Tuesday, February 25, 2020

I think Joe keeps yelling to try to keep himself awake -- the debate

The debate tonight.  Here are the community posts so far:


"The Sias versus the Sunnis."  Michael Bloomberg just said that -- what an idiot.  C.I. caught it, by the way.  It's Shias.  "The Sias."  What an idiot.

He is a know nothing.

Joe looks like his dentures are slipping but maybe he's just having trouble reminding where he is?

He yells and yells.  Everyone's noting his yelling tonight.  I don't think anyone registers what he says because he yells all the time.

Margaret pimping Syria now.  She's another Christianne AmanWhore.

Petey stands with the people, he says.  Whatever, Petey.

War, war, war.  Little boy playing war.  Can't grow up, won't grow up.

You know how to have a happy life?  Find someone who loves you as much as Tiny Pete loves the sound of his own voice.

"This is not a moment for military intervention," Elizabeth Warren just said.  I agree with her on that.  "We cannot send our military in unless we have a plan to get our military out."  I agree with her on that as well.



Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, February 25, 2020.  Joe Biden makes clear he should not be the nominee.



Starting in the US, where the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues.  Long before any caucuses or primaries were held, the press declared War Hawk Joe Biden the front runner.  That title was lost the minute people started officially registering their preferences.   His campaign maintains that if he wins this week in South Carolina, it proves he's electable.  The other three states -- Iowa, New Hampshire and Las Vegas -- apparently didn't matter.

Does winning South Carolina put Joe on the map?  Only if the United States shrinks from fifty states to just one.  But Joe now has a more serious problem he's facing: Can you run for public office if you don't know which office you are running for?

As noted last night, "Joe Biden tells South Caroline he's running for the US Senate (not a joke)"



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    “I’m Joe Biden, I’m a candidate for the United States Senate. Look me over, if you like what you see, help out.

    If not, vote for the other Biden.”

    - Joe Biden, moments ago. Not a joke. I’m serious, he actually just said this.


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    Joseph A. Wulfson (FOX NEWS) reports:

    Former Vice President Joe Biden made an unfortunate gaffe just days before the critical South Carolina primary, telling voters he's a Democratic candidate for the "United States Senate."
    Biden was one of several 2020 hopefuls to attend the South Carolina Democrat Party's First in the South Dinner, where he reportedly received the longest ovation of any of his competitors.
    However, wrapping up his remarks, he misspoke about which office he was seeking.
    "You're the ones who sent Barack Obama the presidency. And I have a simple proposition here: I'm here to ask you for your help," Biden pleaded to Democratic voters. "Where I come from, you don't go very far unless you ask. My name's Joe Biden. I'm a Democratic candidate for the United State's Senate. Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, okay?"


    We're barely into primary season and he's already losing it in front of voters.  This is the one to put on the top of the ticket for a general election?  Hell no.  He doesn't know where he is, he doesn't know what he's running for.  He's not fit for the office.  He's lost all cognitive powers.  It's time for Joe to go and to go home.

    He thinks he's running for the US Senate.  Grasp that.  He says vote for him or "vote for the other Biden."  He has no clue.



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    Joe Biden: "My name is Joe Biden. I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate...if you don't like me, you can vote for the other Biden."

    Joe Biden is running for... Senate?
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    WATCH: Joe Biden tells a crowd in South Carolina that he’s running for the “United States Senate.”

    Bad news, folks. Bernie’s gonna win South Carolina too.

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    This is not a minor moment.  This goes to how he does not have the faculties to handle the campaign trail.  He is not fit for the primary campaign and the general campaign will be much, much tougher.  Those who have made excuses for Joe throughout this campaign need to stop minimizing what these moments say because they are making clear that the brain is no longer there and he has no clue what he's doing.

    Putting hi on the ticket at this point is begging for four more years of Donald Trump.

    Kate Ng (INDEPENDENT) reports:

     Mr Biden, 77, has made a series of confusing and controversial statements during a presidential campaign to date that has seen his poll ratings tumble.


    Earlier this month, he mistakenly referred to New Hampshire as Nevada on the night of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.
    The speech led some on social media to raise concerns about his health and how rigorous campaigning was affecting him.

    As bad as things like that are, this was no Joe mixing up what state he was in.  This was Joe mixing up the office he's running for.

    When someone gets wrong what office they're running for -- and doesn't catch it and compounds it by saying "vote for the other Biden," you're a fool to support them.  They don't know what time of day it is.  Clearly, Joe is suffering from early dementia.  It's not going to get better and it would be a huge mistake to hand him the nomination.  He needs to drop out for his own health and the health of the party.


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    Have had multiple people who were in the room there tonight in Charleston, South Carolina reach out to say that this low moment for was not the exception, but the rule throughout his remarks.

    They said the whole room whispered to themselves out of grave concern.


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    One moment like that in an October debate against Donald and we would have four more years of Trump.  We can't afford Joe Biden.


    We also can't afford the bulk of our so-called independent media.  Which is worse?  THE NATION or THE PROGRESSIVE?  THE NATION continues to offer garbage.  Two examples?  Katha Pollitt's latest ridiculous garbage.  People took offense to her saying she was going to write about a term that had nothing to do with her.  So she turns that into yet another bad column and she wants to tell you the history of the term "Ms."  -- at least in the way a male writer for NYT tells it so that it credits a man for it.  She has no knowledge that the term was taught for years to secretaries.  That would be too much for the 'feminist' to handle with her male-centric brain.  It's garbage pure and simple and, no, THE NATION never needed their own William Safire.  One more point, that photo of Katha is over 15 years old, she needs to update it despite (or maybe because of) her vanity.  Then we get a piece that I'll be kind about and not link to or shame the author.  Elizabeth Warren, the article tells you needs to win because Medicare For All would be great but it would not address sexism.

    I hate to break it to the simplistic writer but Elizabeth as a president is not going to address sexism.  The same way Barack Obama as president did not address racism.  There is no simple cure to either.  There's hard working to defeating both.

    And a strong argument can be made that Medicare For All would do more to reduce sexism.  It would provide working class mothers with an equal playing field.  That's not a minor issue.

    Then there's THE PROGRESSIVE.  It took Michael Bloomberg entering the race for THE PROGRESSIVE to finally start covering it.  It does slam pieces on Bloomberg.  Is that helpful?  It might be were the rag not self-presenting like some loony survivalist outpost "COMMENT: PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING CIVIL WAR"?  They lost their way in 2006 and they never found the way back.  Useless.

    What can you expect from a rag that withdrew its coverage of Iraq long, long ago?

    In Iraq, the protests continue.



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    🇮🇶 update:
    Amid protests:
    ➡️Authorities use lethal force
    ➡️Armed militia attack protesters
    ➡️Protesters, activists, journalists, aid workers, attacked, arrested, kidnapped, assassinated
    ➡️Media outlets shut, internet blocked
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    One protest that won't be taking place?  Cult leader and demagogue Moqtada al-Sadr fled to Iran weeks ago.  This week he began saying he was calling on a protest of Parliament -- a protest in Iraq -- if they did not approve everything the prime minister-designate wanted (his full Cabinet).  Moqtada has now dropped that move.  Why?




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    Some are saying on Arabic social media, that he suspended it because he realized that his followers weren't listening to him.  Maybe because of the coronavirus fears, maybe because he was in Iran, maybe because of his erratic positions on the protesters.



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    Monday, February 24, 2020

    Drama Queen Anderson Cooper needs to be fired

    Screaming "bulls**t!" in response to a guest's remark is not how a professional host conducts oneself.  But that's what Anderson Cooper did when hosting Rod Blagojevich on his program.

    Blagojevich is the former governor of Illinois who was sent to prison after being convicted of attempting to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat.

    If there was a point to bring the person on -- Blagojevich was pardoned last week by President Donald Trump -- it was to hear the story.  Not to hear Anderson editorializing. 

    Any hopes of learning anything new flew out the window as Cry Baby Anderson yet again decided that playing Drama Queen was more important than informing the viewers.


    Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Monday, February 24, 2020.  Bernie Sanders wins Nevada, Joe Biden is desperate for a win in South Carolina -- actually, for a win anywhere, the Iraqi Parliament moves to vote on the prime minister designate's Cabinet, and much more.



    Over the weekend, the front runner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders, won another caucus -- Nevada.  Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

     In an appearance on MSNBC Sunday morning just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders' decisive victory in the Nevada Democratic presidential caucus, author and political commentator Anand Giridharadas said the senator's win could represent the dawn of "a new era in American life" and called out establishment forces—including MSNBC—for reacting like "out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy."
    "Last night was a historic win that I think a lot of us are still struggling to understand," said Giridharadas. "Something is happening in America right now that actually does not fit our mental models. It certainly doesn't fit the mental models of a lot of people on TV."


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    Bernie took 47% of the votes in Nevada.  The distant second was Joe Biden who took 21% of the votes.  It's not going well for Joe.  Igor Bobic (HUFFINGTON POST) observes:

    It’s come to this: Former Vice President Joe Biden badly needs a primary victory to keep alive his chances of winning the Democratic nomination, and his firewall state of South Carolina is finally heading to the polls later this week. 
    But in a place where he once looked unassailable (with support as high as 46% at one point), Biden is suddenly facing a competitive fight as other candidates in the race continue to make inroads with Black voters, his core constituency.
    A disappointing finish here would be devastating to his campaign and his path forward, especially after repeated assurances from his staff that he was positioned to do best in more diverse communities like those in the Palmetto State.

    “It’s not looking great. He has the opposite of momentum,” South Carolina Democratic strategist Tyler Jones told HuffPost. “He’s gotta win South Carolina convincingly to stay in the race. Expectations are also very high for him, which they set for themselves. It’s win or go home for him.”


    At THE ATLANTIC, Ibram X. Kendi takes on the myth that moderates win.  Lies are all that prop up Joe Biden's campaign.  Becket Adams (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) notes one lie that should be front and center at the next debate:

     Former Vice President Joe Biden’s penchant for misstating the facts is so severe his opponents often question his mental acuity.
    But they may want to consider the possibility that he is merely dishonest.
    Biden told an audience at a recent campaign event in South Carolina that he was arrested decades ago in South Africa for attempting to meet with then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela.
    “This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,” the former vice president said. “I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
    Biden has told this story at least three times this month, including a version that pegs the year of his alleged arrest at around the time he proposed to his wife in 1977.
    There is only one problem with the former vice president’s story: No one seems to have any idea what he is talking about, least of all the aforementioned U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, who told the New York Times, “I was never arrested and I don’t think he was, either.”
    The Times scoured for evidence of the supposed Soweto incident. It came up empty-handed, which is astonishing considering Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1973, four years prior to his alleged arrest in South Africa. It should not be difficult to find evidence of a member of the U.S. Congress being forcibly detained in a foreign country during an overseas trip in the late 1970s. Also, there is the fact that Soweto is roughly 900 miles away from Robbens Island.

    The Biden campaign declined to respond to five separate requests for comment from the Times, which obviously does not bode well for the credibility of the anecdote.


    It never happened.  Never.  He's a liar.  He's a liar who will say anything.  He is not to be trusted.  He is a War Hawk and, as he flounders, the other War Hawks rush forward to protect him.  Tyler MacDonald (INQUISITR) reports:


     After Bernie Sanders‘ victory in Nevada, conservative commentator Bill Kristol called on former President Barack Obama to hit the campaign trail in South Carolina for his former Vice President, Joe Biden, and help him take down the Vermont Senator.


    Bill Kristol is a raging idiot who should be barred from public discourse due to the blood on his hands.  We should also grasp that any candidate who can't win a state without Barack stepping in to campaign for them isn't someone we need on the ticket.

    In other news, Joe Biden has claimed that Russian bots are attacking him on Facebook.  Then it was pointed out to Joe that he was holding an Etch-a-Sketch.


    Jon Queally (COMMON DREAMS) notes:

    Now running as the presumptive frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday morning unveiled a sweeping new proposal that would guarantee high-quality child care and then pre-kindergarten education to every child—regardless of income or status—in the United States.

     Citing figures that show the average American family with young children spends $10,000 per year on childcare—a burden that eats as much as 35 percent out of the annual budget of low-income families' annual budget—the detailed early childhood plan released by the Sanders campaign seeks to address the crisis and economic hardship by providing free child care starting at infancy and pre-K beginning at age three.
    "Childcare must be guaranteed for every child regardless of their parents' income, just like K-12 education," said Sanders in a statement. "We know that the first four years of a child's life are the most important years of human development, so it is unconscionable that in the wealthiest country in the world, we do not properly invest in early childhood education." Sanders said.
    Sanders—who has achieved frontrunner status in the Democratic 2020 race on a platform of universal programs like Medicare for All and denouncing "grotesque" levels of inequality—releases his early childhood plan just two days after a landslide win in the Nevada caucus and with Super Tuesday just over a week away on March 3.

    In a study released last month, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that American families spend approximately $42 billion annually on child care for their children. That figure does not include the $34 billion spent by federal and state governments on child care support systems, services, and subsidies. According to EPI, parents of young children forgo $30 to 35 billion each year in income due to the high cost of early childhood care and education, a figure that translates into an estimated $4.2 billion in lost federal tax revenue.


    Corporate media is excited that, on Wednesday, Jim Clyburn will endorse Joe Biden.  At a certain point, it just doesn't matter.  Barbara Boxer was popular in my state while she was in the Senate but with each re-election, she meant less and less to new voters.  Clyburn's endorsement would help Joe sew up the elderly -- but I thought he already had a grip on them?   Clyburn is the establishment and has been that for years.  His endorsement will not drive any young voters to Joe.




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    In Iraq, the protests continue. And the protesters continue to be targeted.


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    The protesters are committed to a better Iraq, a government that serves all.  This is one of the reasons that the protesters have the support of many of the Iraqi people   IIACSS looks at the support for the protesters in Iraq:


    1. the independent research group, the only representative of the GAF International Research Foundation conducted a survey of Iraqi public opinion on the events that took place in October 2019 and are still ongoing. The research conducted with Iraqis representing all the provinces of Iraq and in various social, demographic, economic, educational and sexual sectors was based on more than 2000 interviews conducted face-to-face and computerized by the group of researchers and according to the latest technology used in this field. The survey was conducted during February 2020. Where the random sample method (PPS) was used.
    2. Top Results:
    1. There is absolute support for more than 85 % for demonstrations and in various regions, including more than 80% of support among the kurds while the ratio has reached much more in the rest of the regions. While various southern and Baghdad provinces have shown a very close level of support for demonstrations, the provinces of diyala, kirkuk and Mosul have shown the highest levels of support compared to the other provinces that were occupied (or parts) by ISIS gangs.
    2. The percentage of Iraqis who support the demands of the protests and are legitimate over 90 % WHILE ONLY 5 % of those who say it is illegal, and the percentage of those who say it is an external conspiracy on Iraq only 10 %.
    3. The two highest demands in support of the two leaders are to hold those responsible for killing and killing protesters and then early elections.
    4. About 50 % of Shia and more than 15 % of the year reported that they personally participated in these demonstrations in different ways and at least once. The citizens of Mosul and Tikrit showed the highest desire to participate in the demonstrations if they broke out in their wallets compared to the other provinces where the demonstrations did not break out.
    5. Although there are some relative differences, Iraqis have not encouraged any of the major political leaders to discontent their political performance. None of the political leaders (other than the Kurds) were able to reach 20 % of confidence in their performance.






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    1. Hannaa Jassem, a 24-year-old nurse, works as a nurse in a hospital in Iraq’s capital during the week, and volunteers at its main protest site at weekends.
       
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    Iraqi nurse spends her weekends stitching wounds at protest site - Iraq News - Local News - Baghdadpost






    Lastly, AFP reports:
    Iraqi lawmakers on Monday scheduled a confidence vote for the government of prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi later this week, as the US called for the premier to protect its troops.
    Allawi, who was named as a consensus candidate by Iraq’s divided political parties on February 1, had called for a Monday vote, following months of protests demanding a complete government overhaul.
    His request was backed by his predecessor Adel Abdul Mahdi, deputy parliament speaker Hassan Karim Al Kaabi, and Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr who threatened to organise mass rallies outside parliament unless lawmakers back Allawi’s government in a confidence vote this week.


    Lawmakers decided to schedule the vote for Thursday, according to a statement from parliament.




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