DEBATE OF THE LOSERS

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On a sweltering night in Miami’s Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, a 90-year-old building slightly older than Joe Biden, 9 candidates with no shot at anything and the tenth, the first fake Native American candidate, gathered to humiliate and be humiliated on national television.

On a set designed to look like a cardboard cutout White House, 10 cardboard cutouts of candidates, hoping to sit in the real White House, frantically searched for their 15 seconds of fame, while ignoring moderator questions and going over time.

All the millionaire candidates agreed that the economy wasn't working for ordinary Americans like the ones they see on TV.

The speeches about the misery suffered by ordinary Americans in a booming economy at the hands of giant evil corporations fell flat to a base in which a third of Democrat primary voters earn over $100,000.

"Who is this economy working for?" Elizabeth Warren asked, doing a hand hatchet chop in a tribute to her imaginary Native American heritage while claiming that it was just working for those at the top.

Like her.

Not only was Warren wealthier than most of the other candidates on stage, but she was called on three times as often.

As part of their commitment to redistribution, the socialist candidates redistributed each other’s time. But, despite their supposed commitment to redistribution, they resisted speaking time socialism.

This was supposed to be a debate and the moderators did try to ask occasionally challenging questions, while the candidates courageously evaded and avoided them and instead delivered prepared speeches attacking Trump and insisting that the economy wasn't working for most people who weren’t as rich as them.

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Booker and Castro Thrive, Warren Coasts, and Beto Crashes

The short version: Elizabeth Warren treaded water, Cory Booker and Julian Castro found their grooves, Bill de Blasio vented his anger and may have created some buzz, Beto O’Rourke had a terrible night, and everybody else on the bottom stayed on the bottom.

Everyone expected Elizabeth Warren to be the big target of the evening, but it appears the rest of the candidates on the stage chickened out. MSNBC certainly gave her way more questions than other candidates early on, but she faded into the background as the night wore on. She’s gaining in the polls and Joe Biden is going to face some tough tests starting tomorrow night. She can play low-risk, ball-control offense until she’s up on stage with Biden.

Wow, does former congressman Beto O’Rourke look like the Lucent stock of the Trump-era Democratic party. He’s no longer in the top five, but several other candidates seemed to relish going after him tonight, particularly Bill de Blasio and Julian Castro. It’s time to call it – he’s thoroughly underwhelming as a debater and wildly overrated as a public speaker. Answering the first question in Spanish, unprompted, looked like a pandering gimmick. He had some better moments as the night progressed, but he was hit so many times by so many other candidates he must have felt like . . . a piñata.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker looked prepared. Maybe it’s those tough initial campaigns for mayor of Newark, or the never-quite-as-close-as-Republicans-hoped Senate races, but Booker knows how to hit the right notes in a two-minute window. I like to ridicule candidates who dodge tough questions by emoting for two minutes, but Booker does this maneuver well

[Geee]

The Morning Briefing: Who Won Medals at the Woke Olympics Debate?

Buenos jueves por la mañana.

 

Aquí está lo que está en la agenda del presidente hoy:

The Woke Olympics: Carousel of Freaks

I am ashamed to say I watched the entire debate. Who was the winner? I would say it was a tie between Donald Trump and those who did something else. Perhaps the second round of debates will be different. Just kidding.

Here is a summary for the smarter people among us who did not watch.

Most of the candidates claimed that Trump's economic policies are not working for the middle class, only the rich are benefiting. The poll numbers do not reflect this claim. According to Rasmussen's latest survey released on Wednesday, 50 percent of likely voters say the economy is good or excellent. By comparison, only 34 percent said the same about Obama at the same point in his administration. Similarly, 53 percent rate their personal finances as good or excellent in the latest Rasmussen Reports Consumer Spending Update. Only Democrat special  math resolves such that 50 percent are the "top 1 percent" beneficiaries of Trump's economic policies. Will voters believe this lie? Will they take the risk of Democrats coming in and suffocating the economy by taking away money "from the wrong hands" and putting it into the hands of the truly worthy? We'll see.

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Democrats’ Cirque De Absurdite

When it was time to call the candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, did one of the moderators yell “send in the clowns?” If not, someone should have. What a bunch of buffoons.

We don’t use that word lightly. One definition of buffoon is “a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior.” That’s a description that fits every candidate on the stage. Each was hilariously solicitous and comically transparent.

Almost before the game show applause had settled, Beto O’Rourke launched into a juvenile Spanish-language hustle that left Sen. Cory Booker wide-eyed and most everyone else rolling their eyes.

Moments later, Booker found common ground with Friedrich Engels, grousing about how the economy wasn’t working for everyone, a common thread throughout the “debate.” Still later, he too resorted to Spanish, competing with O’Rourke to show he is the most Hispanic candidate, even more Hispanic than someone named Castro and far more Hispanic than the Irish guy.

A few beats after O’Rourke’s first foreign-language outburst, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the media’s pre-selected winner, made the brave declaration she wanted to return government to the people — while pointing at herself. Well done, Senator. Now we know who she wants to vest the power of government in.

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10 Democratic Candidates. Times Two Nights. Just. Shoot. Me. Now.

was gearing up to write that the best thing about last night’s debate among 10 (count ‘em, 10!) Democratic presidential wannabes last night was that it finally ended.

Except that then NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie delivered the night’s worst news, by many magnitudes of awful: “Guess what? We’ve got 10 more candidates tomorrow night.

Just. Shoot. Me. Now.

Not that the long line-up of hopefuls didn’t each have their coveted “defining moments.”

Teacher’s pet Lizzie Warren breaking out of the gate with an energetic riff on inequality and call for “structural change” And later, a common-sense concept of actually differentiating among different types of gun buyers.

[Valin]

Who Won? @Geee

 

Prove me wrong.

[Geee]

Well, I kinda won, because I didn't watch - 

[Valin]

3 hours ago, Geee said:

Well, I kinda won, because I didn't watch - 

 

Neither did I because, well to be perfectly honest I won't vote for any of them....and itswaaaaay to early to give a rats ass.