I would lunge for the remote at 7 pm to cut away from MSNBC and fuck up his ratings...
Former vice president Joe Biden’s support in the Democratic presidential nominating contest has long been a function of his robust backing from two particular voting blocs: black Democrats and Democrats who self-identify as moderate. Those groups have more overlap than you might realize.
The Minnesota senator told staff she's exiting the 2020 race the day before her home state primary.
According to Fareed Zacharia, Bernie's Scandanavian utopian dream is not what he claims. He may even believe it, but if he does it is because he has not done the research.
Sanders’s vision of Scandinavian countries, as with much of his ideology, seems to be stuck in the 1960s and 1970s, a period when these countries were indeed pioneers in creating a social market economy. In Sweden, government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product doubled from 1960 to 1980, going from approximately 30 percent to 60 percent. But as Swedish commentator Johan Norberg points out, this experiment in Sanders-style democratic socialism tanked the Swedish economy. Between 1970 and 1995, he notes, Sweden did not create a single net new job in the private sector. In 1991, a free-market prime minister, Carl Bildt, initiated a series of reforms to kick-start the economy. By the mid-2000s, Sweden had cut the size of its government by a third and emerged from its long economic slump.
This also struck me, considering his absolute hatred of the 1% here in the USA:
Take billionaires. Sanders has been clear on the topic: “Billionaires should not exist.” But Sweden and Norway both have more billionaires per capita than the United States — Sweden almost twice as many.
Helpful on the "fear of the unknown" thing. (Doesn't sound exactly like "hell" to me, sounds like when I've had really bad flu in my life, but that's me.) Suggestive that the Chinese are giving out anti-virals like candy for this, that his whole family got some whether that sick or not. If that is indeed helping, wonder if we have anywhere near enough if our outbreak gets as bad and thinking about possibilities of drug cos. blackmailing insurers on that front...
By Graham Rayman @ NYDailyNews.com, Feb. 28
[.....] A common thread in the lawsuits is they almost all involve low-level busts that are eventually dismissed, Legal Aid lawyers said. In most of the cases the people arrested were subjected to spending 24 to 48 hours in jail and then months of waiting for their cases to be adjudicated. In some cases, people lost their jobs because they repeatedly had to miss work, according to Legal Aid [....]
“New Yorkers should not be policed by cops who have been sued for misconduct half a dozen times or more in a single year," said Corey Stoughton, attorney-in-charge of the Special Litigation Unit of the Criminal Defense Practice at The Legal Aid Society.
"What’s worse is that because of Police Secrecy Law 50a, New Yorkers will never be able to learn how, if at all, the NYPD is responding to this epidemic of police abuse of power,” added Stoughton, referring to the state law which the city has interpreted as barring the release of police personnel records, including discipline cases.
The NYPD said lawsuits against police officers have fallen. “That a lawsuit has been filed does not mean that the claims have legal merit, or that officer misconduct has occurred,” said Sgt. Jessica McRorie, an NYPD spokeswoman.[....]
By Greg Bluestein @ AJC.com, 1 hr. ago
DeKalb County chief executive Michael Thurmond will endorse Mike Bloomberg at a rally on Friday, giving the former New York mayor’s presidential bid a boost from one of the state’s most prominent African-American officials.
Thurmond is set to announce his support at a noon “Mike for Black America” rally at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, where he will be joined by former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Bloomberg’s Georgia operation has aggressively courted Thurmond, a political pragmatist who is one of the more influential Georgia Democrats.
he 67-year-old was the first African-American in modern Georgia history to win a statewide election without first being appointed to an office – as state labor commissioner in 1998. He announced earlier Thursday he would seek another term as the top elected official in DeKalb, which has more Democratic voters than any county in the state. [....]
