Progressives (Liberals)

I hadn't seen that. One might conclude they put this thing together with little thought to it actually moving through the courts.

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But... he's really really rich. One of a select few. The best of the best. God-like, really.

Rick Hasen (I think it was) noted the possibility that the census could be affected by the corona virus. Here's another possibility that hadn't occurred to me...
Wired

So the question Trump must consider now if such a condition were to arise - What would Putin do?

I love these wonderful people so much

And golly I love these people too
Fox News' Mark Levin says Bernie Sanders' Middle East peace plan would be the “final solution for the state of Israel”

Watch Tulsi Gabbard on Fox auditioning for a show of her own there

That neonazi thug Sanders is bad news, that's for sure.

But Israel would just tell the US to go take a hike under a Sanders Administration and ally themselves with China instead of the US.

It is highly unlikely that China would object to Israel transferring all of the Area B Palestinians to the Gaza Strip.

The media keep falling in love — with anybody but Bernie Sanders
By Margaret Sullivan, February 12, 2020, WaPo

As the presidential campaign got underway last year, we watched the media lavish its affections on Beto O’Rourke for a while, and then Kamala Harris, briefly, and Elizabeth Warren for quite a while.

But, as it will, love waned.

Joe Biden became the new sure thing — experienced, solid and empathetic. Most of all, he possessed that ineffable quality: electability. But last week, after the Iowa caucuses, the attention shifted squarely to Pete Buttigieg, portrayed as a centrist savior, though it’s still debatable whether he actually won.

Then Tuesday night, the news media’s roving crush moved to Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar. Her third-place finish in the New Hampshire Democratic primary became the story of the night.

Never, though, has mainstream media turned its loving eyes to the front-runner, Bernie Sanders. Quite the opposite.

“He is a grumpy, angry person on the stump, and he is not going to be elected,” raved Republican strategist Sara Fagen on ABC News one recent Sunday morning.

At the New York Times, columnist Thomas Friedman scoffed at the Sanders surge to write in praise of former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is on the verge of being the next flavor du jour, if his record on criminal justice doesn’t catch up with him.

On a sentence-by-sentence basis, straight news coverage may not have reflected an anti-Sanders bias, but the framing of that coverage — choices made on headlines and emphasis — sometimes did. (Sanders, in a home page headline in the Times, “tightens grip” on the party’s liberal wing, which sounds more threatening than victorious.)

Meanwhile, Klobuchar was queen for a day, garnering headlines such as this one from Yahoo News: “Riding wave of momentum, Klobuchar lands in 3rd place in New Hampshire primary.” You heard words such as “Klobucharge” and “Klomentum” bandied about.

On MSNBC Tuesday night, host Chris Matthews fawned: “Bernie indicts. She finds a way to care.”

Amy Goodman, host of the progressive news program “Democracy Now” and a Sanders defender, recalled hearing one cable pundit say Sanders had “flatlined at Number One.” On a recent episode she bemoaned that most of the media coverage is “so anti-Bernie it’s just remarkable.”

The subtext behind much of the disdain is a partly a deep-seated sentiment that Sanders, if nominated, has little chance of winning the general election. But it’s also partly — and more insidiously — that many journalists don’t identify easily with Sanders in the same way they do with, say, Warren or O’Rourke or Buttigieg.

In Iowa early this month, I asked one local reporter who had met all the major candidates who would be the strongest Democratic candidate. “I don’t have a hope, I have a fear,” came the answer. It wasn’t hard to figure out what that meant or how that sort of visceral dislike might make its way, subtly, into coverage.

While many reporters and pundits have seemed, until very recently, to casually discount Sanders, a few opinion writers are taking him very seriously — seriously enough to shoot off flares about what a bad choice they think he would make.

“Running Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity,” thundered the headline on a New York magazine piece by Jonathan Chait in late January.

He wrote: “No party nomination, with the possible exception of Barry Goldwater in 1964, has put forth a presidential nominee with the level of downside risk exposure as a Sanders-led ticket would bring. To nominate Sanders would be insane.”

“Bernie Can’t Win,” opined David Frum in the Atlantic, characterizing Sanders in unflattering terms as “a Marxist of the old school of dialectical materialism, from the land that time forgot.” At The Washington Post, columnist Jennifer Rubin has been equally tough; one recent headline: “Bernie Sanders’s Trump-like campaign is a disaster for Democrats.”

In turn, Sanders keeps dissing what he calls the corporate media, as he has for years.

In the official editorial-board interview with the New York Times recently, Sanders blustered that he doesn’t cozy up to powerful media figures as other candidates are wont to do.

“I’m not good at pleasantries. If you have your birthday, I’m not going to call you up to congratulate you, so you’ll love me and you’ll write nice things about me,” he said.

A few media figures are giving him his due, if a little grudgingly. CNN’s Jake Tapper was one: “Take a step back. He is 78 years old, he is a Democratic socialist, he is a Jewish American, originally from Brooklyn — it is a stunning achievement by Senator Sanders and for his movement.”

Sanders, though, doesn’t seem to mind. His ardent followers bond with him and with one another by despising the mainstream media, often enough with good reason.

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It may well be that he doesn’t need or want the help of cable pundits, columnists and other opinion-makers.

From Beto to Biden, their crushes, so far, have turned into heartbreaks.

Maybe media love — fickle and fleeting — is a valentine Bernie Sanders would rather do without.

Despite quite a who’s who of opposing villains, Bernie appears to be positioned to place 1st in most Super Tuesday contests and a close second in others.

His winning rationale: the rich, AIPAC, SuperPacs, the media, the DNC establishment, and their consorting billionaires have lots of power and money, but one hell of a lot fewer votes than we have.

You had your turn; now, it’s ours.

Sullivan is always worth attending to. She and Jay Rosen are, I think, the two best media critics around.

Well, I never — who would have ever suspected?

The Primaries Are Just Dumb

There’s a better way to do democracy.

I see that foreign markets are continuing their slide.

Of course, that's because of Bernie Sanders.

So, thanks Obama.

Um, wage increases decrease poverty.

But don't worry. Looks like some in the administration realize that there's a labor shortage in this country. The prospect of having to shell out higher wages is enough to spark a renewed interest in larger numbers of immigrants:

Why a Top Trump Aide Said ‘We Are Desperate’ for More Immigrants

Immigrants are critical to expanding the United States’ labor pool. Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that, even if President Trump’s policies do not.

That is what Trump wants. So do Americans. Remember "aide" is the operative word here.

Danged it, I just get so woozy when coldjoint puts something up I can agree with. (Congressman, my wooziness is from the shock generated)

But, yeah, my big difficulty with Sanders is how enamored he is with things and people which are not Democratic or pro-American. Then again, the same could be said of Trump (although he didn't honeymoon in The USSR...only got a couple of wives from nearby).

Elizabeth Warren and Colbert - this is delightful

Beer and oysters?

Sounds as if Lizzie is sloshing too much booze. In 2018 she charged nearly 3,000 smakers for an all you can guzzle wine 🍷fundraiser and now carousing on film.

...wonder about those oysters too. Did she scoop out the pearls, to add to her coffers?


Currently, Warren is about 5th on my list of Dems I'd vote for in the primary. Like the others though, she will have full support if she becomes the nominee.

So your complaint is that beer doesn’t go with oysters, she drinks too much, or she charged too much at a fund raiser?

Maybe all three?

Nah, I just do not like her. She has an annoying habit of changing mid-tune when realizing voters are not happy with her actions/comments.