Barr's confirmation hearing where he affirmed his future adherence to sentencing guidelines...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQyjxpBWoAABDne?format=jpg&name=900x900

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@blatham,

Without quoting somebody else, what is it exactly do you think happened around the sentencing of Roger Stone?

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@McGentrix,

Barr is trump's willing accomplice. He doesn't feel the need to actually confer with trump. If he knows
what trump wants, that's what he will do

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@McGentrix,

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Without quoting somebody else, what is it exactly do you think happened around the sentencing of Roger Stone?

Sure. Let's look at the timeline:

1) the prosecutors made a sentencing recommendation based on the nature of the crimes and based on relevant federal sentencing guidelines.

2) Trump sent out his angry tweet

3) within some hours, Barr announced a review of the recommendations

4) Trump sent out another tweet suggesting a thank you to Barr for backing him up

5) Barr made a public announcement saying he wouldn't be bullied and Trump's tweets weren't helping him

Given Barr's prior dishonesty (his withholding of and false/distorted summation of the Meuller findings) consistent support of Trump and given his long-held ideas on how presidential powers should have few if any constraints from Congress or prior norms or even settled law (he does not believe in co-equal powers) there is little reason to imagine that his acts constitute anything but blanket support for Trump regardless of anything else. But, for a set of reasons which are partially transparent and obvious, he must forward the pretense that his Justice Department remains dedicated to consistent judicial practices and that it is not determined by partisan/ideological goals. We would be correct if we were to presume he would NOT have been operating in this manner if the president was Obama.

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Former Justice Dept. Lawyers Press for Barr to Step Down
More than 1,100 former prosecutors and officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations signed an open letter condemning the president and the attorney general over the Stone case.

NYT

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I have said previously that I would actively support any Dem candidate against Donald Trump. That requires a correction. I would not lift a finger to help Bloomberg.

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@blatham,

As a black man, I have very serious issues with Bloomberg being in this.

But I will support him if he is all that is left standing after the primaries.

It’s a choice I hope I don’t have to make.

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@snood,

Sure. I'm not going to argue with anyone on this. I simply expect that if he does pull it off, he'll be followed by Mark Zuckerberg. And I've had my fill of greedy sociopaths and ego-maniacs. In my way, I truly love America. But like discovering that one's brother or cousin or father is a serial rapist and murderer, there comes a point where one just cuts all ties even if with great regret.

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@blatham,

Cuts all ties how? Leave the country or just ignore current events?

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From the department of clumsy, rough-hewn algorithms.

Twitter suggests I might be interested in following Ivanka Trump.

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@snood,

Already left. Daughter and both ex wives remain. Though I have always had a broad range of intellectual and humanistic interests, the constant since my teens has been US politics and culture. I deemed the American Experiment a unique and hopeful endeavor. This next election will determine, to my mind, whether or not I've tied myself to a rotting corpse.

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@blatham,

I tend to forget you don’t live here.

Bloomberg is troublesome. I think his sudden awakening to the horrors his law enforcement policies wrought is wholly contrived.

I have to ask myself though - contrived to what end? If he gets into the office, he doesn’t have the same incentive to line his pockets as does Trump - he makes tens of millions a day, and he doesn’t have donors to be beholding to.

Loathe as I am to admit it, Some things he did in NYC redounded to the cities’ net good.
If you say this run is pure ego boosting at all costs, I say what better ego boost than to single handedly reverse all the damage Trump has done?

No Blatham I can’t believe we’d be anything but better off with him in there.

And getting Trump out feels as desperately needed as if he was a cancer in my bones.

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@snood,

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No Blatham I can’t believe we’d be anything but better off with him in there.

I think that is certainly true. I don't mean to discourage anyone making this argument and behaving as you suggest.

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