Joe Biden Is Losing The General Election In Real Time

Status Coup's Jordan Chariton reports on Joe Biden's continued failures to make a coherent case against resident Trump. 

Progressives Threaten To “DemExit” Over Biden

I’m just doing what Biden told me to...vote for someone else🔜

Biden’s TV Appearances And Video Messages Have Been An Incoherent Mess

Joe Biden emerged from his 6 day hiatus on Monday, and most Democrats are now hoping that he goes back into hiding. His TV appearances and personal addresses to the nation have been nothing short of horrendous, and the Presidential candidate is coming across as an incoherent mess. 

There's still time for Democrats to choose someone else, but that time is running out. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. 

SHOCK: Centrists WORRIED About Why Joe Biden Is HIDING From The Public During Crisis!

As #whereisjoe trends on Twitter, people continue to ask where Joe Biden has been, as he has not done a public address since his dementia surfaced in his previous address. 

Bernie Sanders continues to do daily live stream addresses and actually does round table discussions for the crisis that we are currently facing. 

WHERE IS JOE??

Trump SHOULD NOT Be Able To Profit From The Same Stimulus Package He Issues!

Jesse Dollemore addresses several issues, including Donald Trump's possible benefit from the same stimulus package that he administers, voicing appreciation for those in service industries who are working in the midst of our current emergency, and answers questions about possible 3rd party organization. 

TYT's Cenk and Ana's Bad Bernie Calls

The Young Turks Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian make bad calls on Bernie Sanders Campaign strategy during the 2020 Democratic Primary.

Trump Plans Almost $1 TRILLION BAILOUT For Wealthy Companies - Will He Leave The Rest Of Us Hanging?

Jesse Dollemore discusses the Trump administration's plans to bail out airlines, cruise lines, hotels, oil companies, and CASINOS to the tune of 800 BILLION DOLLARS.

Republicans don't have a problem with socialism when it benefits massive wealthy multi-billion dollar corporations, but whine and complain when people struggling with poverty apply for a few meager dollars worth of food stamps.

 

HOARD YOUR BREAD

CNN Host WARNS Democrats Against DISMISSING Bernie Sanders Supporters Or They Will LOSE!

On CNN, Van Jones warned the Democratic Party against completely dismissing the Bernie Sanders wave of the Democratic Party, warning that they will lose against Trump if they do.

How Bernie Sanders Beat Joe Biden In The CNN Debate

Bernie Sanders needed to do more than showcase policy differences Joe Biden. Bernie needed to expose Joe. He did. Here's how. 

Armageddon Update: Perfect Storm Of Stupid!

We are in the middle of the perfect storm, people... the perfect storm of STUPID! 

The stock market is dropping, Russia and Saudi Arabia are squabbling over oil prices, and a deadly #coronavirus is coming at us like an avalanche. 

Can things get any worse? Will #TomHanks start screaming for Wilson? I guess we'll have to wait and see. 

In the meantime, enjoy this episode of the Armageddon Update! Then, go wash your hands... again.

#Covid_19 UPDATE!!! Trump & Pence Are Endangering MILLIONS Of American Lives In Bungling Response!

Jesse Dollemore discusses the very real threat posed by the Coronavirus. Experts are comparing it to the "Spanish Flu" of 1918. 

Donald Trump is trying to be Conspiracist-in-Chief and Commander-in-Chief while simultaneously passing the buck to science denier nutter butter Mike Pence to lead the U.S. government response to the pandemic. 

END OF AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY

Bernie Sanders Good Friend Elizabeth Warren Is No More!

Bernie Supporters and Warren Supporters as well must accept Elizabeth Warren is running a race to win and the race runs through Bernie Sanders. 

'Russia Couldn't Ask For Anything Better' Than Our Democracy In Chaos

Joy Reid discusses the DNI shake-up with Clint Watts and Natasha Bertrand, who delivers some alarming news about the Worldwide Threats Hearing.

 

By Aliza Worthington

 

 

We know Trump never reads, or even receives his daily security briefings. We know he cannot handle anything even tangentially related to the fact that Russia interfered in our 2016 elections, and is likely planning to interfere again. We know Trump regularly derides and dismisses our seventeen highly esteemed security agencies set up specifically to protect our democracy and its citizens from harm.

The latest proof came on Thursday, when Trump fired director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire. Trump fired him because Maguire briefed House Intelligence Committee members on the information he had about Russia's plans to interfere in our 2020 elections — that they are, in fact, carrying out those plans right now. Clint Watts and Natasha Bertrand joined Joy Reid Thursday evening to discuss the blaring alarm sirens all of these moves are sounding. Reid asked if there was reporting that showed Trump actively wanted Russia's help, and in answering the question, Bertrand dropped an additional piece of jaw-dropping info:

 

BERTRAND: So we don't have the reporting that suggests that the resident has told aides for example that he really wants Russia to interfere because he thinks it going to help him, right? So far what we've heard is he gets enraged because he thinks it questions the legitimacy of his election in 2016, and potential reelection in 2020. I this I what a lot of former national security and intel experts are telling us is that they're concerned that the intel community now is self-censoring, that they're going into these briefings with Congress, and intel officials are actually holding back on the real threats that are posed by Russia with regard to helping Trump win reelection this year. [...]
[T]he senior officials that are already in place, that are career officials, are actually holding back information because they fear a political backlash from the resident. The Worldwide Threats Hearing that is a tradition every year, public by the intel officials to tell the public what the national threats are, the biggest national security threats to this country are, that has been cancelled because the intel leaders of this country are afraid of backlash from this resident and that's a really bad precedent to set, these former experts tell me, and former officials tell me, because it will ultimately make it so that the intel community does not feel comfortable telling the resident things he does not want to hear.

Not only are security officials NOT telling Trump information about threats to our nation, they're now afraid to tell this information to Congress, because they know the info will get back to Trump, who will fly into a tantrum and fire career security experts only to replace them with cronies who have zero experience in anything but kissing Trump's ass.

To top it all off, now we have the yearly Worldwide Threats Hearing cancelled? The one hearing that keeps the citizens and Congress informed about the threats our security agencies consider most dire, requiring the highest levels of attention? IN ORDER TO KEEP US SAFE?

Cancelled. Because of Trump's tiny-brained, snowflake-melting, fragile, weak-ass ego.

Mike Bloomberg Will Destroy The Democratic Party

Similar to Trump's destruction of the Republican Party, Michael Bloomberg's take over of the DNC Rules will destroy whatever's left of the Democratic Party. 

Rep. Maxine Waters On What Democrats Can Do About An ‘Out Of Control’ President

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA): "He is going to get revenge. He is going to show you that there are no limits to the residential power.”

Bloomberg Plays Turd In The Democratic Punch Bowl

Posted by Rude One

Former New York City mayor and billionaire prick Michael Bloomberg barely won his last election. In 2009, after he rammed through an exception to the city's term limit for mayors, he ran for a third term as a Republican and spent nearly $100 million on his reelection. While that's sofa cushion money for Bloomberg, it was unheard of in a local race, and he outspent his Democratic rival Bill Thompson 14 to 1. Yet, after supposedly having had two successful terms to run on, after dropping all that coin fluffing his own public image like an aging porn star injecting his dick for the third time in a day on the set, all Mayor Mike managed to get was 50.7% of the vote. Enough to win, sure, but Thompson still got over 46%.

The point here is that a hundred million bucks bought Bloomberg a just eked-through victory. There is certainly no guarantee that the $400 million and counting he's spending on the Democratic nomination will do more than give him a brief novelty surge that dies down as soon as everyone remembers "Oh, right, he's that prick."

And it's so easy to find Bloomberg being the goddamndest asshole all the time. Between the odious sustained assault on non-whites in New York City that was "Stop-and-Frisk" to his completely demeaning treatment of women in his circle, Bloomberg has left a trail of bullshit that's visible from miles away. Then there's the strongman tactics that he used as mayor to break up Occupy Wall Street, which involved a violent raid on the protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park in defiance of a court order. I was there in the aftermath, and I saw kids slammed to the ground by cops and listened as Wall Street fucks laughed about the arrested getting raped at Riker's Island. I'd bet anything they were Bloomberg voters. The thing about Bloomberg is that, until he apologized, he seemed to get off on this shit.

It's so simple to find a fucked-up quote from Bloomberg. Here he is in 2010 after then-Gov. David Paterson signed a law that prevented police departments from keeping the data they got from every single stop-and-frisk suspect, including those where nothing was found. Bloomberg scoffed, "And what's wrong with keeping the data? We have data on everything. You wait until we have facial recognition software, and somebody's going to have a record of every person that walks down by your house. You just point a camera at them, the software will do it. That's coming. I mean, these days of, we put license plates on your car. You can read those by computer now, and we know where you're driving." He wasn't wrong about the technology, but his enthusiasm sure makes it seem like he may misuse the larger data collection capabilities of, say, the NSA. Ask the Muslim community of New York how that surveillance ended up.

I'm attacking Bloomberg in a way that, frankly, I haven't attacked the other Democrats for the simple reason that Bloomberg isn't a Democrat. Unlike Bernie Sanders, most of Bloomberg's views throughout his career have never really lined up with the Democratic Party platform. He spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, but, prior to that, he spoke at the 2004 Republican Convention, which was being held in New York City (with protests that were met with their own overzealous response from the NYPD).

Basically, until a couple of years ago, Mike Bloomberg is what we used to call a "moderate Republican," back when such political creatures existed in the wilds of the GOP. The best way to define "moderate" was someone who was conservative on financial shit but was sane on guns, gays, and abortion and understood that climate change is real. In other words, a Republican who believed in science and medicine. He should have run as a Republican and used his billions to force Trump into spending his war chest fending off a primary opponent. He might have actually been able to drag the GOP back to having a toe on the sane side of the line of demarcation between sanity and madness. And he would have significantly weakened Trump.

But, alas, instead, Bloomberg, with his authoritarian impulses and his record of racism, sexism, and violence, has decided to be the turd in the Democratic punch bowl, plopping into the election to ruin the thing for everyone who's been there. Already in second in national polling, with way too many people who should know better accepting his apology for Stop and Frisk, he has a real chance at the nomination. And way too many people are champing at the bit for the Democrats to have their own douchebag billionaire to face down the worse douchebag "billionaire" in the White House. Jesus, you know how fucked a nation that makes us?

To be fair, Bloomberg's website is filled with Democratic kibble in its section on his plans, so he's still better than Trump in the way that a rotting cheese sandwich is better than Trump, but it's still a rotting cheese sandwich. You'd rather toss it in the garbage than see it inaugurated. But if that's all we got...

I could see this going another way, too. That same national poll showed that Bernie Sanders has opened up a 12-point lead on second place, with 31% choosing him, his biggest margin yet. Faced with the possibility of Bloomberg, progressive Democrats and those who are just fuckin' skeeved out by Mayor Mike might be moving towards Sanders as a way of getting this goddamned thing over with before a just recently-converted former Republican buys the nomination.

Let's hope that Bloomberg is chewed up and spit out at the Democratic debate tomorrow night, making him spend his billions where he should if he's so goddamned concerned about 2020: on the Senate races.

The Price Of A Bloomberg Nomination Is Too Damn High

By Eric Levitz

In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, Democrats made a concerted effort to fortify their party’s pro-democracy and anti-corruption bona fides. Their opening salvo in the 2018 midterm campaign was the “Better Deal Agenda,” a suite of policies aimed at combating concentrated corporate power and the “armies of lobbyists” that had given big money a “stranglehold on Washington.” The first bill Nancy Pelosi’s majority passed upon taking the House was a package of voting-rights expansions and campaign-finance reforms designed to ensure that our “government works for the public interest, the people’s interest, not the special interest.” And throughout the Trump era, Democrats have hammered the resident for helping the super-rich translate their economic power into the political variety.

But the party may let a megabillionaire openly purchase its 2020 nomination anyway.

Mike Bloomberg has offered blue America a Faustian bargain: Forfeit all credibility on the issues of money in politics and democratic reform, and he will spend whatever it takes to make the bad man in the White House go away. The market for what Bloomberg is selling is large and growing, thanks in no small part to the $300 million he’s already spent advertising it. Many rank-and-file Democrats — like so many disillusioned voters in democracies the world over — like the idea of hiring a no-nonsense, post-political businessman to fix their broken government (just, you know, a less ostentatiously racist one than America’s current CEO). Meanwhile, many Democratic elites see Bloomberg as a (slightly unsavory) savior who can single-handedly stop the party from nominating a supposedly unelectable socialist, provide its vulnerable first-term suburban House members with an ideal standard-bearer, and liberate the party from all resource constraints and fundraising headaches as it rides a rising tide of billionaire bucks back into power.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/why-democrats-should-not-nominate-bloomberg-sexual-harassment-plutocracy.html 

Lou Dobbs Growls That An Independent DOJ Is 'Crap'

Lou Hobbs is furious that Bill Barr would say anything against Trump. John Iadarola, Cenk Uygur, and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.



Dobbs seems super angry at Bill Barr for speaking a negative word about Trump that one time.



By Karoli Kuns

Trump's Roy Cohn Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News that Trump's tweeting has made it impossible to do his job. Now, that might seem kind of difficult to parse if you have more than two synapses to rub together. Was Barr simply saying the quiet part out loud?

What Bill Barr MEANT to say was "it's tough to do the sneaky, slimy, illegal stuff when trump says the quiet part out loud." #ResignBarr https://t.co/WHw7GeMWhl

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 14, 2020

Was he trying to make stupid people believe the pretzel-logic of his actual explanation? (That he'd decided to intervene before Trump tweeted, and the tweet put Barr in the uncomfortable position of having to decide between intervening, which would make it seem like he was doing it because Trump made him, or not intervening which would be wrong because he'd already decided it was the right thing to do — are you still with me?)

Keep your eye on the ball - Bill Barr’s purported reasoning is nothing more than a shell game to deceive the public.

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— Publius (@ThePubliusUSA) February 13, 2020

Fortunately, we're talking about Lou Dobbs, here, and he does NOT have two synapses to rub together, so THIS was his interpretation of Bill Barr's interview with ABC News:

DOBBS: He [Trump] is keeping his promise as candidate for the office that he holds. He is also expressing himself fully, freely, and directly to the American people, without going through the sage intermediaries of the national left-wing media. And, it's just, I guess I am so disappointed in Bill Barr, I have to say this. You know, it's a damn shame when he doesn't get what this president has gone through, and what the American people have gone through, and what his charge is as attorney general. And by god, if he's gonna complain, I just want to endorse everything you've said. Those are all things to complain about.
But where the HELL is the report? Where the HELL are the indictments against the corrupt, the politically corrupt Deep State within the Justice Department, the FBI, and why in the HELL aren't we hearing apologies from someone in that rancid, corrupt department about what they permitted?

Because they had to have enablers by the dozens to pull off what they did. The 26 names that we can go through on the FBI and the Justice Department. But then, to hear this attorney general complain about this president, who's fighting every one of those damn people to do the right thing and to get this country straightened out, and it's his mission to do so. Not to carp about about his boss.

And by the way, I don't want to hear any CRAP about an independent Justice Department! This Justice Department, as does everyone, works for the president. It is part of the Executive Branch.

Did we catch that, kids? Oh, Dobbs is hopping mad at that mean AG dared speaketh a harsh word about his lord and savior Donald Trump. He's so angry that he, Dobbs, HIMSELF said the quiet part out loud.

"I don't want to hear any CRAP about an independent Justice Department!"

Welp. There it is. I mean, the Deep State conspiracy tin foil hat spizzola is old hat already, but now we're getting somewhere. Independent Justice Department? Who needs it? You get on your knees pronto before Dear Leader, or else.

Mind you, this is all theater, too. Barr had permission to "act" upset about Trump's tweets, and Dobbs and Barr are on exactly the same page. They're all just playing their roles in the ways they think will best keep all the gears turning in the direction they want until they've achieved their ultimate goal.

Unilateral, consolidated control under the Executive Branch.