Sunday, February 23, 2020

Very Light News Dump

Take a deep breath, folks: Only 3 out of 50 states have voted. Two were almost entirely white. Two used the absurd caucus model. Russia has been cheating on his behalf the entire time and he still is opposed by more than half of voters. It's on to South Carolina...also, turnout for the first three primaries has been abyssal, worse than 2016 and 2016....and Bernie initially only won 33.24% of the voters, which means 66% voted against him. The realignment brought him to 39%, which means 61% voted against him. Sanders has a lock on the leftist base but almost no lock on the rest of the base, most Democrats are spreading their votes across the rest of the candidates. The primaries so far are a major disappointment in low-turnout and absolute voter disunity.
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P20/NV-D#0222


Trump's Federal Reserve nominee Judy Shelton said in 2011 that the central bank was "almost a rogue agency" in the US government and had become a "behemoth" that couldn't be trusted with oversight of the dollar.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/kfile-judy-shelton-federal-reserve-criticism/index.html

#FOIA FRUSTRATION - The US Department of Veterans Affairs waits *6 years* to respond to my FOIA request. And requires me to contact the agency if my request is "still valid"
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1230933418562740224

Bernie Sanders says he would militarily intervene if China took military action against Taiwan LOL
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-democratic-presidential-candidate-military-intervention-60-minutes-2020-02-23/

Sanders says he would absolutely be willing to use military force if elected president LOL
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484258-sanders-says-he-would-absolutely-be-willing-to-use-military-force-if

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Compared Bernie Sanders' Nevada Performance To The Nazi Invasion Of France
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/chris-matthews-bernie-sanders-nazi-germany-france-invasion

Bernie Sanders thanks 'multigenerational, multiracial coalition' as he declares 3rd primary victory
https://theweek.com/speedreads/897541/bernie-sanders-thanks-multigenerational-multiracial-coalition-declares-3rd-primary-victory

Bernie Sanders' plans may be expensive but inaction would cost much more. Facing existential challenges, we must spend heavily on a Green New Deal, Medicare for All and similar plans
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/22/bernie-sanders-green-new-deal-medicare-for-all-expensive-inaction

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Buttigieg: "This s where I differ w/Sen/ Sanders. I don't believe we can allow ourselves to get to the point where it feels like fighting *is* the point. The point is not the fight. The point is what lies on the other side of the fight."
https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/1231704098648489985

When I was at the NSC working for Bush 41 at the end of the Cold War, we relied on the reporting of a young Russian-speaking Political Officer, Victoria Nuland, to understand the dynamics in the streets of Moscow. Is Rick Grenell serious that the internet can now substitute?
https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/1231649820391112705

Nothing can replace the reporting of Career Foreign Service Officers who speak the local language and know the culture and history. Another reason why nonpartisan career officials should be in charge of our intelligence agencies.
https://twitter.com/RNicholasBurns/status/1231627948601552896

It may only be February, but 2020 is already “virtually certain” to be among the 10 warmest years on record, and has nearly a 50 percent chance of being the warmest ever, NOAA scientists say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/climate/global-temperatures-climate-change.html

Buttigieg in Virginia: "I respect my friend Senator Sanders. I believe the ideals he talks about our ideals we all share. But I also believe that the way we will build the movement to defeat Donald Trump is to call people into our tents, not to call them names online."
https://twitter.com/merica/status/1231698328955629572

Marcus Johnson: Bernie v Trump doesn’t inspire me...doesn’t feel like bernie wants to earn my vote...hard to choose the lesser of two evils when they both have so much in common. Both are the candidate of Russia. Both are angry old white guys who think america used to be better off.
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1231423826304602112?s=09

I have nothing personal against the Senator. But, frankly, his support of the D nominee for Governor in Florida is a large reason why we have a mini Trump as Governor now. Andrew lost in a D plus 7 year. The socialism label is political death in a statewide race in Florida.
https://twitter.com/GwenGraham/status/1231740948926713856

If any Democrat is able to come from behind against Sanders, it’s a candidate capable of winning the African-American vote in the South and the Cuban-American vote in Florida.
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1231741478323531776

Bernie is a talker. He talks about a plan that would take health care away from 155 million Americans. Mike is a doer. When he was mayor, the number of New Yorkers without health care fell nearly 40% and the number of uninsured kids fell by 72%. We need results, not bluster.
https://twitter.com/Mike2020/status/1231740062926241792

In rural Carter County, Tenn., health officials have embraced a strategy for dealing with the opioid epidemic: Teaching children as young as 6 how to reverse an overdose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/opioids-tennessee-narcan-training.html

Sanders' praise for authoritarian governments is a top concern of current/fmr Republicans who are anti-Trump. The ones I spoke to cited Sanders' foreign policy as a reason not to vote for him in the general, in addition to desire to implement socialist programs in the US.
https://twitter.com/fran_chambers/status/1231756305385304064

.@amyklobuchar added, "So why would I get out? That's not even a close call for me. And I think why would you have a call for the two women to get out when you have two billionaires in the race, this field has gotten significantly narrowed down.”
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1231752467420979200

Asked by NBC if Sanders continues to gain delegates when does she recalculate, Klobuchar said, “we have no idea who the best candidate is yet so let's just hold our horses when we only have 3% of the people that delegates that have been chosen. That is an infinitesimal number.”
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1231752468708700160

“Before we rush to nominate Senator Sanders in our one shot to take on this president, let us take a sober look at what is at stake for our party, for our values and for those with the most to lose,” said Buttigieg.
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1231755420286509056

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