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Joe should approach him if he hasn't (and I'll bet he has) and say: Let's go there as friends and do a duet. Let's talk to the country together as allies about our shared causes, about the public's safety re: Corona, their prevention options, and why Trump and the GOP have failed in this global crisis on multiple levels that resonate across the first term of this administration. That's what statesmen do. The public is not going to be here for Bernie trying to score points about progressive bonafides in a race he's already lost in the epicenter of a global pandemic. No mature person is going to be there for that by Sunday; I don't think many are now. He'd have to be insane.

Like September 08, normal politics is now over. If Biden can seize the moment well today (he will be speaking at 1 EST) and not bring up Corn Pop or foxy ladies but do what he does well, things may coalesce in a new way. Frankly, I don’t know why anyone’s still interested in this debate. Both Dem candidates should get up there and speak as one, as friends and colleagues with common cause, speaking as one to the public about this outbreak, prevention, safety, and Trump's poor response. No one electorally viable in this country is down to watch one loser haranguing the man who beat him about leftist policy right now. If Bernie doesn't realize this then he's a fool and has no business being up there on Sunday. This is so much more important than internecine policy debates or his ego. If he wants a remotely graceful and statesman-like finish, this is his answer unless he intends to stream his next ten stump rallies on Twitch ranting to dwindling viewership about the corporate Dems.

It's a bad morning when Savannah Guthrie has you up against the wall. I lived in NYC for many years. Rode the subway every day. I am not an alarmist. This is serious. Dr. Fauci and Angela Merkel are not 'sensationalizing' this story. What would their or the media's angle be?

Oh, I think they are. Even his denialist base will crack a bit. I also think this above all will end Trump's presidency, if we survive it. It's his Katrina, or the '08 meltdown for McCain.

You can only do for you and your people. Focus on that. And take time doing things you enjoy to get the pressure down, at home, safely.

"Jared Von Frankenstein" made me laugh more than it should.

Contagion, y'all. Watch it. I've urged my very social and active octogenarian parents to stay home.

He has to be stopped.

Another very pointed comment in this article worth reading, AOC defending Warren:

I'm telling my parents to stay in. This is going to get rough.

Lord:

I shouldn’t laugh at these clips from some creepy 4chan Twitter account of the Young Turks live broadcast as Bernie loses, but putting the sad Cowboy Bebop music over it is just inspired.