January 17, 2020

"More nuanced analyses of the Sanders-Warren conflict suggest that maintaining a nonaggression pact would be mutually beneficial because otherwise..."

"... Biden could run away with the nomination. But the word 'mutually' is debatable. I’d argue nonaggression toward Warren is pretty clearly in the best interest of Sanders, who was in the stronger position than Warren heading into the debate and who would probably prefer to focus on Biden. But it’s probably not beneficial to Warren. Any scenario that doesn’t involve Warren winning Iowa will leave her in a fairly rough position — and winning Iowa means beating Sanders there."

Writes Nate Silver (at FiveThirtyEight).

109 comments:

Lucid-Ideas said...

Hitler and Stalin had a non-aggression pact to carve up Poland. We know how that worked out.

Anytime I hear the phrase 'non-aggression pact' I think Chamberlain and "Peace for our time" and the fact that anyone who thinks these are 'things' are flipping idiots.

Automatic_Wing said...

Thanks, Captain Obvious!

Mike Sylwester said...

A squaw cannot get elected President in the USA.

FullMoon said...

Biden is the guy. A perfect figurehead while professional politicians and (life long)deepstate employees run the govt.

Liz has no chance at all. Bernie messing things up by being more and more popular with young people who have little life experience and with radicals. Any dem nominee gets the base and Hillary vote. Bernie gets extra with the babies and crazies. Establishment has to derail Bernie so he doesn't accidentally take the nomination from Joe.


Churchy LaFemme: said...

Hitler and Stalin had a non-aggression pact to carve up Poland. We know how that worked out.

I think "Survivor" is the less dramatic, but more apt, reference..

D 2 said...

I have a non aggression pact with the family cat that I would trust more to hold up than would one with either one of those two critters.

If Diplomacy is the art of saying good doggie until you find a stick, then perhaps Politics is the art of knowing how to say good doggie until you've taken the poor puppy's treats away for re allocation.

As it is said: count the spoons when they come to visit, whatever their statements of purity and justice.

Darkisland said...

I wonder if the term "Nonagression pact" is used on purpose here?

You know who else had a famous "nonagression pact"

#2 & #3 in the top 10 list of most murderous people of the 20th century. Hitler and Stalin.

Binging "nonagression pact" brings this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

Is this what Silver has in mind?

Is Bernie Stalin and Warren Hitler?

Or is it vice-versa?

John Henry

Darkisland said...

Is it non-aggression or nonagression?

It just doesn't look right without the hyphen.

John Henry

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

It’s become so farcical that I can’t tell who would benefit from what. I once defended the Divine Right of Kings in a debate, mainly for the delight of practicing straight-faced sophistry (God, I should have been a lawyer). The Democrat primary is far more absurd than that.

narciso said...

yes but it'd be more like lenin and stalin, or Trotsky and lenin,

Darkisland said...

I see unknown beat me to it. Sorry.

It had a number of stipulations besides agreeing to carve up Poland.

John Henry

Lucid-Ideas said...

It appears the snake emojis people were tweeting at Warren have started to recede.

Seems tribe still angry Warren pay wompom to big-nose-sky-tube gods help her speak with forked tongue, but now wait better weather to send smoke signals that she not ready lead tribe. smoke signals ready when burn down city of Mili-Wau-Kee, which means 'the good land'...for Berning.

chuck said...

Politics is Fight Club for exhibitionists.

Achilles said...

This is desperation on Warren's part.

And it will fail.

She was the only one acting like a candidate for a while.

But her inner nature came out. She just has to lie. It is who she is and what she does.

She is ugly on the inside and it is just too obvious to miss.

Achilles said...

Biden = Dole.

narciso said...

their soviet nature comes out,

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-voters-motivated-racism-may-be-violating-constitution-can-they-ncna1110356?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Dole wasn't corrupt.

Biden=Hillary

Michael K said...

Steve Hayward has a column today suggesting that Bloomberg is really planning to run a third party race, Bad news for Dims, if true.

More bad news for Dims. Trump's tariffs worked and the trade deal with China is evidence,

h said...

I take SIlver's analysis seriously. He has a model that estimates the probability of a first ballot convention victory, based on outcome of Iowa caucus. This model shows that if Warren wins Iowa, she has a better than 50 % chance of a first ballot victory; if Buttigieg wins and she comes in second, she has a 20% chance; anything else, and her probabilities fall to single digits. So this makes Iowa look make or break for Warren. So the Warren Sanders tiff (from this perspective) is not so much about knocking off Sanders as it is about shaking up the whole Iowa status quo and doing something (anything!) to propel Warren to the top. Not just improvement from today's polls which have Warren at 16 % but something (anything!) to move her ahead of Biden and Sanders. (I know I'm repeating myself in an attempt to make my point more clearly, but...) It doesn't help Warren one single bit if she moves ahead of Sanders but Biden wins Iowa (from the perspective of SIlver's analytical model).

Achilles said...

BleachBit-and-Hammers said...
Dole wasn't corrupt.

I don't think that is a determination you can make.

Dole was part of the Bush wing of the GOPe machine. Dole managed to make a lot of money as a career pol.

You people are too reflexive of your defense of these people.

The biggest threat to Trump and to the republic right now is not from democrats. It is from traitors who lied to republican voters and cashed in with the democrats.

Dole was pretty chummy with that group. Sure looks like he was in it. He did pretty well for himself in DC...

rhhardin said...

Warren's a woman. Just wait for her to change her mind.

Two-eyed Jack said...

I think this sort of thing is what made Hamilton think that Monarchy wouldn't be such a bad idea.

rhhardin said...

In a three-way duel, the poorest shot should fire in the air for his turn until one of the others gets killed. The others will concentrate on each other until then, and then the poor shot at least gets the first shot in the resulting 2-way duel.

narciso said...

there are so many blank pages out there,

taheri's nest of spies, more than 30 years ago, and Andrew scott, have come closest to relating reality,


https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1218023004774522880?s=20

Michael K said...

Dole managed to make a lot of money as a career pol.

"Senator from Archer Daniels Midland."

Tank said...

If Sanders had been a bit more aggression-like re: certain emails, he might be president right now.

narciso said...

he was 'the tax collector for the welfare state' as newt properly pegged him, he was probably more honest than bush sr, Stanley Hilton was his Procopius, telling tales twenty years after his hagiography,

the problem is warren represents mostly the same group of voters, even though their donor pools don't overlap,

wild chicken said...

"A perfect figurehead while professional politicians and (life long)deepstate employees run the govt"

Exactly! You're voting for a team. I'd prefer Biden/Klubuchar over any of the other Dems.

Anyway, at my club today a pol and business guy from another town said these new trade deals Trump's team got us are da bomb.

It seems Trump is quite the hoss unlike Pres Pants Crease.

tim maguire said...

Warren and Sanders are going after many of the same voters and, between them, they have the largest block of voters in the primary. So long as both are in the race, neither can get ahead, but the moment one drops out, the other takes a commanding lead. So they have to try to knock each other off, and the sooner the better (because as each primary is held, that state's voters are no longer able to change allegiance).

narciso said...


they don't want a Corbyn situation if they can help it,


https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-steyn-sexism-controversy-shows-dnc-cnn-joined-at-the-hip-against-bernie-sanders

BUMBLE BEE said...

Achilles said... She just has to lie. How so very true. Last night Liz Wheeler on OANN ran down the lies. So easily lies about things that are easily researched and proven as lies. A compulsion perhaps, and traceable through her entire life. Prodigious one, that Lieawatha!

narciso said...

so it's more like scorpions in a bottle, they'll deal with the frogs later,

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Have we heard from Non-apod?

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

some say there was a second sexist on a grassy knoll

Skeptical Voter said...

Throw a pork chop on the deck and let the two tigers have at it. Somebody will emerge victorious from this Klown Kar of the Kakistocracy and I don't much care who But better that whoever survives be a bit dinged up.


Of course if the damage is severe enough, there's Hillary, tanned, rested and (un)ready as ever. Her pantsuit could serve as a parachute as she jumps in to "save the party", In that case, oh frabjous day, I can vote against her once again.

Drago said...

What an incredible conundrum for LLR-lefty Chuck as he fully supports both of these dreamy dems and having to pick between the two would be like picking out your favorite child.

YoungHegelian said...

So writes Nate Silver, relatively "non-ideological" numbers wonk at 538.

But, relatively non-ideological numbers wonks are not Sanders nor Warrens slice of the electorate, are they? No, their electorate is the left wing of the Democratic Party & those even further to the Left, who see the campaigns as their chance to Hit The Big Time.

The apt historical comparison here is not Hitler-Stalin. The proper comparison is Stalin-Trotsky. The electorates are various sorts of lefties who all loath each other more than they loath the Right, a long history built around the vanity of small differences.

Drago said...

It seems like only yesterday Admiral Inga was explaining to us how Trump was so very very very scared of Li'l Tomahawk.

That was after Admiral Inga telling us Trump was very scared of Michael Avenatti, then Beto (I know!! Remember him? LOL), then Kamala, then Slow Joe, then Buttigererifrrrisgaaoaothheggg, then Bernie....

Actually, I do believe that Inga told us that ANY of these dems would beat Trump easily!

Of course, one must recall that over the last 3 years Admiral Inga told us that the "Real Leaders of the Free World" were (and I believe this is the correct order in which she lectured us): May, then Merkel, then Macron then (believe it or not) the Blackface Trudeau!!

Amazing isn't it?

tcrosse said...

How they vie for the Poison Chalice!

Spiros said...

Norwegian social scientists concluded that higher voter participation correlated strongly with right wing groups doing better (especially anti-immigrant parties)! I think there is strong anecdotal evidence supporting this conclusion.

So the best way to get Biden in the White House is through nonaggression pacts, voter suppression and apathy. Pelosi and her clan need to get the New York Times, CNN, etc. to cool it. An enthusiastic electorate is bad news for the Democrats.

walter said...

Bury the hatchet and partake of the Peace Pipe.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Warren is unbelievable.

She made an unverifiable accusation of sexism, then instead of simply holding to it, made another accusation of lying, also unverifiable. Why accuse him of lying when, AFAWK, he has as much room to accuse her of the same? Why bring up a controversy that would have been completely unknown if she hadn’t mentioned it, except to garner sympathy due to her membership in at least one victim class?

Not only was the conversation private, she knows that it was out of school, and unrecorded, so she can never be proven wrong.

Sanders has progressive bona fides, and it would be out of character for him to say a woman couldn’t win the presidency, or beat Trump. I disagree with him politically, but Sanders seems to be an honest man, which is more than I can say for that woman.

Tommy Duncan said...

Blogger Michael K said...

"More bad news for Dims. Trump's tariffs worked and the trade deal with China is evidence,"

Tariffs work, but not instantly. It took some time for China to understand that Trump would stand his ground. Now they know. If only we could get the press and the Democrats to understand that tariffs are not immediately effective nor necessarily permanent.

narciso said...

I made that point Hegelian, it was fmr Trotskyite james burnham, who would go on to helm the strategy column at national review, and consulting with the company, that outlined the left challenge,

Drago said...

"More bad news for Dims. Trump's tariffs worked and the trade deal with China is evidence,"

This is completely "Un-possible". Noted International Trade experts LLR-lefty Chuck, Admiral Inga, Field Marshall Freder and ARM all told us in no uncertain terms Trumps trade strategies would all fail, never come to fruition, lead to runaway inflation and destroy entire market sectors.

So again, all this massive economic and trade success MUST be due solely to mass hypnosis and complete media control vy the dictator OrangeManBad.

Btw, the President of the Manufacturers council today praised Trump for having kept his promises to US manufacturers AND Consumer Confidence is at a 19 year high AND december consumer spending increased by 5+% vs december of 2019.

narciso said...

one wonders if Trotsky had prevailed instead of stalin, would things have been different, the latter's main point was to consolidate the revolution in one country, stalin moved to the next step with the second international

Inga said...

Drago, you seem a bit manic again tonight. It seems you cannot put together an argument without dragging in commenters who haven’t even commented on this thread and misrepresenting what they actually said.

Democrats will vote for Biden, Warren, Sanders, or even the dog catcher over Trump. So all the hysteria over the Warren/Biden tiff doesn’t really mean a thing.

J. Farmer said...

Hopefully Bernie has enough wherewithal to realize that the surest path to electoral victory is to take everything political consultants/experts tell you to do and do the exact opposite.

Inga said...

As for Trump and his accomplishments...
Just remember Hitler built the autobahn and Mussolini got the trains to run on time. The rest of their legacy wasn’t very great.

Josephbleau said...

narciso said...

"one wonders if Trotsky had prevailed instead of stalin, would things have been different, the latter's main point was to consolidate the revolution in one country, stalin moved to the next step with the second international"

Da comrade, true communism has never yet been tried.

narciso said...

then again when you have jurek as a field organizer, well that's a whole other kettle of fish, he's as subtle as the gunmen who worked in the camps,

Narayanan said...

Q: do any who discuss alt-communism outcome for history have opinion on We The Living - Ayn Rand.

Michael K said...

It took some time for China to understand that Trump would stand his ground. Now they know. If only we could get the press and the Democrats to understand that tariffs are not immediately effective nor necessarily permanent.

The Chinese, like Iran and North Korea are hoping the Democrats bail them out. If they do,. it will be money well spent. I don't see it happening.

Michael said...

.
h said....So this makes Iowa look make or break for Warren.

If Silver is correct, then Lizzie is in deep, deep trouble. Her support has decayed over the past three months, sitting now in 4th place...and down double digits to Biden.

Will she even make it to Super Tuesday?

Achilles said...

Inga said...
As for Trump and his accomplishments...
Just remember Hitler built the autobahn and Mussolini got the trains to run on time. The rest of their legacy wasn’t very great.


You are such a terrible and ridiculous person.

Please do not stop showing the world how awful you people are.

Drago said...

Admiral Inga: "Drago, you seem a bit manic again tonight."

Yep. Inga is out of ideas as evidenced by her standard retreat tactics:
1) Mindless cutting and pasting
2) Accusations of mania

The only thing that changes over time is what order her default mode reverts to when she's out of ammo.

Yancey Ward said...

Damnit! I was going write it was a Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, but the first commenter beat me to it!

Drago said...

Admiral Inga (who predicted a Hillary landslide): "Democrats will vote for Biden, Warren, Sanders, or even the dog catcher over Trump."

58% of the attendees for Trumps rally in Milwaukee were democrats or independents.

Union leaders, democrats all (including in the Minnesota Iron Range) are warning the dems that their traditional dem voters are all swinging Trump. This is evidenced further by Colin Petersen's vote on impeachment and the national Manufacturers Council praising Trump today for having kept his promises.

So once again, Inga relies on weird anecdotes while we rely on clear trends on the ground.

Makes sense really and helps explain Ingas moronic reversion to Hitler comparisons again.

Going Full Godwin is as clear an indicator of the Talking Points Cupboard being bare as there can be.

pacwest said...

If Sanders isn't the nominee there will be a portion of the Bros who will set this one out. Unknown how large that group will be, but I'd bet it would be a % or two drop come general election. The Dems can't afford that. With AOC attacking the party from within and a weak Presidental candidate the Dems are going to have problems in Congress too.


Drago said...

Btw, as mentioned earlier, the moron Biden once again referred to Robert Francis O'Rourke as an hispanic!!

Dementia, clearly.

Yancey Ward said...

I do think the story at CNN was a desperate ploy by Warren to get into the top two in Iowa, and if it was, it was a poor strategic choice. I think it backfired and I think it finished Warren's campaign. A much better tactic would have been to go after the Bidens, not Sanders- Biden and his son are much softer and juicier targets, and she could have staked out the ground that the Democrats are being foolish in considering Biden with all the ethical problems that Trump will highlight against him in the general election. I just can't figure out why Warren thinks lying is the way to go time after time- they aren't lies about really important matters and, worse, are lies that aren't believable or are easily proven as lies. She just isn't very smart, I think.

I think, as of right now, she is going to finish 4th or worse in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and Sanders is getting close to finishing 1st in both.

Yancey Ward said...

Michael K,

I just don't see Bloomberg running third party- it would all but guarantee Trump's reelection. Bloomberg as a third party candidate could have damaged Trump if he hadn't switched back to the Democratic Party during his time as mayor, but now he would be stuck with the Democrat label and would draw 2/3s or more of his support from the Democratic candidate in the general election. His presence as a third party candidate would allow Trump to win states like NJ, NM, CO, MN, NH, DE, VA, OR, CT, and maybe even CA. I mean, I hope he runs a third party candidate, but I don't think he is stupid enough to do it.

FullMoon said...
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FullMoon said...

Democrats will vote for Biden, Warren, Sanders, or even the dog catcher over Trump."

Because they do not HATE Trump and they love America. Pretty much does define average Dem intelligence. Follow your leaders. Do as you are told. Vote against peace and prosperity. Because you lost an election.

Yancey Ward said...

If Hitler were the Democratic candidate, he would get Inga's vote.

Drago said...

My favorite Trump accomplishment this year: The US becoming a net energy exporter, which Trump specifically mentioned a few weeks back right at the time that ARM and Inga were claiming it wasnt true at all!!

So. Much. Winning!

Yet, oddly enough, I am not yet tired of all the winning.

At all.

Josephbleau said...

Warren is at her schwerpunkt, she sees synchronicity. She must use all available tactics to create a breakout or she will be across the Rhine without a bridgehead.

Inga said...

“Was it your father, or grandfather that worked on the autobahn? Cannot recall which you said. Good Germans.”

My people left Germany in 1720.

Rory said...

"Bloomberg"

I've been assuming all along that the Romneyites would put someone up as an independent, just because they haven't launched a plausible challenger within the party. If they don't have any candidate through the whole cycle, they'll lose whatever fig leaf they're using to assert they're even a faction among the Republicans. Maybe a Bloomberg-GOPe fusion ticket, talking only about the budget deficit or something?

Guildofcannonballs said...


"one wonders if Trotsky had prevailed instead of stalin, would things have been different,"

One is stupid to wonder that, and it is a legit criticism to state that. I respect your point, and often the cryptic way you make it with samizdat expectations, but the idea anyone would think it would be the same is moronic.

Don't dumb you or us down. State why the difference, by definition, by any use of logic, if a "great" ruler wouldn't have been why it would have been different if another took their place. If your conclusion is "yeah there wasn't much difference I doubt given the surrounding power structures" that makes a lot of sense and could be seen as accurate.

But you cut corners. Again, I respect that, but I hope you respect your limiting yourself in ways I don't think ultimately will advantage you, nor your country Sir.


narciso said...

No im cutting straight to the point, trotsky believed in revolution on a global scale,

Burnham as an ex trotskyite brought some perspective, hitchens who still was had a limited one.

Drago said...

Inga: "My people left Germany in 1720."

You can take the German out of Germany, but.......

FullMoon said...
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Inga said...

“My people left Germany in 1720.”

“Dead of night, in a hurry, no doubt. Before the law could catch up with them..”

True! There were three brothers that were indentured servants and skipped out on their master, in the dead of night no doubt. No law ever caught them according to the genealogist.

narciso said...

I thought you came from yugoslavia i guess i was mistaken.

Guildofcannonballs said...

J. Farmer said...
Hopefully Bernie has enough wherewithal to realize that the surest path to electoral victory is to take everything political consultants/experts tell you to do and do the exact opposite.

1/17/20, 5:55 PM

And when consultants and experts hired for large amounts disagree?

I agree with the point, if indeed it's one you're attempting to make, but understand how stupid and unfruitful your attitude is. I assume you narcissisticaly felt special by typing essentially on Althouse "oh experts are dumb when it comes to politics."

Because often there are differing strategies on how to win within any campaign, and half win in most cases of which I refer to, how can you claim what I quoted without feeling like a normal, out of the mainstream political naif?

Do you think when the Patriots football team in the NFL league lost they decided hey, we all thought the same things for the same reasons and ergo we will all retire because we weren't as successful as we (all) had hoped this time?

It helps noone (I consider noone a word as valid as any other) when you emote as someone we all expect greater things from.

What is happening is like Hollywood, some win and some lose. Results???? Who cares. We pick winners, we pick Hitlers-to-be.

Sebastian said...

"But it’s probably not beneficial to Warren."

Yeah. She has to play the gender card.

Doesn't she know the hard left favors class over gender?

Guildofcannonballs said...

So let's examine what your cutting has accomplished.

I say your cutting comes across as gibberish to most people not focused year after year on commenting on blogs minute by minute.

I, a political junkie, like Althouse, understand some/most of your references, but the vast majority of people do not.

If, as CNN, you feel you only need to broadcast for the special few who have the money and power to influence anti-Satan, God bless my friend.

If, you can see the advantage or "utility" in philosophic terms, of speaking in a way that affects to your/our benefit by reaching more viewers then I'll feel really good.

I merely offer observational advice without criticism unwarranted in a Chucc sense.

Inga said...

“I thought you came from yugoslavia i guess i was mistaken.”

Those Germans who left Germany in 1720, by 1810 ended up in what was to become Yugoslavia. I was born in Austria, where my parents were refugees, they weren’t Austrians any more than I was, being born there. My family came to Wisconsin in 1955.

narciso said...

Unlike most of you, except cuban bob and qwinn probably, its not a theoretical argument over marxist policies.

Guildofcannonballs said...

What I wrote to Narciso was one of the toughest things I've ever written.

I see patterns everywhere and a main one online is "yeah but Payton Manning should have been a cornerback too so the team could save a position by having Payton, if he was any good, play two positions."

Yeah yeah it makes no sense and that's the point.

It hasn't caught on yet, but the point stands: leopards don't change their spots.

narciso said...

Commies bring the butchers bill, guild, aometimes it takes 5 years as with venezuela but it comes

Guildofcannonballs said...

"Unlike most of you, except cuban bob and qwinn probably, its not a theoretical argument over marxist policies."

And those that don't know, those that never will take their time to decipher your prose, they deserve it?

I and others have offered you a more effective way of making the points you appear to be making. It is called grammar. Some folks do it with respect. It has proven more effective than error-prone comments reflecting drunkenness unless significant time is spent deciphering the meaning.

As (I won't give you the honor of saying "fellow") a drunk I resent you muddling up our syntax.

Guildofcannonballs said...

"Commies bring the butchers bill, guild, aometimes it takes 5 years as with venezuela but it comes"

The idea you prevent that is the U.S.A. by misspelling words isn't my idea of prevention.

Getting drunk and commentating on Althouse is.

I accept my failure here.

narciso said...

Autocorrect, fenster, a dozen flavor or marxist is still commie red.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

"Biden once again referred to Robert Francis O'Rourke as an hispanic!!"

Did he trill the Rs? If not, ¡ESO ES RACISTA!

Guildofcannonballs said...

I saw a guy go from a horrible hateful shithead to an admirable church-singing man I want to be able to say I emulated someday.

I called him a cunt.

I would be a jerk to think I had any significant influence, but I've allowed myself to jerk myself.

As do we all given the time we are given.

narciso said...

Well your choice of language belies that, spanish is a much more expressive language but i chose not to use such terms.

JML said...

"This is evidenced further by Colin Petersen's vote on impeachment and the national Manufacturers Council praising Trump today for having kept his promises."

I worked with Dave Hughes, the man running agains Peterson. The day I met Dave, he told me he was going to retire from the AF and run against Peterson. This is his third time running against Peterson, and he is gaining. I told him Peterson is afraid of him. This is Dave's year.

Guildofcannonballs said...

I confabulate spelling and grammar for my own reasons, and, like C. Kane, my reasons satisfy me (Susan).

If N's reasons satisfy then I apologize for creating my own self-indulgent utopic Althouse blog here.

Big Mike said...

Iowa is a bad place to use poll numbers. Iowa is won by whoever can set up the most organizations in order to win local caucuses. I predict it will be won by Sanders or by someone everybody is overlooking and who has been operating under the radar.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Yancey @7:23

So weird you said that. I was just thinking that if the Democrats had a choice between Trump and Hitler, they would pick Hitler.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Didn't the federal government of the States figure out in TX that if a bunch of bikers gather 'round then they can kill them randomly, probably for kicks?

Right?

Did I miss something? You missed it altogether?

I guess that's okay, since they really nailed that ass of the Las Vegas Murderer. I saw Steve Wynn say how everythings cool the next day, instead of mourn.

In his mind, mourning would have shown weakness. Weakness to those that don't trust him as the sociopath he probably, everybody knows, had to be to get to where he is.

But our FBI and CIA and blah blah blah figured that all out so greatly I just missed every single fact-checked, peer-reviewed detail MY FUCKING TAX DOLLAR PAID FOR AGAIN.

Josephbleau said...
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Josephbleau said...

Is Inga verifying that she came to the US in 1955 per her post about being born in Austria and immigrating to Wisconsin? if so I understand her more, some people, like the French, hate the people who help them. So inga would hate America for being better than the country she came from.

Guildofcannonballs said...

tHEORHETICAL: Brill BO'Reiby

"Althouse I claim the middle, you're a prog, why would anyone think your trick votes are other than prog hackery accostingly fulfilled with the gravitas of the great, and I've been/made there, State and University you represent."

5o Ilve lost it.

I din't practice it ( the world didn't appreciate me ) so I gave it up. Now i gret it gone.

Fuck.r

Josephbleau said...

Warren has burned the wikiups and run the children into the woods. Her braves must count coup in Bernie’s tribe to reap Iowa hunting ground.

Guildofcannonballs said...

"everythings" is what I will name my casino.

Drago said...

JML: "I worked with Dave Hughes, the man running agains Peterson. The day I met Dave, he told me he was going to retire from the AF and run against Peterson. This is his third time running against Peterson, and he is gaining. I told him Peterson is afraid of him. This is Dave's year."

Well, it is a Trump +30 or so district. I can't understand why Petersen hasn't already switched to the republican party.

Josephbleau said...

If Warren believed in probability she would get out of politics and open her own tribal casino.

wildswan said...

"Mike Sylwester said...
A squaw cannot get elected President in the USA."

I think Pelosi has shown that a squaw can be as rotten as a Biden or any other guy and totally could be President. However, I don't think Warren is coming across as one of the guys the way Pelosi does. Then, Sanders has forgotten nothing and Biden remembers nothing. Basically, the Dems have no one and they're spending billions on it. Excellent.

Josephbleau said...
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Josephbleau said...

Warren marshalls her regiments along a low wooded ridge facing an entrenched enemy a mile away. Her commanders order her to assault across the plain, in the direction of a small copse of trees.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

58% of the attendees for Trumps rally in Milwaukee were democrats or independents.

Union leaders, democrats all (including in the Minnesota Iron Range) are warning the dems that their traditional dem voters are all swinging Trump. This is evidenced further by Colin Petersen's vote on impeachment and the national Manufacturers Council praising Trump today for having kept his promises.


Not sure if this is true. But I wouldn't doubt it. This is not the year for Democrats. They've been out-working class hero'ed by a a guy set up with a trust account paying him 6 figures annually by age 3.

Warren must be a moron. Apparently she really thought the "people are mean to me because I'm a woman" thing would work. Even if Bernie said something along those lines, choosing to interpret whatever he said to mean that she therefore couldn't win was disingenuous enough to be disqualifying. Enough of the lies! Which female candidate pointed out that at least Bernie was being honest about the funding of his silly healthcare "plan," and that Warren wasn't?

Not to set off Full Moon again, but what is wrong with American female candidates when it comes to high office that compels them to complain that everyone is picking on them? How is such a self-victim mentality ever a winning strategy for any presidential candidate? How does it convey the resilience necessary for national office and leading the world's largest military? Which female national leader anywhere in the world ever sought pity by complaining about people not believing in/liking/wanting to vote for her as a way of successfully pulling off an election or a term in office? Angela Merkl? Golda Meir? Margaret Thatcher? Indira Gandhi? Why are only Americans stupid enough to think that this whiny BS should work? It's astounding to me that people are so deficient of character as to prefer pity over the glory of the win. Does any job candidate expect to get hired (or even get hired) by saying, "People here probably don't like me and wouldn't hire me anyway. They just don't believe I'll get hired" Did this work for Hillary?

Blows my mind every time. They just can't help themselves.

Karen of Texas said...

Hell has surely frozen over. I am applauding Ritmo's comment. Well done, PTPSPPC. When you're right, you're right.

Bilwick said...

I wish the Statist Gang would sign a non-aggression pact with the National Taxpayers Union and the NRA.

Kirk Parker said...

"Bury the hatchet"

Enough about Trotsky.

FullMoon said...

what is wrong with American female candidates when it comes to high office that compels them to complain that everyone is picking on them?

Yeah, I noticed that also, along with complaining about the evil white man. Do Republican women candidates do the same thing? Or is it only dems simply appealing to their pussy hat/pussy whipped?

Sarah Palin. Condolleeza Rice. Nikki Haley.

Nichevo said...


President Toilet Paper Shoe's Perfect Phone Call said...
58% of the attendees for Trumps rally in Milwaukee were democrats or independents.

Union leaders, democrats all (including in the Minnesota Iron Range) are warning the dems that their traditional dem voters are all swinging Trump. This is evidenced further by Colin Petersen's vote on impeachment and the national Manufacturers Council praising Trump today for having kept his promises.

Not sure if this is true. But I wouldn't doubt it. This is not the year for Democrats. They've been out-working class hero'ed by a a guy set up with a trust account paying him 6 figures annually by age 3.

Warren must be a moron. Apparently she really thought the "people are mean to me because I'm a woman" thing would work. ?

Blows my mind every time. They just can't help themselves.

1/18/20, 10:01 AM


Proud of you bruv. You see it coming. Don't worry, I fear, no one will follow PDT in the GOP so a D reformer, if he can beat the system next time, can clean up.