All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Got an alert that the Dow Jones dropped over 2,000 points this morning due to news about coronavirus, triggering a 15 minute halt on trading.

[Kirby101]

Biden’s team is considering Bloomberg to head the World Bank & Jamie Dimon for Treasury. Incredible

https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-cabi...3c8dcda57.html

Funny how you ignored the possibility of Booker or Harris as VP ans Kerry, Yates, Rice and Warren also included.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Just like the rest of the stooges he doesn't even know why.

It's either Biden or Bernie. They know why.

[Tendrin]

Funny how you ignored the possibility of Booker or Harris as VP ans Kerry, Yates, Rice and Warren also included.

And, yeah, I'm sure it's a totally innocent leak about their 'plans'.

[Tazirai]

So, what you're saying is that it's okay for Republicans to do their witch hunt against Hunter Biden who, like Hillary Clinton and Benghazi, has done nothing wrong, but the endlessly grifting Trump spawn are off limits? Right, gotcha!

Biden is showing signs of cognitive decline. People defending this isn't helping.
Biden is literally being protected from the people by the media and the DNC. No conspiracy or Trump troll or Bernie bros needed.

Last year the media questioned him, and now the media is protecting him because he's being anointed.

Biden is NOT being vetted. It's not a stutter.

Something is going on with Biden, and the DNC is changing many things to favor Biden.

Anyone who is honest can see it.

[Tazirai]

Morons in the media think they can gas light us this year. They will fight change, but eventually change comes, THEN they will say
they were on the side of the people the whole time.

[kidfresh512]

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announces run for Senate

Bullock's decision to run is an abrupt about-face made at the last minute for the two-term governor, who ended his long-shot bid for president in December and had repeatedly insisted he had no interest in running for the Senate.

But Bullock had come under increasing pressure, including meeting with former President Barack Obama in Washington and with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer, of New York, recently traveled to Montana to meet with Bullock. Bullock reportedly weighed the matter with his family over the weekend before making his decision.

Democrats need to win four seats that are now held by Republicans, without losing any that they are defending, to win outright control of the Senate. If President Donald Trump is defeated, the Democrats would need a net gain of three seats and the vice-president's tie-breaking vote for control.

Hope he can pull it off we need that seat. Gonna be so tight trying to get the Senate

[Tami]

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announces run for Senate



Hope he can pull it off we need that seat. Gonna be so tight trying to get the Senate

One pundit on TV suggested that Doug Jones won't be able to keep his Senate seat. That his state is too red. So Dems might have to work harder to get enough seats to take back the Senate.

[kidfresh512]

One pundit on TV suggested that Doug Jones won't be able to keep his Senate seat. That his state is too red. So Dems might have to work harder to get enough seats to take back the Senate.

Yeah he barely beat a child molester his seat was always in danger

[TheDarman]

One pundit on TV suggested that Doug Jones won't be able to keep his Senate seat. That his state is too red. So Dems might have to work harder to get enough seats to take back the Senate.

He voted to impeach Trump. Unfortunately, that means he is done representing Alabama. They’ll punish him this year for that vote.

North Carolina, Arizona, Maine, and Colorado are in play though. With a net gain of three seats, Democrats would have control of the chamber as long as they had a VP vote. The question is, though, can Democrats run up the score by being competitive in places like South Carolina and maybe Kentucky?

[Iron Maiden]

He voted to impeach Trump. Unfortunately, that means he is done representing Alabama. They’ll punish him this year for that vote.

North Carolina, Arizona, Maine, and Colorado are in play though. With a net gain of three seats, Democrats would have control of the chamber as long as they had a VP vote. The question is, though, can Democrats run up the score by being competitive in places like South Carolina and maybe Kentucky?

Moscow Mitch seat is on shaky ground right now. Remember, Kentucky put in a Democrat for governor

[Iron Maiden]

You just can't make this stuff up. Is Trump's director of Social Media Dan Scavino trolling his boss or too stupid to see how the meaning of his Tweet is making people compare Trump to Roman Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome Burns?

Of course, Trump played golf again this weekend too

[Mister Mets]

He voted to impeach Trump. Unfortunately, that means he is done representing Alabama. They’ll punish him this year for that vote.

North Carolina, Arizona, Maine, and Colorado are in play though. With a net gain of three seats, Democrats would have control of the chamber as long as they had a VP vote. The question is, though, can Democrats run up the score by being competitive in places like South Carolina and maybe Kentucky?

Do you really think Jones would have been favored in Alabama if he didn't vote for impeachment? Democrats were always renting that seat.

[TheDarman]

Do you really think Jones would have been favored in Alabama if he didn't vote for impeachment? Democrats were always renting that seat.

I don’t think he would have been “favored”. I think he probably would’ve lost either way. But it certainly didn’t help to cast that vote.

[Gray Lensman]

Moscow Mitch seat is on shaky ground right now. Remember, Kentucky put in a Democrat for governor

I'll qualify that with a mention that Bevin was uniquely unpopular outside of stuff that riles up Democrats. It's similar to how we ended up with a Democrat here in Nevada (despite the Republican not being an incumbent) - the Republican running was uniquely horrible, having promised to eliminate popular programs passed by the outgoing Republican governor and having his own family publically endorse the Democrat.