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Another day, another caucus, another massive fuck-up:
More than 24 hours since the Nevada caucuses closed, a large portion of the results had yet to be released, adding an additional layer of confusion to an already fractured primary process.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed a clear victory Saturday night, but the rest of the field remains murky. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg have both claimed a second-place finish in Nevada and the delayed results are only generating more skepticism of the caucus process.
By late afternoon Sunday, the Nevada Democratic Party had only reported around half of the results. A spokesperson for the party, Molly Forgey, said the delay in reporting Saturday's results was due to the additional requirements by the national party but that officials were "continuing to verify and to report results."
Time to ditch the entire caucus system. The problem, as I have written before, is the cost of holding primaries.
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Cheating by mediocre male athletes by stealing from female athletes is not a civil right.
Not that the ACLU has ever given a shit about women.
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Pete Buttigieg needs to shut up and stop whining. He also needs to drop out along with all the other candidates except Joe Biden. None of the others has a shot against Trump:
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One crackpot endorses another one:
JUST IN: Marianne Williamson endorses Sanders at Texas rally https://t.co/9va2dHcFt9 pic.twitter.com/Ntrh1fa98t— The Hill (@thehill) February 24, 2020
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Stick a fork in the junior senator from Vermont:
In “60 Minutes” interview, Sanders goes out of his way praise elements of Castro’s reign of Cuba.— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 24, 2020
“We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but it’s unfair to say everything’s bad. When Castro came into office you know what he did? He had a literacy program.”
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A snip of tonight's report:
#60minutes Thank you for somewhat exposing @BernieSanders!!! There is so much more out there though. @andersoncooper why didn't you ask him about how he endorsed to different communist candidates for President in the 1980s?#BernieWon #BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/Y5sOHT2yaL— Kash Jackson (@KashJackson2018) February 24, 2020
Like I have said, he is tainted.
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So why is Putin so enamored with Sanders?
Over the weekend, trying to make sense of what Russians might be thinking about Bernie Sanders, I also called Andranik Migranyan, who used to run a Russian government-funded think tank attached to the Russian mission to the U.N. Perhaps more notably, he’s also a close friend and former classmate of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “I don’t think anyone really respects or values Sanders here,” Migranyan told me._____
“It’s like a knife in the throat,” he went on. “The things Sanders says even Russian communists would be too scared to say. He is a real communist. I always said to Americans, ‘Your brilliant future is our horrible past.’ We collapsed into nothing because of Communism, and now this is the dream that Sanders is offering—and a big part of your country is following him into the abyss.” If Sanders secures the nomination, warns Polymeropoulos, the retired CIA officer, who worked to counter Russian interference after 2016, this is exactly the kind of attack you can expect to see from Russian bots. “Bernie’s socialist credentials is exactly the hot-button, divisive issue that Russia will seek to use to cause chaos,” says Polymeropoulos.
“I suspect that, for our people [at the top], Sanders looks like the mad professor from ‘Back to the Future,’” says Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, who teaches future government workers at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, in Moscow. “Which is why he’s very convenient for starting a pan-American brawl. Let them all fight each other while we lay another gas pipeline somewhere!”
An important hearing in Arizona over a proposed bill that would ban male cheaters from women's and girls' sports from a couple of days ago:
Too bad Democrats are too much in bed with the trans mob and are bent on "queering the law," which is a disaster and sexist as hell.
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