I am obviously disappointed in more ways than one this morning. Disappointed that I got my hopes up and fell for the pre$$ narrative yet again, but more on that later. I want to begin this post with what I found on the BG website this morning.
Liz Goodwin has an article up saying that California is still too close to call despite Bernie leading Joe by 12 with 75% of the ballots counted (now down to about 7 as the vote stealing and DNC fraud continues). A commenter presciently noted that the Globe hates Sanders, and their fawning, biased coverage in favor of their preferred candidate has backfired.
I knew things were not right when I arrived home at 10 last night and Fox had just called Massachusetts for Biden despite the most recent polling (Globe is describing Biden's victory over Warren as humbling, not humiliating). The Globe called Biden's win in Mass. stunning; however, I'm with Bret Baier, who called it unbelievable and shocking (in addition to several other results last night). Then I woke up this morning and found that Texas had been awarded to Biden. That's when I realized the whole perception management apparatus of the pre$$ and DNC was about raising expectations for Bernie only to dash them on Super Tuesday. When I take a look at the map of the state I find I'm apparently in the Bernie enclave. Time to secede and petition Vermont, folks!
Speaking of Vermont, I took a look at the numbers off all the states and Bernie barely clears 50% in his home state, the People's Republic of Vermont? Must be the funny machines or who knows what, huh? Ma$$ media polls are always wrong now, and no information is given for the calls of any race. I mean, the news channels are called Virginia and other places for Biden as soon as the polls closed and before any votes had been counted. Talk about having a prewritten script ready to go.
As an aside, I would like to bring you this delusional piece of rot from the Globe:
"Analysis: After a disappointing Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren’s path to the nomination is narrower than ever" by Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, March 4, 2020
DETROIT — For a moment on Tuesday night, it almost felt like Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign was back in its late-summer bloom, when she had risen to the front-runner’s spot in the race for the Democratic nomination.
I'm astounded by the Globe reporting. A wistful and nostalgic look back before being marched to the electric chair.
“Let me just give you a sample of what’s in this anti-corruption plan,” Warren said, as the crowd of 2,000 people in front of her cheered and whooped while she called one more time for all candidates for public office to put their tax returns online, but when the results from voting in 14 Super Tuesday states began trickling in as she left the stage, they fell short of even the modest predictions of her campaign aides only days earlier, leaving any path she still has toward the nomination narrower than ever.
They are still talking path to the nomination when there is none! How pathetic!
Warren ended a disappointing Super Tuesday not in a state that had just voted, but in one that votes next week, pressing on with a campaign that her aides have insisted would still have a way forward even if she could not post a victory in any of the 18 states that voted between Feb. 3 and March 3.
Delusional insanity.
She appeared likely to gain delegates from states such as Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota — all places where Warren’s aides privately predicted she would do well on Tuesday — and may yet notch a greater delegate haul in California, where few results were immediately available Tuesday night, but she faced the grim reality of finishing third on her home turf of Massachusetts and seemed unlikely to pick up as many delegates overall as her aides had confidently predicted she would just days before.
It was after that paragraph that I began to pity the poor Bo$ton Globe and Jess Bidgood.
“Our internal projections continue to show Elizabeth winning delegates in nearly every state in play on Super Tuesday, and in a strong position to earn a sizable delegate haul coming out of the night,” wrote her campaign manager, Roger Lau, in a Sunday memo that claimed her campaign was “built to compete in every state and territory and ultimately prevail at the national convention in Milwaukee.”
She didn't even come close and if you want to lie to yourselves go ahead.
There is no way around it: A campaign that had confidently predicted on Feb. 11 that she would finish in the top two in eight out of 14 Super Tuesday states must now reckon with the fact that she may not finish better than third anywhere.
As polls closed on a day where about 35 percent of delegates were to be awarded by voters, it was not clear that Warren’s vaunted campaign organization — which has 1,000 paid staffers and has redeployed organizers around the country as early-voting states gave way to to Super Tuesday states — has been able to overcome the media narratives and nagging concerns about electability that have done so much to shape voters’ decisions in the race.
Apparently organization, grass roots, and voters no longer matter in politics, and this is the same pre$$ that led cheers for her and helped create the media narratives in an attempt to shape voters' decisions now saying she couldn't overcome them.
Puh-leez!
In recent days, Warren has been running a race like she has no intention to quit. She notched major endorsements from women’s political organizations such as Emily’s List and the National Organization for Women’s political arm. In Los Angeles on Monday night, she gave a speech about Latina janitors who organized for labor rights, leaning into the theme of the power of the female underdog.
Where do I begin?
Thanks for staying in and helping the Democratic establishment sabotage Sanders. Had she stepped aside like Mayor Cheat and Amy, then Bernie would have performed much better last night, and now she will persist. She's a corporatist in progre$$ive clothing and a sell out then. I'm wondering what Cabinet position they offered her to stay in.
Who cares about the endorsements? They don't do anything other than provide fodder for the narrative, and the whole female underdog thing is a turn off. More nagging and whining is not the way to win votes.
On Monday night, she also levied the sharpest criticism she has yet at former vice president Joe Biden. She was prescient to see Biden as a threat. His surge after a huge win in South Carolina on Saturday reshaped the electoral map so much that he vacuumed up Super Tuesday voters even in Massachusetts — the epitome of a place that seemed destined to support Warren.
Little too late, but thanks for kneecapping the detestable Mike Bloomberg.
The "reshaping" of the electoral map screams fraud to me, btw, as does Joe's boasting about turnout last night.
In another piece of sobering news, Warren was outperformed by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg in several states. She eviscerated him on the debate stage in February — a performance that gave her campaign a boost in momentum and fund-raising, and likely blunted his overall momentum, but was not enough to stop him from coming third in several states where she finished fourth.
He said he was going to reassess, and that didn't take long!
Apparently, Liz is also mulling her next steps now.
Warren did not make a public statement after she left the stage in Detroit, but her campaign team sent out a fund-raising e-mail saying it would be days before they know the full results in Texas, Colorado, and California.
OMG, she is still grifting!
“But here’s the bottom line,” the e-mail said, looking ahead: “There are six more primaries one week way.”
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WATCH: Biden Wins Super Tuesday
That's the Globe takeaway as well as Joe swept through the South like a tornado, and they also tell you where the race stands now and what to watch for next.
As for the protests at Joes victory speech, they reek of a staged and scripted perception management event for whatever purpose. So his security sucks(!!!) and the cause was Let Dairy Die? All the issues before us and the dairy protesters got through?
Btw, Bernie wasn't the only Jew who was robbed yesterday:
"With 97 percent of the vote in Monday’s election tabulated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unexpectedly large lead was holding firm. The election results could still change as officials count final batches of votes from military bases, overseas diplomats, and special biohazard polling places set up for voters quarantined because of possible exposure to the coronavirus (Senior election officials, unable to find workers willing to open the doubly-sealed ballots, were planning to conduct the count themselves in a tent outside the parliament, according to media reports), but Israel was well into dissecting Netanyahu’s feat. Polls for months had shown little change in the grinding stalemate that has kept Israel from forming a new government for more than a year, but in the final weeks, as the Blue and White party and its leader, Benny Gantz, worked down a list of what critics disparaged as overly staid hanger rallies around central Israel, Netanyahu worked tirelessly to electrify his base and reawaken thousands of Likud voters who had reportedly sat out the previous election. Likud launched what political reporters described as an unprecedented voter-targeting operation. Although a majority of votes cast Monday were not in support of Netanyahu, Gantz’s message and manner could not prevent his rival from shouldering past him. ‘‘There is no doubt that Netanyahu enters these coalition negotiations from a strengthened position,’’ said Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute....."
You have got to be f***ing kidding me!
Now this from the New York Times:
"Tehran appears to have enough enriched uranium to produce a single nuclear weapon, though it would take months or years to manufacture a warhead and deliver it over long distances. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors nuclear capabilities and reports to the United Nations, also documented for the first time how Iran’s leadership blocked its inspectors from visiting three critical sites where there was evidence of past nuclear activity. In response, Iran said it rejected the agency’s new rounds of questions because it had been cleared of responsibility to answer for its nuclear past......"
It's f***ing 2002 all over again, and the New York Times is still the same war-mongering piece of sh!t is always has been despite the non-apology apology for the WMD lies bullhorned from their front pages.
"Congress, Justice take aim at tech, hoping to halt spread of child sexual exploitation online" by Tony Romm Washington Post, March 3, 2020
WASHINGTON — US regulators are preparing to target anew Facebook, Google, and other tech giants this week, unveiling more efforts to combat online content that harms or abuses children — and hold Silicon Valley responsible for its spread.
Yeah, they cut Epstein a deal and somehow the kiddie porn sites are plentiful, but the regulators are going to get after them.
The heightened activity in Washington reflects the government’s simmering frustration with Silicon Valley, along with a growing appetite to rethink decades-old federal laws that spare profitable, popular tech platforms from being held liable for dangerous content that goes viral on their services.
In Congress, Democrats and Republicans are banding together to introduce legislation that essentially offers the industry an ultimatum: Take aggressive, potentially controversial steps to thwart child sexual exploitation on the web, or risk losing some of the long-standing legal protections, known as Section 230.
The so-called Earn It Act bill from Senators Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, is expected as soon as Wednesday with bipartisan support, according to three people familiar with the measure who requested anonymity since it has not been formally introduced. Spokespeople for the lawmakers declined to comment for this story.
At the Justice Department, meanwhile, US officials are set to unveil on Thursday a set of 11 ‘‘voluntary principles’’ that target child sexual exploitation, according to two additional sources and a copy of the invite. The proposal — crafted with the industry’s aid, and backed by leaders of five countries — calls on tech companies to ensure search, social-networking, video streaming, and chat tools aren’t havens for child predators, according to a copy obtained by the Post. The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Yeah, the pedophile cla$$ is going to crack down on pedophiles. Now I've seen it all.
Silicon Valley companies including Facebook and Google share the US government’s goal of battling child pornography, human trafficking, and a wide array of other harmful content targeting minors, but they fear efforts to erode Section 230, which they view as fundamental to the web’s growth, critical for free expression, and essential for websites that need legal cover to police their own platforms in the first place.
Yeah, free speech is to be sacrificed to catch the pedophiles.
The industry has grown especially apprehensive about lawmakers’ latest political salvo, fearing it is unworkable and could pave the way for the Justice Department and other law enforcement agents to burrow into their networks, devices, and services to aid their investigations. Doing so could undermine end-to-end encryption, security technology that makes it so that only the sender and recipient of a message can see its contents.
Oh, the protect children from pedophiles thing is only a cover for an expansion of the total surveillance system.
On Tuesday, Facebook aired early doubts about the bill before it had even been released.....
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Other than that, I didn't really read any of the printed Globe I bought today.
Once again, the deadly coronavirus has been knocked below the fold. I did note the cancellation of the seafood show in the business section (after telling us yesterday that so far, virus fears aren’t hurting Boston’s convention business) and there is the possibility that there will be nothing but empty seats during March Madness this year (I wonder how people will be able to tell the difference between the empty seats from past years) or even a cancellation of the entire tournament as the government shifts focus to containment.
Of course, ‘‘you are not going to slay a disease by lowering interest rates,’’ as fear and uncertainty continue to control Wall Street by worries that a fast-spreading virus will cause a recession!
As for the rest of Metro and Business sections, who gives a $h!t?
