Will On Biden In Russian

Here's our latest piece at Inforos:

Last week was a tough one for the American economy, stock market, and public. Slowly, the number of Wuhan Coronavirus cases in the United States rose to more than 3,500. The New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and S&P all had their worst weeks since the Financial Crisis of 2008. At the same time, Saudi Arabia and Russia began a petroleum-price war pushing the price of oil down to levels at which many American producers cannot compete. This week looks to be little better. Here in New Jersey, the number of Wuhan Coronavirus cases reached 178 by Monday

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The Combined Stroock Appliance and Dem Debate Post

Yesterday the handle to the microwave broke. We meant to repair it with some rubber cement but forgot. Just now, as we were getting our coffee, we remembered and thought, What the hell were we doing last night, then? Oh dear lord...

We watched two old men bickering over who voted for what in 1995.

Joe Biden didn't really have any cognitive breakdowns, not the kind we were hoping for, anyway. But he had this annoying tick where he'd say, 'First we blah, blah, blah. Second we yada, yada yada...' This is almost certainly a memory trick to keep Biden from wondering off, mentally.

At one point we turned to Mrs. Stroock and remarked, 'He just says a bunch of words until he gets somewhere.' Mrs. Stroock, who was struggling to stay awake after a day of ferocious spring cleaning, replied, 'Yep.'

Biden thinks he's good at this.

Last night we realized we don't think we've ever scene Bernie Sanders smile. He's losing but says the same thing over and over again.

As to what any of these two grumps are advocating, it was a contest between who could offer free stuff and who could offer crappy, socialist free stuff. 

Dear spellcheck, 'freestuff' should be one word for the duration of the campaign.

Bernie's Biden's Bitch

Inforos can't go with that title, they have standards, afterall. But I don't and can.

My latest at Inforos:

Joe Biden swept the Democrat Party primary on Tuesday night. He wiped out Bernie Sanders in Missouri (60-34) and also Michigan (52-36), a state in which Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. Biden won Idaho and Mississippi as well, with Washington State too close to call. Sanders won North Dakota. The Vermont Senator gave a defiant speech the day after and vowed to fight on, saying his ideas were being embraced by the Democrat electorate and his campaign is winning the generational debate. If so, that would mean Sanders is winning everywhere but in the voting booth. Perhaps Sanders can salvage his campaign during the upcoming debate on 15 March

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What Will Watched

The Dem Debate: What a freak show.  Mrs. Stroock asked if Slow Joe even knows he's shouting. Klobuchar looked like a wine mom running a Pilates class. Bernie stubbornly refused to say communism is bad.  Mayor (re) Pete tried so hard to appeal to African American voters we kept waiting for him to put on black face. Warren took no scalps. We don't think Bloomberg looked that bad. But we've always sorta liked him, as mayor, as mayor. Steyer?Are you not entertained?

What Will (Didn't) Watch

We don't watch debates. Why? But the Spectator's Amber Athey did:

Bloomberg took a gamble by appearing at Wednesday’s debate — presumably he assumed he had the political experience to put up a good performance. Instead, he was hammered repeatedly over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, his ‘stop and frisk’ policies in New York City, his status as a billionaire, and his previous Republican membership. The mayor appeared defensive and unprepared to answer to any of these attacks — the type of thing that can sink a candidacy, if Sen Kamala Harris’s campaign post-Tulsi Gabbard whacking her for her prosecutorial history is any indicator.

The titan of business, media and New York City has been surrounded by yes-men for 40 years and it showed. Money can buy you a massive campagin infrastrucutre but it can't buy you people willing to let you have it in the debate prep (What, and risk that plum $5,000 a month gig?). We remain confident in our autumn prediction that the mayor will not be the Democrat nominee.

Bernie to Biden: You know what this costs you AFTER 6?

Hot Air previews the Del Boca Vista* debate last night and discusses something we've been wondering about ourselves. 

What if there's a brokered convention?

It's really possible, isn't it?

Fauxcahontas has the osteoporosis white ladies and the bicoastal elites locked up, though sadly not the Native Americans. 

Bernie's got the socialists, the AOC types and the So-Bros. 

People who think Biden is dropping out anytime soon are delusional becuase he's got the black vote and will roll up a hell of a lot of southern primaries, where blacks are usually at least half the Dem voters.

That's three solid voter constituencies and by extension, delegate blocks.

Do reader(s) see any of these people compromising? No. it's more likely they'll all bicker like an old couple and the wife's spinster sister arguing with the waiter that they're eligible for the Early Bird Special* even though it's after 6 PM.

We may very well have the treat of not only a brokered convention, but a deadlocked convention. You know what that means...

[Oh fuck no -Ed]

Oh fuck yes! Hillary! to the rescue!

Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer. I beg, I plead. Please.

*You know the drill, comment.