Tag: politics

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Little Gay Pete didn’t make it to Super Tuesday.

Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg’s decision told The Associated Press he began informing campaign staff on Sunday. They were not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. His campaign said Buttigieg will speak Sunday night in South Bend, Indiana.

I expect Warren is only sticking around in the hopes of a vice-presidential nomination. It’s really down to Biden vs Sanders now; no one is going to support Bloomberg no matter how much Mini-Mike spends.

The Z-Man explains a pair of natural divides. I point out a third.

Michelle Malkin is a good example of why civic nationalism must inevitably lead to someone like Ben Shapiro lecturing you about the creedal nation. Her speech was pretty much what Ben Shapiro says, except she strongly opposes immigration and what she calls globalism. For obvious reasons, Malkin must argue on ideological grounds, rather than from nature. Her brand of dissident politics must be open to everyone, who accepts the ideological points of her program.

It’s one of those things that sounds good in theory, but in reality it is impossible to police ideological borders. The Left has been trying to solve that puzzle since the French Revolution and it always ends in disaster. The right-wing effort at it led to Buckley conservatism and eventually David French. For now, ideology and argument are the tools required to win people to our side, but ultimately the goal must be boundaries that do not require constant maintenance…

Listening to Fuentes speak, I was thinking about how this spasm of white identity politics has mirrored previous iterations. The alt-right split in two. One group is seeking to operate above ground and gain legitimacy. The other group retreated into a self-imposed ghetto. The TRS crowd is really just a younger version of the old Stormfront community that formed up after the Buchanan movement. Go back further and it is a replay of the Bircher-Buckley split.

Fundamentally, these splits are over presentation. The “optics” side cannot fathom why the hardcore cannot understand the need to make a good presentation. The hardcore cannot understand why the optics guys don’t see the dangers of compromise. Both sides are right, but both sides have always failed. The hardcore ends up in something similar to a cult and the optics guys get gobbled up by the system. There really needs to be a different approach to this in order to avoid a repeat of the past…

The reality is that every successful movement requires both its extremists and its moderates. See Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army, or the Palestine Zionist Executive and the Irgun. In this case, the core problem that the moderates face is that no matter how flawless their optics might be, their position simply isn’t a viable one. Like communism, like socialism, like secular humanism, civic nationalism has been thoroughly tried and tested. And it has failed, even more spectacularly than these other ideological catastrophes.

Of course, the one thing the political activists of every stripe never seem to grasp is that the political philosophers simply aren’t interested in activism of any kind. In my case, both the activists and their enemies alike fail to grasp that I’m neither interested in joining a cult nor in being gobbled up by the system. I’m not interested in joining anything, least of all a mass movement. There are no shortage of opinion leaders who seek attention and influence in pursuit of their ideals, and that is well and good, but there should always be someone to observe the events and make sense of them in a historical context too.

Those who venerate Aristotle, Virgil, and Thucydides are seldom inclined to follow the paths of Alexander, Caesar, and Alcibiades.

The US electorate just got a good look at what the Democrats have to offer them:

Democratic presidential candidates got into a series of angry and personal exchanges at Tuesday night’s debate in Charleston – with Bernie Sanders attacking Mike Bloomberg for being a billionaire, Bloomberg labeling Sanders as Vladimir Putin’s favorite and a trio of candidates blasting Bloomberg for his ‘racist’ stop-and-frisk policy.

It was the kind of full-on circular firing squad that commentators had warned might be coming in South Carolina, with Joe Biden’s ‘firewall’ claims on the line and Sanders having the potential to pad his delegate lead in the rush to Super Tuesday.

The debate featured chaotic exchanges where multiple candidates sought to talk over each other, with CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King losing all control of the discussion about 40 minutes into the debate, either failing to referee or being completely ignored by the over-eager candidates.

Candidates flouted 75-second response times, cut each other off, and yelled out retorts out of turn. ‘Not true,’ interjected Sanders when Amy Klobuchar questioned how he’ll pay for his programs. ‘Can I say something?’ pleaded hedge funder Tom Steyer later in the heated exchange. ‘Let me go,’ he demanded.

‘Excuse me, can I respond to the attack?’ Sanders inquired when Pete Buttigieg went after him. ‘Listen to the moderator, guys,’ Sanders schooled the group. ‘Hello?’ chimed in Biden.

Then the former vice president complained when he finally got called on. ‘Whoa. Whoa. Whoa,’ he said. ‘I guess the only way you do this is jump in and speak twice as long as you should.’ Later, he boiled over and announced he would defy the unenforced rules. ‘I’m not out of time. You spoke over time and I’m going to talk,’ Biden said.

The problem, of course, is that MPAI, and the US electorate has never been less intelligent or more short-term time-preferenced in its history. And the first fake poll is out, which is obviously meaningless because it leaves out Bloomberg and has Steyer at 15 percent. The only thing significant about it is that it confirms that the media prefers Biden to Sanders.

• 27{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Creepy Joe
• 23{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} The Socialist Jew
• 15{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} The Other Rich Guy
• 09{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Little Gay Pete
• 08{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Fauxahauntas
• 05{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} The Jewess (soccer mom edition)

Senate and Congressional Democrats are not eager to feel the Bern:

Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the Democratic Party’s hope for flipping a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, tried to do no harm this month when he was asked about Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I will ultimately support who the nominee is of the Democratic Party,” he said.

That was enough for Kelly’s Republican rival, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who is trailing him in early polls, to go on the attack. The television spot she debuted days later spent nearly as much time talking about plans by the democratic socialist from Vermont to raise taxes and award new benefits to undocumented immigrants as it did about Kelly.

As Sanders, a political independent, builds what could eventually be an insurmountable delegate lead, many Democratic House and Senate candidates are approaching a dramatic shift in their campaigns, as they recalibrate to include praise of capitalism and distance themselves from the national party. Top campaign strategists from both major parties view Sanders’ success as a potentially tectonic event, which could narrow the party’s already slim hopes of retaking the Senate majority and fuel GOP dreams of reclaiming the House, which it lost amid a Democratic romp in 2018.

The Trumpslide is going to be epic!

Bernie Sanders wins another state:

Bernie Sanders has won the the Nevada Democratic caucuses, NBC News projects.

Sanders, coming off a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses and a narrow victory in the New Hampshire primary, rode a wave of support from young voters, liberal voters and Latinos to a runaway first-place finish in Saturday’s contest — strengthening his status as the front-runner. It remains too early to call second and third-place finishers.

With 4.2 percent of precincts in the state reporting, Sanders had 44.7 percent of the vote. Former Vice President Joe had 19.5 percent, while former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg had 15.6 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., had 11.8 percent. Mike Bloomberg, who is surging in national polls but turned in a rocky debate performance in Las Vegas this week, is skipping the first four states and wasn’t on the ballot here.

The results that have come in so far allowed Sanders to take the lead in the overall pledged delegate count.

This means that Bloomberg’s money is now the only obstacle standing between Sanders and the Democratic nomination. The results:

• 47{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Bernie Sanders
• 19{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Joe Biden
• 15{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Pete Buttigieg
• 10{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Elizabeth Warren
• 05{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Amy Klobuchar
• 04{de336c7190f620554615b98f51c6a13b1cc922a472176e2638084251692035b3} Tom Steyer

As if it wasn’t already entirely obvious, (((Bloomberg))) is in it up to his tiny little neck along with (((Epstein))) and (((Maxwell))):

Democrat presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg appears in the late pedophile and accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book of contacts. Bloomberg appears on page six of the address book maintained by Epstein’s late former butler. Bloomberg was also photographed socializing with Epstein’s close companion Ghislaine Maxwell.

The fact that they’ve given up on Little Gay Pete and turned to Mini-Mike to buy the nomination and election is another indication of the Deep State’s desperation.

According to Mini-Mike, America is not a nation and Americans are not a people, but Israel is a nation and Jews are a people who have more rights in America than Americans do.

Billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said he will charge Americans with “domestic terrorism” for “hate crimes” if elected and bashed “nativists” in America before affirming his commitment to Israel remaining a “Jewish state” in a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Forget MAGA. Bloomberg is working on making Nazi Germany great again. He should be charged with a hate crime against America.

Mini-Mike is reportedly considering Hillary Clinton as his potential running mate and successor:

Mike Bloomberg is considering making Hillary Clinton his running mate, a source close to his campaign has told Drudge Report. Polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force to take on Trump in the race for the White House, the source said.

Former New York City Mayor and Democratic candidate Bloomberg is said to be considering even changing his official residence from New York to Colorado or Florida – where he also has homes – because the electoral college makes it difficult for US president and vice-president to reside in the same state.

Under the Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, which provides the procedure for electing the president and vice-president, it states that the two people could not both inhabit the same state as the elector.

That’s remarkable. I mean, I know Mini-Mike is amoral, evil, and short, but he never struck me as being particularly suicidal. This would appear to indicate that either Bloomberg has terminal cancer or he knows he can’t possibly win.

As is his wont, the god-emperor has focused like a laser on an opponent’s psychological weak point:

A Michael Bloomberg adviser was cut down to size by a New York Times reporter Thursday after trying to claim the Democratic presidential candidate was not self-conscious about his height.

Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman disputed one reporter’s claim that the Bloomberg campaign was secretly happy about President Donald Trump calling the former New York City mayor a “5’4″ mass of dead energy.”

As the Washington Free Beacon has reported, there is ample evidence the billionaire misrepresented his height, listing himself as a full three inches too tall on his driver’s license.

A doctor’s note released by the Bloomberg campaign in December indicates the candidate is 5-foot-7. Bloomberg has given wildly contradictory answers about his height, telling reporters at various times he was 5-foot-10, “in the ballpark” of 6-foot-1, and in one unguarded moment in 2006, “a 5-foot-7 billionaire Jew.”

Bloomberg was even spotted using a box to boost his height during his first mayoral inauguration. The Daily News reported at the time that the billionaire was “somewhat sensitive about his height.”

There is absolutely no way that Bloomberg is 5’7″. It’s absolutely impossible. Look at him standing next to Eva Longoria, who claims to be 5’1.5″ and is more like five flat. Even if she had four-inch heels on, Bloomberg is at most 5’5″ tall. And there is no way that Americans are going to vote for a midget for President, no matter how rich he is.

The media has turned on him. Now, even his Wall Street backers are pulling out in favor of Bloomberg:

Is it over for Uncle Joe?

Former Vice President Joe Biden is in New York City Thursday night mingling with Wall Street Democratic fundraisers who he hopes will give him enough cash to fuel his sputtering campaign and help him clinch the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. The back-to-back fundraisers are expected to gin up a solid $1 million in campaign cash

But behind the scenes, the word from the party’s fat-cat set is that the Biden campaign may already be lost despite the Wall Street C-suite names attending the events because former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is poised to take sole control of the party’s moderate wing.

“I feel sorry for Biden,” said Leon Cooperman, a billionaire hedge fund investor who has supported Democrats in the past despite being critical of President Obama. “He should withdraw; he has no chance.”

Like Cooperman, these executives — who work at hedge funds, on Wall Street and in real estate — cite as evidence several factors including Biden’s poor showing in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. They say that much of the money delivered to the Biden campaign as part of Thursday fundraisers at New York City restaurants Sarabeth’s and The Wayfarer was earmarked before his big losses in Iowa and New Hampshire and that big donors have more recently pulled back.

Even more importantly, they point to the emergence of Bloomberg — well-known among the Wall Street money set since many of them are his friends.

And by “the party’s moderate wing” they mean the Democratic Party’s Money wing.