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This will likely be Trump's new talking point soon (and sadly many will eat it up).

6 minutes ago, xtr said:

Another NBA player,  a talented young player named Donovan Mitchell has now tested positive for Coronavirus. Jazz players have said that Rudy Gobert has been careless in the locker room touching players and belongings. 

 

 

I hope that Donovan recovers from this and that no other player has it. But now that two players have it's even more concerning. All of the Jazz players were tested last night. It's unfortunate that Rudy was irresponsible like this. 

I read that he was touching mikes too - not sure if that's true or not. Either way I feel terrible for everyone involved. I read that Mark Cuban is going to try to start a fund for all the people who will be put out of work. I hope it happens.

2 hours ago, marceline said:

 

I honestly don't think anyone is still interested in the debates except the Berners. This thing is over for most others. We're sitting here in the middle of a pandemic and a stock market crash and Bernie's supporters are still trying to negotiate concessions for the fact that they lost. I think the debate is going to be a mess. Since there's no audience, the anticipated applause lines won't take and after last night's pathetic display by Toupee Fiasco people I think most of us are just like, "Can we focus on what matters now?"

It's a win-win for both sets of cultists. They can feel morally superior as Biden can't answer the way they want, and clips can also be thrown on Twitter quickly to show other examples of his cognitive struggles. I wish he wasn't doing it, to be honest. 

I do think Bernie knows it's over, even if his followers don't (or can't admit it is because they still need to con people for cash).  He said on Fallon last night that he does think Biden can beat Trump. Many of his followers are upset and want him to take the gloves off. They will continue their foaming at the mouth once he drops out, I'm sure, but he's smart enough to see the exit door. He just wants to leave with dignity and the right payment. 

I don't really think Biden's speech will be up to much today, but whatever happens I hope McConnell refusing to support legislation to help fight the virus will show Biden that the days of trusting or working with Republicans are long gone. 

The sad thing is so many are so easily swayed that even now, with the stock market crashing again today and more and more sick and dying, Trump still has a heavy amount of support for his lunacy. 

5 hours ago, Khan said:

 

I doubt the average American takes it seriously even now.  Not when people are convinced 1) you can catch this thing from drinking Corona beer or 2) you can catch it from eating Chinese food.

I think some are taking it seriously but it depends on their political views. I have one relative who is liberal and works in the medical field and they are trying to keep on top of everything, are giving everyone advice, and being helpful. Yet a family friend who is right wing and also has experience in the medical field sends memes about it being a hoax and says there's nothing going on and it's not fair how daily life is being impacted.

I notice that Chris Hayes, Bernie lover, is pushing Joe Rogan's interview with that man who is saying things like the virus is airborne (if it was that simple I'd think cases would be even more widespread). Rogan is a hardcore conspiracy theorist and  a close friend of Alex Jones. That the media is pushing these views is very dangerous. 

7 hours ago, Juliajms said:

It pisses me off. His supporters were the first to tell other people to drop out. Bernie should do the same now that he basically has no chance. Get behind the nominee. Of course those hypocrites won't, just like they didn't 4 years ago.

I agree, but I've decided Bernie isn't worth the energy. He's an old egomaniac grifter doing what he does best. I'm annoyed at the money that will have to be spent but at least his cultists will be able to spend time working for him (or being assholes on Twitter) rather than going around rioting the way they say they plan to do. I just wish these people could be purged from any role in the party or at the convention. 

(I will say it's been hilarious seeing them clutch their pearls over Biden's outburst a few days ago when it basically epitomized everything they've said Bernie is supposed to be)

7 hours ago, Khan said:

Imagine if Barack Obama had encouraged Joe Biden to run for president four years ago.  Imagine where we'd be right now, instead of where we actually are.  As always, I'm just saying.

 

Frankly, I don't view the 2016 vs. 2020 numbers so much as proof of sexism amongst voters (although, I'm sure it's present) as it's proof that Hillary Rodham Clinton was just the wrong kind of candidate to put up against, well, anyone.  The media AND the GOP performed a decades-long hit job on the woman's reputation that paid off in the long run.  Plain, and simple.

I think Obama, like many of us, assumed a "safe" conservative was going to get the nomination - no one ever could have imagined Trump would be more than a vanity candidate. Beyond that, I think a fight against Hillary (who had supported Obama after their bitter primary and was seen as deserving her turn) would have been draining and vicious and would have torn the party apart. 

I've always been nervous about Biden running, then and even more now. I don't think I had anticipated just how shaky this year's slate would have ended up being. 

In an ideal world Kamala would have been given more of a chance, and had a different campaign, but of course that's not where we are.

I did read some of AOC's comments that Vee included. Not to be condescending, but I do feel like she has had a wakeup call over the last few months. She's not the same person who went out last year and told everyone that Bernie made her everything she is. I have to imagine that his truly toxic campaign people and the way they have badly damaged a movement which should have been in a much stronger position might have been a factor.

Bernie will do what is best for his brand, as he always does. I don't really care. He's an old con artist and narcissist to the end and the people who surround him are even worse. In this case I can't be that shocked because I think even he knows that his endorsement is not going to make much difference.

I had to hear last night all about how everyone needs to listen to Van Jones (the man who told us how Presidential Trump is) because Jones said that you need to reach these people who feel so disenfranchised, and on and on. It's time to accept some people can't and don't want to be reached. I was reading an article a few days ago about young socialists in Ohio who said they would vote for no one but Bernie, but it wasn't really about him anyway, politics won't fix anything and on and on. They are not Democrats, they don't believe in systems, and they don't really want anything that will challenge their worldview. These voters can't be reached. Most of the Bernie voters can't. There's no point in trying. Many Bernie supporters are currently on Twitter gloating about Trump winning in November and saying they want old people to die from COVID-19. Let them continue to have their bubble and focus on people who actually give a damn.

I think it will make him look bad with a lot of people who vote based on guns, but they weren't voting for him anyway. I notice a lot of Bernie supporters have been pushing it today, along with "Demxit" and Jill Stein tweets and claims they will form a new party. 

I just hope they stick to their word and go. They're toxic waste and the party will gain nothing by trying to appease them like they did in 2016.

More of the shitty Bernie bros, this time assaulting Symone Sanders. 

I'm just hoping the governors will be able to do enough but that's a very naive hope.

Earl Pomerantz, writer for many of TV's classic eras of comedy, has passed away. He kept up a blog for most of the last 5-6 years, with many different thoughts. 

http://earlpomerantz.blogspot.com/

Funny seeing the seething over this. I was never going to vote for him but the sheer hypocrisy (especially from Bernie people who said nothing when he went on Jimmy "hair ruffling" Fallon) and the bitter self-loathing gay rage that so many like Dale Peck, Masha Gessen and Ben Mora have for him makes me hope he does well.

23 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

So Steve Bullock is running for the senate in Montana. A huge boost and another senate seat realistically in play.

 

https://stevebullock.com/

All thanks to Obama. And after that, Joe Biden winning SC and Super Tuesday. 

I read a few days ago that Collin Peterson is running for reelection to his MN House district. He's a very conservative Democrat, but they will likely lose that seat when he's gone and we're going to need every see we can get. Something else that wouldn't have happened without Biden winning.

I've been rewatching old SNL episodes in time with a blog that recaps them, and one is from spring 2001, with the repulsive Charlie Sheen. Toward the end of this they have another of those interchangeable wacky Molly Shannon characters appearing on Y&R. Chris Parnell is playing an actor on the show. They only say "Eric," but he seems to be doing an Eric Braeden impression. This is already slower than it normally would be because the uploader slowed it down for copyright reasons, but that combined with Parnell's low-talking and lack of energy makes me laugh. 

It starts about 52 or 53 minutes in. 

Last ten minutes of a Larry Semon film (also starring Oliver Hardy) found. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stop-look-listen-silent-film-170500148.html

Linda Gray did several short tourism videos for Dallas last fall. I don't want to clog up the thread so I'll just post the link to the first.

Carole Shelley (RIP) and her delicious hamminess being in the middle of these episodes never fails to crack me up.

Christine Jones was absolutely phenomenal in this story. You can't take your eyes off her and you can't help feeling sorry for how broken Janice is.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

So, Ted Cruz is going to self-quarantine?  I'm not going to say what my first thoughts were about this.

With Republicans in charge, everything is screwed.

So is Paul Gosar, apparently.  

Bernie endorsed and campaigned for Jackson in 1988 so I guess in some ways it's returning the favor. And they do share more of a view on social matters than he probably has with Biden. 

Disgusting that grifter Jill Stein is still peddling her trash, and people are eating it up. The recount fund she used to pay for her legal fees was a bigger con than any "DNC conspiracy" - that Bernie cultists are still supporting her speaks volumes. 

I know if it had ended up that way it would have been incredibly ugly on social media, but I still wish the last two could have been Warren and Harris.

This is what Brown supporters were doing in 2012:

At least Bernie supporters are being very open now about their true feelings. 

This is so surreal...

8 minutes ago, Chris B said:

She already turned Obama down for AG so I don’t see that happening. She’s made it clear she’s been there and done that. I’d say either VP or Secretary of State or she’ll stay in the Senate where she’s very effective. 

That makes sense. I'd wondered about AG because there's so much garbage to untangle from the last 4 years. 

Very nice. I don't know if I really want her to be stuck in a VP role (not that it's up to me) but she would make a great AG.

Some of those replies were really something - I think my favorite was jeering that she was "angling for a book deal," even though she's a successful author already. 

I saw Joel Kim Booster in there fighting with people as well.

Bernie just breeds toxicity. 

Just now, Roman said:

bamboo chairs and tables....huts instead of mansions....and the entire Newman and Abbott family on Gilligan's Isle....

On the plus side, the lighting will be very dark and we won't have to see Trump or his flunkies.