Monday Reads

Another political obituary to note:  Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar's campaign, of neglect.  However, she decided to pull the plug on the eve of Super Tuesday to throw her support behind Joe Biden.  She and Pete Buttigieg are slated to endorse Biden in Dallas today.  It will help a lot for his chances although ratfucker Sanders has been deemed the "frontrunner" by the media and got a head start in delegates simply because the anti-Sanders contingent was so fractured with too many candidates.  I still think Biden will get the nomination although the presidency is no slam dunk for him.  I fully expect Klobuchar to be his running mate at the convention.

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The U.S. coronavirus death rate has now "spiked" to six.
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It takes a lotta guts to be a crackpot like Pat Robertson and share his crackpottery in public:

Pat Robertson says that as long as you have a "healthy gut," you won't get sick from the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/93OLr75Alu

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 2, 2020

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This is certainly a scandal:

BREAKING: The CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus.

On the left is how the website looked last night. On the right is what it looks like now, with the testing info removed.

The lack of testing is a scandal.

This is the coverup. pic.twitter.com/za5w9dkEKq

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2020

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When your whole schtick is to be divisive, you are not going to garner support from your competitors when they drop out of running for president.

Sanders, of course, will never drop out before the convention.  His ego is too massive to admit defeat.
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The good die young:  I was pleased to note the passing of Jack Welch, who was one of those despicable CEOs justifying the hollowing out of the working class in the United States.  He was a bastard, laying off thousands of workers at GE, and then bragging about his exploits.

While at the helm, Welch bought and sold scores of businesses, expanding the industrial giant into financial services and consulting. GE Capital Bank was founded seven years into his tenure. His acquisitions included RCA — then-owner of NBC — and Kidder Peabody, the brokerage that became entangled in an insider trading scandal.

He also streamlined the conglomerate’s bloated bureaucracy by giving managers free rein to make changes they deemed beneficial to the bottom line.

This greedy sociopath was 84 years old.
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Career obituary:  Pundit Chris Matthews, whose loud mouth polluted the airwaves what seemed like decades hosting his show Hardball, is packing it in:

BREAKING: MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews announced on air Monday that he’s resigning amid renewed criticism of his sexist behavior. https://t.co/lSAkFa9qPp

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) March 3, 2020

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The retirement or forced retirement of Matthews:



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Since Bernie Sanders hates the Democratic Party, it isn't hard to understand what motivates him and his dingbat supporters.
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