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Monday, August 17, 2020

THIS JUST IN! WHAT HAPPENED TO ELECTABILITY?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

YOU COULD HAVE HAD BERNIE, AMERICA, YOU COULD HAVE HAD BERNIE.

BUT THE SAME LYING MEDIA THAT LIED TO YOU ABOUT IRAQ TOLD TOO MANY OF YOU OLD FOOLS THAT JOE BIDEN WAS MOST ELECTABLE.

Overall, 50% of registered voters back the Biden-Harris ticket, while 46% say they support Trump and Pence, right at the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Among the 72% of voters who say they are either extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this fall, Biden's advantage over Trump widens to 53% to 46%. It is narrower, however, among those voters who live in the states that will have the most impact on the electoral college this fall.

RUH ROH, SHAGGY, ELECTIONS ARE WEEKS AWAY.

GUESS CORRUPT BIDEN, LAZY JOE, RAPIST ROBINETTE, WASN'T ALL THAT ELECTABLE AFTER ALL.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting in the US and starting with Maya Rudolph.

As ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT notes, Maya is willing to play Senator Kamala Harris again. As we noted yesterday, "Oh, no, not Joe Biden."

Last September, Maya played Kamala for the first time on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE>

Audience member: What if Joe Biden gets implicated in this Ukraine scandal in some way?

Senator Kamala Harris: Oh, no. That would be terrible. Not Joe Biden.

That got huge laughs. It fed into a narrative. The same way Woody Harrleson's portrayal of Joe Biden's racism ("Oh and I should point out that it was a segregated pool just to put everyone on edge for the rest of the story.") led to laughter.

Kamala was seen as ambitious. In part because she was a first term senator and in part because she was a woman. Barack Obama was also a first term senator and also had about three years behind him in the Senate when running for the presidential nomination. SNL never did a bit about him being ambitious because it's considered a good quality in a man.

Kamala has done a good job in the last two days in terms of how she's projected herself.

But there's the ambition baggage already laid at Kamala's doorstep and there is the sexism. So if those two points are factored in, any troubles on the horizon?

How about the fact that Kamala looks smarter then Joe, looks more attentive than Joe and looks more capable than Joe?

What do you do when the vp candidate outshines the top of the ticket?

How does that play out with an electorate?

And how does that play out with an electorate that's concerned about a number of issues -- including the pandemic?

Are people going to want to change horses mid-stream?

If the person looks capable, maybe.

But Joe doesn't look capable. He's hidden himself away. He's had one proposal and then another -- he was talking in June about an executive order needed by a president to make masks a mandate and this week he changed it to letting the governors decide and issue. He's done nothing to lead and, yes, he is supposed to be the leader. He's not just the presumed nominee, he's a man who spent decades in the US Senate and then went on to be vice president for two terms. Supposedly, he's spent his entire adult life training for this moment.

And what he's shown isn't impressive at all.

Kamala's attacking Donald Trump. Repeatedly now. For the coronavirus. It should be attack and move on. The longer she repeats the attack, the more people wonder why Joe has had so little to say and when she starts talking about the early days of this pandemic?

Joe Biden and his campaign said it was safe to vote -- deaths proved that wrong. Joe was all go out and vote for me. It's safe.

It wasn't. Joe's history on the pandemic is not a strong one.

And when Kamala hits Donald Trump on this issue, it not only brings up Joe's own bad behavior, it also makes people think, "Wait, for months and months, it's been patty-cakes and now Kamala's going after Trump?" Meaning, "Where's Joe Biden been with the hard hitting criticism?"

Kamala's strong.

Will America let her run as a v.p. candidate at full strength? Will the Biden campaign? These may have been some of the concerns Sarah Palin was getting at when she offered congratulations to Kamala this week and also offered some cautions.

This will be informative, watching this play out. And while gender will impact on how Kamala is seen and how she is received, it's also true that had Joe selected, for example, Julian Castro, many of these issues would be at play -- including Julian being portrayed as ambitious and including Julian having to struggle to avoid outshining Joe. Barring Joe's ability to clone himself or select Dan Quayle as a running mate, any v.p. candidate would have to struggle with trying not to outshine Joe.

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"THIS JUST IN! MORE SUFFERING ON THE HORIZON!"

Monday, August 10, 2020

THIS JUST IN! MORE SUFFERING ON THE HORIZON!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

THE WORLD CONTINUES TO SUFFER AS THE PANDEMIC RAGES ON.

AND THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE. PEACOCK HAS ANNOUNCED AN UPCOMING 'COMEDY' PRODUCED BY TINA FEY.

THE PERSON WHO CREATED "CABOT COLLEGE" FOR FOX (IT NEVER AIRED) AND "FAMILY FORTUNE" FOR ABC (IT NEVER AIRED), "THE KICKER" FOR CBS (IT NEVER AIRED), "THE SACKET SISTERS" FOR NBC (IT NEVER AIRED) IS PREPPING TO OFFER MORE BAD T.V. THIS DESPITE HAVING CREATED THE MASSIVE DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT ARE "UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT" AND "GREAT NEWS."

HOW MUCH UNFUNNY CAN ONE PERSON INFLICT ON A NATION?

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR ONLINE notes:

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters yesterday stormed Dhi Qar Governorate building in the centre of Nasiriyah province to protest against poor public services and corruption, the Anadolu Agency reported.

The agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that tribes in the Al-Fahd district organised the protest, accusing officials of corruption and mismanagement.

Thousands of Iraqis and displaced persons suffer from poor public services, especially access to electricity.

Iraq is not a poor country struck with famine. It's an oil rich country and, certainly, various politicians have used their office to embezzle money. While the people suffered, various Iraqi leaders have gotten rich. Former prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki is only one example of someone who used the office to enrich himself and his family at the expense of the Iraqi people. And the corruption has led to the current situation. All of this comes as Baghdad hit a new record for all time highest temperature on Saturday. Natalie O'Neill (NEW YORK POST) noted,

Folks in Iraq aren’t hot on this weather trend.

Temperatures soared to a scorching 126 degrees in Baghdad last week — the hottest ever recorded in the city, according to a report.

The sweltering heat, which comes during the country’s hottest summer ever, sparked power outages that forced locals to endure the weather without air conditioning, Bloomberg News reported.

Shakthi Vadakkepat Tweets:

IRAQ'S HEAT WAVE: Temperatures in Baghdad last week reached 52°C (126 °F).
Here's how local kids are keeping cool as power blackouts mean no air conditioning during the #coronavirus lockdown

From

How does an oil rich country struggle with something as basic as energy production? Supposedly, the US war for oil did not beneift the US. S&P GLOBAL PLATTS maintains:

Iraq's energy ties with the US, which were supposed to yield oil deals following the 2003 invasion, have been whittled down to waivers to OPEC's second biggest producer to import Iranian electricity and gas, and avoid a political meltdown of the fragile Baghdad government, according to analysts.

US energy companies did not benefit much from the rule of the Coalition Provisional Authority -- the US-appointed entity that governed Iraq post the 2003 invasion until 2004 -- and they seem unlikely to gain a foothold in the oil sector of a country fighting a resurgent Islamic State, grappling with protests and facing financial collapse from low oil prices.

"The expectations of US policy-makers in the early years was that US companies would enjoy competitive advantage in a liberalized Iraqi oil and gas sector," said Raad Alkadiri, senior director at the BCG Center for Energy Impact.

"Iraq's sector has remained state-owned and state-guided, and US companies have been forced to compete in open licensing rounds. Various efforts by US Administrations (including the current Trump Administration) to engineer bilateral negotiations and to promote US company interests have come to naught."

The benchmarks imposed by the US -- and agreed to by Iraq -- included privatizing the oil. And, it should be noted, the US was never supposed to benefit from the war -- multi-national companies were supposed to benefit -- and many have.

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"THIS JUST IN! JOURNALISM PROF NANCY PELOSI KEEPS TEACHING!"

Saturday, August 01, 2020

THIS JUST IN! JOURNALISM PROF NANCY PELOSI KEEPS TEACHING!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

NOT LONG AGO, SHE WAS SLAPPING DOWN JAKE TAPPER ON CNN. TODAY, JOURNALISM PROF NANCY PELOSI WAS ATTACKING CNN'S BRIANNA KEILAR.

KEILAR ASKED HER IF SHE COULD

DO YOU TRUST HIM IN THESE NEGOTIATIONS

"THAT'S NOT AN APPROPRIATE QUESTION FOR YOU TO ASK," NANCY BARKED, SOUNDING EVERY ONE OF HER 80 YEARS AND THEN SOME.

SHE SOUNDED EVEN OLDER, AND EVEN MORE INSANE AND SENILE, WHEN SHE DECLARED, ""

WHAT I'M COMPLAINING ABOUT IS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SHARED VALUES AND THEY WANT TO WAIVE SOME -- UH -- THEY HAVE NOT -- YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO -- ALSO THE INFRENCE I'M DRAWING FROM WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THESE OFFERS HE'S MAKING, THEY-THEY DON'T EXIST . . ."

NANCY PELOSI, THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT YET FOR A MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE IN POLITICS.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting in the US with the race for the president. Joe Biden has yet to be crowned the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. They will declare their nominee at their national convention in August. Until then, he's the presumptive nominee -- and he's presuming a lot.

It was stupid of him to announce months ago that he would pick a female running mate. Whatever woman is finally picked will not be seen as the best choice -- though she well may be -- but as the best female choice. Currently, various advocates are insisting that Joe must pick an African-American or Black woman. Why? He's already stated that he will put a Black woman on the Supreme Court if elected.

There is talk of Texas. The Democrats, some insist can carry Texas. With a dream ticket? The reason I ask is Texas has tried dream tickets before. Texans appear not to see it as a pie when they vote -- a pie everyone can have a slice of -- they see it as zero sum game. So if X advances, I do not.

This was most obvious in 2002 -- and times could well have changed -- when Texas Democrats had what they and the press dubbed "the dream ticket." Latino Tony Sanchez was running for governor, African-American Ron Kirk was running for the Senate and Anglo White John Sharp was running for Lt Governor.

None of them won their race. Despite the huge amount of press this ticket received -- including national coverage. In the end, Sanchez got 40% of the vote in his race, Kirk got 43% in his race and Sharp got 46% in his race. Running as a team did not benefit the group. There are many variables at pay -- including Kirk's failure to run TV ads in East Texas -- he surrendered it for some reason before the race began. Right or wrong, many political scientists concluded that the ticket failed to sell their message as lift all boats and instead voters tended to vote their own ethnicity and race. That may well be. It may not be. And that was 2002. It's 18 years later, after all.

But as Joe makes one promise after another to African-American voters, he continues to struggle to reach Latino voters.

Had he not announced that a woman would be his running mate, for example, he could run with Julian Castro. Since announcing a female running mate, the press has been demanding an African-American one -- Susan Rice, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris (who would probably be billed Black and not African-American due to her mother's country of origin), etc.

Loretta Sanchez and her sister Linda Sanchez have both served in Congress, for example. Loretta has been close to Joe for years. Is there a reason the press is so hell bent on excluding Latinos from even consideration? Veronica Escobar not only serves in Congress, she's been a judge. There are many other who are qualified.

Joe has a serious problem with Latinos that has not gone away. His campaign does not know how to reach them. They have struggled all along with this group. In May, Laura Barron-Lopez and Elena Schneider (POLITICO) reported:

Joe Biden won the primary in spite of, not because of, his efforts to turn out Latinos. Two months later, Hispanic leaders are waiting on his campaign to deliver on its promises to do more.

In interviews, more than 20 Latino political operatives, lawmakers, and activists said they don’t see a game plan from Biden to marshal Hispanic voters effectively in the fall. They said there’s little evidence the campaign is devoting the resources or hiring the staff that task will require — all the more crucial during a pandemic, when reaching and mobilizing Latino voters through in-person canvassing is nearly impossible.

The campaign has refused to release statistics on the diversity of its staff — details many of his former opponents shared early in the primary — and a majority of a dozen recent high-level hires were white. And Biden has neither spoken to nor been formally endorsed by one of the highest-profile Latino politicians in the country, Julián Castro, since he won.
Biden had a tense relationship with many Latino groups during the primary, stemming largely from his connection to the Obama administration's aggressive deportation policy. The former vice president recently acknowledged that that policy was misguided and he has moved toward progressives on immigration.

But the campaign's disconnect with Latinos appears to be based more on lack of execution than on policy. Cash-strapped coming out of the primary and hemmed in by the coronavirus, its efforts to reach Latino voters have been lackluster, critics in the community say. The fact that Latinos weren't central to his primary strategy has meant Biden's campaign has more ground to make up.

Things are only getting worse. Refusing to release basic statistics, refusing to court their vote, Latinos may end up being up for grabs. Harry Enten (CNN) warned last month:

Joe Biden is reaching heights that Hillary Clinton never did this late in the campaign against Donald Trump. The former vice president holds a significant national lead of around 10 points and is over 50% support.

Yet a look at recent polls suggests Trump is outperforming where he was four years ago with a key part of the Democratic coalition: Hispanics. This could have implications for what electoral strategy Biden may need to take into the fall if he is to beat the President.

Clinton crushed Trump with Hispanic registered voters in the final 2016 preelection polls. She led by 61% to 23%. (I use the preelection polls for an apples-to-apples comparison for current polling.)

Biden, on the other hand, holds an average 58% to 33% lead among Hispanic registered voters in an average of eight live interview polls taken over the last two months. These eight polls were ones for which I could procure a breakdown among white, Hispanic and black voters. All told we are looking at somewhere around 700 to 800 Hispanic voters total.

If we examine polls conducted over the last three months (so that we're looking at 15 polls and well over 1,000 interviews), it's Biden 58% to Trump's 32%.

Doing the math, Biden's margin of about 25 points is more than 10 points lower than Clinton's. This is more because Trump is doing better without third party candidates than Biden taking a lower share of the vote, though both seem to be occurring to some degree.

His campaign leaders do not understand the Latino vote. And that's only more clear in the last few days as Bianca Padro Ocasio (MIAMI HERALD) has reported:

Over 90 field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party signed a scathing letter Friday to the party’s leadership, claiming among other things that the campaign is “suppressing the Hispanic vote” in Central Florida.
The seven-page internal letter, obtained by the Miami Herald, contains eight allegations from field organizers about what they say is a lack of a “fully actionable field plan” from the Biden campaign as it transitions into the Florida party to coordinate voter outreach efforts.
This letter comes 100 days out from the general election and as recent polls show enthusiasm about voting among Latinos in battleground states like Florida could be waning in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article244480437.html#storylink=cpy

Among the claims: mistreatment of field organizers, relocating trained staff members without explanation, lack of organizing resources and taking on volunteers who are then left in limbo.
In a battleground state where elections are historically won by thin margins — and as presidential campaigns ramp up outreach efforts in Florida’s Hispanic communities — organizers claim that the Coordinated Campaign lacks key infrastructure and perpetuates a “toxic” work culture that is hurting morale among on-the-ground staffers.

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If you're an undecided Latino voter watching this unfold, you're not getting the message that we're all in this together. You are getting the message that your needs are not going to be addressed and that while Joe is happy to put an African-American woman on the Supreme Court and to entertain dozens of African-American and Black women for his running mate. Lationas can wait outside the big tent because they're not welcome.

That's not a winning strategy.

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