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Bloomberg looks kinda like O'Connell. He works it like a republican, all the attacks are just water off a duck's back. Not a care in the world. No doubt he was amused by all the squawking. When there is only one, he will move in for the kill.

I wonder what a Bloomberg/Gabbard ticket would do.

Now he says he won't release his medical records.

We have released quite as much documentation as any other candidate has... I think we have released a detailed medical report and I'm comfortable on what we have done...

Typical arrogant politician. What an ass... That's a great way to shed support and drop out "gracefully" before any possible dirt comes out. Maybe now the debate will get interesting if anybody has the guts to hammer on him for this.

Whatever, if he were to get the nomination, Bloomberg will run as an "independent" [he is more anti-Sanders than anti-Trump] with full DNC support and throw it to Trump. With only decades old leftovers on the ticket, it looks more and more like that's the game

In self-defense, coalition troops returned fire. The situation was de-escalated and is under investigation

How can the aggressor claim "self defense"??

Just one of those sweet mysteries of life, I guess.

The Syrian war, now in its ninth year, has pulled in international players including the U.S., Russia and Turkey.

That's bullshit. The Syrian war was started by international players. Nice pretext to get "pulled in", eh?

Ah well, in November we'll find out how many people give a damn. There's really no reason to expect any different from last time though. It will be around the usual five percent

"The black ledger was a fabrication... It was never real... the ledger was never introduced as evidence... The ledger was completely made up... the black ledger was a copy of a document that did not exist... the black ledger was not a contemporaneous document, and likely manufactured after the fact..."

Ah, but this one is my fave

"All fees Manafort got were wires, not cash."

Democrats... whaddya gonna do?

They even try to make Steve Bannon look electable

This graph shows how they did it*, as a team, not in opposition.

You have the power to undo this. Use it or lose it!

*Even though I'm using a "Bernie" thing, it still shows what happened, I don't expect much from him either. You gotta change the water in the congressional hot tub at least once every hundred years.

The primaries are phony distractions, the real purpose being to launder dirty money through their 501(c)s. Too often the most popular candidate is not the nominee. And now you sure can't trust the count [not that you ever could]. There's no transparency.

If any liberals want to be on the ballot, they have no choice but to go indie. Like anyone else, they can win if enough people vote for them. That's just how simple things can be.

Anybody hear from Iowa?

Paper please...

In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention.

Oh, we don't call them "superdelegates" anymore. Now they are "automatic delegates".

The party doesn't have to worry. Sanders isn't a threat. The DNC can count the votes any way they want, and nobody will say boo

Oh, almost forgot

The blame game still works like a charm.

Mrs. Clinton also drew a sharp distinction between her efforts in 2008 to bring the party together after her bruising primary battle with Barack Obama and the efforts by Mr. Sanders in 2016: "Night and day," she said.

Say whaaa?

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun
Whether near me or far
It's no matter, darling, where you are
I think of you night and day, day and night

Sorry for the Times link

And then they complain about democracy

What a bunch of whiners!

But to tell the truth, I think the story is bullshit. Somebody in trying move in with something much worse, but to make the sale, people have to be convinced that what they have is no good.

Democracy has but one flaw, the voters. Until that is acknowledged, well, don't expect much progress on the matter.

Edit:

On a related note: Why do "liberals" cling to "The true, grim, face of the Democratic establishment."? I mean, there's Podesta, still got a job. Maybe because they're not liberals, but merely democrats? And why would anyone vote for that when they have republicans? SNAFU!