It's The RUSSIANS AGAIN !

Sanders stands a 40 % Chance of being Nominated
for the Democratic Party .
Now he is being smeared as being  part of a Russian
plan to get Trump re-elected ?

Claims that the Russians were trying to interfere in U.S. elections to help the Democratic candidate beat the Republican was a constant themea of the Far Right for as long as one can remember .(1)>>Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming !. Good movie, and the absurdity of it is directly applicable to the continuing ridiculous attention given the fear of Russian interference, Russia’s election interference by the way never happened , so lets stick to the nerative that they did  in 2016 , it launched a trend of accusing politicians of being foreign assets. The fearmongering over Russian election “interference” might be the most destructive moral panic in American political life since the Red Scare. (2)>>BUT IT WORKS !!!! SCARE THE VOTER NOT TO VOTE !!!. Now it's in the oppsite direction . The Russians "helped" Trump😜 We heard four years of it , we had countless investigations combing for evidence , then we had (3)>>Hillary Clinton accusing Tulsi Gabbard as being a " was a favorite of the Russians" . Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said that Hillary's accusations were were reminiscent of insults hurled among "schoolyard cliques." Gabbard, who is among the contenders vying for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, referred to remarks that Clinton, the former Secretary of State and senator from New York, reportedly made about Sanders in a new documentary. Now what comes around in a new twist , Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is now among those who’ve been accused of such thanks to a viral tweet. The accusation that Sanders is in Russia’s pocket—which he has vehemently and repeatedly denied—has been around for a while. Early this morning, before most were awake, “President Sanders” started trending on Twitter. This served as an opening for some to revive the rumor. On  ABC News released an interview in which Robert O'Brien, Trump's fourth national security adviser, said he had not seen👉 “any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected”.  the Post reported that Sanders, Trump and “lawmakers on Capitol Hill” had been briefed about “Russian assistance to the Vermont senator” this year, but said it was not clear what the effort involved. In a statement, Sanders said: “I don’t care, frankly, who [Russian president Vladimir] Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: Stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do".The Washington Post piece is thin on specifics, which should lead us to believe the story is a politically motivated leak meant to slow Sanders’s momentum. The latest round of this endless disinformation, as reported by The New York Times, is a supposed intelligence leak that the Russians are at work once again sabotaging our election, trying to reelect Trump this time. Helping Bernie is SO LAUGHABLE that it SCARES ME 😂, you would think that the American public would fall for this stuff . So all this  (3)>>endless disinformation seems to be coming from our American Government .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming !. Good movie.  The Demonrats started the "Russians are coming" stupidity immediately after they knew Hillary lost! But There is a good movie with the same title that I love , it was pretty funny about  a Soviet submarine runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.What a wonderfully farcical concept this movie is. Given the general hysteria of the 60's and 70's about the Cold War, coupled with wonderful acting by all, including the children, this movie is a tour de force. I recently re-watched this after the passage of many years and forgot how hilarious the movie is from start to finish. I especially love Alan Arkin's performance---I didn't realize until recently that he was of Russian ancestry and spoke fluent Russian. (I wasn't paying close attention to the fluency of his Russian and the Russian pronunciation of the other cast members who portrayed the "Russian Invasion Force" on that island community).And his broken English accent is just out-of-this-world. What a wonderful actor he was, along with Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, Brian Keith, and the others. Those 4 in particular are sorely missed and were quite special as artists. There's something extra special about watching a movie of such great caliber after the passage of so many years, especially in light of where we've been in light of geopolitics, with added maturity and new insights, and with the sudden tensions all over again in Ukraine, Crimea, and post-cold war Russia.Yes, Russian meddling accusations, next film : James Bond From Russia With Love.... (2)>>BUT IT WORKS !!!! SCARE THE VOTER NOT TO VOTE !!!.   It’s so ironic they flip out on fake accusations of Trump Russia collusion and then turn around and look to Bernie freaking Sanders to save them lol… man these people are DUMB. This whole situation is no doubt highly confusing to many people. Why would Russia be supporting both Trump and the man who is currently leading the Democratic primary campaign? The mostly conservative narrative about election fraud is pervasive, though unfounded: voter fraud is at nearly zero percent in the United States. Sanders is known and admired for his class-based economic advocacy, and radical ideas as Medicare for All, for illegal immigration, and for free health care for illegal immigrants, and how exactly would you expect Americans to pay for that? Bernie is a perfect Russia-bate material for both Democrats and Republicans to demonize him so easy. Sanders accepts the Socialism label and says that to him the meaning of socialism is something like the New Deal vision of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Most Democrats reject the label and say they believe in capitalism tempered by regulation and a welfare state. And Sanders’s vision of welfare state expansion goes a lot further than most Democrats. Now that Russia scaremongering is in full swing. The Fear of Trump being reeclected in 2020  is renewing Russophobia sweeping Washington and the halls of power in the leftist, corrupt media is not about Russia. It is about stopping the Trump agenda. (3)>>Hillary Clinton accusing Tulsi Gabbard as being a " was a favorite of the Russians". Of course the Russian Government didn't want Hillary to win the election in 2016. She had a history of being openly hostile to Russia and was involved in the NATO encirclement that included fomenting a coup in Ukraine to oust an elected President. Putin made no secret of the fact they he preferred Trump but the few thousand dollars of Facebook ads and the feeble attempts by the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg to troll social media could not have been enough to affect the election. Hillary Clinton is the one who was clearly responsible for her own defeat by running a terrible campaign and using the DNC to assure that no other candidate could win the nomination. She alienated progressives and independents to the point where 46 million eligible voters didn't vote. That wasn't Russia's fault.       (3)>>endless disinformation seems to be coming from our American Government .  Every presidential campaign sees its share of spin and misdirection, but this year’s contest promises to be different.  Disinformation, now known as fake news, has tainted public discourse for ... to make a fake or doctored story appear authentic and consequential. .. Russia "helping" Bernie Sanders is a wallop of a tale that just proves that Russia never meddled in the US election in 2016 or 2020 , but it is nothing more than political mudslingging at its best . Former Vice President Joe Biden said [ FOR EXAMPLE ]  that Russians have worked to block him from winning the Democratic nomination while favoring Sen. Bernie Sanders, though he admitted his claims were not based on anything he had been told by intelligence officials.  Biden's statement shows to what extant that government officials like Biden would carry such an outrageous tall tale to influence the public thought , spreading fear among the voters in the US and scape goating Russia again .

The Roger Stone Mystery .

Roger Stone has been The Penguin in
our political system for a long
time .

Roger Stone is a (1)>>"big" mystery man in politics that spans decades into the Nixon era. Stone's modus operandi has always been to carry himself as a garish fashionista, unfurling his peculiar clothing ensembles in D.C. social circles and dark alleys alike, demanding attention and then, when he gets it, micturating all varieties of toxic carcinogenic slag onto whoever was dumb enough to return his call.. He might just be the phantom of the political opera . Still, there is also a sense that Stone has fooled the media into thinking that he’s a puppet-master when he has actually played only a bit part. Get Me Roger Stone takes its name from one of Stone’s few moments of genuine self-awareness. “First they say, ‘Who is Roger Stone?,’ then they say, ‘Get me Roger Stone,’ then they say, ‘Get me a Roger Stone type,’ and finally, they say, ‘Who is Roger Stone?,’” Stone says. It’s a good encapsulation of the transience of fame, of the political variety and otherwise. But Stone’s fluctuating relevance also gets at the documentary’s main problem, which is that it seems uncertain if Stone has engineered our bad political moment or is merely a symptom of it. So here is some crazy stuff on Roger Stone, first off. So this guy was Investigated and charged by a Republican, who was appointed by a Republican AAG, who was appointed by this Republican President, and then prosecuted by a Justice Department also under control of a Republican AG appointed by this Republican President... but all that was due to politically motivated Democrats? (2)>>In regard to his sentencing, the government submitted a 26-page sentencing memorandum explaining

why DOJ believed that a sentence of seven-to-nine years was appropriate.It recounted how Stone SOMEHOW  lied to Congress, concealed important documents, engaged in elaborate planning to execute his scheme and threatened physical injury to potential witnesses. When all these factors were analyzed under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Stone's conduct met offense level 29 -- which yields a guidelines range of 87-108 months, or 7.25-9 years.Under the Sessions policy, requesting a seven-to-nine-year sentence was suggested, unless the prosecutors concluded that a departure or variance was appropriate. No such variance was deemed appropriate in this case by the career prosecutors. I think the national security implications are so severe that Barr may have gone too far and may be trying to save himself, because he knows Trump could backstab him like he does with everyone else. Roger Stone is a mystery all unto himself .  Stone is a prolific writer of political books for the last decade . Stone got his start in politics at the tender age of 19, when, as a campaign aide for President Richard Nixon’s reelection committee, he donated to Pete McCloskey, one of Nixon’s Republican-primary opponents, on behalf of the Young Socialist Alliance, an organization that advocated leftist politics and was avidly against the Vietnam War. Stone then leaked news of the “donation” to the press to make it appear as if Nixon’s opponent were in bed with socialists. Later, in the general election, Stone hired a Republican operative to spy on the campaign of George McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee.Stone first worked with Trump in the 1980s, lobbying on his behalf of his businesses and later exploring a 2000 Trump presidential bid. He joined Trump’s 2016 campaign early on, and continued to provide outside support throughout 2016. He peddled conspiracy theories through sites such as Alex Jones’ InfoWars.  (3)>>Stone emerges perhaps being "pardoned" by Trump. Is this  man responsible for what ails the country—or, in his parlance, what is making America great again—Stone appears to be exiled from both the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s inner circle. Recent events suggest Stone is still playing a role in Trump’s presidency, but it’s just as likely that Stone is writing himself into another political story. In fact, his penchant for media attention got him fired from Trump’s campaign (Stone claims he resigned). His attachment to the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seems born of loneliness more than anything else—Jones will have him when no one else will.  Stone would later immortalize his Nixon fandom by tattooing the disgraced president’s face on his back. He has said he sees parallels between Tricky Dick and Trump: “They’re both interested [in] what works and in getting things done.”

Roger Stone has written a number of books and articles . You can find them at Roger Stones website :  https://www.stonezone.com/

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>"big" mystery man in politics that spans decades. Roger Stone is a New York Times best selling author. He is a legendary American political consultant and strategist who played a key role in the election of Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. He was also instrumental in the 2000 Florida recount responsible for the election of George W. Bush. He has been a friend, confident and advisor to President-elect Donald J. Trump for 38 years. His new book The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution is available in stores this week.Stone’s mostly conventional work for Reagan is presented as a precursor for the creation of the lobbying group Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which would become infamous for representing some of the world’s worst dictators and human rights abusers. The film moves at a brisk pace when dealing with Stone’s backstory, and that’s a shame only when dealing with this chapter in Stone’s life, which may very well be his most important endeavor. Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly helped transform Washington, D.C., and American political culture in more insidious and overt ways than Stone’s other claims to fame, with the exception of his role in creating the Donald Trump we know today. (2)>>In regard to his sentencing, the government submittedIn regard to his sentencing, the government submitted . Stone’s alleged crimes stem from his contacts with WikiLeaks, which during the 2016 race released stolen e-mails from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. According to a January 24 indictment unsealed after his arrest Friday, Stone appeared to act as a kind of liaison between “Organization 1”—widely understood to be WikiLeaks—and the Trump campaign, discussing with senior officials “information [WikiLeaks] might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign.”He was also instructed “by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases” by WikiLeaks, according to the special counsel. Stone, the indictment continues, subsequently sought to impede federal investigations into the matter, lying about his interactions with WikiLeaks and about evidence of those interactions, and attempting to “persuade a witness to provide false testimony to and withhold pertinent information from the investigations.” (3)>>Stone emerges perhaps being "pardoned" by Trump. Trump commented on Stone's original sentence recommendation calling it a "horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!" The president said publicly this week that he hasn't given it any thought, but a round of high-profile pardons and commutations this week was seen by many as a message intended for Stone and other Trump associates facing prison time.  During a Thursday speech in Las Vegas, Trump said he believes Stone could be exonerated but would not make a decision on pardoning Stone right away. Trump is obviously a somewhat unpredictable figure,so it might happen not too soon .

THE NEVADA DEBATE OVERVIEW.

Looking AT Billionaire former New York City Mayor (1)>>Mike Bloomberg’s performance in his first Democratic presidential debate was so bad that it may be the “beginning of the end”I was pulling for Warren but I'll take Bernie. In fact I'll probably even vote for him in the primary in hopes that it swings him an extra delegate.  If warren drops out after Super Tuesday, she can essentially give her delegates to Sanders. If she drops out before then, she can't.Edit: The other issue is that one candidate may falter for one reason or another and having the other candidate having already dropped out will result in absolute disaster. We need both to run until the convention IMO. BUT MY LAUGHTER . (2)>>The Nevada Debate helped expose the Democratic Candidates .  The infighting shows that they have no political unity .The multiple exchanges — Sen. Amy Klobuchar against former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren against former Vice President Joe Biden, Biden against Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sanders against Buttigieg, and so on — created a free-for-all that actually looked like a debate. Or maybe a prize fight, as Klobuchar said at one point.The cacophony had one clear result, however. Like most of what has happened in the last two months, it bolstered the prospects of Sanders, the Vermont senator who is the current front-runner. The debate was a two-hour crystallization of the inability of any of his rivals to emerge as a single, clear alternative. The harshest attacks came from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who said Bloomberg was a “billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’”Later, Warren called on Bloomberg to release female employees from nondisclosure agreements.In response, Bloomberg said, “None of them accused me of doing anything other than — maybe they didn’t like a joke I told.”Do you think Elizabeth Warren took her leftovers out this morning and heated them up in the microwave, or did she just eat the rest of Bloomberg's heart cold? Bloomberg, who has bet his entire campaign on those March 3 primaries, rode into Wednesday’s debate on an unprecedented wave of advertising funded by his vast personal wealth. He hoped to portray the race as already a two-man fight between himself and Sanders.Meanwhile, Bloomberg had a devastating night, and post-debate polls will show whether his support is as soft as his rivals believe it is. Many voters likely learned for the first time tonight that he endorsed former President George W. Bush for reelection, made offensive comments about women, used nondisclosure agreements to keep allegations of sexual harassment at his company quiet, and on and on & I think that Bloomberg was burnt . I see that his first debate may be his last , but Bernie too was exposed for being a socialist he is. (3)>>Bernie though is a "rich socialist", no way better than the billions of Bloomberg .A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed that two-thirds of voters are uncomfortable with a socialist candidate for president, which could be a problem for Sanders. But when asked about it, Sanders pointed out that he was leading in that very poll.“Let's talk about democratic socialism," Sanders said, adding: "We are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, 'We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.”In the footrace between Biden and Sanders, then, Bloomberg has effectively screamed “I’m here to help!” before leaping onto Biden’s back, slowing the front-runner’s already feeble momentum, even as Sanders continues to race forward without impediment. If the senator from Vermont ekes out a primary victory over a divided and disjointed moderate coalition, the establishment could well fault Bloomberg for helping to nominate a socialist.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Mike Bloomberg’s performance. Bloomberg is so catastrophic for this nation I just can't much forewarn that  he would be much worse than Trump . Bloomberg learned that running for president is harder than it looks. YOU CAN'T BUY IT $$$. The other candidates have been campaigning for the better part of a year and had participated in eight other debates before. Bloomberg hadn’t — and it showed. He did seem to get more comfortable after the first hour, so perhaps the next debate will be better.  Bloomberg’s plan isn’t just based on his certainty that Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too left-wing to win a general election. It’s also is predicated on a certain Biden Hypothesis. Biden is Nominated That hypothesis goes something like this: Despite his standing in national polls, Biden is a weak and possibly doomed front-runner. But that could be, Not? Bloomberg  on the other hand could fall under the out of touch Trumpian Billionaire Syndrome . If Biden sweeps most of the early states on his way to a delegate majority, he will pretty much explode this theory. (2)>>The Nevada Debate helped expose the Democratic Candidates .  If you are a presidential candidate at this stage of the campaign and you aren’t helping yourself then you’re hurting yourself and losing ground. The other candidates on stage didn’t help themselves – and that means they hurt their prospects. (3)>>Bernie though is a "rich socialist". Bernie Raised $2.7 Million after the Nevada Debate.  Wall Street Democrats’ worst nightmare seems to be coming true: The momentum of a self-declared socialist who threatens to make health care accessible to every American and pledges to combat climate change while creating green, union jobs is looking increasingly unstoppable. Scroll through the Twitter feed of “centrist think tank” Third Way these days and you’ll get the sense that doomsday is fast approaching. He’s “the definition of unelectable.” Covering everyone’s health care costs through Medicare for All is a “toxic” idea. We have to “beware the ‘pixie dust’” that the way to win is by increasing turnout among people of color and youth. There is “nothing more scary” than nominating a socialist for president.

The New Hampshire primary. AND VIRTUAL UNKNOWNS.

(1)>> AFTER The Iowa Caucus was a debacle . For the uninitiated, the New Hampshire primary is not over, but it did start at midnight this morning when three small (very, very, very small) townships in New Hampshire cast their votes for the primary per tradition.A strong New Hampshire finish can breathe new life into the top three candidates’ campaigns. Those who finish lower will find the primary to be another nail in the coffin. Biden was never favored to win NH. It's his overwhelming lead in SC he wants to protect and Nevada was a toss up. Then go into Super Tuesday hoping to extend a l ead. With him dropping in national polls, even if he doesn't finish first, he might finish first in a brokered convention if someone doesn't get the majority of votes.Even if Buttigieg won NH, it wouldn't make his campaign viable. And losing doesn't make it less viable. He needs states like SC/NV to show he can bring in people of color. Pete just polls really well with white people. (He honestly shouldn't be this close in Bernie's backyard either but there he is...)Well you could have a Bernie win in which the Democratic party goes down the McGovern 1972 lane and loses in a landslide or Bernie loses, and there is some remotely valid claim that foul play by the establishment did Bernie wrong, and you have a massive infight and the Democratic party implodes, or possibly divides into two parties, one socialist, and one establishment.   As much as I like "crazy"  Bernie, i think electing him might be a mistake... for no other reason other than, he'll be damn near 80 (a month or two?) the day he'd be sworn in. I've never bought into the whole 'he's too old' narrative in the past with other candidates; but Bernie would be far and away the oldest president going in by a huge margin, he may be spry but i'm not sure if he'd be able to serve out 4 or 8 years. Following the 2016 election, most of the conversation about online fraud and manipulation focused on foreign actors. But many experts believe that domestic disinformation is now the more urgent concern.  It’s easy to imagine Democrats who might have run in 2016. There’s Biden and Warren COINCIDENTALLY (adverb) now running again ? I thought it is a bit fishy???Sanders is running on a nearly identical platform, a greatest hits catalog of his progressive policy items, many of which have been adopted by his rivals. But the magic of his 2016 New Hampshire effort hasn’t fully returned. In recent weeks, Trump and his allies have echoed the claims from 2016 of a "rigged" process and suggested the Democratic Party is currently conspiring against Sanders, who was leading in the RealClearPolitics polling average of Iowa surveys heading into the caucuses.

Pete Buttigieg a "warning".

While Buttigieg is on the arise as I waould say , he could at any moment drop out . There is alot of contrasts this election among the Democrats starting with a huge amont of diversity . Right now its a domino effect with many candidtates droping out of the race . There could be one man and two of the women left before , or just before November . I suspect that the (2)>>nomination is going to Biden . Why I say this ? There are "factors" in the Democratic DNC (2.1)>>that might be working against Buttigieg . It’s difficult, however, to see either Buttigieg or Sanders winning the nomination. BUT I AM not going to say that I am right either .  But here is dirt now. Pete Buttigieg received private and direct hiring advice from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg—advice the presidential candidate .He and Buttigieg are friends,  share friends, as well as an education—they both completed their Harvard schooling in 2004, Zuckerberg as a sophomore departing for Silicon Valley, Buttigieg as a magna cum laude graduate headed for Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Zuckerberg might setting up his own way of meddling in an election with his "friendship" with the FaceBook founder . BUT that is my own thoughts to this. The Iowa chaos has something connected to Buttigieg in a app that  was created by a for-profit technology company called Shadow, Inc.—not exactly a name aimed at discouraging conspiracy-mongers—which, in turn, is owned by a big-bucks non-profit called Acronym. Oh, and Shadow, Inc. was also hired by the Buttigieg campaign.  Buttigieg's appeal hasn't charmed Warren, Biden, and Sanders' constituents. Biden's supporters had 14.2 percentage points less affinity for Buttigieg, and Warren's had 6.3 percentage points less. Among Sanders supporters, Buttigieg was less favored by a hefty 18.2 percentage point difference compared to Democrats on the whole: a higher margin than the Sanders constituency had for any other rival. (3)>>WHO DROPPED OUT ? Name worthy.. So far we have Yang dropping out , Cory Booker, Julian Castro ,Beto O'Rourke . I feel that something is up . I think that Yang quit because he may have guessed who is really geting nominated . So Far , I am sure that Tulsi Gabbard is next , but don't see her out as much yet. Tulsi might be fighting towards November . There's always 2-3 of these candidates in each election. They magically hit a nerve with the public and then after getting wider exposure, people take a much closer look and then step back.

NOTES AND COMMEWNTS : 

(1)>>AFTER The Iowa Caucus was a debacle. The Iowa caucus was run by/for the Democrats, and used a new counting system where the vendor was selected based on their political acceptability, not technical acumen . New Hampshire is a true primary, not some computer game. We're sticking with the exact same balloting/counting system that has been used for the past 4+ presidential election cycles.  so the Iowa Democratic Party announced how many of the national delegates they're going to be giving each of thecandidates after their sham messed upbotched election the Democratic Party went out and they've they've come out and said you know what that's okay eventhough we're gonna be doing a recounteven though there's some issues with the reporting and issues with the numbers   They were going to use the same app as in Iowa, but after the disaster that happened there they abruptly decided to use paper & pencil instead, and report the results via telephone.Except . . . they were going to introduce early voting (which would begin this Saturday) via the app, and now that they aren't using the app it's not clear what the plan is to incorporate those early votes. And all the training of the caucus workers has focused around training them to use the app, with no backup plan.So there's going to be caucuses where the organizers are trying to count people actually present as well as account for the paper ballots submitted by early voters (which may or may not have been filled out correctly) and somehow incorporate those at the same time.Now they do have a couple weeks to try to figure out a plan, but my best guess is that it's going to go about as smoothly as Iowa did. (2)>>nomination is going to Biden .  There’s a reason political pundits usually make predictions as late in the game as possible. A few days can be a lifetime in politics. Biden’s done a better job undercutting his own candidacy than any of his opponents ever could have — and his support has hardly budged. Even if he flubbed. What makes Biden’s durability look sustainable is that he hasn’t been a great candidate. Far from it. His debates have been cringeworthy. His level of mentality is no worse than Bernie's . It is also unlikely that the DNC is going nominate Bernie because of his "Socialist" label . As FAR AS I CAN FORESEE,  is that Biden will have to pick a Woman VP = Warren or Amy just to pick up the Democratic Womens vote.  Another factor "sadly"  (2.1)>>that might be working against Buttigieg . I want to say that Buttigieg's big problem will be with the Christian Evangelicals , he being gay plays a factor in a large WAY & why it is unlikely he will be elected President .  Remember too I might be WRONG , so for the past decade Americans put radicals in office like Obama and Trump , but WHO is to say that Americans would elect an openly gay President ??? . I know READING this , you might say I am being bias , but I SENSE it. It would be so politically akward from an international presepctive that America will elect it's first openly gay Male President while side stepping the elction of a Woman in the Oval Office . YES →👉 I PREFER to have a woman in the office as President. This could change how America is precived in the world .  (3)>>WHO DROPPED OUT ? For Democrats, the moment was thick with promise for a party that has seized major gains in states since Trump won the White House in 2016. But instead of clear optimism, a growing cloud of uncertainty and intraparty resentment hung over the election as the prospect of an unclear result raised fears of a long and divisive primary fight in the months ahead. The 2020 fight has already played out over myriad distractions, particularly congressional Democrats' had pushed to impeach Trump, which has often overshadowed the primary and effectively pinned several leading candidates to Washington at the pinnacle of the early campaign season.

February 2020 O·pin·ions

The Corona Virus. OR CAPTAIN TRIPPS?

There  just a whole list of "uncanny" things surrounding this virus. I remember reading Stephen King's The Stand about a bio weapon that somehow was leaked out of a Military Base in America , this virus is so deadly it kills people rapidly . (1)>>The Stand named the deadly flu Captain Tripp's  . Not to make anyone panic here. (1.2)>>There are a number of things about this virus that should be investigated by the US Government . I think it was man made , someone had some accident in a Wuan Virus Laboratory , let the genie out of the bottle. I for ONE DON'T TRUST the Chinese Government . Very coincidental I'm sure. World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, a move that to some felt belated. Note that as of now, the WHO has not declared this coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency. But the speed and severity of China’s reaction, taking the unprecedented step of cordoning the city of Wuhan, is enough to lead worry-warts to think officials might know something they haven’t yet ‘fessed up to. Even though Wuhan is a provincial capital, it has a population of 11 million and 600 to 800 daily flights, including direct flights to San Francisco, Tokyo, London, New York, Paris, and Moscow. The Chinese measures are on the order of halting air, train, and other public transport travel from New York City right before Christmas.  As of Tuesday, there were more than 6,000 confirmed cases of the virus, with 300 people dead. The center of the epidemic, and still the location of around a third of the cases, is Wuhan, in the central province of Hubei. Other cases have rapidly sprung up worldwide— If you think that Coronavirus was some how created by a dirty open market in China , or some one eating raw Bat meat in a soup who got sick of Bat rabies in Wuan China just laugh

😂!Nobody wants to hear the truth on this stuff, and everyone refuses to acknowledge that in fact, more than 300,000 people have become infected, and the 'confirmed cases' and counted number of deaths are way behind the curve. Videos are getting out of Wuhan, and the deaths are already in the thousands there. But no, we have to wait for 'official confirmation' from some bureaucracy who doesn't want to stir a 'panic.' Sheesh. Just lets keep letting all planes fly out of China and across the world, and ships transverse the oceans, with a virus that has a much higher transmissive rate (proven above RNaught of 3) than the prior Sars, or Spanish ever did. And worse its transmissible for 5 to 15 days after someone has been infected, and no SIGNS at all are showing in the infected. China is keeping a huge lid on all of this, and their prior history of giving real facts on these situations was negligent and way late. They aren't building 100,000 new hospital beds for nothing. MSM is sad, and while they are so quick to accuse Trump of all these fake frauds, they totally ignore or even dismiss a life threatening crisis already migrating across the world fairly rapidly.

Is TRUMP IMPEACHED YET ?

When I heard that Trump was heading for an acquittal . I was not in a mood to shout HIP HIP HURRAH ! , but there is something so disappointing about the whole Trial that sought to remove Donald Trump from office just before a election . ITS the WASTE of Tax payer money about 30 million dollars were burned on this fiasco [ sham] just like Mueller Investigation burned 40 million . A huge waste of the American government . I WAS HOPING that Trump would be Censored . Congress with the Senate battling the House Democrats may have missed a point . While I agree with how Trump was caught soliciting aide from a foreign government as constituting to a certain point , but subject to legal interpreting that " High Crimes and Misdemeanors" were committed . AS I have said that I thought that Trump was a bit hawkish by digging up dirt on a rival , he should have known himself that his Telephone calls were being under surveillance , his political enemies were waiting for him to fall into a trap . Trump is a political Oxymoron , he will do things that are crazy . That is why I believe this attempt to remove him from office without (2)>>invoking the 25th Amendment was fatal to the Democrats , yes really really Trump is unfit for office . There were numerous instances that he showed signs of a psychological meltdown. I love his meltdown with Nancy and Schumer where Trump threatened to shut the governmnet down over the border wall . Yes , just crazy for us normals here . But that was alas too!.... There was another issue that stuck out with a sore thumb at year 2017 was paying off Porn Star Stormy Daniels, a few other women during the Campaign that was indicative of a crime of some sorts , but again , alas it was swept under the rug . So it seemed to me Democrats botched the whole impeachment. My own guess here is that the Democrats rushed the whole thing way too fast before the election while Trump's ratings were climbing . Another factor that puzzled me is that the Trial witnesses gave testimony before there was any kind of trial , and the prosecution aka Schiff was giving the media information about his own intentions . That may have thrown the whole thing under the legal bus. Nancy Pelosi should have known that the Senate Republicans were not going to move an inch to remove him , she may have wasted millions of dollars just to get him out of office . Before Friday's session of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial began, the spotlight was on four moderate GOP senators Democrats hoped would vote with them on allowing new witnesses, but by evening, after days of arguments meant to persuade the Republicans, Democrats had lost the crucial issue by a vote of 51-49 For witnesses .NOW THE  UPDATE !!!!   😆 TRUMP WAS ACQUITTED !!!!. So what the hell went wrong with the Impeachment ? I can only say that it was a bit over done by the House to get Trump , there was  at least nearly 4 years of investigations , testimonies , Mueller Reports . Yes, I think with all those Senate Hearings they could not nail the ultimate crime to remove Donald Trump from office,  it was so much drama that wasted the entire American political system .

SUPER BOWL THOUGHTS.

What a game it was to see your team not win . But It is OK for now . Here is the buzz about the whole game , it raises a lot questions . Jennifer Lopez and Shakira had social media buzzing last Sunday night. However, not everyone was feeling their performance — or attire. If you’re ready to roll your eyes all the way into the back of your skull, let’s take a journey, shall we? A pair of stunning women, both over age 40, took their world-renowned dancing and performing skills to the biggest stage of all — (3)>>the Super Bowl Halftime Show.  I have never seen a cheer-leading squad perform like JLo and Shakira or wear dominatrix inspired uniforms like JLo's jumpsuit . Maybe JLo and Shakira should have performed like NFL cheerleaders? No one would be having these conversations. The one does not excuse or justify the other. The concern is about timing, and what was appropriate for young children and families with parents that were completely caught off-guard.  Commenting on his Facebook page last Sunday, evangelist Franklin Graham noted that he did not expect the world to act like the church, but the nation nevertheless should have the decency to protect children during prime time television. What I am saying on this , I am a bit puzzled that some women commentators have suggested (3.1)>>that Lopez pole dancing somehow "empowers women" . Don't understand that , never will . While the half time show was just eye candy for a vary disappointing game for the 49ner fans .

State Of Union . Ripping Yarns.

When Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, tore a copy of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in half. What a show it was  , after Donald Trump "refused" her handshake . I don't blame Trump for refusing to shake Pelosi's hand , after all she was responsible  and called for his impeachment, and removal. BUT The WHOLE THING MADE HISTORY !!! . A women Speaker of the House , the First really  for Congress .  (4)>>She RIPPED one for sure.This has to be the REAL BATTLE of THE SEXES if you look at from a hindsight . I feel sorry for Nancy Pelosi , you know she has some serious problem that with her dealings with Trump exposed her own weakness to the mob . But that is one of the HIGHLIGHTS of the State of the UNION .  I was jumping out of my seat when Trump awarded Rush Limbaugh ,  the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. I said REALLY . I think Trump would have drawn more critical fire if he gave to ALEX JONES or Michael Savage . These are the right wing SHOCK JOCKS of radio that for decades shaped the current Republican Party .  Another one had me scratching my head , but IT showed how the Democrats really are when it comes to the fact that they support "regime change wars". Trump threw a crub ball at the State of the Union suddenly Trump then looked up from the podium to acknowledge  (4.1)>>Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan lawmaker the U.S. recognizes as the country’s legitimate leader, as the room stood and cheered. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who previously sat silently, stood and applauded alongside Vice President Mike Pence.  Juan Guaidó, sorry , but he was never REAlly  elected  by the Venezuelan people .  Again Guaido is nothing but a US puppet that the Trump administration is using to overthrow Maduro who was rightfully elected by the Venezuelan people. So far , Trump's State of the Union made fools of the Democratic House when the Senate chanted "four more years .....". WELL it was all over for now .
THE IOWA HACKED CAUCUS!

The A.P. had announced this past Thursday afternoon that it would not declare a winner in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation contest, but the allocation provides new clarity about the accumulation of delegates that are necessary to win the Democratic presidential nomination. (5)>>Pete Buttigieg holds a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses with the Iowa Democratic Party announcing on Thursday night that 100% of precincts are reporting.REGARDLESS who won . There were  troubles . The Iowa Democratic Party announced later Saturday that it was reviewing reports of irregularities from 95 precincts — 5% of the total 1,765 precincts in the state. The spectacular failure of a mobile app that was supposed to forward caucus results  -- which are still not out, as of this morning -- is a striking example of how faulty technology can spark questions about election results and create an opening for misinformation and conspiracy theories.  Technological failures of the Democratic Party's phone system and of an app introduced to aid the voting process are being blamed for the delay, which Iowa Democratic Party Communications Director Mandy McClure has said was definitely not caused by a cyber-attack. Precinct chairs reportedly experienced difficulties when trying to download the app and when logging in to report voting results. Phone lines designed to act as a back-up were subsequently overrun, with some precinct chairs reporting waiting on hold for over an hour to report results.  (6)>>The app was built by Shadow Inc., a small company based in Washington, DC, at a cost of $63,000. According to a report in the New York Times, the app had not been tested by end-users and precinct chairs had not received training on how to use it.More details have emerged surrounding the delayed results of the Democrat Iowa caucuses and issues regarding an app, created by former Clinton operatives Shadow Inc., used to tally votes. The app was created two months ago and was not vetted before the vote, OAN reports. One America's Marty Golingan has the latest.The Biden campaign general counsel Dana Remus sent a letter to top Iowa Democratic Party officials demanding "full explanations and relevant information" for the "failed" systems the IDP deployed for the caucuses. It's quite obvious what's going on here--we've seen it before. Bernie is being robbed again . I don't know who was pulling the strings on this one, but one does have to look at who benefits and who had access to strings. Biden benefits from the loss not being the headline of the election reports. Pajama boy benefits from the trickling out of results. If it turns out that Bernie has the win, and that Pete got featured as winning for days after, I gotta say that looks suspicious too.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>The Stand named the deadly flu Captain Tripp's  . It's been a long time since I read The Stand, but from what I gathered, it was just a dumb "cool" name given to the superflu. I don't think it was ever specifically explained in the book. Not sure if King's ever clarified on the origin outside of the book tho'. The superflu virus is highly adaptable, shifting and changing constantly, making medicines useless against it. At best, medicine only briefly holds off the inevitable. No vaccine was ever developed for it, before or after its escape from the lab where it was created, as its constantly-changing nature made a vaccine impossible to create. The fact that it was designed as a biological weapon is another reason for the lack of a cure; it was supposed to be unstoppable, as anything less would have limited its ability to kill swiftly and efficiently. Interestingly  Zero Hedge’s Blog past Wednesday coronavirus story — “Is This the Man Behind the Global Coronavirus Pandemic?” — focused on the Chinese scientist who researches the coronavirus. Zero Hedge linked to a Wuhan Institute of Virology press release from January 2019 that says the scientist was studying why bats who carry the coronavirus don’t get sick from it. What the Zero Hedge article does not state is that studying a form of a virus strain found in animals is a standard way to make vaccines, whether for the flu or polio.(1.2)>>There are a number of things about this virus that should be investigated by the US Government .  The virus first presented in Wuhan, China, as pneumonia. Because a large number of patients with the novel coronavirus had recently gone to the Huanan seafood market, it emerged as a possible source and the market was shutdown on January 1, 2020. However, a report published in The Lancet, a well-regarded peer-reviewed medical journal, found that of 41 cases studied, 13 were not associated with the market. “No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases,” the report said. This sort of uncertainty around when and where the virus first struck is not abnormal. But it opened up an opportunity for conspiracy theorists to formulate an alternative narrative: that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had created this virus as a biological weapon. This notion has been shrugged off by scientists, who say that the virus occurs in nature and doesn’t appear to be engineered—and that a highly communicable virus does not make for good biological warfare. (2)>>invoking the 25th Amendment . On 2 November 2016, reporter Ann-Derrick Gaillot argued that a Donald Trump presidency — still only a possibility at the time — could be cut short thanks to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution In 2017, for example, Trump triggered questions about his stability when he tweeted he has a bigger "nuclear button" than Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Even if the vice president and a majority of the cabinet were to decide to invoke the amendment, there is an appeals process. The deposed president could inform Congress that he is, in fact, capable of carrying out the duties, and it would require a two-thirds vote of both the House and the Senate to reject that determination and remove him — a burden even higher than impeachment, which requires only a majority in the House as well as a two-thirds vote of the Senate for conviction and removal. (3)>>the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Given its history, the Super Bowl halftime show has long been buyer-beware. If you’re the kind of person who is likely to be offended by any display of human sexuality, then at this point it’s on you not to watch. Aforementioned Jackson moment aside, it was only a year ago that Adam Levine performed almost the entirety of his show without a shirt on — which is inherently more sexual than anything Shakira and Lopez did in Miami on Sunday. Still, Smart goes so far as to suggest future Super Bowls come with a warning in the event the sight of a woman’s body is more than viewers can handle.(3.1)>>that Lopez pole dancing somehow "empowers women".  I'm not sure how that empowers women, but I'm not going to waste much time worrying about it. We had a 50-year-old woman, almost naked, pole dancing, exposing herself like a piece of meat for drunk males during the Super Bowl sure it makes sense , and so march on femninists!(4)>>She RIPPED one for sure. Nancy's face says: "I LIKE being naughty". I agree 🍻. What does this prove? Everybody knows where she stands - why look like a fool? It’s like she’s tearing up a parking ticket she’s pissed about getting. She lot and Trump got aquitted ,kind of childish, not the act of a stateswoman or someone working n a global stage..... It’s what a five year old toddler would do having a tantrum. Trump is a clown, get it, but you can’t call one person out and give others a pass on their behaviour.  (4)>>Juan Guaidó. Nicolas Maduro is Venezuela’s legitimate democratically elected and reelected president.The country’s process is scrupulously open, free, and fair, a model for other nations. Polar opposite to America’s fantasy democracy, the best money can buy. Coup d'états reflect longstanding US policy since the 19th century, numerous Latin American countries (among many others) targeted successfully and unsuccessfully. Juan Guaido is Washington’s latest designated puppet to serve its interests in Venezuela, a little known National Assembly head outside of the country, catapulted from obscurity to international prominence.According to the Wall Street Journal, “the night before declared himself interim president of Venezuela, he received a phone call from Vice President Mike Pence” – pledging to back his illegal power grab. In the highly informative expose, “The Making of Juan Guaido,” Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal, report that as a student, Guaidó strongly opposed Venezuela’s former president Hugo Chavez and supported the 2002 coup attempt against him.  He backed Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), the privately-owned rightwing radio station, that played a key role in fermenting the 2002 coup by helping mobilize anti-government demonstrations, blaming government supporters for attacks on anti-government forces and blocking pro-government reports about the coup. Guaidó graduated from Caracas’ Andrés Bello Catholic University in engineering in 2007 and went on for a graduate degree in the governance and political management program at George Washington University.  At GW, he studied under the Venezuelan economist Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia, a leading Latin American neoliberal economist.(5)>>Pete Buttigieg holds a slim lead over Bernie Sanders. A Buttigieg aide told CNN on Saturday that the campaign had submitted their claims to the state party. The Massachusetts senator also handed over information before the deadline, according to Mandy McClure, the Iowa Democratic Party spokeswoman. And Sanders’ campaign announced Thursday that they had submitted data to the Iowa Democratic Party. The campaign also released a host of irregularities publicly. Pete Buttigieg. The former South Bend mayor paid Shadow Inc. over $42,000 in July of last year for software rights," OAN reports. (6)>>The app was built by Shadow Inc., The app that has left the results of the Iowa caucus a shambles reportedly was designed by Shadow Inc., an outfit comprised of a group of political operatives and technology workers who have previously worked for Hillary for America and Obama for America. Shadow, a small Washington, D.C.-based company, built a mobile app that appears to have caused problems during the Iowa presidential caucuses, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Those hiccups had already caught the attention of conspiracy theorists who noted that Shadow received tens of thousands of dollars last year from the presidential campaigns of Democrats Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg. Those payments were simply for use of the company’s text messaging technology. Indeed, one Democratic operative from a campaign that used Shadow said that they had done so for the purposes of peer-to-peer texting, with the goal of wracking up $1 donations to help their candidate hit the donor threshold to qualify for Democratic debates.