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]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154957 nypoet22 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:30:56 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154957 there's no G in yin there's no G in yin

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154954 Kick Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:37:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154954 Russ 171 <i>My, my, my....you did indeed see this coming! You are definitely on a streak! </i> *We blush* You and me and JM gave fair warning too. <i>And I still believe Abrams will be the VP pick for the Dems, regardless of who gets the nomination. We’ve got two older white males who are left in this race —Tracy is the perfect “ying” to their “yang.” </i> Oh, I totally agree. How long have we been discussing the VP picks? * Stacey Abrams * Kamala Harris * Elizabeth Warren In that order, we've been guessing for a long time. EM thinks we're crazy, but that's okay too. Stacey Abrams is a great pick because that is a pick that could flip Georgia. Remember when they said Virginia wouldn't flip? They say that about Georgia. ;) Russ
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My, my, my....you did indeed see this coming! You are definitely on a streak!

*We blush* You and me and JM gave fair warning too.

And I still believe Abrams will be the VP pick for the Dems, regardless of who gets the nomination. We’ve got two older white males who are left in this race —Tracy is the perfect “ying” to their “yang.”

Oh, I totally agree. How long have we been discussing the VP picks?

* Stacey Abrams
* Kamala Harris
* Elizabeth Warren

In that order, we've been guessing for a long time. EM thinks we're crazy, but that's okay too. Stacey Abrams is a great pick because that is a pick that could flip Georgia. Remember when they said Virginia wouldn't flip? They say that about Georgia. ;)

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154953 ListenWhenYouHear Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:22:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154953 Kick [168] My, my, my....you did indeed see this coming! You are definitely on a streak! And I still believe Abrams will be the VP pick for the Dems, regardless of who gets the nomination. We’ve got two older white males who are left in this race —Tracy is the perfect “ying” to their “yang” Kick [168]

My, my, my....you did indeed see this coming! You are definitely on a streak!

And I still believe Abrams will be the VP pick for the Dems, regardless of who gets the nomination. We’ve got two older white males who are left in this race —Tracy is the perfect “ying” to their “yang”

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154952 Kick Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:11:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154952 John M 146 <i>Not only did Biden sweep the African American vote, he swept the suburbs in areas like North Carolina and Virginia. He's putting back together the Obama coalition and the coalition of suburban voters who swept the Democrats to power in the 2018 midterms. </i> That's exactly right. The South has spoken. <i>The "establishment" would have happily thrown Biden under the bus if it suited their purpose. Ordinary voters chose Biden. The establishment had nothing to do with either stopping Bernie or promoting an alternative. </i> Exactly right, JM. And what stopped Bernie from getting any of those endorsements from candidates who had no path to the Democratic nomination when they exited the race? I mean, besides the fact that Bernie had demonized them all and proclaimed them unpure and pure evil? <i>Biden currently has a 50 delegate lead on Bernie, with even more friendly Biden states coming, like Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. </i> Wait, you mean if Bernie still cannot win over the South after years of having that opportunity, he very likely can't win the nomination of the Democratic Party? Well, who knew? ;) <i>A brokered convention is looking less and less likely. More likely Biden walks away with it. </i> Biden comes in like a herd of turtles... slow and steady wins the race... and -- full disclosure -- it doesn't hurt to have the entire South behind your ass, either. ;) So Bernie dropped a commercial <b>today</b> featuring Barack Obama appearing to endorse Bernie when, in fact, it is footage of that day Bernie was notified by President Obama that he would be endorsing Bernie's opponent. Nice commercial, though, seems a bit hypocritical under all the circumstances, wouldn't you say? John M
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Not only did Biden sweep the African American vote, he swept the suburbs in areas like North Carolina and Virginia. He's putting back together the Obama coalition and the coalition of suburban voters who swept the Democrats to power in the 2018 midterms.

That's exactly right. The South has spoken.

The "establishment" would have happily thrown Biden under the bus if it suited their purpose. Ordinary voters chose Biden. The establishment had nothing to do with either stopping Bernie or promoting an alternative.

Exactly right, JM. And what stopped Bernie from getting any of those endorsements from candidates who had no path to the Democratic nomination when they exited the race? I mean, besides the fact that Bernie had demonized them all and proclaimed them unpure and pure evil?

Biden currently has a 50 delegate lead on Bernie, with even more friendly Biden states coming, like Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida.

Wait, you mean if Bernie still cannot win over the South after years of having that opportunity, he very likely can't win the nomination of the Democratic Party? Well, who knew? ;)

A brokered convention is looking less and less likely. More likely Biden walks away with it.

Biden comes in like a herd of turtles... slow and steady wins the race... and -- full disclosure -- it doesn't hurt to have the entire South behind your ass, either. ;)

So Bernie dropped a commercial today featuring Barack Obama appearing to endorse Bernie when, in fact, it is footage of that day Bernie was notified by President Obama that he would be endorsing Bernie's opponent. Nice commercial, though, seems a bit hypocritical under all the circumstances, wouldn't you say?

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154951 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:51:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154951 John M 144 Heh. John M
144

Heh.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154950 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:27:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154950 Russ | John M Y'all know exactly what happened last night because we had already discussed this before in late January, I believe. Be right back: <blockquote> [6] <b>Kick</b> wrote: CW: <i>Sanders is in a strong position, based on recent polls, to win Iowa and then New Hampshire. A one-two punch in the first two states could make him hard to stop. Joe Biden's firewall -- his popularity among African-Americans in South Carolina and other Southern states -- would face a severe test. </i> NOT a new scenario here. Sanders and Clinton virtually tied in Iowa and received approximately the same number of delegates; then Bernie won New Hampshire in a big way, and the more racially diversified South fell in line behind Bernie Sanders rather than their preferred candidate since he had the most delegates at that point. Oh, wait... no, they didn't. Those voters in the South who had an overwhelming preference for a more moderate candidate still voted their preference regardless of the outcome in the lily white North. The South isn't generally falling in line to vote for a self-described socialist in the primaries just because he won a few Northern states (to be honest). <i>His "notion of a higher turnout of infrequent voters" seems to have worked, in the end, which neither Rahm Emanuel nor Matt Bennett acknowledge in any way. </i> Probably because Trump didn't receive a whole lot more votes in 2016 than Mitt Romney did in 2012... about what would be expected due to our ever-expanding population: Romney 2012: ~61 million Trump 2016: ~63 million <i>When that inconvenient fact is added in, what emerges is the Democratic Party establishment being afraid not -- as they profess -- that Bernie would lose the general election, but rather than he would win. </i> I disagree. The statistical facts don't really bear that out. <i>And that puts their comments in a very different perspective, doesn't it? </i> No, what it actually brings to light is the Sanders' supporters still clinging to the conspiracy theory belief that there is an establishment boogieman who kept Bernie Sanders from winning the election when Bernie failed in spectacular fashion to carry the South. A candidate cannot generally win the nomination of the Democratic Party without carrying the South, and Bernie didn't do it and no one conspired against him to stop him from winning it. He just couldn't garner the support he needed and lost the primary on Super Tuesday because the support he needed from minorities just wasn't there. In 2020, Bernie is still miles behind the South's favored candidate... and no one is standing in his way to win them over. If he still can't appeal to minorities four years later, what do you say we don't blame it all on some kind of establishment conspiracy or fear of Bernie? Ball's in Bernie's court and always has been. It's up to Bernie to win the Southern voters, and he's had ample time to do so. Bernie Sanders lack of support in the South meant that the opposition research file on him never had to be deployed since the Democratic primary was never even close. The Republicans have a video of Bernie Sanders at a 1985 rally thrown by the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua where half a million people chanted, "Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die," while their President Daniel Ortega was busy condemning "state terrorism" by the United States and Americans. Bernie looks into the camera and describes his supporting the Sandinistas as "patriotic." The Republicans have at least four other seriously damning videos. No, I won't tell what they contain. Could Sanders still win? Sure. Trump won, didn't he? But it wasn't because of some bigger turnout Trump inspired in 2016 versus the GOP turnout in 2012. Nope. Liberals put Trump in the White House by staying home in enough of the key states... less than 80,000 votes... and the rest is history. :) http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/01/27/black-swan-versus-black-swan/#comment-152480 </blockquote> ***** <blockquote> [30] <b>John M</b> wrote: I agree. This completely points out the heart of the matter. The Democratic candidate and winner in the general election will be the one who inspires the support of and can turn out in large numbers, minority voters in the way and the same coalition that Obama did. This is especially true of Michigan and the Milwaukee urban area of Wisconsin, as well the area around Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. It's also why, outside of Iowa and New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigeg, and Elizabeth Warren have not gained any traction. It also explains why Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and the rest have fallen by the wayside. None of them has ever gotten sustained minority support yet. The ONLY one to garner such support so far has been Joe Biden. That, along with his white working class support, goes a long way to explain Trump's and the Republican panic focus of trying to portray Biden and his son Hunter as somehow corrupt in a big scandal. It's their obsession with destroying Hillary Clinton all over again writ large. That's what makes Biden the perceived threat, in other words, Biden as the heir to the Obama legacy and coalition. Unless minority support suddenly switches to someone else who looks like they can win, other than Joe Biden, it's the tortoise and not the hare who will win this race and the nomination. [31] For Bernie to win the nomination, he would not only have to win Iowa and New Hampshire in a blow out. He would also have to start picking up SIGNIFICANT African American support, and start winning states in the South like Kick said on Super Tuesday, like Virginia, Texas and Alabama. This would also mean that Biden's support would have to collapse among minority voters, who would no longer see him as the "winning" candidate. </blockquote> ***** <blockquote> [67] <b>ListenWhenYouHear</b> wrote: John M & Kick Spot on! I know Liz won’t agree with this, but I feel almost 99.9% sure that Stacy Abrams is going to be his VP choice. It’s been tossed out as a possibility in the press I know, but people back in Georgia are much more certain that it is going to happen. Abrams has not backed any candidate, thus far, but I am guessing that she will be making that announcement prior to the primary votes in Southern states. She is the “yang” to Biden’s “ying” as far as a well-rounded ticket is concerned. </blockquote> So the South has spoken... and y'all can't say you weren't warned, either. Russ | John M

Y'all know exactly what happened last night because we had already discussed this before in late January, I believe. Be right back:

[6] Kick wrote:

CW: Sanders is in a strong position, based on recent polls, to win Iowa and then New Hampshire. A one-two punch in the first two states could make him hard to stop. Joe Biden's firewall -- his popularity among African-Americans in South Carolina and other Southern states -- would face a severe test.

NOT a new scenario here.

Sanders and Clinton virtually tied in Iowa and received approximately the same number of delegates; then Bernie won New Hampshire in a big way, and the more racially diversified South fell in line behind Bernie Sanders rather than their preferred candidate since he had the most delegates at that point. Oh, wait... no, they didn't.

Those voters in the South who had an overwhelming preference for a more moderate candidate still voted their preference regardless of the outcome in the lily white North. The South isn't generally falling in line to vote for a self-described socialist in the primaries just because he won a few Northern states (to be honest).

His "notion of a higher turnout of infrequent voters" seems to have worked, in the end, which neither Rahm Emanuel nor Matt Bennett acknowledge in any way.

Probably because Trump didn't receive a whole lot more votes in 2016 than Mitt Romney did in 2012... about what would be expected due to our ever-expanding population:

Romney 2012: ~61 million
Trump 2016: ~63 million

When that inconvenient fact is added in, what emerges is the Democratic Party establishment being afraid not -- as they profess -- that Bernie would lose the general election, but rather than he would win.

I disagree. The statistical facts don't really bear that out.

And that puts their comments in a very different perspective, doesn't it?

No, what it actually brings to light is the Sanders' supporters still clinging to the conspiracy theory belief that there is an establishment boogieman who kept Bernie Sanders from winning the election when Bernie failed in spectacular fashion to carry the South. A candidate cannot generally win the nomination of the Democratic Party without carrying the South, and Bernie didn't do it and no one conspired against him to stop him from winning it. He just couldn't garner the support he needed and lost the primary on Super Tuesday because the support he needed from minorities just wasn't there.

In 2020, Bernie is still miles behind the South's favored candidate... and no one is standing in his way to win them over. If he still can't appeal to minorities four years later, what do you say we don't blame it all on some kind of establishment conspiracy or fear of Bernie? Ball's in Bernie's court and always has been. It's up to Bernie to win the Southern voters, and he's had ample time to do so.

Bernie Sanders lack of support in the South meant that the opposition research file on him never had to be deployed since the Democratic primary was never even close. The Republicans have a video of Bernie Sanders at a 1985 rally thrown by the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua where half a million people chanted, "Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die," while their President Daniel Ortega was busy condemning "state terrorism" by the United States and Americans. Bernie looks into the camera and describes his supporting the Sandinistas as "patriotic." The Republicans have at least four other seriously damning videos. No, I won't tell what they contain.

Could Sanders still win? Sure. Trump won, didn't he? But it wasn't because of some bigger turnout Trump inspired in 2016 versus the GOP turnout in 2012. Nope. Liberals put Trump in the White House by staying home in enough of the key states... less than 80,000 votes... and the rest is history. :)

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/01/27/black-swan-versus-black-swan/#comment-152480

*****

[30] John M wrote:

I agree. This completely points out the heart of the matter. The Democratic candidate and winner in the general election will be the one who inspires the support of and can turn out in large numbers, minority voters in the way and the same coalition that Obama did. This is especially true of Michigan and the Milwaukee urban area of Wisconsin, as well the area around Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

It's also why, outside of Iowa and New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigeg, and Elizabeth Warren have not gained any traction. It also explains why Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and the rest have fallen by the wayside. None of them has ever gotten sustained minority support yet.

The ONLY one to garner such support so far has been Joe Biden. That, along with his white working class support, goes a long way to explain Trump's and the Republican panic focus of trying to portray Biden and his son Hunter as somehow corrupt in a big scandal. It's their obsession with destroying Hillary Clinton all over again writ large. That's what makes Biden the perceived threat, in other words, Biden as the heir to the Obama legacy and coalition.

Unless minority support suddenly switches to someone else who looks like they can win, other than Joe Biden, it's the tortoise and not the hare who will win this race and the nomination.

[31] For Bernie to win the nomination, he would not only have to win Iowa and New Hampshire in a blow out. He would also have to start picking up SIGNIFICANT African American support, and start winning states in the South like Kick said on Super Tuesday, like Virginia, Texas and Alabama. This would also mean that Biden's support would have to collapse among minority voters, who would no longer see him as the "winning" candidate.

*****

[67] ListenWhenYouHear wrote:

John M & Kick

Spot on!

I know Liz won’t agree with this, but I feel almost 99.9% sure that Stacy Abrams is going to be his VP choice. It’s been tossed out as a possibility in the press I know, but people back in Georgia are much more certain that it is going to happen. Abrams has not backed any candidate, thus far, but I am guessing that she will be making that announcement prior to the primary votes in Southern states. She is the “yang” to Biden’s “ying” as far as a well-rounded ticket is concerned.

So the South has spoken... and y'all can't say you weren't warned, either.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154949 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:50:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154949 Mike 158 <blockquote>Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P ~ Kick</blockquote> <i>You were right... I was wrong... </i> Well, that is factual, but here's another fact: That wasn't even meant for you personally. <i>That's all that matters.. :D </i> Nah. I crunched the numbers and knew what was coming. You win some you lose some... nothing new, no big deal. :) Mike
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Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P ~ Kick

You were right... I was wrong...

Well, that is factual, but here's another fact: That wasn't even meant for you personally.

That's all that matters.. :D

Nah. I crunched the numbers and knew what was coming. You win some you lose some... nothing new, no big deal. :)

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154948 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:45:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154948 JL I had to remove the link where we discussed this before and the word "test o sterone" <--- one word, and then it slithered through the filter. ;) JL

I had to remove the link where we discussed this before and the word "test o sterone" <--- one word, and then it slithered through the filter. ;)

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154947 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:42:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154947 JL 119 126 134 136 Dead. On. Balz. Accurate.... and good form! And balz is not misspelled either. Remember that Hitler (very much like Donald Trump) had visually defective body issues wherein he didn't quite "measure up" to others so constantly endeavored to do so. Donald has his wee small hands and obviously short stubby fingers, while Hitler was afflicted with unilateral cryptorchidism. So many of these demagogue types often have issues of inadequacy they're constantly looking to remedy. JL
119 126 134 136

Dead. On. Balz. Accurate.... and good form!

And balz is not misspelled either. Remember that Hitler (very much like Donald Trump) had visually defective body issues wherein he didn't quite "measure up" to others so constantly endeavored to do so. Donald has his wee small hands and obviously short stubby fingers, while Hitler was afflicted with unilateral cryptorchidism.

So many of these demagogue types often have issues of inadequacy they're constantly looking to remedy.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154946 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:38:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154946 @kick, I look forward to reading it @kick,
I look forward to reading it

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154945 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:34:13 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154945 Roberts has turned out to be a very interesting chief justice. Roberts has turned out to be a very interesting chief justice.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154944 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:33:21 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154944 Dang it! I can't post a comment to JL. It's getting eaten! Dang it! I can't post a comment to JL. It's getting eaten!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154942 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:30:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154942 Testing My 'puter is acting nutty... comments disappearing Testing

My 'puter is acting nutty... comments disappearing

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154939 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:17:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154939 I would hope to see Schumer's name on the MDDOTW Trophy this weekend.. But somehow, I think most, if not all, Democrats support Schumer in this wholly unfounded attack on a third of our government.. I would hope to see Schumer's name on the MDDOTW Trophy this weekend..

But somehow, I think most, if not all, Democrats support Schumer in this wholly unfounded attack on a third of our government..

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154938 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:15:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154938 Schumer threatens the Judiciary... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESTALZtXUAIIOGV?format=png&name=small Chief Justice Responds... Schumer threatens the Judiciary...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESTALZtXUAIIOGV?format=png&name=small

Chief Justice Responds...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154937 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:14:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154937 <I>Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P</I> You were right... I was wrong... That's all that matters.. :D Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P

You were right... I was wrong...

That's all that matters.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154935 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:03:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154935 <B>Schumer unloads on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh at abortion rights rally: 'You will pay the price!'</B> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-unloads-on-gorsuch-kavanaugh-at-abortion-rights-rally-warns-they-will-pay-the-price-for-awful-decisions Yea... Just like President Trump "paid the price" for the Dumbocrats and their faux impeachment coup attempt??? Democrats... Nuttin' but cheap rhetoric... No backbone.. No spine.... Schumer unloads on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh at abortion rights rally: 'You will pay the price!'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-unloads-on-gorsuch-kavanaugh-at-abortion-rights-rally-warns-they-will-pay-the-price-for-awful-decisions

Yea...

Just like President Trump "paid the price" for the Dumbocrats and their faux impeachment coup attempt???

Democrats... Nuttin' but cheap rhetoric... No backbone.. No spine....

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154934 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:03:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154934 I'm awake. What'd I miss? *laughs* Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P I'm awake. What'd I miss? *laughs*

Reader's Digest® condensed version: :P

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154933 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:00:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154933 <B>Whoopi Goldberg mistakenly touts Dr. Jill Biden for surgeon general: 'She's a hell of a doctor'</B> https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-jill-biden-doctor-surgeon-general What *IS* it about Democrats that they utterly WALLOW in their ignorance??? Whoopi Goldberg mistakenly touts Dr. Jill Biden for surgeon general: 'She's a hell of a doctor'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-jill-biden-doctor-surgeon-general

What *IS* it about Democrats that they utterly WALLOW in their ignorance???

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154932 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:47:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154932 THEN we can see if it really works. :D THEN we can see if it really works. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154931 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:05:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154931 <I>What legislation? One Demand does not require legislation.</I> We are postulating a WHAT IF.. One SURE WAY to see if One Demand works is to put the force of law behind it. FORCE the candidates to be One Demand candidates... What legislation? One Demand does not require legislation.

We are postulating a WHAT IF..

One SURE WAY to see if One Demand works is to put the force of law behind it.

FORCE the candidates to be One Demand candidates...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154927 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:09:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154927 <I>SO, we can continue to ADD to your LONG list of being WRONG!</I> Only if you concede to all the times that YOU were wrong.. That's the difference between me and ya'all.. I concede when I am wrong... Ya'all never do... <I>See your OWN list of how many times you have been wrong that I posted above... So much for YOUR credibility!!!</I> My credibility far exceeds yours.. Because A> you have been wrong 10 times more than I have and 2> you ***NEVER*** concede when you are wrong and I am factually accurate.. :D SO, we can continue to ADD to your LONG list of being WRONG!

Only if you concede to all the times that YOU were wrong..

That's the difference between me and ya'all..

I concede when I am wrong...

Ya'all never do...

See your OWN list of how many times you have been wrong that I posted above... So much for YOUR credibility!!!

My credibility far exceeds yours.. Because A> you have been wrong 10 times more than I have and 2> you ***NEVER*** concede when you are wrong and I am factually accurate.. :D

]]> By: John M http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154926 John M Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:21:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154926 [145] Michale wrote: "You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms???? So, TRUMP is the bar you set for your candidate??" UH NO. Trump was the BAR YOU SET. NOT ME OR MINE. "And consider this, JM.. With all those Trump gems, the MORON ***YOU*** voted for lost!!" AGAIN, PROOF??? In the contest between Sanders and Clinton, I actually supported Sanders. SO, you are WRONG AGAIN!!! "That pretty much says it all about YOUR credibility." See your OWN list of how many times you have been wrong that I posted above... So much for YOUR credibility!!! [145] Michale wrote:

"You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms????

So, TRUMP is the bar you set for your candidate??"

UH NO. Trump was the BAR YOU SET. NOT ME OR MINE.

"And consider this, JM.. With all those Trump gems, the MORON ***YOU*** voted for lost!!"

AGAIN, PROOF??? In the contest between Sanders and Clinton, I actually supported Sanders. SO, you are WRONG AGAIN!!!

"That pretty much says it all about YOUR credibility."

See your OWN list of how many times you have been wrong that I posted above... So much for YOUR credibility!!!

]]> By: John M http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154925 John M Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:17:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154925 [51] Michale wrote: "Biden's **ONLY** advantage is the black American vote.. And THAT is waning for Democrats in and of itself by the 10s of millions.. Today will, once and for all, puncture the Biden/Electability myth.. Bernie will be unstoppable after today.." SO, we can continue to ADD to your LONG list of being WRONG! Remember: Doug Jones winning the Senate in Alabama, Virginia being completely take over by Democrats, and Democrats taking back the HOUSE in 2018??? Not only did Biden sweep the African American vote, he swept the suburbs in areas like North Carolina and Virginia. He's putting back together the Obama coalition and the coalition of suburban voters who swept the Democrats to power in the 2018 midterms. Trump should be very afraid. "THEN, the fun and excitement will be in watching the DNC try to stop Bernie and how it will utterly tear apart the Democrat Party.. :D" The "establishment" would have happily thrown Biden under the bus if it suited their purpose. Ordinary voters chose Biden. The establishment had nothing to do with either stopping Bernie or promoting an alternative. Biden currently has a 50 delegate lead on Bernie, with even more friendly Biden states coming, like Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. A brokered convention is looking less and less likely. More likely Biden walks away with it. [1] Michale wrote: "Conclusions OK, let's add them all up. We've got Bernie Sanders for the win in ten races, although one of them won't be decided for another week. Bernie will win: California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad (eventually...), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. Joe Biden will win five contests tonight: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. I concur.. Bernie will take the day.... :D So much for the claim that " Joe is in great shape and right now (barring any unforeseen major event), on track to win the Democratic nomination" Biden will likely drop out after a poor showing in Super Tuesday.. You herd it hear first.. :D" Yep, we heard it hear first and dismissed it, AS USUAL, for being WRONG, as USUAL. Biden was a BLOW OUT WIN in at least 9 states including Texas and Massachusetts. [8] Michale wrote: "It might not be IMMEDIATELY after ST.. Biden might try to save face and give it a few days or a week or so.. But Biden will have such a poor showing in Super Tuesday, his demise will be inevitable.. I am open to any wager ya want to name.. :D" GREAT. I can't wait to see you honor our bet when Trump loses in November, and Democrats keep the House AND take control of the Senate!!! [88] Michale wrote: "Well, hell.. When I am wrong I don't fool around.. :D I think I should confine my predictions to President Trump where I have the best track record.. :D But, as always with me, I look towards the silver lining.. The near even match-up of Biden and Bernie makes a nasty convention fight all that more possible.. :D" A nasty convention fight is now even more remote than before. Especially with Bloomberg now dropping out and endorsing Biden as well. [51] Michale wrote:

"Biden's **ONLY** advantage is the black American vote..

And THAT is waning for Democrats in and of itself by the 10s of millions..

Today will, once and for all, puncture the Biden/Electability myth..

Bernie will be unstoppable after today.."

SO, we can continue to ADD to your LONG list of being WRONG! Remember: Doug Jones winning the Senate in Alabama, Virginia being completely take over by Democrats, and Democrats taking back the HOUSE in 2018???

Not only did Biden sweep the African American vote, he swept the suburbs in areas like North Carolina and Virginia. He's putting back together the Obama coalition and the coalition of suburban voters who swept the Democrats to power in the 2018 midterms. Trump should be very afraid.

"THEN, the fun and excitement will be in watching the DNC try to stop Bernie and how it will utterly tear apart the Democrat Party.. :D"

The "establishment" would have happily thrown Biden under the bus if it suited their purpose. Ordinary voters chose Biden. The establishment had nothing to do with either stopping Bernie or promoting an alternative.

Biden currently has a 50 delegate lead on Bernie, with even more friendly Biden states coming, like Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida.

A brokered convention is looking less and less likely. More likely Biden walks away with it.

[1] Michale wrote:

"Conclusions

OK, let's add them all up. We've got Bernie Sanders for the win in ten races, although one of them won't be decided for another week. Bernie will win: California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad (eventually...), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.

Joe Biden will win five contests tonight: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

I concur.. Bernie will take the day.... :D

So much for the claim that " Joe is in great shape and right now (barring any unforeseen major event), on track to win the Democratic nomination"

Biden will likely drop out after a poor showing in Super Tuesday..

You herd it hear first.. :D"

Yep, we heard it hear first and dismissed it, AS USUAL, for being WRONG, as USUAL.

Biden was a BLOW OUT WIN in at least 9 states including Texas and Massachusetts.

[8] Michale wrote:

"It might not be IMMEDIATELY after ST.. Biden might try to save face and give it a few days or a week or so..

But Biden will have such a poor showing in Super Tuesday, his demise will be inevitable..

I am open to any wager ya want to name.. :D"

GREAT. I can't wait to see you honor our bet when Trump loses in November, and Democrats keep the House AND take control of the Senate!!!

[88] Michale wrote:

"Well, hell..

When I am wrong I don't fool around.. :D

I think I should confine my predictions to President Trump where I have the best track record.. :D

But, as always with me, I look towards the silver lining..

The near even match-up of Biden and Bernie makes a nasty convention fight all that more possible.. :D"

A nasty convention fight is now even more remote than before. Especially with Bloomberg now dropping out and endorsing Biden as well.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154924 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154924 <I>You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms????</I> So, TRUMP is the bar you set for your candidate?? BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA Funny.. You CLAIM to be better than Trump.. When all the time, you aspire to be JUST LIKE TRUMP... :D And consider this, JM.. With all those Trump gems, the MORON ***YOU*** voted for lost!! BBBBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That pretty much says it all about YOUR credibility.. :D You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms????

So, TRUMP is the bar you set for your candidate??

BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA

Funny.. You CLAIM to be better than Trump.. When all the time, you aspire to be JUST LIKE TRUMP... :D

And consider this, JM.. With all those Trump gems, the MORON ***YOU*** voted for lost!!

BBBBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That pretty much says it all about YOUR credibility.. :D

]]> By: John M http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154923 John M Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:58:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154923 [54] Michale wrote: "Biden botches Declaration of Independence: 'You know ... you know the thing' President hopeful Joseph R. Biden made social media headlines on Monday for all the wrong reasons after botching the Declaration of Independence in Texas. The former Vice President attempted to inspire a crowd by orating one of the most famous documents in world history, only to fumble over the words with “you know the thing.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Mr. Biden, said. “All men and women created … by the — you know — you know the thing.” Yea... BIDEN is going to be the Dem nominee.. :D" You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms???? How about THESE Trump gems!! : >windmill cancer > revolutionary war airports > ram the manparts > oranges of Mueller investigation > Toledo mass shooting > wettest hurricane from standpoint of water > Tim Apple > kidney has special place in heart > moon is part of mars > ceaseless incoherence and slurring BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA [54] Michale wrote:

"Biden botches Declaration of Independence: 'You know ... you know the thing'

President hopeful Joseph R. Biden made social media headlines on Monday for all the wrong reasons after botching the Declaration of Independence in Texas.

The former Vice President attempted to inspire a crowd by orating one of the most famous documents in world history, only to fumble over the words with “you know the thing.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Mr. Biden, said. “All men and women created … by the — you know — you know the thing.”

Yea... BIDEN is going to be the Dem nominee.. :D"

You REALLY SERIOUSLY want to match Biden gaffes for Trump stupidisms????

How about THESE Trump gems!! :

>windmill cancer
> revolutionary war airports
> ram the manparts
> oranges of Mueller investigation
> Toledo mass shooting
> wettest hurricane from standpoint of water
> Tim Apple
> kidney has special place in heart
> moon is part of mars
> ceaseless incoherence and slurring

BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154921 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:19:11 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154921 <I>You sound like a Democrat that thinks everything can only be solved by legislation and citizens are incapable of doing anything by working together instead of surrendering like you.</I> Not at all... I simply postulate it would be a perfect way to see if it works or not.. Voters would not be affected by the legislation at all.. Only those who choose to run for office.. You sound like a Democrat that thinks everything can only be solved by legislation and citizens are incapable of doing anything by working together instead of surrendering like you.

Not at all... I simply postulate it would be a perfect way to see if it works or not..

Voters would not be affected by the legislation at all..

Only those who choose to run for office..

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154920 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:18:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154920 @dh, I think you gave up any claim of authority on what's appropriate when you started trolling CW for his lack of interest in your crusade. You're just jealous that pie is more popular. @dh,
I think you gave up any claim of authority on what's appropriate when you started trolling CW for his lack of interest in your crusade. You're just jealous that pie is more popular.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154918 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:06:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154918 It may have the force of law, but it doesn't have the force of pie! It may have the force of law, but it doesn't have the force of pie!

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154916 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:42:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154916 DH, <I>How about we move on to a discussion of how the citizens supporting the big money candidates are behaving like good little Nazis instead of standing up against this SIMILAR perversion of our political process?</I> Arguing about Big Money in politics is bad is like arguing that Nazis are bad.. There IS no argument... But we can no more get rid of big money in politics than we can erase the Nazis from history.. Give One Demand the force of law and THEN lets see what happens.. :D DH,

How about we move on to a discussion of how the citizens supporting the big money candidates are behaving like good little Nazis instead of standing up against this SIMILAR perversion of our political process?

Arguing about Big Money in politics is bad is like arguing that Nazis are bad..

There IS no argument...

But we can no more get rid of big money in politics than we can erase the Nazis from history..

Give One Demand the force of law and THEN lets see what happens.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154915 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:42:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154915 <I>i conceded that point ages ago.</I> Than any argument you make that the Trump/Hitler similarity is significant and the Odumbo/Hitler similarity is not will fail on it's merits.. Or, in this case, lack thereof.. <I>however, the fact that he exhibits all of these traits simultaneously and continuously (rather than just one or two once in a while), IS unique to donald among US politicians post-adolf.</I> That's an opinion unfounded by fact... It's spin, nothing more.. Obama exhibited just as many traits just as simultaneously and continuously as Trump.. Of course you will deny it... And there is no one who hates Obama enough to run the comparisons.. That depth of hatred is reserved for Trump/America haters.. Basically, your argument (such as it is) is that both Odumbo and Trump are Hitler-esque but Trump is MORE so... Do you REALLY think that's a valid argument??? i conceded that point ages ago.

Than any argument you make that the Trump/Hitler similarity is significant and the Odumbo/Hitler similarity is not will fail on it's merits..

Or, in this case, lack thereof..

however, the fact that he exhibits all of these traits simultaneously and continuously (rather than just one or two once in a while), IS unique to donald among US politicians post-adolf.

That's an opinion unfounded by fact...

It's spin, nothing more..

Obama exhibited just as many traits just as simultaneously and continuously as Trump..

Of course you will deny it... And there is no one who hates Obama enough to run the comparisons..

That depth of hatred is reserved for Trump/America haters..

Basically, your argument (such as it is) is that both Odumbo and Trump are Hitler-esque but Trump is MORE so...

Do you REALLY think that's a valid argument???

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154914 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:41:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154914 16. They attack domestic democratic processes. “Hitler attacked the legitimacy of democracy itself, purging the voting rolls, challenging the integrity of the electoral process, and questioning the ability of democratic government to solve Germany’s problems,” “Trump has also attacked the democratic process, declining to agree to be bound by the outcome of the 2016 elections when he thought he might lose, supporting the massive purge of the voting rolls allegedly designed to avoid (nonexistent) fraud, championing measures that make it harder to vote, tolerating—if not fomenting—massive Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, encouraging mob violence at rallies, darkly hinting at violence if Democrats hold power, and constantly casting doubt on the legitimacy of elections unless he wins.” 17. Both attack the judiciary and rule of law. “Hitler politicized and eventually destroyed the vaunted German justice system. Trump threatens the judicially enforced rule of law, bitterly attacking American judges who rule against him, slyly praising Andrew Jackson for defying the Supreme Court, and abusing his pardon power. 18. Both glorify the military and demand loyalty oaths. “Like Hitler, Trump glorifies the military, staffing his administration with layers of retired generals (who eventually were fired or resigned), relaxing control over the use of lethal force by the military and the police, and demanding a massive increase in military spending” Trump has also demanded loyalty oaths. “He fired James Comey for refusing personal loyalty to the president; sacked Jeff Sessions for failing to suppress the criminal investigation into the 2016 elections; repeatedly threatened to dismiss Robert Mueller, called again and again for the jailing of Hillary Clinton, leading crowds in chants of ‘lock her up.’” A new chant, “send her back,” has since emerged at Trump rallies directed at non-white Democratic congresswomen. 19. They proclaim unchecked power. “Like Hitler, Trump has intensified a trend of governing unilaterally, largely through executive orders or proclamations.” “Like Hitler, Trump claims the power to declare a national emergency (regardless of whether or not there actually is one), overrule Congress and govern all by himself. 20. Both relegate women to subordinate roles. “Hitler propounded a misogynistic, stereotypical view of women, valuing them exclusively as wives and mothers while excluding them from full participation in German political and economic life. Trump violated campaign finance laws to shield his sexual misbehavior from public knowledge, attacking women who come forward to accuse men (especially himself) of abusive behavior. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and <b>KIRK: But why Nazi Germany? You studied history. You knew what the Nazis were. GILL: Most efficient state Earth ever knew. SPOCK: Quite true, Captain. That tiny country, beaten, bankrupt, defeated, rose in a few years to stand only one step away from global domination. KIRK: But it was brutal, perverted, had to be destroyed at a terrible cost. Why that example? SPOCK: Perhaps Gill felt that such a state, run benignly, could accomplish its efficiency without sadism. </b> and here we are. JL 16. They attack domestic democratic processes. “Hitler attacked the legitimacy of democracy itself, purging the voting rolls, challenging the integrity of the electoral process, and questioning the ability of democratic government to solve Germany’s problems,” “Trump has also attacked the democratic process, declining to agree to be bound by the outcome of the 2016 elections when he thought he might lose, supporting the massive purge of the voting rolls allegedly designed to avoid (nonexistent) fraud, championing measures that make it harder to vote, tolerating—if not fomenting—massive Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, encouraging mob violence at rallies, darkly hinting at violence if Democrats hold power, and constantly casting doubt on the legitimacy of elections unless he wins.”

17. Both attack the judiciary and rule of law. “Hitler politicized and eventually destroyed the vaunted German justice system. Trump threatens the judicially enforced rule of law, bitterly attacking American judges who rule against him, slyly praising Andrew Jackson for defying the Supreme Court, and abusing his pardon power.

18. Both glorify the military and demand loyalty oaths. “Like Hitler, Trump glorifies the military, staffing his administration with layers of retired generals (who eventually were fired or resigned), relaxing control over the use of lethal force by the military and the police, and demanding a massive increase in military spending” Trump has also demanded loyalty oaths. “He fired James Comey for refusing personal loyalty to the president; sacked Jeff Sessions for failing to suppress the criminal investigation into the 2016 elections; repeatedly threatened to dismiss Robert Mueller, called again and again for the jailing of Hillary Clinton, leading crowds in chants of ‘lock her up.’” A new chant, “send her back,” has since emerged at Trump rallies directed at non-white Democratic congresswomen.

19. They proclaim unchecked power. “Like Hitler, Trump has intensified a trend of governing unilaterally, largely through executive orders or proclamations.” “Like Hitler, Trump claims the power to declare a national emergency (regardless of whether or not there actually is one), overrule Congress and govern all by himself.

20. Both relegate women to subordinate roles. “Hitler propounded a misogynistic, stereotypical view of women, valuing them exclusively as wives and mothers while excluding them from full participation in German political and economic life. Trump violated campaign finance laws to shield his sexual misbehavior from public knowledge, attacking women who come forward to accuse men (especially himself) of abusive behavior.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and

KIRK: But why Nazi Germany? You studied history. You knew what the Nazis were.
GILL: Most efficient state Earth ever knew.
SPOCK: Quite true, Captain. That tiny country, beaten, bankrupt, defeated, rose in a few years to stand only one step away from global domination.
KIRK: But it was brutal, perverted, had to be destroyed at a terrible cost. Why that example?
SPOCK: Perhaps Gill felt that such a state, run benignly, could accomplish its efficiency without sadism.

and here we are.

JL

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154912 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:27:23 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154912 11. Both made closing borders a centerpiece. “Hitler all but closed Germany’s borders, freezing non-Aryan migration into the country and rendering it impossible for Germans to escape without official permission. Like Hitler, Trump has also made closed borders a centerpiece of his administration,” 12. They embraced mass detention and deportations. “Hitler promised to make Germany free from Jews and Slavs. Trump promises to slow, stop, and even reverse the flow of non-white immigrants." Trump’s efforts to cast dragnets to arrest undocumented aliens where they work, live, and worship, followed by mass deportation… echo Hitler’s promise to defend Germany. 13. Both used borders to protect selected industries. “Like Hitler, Trump seeks to use national borders to protect his favored national interests, threatening to ignite protectionist trade wars with Europe, China, and Japan similar to the trade wars that, in earlier incarnations, helped to ignite World War I and World War II,” 14. They cemented their rule by enriching elites. “Hitler’s version of fascism shifted immense power—both political and financial—to the leaders of German industry. In fact, Hitler governed Germany largely through corporate executives,” he continues. “Trump has also presided over a massive empowerment—and enrichment—of corporate America. 15. Both rejected international norms. “Hitler’s foreign policy rejected international cooperation in favor of military and economic coercion. “Like Hitler, Trump is deeply hostile to multinational cooperation, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the nuclear agreement with Iran, threatening to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, abandoning our Kurdish allies in Syria, and questioning the value of NATO” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and <i>Until you admit that NONE of the traits are exclusive SOLELY to Hitler & President Trump [snip]</i> i conceded that point ages ago. however, the fact that he exhibits all of these traits simultaneously and continuously (rather than just one or two once in a while), IS unique to donald among US politicians post-adolf. 11. Both made closing borders a centerpiece. “Hitler all but closed Germany’s borders, freezing non-Aryan migration into the country and rendering it impossible for Germans to escape without official permission. Like Hitler, Trump has also made closed borders a centerpiece of his administration,”

12. They embraced mass detention and deportations. “Hitler promised to make Germany free from Jews and Slavs. Trump promises to slow, stop, and even reverse the flow of non-white immigrants." Trump’s efforts to cast dragnets to arrest undocumented aliens where they work, live, and worship, followed by mass deportation… echo Hitler’s promise to defend Germany.

13. Both used borders to protect selected industries. “Like Hitler, Trump seeks to use national borders to protect his favored national interests, threatening to ignite protectionist trade wars with Europe, China, and Japan similar to the trade wars that, in earlier incarnations, helped to ignite World War I and World War II,”

14. They cemented their rule by enriching elites. “Hitler’s version of fascism shifted immense power—both political and financial—to the leaders of German industry. In fact, Hitler governed Germany largely through corporate executives,” he continues. “Trump has also presided over a massive empowerment—and enrichment—of corporate America.

15. Both rejected international norms. “Hitler’s foreign policy rejected international cooperation in favor of military and economic coercion. “Like Hitler, Trump is deeply hostile to multinational cooperation, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the nuclear agreement with Iran, threatening to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, abandoning our Kurdish allies in Syria, and questioning the value of NATO”

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and

Until you admit that NONE of the traits are exclusive SOLELY to Hitler & President Trump [snip]

i conceded that point ages ago.

however, the fact that he exhibits all of these traits simultaneously and continuously (rather than just one or two once in a while), IS unique to donald among US politicians post-adolf.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154909 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:59:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154909 <I> If that's true, it appears we're a collection of stupid fumduckers doomed to endure the fat orange moron for 4 more yrs.</I> Uh... Right... :D It's obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together and/or NOT afflicted by HHPTDS that the election is President Trump's to lose... If that's true, it appears we're a collection of stupid fumduckers doomed to endure the fat orange moron for 4 more yrs.

Uh... Right... :D

It's obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together and/or NOT afflicted by HHPTDS that the election is President Trump's to lose...

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154908 C. R. Stucki Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:51:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154908 It has been said that we Americans usually "get the president we deserve." If that's true, it appears we're a collection of stupid fumduckers doomed to endure the fat orange moron for 4 more yrs. Bad enough that given the choice, we'd invariably choose charisma over competence, but now we don't even have THAT choice! It has been said that we Americans usually "get the president we deserve." If that's true, it appears we're a collection of stupid fumduckers doomed to endure the fat orange moron for 4 more yrs.

Bad enough that given the choice, we'd invariably choose charisma over competence, but now we don't even have THAT choice!

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154907 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:31:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154907 <I>(11-20 forthcoming)</I> Don't bother.. Until you admit that NONE of the traits are exclusive SOLELY to Hitler & President Trump, yer just spewing hate/bigotry (not yours) filled opinion as fact... You DON'T have a trait that is exclusive, therefore you DON'T have a valid argument. Now, you can be like others here and simply continue to spew the BS regardless of the relevant FACTless nature of the spewings.. But I have always thought that such lame retarded actions are beneath you.. I hope you don't prove me wrong... (11-20 forthcoming)

Don't bother..

Until you admit that NONE of the traits are exclusive SOLELY to Hitler & President Trump, yer just spewing hate/bigotry (not yours) filled opinion as fact...

You DON'T have a trait that is exclusive, therefore you DON'T have a valid argument.

Now, you can be like others here and simply continue to spew the BS regardless of the relevant FACTless nature of the spewings..

But I have always thought that such lame retarded actions are beneath you..

I hope you don't prove me wrong...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154906 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:28:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154906 So, Warren, Biden and Bernie all that's left?? The Biden-DNC / Sanders-Bernie Bros war is going to be EPIC!! :D Of course, I *HAVE* been wrong on occasion.. :D It's entirely possible that, in the spirit of amity, Biden or Bernie will roll over and show the other it's belly... :D So, Warren, Biden and Bernie all that's left??

The Biden-DNC / Sanders-Bernie Bros war is going to be EPIC!! :D

Of course, I *HAVE* been wrong on occasion.. :D

It's entirely possible that, in the spirit of amity, Biden or Bernie will roll over and show the other it's belly... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154905 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:26:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154905 Bloomberg's out.. Bloomberg's out..

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154904 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:02:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154904 (continued, edited for length) 6. They relentlessly attack mainstream media. Donald constantly tweets ‘failing New York Times,’ leads crowds in chanting ‘CNN sucks,’ [and] is personally hostile to most reporters.” He refused to fly the flag at half-mast after the murder of five journalists in Annapolis in June 2018, tried to punish CNN by blocking a merger of its corporate parent, and revoke federal Postal Service contracts held by Amazon, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post. 7. Their attacks on truth include science. “Both Trump and Hitler intensified their assault on objective truth by deriding scientific experts, especially academics who questioned Hitler’s views on race or Trump’s views on climate change, immigration, or economics. In both Trump’s and Hitler’s worlds, public opinion ultimately defines what is true and what is false, not objective reality.” 8. Their lies blur reality—and supporters spread them. “Once Hitler had delegitimized the mainstream media by a series of systematic attacks on its integrity, he constructed a fawning alternative mass media designed to reinforce his direct radio messages and enhance his personal power. Trump is following the same path, simultaneously launching bitter attacks on the mainstream press while embracing the alt-right media, co-opting both Sinclair Broadcasting and Fox. 9. Both orchestrated mass rallies to show status. “Once Hitler had cemented his personal communications link with his base via free radios and a fawning media and had badly eroded the idea of objective truth, he reinforced his emotional bond with his base by holding a series of carefully orchestrated mass meetings. “The powerful personal bonds nurtured by Trump’s tweets and Fox’s fawning are also systematically reinforced by periodic, carefully orchestrated mass rallies. 10. They embrace extreme nationalism. “Trump echoes Hitler’s appeal to ultranationalist fervor, extolling American exceptionalism right down to the slogan ‘Make America Great Again,’ a paraphrase of Hitler’s promise to "restore German greatness.” (11-20 forthcoming) https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and (continued, edited for length)

6. They relentlessly attack mainstream media. Donald constantly tweets ‘failing New York Times,’ leads crowds in chanting ‘CNN sucks,’ [and] is personally hostile to most reporters.” He refused to fly the flag at half-mast after the murder of five journalists in Annapolis in June 2018, tried to punish CNN by blocking a merger of its corporate parent, and revoke federal Postal Service contracts held by Amazon, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post.

7. Their attacks on truth include science. “Both Trump and Hitler intensified their assault on objective truth by deriding scientific experts, especially academics who questioned Hitler’s views on race or Trump’s views on climate change, immigration, or economics. In both Trump’s and Hitler’s worlds, public opinion ultimately defines what is true and what is false, not objective reality.”

8. Their lies blur reality—and supporters spread them. “Once Hitler had delegitimized the mainstream media by a series of systematic attacks on its integrity, he constructed a fawning alternative mass media designed to reinforce his direct radio messages and enhance his personal power. Trump is following the same path, simultaneously launching bitter attacks on the mainstream press while embracing the alt-right media, co-opting both Sinclair Broadcasting and Fox.

9. Both orchestrated mass rallies to show status. “Once Hitler had cemented his personal communications link with his base via free radios and a fawning media and had badly eroded the idea of objective truth, he reinforced his emotional bond with his base by holding a series of carefully orchestrated mass meetings. “The powerful personal bonds nurtured by Trump’s tweets and Fox’s fawning are also systematically reinforced by periodic, carefully orchestrated mass rallies.

10. They embrace extreme nationalism. “Trump echoes Hitler’s appeal to ultranationalist fervor, extolling American exceptionalism right down to the slogan ‘Make America Great Again,’ a paraphrase of Hitler’s promise to "restore German greatness.”

(11-20 forthcoming)

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154903 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:50:13 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154903 <B>US scientists have completed a coronavirus vaccine, Texas-based genetic engineering company claims Greffex said Wednesday that they had finished development of their vaccine for the virus that has killed more than 2,000 worldwide Their shot is now ready for animal testing, followed by human trials Scientists at Greffex are among dozens worldwide racing to develop shots and drugs to prevent and treat the virus that's struck nearly 76,000 worldwide</B> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8026293/US-scientists-completed-coronavirus-vaccine.html President Trump comes thru again!!! Another win for the President :D US scientists have completed a coronavirus vaccine, Texas-based genetic engineering company claims
Greffex said Wednesday that they had finished development of their vaccine for the virus that has killed more than 2,000 worldwide

Their shot is now ready for animal testing, followed by human trials

Scientists at Greffex are among dozens worldwide racing to develop shots and drugs to prevent and treat the virus that's struck nearly 76,000 worldwide
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8026293/US-scientists-completed-coronavirus-vaccine.html

President Trump comes thru again!!!

Another win for the President :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154902 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:47:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154902 Reposted For Clarity <I>Well said, Michale!</I> Thank you, Liz.. :D While, technically I didn't say it, I recognized it's worth in re-saying it... <I>It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale.</I> I wouldn't say it means NOTHING.. But it's not too difficult to overcome... It's a leg up, but relatively easy to kick the feet out from under... Reposted For Clarity

Well said, Michale!

Thank you, Liz.. :D While, technically I didn't say it, I recognized it's worth in re-saying it...

It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale.

I wouldn't say it means NOTHING.. But it's not too difficult to overcome...

It's a leg up, but relatively easy to kick the feet out from under...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154901 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:26:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154901 <I>Well said, Michale!</I> Thank you, Liz.. :D While, technically I didn't say it, I recognized it's worth in re-saying it... <I>It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale.</I> I wouldn't say it means NOTHING.. But it's not too difficult to overcome... It's a leg up, but relative easy to kick the feet out from under... Well said, Michale!

Thank you, Liz.. :D While, technically I didn't say it, I recognized it's worth in re-saying it...

It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale.

I wouldn't say it means NOTHING.. But it's not too difficult to overcome...

It's a leg up, but relative easy to kick the feet out from under...

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154900 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:23:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154900 Michale, <I>The Bloomberg Bust once again proves that despite the attention that big money and an extensive organization can bring to a candidate, by themselves those factors aren’t enough to win.</I> Well said, Michale! It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale. See Trump as compared to Bloomberg for all the sound arguments you need to support the proposition that money without a rationale gets a candidate nowhere, fast. Michale,

The Bloomberg Bust once again proves that despite the attention that big money and an extensive organization can bring to a candidate, by themselves those factors aren’t enough to win.

Well said, Michale!

It just goes to show that big money in politics - make that big money in a political campaign - means nothing without a real candidate and a real rationale.

See Trump as compared to Bloomberg for all the sound arguments you need to support the proposition that money without a rationale gets a candidate nowhere, fast.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154899 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:16:35 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154899 <I>(1-5 of 20, to be continued)</I> As I said, NONE of those are exclusive to President Trump and Hitler/Nazis They ALL are also shared by DEMOCRAT candidates for President, both current and past.. So, yes.. There are valid comparisons.. But they are ALSO valid comparisons for your Democrats as well... As such the comparison is biased and SOLELY for the purposes of political propaganda and has no objective factual or comparitive value whatsoever.. You find me a VALID factual comparison that is EXCLUSIVE to President Trump and to Hitler/Nazis and then you will (maybe) have a valid argument.... (1-5 of 20, to be continued)

As I said, NONE of those are exclusive to President Trump and Hitler/Nazis

They ALL are also shared by DEMOCRAT candidates for President, both current and past..

So, yes.. There are valid comparisons.. But they are ALSO valid comparisons for your Democrats as well...

As such the comparison is biased and SOLELY for the purposes of political propaganda and has no objective factual or comparitive value whatsoever..

You find me a VALID factual comparison that is EXCLUSIVE to President Trump and to Hitler/Nazis and then you will (maybe) have a valid argument....

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154898 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:17:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154898 <I>it's based on MANY facts. for example:</I> My apologies for not being clear. It's based on IRRELEVANT facts.. For one thing, President Trump has never attacked Mexican-Americans.. He's only attacked criminals... If the opinion get's that one basic thing wrong, it shows it's nothing but a hysterical Trump/America hate hit piece... <I> Both blame others for the country's problems. in hitler's case jews, in donald's case illegal immigrants from non-european countries. FACT</I> As does Sanders and so did Obama...A fact you refuse to acknowledge.. They blame AMERICANS which is even worse... Hitler blamed german Jews, so in essence, Sanders and Odumbo is MORE like Hitler.. it's based on MANY facts. for example:

My apologies for not being clear.

It's based on IRRELEVANT facts..

For one thing, President Trump has never attacked Mexican-Americans..

He's only attacked criminals...

If the opinion get's that one basic thing wrong, it shows it's nothing but a hysterical Trump/America hate hit piece...

Both blame others for the country's problems. in hitler's case jews, in donald's case illegal immigrants from non-european countries. FACT

As does Sanders and so did Obama...A fact you refuse to acknowledge.. They blame AMERICANS which is even worse... Hitler blamed german Jews, so in essence, Sanders and Odumbo is MORE like Hitler..

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154897 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:07:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154897 <i>Nice opinion.. Too bad it's not based on any facts..</i> it's based on MANY facts. for example: 1. Neither was elected by a majority. FACT 2. Both found direct communication channels to their base. in hitler's case it was free radios tuned to only one channel, in donald's case twitter. FACT 3. Both blame <i>others</i> for the country's problems. in hitler's case jews, in donald's case illegal immigrants from non-european countries. FACT 4. Both relentlessly demonize opponents. the epithets "crooked hillary," "lyin' ted," "failing new york times," etc. etc. echo the way hitler called all his political opponents "parasites, criminals, cockroaches, and various categories of leftist scum,” FACT 5. They unceasingly attack objective truth. “Each began the assault by seeking to delegitimize the mainstream press. Hitler quickly coined the epithet Lügenpresse (literally ‘lying press’) to denigrate the mainstream press. Trump uses a paraphrase of Hitler’s lying press epithet—‘fake news’—cribbed, no doubt, from one of Hitler’s speeches. (1-5 of 20, to be continued) https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and Nice opinion.. Too bad it's not based on any facts..

it's based on MANY facts. for example:

1. Neither was elected by a majority. FACT

2. Both found direct communication channels to their base. in hitler's case it was free radios tuned to only one channel, in donald's case twitter. FACT

3. Both blame others for the country's problems. in hitler's case jews, in donald's case illegal immigrants from non-european countries. FACT

4. Both relentlessly demonize opponents. the epithets "crooked hillary," "lyin' ted," "failing new york times," etc. etc. echo the way hitler called all his political opponents "parasites, criminals, cockroaches, and various categories of leftist scum,” FACT

5. They unceasingly attack objective truth. “Each began the assault by seeking to delegitimize the mainstream press. Hitler quickly coined the epithet Lügenpresse (literally ‘lying press’) to denigrate the mainstream press. Trump uses a paraphrase of Hitler’s lying press epithet—‘fake news’—cribbed, no doubt, from one of Hitler’s speeches.

(1-5 of 20, to be continued)

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154896 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:07:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154896 <I>the intel community said the russian government were trying to help sanders in the primaries, and sanders himself told them to get out.</I> Which is EXACTLY what a Russian plant would say... :D Compare and contrast that to President Trump's mocking at such an absurd and paranoid notion.. :D the intel community said the russian government were trying to help sanders in the primaries, and sanders himself told them to get out.

Which is EXACTLY what a Russian plant would say... :D

Compare and contrast that to President Trump's mocking at such an absurd and paranoid notion.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154895 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:51:41 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154895 <I>i was sort-of half joking, but it does make one wonder</I> It only makes you wonder if yer searching for an excuse to explain obvious failures and blunders of yer chosen Party.. Nice opinion.. Too bad it's not based on any facts.. President Trump's rhetoric is no different from Obama's.. President Trump's "boogey man" is foreign terrorists and criminals.. Odumbo's "boogey man" were fellow Americans who made smart business decisions.. A distinction.. Not a difference... i was sort-of half joking, but it does make one wonder

It only makes you wonder if yer searching for an excuse to explain obvious failures and blunders of yer chosen Party..

Nice opinion.. Too bad it's not based on any facts..

President Trump's rhetoric is no different from Obama's..

President Trump's "boogey man" is foreign terrorists and criminals..

Odumbo's "boogey man" were fellow Americans who made smart business decisions..

A distinction.. Not a difference...

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154894 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:48:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154894 i was sort-of half joking, but it does make one wonder. <i>Hitler had the jews..</i> ah yes, we never did finish that discussion. <b>Donald Trump is not Hitler. But Trump’s words and actions encourage and embolden those among his supporters who yearn for an Adolf of their own. Because when an American president boasts at mass rallies of rounding up and summarily expelling asylum seekers to their perilous home countries – where all too many of them have since met their deaths – America loses. Hitler wins. When an American president sets up hygiene-compromised caging facilities and concentration camps to hold parents and, separately, the children which officers have taken from their arms of those parents, and then effectively keeps all of them out of the view of the public and beyond scrutiny and supervision – America loses. Only Hitler wins. Trump is not Hitler. But when an American president, addressing those mass rallies, signals that all honest journalists, all Mexican-Americans, all non-Christians, all Californians, and, in fact, all voters for the Democratic Party, are disloyal enemies of the state, he doesn’t even have to spell it out, nor use the words in the language of his own old relatives from the Old Country, when he echoes the sentiments which those who hope for a new Hitler are waiting to hear: “Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Fuhrer!” </b> https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-in-2020-america-hitler-is-winning-1.8503349 i was sort-of half joking, but it does make one wonder.

Hitler had the jews..

ah yes, we never did finish that discussion.

Donald Trump is not Hitler. But Trump’s words and actions encourage and embolden those among his supporters who yearn for an Adolf of their own.
Because when an American president boasts at mass rallies of rounding up and summarily expelling asylum seekers to their perilous home countries – where all too many of them have since met their deaths – America loses.
Hitler wins.
When an American president sets up hygiene-compromised caging facilities and concentration camps to hold parents and, separately, the children which officers have taken from their arms of those parents, and then effectively keeps all of them out of the view of the public and beyond scrutiny and supervision – America loses.
Only Hitler wins.
Trump is not Hitler. But when an American president, addressing those mass rallies, signals that all honest journalists, all Mexican-Americans, all non-Christians, all Californians, and, in fact, all voters for the Democratic Party, are disloyal enemies of the state, he doesn’t even have to spell it out, nor use the words in the language of his own old relatives from the Old Country, when he echoes the sentiments which those who hope for a new Hitler are waiting to hear:
“Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Fuhrer!”

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-in-2020-america-hitler-is-winning-1.8503349

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154893 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:42:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154893 <I>I shudder to think what they might have done with that word if Buttigieg was winning. :D</i> Heh And ANOTHER point to DH... :D I shudder to think what they might have done with that word if Buttigieg was winning. :D

Heh

And ANOTHER point to DH... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154892 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:41:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154892 <I>this being the case, i wonder whether putin retaliated by hurting or withdrawing his help from sanders, and what part if any that may have played in yesterday's results.</I> It is my fervent hope that yer just spewing as a joke... If you actually believe this, I would be concerned for yer mental health.. :D Hitler had the jews.. Democrats have the Russians.. :eyeroll: this being the case, i wonder whether putin retaliated by hurting or withdrawing his help from sanders, and what part if any that may have played in yesterday's results.

It is my fervent hope that yer just spewing as a joke...

If you actually believe this, I would be concerned for yer mental health.. :D

Hitler had the jews..

Democrats have the Russians.. :eyeroll:

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154891 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:36:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154891 they already used "klo-mentum" for amy. they already used "klo-mentum" for amy.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154890 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:35:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154890 butt-mentum? butt-mentum?

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154888 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:34:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154888 @m, the intel community said the russian government were trying to help sanders in the primaries, and sanders himself told them to get out. <b>Mr. Sanders denounced Russia in a statement, calling President Vladimir V. Putin an “autocratic thug” and warning Moscow to stay out of the election. </b> this being the case, i wonder whether putin retaliated by hurting or withdrawing his help from sanders, and what part if any that may have played in yesterday's results. JL @m,

the intel community said the russian government were trying to help sanders in the primaries, and sanders himself told them to get out.

Mr. Sanders denounced Russia in a statement, calling President Vladimir V. Putin an “autocratic thug” and warning Moscow to stay out of the election.

this being the case, i wonder whether putin retaliated by hurting or withdrawing his help from sanders, and what part if any that may have played in yesterday's results.

JL

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154887 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:26:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154887 <I>They are probably thinking "I wonder if we can Buy DEM too."</I> Shirley you jest... Russia has already bought and paid for Dems all the way back to when they were the USSR... All the Left Wing pinko demonstrators and such of the 60s, 70s and 80s on up thru today??? All Demcorats.. All ran by the KGB then the FSB... <I>The correct name for yesterday is STUPID Tuesday.</I> Heh.. Point to DH... They are probably thinking "I wonder if we can Buy DEM too."

Shirley you jest...

Russia has already bought and paid for Dems all the way back to when they were the USSR...

All the Left Wing pinko demonstrators and such of the 60s, 70s and 80s on up thru today???

All Demcorats.. All ran by the KGB then the FSB...

The correct name for yesterday is STUPID Tuesday.

Heh.. Point to DH...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154884 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:12:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154884 <I>I wonder what Russia thinks</I> Why?? :D I wonder what Russia thinks

Why??

:D

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154883 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:55:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154883 I wonder what Russia thinks I wonder what Russia thinks

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154882 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:51:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154882 <I>I think I can claim the prize for wrongest prediction of the evening.</I> Sorry, Dan.. That prize is taken.. :D <I>gives Sanders an edge in delegates, the narrative is that Biden is already nominated.</I> Oh com'on, you can't go THAT far.. Sure, the DNC and Establishment Dems want you to BELIEVE that... But the facts still clearly show that Party Purity is the dominant factor in 2020... But, on the other hand, I have been known to be wrong on occasion... I think I can claim the prize for wrongest prediction of the evening.

Sorry, Dan.. That prize is taken.. :D

gives Sanders an edge in delegates, the narrative is that Biden is already nominated.

Oh com'on, you can't go THAT far..

Sure, the DNC and Establishment Dems want you to BELIEVE that...

But the facts still clearly show that Party Purity is the dominant factor in 2020...

But, on the other hand, I have been known to be wrong on occasion...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154881 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:49:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154881 Reposted for clarity... <B>Democrats are even divided about being divided. A recent Gallup poll asked the simple question, "Would you describe the Democratic Party today as united or divided?" Among Democrats, 51% said united, while 49% said divided. They split virtually down the middle. Everyone else sees Democrats as deeply divided. Sixty-seven percent of independents and 78% of Republicans described the Democratic Party that way.</B> Ya gotta just laugh at the facts... :D Democrats are even divided about being divided.. :D <B>"That's funny as hell right thar, I tell yooo what..."</B> -Larry The Cable Guy :D Reposted for clarity...

Democrats are even divided about being divided. A recent Gallup poll asked the simple question, "Would you describe the Democratic Party today as united or divided?" Among Democrats, 51% said united, while 49% said divided. They split virtually down the middle.

Everyone else sees Democrats as deeply divided. Sixty-seven percent of independents and 78% of Republicans described the Democratic Party that way.

Ya gotta just laugh at the facts... :D

Democrats are even divided about being divided.. :D

"That's funny as hell right thar, I tell yooo what..."
-Larry The Cable Guy

:D

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154880 dsws Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:47:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154880 [2] I wrote: <i>I think they'll both win enough states that the narrative will be mostly about delegates,</i> I think I can claim the prize for wrongest prediction of the evening. No one cares how many delegates Sanders gets in California. Even if it turns out that late-counted ballots in the biggest of big blue states gives Sanders an edge in delegates, the narrative is that Biden is already nominated. [2] I wrote:
I think they'll both win enough states that the narrative will be mostly about delegates,

I think I can claim the prize for wrongest prediction of the evening. No one cares how many delegates Sanders gets in California. Even if it turns out that late-counted ballots in the biggest of big blue states gives Sanders an edge in delegates, the narrative is that Biden is already nominated.

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154879 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:32:08 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154879 <I>Democrats are even divided about being divided. A recent Gallup poll asked the simple question, "Would you describe the Democratic Party today as united or divided?" Among Democrats, 51% said united, while 49% said divided. They split virtually down the middle. Everyone else sees Democrats as deeply divided. Sixty-seven percent of independents and 78% of Republicans described the Democratic Party that way.</I> Ya gotta just laugh at the facts... :D Democrats are even divided about being divided.. :D <B>"That's funny as hell right thar, I tell yooo what..."</B> -Larry The Cable Guy :D Democrats are even divided about being divided. A recent Gallup poll asked the simple question, "Would you describe the Democratic Party today as united or divided?" Among Democrats, 51% said united, while 49% said divided. They split virtually down the middle.

Everyone else sees Democrats as deeply divided. Sixty-seven percent of independents and 78% of Republicans described the Democratic Party that way.

Ya gotta just laugh at the facts... :D

Democrats are even divided about being divided.. :D

"That's funny as hell right thar, I tell yooo what..."
-Larry The Cable Guy

:D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154878 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:28:39 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154878 <B>"Sanders wants to make real changes to make America a good country. I mean, America has never been a good country, since the get-go. We've been brainwashed. Our founders are so great, right? George Washington and all these guys? What they did was they came and committed genocide against the natives, stole their land, kidnapped Africans and enslaved them, and founded our great nation. Our nation is rotten to the core. We need a good refoundation. We need to have love among all people. We've got to start over again."</b> -Bernie Bro This is exactly why Bernie cannot win the General Election.. He hates America.. His supporters hate America... This is an undeniable fact... "Sanders wants to make real changes to make America a good country. I mean, America has never been a good country, since the get-go. We've been brainwashed. Our founders are so great, right? George Washington and all these guys? What they did was they came and committed genocide against the natives, stole their land, kidnapped Africans and enslaved them, and founded our great nation. Our nation is rotten to the core. We need a good refoundation. We need to have love among all people. We've got to start over again."
-Bernie Bro

This is exactly why Bernie cannot win the General Election..

He hates America..

His supporters hate America...

This is an undeniable fact...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154877 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:27:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154877 <B>Calls for unity cannot hide stark cultural differences inside Democratic Party</B> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/calls-for-unity-cannot-hide-stark-cultural-differences-inside-democratic-party No matter how you want to slice it people... Yer Democrat Party is divided.. Denying it and burying your heads in the sand does not make the claim any less factual... Calls for unity cannot hide stark cultural differences inside Democratic Party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/calls-for-unity-cannot-hide-stark-cultural-differences-inside-democratic-party

No matter how you want to slice it people... Yer Democrat Party is divided..

Denying it and burying your heads in the sand does not make the claim any less factual...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154876 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:21:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154876 <B>One place where we expect all eyes to be focused now is Phoenix, where the next Democratic debate will be held March 15. We don’t know who will still be in the race by then but we know Biden and Sanders will be on stage representing their respective wings of the Democratic Party and you can expect a no-holds-barred contest.</b> Oh great.. Another "MOST IMPORTANT DEBATE EVER!!!".... :eyeroll: One place where we expect all eyes to be focused now is Phoenix, where the next Democratic debate will be held March 15. We don’t know who will still be in the race by then but we know Biden and Sanders will be on stage representing their respective wings of the Democratic Party and you can expect a no-holds-barred contest.

Oh great..

Another "MOST IMPORTANT DEBATE EVER!!!"....

:eyeroll:

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154875 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:07:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154875 As an aside to DH... <B>The Bloomberg Bust once again proves that despite the attention that big money and an extensive organization can bring to a candidate, by themselves those factors aren’t enough to win.</B> Just throwing that out there.. :D As an aside to DH...

The Bloomberg Bust once again proves that despite the attention that big money and an extensive organization can bring to a candidate, by themselves those factors aren’t enough to win.

Just throwing that out there.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154874 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:54:21 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154874 <B>The results of Biden’s last-minute surge are impressive. He was vastly outspent by rivals in every state and didn’t even campaign in Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oklahoma and yet won all of those states.</B> Yea... Biden doesn't spend a red cent in ANY of those states and he won them.. Anyone NOT smell the stench of machinations of the DNC behind the curtain??? <B>"We're gonna let {the DNC} do it to us again!!"</B> -Unknown F-14 Pilot, 7 Dec 1941 The results of Biden’s last-minute surge are impressive. He was vastly outspent by rivals in every state and didn’t even campaign in Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Oklahoma and yet won all of those states.

Yea... Biden doesn't spend a red cent in ANY of those states and he won them..

Anyone NOT smell the stench of machinations of the DNC behind the curtain???

"We're gonna let {the DNC} do it to us again!!"
-Unknown F-14 Pilot, 7 Dec 1941

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154873 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:34:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154873 <B>John Fund: Biden’s Super Tuesday victories may enable Democratic establishment to block Sanders nomination</B> https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-fund-bidens-super-tuesday-victories-may-enable-democratic-establishment-to-block-sanders-nomination And the Democrat Party Establishment faction's plan is revealed.. Lemme ask ya'all something.. Do ya'all HONESTLY believe that the Bernie Bro faction is going to see their champion railroaded again and just sit still for that??? Honestly??? When was the last time ya'all felt that way??? Hmmmmm Let's see.. It was Nov of 2016... And WHAT was the result of that Democrat Party betrayal??? Why, I do believe it was the election of President Trump... Can anyone give me any good, solid and RELEVANT facts to indicate that history WON'T repeat itself?? Anyone?? Anyone at all??? Wow... Quiet bunch this morning.. :D I guess I'll fall back on the Weigantian Charlottesville Rule... <B>"SILENCE GIVES ASSENT"</B> John Fund: Biden’s Super Tuesday victories may enable Democratic establishment to block Sanders nomination
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-fund-bidens-super-tuesday-victories-may-enable-democratic-establishment-to-block-sanders-nomination

And the Democrat Party Establishment faction's plan is revealed..

Lemme ask ya'all something..

Do ya'all HONESTLY believe that the Bernie Bro faction is going to see their champion railroaded again and just sit still for that???

Honestly???

When was the last time ya'all felt that way???

Hmmmmm Let's see.. It was Nov of 2016...

And WHAT was the result of that Democrat Party betrayal???

Why, I do believe it was the election of President Trump...

Can anyone give me any good, solid and RELEVANT facts to indicate that history WON'T repeat itself??

Anyone?? Anyone at all???

Wow... Quiet bunch this morning.. :D

I guess I'll fall back on the Weigantian Charlottesville Rule...

"SILENCE GIVES ASSENT"

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154872 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:28:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154872 <B>Maybe the party is just too divided no matter what happens. That’s possible. The 2016 primaries were a watershed event because it split the party on ideological lines, rather than personality or temperamental lines, as was the case with the Hillary/Obama primaries in 2008. A rift like that can’t just be magically ‘healed’. Candidates love to talk about the ‘healing’ they will usher in, but few voters want to be ‘healed’ by a politician speaking in weird medical lingo. ‘Divisions’ aside, it is worth noting that Democratic party figures are better able to coordinate among themselves to achieve common political goals than Republican party figures. In 2016, the non-Trump candidates famously failed to produce anything like a coherent strategy to block Trump, and therefore he sailed to the nomination with a 30-40 percent plurality. The difference, I’d theorize, comes down to one key factor: prominent Democratic party figures are generally beloved by ‘normie’ Democrats. Obama, Biden, Hillary, etc. are still widely revered, and therefore they and their surrogates are able to engage in collective action without risking backlash from the party rank-and-file and the Democrat-aligned media. Conversely, Republicans tend to quickly sour on their leaders. McCain, Romney, the Bushes, etc. all became anathema to the GOP voter base once Trump entered the picture. So there was nothing they could credibly do to stop Trump. It’s just different with the Democrats. Especially in the context of being an opposition party, so much of their energies and enthusiasms are poured into loathing Trump that they have little mental bandwidth left for tolerating intra-party divisions. They want desperately to ‘unite’, and the one obstacle in their minds to achieving that goal is Bernie. So they machinate to deprive him of delegates. Or at least that looks like the move here. To quote Donald Trump, ‘we’ll see what happens’.</B> The problem you Democrats face is that when the Establishment Democrats screw over another faction of Democrats for the second time and then go back to the scrooed over faction, hat in hand, begging for help... The scrooed over faction is going to do EXACTLY what it did in 2016, the FIRST time the Establishment scrooed over the Bernie Bros... Insure that the Establishment's candidate LOSES... Once again, the Democrat Party finds itself in a PERFECT LOSE-LOSE situation.. This doesn't keep happening by accident, people.. :D Maybe the party is just too divided no matter what happens. That’s possible. The 2016 primaries were a watershed event because it split the party on ideological lines, rather than personality or temperamental lines, as was the case with the Hillary/Obama primaries in 2008. A rift like that can’t just be magically ‘healed’. Candidates love to talk about the ‘healing’ they will usher in, but few voters want to be ‘healed’ by a politician speaking in weird medical lingo.

‘Divisions’ aside, it is worth noting that Democratic party figures are better able to coordinate among themselves to achieve common political goals than Republican party figures. In 2016, the non-Trump candidates famously failed to produce anything like a coherent strategy to block Trump, and therefore he sailed to the nomination with a 30-40 percent plurality. The difference, I’d theorize, comes down to one key factor: prominent Democratic party figures are generally beloved by ‘normie’ Democrats. Obama, Biden, Hillary, etc. are still widely revered, and therefore they and their surrogates are able to engage in collective action without risking backlash from the party rank-and-file and the Democrat-aligned media. Conversely, Republicans tend to quickly sour on their leaders. McCain, Romney, the Bushes, etc. all became anathema to the GOP voter base once Trump entered the picture. So there was nothing they could credibly do to stop Trump.

It’s just different with the Democrats. Especially in the context of being an opposition party, so much of their energies and enthusiasms are poured into loathing Trump that they have little mental bandwidth left for tolerating intra-party divisions. They want desperately to ‘unite’, and the one obstacle in their minds to achieving that goal is Bernie. So they machinate to deprive him of delegates. Or at least that looks like the move here. To quote Donald Trump, ‘we’ll see what happens’.

The problem you Democrats face is that when the Establishment Democrats screw over another faction of Democrats for the second time and then go back to the scrooed over faction, hat in hand, begging for help...

The scrooed over faction is going to do EXACTLY what it did in 2016, the FIRST time the Establishment scrooed over the Bernie Bros...

Insure that the Establishment's candidate LOSES...

Once again, the Democrat Party finds itself in a PERFECT LOSE-LOSE situation..

This doesn't keep happening by accident, people.. :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154871 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:14:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154871 <B>We are supposed to find impressive that establishment Democrats have suddenly decided to ‘work together’ and ‘unite’ around Biden, because the prospect of Bernie Sanders winning the nomination is just that unthinkable. I would certainly like a play-by-play of what Barack Obama has been up to for the past few days. Because it seems like he issued a memo on behalf of his old pal Joe. Probably not a literal memo: but whatever approximates that in Obama-land. (Reports indicate he spoke to Pete on the phone yesterday). Because it’s hard to believe that such a rogues’ gallery of hollow Democratic power-brokers would have all sporadically had a change of heart today and endorsed Biden without a blessing from the Big Guy: Harry Reid, Susan Rice, Amy, Pete… even Beto O’Rourke was brought out for a reunion special tonight in Dallas. He pranced around onstage and tried his best to emote enthusiasm for…Joe Biden? Please tell me no one actually believes this. The logic set forth by Klobuchar in her endorsement speech, which is no doubt shared across vast stretches of the Democratic professional/media class, is that Bernie would ‘divide the party’ and therefore hand Trump an easy win in November. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to occur to them that this coordinated establishment intervention done for the purposes of blocking Bernie will also inevitably ‘divide the party’, and probably more gravely so. Bernie’s most ardent backers are already absolutely incensed. They will not fall in line behind…Joe Biden. They just won’t. And yes, they are members of the Democratic party insofar as anyone who participates in the Democratic party primaries is a member. If you enrage and alienate them by appearing to rig the process against their candidate (for the second time) then you are inescapably ‘dividing the party’ and in all likelihood assuring a Trump victory.</B> If the DNC steals the nomination from Bernie Sanders.... AGAIN.... It will guarantee a President Trump win.. Even more so than it is already guaranteed by the Democrat's failed coup and the fact that they have NO legislative victories that aren't already the property of President Trump... We are supposed to find impressive that establishment Democrats have suddenly decided to ‘work together’ and ‘unite’ around Biden, because the prospect of Bernie Sanders winning the nomination is just that unthinkable. I would certainly like a play-by-play of what Barack Obama has been up to for the past few days. Because it seems like he issued a memo on behalf of his old pal Joe. Probably not a literal memo: but whatever approximates that in Obama-land. (Reports indicate he spoke to Pete on the phone yesterday).

Because it’s hard to believe that such a rogues’ gallery of hollow Democratic power-brokers would have all sporadically had a change of heart today and endorsed Biden without a blessing from the Big Guy: Harry Reid, Susan Rice, Amy, Pete… even Beto O’Rourke was brought out for a reunion special tonight in Dallas. He pranced around onstage and tried his best to emote enthusiasm for…Joe Biden? Please tell me no one actually believes this.

The logic set forth by Klobuchar in her endorsement speech, which is no doubt shared across vast stretches of the Democratic professional/media class, is that Bernie would ‘divide the party’ and therefore hand Trump an easy win in November. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to occur to them that this coordinated establishment intervention done for the purposes of blocking Bernie will also inevitably ‘divide the party’, and probably more gravely so. Bernie’s most ardent backers are already absolutely incensed. They will not fall in line behind…Joe Biden. They just won’t. And yes, they are members of the Democratic party insofar as anyone who participates in the Democratic party primaries is a member. If you enrage and alienate them by appearing to rig the process against their candidate (for the second time) then you are inescapably ‘dividing the party’ and in all likelihood assuring a Trump victory.

If the DNC steals the nomination from Bernie Sanders.... AGAIN.... It will guarantee a President Trump win..

Even more so than it is already guaranteed by the Democrat's failed coup and the fact that they have NO legislative victories that aren't already the property of President Trump...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154870 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:11:48 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154870 <B>I personally would never have voted for Pete. Nor would I have voted for Amy Klobuchar, who pulled the same 11th-hour dropout stunt today. But part of me still finds it disgraceful that these candidates would gut-punch their staff, volunteers, supporters, and voters in such a manner — hours before a major national election they’d been working toward for a full year — after both candidates gave every indication that they were going to actively contest. Instead of patting themselves on the back, shouldn’t Amy and Pete be begging for forgiveness, especially from those who already voted for them in Super Tuesday states — as it turns out, on false pretenses? (This highlights a problem with so-called ‘early voting’, a now widespread practice which sounds nice in theory but may be a very bad idea in the context of volatile, sequential primary races.) Pundits today have been applauding the selfless courage of Pete and Amy, but what exactly about their actions is reflective of courage? They nuked their campaigns, in which many thousands of people were invested, on the basis of some vague strategic calculation about ‘uniting moderates’, whatever that means exactly. And they have to run around pretending that they are so very thrilled to be endorsing…Joe Biden? Does anyone in their right minds actually believe this shit? The performance put on today was so transparently phony and craven, it’s almost hard to process. There’s nothing heroic about what these two did; it just confirms that their campaigns were thoroughly devoid of principle all along. (Although that should have never been in doubt with regard to Amy and Pete.)</B> Amy and Pete were bought off or succumbed to pressure by the DNC, totally destroying the will and morale of every worker, every volunteer in their campaign.. And, somehow, they are the good guys??? If I were on Amy's & Pete's team, I would vote en masse for Bernie Sanders.. Or even President Trump.. See how the *DNC* likes complete and abject betrayal... I personally would never have voted for Pete. Nor would I have voted for Amy Klobuchar, who pulled the same 11th-hour dropout stunt today. But part of me still finds it disgraceful that these candidates would gut-punch their staff, volunteers, supporters, and voters in such a manner — hours before a major national election they’d been working toward for a full year — after both candidates gave every indication that they were going to actively contest. Instead of patting themselves on the back, shouldn’t Amy and Pete be begging for forgiveness, especially from those who already voted for them in Super Tuesday states — as it turns out, on false pretenses? (This highlights a problem with so-called ‘early voting’, a now widespread practice which sounds nice in theory but may be a very bad idea in the context of volatile, sequential primary races.)

Pundits today have been applauding the selfless courage of Pete and Amy, but what exactly about their actions is reflective of courage? They nuked their campaigns, in which many thousands of people were invested, on the basis of some vague strategic calculation about ‘uniting moderates’, whatever that means exactly. And they have to run around pretending that they are so very thrilled to be endorsing…Joe Biden? Does anyone in their right minds actually believe this shit? The performance put on today was so transparently phony and craven, it’s almost hard to process. There’s nothing heroic about what these two did; it just confirms that their campaigns were thoroughly devoid of principle all along. (Although that should have never been in doubt with regard to Amy and Pete.)

Amy and Pete were bought off or succumbed to pressure by the DNC, totally destroying the will and morale of every worker, every volunteer in their campaign..

And, somehow, they are the good guys???

If I were on Amy's & Pete's team, I would vote en masse for Bernie Sanders.. Or even President Trump.. See how the *DNC* likes complete and abject betrayal...

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154869 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:01:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154869 <B>Perhaps the intense wave of establishment Democratic party consolidation around Joe Biden over the past 48 hours isn’t a concerted conspiracy — no smoke-filled rooms, no corrupt deals, no villainous blackmail schemes. But the Democratic party establishment (which we’re often told does not exist) is clearly making every effort to give the appearance of something conspiratorial going on. Take yesterday, for instance. Pete Buttigieg meets for breakfast with 95-year-old Jimmy Carter (?), ensures the visit is well-publicized, then heads home to South Bend and pulls the rug out from under his campaign. Wait, what? Is this the same Pete Buttigieg whose aides just a few days earlier released an elaborate memo detailing his surefire path to a formidable delegate acquisition? Yet suddenly his Super Tuesday plans are scrapped, and the thousands of early votes already cast for him in California and elsewhere are effectively nullified. We’re all supposed to pretend this is normal behavior? Because it seems a bit sociopathic.</B> Yep.. The Hand of the DNC is definitely behind the latest Biden spurt.. The big question of the day... Does Biden remember his wins?? :D Perhaps the intense wave of establishment Democratic party consolidation around Joe Biden over the past 48 hours isn’t a concerted conspiracy — no smoke-filled rooms, no corrupt deals, no villainous blackmail schemes. But the Democratic party establishment (which we’re often told does not exist) is clearly making every effort to give the appearance of something conspiratorial going on.

Take yesterday, for instance. Pete Buttigieg meets for breakfast with 95-year-old Jimmy Carter (?), ensures the visit is well-publicized, then heads home to South Bend and pulls the rug out from under his campaign. Wait, what? Is this the same Pete Buttigieg whose aides just a few days earlier released an elaborate memo detailing his surefire path to a formidable delegate acquisition? Yet suddenly his Super Tuesday plans are scrapped, and the thousands of early votes already cast for him in California and elsewhere are effectively nullified.

We’re all supposed to pretend this is normal behavior? Because it seems a bit sociopathic.

Yep.. The Hand of the DNC is definitely behind the latest Biden spurt..

The big question of the day... Does Biden remember his wins?? :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154868 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:56:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154868 <B>What could divide the Democrats more than conspiring to stop Bernie? The moderate 11th-hour dropouts are craven, not courageous</B> https://spectator.us/divide-democrats-more-conspiring-stop-bernie/ More and more facts emerging that show how low establishment Democrats will sink to prevent Bernie from being the nominee... While I hate being wrong, it IS encouraging that, by being wrong, my ultimate prediction of the disintegration and decimation of the Democrat Party looks to be prescient... :D I lost a battle, but the war is definitely looks like it's going my way... :D What could divide the Democrats more than conspiring to stop Bernie?

The moderate 11th-hour dropouts are craven, not courageous
https://spectator.us/divide-democrats-more-conspiring-stop-bernie/

More and more facts emerging that show how low establishment Democrats will sink to prevent Bernie from being the nominee...

While I hate being wrong, it IS encouraging that, by being wrong, my ultimate prediction of the disintegration and decimation of the Democrat Party looks to be prescient...

:D

I lost a battle, but the war is definitely looks like it's going my way... :D

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154867 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:51:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154867 <B>This was not a resurrection; it was a coup. Russiagate was not a coup. Mueller was not a coup. Impeachment was not a coup. What happened yesterday was a coup. And we will push back."</B> -Marianne Williamson Looks like the space case also sees the DNC's hand in stopping Bernie... The Civil War begins anew.. This was not a resurrection; it was a coup. Russiagate was not a coup. Mueller was not a coup. Impeachment was not a coup. What happened yesterday was a coup. And we will push back."
-Marianne Williamson

Looks like the space case also sees the DNC's hand in stopping Bernie...

The Civil War begins anew..

]]> By: Michale http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154866 Michale Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:46:00 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154866 Well, hell.. When I am wrong I don't fool around.. :D I think I should confine my predictions to President Trump where I have the best track record.. :D But, as always with me, I look towards the silver lining.. The near even match-up of Biden and Bernie makes a nasty convention fight all that more possible.. :D Well, hell..

When I am wrong I don't fool around.. :D

I think I should confine my predictions to President Trump where I have the best track record.. :D

But, as always with me, I look towards the silver lining..

The near even match-up of Biden and Bernie makes a nasty convention fight all that more possible.. :D

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154865 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:05:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154865 Big D little a double l as esssssssssssssssssssss... Texasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! Big D little a double l as esssssssssssssssssssss...

Texasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154864 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:59:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154864 OMG: Maine OMG: Maine

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154863 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:57:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154863 CW 80 Thank you! :) CW
80

Thank you! :)

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154862 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:53:57 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154862 Look what we did there, EM! [Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 at 21:52 UTC] Look what we did there, EM!

[Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 at 21:52 UTC]

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154861 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:53:13 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154861 LizM - Yeah, it's undeniable Biden's having the night of his political life! -CW LizM -

Yeah, it's undeniable Biden's having the night of his political life!

-CW

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154860 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:52:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154860 I've done my best to deliver Texas, EM, and now... the payoff comes. :) I've done my best to deliver Texas, EM, and now... the payoff comes. :)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154859 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:52:44 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154859 Hey, Kick! You're my new go-to political prognosticator and predictor of primaries … it has been great fun watching Texas! Hey, Kick! You're my new go-to political prognosticator and predictor of primaries … it has been great fun watching Texas!

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154858 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:52:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154858 Here you go, from six years ago. Doesn't look like the map has changed all that much. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2014/10/14/voting-by-mail/ But CA is now in a trial period of going to all vote-by-mail. I think a handful of counties did it that way this year, and by the next presidential election I expect it'll be statewide. -CW Here you go, from six years ago. Doesn't look like the map has changed all that much.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2014/10/14/voting-by-mail/

But CA is now in a trial period of going to all vote-by-mail. I think a handful of counties did it that way this year, and by the next presidential election I expect it'll be statewide.

-CW

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154857 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:48:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154857 <I>Who else called CA for Bernie?</I> Everyone … and their brother. Who else called CA for Bernie?

Everyone … and their brother.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154856 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:46:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154856 Biden is winning states that he hasn't set foot in or spent money in. Can't say that I'm surprised. :) Biden is winning states that he hasn't set foot in or spent money in.

Can't say that I'm surprised. :)

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154855 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:46:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154855 Kick - The good news (maybe) is that liberalizing voting rules seems to be a geographic trend that is moving from west to east. I think I wrote about this a few years ago... Let me see if I can dig it out... -CW Kick -

The good news (maybe) is that liberalizing voting rules seems to be a geographic trend that is moving from west to east. I think I wrote about this a few years ago...

Let me see if I can dig it out...

-CW

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154854 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:30:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154854 Y'all far Westerners are making us mightily jealous over here where the West begins and we're not allowed to vote unless we thread a needle of paperwork and wait in line for several hours. But.... we did get paper backup this year. :P Y'all far Westerners are making us mightily jealous over here where the West begins and we're not allowed to vote unless we thread a needle of paperwork and wait in line for several hours.

But.... we did get paper backup this year. :P

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154853 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:17:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154853 Kick - Then there's Oregon, where ALL ballots are mailed to voters. If you're a traditionalist, you can bring it down to a precinct on election day, but you just put it in a box, because you've already filled it out. Oh, and OR has the highest voter turnout of the entire country... maybe they're on to something? :-) -CW Kick -

Then there's Oregon, where ALL ballots are mailed to voters. If you're a traditionalist, you can bring it down to a precinct on election day, but you just put it in a box, because you've already filled it out.

Oh, and OR has the highest voter turnout of the entire country... maybe they're on to something?

:-)

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154852 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:15:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154852 nypoet22 - Who else called CA for Bernie? -CW nypoet22 -

Who else called CA for Bernie?

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154851 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:15:22 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154851 Politico already called CA for Bernie, but nobody else has... -CW Politico already called CA for Bernie, but nobody else has...

-CW

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154850 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:10:55 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154850 Joe is winning in Maine. I'm donefor. Joe is winning in Maine. I'm donefor.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154849 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:06:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154849 JL 68 <i>maine still a dead heat, over half the votes in and less than 500 votes apart </i> Who is winng in mayne? JL
68

maine still a dead heat, over half the votes in and less than 500 votes apart

Who is winng in mayne?

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154848 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:04:39 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154848 Well, I am jealous, California! <i>In TX, isn't "early voting" more actually going down to a voting precinct and filling out a ballot in person? Like I said, I don't differentiate between the two since we don't really have it out here. </i> Exactly right, CW, and lines are hours long. People are still voting here who were in line when the polls closed. About to wrap up, though. The turnout is nuts. Expect it to come in really late. The way Texas allocates its delegates, it'll be about an even split between Biden and Sanders no matter who wins the vote total. It happens that way all the time. Full disclosure: I've had too many drinks. This is on you, Joe Biden. Oh, and Biden spent $0 in Massachusetts. Nice return on his investment. #Joementum Well, I am jealous, California!

In TX, isn't "early voting" more actually going down to a voting precinct and filling out a ballot in person? Like I said, I don't differentiate between the two since we don't really have it out here.

Exactly right, CW, and lines are hours long. People are still voting here who were in line when the polls closed. About to wrap up, though. The turnout is nuts. Expect it to come in really late. The way Texas allocates its delegates, it'll be about an even split between Biden and Sanders no matter who wins the vote total. It happens that way all the time.

Full disclosure: I've had too many drinks. This is on you, Joe Biden.

Oh, and Biden spent $0 in Massachusetts. Nice return on his investment. #Joementum

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154847 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:03:44 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154847 well, time to start hearing from california. already called for sanders, so it's likely not at all close. well, time to start hearing from california. already called for sanders, so it's likely not at all close.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154846 nypoet22 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:00:55 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154846 maine still a dead heat, over half the votes in and less than 500 votes apart maine still a dead heat, over half the votes in and less than 500 votes apart

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154845 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:57:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154845 Kick [65] - I guess I meant to say "early voting" -- sometimes I confuse the two. CA doesn't really have early voting, you just request a mail-in ballot and then they have certain days where they have drop-off spots (if you don't want to mail it). In TX, isn't "early voting" more actually going down to a voting precinct and filling out a ballot in person? Like I said, I don't differentiate between the two since we don't really have it out here. -CW Kick [65] -

I guess I meant to say "early voting" -- sometimes I confuse the two. CA doesn't really have early voting, you just request a mail-in ballot and then they have certain days where they have drop-off spots (if you don't want to mail it). In TX, isn't "early voting" more actually going down to a voting precinct and filling out a ballot in person? Like I said, I don't differentiate between the two since we don't really have it out here.

-CW

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154844 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:57:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154844 Massachusetts too? OMG Massachusetts too?

OMG

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154843 Kick Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:55:22 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154843 <i>Doesn't TX have a ton of mail-in votes? </i> The GOP makes it extremely hard to vote in this state. In order to vote by mail, you must be: * 65 years or older * disabled * out of the county on election day and during the period for early voting by personal appearance, or * be confined in jail but otherwise eligible to vote. <b>So to recap</b>: No! Doesn't TX have a ton of mail-in votes?

The GOP makes it extremely hard to vote in this state.

In order to vote by mail, you must be:
* 65 years or older
* disabled
* out of the county on election day and during the period for early voting by personal appearance, or
* be confined in jail but otherwise eligible to vote.

So to recap: No!

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154842 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:51:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154842 Politico just called MA for Biden... So I guess "9 for 12"... -CW Politico just called MA for Biden...

So I guess "9 for 12"...

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/03/03/predicting-the-super-tuesday-outcomes/#comment-154841 Chris Weigant Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:50:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18181#comment-154841 OK, an update on my numbers: Called right: AL, AR, AS, CO, NC, OK, TN, UT, VT Called wrong: MN, VA 9 for 11, still doing pretty good! :-) -CW OK, an update on my numbers:

Called right: AL, AR, AS, CO, NC, OK, TN, UT, VT
Called wrong: MN, VA

9 for 11, still doing pretty good!

:-)

-CW

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