2020 news: @SenKamalaHarris is planning on sending staffers to Vermont this month to test the waters for a possible campaign operation. She would be the first 2020 candidate to challenge @BernieSanders on his home turf. w/ @KitNorton #vtpolihttps://t.co/pL8QSngMY0
— Xander Landen (@xanderlanden) July 12, 2019
Vermont’s been considered a high-risk, low-reward state — “only 16 primary delegates out of 4,690 nationwide”, chosen on Super Tuesday when the media attention will be on bigger prizes. And Sanders is popular with his constituents, if only because he’s familiar (and their expectations are low). But if Harris is running a fifty-state campaign, putting a VT marker down now would seem the smart move. If there’s local interest, she’s in a position to expand as the race heats up (and it’ll draw media attention!); If the new office doesn’t do well, best to get it out of the way early.
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Speaking of late-night weirdness, and the Green Mountain state’s senator…
All billionaires are the problem – unless they blew smoke up my ass and gave me a sweet sword to hang in my office. https://t.co/dUJlyKau6X
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 9, 2019
Bernie celebrating a conservative billionaire giving him a toy sword for sharing his regressive, 19th C robber baron trade policies is giving me life
— Dreadful E (@EvilCEOE) July 9, 2019
Listen I’m not saying the core of the take reactor exploded but I think Bernie’s strength comes from the magic sword he received from a goblin. https://t.co/vjY2gWBfqT
— DSA DNC Caucus (@agraybee) July 10, 2019
Doug R
Kamala is SERIOUS.
Paul T
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprrQ1OLW6g
Keith P.
So, Alan Dershowitz is going to be in the news for just a tad bit longer.
Choice quote: “I kept my underwear on during the massage. I don’t like massages particularly.” The new “I didn’t inhale,” courtesy of Mike Tyson’s rape attorney.
NotMax
“My precious.”
– St. Wilmer
:)
MomSense
@Keith P.:
Bet his underwear has a fly.
Fuck fucking Dershowitz.
NotMax
Harris to open a Burlington Vote Factory?
NotMax
@MomSense
Not at all outside the realm of conjecture that his underwear was older than the girl(s) massaging him. //
opiejeanne
@NotMax: EW! I did not need that visual.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Could have gone the rest of my life without this visual
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: Great minds, and all that.
plato
@NotMax:
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MomSense
@NotMax:
This is the worst timeline.
mrmoshpotato
All the best to Senator Harris!
And to hell with Wilmer. As I replied to one of his phone banker’s texts. “Wilmer 2020? I thought after losing an election you were supposed to fuck off to the forest and take up knitting.”
Got me removed from his phone list. :)
trollhattan
@Keith P.: @MomSense:
Sooo, if the average age of an Epstein girl is thirteen
and Dersh’s massage was from an “old, old Russian”
[does some math]
Maria Butina!
It would be irresponsible to not conclude Dersh’s happy ending was courtesy of the FSB.
Aleta
VT in July … her staffers can go swimming after work, eat cheese by a waterfall, rent bicycles or jet ski past Bernie’s place on the waterfront
.
Mike J
Ka Ma La!
Ka Ma La!
Ka Ma La!
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: *sighs* “We built such a large prison so we could bury all these fuckers under it.”
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: Why do you hate Maria Butina?
Kay
I could never get past my basic problem with Bernie’s “electability” which is this: he had to win the primary. I don’t know why losing that election wasn’t a bar to his being considered hugely “electable”. It seems to be happening again, he’s electable but not perhaps ELECTED, so obviously I’m missing something.
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Is hair is not really red. Making redhead daughter very mad. Also, too much loving the guns. Knocking that off now, Maria.
Villago Delenda Est
Big Media Matt is getting on my nerves with this “electability” bullshit, seeing as Wilmer lost the 2016 primary decisively.
Kay
So just assume for a minute it was all true and Hillary Clinton and DWS engineered a coronation which meant Bernie was the only challenger. Isn’t that “advantage Bernie”? Because he did run and he did quite well and the Clinton/DWC conspiracy acted to effectively clear the field. For Bernie. Who had no other competition. And isn’t doing as well with more competitors.
I just can’t imagine sticking with this theory if he loses another primary, because he will have tried it w/coronation conspiracy and without coronation conspiracy and WITH went BETTER.
Mike in NC
Shitbird Bernie, doing everything he could since 2016 to get Fat Bastard reelected.
sdhays
@Villago Delenda Est: If Matt wants to argue that Bernie is electable, I’d like to see him document, in detail, all of the other positive statements he made about the USSR and the pictures of Bernie’s honeymoon there and explain how some Trump voters will still be ok with him.
If Bernie wants to be the nominee, he should be vetted appropriately.
NotMax
@Kay
“You say potato, I say kartofelina”
– Bernie! the Musical
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mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Why do you hate that the Brewers lost tonight? :)
mrmoshpotato
@Villago Delenda Est:
You mean by getting beaten like a rented mule by 4 million+ votes and had no chance as early as May 2016?
Adam L Silverman
@Keith P.: @MomSense: He’s a commando kind of guy. Also: EWWW!
http://mvmagazine.com/news/2008/08/01/going-au-naturel
SWMBO
@Adam L Silverman: There isn’t enough brain bleach in the world….Next you’ll be telling us that Trump is a nudist.
The Dangerman
@Keith P.:
Shocking (I figured he was a Commando kinda guy).
ETA: Dammit Adam!
mrmoshpotato
@SWMBO: Careful what you “wish” for. :)
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
My comment back today from a Ted Steyer email was along those lines, but I didn’t say what I was thinking, “Ted, go the fuck away.” Did say we didn’t need any more fucking billionaires as president. OK that’s still true even if the one we have now isn’t a billionaire.
Adam L Silverman
@Kay: His strategy, which he delineated Wednesday night on Maddow’s show, is that because of the number of candidates competing in the primary, even if it is down to only five or six by the time the voting starts, that there will not be a clear, majority winner in each primary. And, as a result, it will only take a plurality of votes in each state’s primary to become the nominee. And the Sander’s team strategy is that they can accumulate enough votes through getting the largest or second largest plurality in each of the primaries and, as a result, become the nominee.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Presume you saw what’s linked within here to a certain noxious nugget of news.
Adam L Silverman
@SWMBO: I do not know and I do not want to know.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I saw it reported earlier. Feel the Joementum!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus:
Tom’s brother?
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Can’t help but wonder if they were wearing matching I ♡ Ahmed Chalabi shirts.
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Scotian
May the Sanders campaign die an even swifter and uglier death than I am. Yes, I know bitter and biting but has been so deserving since his poisoning of the political well post April 2016 IMNSHO.
On my own report, been feeling the chemo hit which is why so little since last update. Was able to stay up with my wife to watch Captain Marvel, which we enjoyed both for the movie and for spending time together.
So have a good weekend all, and my own prayers go out for all those fighting the concentration camps at the rallies.
Adam, I really appreciate your concern for me, you as I’ve noted before are a major reason I kept reading and occasionally writing to this blog when I essentially stopped because of my parents health failing in early 2017. I find your analysis work always worth the read, so to me, being held in regard by such a person carries a special warmth for me at a time it truly matters.
Well night all, that has me just about to crash for the night. Take care and be well.
Mike in NC
@Scotian: Best wishes to you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
…and nothing else. Ewwww!
Elizabelle
@Scotian: Night night, Scotian. Sleep tight.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Scotian: Glad you had some restful time with your wife, get some rest.
NotMax
@Scotian
Pleasant dreams, if dreams there be.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
His 100% identical twin brother who can’t spell worth a damn but has the same bank account balance.
Cacti
@Villago Delenda Est:
Anyone who thinks red diaper Bernie is electable is either high, delusional, suffering from head trauma, or some combination of the three.
Yutsano
@Scotian: Much love and healing light to you and your family. May your treatment be easy.
Immanentize
@Scotian:
Sweet sleep and pleasant dreams, Scotian.
rikyrah
@Scotian:
Thanks for checking in. Sending you positive thoughts ??
laura
@Scotian: Warm regards Scotian.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
BWHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHA
yeah, sure – an 80 year old Socialist is electable. .
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
“aren’t most drug dealers, black” ~ Bernie Sanders (S-VT)
If he’s wasn’t a waste to time, Kamala would cut him to pieces.
sukabi
@MomSense: bet he’s lying about the underwear AND the masseuse being an old Russian woman.
Amir Khalid
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Wilmer said WHAT!?!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Amir Khalid:
“In a September [2015] meeting with Campaign Zero, a movement formed out of the Ferguson protests, activists asked Sanders why, in his opinion, there were a disproportionate amount of people of color in jail for nonviolent drug offenses. Sanders, seated across the table, a yellow legal pad at hand, responded with a question of his own, according to two people present: “Aren’t most of the people who sell the drugs African American?” The candidate, whose aides froze in the moment, was quickly rebuffed: The answer, the activists told him, was no. Even confronted with figures and data to the contrary, Sanders appeared to have still struggled to grasp that he had made an error, the two people present said.”
satby
@Scotian: keeping you and your family in my thoughts Scotian. ❤
satby
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: his supporters still maintain to this day he’s not a racist or misogynist in spite of all evidence to the contrary. Fortunately, the only supporters I know are now old white guys since most of the youngs have moved on to better candidates.
MomSense
@Scotian:
Hugs to you, Scotian.
Ella in New Mexico
@NotMax:
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
New zinger for bad jokes : “That one’s as old as the crust in Alan Dershowitz’s underwear”