To Dixville Notch And Beyond

Blomentum in Dixville Notch! Just wait'll Magic Mike gets on the ballot! Not to mention the debate stage.

Bloomberg pulls out win in tiny Dixville Notch, NH

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[hoyden]

Oh a new!

[jimmyk]

Don't forget to read all my brilliant thoughts at the end of the last thread. :)

[Dave (in MA)]

I have to believe the Notchers were nervous about being on camera last midnight, because there's no way it takes somebody 10 minutes to count 5 votes.

[Dave (in MA)]

They didn't even have an app.

[hoyden]

I liked living in New Hampster. Live Free Or Die.

[henry]

They must get a tourism boon from voting first.

[hrtshpdbox]

Global Stocks Rise As Rate Of New Coronavirus Cases Slows

https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-rise-as-rate-of-new-coronavirus-cases-slows-11581417859

[jimmyk]

I was still catching up from last night and saw this:

I KNEW IT! He is going after windmills, which he hates!

Posted by: MissMarple2 | February 10, 2020 at 07:32 PM

MSM: Trump tilting at windmills!

[jimmyk]

Global Stocks Rise As Rate Of Reporting of New Coronavirus Cases Slows

Fixed.

Not to joke about it, I hope it's truly slowing, but I don't trust Chinese "data" (yes, I'm Captain Obvious).

[GUS]

I bet Peter eater Bootygieg heard about DIXVILLE and made a b-line for the Sausage Factory.

[JimNorCal]

Should it be "Bloomentum"?
"Blow mentum" sounds ... truculent.

[henry]

Jum_S, you must be this tall to get a second "o"

[sbwaters]

jimmyk/Gus: "she can't express herself in words not because she's a baby, but because there's no coherent basis for her feelings"

Long ago wrote that rationality is not how you think; it’s how you check your work.

Be nice if they built that humbling concept into what schools teach.

Students then might tumble over it on their own when they are ready to grow up.

[henry]

anyone needing schaudenfreud...

Inner City Press @innercitypress
36m

OK - US v Avenatti, Nike extortion trial, closing arguments today. Inner City Press cover last night's charging conference past 7 pm patreon.com/posts/33922606 and will be live tweeting during the closing arguments - thread

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1227239852657315840

[MissMarple2]

jimmyk,

Ha! I should have thought of that myself!

He hates them because :
1. They destroy property values.
2. They kill huge numbers of birds.

He hasn't included the latest reason, either. The blades are not recyclable and are starting to clog up landfills.

[GUS]

Work?? Sbw, there is no need to WORK anymore, let someone else do that.

[JimNorCal]

We're under 30 hours to go in Mrs JimSunny's fourteen day "house arrest".

No symptoms for her.
No symptoms for anyone she saw in China.

We were mostly worried she could have been exposed on the flight home, which went through Taiwan. But, fingers crossed, nothing so far and confidence is rising.

The next challenge: hope we avoid getting exposed through our local American community. So far, though, every other country other than China seems to have successfully put on the brakes.

[hoyden]

Mini-Mike wins in mini-dixville. I wonder how much he paid per vote.

[Barbara]

From the end of the last thread —

Hey, Carlisle is just down the road from me; it's not that bad. At least not until it was announced that Vindman was expected.

Posted by: hrtshpdbox | February 11, 2020 at 09:42 AM

No offense intended. I looked up Carlisle based on another person's comment about the place on Facebook. What I found was a YouTube video of someone driving through or by Carlisle. It seemed like a nice, very quiet, average American town — not the hub of Government or the military that I imagine Vindman sees himself in.

Those of you who know something about the War College could tell us just what type of assignment Vindman might be given here. (Actually, I often found that the best assignments were off the beaten path, so to speak.) Whatever Vindman is given to do, I hope that it doesn't involve National Security and that he's carefully watched.

[Captain Hate]

This guy must be on Patterico's Loonmobile preselects

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/kgo-am-host-threatens-nunes-calling-media-hostile-you-aint-seen-hostile-yet

[Captain Hate]

Jim Thorpe attended Carlisle Indian Industrial Academy.

[GUS]

I thought TRUMPHITLER had Vindman taken away and shot.

[henry]

Barbara, all I know about the War College in Carlisle is my grandfather's oral history tapes are archived there (along with the rest of the WWII generals).

[Barbara]

Wow, henry! That's an honor. Have you listened to them? How wonderful for his descendants.

[GUS]

Didn't the Heap Big Squaw teach law at....Carlisle Indian Industrial Academy.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

My uncle had a two year assignment at the War College (engineer with an expertise in logistics, retired a Colonel). He and his wife love old houses so they bought a huge stone home on the outskirts of Gettysburg that had been a field hospital during the battle a mile from the house.

We stayed there overnight and it was the creepiest place - I didn't sleep a wink. We've always lived in old houses and our current one had a ghost, but this old Gettysburg house had many many ghosts. So much sadness and despair in those walls, bloodstains in the floorboards.

[jimmyk]

Ok, it's CNN, but this poll suggests that the reported Klobuchar surge may have been someone's wishful thinking.

In the final numbers, 29% of likely primary voters say they back Sanders, 22% back former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 11% support former Vice President Joe Biden, 10% support Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 7% back Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/new-hampshire-poll/index.html

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Happy to report that Ted Cruz is continuing with his Verdict podcast. The new one is an alarming guess at what the Democrats will probably do if they have a good election in November.

[henry]

Barbara, I have a transcript with edits from my grandfather. Plus transcripts are available online.

[henry]

Robin, my grandfather wrote much of the logistics curriculum at the war college before WWII.

[MissMarple2]

Link on this story tweeted by Donald Trump, Jr:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/11/buttigieg-aides-allegedly-harassed-leftist-journos-i-never-dealt-with-this-at-trump-rallies-885616

One of the journalists is black,

There are some doozy quotes:

Jones’ colleague, Jordan Chariton, pointed out: “I’ve gone to Trump events and never had to deal with this!”

Inside the venue, Chariton — a Bernie Sanders supporter — said Buttigieg aides approached them and suggested that they had “snuck in.” Both Chariton and Jones had media credentials for the event.

I felt I was singled out,” Jones told Fox News. “I’m not sure whether it was because of the company I work for or the color of my skin. But I was definitely singled out because they didn’t do that to anyone else there that I saw.”

Buttigieg has been under fire for his poor track record with black voters during his dismal two-term tenure as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg has tried to turn things around by pandering to black voters, but is still polling at 0% among black primary voters.

Lots more. including screen caps of tweets and 2 videos.

[hrtshpdbox]

Barbara, no offense taken at all, it's no plum post for Vindman I'm sure. Some Olympic event was staged at Hershey (also near me) a few years back, and the reporters who covered the story called Hershey a cowtown in the middle of nowhere - and they're right.

[GUS]

Why wasn't Vindman FIRED??? Obama purged nearly 200 officers.

[henry]

Prosecutor final argument begins.

Inner City Press
@innercitypress
·
8m
AUSA Podolsky begins with audio:
"Have you ever held a clients balls your in hands when you can take 10 billion dollars in market cap off?"
AUSA Podolsky: That is extortion. & what he did to Gary Franklin was fraud. Michael Avenatti, facing debt, saw a meal ticket

[Captain Hate]

Didn't the Heap Big Squaw teach law at....Carlisle Indian Industrial Academy.

Squaw Fulla Bull was expelled for excessive firewater consumption, poor personal hygiene and just being irritating.

[GUS]

Check out where Michael Douglas made this statement over the weekend. There is NO logical reason why Bloomberg would have sent him there. It is a nearly 95% GOP area. I know. I live in there.

[GUS]

Michael Douglas link.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/michael-douglas-dad-kirk-supported-mike-bloomberg-president-death

[Captain Hate]

About that speaking trooth to power nonsense

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/journalist-was-fired-criticizing-ilhan-omar-daniel-greenfield/

[GUS]

BTW. Douglas didn't speak to a crowd. It was a small group of bearded hippies in their 60's and 70's, in some rich libtards quaint expensive farm-house.

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/11/president-donald-trump-vice-president-mike-pence-dignified-transfer-ceremony-photos/

Several photos.

"“These were fallen heroes and we were close by and the president wrapped his rally early so he could come,” National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told reporters on Air Force One Monday evening.

O’Brien, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz all also attended the ceremony."

[Tom R]

Did Trump make a mistake here? He has the same position in support of stop and frisk as Bloomberg did (but has since apologized for once he started running for POTUS).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/total-racist-controversy-erupts-over-viral-clip-mike-bloomberg-extolling-virtues-throwing

[Captain Hate]

One of these is not like the others

Career before being *elected* president below - it looks like the VP thing was either specific to the cold war or accidental way LBJ and Truman became president - presumably in both cases the men they replaced would have been re-elected if they hadn't died.

Trump: Business
Obama: State Senator/Bathhouse aficionado
Bush 43: Governor
Clinton: Governor/Rapist
Bush 41: Head of CIA
Reagan: Governor
Carter: Governor/Navel Gazer
Nixon: VP
Johnson: VP

JFK: Rep
Ike: General
Truman: VP
FDR: Governor

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2020 09:31 AM (WdocV)

Both obamam & JFK were US Senators before becoming President
Posted by: josephistan at February 11, 2020 09:38 AM (Izzlo)

Ah yes JFK was...in Obama's case he started running for President right after winning his Senate seat and was basically a non-entity in the Senate, so I'd stick with State Senator for him....
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2020 09:39 AM (WdocV)

[MissMarple2]

In my 10:36 post about the Buttigieg campaign workers and the journalists, I goofed.

The 3 middle paragraphs should have quotes around them

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Just read that Orson Bean piece in Powerline. Wow. What a lovely man.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/how-orson-bean-found-god-2.php

[Captain Hate]

Mini-Mike wins in mini-dixville. I wonder how much he paid per vote.

Live free or get paid.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Robin, my grandfather wrote much of the logistics curriculum at the war college before WWII.

What's his name, Henry? I'll ask my uncle about him. He was there in the early 90's.

[Captain Hate]

>I stand by my assertion. There is ample knowledge of seditious behavior and ample evidence, even admission that laws were broken and yet no one of any consequence has been charged, let alone prosecuted.

I get it. Until yesterday nobody from the NSC was being punished. Then 70 were all at once. Kind of a big number that seems to have generated a pretty lukewarm reaction. I doubt that process started after the impeachment sham and I also doubt that they weren't watching these people for a long time to see who exactly was involved.

It would be great if the DOJ published a timeline and gave us daily reports of what they are doing but that's not how it works. Not in properly functioning DOJ that doesn't leak and do it's business in the media.

All we get are peaks at what is going on behind the scenes and you have to try and piece together what is happening from that. And then you have to rely on the people doing the jobs. You either believe that Trump has got this or that he is being led around by the people he chose to get to the bottom of this corruption and the corruption goes very, very deep.

I've been pretty consistent that I didn't think we would start to see real action until after the investigations and impeachment of Trump were over so I'm not real moved by the constant claim of why isn't it happening NOW! I think yesterday was a nice opening salvo to what I expect will be Trump's response.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2020 09:31 AM (ZLI7S)

[henry]

Robin, here. Note he retired long before 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Aurand

[Jim Eagle]

Vindman will feel right at home at NWC as one of the countres under the "National Security StrategyPracticum" is The Ukraine/Poland.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

Robin, here. Note he retired long before 1990.

Right. I was just guessing that he would have studied his work while there.

[Buckeye]

Long ago wrote that rationality is not how you think; it’s how you check your work.

And how you employ logic in decision making along the way.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I believe LT COL Vindman has found his calling as curator of the Ukrainian Campaign archives in sub-basement 6 of the War College's archives.

He has been assigned a 5'' McDowell steel desk from which he will command approximately 180' shelf feet of memoirs of Soviet junior grade officers memoirs and the 387rh Graurds Division's balalaika collection.

[henry]

retweeting a pic ho DJT and Trump on the golf course.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
12m

Mini Mike is a short ball (very) hitter. Tiny club head speed. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

[rse]

Now we know why it won the best picture oscar. It was an affordable housing message movie.

http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=c319dfcf-8965-4305-b071-51accf592515

With Oscar glory, 'Parasite' shines light on Seoul's housing crisis.

[Marlene]

Good morning. Dixville Notch is beautiful. Driving thru the notch,especially in the winter,is a white knuckle experience.

[jimmyk]

Interesting thread over in Althouse. Bloomberg could be toast.

Mayor Bloomberg said: "Ninety-five percent of murders- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16-25. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city. And that's where the real crime is. And the way you get guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them."

From 2015. Of course he’s not wrong, though 95% is hyperbole.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/02/mayor-bloomberg-said-ninety-five.html

[JM Hanes]

henry:

"They must get a tourism boon from voting first"

How many tourists does it take to make a boom in Dixville Notch?

[jimmyk]

Of course Bloomie would like to do that to law-abiding citizens with guns too.

[Captain Hate]

There's no way DJT doesn't have an arsenal of material on Mini Mike to blow him out of the water. Unpossible to believe otherwise.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/02/11/cant-wait-for-the-debates-lol-democrat-files-to-challenge-aoc-for-her-ny14-seat-and-boy-howdy-this-is-gonna-be-fun/

[D]

Posted on the wrong thread.
Good post by Robin
Lead by example, provide a soft landing when difficulties arise.

[D]

JMH:
Needed 5 voters in order to go first.

[Jim Eagle]

CH,

Let's not forget Hoover, who as far as I am concerned may be the most interesting POTUS since Jefferson.

1. Mining Engineer (Sierra Nevada)
2. Mine surveyor developer (Australia, China)
3. International consultant & financier (London, Burma, Russia)
4. University Lecturer (Columbia)
5. Textbook Author (Principles of Mining)
6. Federical Government (Administrator of Relief for Belgium)
7. Head of U.S. Food Administration
8. Secretary of Commerce

My point is that he was also a business man like Trump but with latent political and government expierence.

[Manuel Transmission]

Long ago wrote that rationality is not how you think; it’s how you check your work.

I’ve always had a sense that there is a left/right brain mechanism in play. The internal skeptic has to be awake, but can’t be ruling the roost.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I believe that every one of those votes in Dixville Notch cost Bloomberg north of $750k each.

Nothing says billionairre New York elitist fascist little man syndrome like "throw 'em up against a wall and frisk 'em"

[henry]

to what isn't reported by the anonymous source.

Jake Gibson
@JakeBGibson

The Department of Justice is changing its sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, according to a Senior DOJ official. “

[MissMarple2]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/02/08/how-trumps-three-years-of-job-gains-compares-to-obamas/

According to this article, Obama's last 3 years had more jobs (8.1 million) than Trump (6.3 million).

What we aren't told is if they were full or part-time, where they were located, retail vs. manufacturing, etc. etc.

In addition, CNN has been caught lying multiple times, plus we don't know whether these "revised" numbers were fudged by some Obama acolyte in the Labor Department, However, I wanted to make sure people were aware of this story.

[henry]

CNBC Now @CNBCnow
now

JUST IN: Federal Trade Commission announces it will issue special orders to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft in order to probe the purpose of acquisitions they made between January 2010 and December 31, 2019.

[Jane]

ROBIN,

I posted this on the last thread:

Robin,I FINALLY READ THE CHAPTER ON Klobuchar this AM. ‘‘Twas interesting. Although she votes with Bernie 80% of the time, she has always, since the beginning been tied to big, often corrupt donors who she has always protected, and not prosecuted. She also rewards them mightily.

IOW’s she’s dirty pretending she is for the people. Sound familiar?

[henry]

For Janet. Gotta love trolleys. Here is the Minneapolis one.

Crime is rampant, ridership is low, money is steadily being lost. The metro area’s two light rail lines are rapidly becoming eyesores, and worse. Urination and defecation inside train cars and on train platforms have become common, as has the setting of fires in light rail cars to warm hoboes.

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/02/light-rail-is-a-crime-ridden-disaster/#

[lyle]

Truth or Dare?

https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/cpac-chair-says-romney-was-uninvited-because-physical-safety-would-be-at-risk/

[Marlene]

When I heard Bloomberg had won Dixville Notch,I thought to myself,maybe he could put some of his billions to good use restoring The Balsams. The restoration of The Balsams would bring jobs to the North Country economy and restore pride to the once grand resort. The current owners are trying to restore the property and the state of NH has considered floating a bond. The White Mountains used have many grand resorts. My father was a 16 year old chauffeur at the Crawford House during summer vacation. He'd transport the patrons from the train station to the hotel in Crawford Notch. Those days are long gone.

[Jane]

So it looks like Buttgig and Bloomberg booth have a view racist bones in their bodies. I'm shocked!!!

[Old Lurker]

Jack Straw understands that the headline "70 fired from NSC" was misleading, right?

It was not an "event" but a process over time and they were not fired, they just went back to the agencies whence they came when they were borrowed by the NSC in the first place.

[James D.]

There's no way DJT doesn't have an arsenal of material on Mini Mike to blow him out of the water. Unpossible to believe otherwise.

He doesn't need an arsenal. All he needs is a random sampling of Bloomie's own words.

[Pinandpuller]

Is Brad Parscale some kind of criminal retard genius trying to attack a guy who has no chance from the left on True Crime stats?

https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1227216752376979456?s=21

[jimmyk]

According to this article, Obama's last 3 years had more jobs (8.1 million) than Trump (6.3 million<).

Even if true (and of course the time frames were chosen to diminish Trump), the real point, which is probably impossible to make effectively, is that 6.3 million jobs starting seven years into an expansion is much harder than 8.1 million starting from the economy being in the toilet.

[Tom R]

OL @ 11:57

Was there a point in there? Surely you know federal civil servants are almost impossible to fire. Getting them out of the White House however is progress.

[jimmyk]

I guess an analogy might be climbing the first 20,000 feet up Mt Everest versus climbing the last 9,029 feet.

[Tom R]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/theyre-voting-in-new-hampshire-but-this-democrat-just-wants-to-jump-off-a-bridge

Sounds like someone who realizes they are losing the Counter-Counterculture War.

[lyle]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/is-klobuchar-closing-strong-in-new-hampshire.php

Mirengoff getting a boner at the very thought...

[Porchlight]

The true believers will never get rid of light rail.

My brother, lefty to the core, rides the Mpls line occasionally. I don't know if paying the fare is still honor system but it was back when the rail started up. He admitted he didn't pay. The effing NERVE.

[Pinandpuller]

I like guys who don’t deny reality. Mike Bloomberg had a moment of clarity, and he’s right about this. His solutions are wrong though, in that he wants to take all the guns. Well, not from the elites. That goes without saying.

The older I get the less thrilled I am that Ivanka and Kim Kardashian are reforming the criminal justice system. Releasing more violent people back out on the street. People aren’t just being thrown in prison for years over a little weed.

[Extraneus]

OPEN THREAD: Like Shaefer beer, it’s there, it’s there for you. It’s what you want.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

:-/

[Porchlight]

Idea: might the DNC, sensing doom in November no matter whom they choose as the nominee, decide to go with Bernie because if they're going to lose, this way it can be his fault and not theirs?

Similar to 1964, with the GOP facing an almost certain loss and consenting to run Goldwater. Although that didn't work out so well for them in the long run.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Why that daily Beast article seems absolutely delightful, TomR!

I am envisioning lines of similarly dressed man bunned, LGBTQIOU's wearing flannel shirts, girl jeans and work boots looking surprisingly like the Russian populace lining up for bread in Moscow pre '89, themselves in line for overpriced double cappuccinos with pretty little whipped cream snowflake design at Starbucks and grumbling about intersectionality, white male privilege and how unfair it all is.

It makes my heart go pitty pat.

[Tom R]

You gotta feel sorry for the people who believe global trade issues is the most important issue. Getting beat out by the climate change nutjobs has to be a hit to your self esteem.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/02/11/pew-research-2019-survey-climate-change-still-ranks-as-low-priority-17th-place-out-of-18th/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--it looks like the VP thing was either specific to the cold war or accidental--

Bush 41 was also VP, not just CIA Big Cheese.

[GUS]

Pin, Half-pint hold the sugar and salt Bloomberg is correct.
His and his friends LIBERAL POLICIES, created the BLACK CRIME PROBLEM he wants to STOP and FRISK.

Perfect LIBTARDISM, create a horrid problem, then ride on in an a WEE SHETLAND PONY to save the day.

[GUS]

Ig touche. Obama spent 100 plus days in the Senate. And that means 300 packs o'Kools.

Capn Hate, that timeline is utter BULLSHIT.
Kennedy served 3 terms in Congress and was 2 years into his SECOND term in the Senate.

G H W Bush was Congressman, UN Ambassador, Chairman of the GOP,
Ambassador to China, head oF CIA, and 8 years VP.

utter bullshit.

[henry]

Insty:

THE NAVY PLANS TO RETIRE THE FIRST FOUR LITTORAL COMBAT SHIPS: “…the oldest of the vessels was commissioned just 12 years ago, the youngest a mere six years ago.” Why retire relatively new ships? Too many “troublesome” problems. Here’s StrategyPage’s take from 2019, a “Leadership” post entitled “It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time.”

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/the-navy-plans-to-retire-the-first-four-littoral-combat-ships-the-oldest-of-the-vessels-was-com/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Mini-Mike wins in mini-dixville.--

Mini-dixville. Is that one of those "that's what she said" jokes?

[Bela1]

It might be difficult to can a CS’s ass but it is doable - provided you have violations on record & in writing. IDK how the feds handle civil service hearings & any disciplinary decisions but I know one Lt from Cambridge FD who made it personal ... threatening his boss, his wife, their family & other family members Hint: you don’t ever mess with my family or anyone else family!

Took several committee hearings but he was initially demoted w/loss of pay He retaliated more by showing up at my door, was caught outside my door one night; he also called about a special package to deliver to my hub; he tried to run us both off the road with kids in the car!! ...at the final hearing, he was stripped of all duties and finally fired. He showed no remorse but cried like a baby.

That saying - what the wife don’t know, won’t hurt her? It’s untrue. It hurts deeply. His fam resides in NH where I hoped to one day retire, which is a bummer. I sure hope my neighbors above me vote overwhelmingly for Trump!

Ended up sick Saturday after a chance of free rally tix over the weekend but I so wanted to go because I doubt PDJT will visit here at all. From where I live Manchester NH is about a 1 1/2 hrs trip - I likely would never had made it inside for all of the fun!

I’m so embarrassed about Warren the boldface liar I hope she loses today
Mitt the nit might want to learn how to read about how this impeachment came about prior to claiming he had to follow his religion to do the right thing? He ought to know better about exploiting his faith.
Midget Mike grew up in next town over from SOMERVILLE which is Medford and that protected snot thinks he can accuse Trump of being racist? Screw him! Also Butthead pulled the same thing yesterday about Trump being a racist - Dems must lie to win votes which is why I hope they all lose bigly today.

Steph your jokes are awesome!

DrJ - my deepest sympathies & prayers come your way. So very sad.
Take care

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I didn't realize until I read Bloomberg's wiki that he has been living with but not married to the same gal for the last 20 years.
And his past comments re women are gonna kind of close the pussy tape avenue of attack should he buy the nomination.

[James D.]

henry @ 12:42

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but:

Was anyone in the Navy demoted or discharged over this billion-dollar, multi-year debacle? Were any civilian employees demoted or fired? Were any of the contractors involved fined or blacklisted from future contracts?

[Melinda]

Hi, Mikey! How's that treasure trove of video history look now?

Saagar Enjeti
@esaagar
Bloomberg has a lot of sympathy for Putin and a Xi Jingping and unlike some stupid scrubbed Trump Tower Moscow deal has ACTUAL massive financial entanglements with authoritarian governments

But let me guess at how much coverage this will get

Josh Rogin @joshrogin
Mike Bloomberg, in newly surfaced 2015 remarks, compares Putin's attack on Ukraine to US annexing California: "What would America do if we had a continuous country and a lot of people in that country wanted to be Americans. Does California ring a bell? We just went and took it."

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1227288425335836672

[He's an idiot.]

[Porchlight]

Bela1, sorry you couldn't go, but Trump will be back in NH soon. It's one of Parscale's targets to flip as I'm sure you already know.

[Porchlight]

DrJ, somehow I missed your sad news over the weekend. How shocking for you and your friends. I hope the time you are spending reaching out and talking to each other is helpful to you.

[GUS]

"We just went and took it"

Bloomberg must have gotten his ass kicked a lot, when he was *heh heh little.

Hey half pint!! Who is "we"?? Got a mouse in your pocket little guy??

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I'm a little surprised Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is running as a Dem.
When I used to see her on CNBC she was one of the few who went out of her way to thump prog talking points.