"President Donald Trump visited Phoenix, Arizona for a rally Wednesday night, February 19, 2020. The rally was part of his 2020 campaign and took place on the same night that the Democrats are hosting their latest debate. The venue, which holds at least 14,500, reached capacity and overflow space was needed for what looked like thousands of people outside. Read on to learn more and see crowd and overflow photos and videos from the rally."
https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/trump-phoenix-arizona-rally-crowd-photos/
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"Michael Bloomberg: The first hour of the debate was an absolute and total disaster for the former mayor. He looked lost at times -- and those were the best times for him! Warren dunked on him repeatedly. Sanders slammed him. Biden bashed him. It was like watching a pro wrestling match where everyone decided to gang up on a single wrestler in the ring -- and that wrestler was totally and completely caught off-guard. Bloomberg is still very, very rich -- and will continue to spend his money on the race. So he's not going away. But it's hard to see how the momentum Bloomberg had built through his heavy ad spending wasn't slowed considerably by a performance that slid waaaaay under what was a very low bar of expectations."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/who-won-democratic-debate/index.html
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Trump had his usual experience of a filled stadium with an overflow crowd watching outside on the big screen, content to be near him.
In Las Vegas the attacks on Bloomberg were ferocious. His inability to deal with other humans as though they were his equals was spectacular in its naked visibility. He seems to think that his statement of availability + his expenditure of a billion or two insures his election. It was clear that he does not think his magnificence should be questioned.
There has been an excellent mini-series on George Washington on the History Channel this week. One of the points made about him is that after winning independence from Great Britain all he wanted from life was to be allowed to go home to his farming business and his SWMBO. He was reluctant to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and even more reluctant to accept the presidency when it was universally demanded that he take it. HE DID NOT WANT IT. The contrast with Bloomberg could not be greater. BTW, Bloomberg hates guns. Washington armed his male adult slaves with firearms so that they could act as a posse to defend the property against thieves and hunt for themselves and for his own table.
Some particulars:
1. Bloomberg is revealed as having said in public that all the disposable income of the poor should be taxed away so that they will not have funds with which to do mischief like buying fast food or sugary drinks.
2. Bloomberg described Sanders as a Communist who cannot be elected. In this he was correct.
3. Bloomberg was described by Warren as a cold-hearted and insulting man who openly scorns women, gays and minorities.
4. Mayor Pete mocked Klobuchar for her inability to remember the name of the president of Mexico. She asked if he was calling her "stupid."
These six dwarves will probably persist in their quest for the brass ring all the way to the convention. In the mayhem there, the "winner" will probably have to choose one of the "losers" to be his VP running mate.
This should be fun all the way to November. pl
akapatience
Some of it was her property but he was an excellent businessman and bought much of it himself.
Posted by: turcopolier | 21 February 2020 at 12:41 PM
TTG
If that were to occur I would look carefully at the probabilities.
Posted by: turcopolier | 21 February 2020 at 12:43 PM
Watched the Washington mini-doc in a hotel room in Savannah. I enjoyed the show, but ugh, that WJC mug with that shit-eating grin marred it for me. Saw the cannons downtown that Washington donated to Savannah. Very moving to stand by the balcony where Lafayette gave his speech from Owens-Thomas House. So much overlapping history, mind-bending irony and pathos and ugliness packed in one place. Probably everyone here knew that Lee's first assignment out of West Point was to Cockspur to build Ft. Pulaski. I didn't. No time to see everything. Missed the Mighty Eighth and the Georgia State Railroad museums.
Posted by: casey | 21 February 2020 at 12:55 PM
Col., TTG, if it's Bernie-Tulsi we could expect her to succeed him as I don't see him surviving the stress of his first term, at which point she'll have even less allies in office than Trump. Better the devil we know and maybe he'll have sense enough to offer her a cabinet post or an advisory role even if unofficial.
Posted by: Fred | 21 February 2020 at 01:29 PM
casey
Yes, to have a cowardly money-grubber like Clinton comment on Washington was a bit much. And, it is interesting to see that Powell seems to have acquired his FY money.
Posted by: turcopolier | 21 February 2020 at 03:24 PM
@Upstate - so much misinformation in yr short post:
-nope - it's medicare for all.
-what you miss is that single payer healthcare REPLACES profiteering health insurance, and gives the government leverage to reduce drug prices, for example - why does insulin cost 30 times as much in the US of A than in Canada? It's unmitigated greed and profiteering on the backs of people with a permanent health condition. Banting and Best GAVE their patent for insulin to the university of Toronto for general non-profit distribution because they were motivated by service to humanity rather than greed. IN what ethical system is greed other than a sin?
-SO overall healthcare costs per person will go DOWN when you take out the inefficiencies and profiteering of the cartels.
-"6 months to see a cardiologist"? Utter BS. My cousin in Ontario Canada went to his doctor feeling logy, had a stress test, and the next day had a stent installed. There are few waits in Canada for urgent care. Elective surgery, yes, you might have to wait longer but it won;t cost you an arm and a left testicle.
It amazes me how much health cartel propaganda has infected peoples' brains.
Posted by: divadab | 21 February 2020 at 06:20 PM
What's one to make of the rumblings in the press that the Democrats are thinking about 'investigating' DJT'S Presidential Pardons, and using this premisis for another round of 'Impeachment' trials in the House.
Posted by: J | 22 February 2020 at 07:47 AM
divadab,
Bismark's Germany did not have 20,000,000 illegal immigrants insure. "REPLACES profiteering health insurance" Great, what will all those people do since Bernie is going to close down the firms they work for? When do we extend "profiteering" to auto insurance companies, social media companies, banks, private universities?
Posted by: Fred | 22 February 2020 at 11:06 AM
The Twisted Genius. Sanders/Gabbard. God I hope you're right. The 30 somethings we know would be behind that in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Brad Ruble | 22 February 2020 at 12:01 PM
Fred & davidab,
I would like to extend abolition of profiteers, beyond all forms of insurance, to include home builders and grocery stores and farmers. You can't have good health or security without food and shelter. How dare they try to make money of those absolute necessities of life! Food and shelter are a right.
Posted by: Eric Newhill | 22 February 2020 at 12:35 PM
Eric,
I demand the right to shade! We must tear down those high rise buildings.
Ah, good to see a judge is already on the case:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/200-amsterdam-tower/index.html
Posted by: Fred | 22 February 2020 at 05:48 PM
Fred,
Yes. Shade is a basic right! No one in this country should be exposed to the cancer causing rays of the sun!
So are clothes.
Now that I think about it, it's really amazing how few logical steps it takes to go from capitalism to government provision of all of the "basic rights". Pretty soon we're all walking around the people's potato farm in those grey Mao outfits.
Posted by: Eric Newhill | 23 February 2020 at 09:41 AM