The Democratic Zoo vs the Orange Showman

1.  Bernie Sanders is a Marxist who is not afraid to stand up in public for himself.  His honeymoon in the USSR is not likely to be forgotten.  He is a communist fellow traveler who has become a member of the rentier class.  He wants to abolish private health insurance.  Really!  De Blasio and AOC, two more open Marxists are on his team?  Really?

2.  IMO Elizabeth Warren is an obvious serial liar who reminds me of a second grade teacher with enthusiasms for projects that the little children had better get on board for, or else!  Another millionaire in socialist clothing.

3.  And, there is Mayor Pete, the darling of the Wall Street population and all the world's bankers.  Somehow the creatures of the coastal cities don't understand that the American electorate is not ready to elect a cute, openly homosexual man who will live in the White House with his husband and child.  It is not going to happen this time around.

4.  Amy Klobuchar - An obscure Mid-Western senator who shows signs of an idealism that might be a problem for the professional pols.  She might do something not in their script.  

5. Mikey Bloomberg - The People's Party is going to put forward a guy worth over $60 billion?  Really?  If that were not bad enough, the man has a long history of total ineptitude in human relations involving blacks and women?  Really?  Watch him try to mix with ordinary people in crowds.  Sad.

6.  Hillary?  Old Deplorable herself?  Trump beat her once already in the Electoral College, where the fraud in California's popular vote did not matter.  A lot of people loath her.

7.  Tulsi Gabbard.  God bless her. I would vote for her but the Gays and the Zionists are both against her.  This is not going to happen.  

8. Tom Steyr - Ho hum.  A taller version of Bloomberg, he made his money by investing in coal mines and now is a fanatic "climate change" guy.

9.  Joe Biden.    He was asked by Jorge Ramos "why did you and Obama lock up so many illegal kids on the border?"  He replied "we were taking care of them."  IMO he is and has always been a crooked, not too smart politician from a very small state.  Hell!  In Delaware you can know most of the electorate personally.   He is done.

All of these folks are addicted to private jets that they hire if they do not actually own one or two.  Naughty!  Naughty!

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And! On the other side we have the orange man.  He will be quite happy to run against these guys.  BTW I doubt that he has a billion in cash.  That is probably why he doesn't want to release his tax returns.  He came into office with little understanding of the differences between government and business and still knows little about that.  He wants to believe that everyone in the Executive Branch is his personal employee.  He is wrong about that.

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BTW.  McCabe IS NOT "off the hook."  The particular charge DoJ is not going to try him for is the least of his problems.

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Ah!  The Bonfire of the Vanities.  pl 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/texas-dems-sweat-bernie-sanders-ticket-110524

Comments

[confusedponderer]

Here are IMO amusing news about the fortunately soon former US ambassador in Germany Grenell.

I wrote about him here two posts before. So, what to do with an "ambassador" so annoying that no body listens to him anymore (i.e. who is an utter failure so to speak)?

Well, it depends on what are perceived as qualities.

I recall that not that long ago Trump's daughter Ivanka was, apparently seriously, proposed as head of the World Bank, qualified with a cum laude bachelor in economics. Fortunately a job she (wisely?) 'rejected'.

In light of that it shouldn't surprise that Trump "solved the Grenell problem" in similar way:

He promoted Grenell to be the next national intelligence director (replacing Joseph Maguire), a position in which he will be 'directing' 16 US intelligence agencies (CIA. DIA, ONI, Air Force ISR Agency, MCIA, NSA, NRO, NGA, FBI, DEA, CGI, OIA, INR, OICI, OIA). Congrats, I think. Grenell will then also be responsible for ... the content put in Trump's President Daily Brief.

What qualifies him for that? Well, he has a bachelor in Government and Public Administration, a master in Public Administration, was a FOX commentator - not to mention him being a noisy US ambassador. Grenell will probably accept the new job with the greatest most grandest grandiose humility ever ever (perhaps "GreMoGraGraHuEvEv"?).

I think it is a good advice to Grenell that insiders said that "keeping it really short, blunt, many pictures" works best with Trump. And never speak the two evil words 'climate change'.

As we in Germany learned during his ambassador time - blunt he surely can, even though he didn't quite get the diplomatic part of the job. Also, he is IMO very unlikely to be blunt to Trump. Whether he is particularly skillful or knowledgeable about intelligence things ... no comment. IMO his focus is more political, a thing likely more important for Trump.

At the moment there is carneval here (Kölle alaaf!) and I saw a guy costumed with a black leather jacket that had a big "FU" sticker on the chest and above that a silver eagle with the text "Fly High". My thoughts were "Darwin Award Candidate?" and "Well, better don't fall too deep then".

Since Grenell is going to be the fourth man on his new position since Trump took office, he probably should wear bulletproof vest, parachute and helmet. It's a position with a short half-value.

[Fred]

Confused,

The tree amigos, Fiona Hill, Marie Yavonovich, and Gordon Sondland, were for some completely unknowable reason not available for the job.

[Keith Harbaugh]

sundance has an interesting perspective on
the appointment of Grenell as ACTING DNI:
"A Possible Inflection Point – ODNI Ric Grenell…", 2020-02-20:

Within minutes the media intelligence apparatus
displayed apoplexy at the announcement.

All of the right administrative state interests
are visibly triggered by the appointment;
and it appears this could be a key turning point
in President Trump’s push-back against
the permanent intelligence apparatus
that has targeted his administration for three years.

An earlier Trump/IC conflict occurred when ill-fated Michael Flynn,
while he was serving on Trumo's transition team,
was quoted as being very unhappy with the intel. briefings the IC was giving Trump.
I can't help but wonder if the defenestration of Flynn
was at least in part motivated by
the desire to prevent Flynn,
who certainly knew A LOT about the U.S. intelligence community,
from having a position of real power over it.

Further motives for the way Flynn was treated
were, no doubt, the facts reported in this Politico story:

“Lock her up! Yes, that’s right, lock her up!” Flynn shouted,
his visage amplified to colossus dimensions by the huge video screen behind the podium at the Republican National Convention,
where he was calling for the imprisonment of his former colleague, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Before millions of television viewers, Flynn led the chants of a raucous crowd during his speech endorsing Donald Trump.
“Lock her up! Lock her up! Damn right! Exactly right!”
Flynn encouraged the chanting crowd.
“There is nothing wrong with that!”

(Do you think all the Democratic apparatchiks in DOJ remember that?
Does a bear **** in the woods?)

Note also this tweet [after Flynn resigned] from [Philippe] Reines:

Reines tweeted “What goes around COMETS around”
and linked to an ad for jobs at Domino's,
“given your pizza obsession.”

(A tweet contextualized in another Politico story).

[confusedponderer]

Fred
re "not available for the job for some completely unknowable reason"

Oh wonder, oh wonder. It is indeed utterly unknowable why they were not available.

Of course, there was that little thing with impeachment testimony that made Trump look somewhat bad over that Trump to go a little fire, fury and severely tweetish.

Trump is out on his impeachment revenge spree. Just to make the pun - Trump is now witch hunting the witch hunters.

He just "asked" a pentagon official to step down. That's a new Trump approach "Fire Yourself!" (wouldn't work in a tv show) - after the man iirc in the impeachment probably honestly dared to contradict the "The innocent Trump is being wickedly witch hunted!" litany of Trump's impeachment lawyer troupe.