May be the last we see for awhile.
Only half snarking.
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
Believing Their Own Bullshit
Obama believed he was charming (haha sorry mr. Kenyan Muslim you can't charm everyone) and popular (you basically disbanded your movement, dumbass, nobody cares what David Brooks thinks of you) and compromising (true!) enough that he could get Republicans to join him in a glorious bipartisan American empire. Biden thinks that because his good Republican friends never shivved him in the Senate locker room (and because he'll give them almost everything they want) that he'll succeed where his best friend, Barack Obama, failed, for reasons he never quite explains (clang).
I don't think the audience for bipartisan fetishism is what it was, but I will grant it did have an audience once upon a time. But if politicians spouting it didn't believe their own bullshit, it might be reasonable campaign rhetoric. Too many of them do believe it, and when the rhetoric fails (hi Claire!) to get them elected they believe, "oh, well, Republicans would vote for me but AOC and some mean people online turned them off." That excuse is hilarious, but even if it's *true* that it's hard to run a bipartisan fetish campaign when the entire rest of the country isn't precisely on message with you, then perhaps it just isn't a viable strategy. You can't shush the meanies on the internet. Just the way things are.
I don't think the audience for bipartisan fetishism is what it was, but I will grant it did have an audience once upon a time. But if politicians spouting it didn't believe their own bullshit, it might be reasonable campaign rhetoric. Too many of them do believe it, and when the rhetoric fails (hi Claire!) to get them elected they believe, "oh, well, Republicans would vote for me but AOC and some mean people online turned them off." That excuse is hilarious, but even if it's *true* that it's hard to run a bipartisan fetish campaign when the entire rest of the country isn't precisely on message with you, then perhaps it just isn't a viable strategy. You can't shush the meanies on the internet. Just the way things are.
Tweety
I don't really understand why "this" was the last straw for Chris Matthews, as he has been Chris Matthews forever.
Joe Biden, Reporting For Duty
The "establishment" has finally made their choice.
At least until they panic and make a different one next week. They are rich, fickle, and, dumb. Mostly.
At least until they panic and make a different one next week. They are rich, fickle, and, dumb. Mostly.
Monday, March 02, 2020
This Fucking Newspaper
Three years after liberals pinned their hopes on her as a bridge within the Trump White House, Ivanka Trump has registered as a Republican, defends her father over impeachment and goes on Hannity’s show. https://t.co/g8ikc8tGo0
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 2, 2020
THAT WAS YOU, MAGGIE!!!
Jesus fucking Christ.
In It To Win It
When there are many pieces on the board everyone gets a bit of a pass (except bloomberg's people), but now everyone with platform and power needs to own their choices. If you're getting behind someone who doesn't beat Trump, well... you built that!
Nothing to Worry About
The NoVa virus shield will keep all the important people, and their children, safe
BREAKING: The CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2020
On the left is how the website looked last night. On the right is what it looks like now, with the testing info removed.
The lack of testing is a scandal.
This is the coverup. pic.twitter.com/za5w9dkEKq
There's No Magical Virus Shield around NoVa
Also wealthy people are the ones who tend to travel.
(CNN)As new cases of coronavirus arise daily in the United States -- including several announced over the weekend and one death -- the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has failed to release crucial information physicians say could help save the lives of Americans diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.Too often I find myself thinking "LOL NOTHING'S GOING TO MATTER UNTIL AFFECTS RICH PEOPLE IN MEDIA OR THEIR FRIENDS" but LOL NOTHING's...
Several US patients have recovered from coronavirus, but so far, the CDC has shared detailed clinical information about only one of those patients. That information includes what treatments the patients received and how they fared.
American Oligarchs
Making Mike Bloomberg the Dem candidate would be... bad. Very bad. I honestly don't know how the country could recover from that, and yes I say that given Trump is president.
Morning Thread
Reading that there are now confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Florida and New York City. Genie is definitely out of the bottle.
Sunday, March 01, 2020
What Was That All About
Perhaps Pete's next move will answer the question, but pivoting from "doing amazingly well without people hating you" to "doing amazingly well with people hating you" was a strange primary strategy for a long shot campaign. Don't think going from fake liberal to vocal anti-liberal ("While better things aren't possible, the possible things are better" or some shit in petespeak) won him any votes but certainly made some people (me!) actively dislike him. The point of a long shot campaign is to lose well in preparation for the next round.
Bye, Mayo
New! BREAKING @PeteButtigieg to announce he is out of the presidential race, his staff now hearing the news in campaign call, sources tell us.
— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) March 1, 2020
The Hottest Takes Of All
Blogging is extra sucky during primary season because (almost) every time I have a Primary-Related Hot Take I go bash my head into the wall for awhile until I forget to post it.
Shouldn't Take This
That someone can send you court enforceable random bills with completely made up numbers that they never have to justify should already be criminal fraud but...
America criminal health care system will be in full evidence when a lot of low level medical staffers get infected and put in ICU at their nearby hospitals and are then hit with massive bills for treating from their hospitals for an illness they got from the hospital.
— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) March 1, 2020
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