Somewhere outside of Barstow…
Still in my snowy advance base (-9 where I am, how ’bout you?) I hit the road today for a meeting in the balmy southern climes where I will overnight and then run some errands before returning with supplies. I’ll be a digital wayfarer with only my micro setup so it’s entirely possible I’ll post nothing but silliness and static until Saturday.
I might have some pre-programmed stuff but that feature has been cranky so who knows?
My prediction is you’ll be seeing the bats soon enough, you poor bastards.
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
Two Winners, Four Losers
One more than the other to be sure. Liz Warren was great and if this doesn’t shift things a little bit her way you were just not watching the same Debate I was.
Sanders was ok, good in spots, I don’t know what people expect him to say about trolling- it’s as old as RBBS and UseNet. You want some blood? You want to see someone fired? Who? Why?
And outside of Communists tending to exaggerate their abilities as Revolutionaries and the Collectivization and State Economy and Gulag and Purges (more Leninist/Stalinist than Marxist) I really don’t have much quarrel with them even if Bernie was one which he’s not by a long shot.
His ideas? 60%+ Support you DLC Blue Dog Third Way Establishment ConservaDems. You’ve done nothing for 40 years except lose. Get it through your thick heads Medicare for All means Medical, Dental, Eye, and Mental Health Care (may have left a few Cares out) is FREE when you receive the Service AND NOT ONLY IS THE INCREASE IN TAXES CHEAPER THAN YOUR CURRENT PREMIUM (which you don’t pay anymore, duh) THIS PLAN IS BETTER! It covers more stuff.
And speaking of losers. I hadn’t quite considered this before, or at least not in the same light, but the naked Racism on display was appalling.
I admit I didn’t think much of it when Harris and Booker dropped out, they were both Corporatists with the usual terrible NeoLib Policies, but wow! Klobuchar defending the fact she never prosecuted a Police Murderer (I mean a Cop who shoots someone dead, not one that gets shot) ever and she threw the book at that young black kid based on questionable testimony and the fact that he was a young black male in Minnesota?
I mean, we knew Buttigieg was a racist when he fired that Black Police Commissioner over… what again? And Not So Joltin’ Joe Biden has been stone cold since Bussing no matter how many times he kissed Obama’s butt. Bloomberg?
Bloomberg!?
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah.
Wait a second.
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah.
There, I think that does it for the moment.
The only reason “Stop and Frisk” was halted is not because Michael Bloomberg had some kind of Road to Damascus Epiphany, he got his ass kicked in Court after exhausting his appeals.
If there was one loser who stood head and shoulders… above? below? hard to say, the rest of the Institutional ConservaDems who represent a mere 56% and shrinking of the Party it was Bloomberg whom Sanders crushed on Communism (sorry, it was the Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Wanderers). and Liz crushed on things like his racism (“This isn’t about how it turned out; this is about what it was designed to do to begin with. It’s targeted black and brown men from the beginning.”), also the NDAs for Sexual Harassment (“fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians” indeed, oh “And I hope you heard what his defense was: ‘I’ve been nice to some women.’”).
Buttigieg and Klobuchar, unable to lay a glove on Sanders though they did ok against Bloomberg who was everyone’s Piñata, settled for bashing the crap out of each other which I was just as happy to see. Biden was an utter non-factor, standing on stage like a Bug-Eyed Goldfish watching the water in their bowl spiral down a maelstrom.
All in all not a bad night. We’ll see what happens Saturday.