Friday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Willard Mitt Romney doing his Rand Paul impression, trying to be enlightened on the whole Joe Biden/Hunter Biden/Burisma stuff (but don’t be in too much of a hurry to give credit to the Utah Republican since, as noted here, Mittens caved anyway)…



…and Dr. Irwin Redlener of Columbia University talks about the level of incompetence coming from the Trump Regime on the Covid-19 outbreak (elections do indeed have consequences)…



…and Thom H. gives us the latest on the “party of Lincoln,” including President Fergus Laing, continuing their war on science as they try to march this country back to the 12th century (I’m sure they’ll recommend leeches to be placed on people’s skin as a remedy next)…



Update 3/7/20: At a certain point, I swear there are just no words...

“Without antagonizing Trump” is literally the most appalling reason not to tell the truth and not to act. What a banana republic we have become. pic.twitter.com/aG4wbmY08j

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) March 7, 2020

…and as long as we’re discussing Mango Mussolini, Farron Cousins tells us that Rick Gates of the Trump campaign described to the FBI how Our Pumpkin Pestilence and Sean Inanity coordinated their messaging during the 2016 election…



…and turning to this year’s presidential contest, Michael Brooks of The Majority Report tells us about David Frum going after Bernie and his supporters (yep, another “Never Trumper” showing his true colors, I would say)…



…and David Doel tells us about the latest ads from the Sanders campaign (I think Doel’s analysis here is 100 percent correct – unfortunately, unless the bottom is falling out of the economy, which no one wants to see I’ll admit, it’s going to be hard for older, suburban Democrats to come around to Bernie, though I believe it can happen)…



…and happy 75th birthday to drummer Hugh Grundy of The Zombies…



...and happy upcoming International Women's Day.

Wednesday Stuff

Like you I suppose, I have a few observations about yesterday’s Super Tuesday results, which definitely were surprising:

African American voters are the most reliable Democratic Party voting constituency, and while I haven’t seen all of the “cross tabs,” if you will, I know they stepped up for Biden big time yesterday (and in the event that Biden wins the nomination, that should cement Kamala Harris’s spot as VP on the ticket if she wants it). That's not meant as a judgment - I'm just stating a fact. On the one hand, Biden won a lot of states that will probably go for Trump, sadly, in the general (but again, we’ll see), but on the other hand, credit where it’s due for coming back.

About Bernie…he decried the Democratic Party “establishment” coming after him, and based on the candidates dropping out and supporting Biden, it’s hard to see that he’s wrong. However (and again, preliminarily from what I’ve seen so far), it doesn’t look like he’s building a big enough coalition to win the nomination (and believe me when I tell you that I want to be wrong on that). If he does go down to Biden, then the fatal mistake will be that he and Elizabeth Warren didn’t find a way to team up. And I don’t necessarily mean that Bernie should be at the top of that possible ticket. I saw some good policy ideas coming from Warren, and I think she has a better record on that over Bernie. The two of them could be absolutely dynamite as a combination, but she would never get the VP slot, especially since she wasn’t able to deliver her home state. It’s just pretty unbelievable that there were three serious Democratic women running (four if you count Fox News “Democrat” Tulsi Gabbard), and while I definitely wasn’t a fan of Klobuchar, it looks like all four will be shut out. It gives me a bit of pause to consider that, if this country ever DOES elect a woman as chief executive, it could be a Republican, which would be terrible (not because she’s female, but because she’d belong to the party of Trump, Dubya, Tricky Dick, and The Sainted Ronnie R).

Finally, a lot of us laughed at Generalissimo Trump for going after Biden on the Ukraine thing (“what a maroon…Biden is done”). Well, as wrong as it was to pull that move on Ukraine, what does it tell you about the regime of the Gropenfuhrer that they ended up being right about how formidable Biden would be? I detest everything about Cult 45 of course, but let’s have no illusions about how ahead of the proverbial curve and data driven they are when it comes to trying to inflict four more years (at a minimum) of this pestilence on us.

And with that in mind, I thought this was a pretty smart take from former Obama ’08 campaign manager David Plouffe…



…and David Pakman tells us about how Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Russian Stooge is playing down The Virus That Apparently Shall Not Be Named, according to YouTube (unbelievable, though he does let it slip a couple of times; hope he doesn’t end up demonetized for it)…



…and I thought this was a particularly good Inequality Media video from Robert Reich about the awful exploits of Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao…



…and I’m sorry I’m a few days late for this video; it would have been a better selection for last Saturday (NSFW).

Monday Stuff

Brian Stelter of CNN gives Fix Noise the treatment it deserves for trying to turn the Coronavirus into a political weapon here (I know we knew this anyway, but there truly is no bottom for these life forms – also, I saw the headline of an article on the Murdoch Street Journal about how hand sanitizers are flying off the shelves, especially if they have any alcohol component at all, and boy, they aren’t kidding – went to Rite Aid, Walgreens, Target and BJ’s Wholesale, and I found some alcohol disinfectant wipes at BJs, but that’s about the best I could do for now – and if you want to order hand sanitizer with alcohol online, you’ll be paying a minimum of about $20…good luck; Lowe’s had some hand soap without alcohol, which can’t hurt I guess…and yeah, this figures too I suppose, as does this)…



…and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about the dustup between that insufferable toad Mike Pompeo and Dem U.S. House Rep Ted Lieu over the typically idiotic propagandizing from the Trump regime over the Coronavirus (yeah, Heaven forbid that Pompeo has to answer a difficult question before he heads over to CPAC to spout more blather for the idiot masses)…



…and Thom H. speaks with an ER doc of 28 years with recommendations to combat the virus…



…and it looks like Mayor Pete is dropping out of the Dem primary - I have to admit that I underestimated the guy, and my bad for that, and I still think his campaign was full of platitudes and way short on specifics, but he definitely took the classy way to exit...I would say he has a formidable political future (and I guess at this point it’s only a matter of time before everyone joins Biden to gang up on Bernie – wonder if “cornpone” would approve, or whatever that nonsense was)…



...and I wonder if this had anything to do with Amy Klobuchar also dropping out - just sayin'...



…and while I’m sorry for the family and friends of Jack Welch, don’t expect me to feel any tug of nostalgia whatsoever; he was a rapacious capitalist who helped to codify a brand of corporatism which has been utterly ruinous for this country overall…I was actually able to find a segment with Jimmy Dore that is tolerable, partly because Michael Shure is there also, but since we’re talking about Dore, we’re also talking about some gratuitous “F” blasts also, so be warned…



Update: It was probably about time for this from Matthews, though I'm not celebrating - definitely stepped on a few rakes, as it were, but also did some good work as noted in the prior clip.

…and I thought this was a nice bit where Jimmy Kimmel turned the tables on “Calgary” Cruz (beyond belief how badly those in the second clip did on some pretty basic geography)…



…and I thought this was kind of a catchy, rockabilly-ish tune…neat to see this guy doing the “one-man band” thing.