All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[jetengine]

Has Warren moved up anymore ?

[Billy Batson]

Paul is just reaching to justify his opinion he based off nothing. There’s exactly one poll Warren is winning in and it’s for MA which is her home state. Unless literally every metric dramatically changes in about a week, she won’t be viable Super Tuesday

Another MA poll where Bernie is at the top
https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-...s/default.aspx

[PaulBullion]

They will do the same thing no matter who is the nominee. Make up a false controversy and with the help of the media, keep hammering them with it. Maybe even through in a fraudulent Senate investigation. Sanders, Warren, Biden. Buttigeg, won't matter. It's how Trump operates. Look at what he has already done with two non-stories. Warren's Native heritage and Biden's don. Even committed treason for the last one.

It is so much easier when there is real baggage, though. And so much more effect when you go to snopes and find out: yes, he did honemoon in the Soviet Union. Yes, he did think all drug dealers were black. Yes, he did dump toxic waste on an impoverished Latino community. Yes, he did vote for the Crime Bill and campaigned on it for years.

[PaulBullion]

"They'll make up stuff anyway so let's vote for the guy with the worst baggage" is not a winning strategy.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

They will do the same thing no matter who is the nominee. Make up a false controversy and with the help of the media, keep hammering them with it. Maybe even through in a fraudulent Senate investigation. Sanders, Warren, Biden. Buttigeg, won't matter. It's how Trump operates. Look at what he has already done with two non-stories. Warren's Native heritage and Biden's don. Even committed treason for the last one.

And if anyone thinks Trump won't go after Mayor Pete for being gay, given how hardcore right wingers, and black churchgoers have little to no love for LGBTQ, I have some beachfront property in Montana you might be interested in.

[PaulBullion]

Has Warren moved up anymore ?

She won all the post debate polls about the debate, but there has been no poll released that had polling after the debate. Maybe Sunday we'll see an effect.

[PaulBullion]

Gaze upon what Elizabeth Ann Warren wrought:





Bloomberg's net favorability fell by 30 (!) points amongst moderate Democrats.

You have been Warrened.

[The Darknight Detective]

Gaze upon what Elizabeth Ann Warren wrought:





Bloomberg's net favorability fell by 30 (!) points amongst moderate Democrats.

You have been Warrened.

I think we can expect a deluge of anti-Warren & Company commercials on TV from Bloomberg in the near future. IOW, it won't be pretty.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

"They'll make up stuff anyway so let's vote for the guy with the worst baggage" is not a winning strategy.

You can't predict electability. It's a notoriously faulty metric

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Gaze upon what Elizabeth Ann Warren wrought:





Bloomberg's net favorability fell by 30 (!) points amongst moderate Democrats.

You have been Warrened.

I would imagine Wall Street fat cats aren’t happy either since they’re squarely in Warren’s crosshairs. And yeah, look for Money Mike to launch attack ads against her.

[AnakinFlair]

How transparently racist was it for Trump to say Gone with the Wind should have won best movie again instead of Parasite?

I found it hilarious that he cited two very old movies instead of, you know, any of the other movies that were nominated THIS YEAR.

[SquirrelMan]

You can't predict electability. It's a notoriously faulty metric

So you're saying it would be ok to nominate Hillary again?

[SquirrelMan]

I would imagine Wall Street fat cats aren’t happy either since they’re squarely in Warren’s crosshairs. And yeah, look for Money Mike to launch attack ads against her.

It appears she got him to heel instead:

Bloomberg LP has identified 3 NDAs signed over the past 30+ years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made.

If any of them want to be released from their NDAs, they should contact the company and they'll be given a release.

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/st...59194825797632

[PaulBullion]

aaaand the WaPo has the scoop:

Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign

Feb. 21, 2020 at 10:16 p.m. GMT+1
U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter.
President Trump and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have also been informed about the Russian assistance to the Vermont senator, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
It is not clear what form that Russian assistance has taken. U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders’s campaign against Hillary Clinton, part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton, sow dissension in the American electorate and ultimately help elect Donald Trump.

More at link.

[Celgress]

Iran is having trouble with their election, or so I hear. They should just let Russia pick their candidates like we do.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.