Posts on Sunday, February 2, 2020
President Trump ran two campaign ads during Super Bowl LIV in Miami. The first ad featuring Alice Johnson was an absolute HOME RUN.(Photo) The second ad titled Stronger, Safer and More Prosperous Thanks to President Trump. It works because it is truthful and honest. It’s about American values.(Tweet) (Video)
The Super Bowl LIV halftime show in Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium saw pop megastar Jennifer Lopez, 50, swinging and hanging from a supersized stripper pole, a compilation of crotch-grabbing, and singer Shakira co-headlining. Shakira hit the stage first performing her list of hits — “She Wolf,” “Empire,” “Whenever, Wherever”– and even bust out a guitar, belted lyrics en español, and treated the 100 million worldwide viewers with a tongue wag in front of the camera. (Tweet)
Senator Bernie Sanders continued his lead as the frontrunner for Iowa Democrats by seven points in a new poll released on the eve of the state's caucuses. The latest Emerson College poll, released on Sunday evening, shows Sanders leading the narrowing 2020 Democratic primary field with 28 percent of support from respondents in Iowa. Former Vice President Joe Biden followed behind in second place with support from 21 percent of likely caucusgoers, while former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Elizabeth Warren trailed behind in third and fourth, with 15 and 14 percent respectively. Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was
Senate minority leader Schumer has stated, "[I]f my Republican colleagues refuse to consider witnesses and documents in this trial, the president's acquittal will be meaningless, because it will be the result of a sham trial."
Republican senators did go on to reject a proposal to "consider witnesses and documents" in President Trump's Senate trial, so Schumer's view must be that the acquittal expected next week "will be meaningless, because it will be the result of a sham trial." This no doubt will be the position of the Democrat Party as a whole and is sure to be featured prominently in their response to the State of the Union address.
MIAMI - The magic of Patrick Mahomes proved too much for the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV. Facing a 20-10 deficit in the fourth quarter, Mahomes led a furious comeback with two touchdown passes to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a 31-20 win, marking the team’s first league championship since Super Bowl IV in 1970. Mahomes shook off a slow start and two interceptions before reminding a world audience he was the league’s MVP in 2018. The third-year quarterback completed 26 of 41 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns in the win, adding 29 yards rushing
Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has repeatedly said those who support President Donald Trump are racist. CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday asked Buttigieg if he regretted making those comments.
"Republicans have been seizing, including in a new Trump ad, a statement you made that 'Anyone who supported this president is, at best, looking the other way on racism.' You've also said that on my show," Tapper explained. "That's almost 63 million Americans who you're painting with a pretty broad brush. Do you regret saying that at all?"
Buttigieg didn't hesitate before he responded.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to impose national rent control. He unveiled the policy proposal last September and recently reiterated his support via Twitter.
Sanders proposes a national cap on annual rent increases to 1.5 times the rate of inflation or 3 percent—whichever is higher.
Ironically, the article Sanders tweeted out attributes increasing rent prices, in part, to government control over the private housing market. This irony reinforces what many economists already know to be true: the left’s prescriptions for lowering housing prices are precisely what keeps prices high and supply low.
Rent control would be a flagrant infringement of American property rights
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Massachusetts radio host Howie Carr said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is taking a political risk by urging a ban on fracking, a sentiment also expressed by fellow 2020 Democratic contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Carr said Sunday on "Fox & Friends" that Sanders risks ceding two key states to President Trump in November -- similar to how Hillary Clinton's comments about coal solidified the oft-Democratic state of West Virginia in the New York Republican's column.
"It's not just Medicare-for-all and abolishing student debt . He's talking about, and so is Elizabeth Warren, ... shutting down fracking," he said.
"There are over a million people employed in fracking.
John Kerry endorsed Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden on Saturday, praising him for being willing to do something about an “AR-16 with a long clip.”
He was speaking at a Biden campaign event in North Liberty, Iowa.
Kerry began by addressing the “courage” Biden showed in pushing gun control as an elected official from Delaware. He then transitioned into specifics–gun types, etc.–and suggested Biden is the candidate who will fight for gun control if elected to the White House.
Kerry said, “You heard from Joe about the things he did with the NRA, that took courage, Delaware’s a tough state. I’m a hunter, I’m a gun owner, been that all my life.”
Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”
At sunrise on Groundhog Day, members of Punxsutawney Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the cuddly oracle’s prediction — his 134th “prognostication,” according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.
Awoken by the crowd’s chants of “Phil!” the groundhog was hoisted in the air for the assembly to hail before making his decision. He then grasped the glove of a handler as a member of his inner circle announced that spring would come early this year.
The annual event has its origin in a German legend that says if a furry rodent casts a shadow on Feb. 2, winter continues.
Did Liz Warren punk impeachment for the Democrats?
That's what some are saying, based on some veiled remarks coming from swing Senator Lisa Murkowski, who opted to go with her fellow Republicans and vote 'no' on calling more witnesses, leaving the final Democratic plan to Get Trump in ruins.
Murkowski broadly hinted that it was Sen. Elizabeth Warren's disrespectful question thrown out at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts that was the decider.
According to CNN:
Her statement appeared to be a direct response to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a Democratic presidential candidate who had essentially forced Roberts to speculate about his credibility on national television.
How will Donald Trump spend the windfall of political space resulting from the busted impeachment effort? It now appears that the Senate is ready to put an end to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) vanity project. The “resistance” will require approximately six weeks to lick its wounds and re-manufacture outrage over yet another Trump “scandal.”
In the meanwhile, an exhausted Congress and media cannot easily pivot to another offensive. The president should use this critical breathing space immediately to correct some of the many outrages perpetrated by his opponents. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do have a wish list.
Commute Paul Manafort’s sentence.
It was the saddest of times, it was the happiest of times; it was the time of funerary apparel and commiserations, it was the time of festive attire and congratulations; it was, in Washington D.C.'s grand theater of the absurd, the time for impeachment.
The final act of this Faustian tragedy began a week before Christmas in 2019, when, draped in black and nervous as a mortician trying to look sad at a fifty-thousand-dollar funeral, Nancy Pelosi announced that the president had been impeached. In spite of the melancholy atmosphere that covered the proceedings like a shroud,
Scotland Yard officers guarding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's have said they are treated 'like skivvies' and forced to do 'menial tasks' like picking up takeaways and groceries, it has been claimed. Highly-trained protection staff have also allegedly been seen buying food from an organic delicatessen, a favourite of Meghan's, and picking up coffees from fast food outlet Tim Hortons. A team of 15 guards has been flown to guard the couple and their nine-month-old son Archie at their secluded Canadian bolthole, after they stood back from royal duties. The Duke and Duchess's security is estimated to cost taxpayers in Canada and the UK
It appears that the long-running farce of an impeachment process may finally be coming to a well deserved end. On Wednesday, February 5, the impeachment without a crime will see the Senate voting yea or nay on the two articles. That vote will bring to a conclusion a three-year ordeal of continual lies, shredding of the Constitution, and malicious and unsubstantiated attacks. It will expose a long list of people who should be charged and prosecuted for various felony crimes including perjury, lying to federal investigators, fraud, and presenting false evidence to a federal court.
The man shot dead by police in London after a stabbing attack that injured three people Sunday has been identified as an ex-con who served prison time for terrorist offenses—and was released just days earlier. Sudesh Amman, 20—who was shot and killed after the 2 p.m. attack in Streatham in south London—had been let out of lockup a week ago, where he was serving time for charges of disseminating and possession documents containing terrorist information, the BBC reported. He was released after serving only part of his three-year-and-four-month sentence, according to The Guardian.
"You should be mad as hell!" Chris Cuomo barks into a camera, indicting the U.S. Senate for "hiding the facts" from voters by refusing to indulge further the already obviously sham impeachment effort. Cuomo weaves an "argument" that doesn't compel a conclusion, but instead presupposes the conclusion and hysterically casts that conclusion in one hyperbolic statement after another. It is a tautology — it is as it is because he says it is.
Cuomo's argument is purely emotional. Cuomo probably never understood the satire in the character Howard Beale emotionally yelling, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the movie Network.
Against the violent talk and now actual violence coming out of the Bernie Sanders campaign for president, Bernie's soaring in the polls anyway.
He's doing so because unlike pretty much any Democrat except his probable nearest rival, Michael Bloomberg, he's actually talking about the economy, something TeamTrump has held a monopoly on.
Problem is, he's promising economic paradise, a full creation of 20 million jobs. Via Nate Silver, here's one of his ads that ran in California:
Sanders says he's going to create 20 million jobs? Through state intervention or socialist central planning, presumably? Better living through socialism?
Give us a break.
For starters, been there done that. Way back in 2008,
China completed building on Sunday a massive, makeshift hospital in Wuhan that will serve as the frontline in battling the coronavirus epidemic, according to a report. Huoshenshan Hospital was built in less than two weeks to treat patients at the epicenter of the virus that has killed more than 300 people, BBC reported. The hospital, which has 1,000 beds, started construction Jan. 23 and will begin admitting patients on Monday, according to Chinese state media China Global Television Network. Around 40 million people tuned into livestreams of the construction on YouTube and Periscope, while workers rushed to complete one of two hospitals that will specialize
The verdict on the impeachment of President Trump may not be in -- formally. All the more pronounced, though, is the petulance of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in the face of what appears to be her pending defeat in the Senate. She's even hinted (please see above) at disbarment of the President's lawyers. Her role in this proceeding will, we predict, go down as one of the most shocking performances by any holder of America's third highest office.
Police in Belgium have shot a man who witnesses said attacked two people with a knife. The suspect was reportedly hit in the hand by officers in Ghent during the incident on Bevrijdingslaan. Pictures show a man pinned to the ground on the busy road as witnesses watched in horror.(Snip) It comes after armed police shot dead a suspected terrorist—feared to be wearing a suicide vest—after at least two people were stabbed in London. The Metropolitan Police said the London shooting occurred at around 2pm on Streatham High Road on Sunday. The force believes there are also 'two injured victims' from the incident
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg addressed again on Sunday concerns from minority staffers about key decisions made in the campaign and its overall culture of inclusion, saying his campaign has taken corrective steps to respond to the issues. (Snip) The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor was responding to a question from Tapper about reports late last month from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that outlined concerns among some staffers that their opinions have been undervalued in his campaign, and that they have faced pressures associated with belonging to a campaign that has struggled to win support
INDIANOLA, Iowa — It’s not a great sign of confidence when a campaign books a modest room for a rally the day before the caucuses. It’s even starker when the campaign intentionally shrinks the room’s capacity by putting the camera riser in the middle of the room. That’s exactly what Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has done, unnecessarily, here at Simpson College for a morning rally. Her campaign chose a conference room with a capacity of slightly over 600 for the rally. Then they put the press riser with all the cameras in the middle of the room and filled the back
After 51 Senators voted not to hear any further witnesses in the impeachment, President Trump’s imminent acquittal became inevitable. (With a two-thirds majority required for impeachment, Trump’s acquittal was always inevitable; it just would have dogged Trump longer and created more possibilities for mischief.)
Because Trump was acquitted without live testimony in the Senate, Democrats are insisting that he has not been cleared of the charges against him. Nancy Pelosi and the other non-lawyers making this claim can be excused for being stupid. Those Democrats who are lawyers, however, have no excuse for saying something so inconsistent with American jurisprudence.
TV audiences keep getting pulled in different directions, but every year more than 100 million Americans still come together to watch the Super Bowl. And that means the ads retain their cultural and commercial clout, this year selling for a record $5.6 million of 30 seconds.
The big news in this election year is that presidential candidates Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg both bought in, joining the usual assortment of high-concept charmers and low-impact duds. Celebrities, as always, abound, from Maisie Williams to Missy Elliott, and there’s even a dog that’s been cured of our cancers.
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It’s hard to win a football championship with a bad defense, but it’s impossible to win with a bad quarterback. And as the position has grown in importance, so too has Texas become one of the nation’s most crucial proving grounds for young passers.
Some of that top-flight talent ended up playing their college ball outside of Texas—Super Bowl MVP (and Westlake grad) Nick Foles went to Arizona, while Stratford alum and perennial Pro Bowler (up until his surprise retirement) Andrew Luck opted for Stanford—but the list of great college quarterbacks from Texas over the past two decades is a who’s who of NFL talent: Vince Young, Robert Griffin III,
Armed police have shot dead a suspected terrorist feared to be wearing a suicide vest after at least two people were stabbed during a machete rampage on a busy south London high street—three months after two were killed in London Bridge horror. Officers raced to the scene outside a supermarket on High Road in Streatham at around 2pm today following reports of gunfire. Photos from the scene show a lifeless body face down on the pavement with what have been described as 'silver canisters' strapped to his chest with a large knife is lying beside him. In one video, police toting machine guns
President Trump went after “Mini Mike” Bloomberg in a series of tweets early Sunday morning and suggested the former New York mayor would need to stand on a box during a Democratic presidential debate.“Mini Mike is now negotiating both to get on the Democrat Primary debate stage, and to have the right to stand on boxes, or a lift, during the debates,” the president posted on his Twitter account in the last of three postings about 5-foot-8 Michael Bloomberg. “This is sometimes done, but really not fair!”
Trump also took notice at the more than a quarter billion dollars that billionaire Bloomberg has spent on political advertising
MIAMI—Teams get here, of course. The 49ers and Chiefs are here, earned their way here, of course. But not the same way, of course.Patrick Mahomes might as well have planned the itinerary, piloted the charter flight from Kansas City, checked his teammates into the JW Marriott Turnberry Resort & Spa in Aventura and cooked up some Florida seafood for his teammates during the week here. Has any player ever been more responsible for carrying his team to a Super Bowl than this 24-year old sensation?Jimmy Garoppolo looks as if he could be starring in “The Bachelor’’ even though he is not starring for his 49ers.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has put nationalizing health insurance at the center of his presidential campaign, but his proposal to fight climate change also calls for a government takeover of a fundamental segment of the economy — electricity production. Sanders has laid out a $16 trillion climate change plan that would transition U.S. electricity generation away from fossil fuels to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydropower by 2030. That’s far faster than any other Democratic candidate's target and sets a pace that rivals like former Vice President Joe Biden say is unrealistic. And like Sanders' healthcare plan, the green energy
Chief Justice John Roberts’ expression was priceless after reading Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s garish question during the Senate impeachment trial Thursday night, a question which lacked any remote sense of self awareness.
The inquiry facetiously read, “At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the Chief Justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution?”
The purpose of the question was stunningly obvious.
The Democratic Party presidential race these days appears to be tilting toward Sen. Bernie Sanders. It could turn into a runaway if Bernie wins by solid margins in the rapidly approaching Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. (Snip) A lot of people are alarmed, not the least of whom is Hillary Clinton, who branded Bernie as “disliked” in a new documentary and is reported as having the “urge” to run herself. (When has she not?) More substantively, mainstream Democrats, even those who lean pretty far left, such as New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, are concerned they could be headed for “McGovern II”—in other words, a blowout.
On Friday, as I and about 456,874 other people predicted, the Senate voted against calling yet more witnesses in the make-believe, 100 percent certified partisan impeachment fiasco run by the Democrats and their media cheerleaders.
That vote brought this lucrative entertainment to an end, de facto if not de jure. The official, signed-sealed-and-delivered end will come Wednesday, we’re told, when the Senate will vote on whether to acquit the president of the two charges on which he was impeached by the House. Spoiler alert: They will.
A quick refresher. Those two charges were “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.”
Let’s take them in order.
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the Democratic Party’s 2020 nomination for president on Thursday.The financially troubled United States Postal Service (USPS) has an estimated 500,000 full-time employees, almost all of whom are members of a union. There are seven different unions that represent USPS employees.The two largest unions are the AFL-CIO-affiliated National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), which has 270,000 members (including both current and retired USPS employees), and the APWU, also AFL-CIO-affiliated, which represents 200,000 current and retired USPS employees. “APWU members belong to the Clerk, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Service (MVS), or Support Services divisions,”
Mike Bloomberg’s daughter Emma has married for the second time, quietly tying the knot with Jeremiah Kittredge, the scandal-scarred former CEO of a group that advocated for charter schools, The Post has learned.
Emma, 40, the billionaire’s elder of two daughters, and Kittredge, 33, have kept their wedding a closely-held secret for a year — never announcing the divorce from her first husband or the new nuptials.
The marriage was confirmed Saturday amid Bloomberg’s run for the 2020 Democratic president nomination.
A female Chinese military officer was charged with spying while posing as a student at Boston University, but was able to flee the country after FBI agents interviewed her about her links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). PLA Lt. Ye Yanqing was indicted in a separate criminal case involving Dr. Charles Lieber, chairman of Harvard’s chemistry department, who was arrested on Tuesday and charged with lying about receiving tens of thousands of dollars from the Wuhan University of Technology and lying to the Pentagon about the foreign money.(Snip) Lt. Ye was tasked by the PLA to gather intelligence on U.S. military websites
America’s four largest states—California, Texas, Florida and New York—have a lot in common. They are iconic, dynamic and diverse. Each could be formidable countries themselves. And, yet, they are also very different in their politics and governance. California and New York are dominated by Democrats who have implemented the nation’s highest and sixth-highest marginal income tax rates, respectively, to help finance large social programs and bureaucracies.(Snip) Neither blue state has shown any clear ability to improve the academic outcomes of their kids, alleviate poverty for those in need, or provide good roads and bridges for their people.
The oldest political party in the world is on the verge of implosion. While a lot can happen in nine months (ask any obstetrician), the tectonic plates of American politics are shifting, and the Democrats’ political edifice is built on top of a gigantic set of fault lines. Were Saul Alinsky still alive, instead of spending quality time with the entity to whom he dedicated Rules for Radicals, he would be laughing his head off over the mess the party that claims the mantle of advancing the poor has made of its election prospects.
The grass is always greener for a Super Bowl. The NFL makes sure of that.
Every year, the NFL grows multiple fields at an offsite location for the Super Bowl, preparing sod specifically for the big game, and even the practice fields. It all starts nearly two years out, meaning that the grass for Sunday's Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, has been under preparation for some time—and the grass for next year’s big event in Tampa, as well as the 2022 edition in Inglewood, California, is well on its way.
Depending on the facilities available around the Super Bowl site,
NBC host Chuck Todd recently asked guests on his show if supporters of President Trump just want to be lied to. It is a question that many in the media would never ask about Democrats, even in the face of overtly false claims. This week is an example. After the Senate rejected witnesses and effectively ended the impeachment trial on Friday, the media ignored the primary reason for the defeat, which is the insistence of House leaders to impeach Trump by Christmas. Critics of the president simply do not want to hear that the blind rush to impeach guaranteed not only an acquittal but an easy case for acquittal.
Donald Trump's re-election campaign was celebrated with a posh party at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night featuring a caricature of the president as a football player, buffed up in a Number 45 jersey holding a 2020 football, as cheerleaders dressed in red, white, and blue welcomed with the crowd.First lady Melania Trump was there. Also spotted were Don Jr. Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle and singer Lee Greenwood, whose 'Proud to Be An American' is Trump's entrance song at his campaign rallies.The event was hosted by the Trumpettes, a group of woman who formed to support Trump's 2016 campaign.
If past is prologue, the losing team in Sunday’s Super Bowl will swallow its bitter disappointment and graciously offer its congratulations to the winners.
Our politics used to be like that. (Snip) Before and after Gore, all those who were defeated licked their wounds in private while publicly bowing to the will of the people.
Except Hillary Clinton. Although she conceded to Donald Trump in November of 2016, she soon made it very clear that she did not consider his victory legitimate.
DES MOINES — The Democratic candidates are back, and they’re trying to make up for lost time.
Trapped in D.C. this week at the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the senators who are competing the hardest in Iowa — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar — are here for the weekend and will be blanketing the state. That means Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg will no longer have the campaign trail to themselves. And they won’t just be competing for attention with the returning senators — an army of surrogate campaigners is also scheduled to arrive this weekend.
DES MOINES, Iowa—I had not been to a Trump rally since the 2016 campaign. And the first thing I noticed Thursday night when Donald Trump and Mike Pence spoke at Drake University in Des Moines was how much more joyous the event was for his supporters than what I remember from four years ago.In 2016, perhaps because Republicans were out of power and Trump was running purely against the system, his crowds often had an undertone of anger that bordered on menacing. But with Trump in power, presiding over peace and prosperity, on the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, and dominating the news when it should be
The Senate voted on Friday not to have witnesses appear for the Pelosi Stillborn Impeachment. Here is why.
The Senate Is Not the House.
The United States Senate is a more deliberative, elegant body than is the House, and it is comprised primarily of more even-keeled politicians. There is a simple reason for this. In the House of Representatives it is possible to get elected in an outlier district and to remain there for years without bothering to manifest prudence or common sense. Maxine Waters is a lock because her district is perfect for her, and she for them. Same with Nancy Pelosi.
This week CNN’s Don Lemon and the odious Rick Wilson laughed about how stupid Trump supporters are to believe that the president is smarter than the elitists, in which apparently they include themselves. Reason’s Jim Lundgren responded with an analysis that shows Trump supporters are actually smarter than their opponents. (Snip) In any event, the Democrats lost the battle this week.
The most amazing thing about Democrats and their allies in the media is that they never actually lose. Any time it seems like they lose, it’s actually the result of cheating and chicanery.
Hillary Clinton didn’t lose 2016, the Russians interfered and the Electoral College is racist. Stacy Abrams didn’t lose in Georgia, the election was stolen. And sure enough, the calls have already come out to say that House Democrats aren’t really going to lose the impeachment trial, because without additional witnesses the trial isn’t legitimate and the acquittal isn’t real.
Not this time. Mitch McConnell, President Trump’s legal team, and the GOP made fools
The Des Moines Register and CNN announced Saturday night that they would not release their crucial Iowa poll, citing an error in which one candidate’s name was left out of polling questions.Jonathan Martin of the New York Times tweeted that the candidate who was left out was former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg: (Tweet) Pundits had been eagerly anticipating the release of what Politico called “the most consequential poll in politics,” as it reflects expectations of the outcome of the first contest of the presidential primary, to be held Monday..But it was not to be. A statement on the Des Moines Register website read, in part:
WUHAN, China — A mysterious illness had stricken seven patients at a hospital, and a doctor tried to warn his medical school classmates. “Quarantined in the emergency department,” the doctor, Li Wenliang, wrote in an online chat group on Dec. 30, referring to patients.
“So frightening,” one recipient replied, before asking about the epidemic that began in China in 2002 and ultimately killed nearly 800 people. “Is SARS coming again?”
In the middle of the night, officials from the health authority in the central city of Wuhan summoned Dr. Li, demanding to know why he had shared the information. Three days later, the police compelled him to sign
My current theory is that the Democratic Party establishment knows Joe Biden is too old and too weak to take on Trump one-on-one, but is in a panic about Bernie, which is why the party is now starting to edge Michael Bloomberg into the picture. (More about this in a separate post.) Among other things, if Biden gets the nomination, just imagine how the Trump campaign will recycle Biden’s old problems captured in this video below from 1987, where Biden admitted his “memory isn’t so good.” Is his memory really likely to be any better 33 years later? A bigger problem is that he simply lies,
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"The faithful have a right to know these sordid intrigues of a corrupt court,” writes Archbishop Carlo Viganò in his letter last week about the crisis under Pope Francis. “In the heart of the Church we seem to glimpse the approaching shadow of Satan’s synagogue (Rev 2:9).”
Viganò is referring here to the pope’s latest personnel outrage: the elevation of Cardinal Leonardo Sandri to the position of Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals. According to Viganò, the pope’s selection of Sandri is designed to throw the next conclave to a Francis clone. In his new position, Sandri will have the power to “pilot the next conclave secundum Franciscum,
The Democratic National Committee bowed to reality on Friday, dropping the fundraising requirements that had kept Mike Bloomberg out of the presidential debates.
But the new rules don’t kick in until after the Feb. 7 debate in New Hampshire — and overall seem designed to shrink the debate field, possibly to the advantage of establishment favorite Joe Biden.
Until now, making the debates required some minimal success both in the polls and in raising lots of donations from several states — 225,000 donors, with at least 1,000 from 20 different states, for the Feb. 7 debate.
In 1987, McDonald’s launched an ingenious sweepstakes based on the game of Monopoly. Customers would purchase sandwiches, fries, drinks, etc., that included peel-off game pieces on the packaging — potentially rewarding them with anything from a Filet-O-Fish to a new car to $1 million. People went wild for it and business spiked by 40 percent for the fast-food giant, who kept it up for years.
But it wasn’t all happy meals.
“It seemed like an opportunity for ordinary people to get ahead, but there were consequences,” said Brian Lazarte, co-director of the HBO docu-series “McMillion$,” premiering Monday, about the contest. In fact, some 50 people would be convicted for cheating.
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's $10 million 2020 Super Bowl ad includes a misleading statistic concerning the number of children killed in violent gun-related crimes, and inaccurately suggests that an adult victim of gun crime in Texas was a child, Fox News has found.
In the raw and emotional one-minute spot, Calandrian Simpson Kemp recalls her son's death: "On a Friday morning, George was shot. George didn't survive. I just kept saying, 'You cannot tell me that the child that I gave birth to, is no longer here.' Lives are being lost every day. It is a national crisis."
A statistic immediately appears on the screen:
The GOP-led Senate may have blocked new witnesses from testifying, but a deal struck with Democrats to delay the ultimate impeachment acquittal vote of President Trump until Wednesday sets up a wild week ahead in politics.
On Monday, the 2020 presidential election kicks off with the first votes cast being cast in the Iowa caucuses. Meanwhile, the House Democratic impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team will return to the Senate chamber at 11 a.m. to make their closing arguments in the impeachment trial.
The following day, senators will give floor speeches on whether or not Trump should be impeached -- just hours before the commander in chief
During MSNBC’s impeachment coverage on Friday, host Lawrence O’Donnell stated that “American democracy once again revealed its most serious structural flaw: the United States Senate.” And called on Democrats to focus more on winning the Senate.
O’Donnell began by saying, “When you’re watching the United States Senate on days like today. It’s always important to remember that you are not watching democracy in action. The Senate is now, always has been, and always will be, an anti-democratic institution. Because the Senate does not represent people. The House of Representatives represents people. That’s why it’s called the people’s House. The U.S. Senate represents land.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) predicted that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) will subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Nunes said, “I actually have some bad news for you tonight…the president’s going to be acquitted. But the problem is, this isn’t going to end. I just can’t imagine that Adam Schiff, after three-and-a-half years of this nonsense, and Jerry Nadler are not going to continue this, right? They’re going to go back and they’re going to subpoena John Bolton.
It was Fast & The Furious: FDR. A homeless speed demon with a millionaire’s taste carjacked four different rides—including three Mercedes-Benzes—as she burned rubber down an eight-mile stretch of Manhattan’s east side, causing multiple crashes along the way, cops said Saturday. Aludein Marks had no weapon, but plenty of attitude, as she boozily bullied her way past the drivers of each luxe vehicle, cops said.(Snip) It took just 30 minutes for the high-octane 25-year-old to steal and crash four cars and smash into nearly 20 others—amazingly only causing minor injuries to four victims, cops said.
A New York state park in Brooklyn will be named after LGBTQ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the renaming of East River State Park during the Human Rights Campaign's greater New York gala on Saturday. The Democratic governor said the park renaming shows New York “is the progressive capital of the nation.” Johnson died in 1992 at age 46. She is considered a pioneer of the movement for the rights of transgender people, although the term transgender was not widely used during her lifetime. Some witness accounts say Johnson was a leader of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969.
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Hunter Biden’s corruption may not have ended in Ukraine, the hard partying politician’s son also met with a corrupt Sheikh who has illegally given massive contributions to Democrats about working on a project to unfreeze Libyan assets in 2015.As the farce they call impeachment is winding down in the Senate, it has become obvious that no new witnesses will be called, and almost as likely that, if they are, Hunter Biden will not be among them.It also now appears that the wayward Biden son has gotten away with not providing his