Progressives (Liberals)

Well, that’s stupid even for you.

The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling

Bad Econ Takes @BadEconTakes

“Mike Bloomberg spent enough on his campaign to give every American $1 million.” @BWilliams on @11thHour @MSNBC

Obviously, the math here is spectacularly off. If Michael Bloomberg had divided the money he spent on his presidential run evenly among Americans, we would each have got $1.53, not $1 million. For Bloomberg to give $1 million to each American, he would have to be worth $327 trillion (in cash), which, for context, is around 17 times American GDP and about five-and-a-half thousand times what he’s actually worth. The scale of the error here is galactic.

AOC Pledges to Support Biden If He Wins Nomination
Ed Kilgore

In a welcome sign for Democrats of party unity and an implied rebuke to “Bernie or Bust” voters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Seth Myers last night that she will support Joe Biden if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination:

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I’ve said throughout this entire process that what is so important that we ultimately unite behind who that Democratic nominee is. I think it’s a two-way street. I’ve been concerned by some folks that say if Bernie’s the nominee, they won’t support him and the other way around.

Once again, AOC is proving herself to have extraordinary timing. Her endorsement of Bernie Sanders in October helped turn around what at the time look like a floundering campaign. At the time, it wasn’t all that clear she had made a smart move or that it would matter, as CNN reported:

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Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement was one of the most sought-after in progressive politics and, ultimately, she delivered it at one of the most uncertain times in Sanders’ long political career.

The New York Democrat told Sanders she would back him for president over the phone as he was lying in a hospital bed recovering from the heart attack that took him off the campaign trail for weeks, aides to both told CNN. When he fell ill in Las Vegas, Sanders’ campaign had been stalling in polls, as Warren pulled ahead and solidified her status among the front-runners.

Between then and Super Tuesday, Sanders had a very good run, with AOC serving as a key surrogate. It’s far too early to write off Sanders despite Joe Biden’s astonishing ascent, but not at all too early for people in his camp to make up their minds whether to weaponize threats of a general election defection to gain leverage — or to rule them out.

The decision by the country’s most influential young progresssive to pledge allegiance to the party she has sometimes discomfited is significant. And among other things, it should help convince Biden supporters and those who fear Bernie Sanders to reciprocate should this topsy-turvy nomination contest take another unexpected turn.

AOC Pledges to Support Biden If He Wins Nomination

Josh Marshall
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Trump: CDC "doctors say how do you know so much about this? Maybe I have a natural ability."

"I like this world. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said 'How do you know so much about it". Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President. But you know why. I understand that whole world. love that world. I really do. I love that world

"First I want to thank you, for your decisive leadership ... I also want to thank you for coming here today ... I think that's the most important thing I want to say" --CDC Director Redfield slathers Dear Leader-style praise on Trump during his tour of CDC headquarters

AZAR tries to explain that more tests are coming, but Trump waves him off to jump in.

TRUMP: “Anybody that needs a test gets a test…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

All In with Chris Hayes
@allinwithchris
1h
President Trump on Americans infected with coronavirus on Grand Princess Cruise Ship:

“I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship... that wasn’t our fault.”

Media Matters
@mmfa
2h
Rush Limbaugh: "Can you remember any natural disaster where the Trump administration is thought to have really blown it"

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Latest
@CNN
reporting:

4:25 p.m: Minnesota reports first coronavirus case

5:20 p.m: First coronavirus case in Oklahoma

6:35 p.m: Connecticut reveals first coronavirus case

7:18 p.m: First coronavirus case in Kentucky reported

8:05 p.m: Nebraska reports first coronavirus case

Bloomberg Politics
@bpolitics
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JUST IN: President Trump names Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina as White House chief of staff, replacing Mick Mulvaney https://trib.al/m1pLJvw

And of course it's Meadows. Who, back in 2012 urged Tea Party supporters to "send Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is.”

@JoeBiden's surrogate @lindyli is publicly supporting position of not voting for the eventual democratic nominee

Here's a stupid dipshit

“Anybody that needs a test gets a test…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”