Thursday, January 23, 2020

Go, Bernie, go! He leads in New Hampshire

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Impeach Me If You Can" went up last night.

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Meanwhile Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

Sen. Bernie Sanders jumped out to a double-digit lead over his 2020 Democratic presidential rivals in a poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters released Thursday—less than three weeks ahead of the state's Feb. 11 primary.
"Bernie Sanders might be peaking at just the right time," wrote Anthony Brooks of Boston NPR affiliate WBUR, which sponsored the new poll. According to the survey, Sanders has the support of 29% of likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters, a 14-point jump since December 2019.

Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg polled in a distant second place at 17% support. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) placed third and fourth with 14% and 13% support, respectively.

I love that news. 

This news reflects what Ava and C.I. have been seeing as well.  As they noted in "TV: Do not feed the beast:"

It's taken over four hours to do a first draft on this.  Why?  We're both sick.  We both have the flu.  We're stopping to throw up constantly.

But guess what?  Come Monday, we'll be back in New Hampshire again.  We'll be on the ground again speaking to potential voters.  We're good at that.  We took out the front runner there before and we're hoping to recreate that this year.  Yes, that would mean taking out Joe Biden this year.

We'll be talking up Bernie and, yes, Elizabeth.  We'll be focusing our fire where it matters: On Joe.  America can't afford four years of Joe Biden as president.  Should it happen, we will survive.  But we would be better off with a President Bernie or a President Elizabeth.  So we will speak and stress the positives of both of those two while explaining in great detail how Joe has harmed Iraq, how he's a threat to Medicare, how he has no ethics "as a Biden."  And this go round?  We're putting special emphasis on any women's group that has single mothers in it so we can highlight how Mr. Compassion is denying his grandchild and letting his grandchild do without as his son Deadbeat Dad Hunter Biden refuses to pay child support for the child he has denied was his (but DNA has demonstrated it is Hunter's child).  Joe Biden and his wife have raked in over $15 million in the last three years but Joe's going to let his grandchild live in poverty and go unrecognized?  Oh, hell no.  That's not going to play with them.

That's how we're going to spend our time next week. 

They've dedicated this entire month to New Hampshire only and that's what they've been seeing a real push towards Bernie.  New Hampshire is where they are speaking all month and they're doing it to make sure that they've done everything they can so that Joe's not the nominee.  They know how to hit on the issues.  They aren't the only ones.  There's a real battle going on in New Hampshire and I'm praying Bernie wins.

We need Bernie.  Joe Biden is not the future.  Joe Biden is an ugly past. 

  1. Bernie leads in New Hampshire, bigly! How to we keep our lead? 🤔 📱 💬

I would also recommend that you read this COUNTERPUNCH article by Russell Mokhiber.  There's no way to excerpt it without ruining the article so please make a point to read it. 

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Thursday, January 23, 2020.   War Hawk Joe Biden starts showing the stress as he continues trying to run from his own record, protests continue in Iraq, another protester has been killed, and much more.

Starting in the US where the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues.  As Elaine noted in "It cries" last night, when not sobbing on TV, War Hawk Joe Biden can be found these days attacking the press.  Yesterday, he got 'handsy' with CBS NEWS' Ed O'Keefe.

“Yesterday you... accepted Bernie’s apology. Now you’re attacking him... Why wasn’t his apology enough?” CBS’ Ed O’Keefe asked Joe Biden. “Why, why, why, why, why, why? You’re getting nervous, man. Calm down!” ~ is losing it. 🙄

‘What in the hot mess was that?’ Joe Biden gets ‘very close to fully freaking out on’ CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe over question about Bernie Sanders [video]

Joe Biden is out here attacking reporters like a "rabid dog". Why? Guess North Korea was correct in its diagnosis when it said, "Rabid dogs like Biden can hurt lots of people if they are allowed to run about." Looks like CBS News' Ed O'Keefe found out.

WATCH: After a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa, reacts to 's question about his ongoing feud with : "Calm down, it's okay."


It's not a good time to be Joe Biden.  Even with all the efforts on the part of the media to spin things Joe's way, the wheels are coming off the cart.  Joshua Cho (COMMON DREAMS) notes:

Here’s something many Americans would be very interested to know: Is a leading candidate in the Democratic primary a liar? And since a strong majority of Americans have consistently opposed cuts to Social Security, the country’s most successful anti-poverty program, Democratic voters in particular might be interested to know if a President Joe Biden would try to cut Social Security.
Former Vice President Biden has supported cuts to Social Security for 40 years, and is on the record for saying things like:
When Biden was running for president in 2007, he declared his willingness to oppose the US public when he boasted that he would ignore his advisers’ advice not to “touch that third rail,” and even released a plan to cut Social Security under the guise of raising the retirement age.

So when Bernie Sanders’ campaign released a video of Joe Biden’s statements reiterating his desire to cut Social Security, a program that benefited 64 million Americans in 2019, and is the major source of income for most elderly Americans, shouldn’t media headlines reflect this? And if many of these outlets openly acknowledge that Biden’s claim that the video was “doctored” isn’t true, don’t they have a journalistic obligation not to launder the Biden campaign’s false talking points?

Surveying Joe's long history regarding Social Security, Max B. Sawicky (IN THESE TIMES) concludes, "In summary, there should be no doubt that Joe Biden has long advocated cuts to Social Security."  It's a tough time for Joe as his supporters in the media appear unable to carry him across the finish line.  The truth is hurting Joe's chances at (a) fooling the American people and (b) locking down the party's presidential nomination.  Jon Queally (COMMON DREAMS) explains:

After Joe Biden's campaign Tuesday night released an online video accusing the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of unleashing a "barrage of negative attacks" and "not telling the truth"  about the former vice president's record on Social Security, the hashtag #TelltheTruthJoe began trending on social media and Sanders himself shot back by saying: "Let's be honest, Joe. One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn't. But don’t take it from me. Take it from you."
Characterizing the Biden campaign video as "the first negative ad of the 2020 Democratic primary," Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, in a statement, said it was important for people to understand why it was being released now.
Biden, said Shakir, is "trying to distort his decades-long record of proposing and voting for cuts to Social Security benefits for millions of people." According to Shakir, the well-documented history shows that "Biden is no defender of Social Security, and a negative ad won't help him outrun his record."

To again bolster their case, the Sanders campaign released detailed fact sheet (pdf) as well as a new video of their own detailing Biden's long history of calling for Social Security cuts and espousing his willingness—across numerous decades in Congress and during his time in the White House with President Barack Obama—to work with Republicans on the effort. While Briahna Joy Gray, national press secretary for the campaign, noted early Wednesday morning the video had received over 1 million views in a matter of hours since it was released, as of this writing the figure was much closer to 2 million[.]

Joe can't run from his record and it's a very, very sad record.

In 2010, Joe Biden's brother's construction firm received a $1.5 billion dollar government contract to build homes in Iraq while Joe was overseeing the US led occupation of the country. This is corruption and war profiteering. Plain and simple.

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Biden's brother received 1.5 Billion to build homes in Iraq during the time Joe Biden was Vice President and placed in charge of the reconstruction of destroyed housing, buildings and utilities. The Brother had no experience in these field.

Joe "Hair Sniffing" Biden has the nerve to call videogamers "Little Creeps?" and says "games teach people to kill." You know what ? No one ever died from Mortal Kombat. 100,000 civilians died from your Iraq War vote. Spare us the lecture.

Joe Biden's campaign is based on lies... Lies that he hasn't been fighting to cut Social Security for 4 decades. Lies that he wasn't an enthusiastic proponent of the Iraq War. Lies that he marched in the Civil Rights Movement.

  • NEW: I did a deep dived into Biden's comments on the Iraq War – how he defended his vote after the war began. In a speech in 2004, Biden defended his vote saying U.S. had to go into Iraq even though there were no WMDs, terror ties, or imminent threat.

    Here for the CNN's look at Joe Biden's record on Iraq.

    Meanwhile, THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS has a column by US Senator Lisa Murkowsski which notes:

    In the last couple of weeks, our U.S. Embassy in Iraq was under attack, Iran-backed militias were responsible for the death of an American contractor, and most recently, more than a dozen missiles attacked Iraqi-U.S. bases housing our troops. Out of the roughly 5,000 U.S. troops deployed in Iraq, more than 2,000 are from Alaska. Between the Stryker Brigade out of Fort Wainwright and the Alaska Guard Rescue Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, our Alaska troops have a large presence in the region and are key contributors in supporting Operation Inherent Resolve in an effort to eliminate the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
     Alaska soldiers were in charge of fence and base exterior security at Al-Asad. The night before the missile attacks, the base commander ordered troops to bunker and lock down the bases. Some units were able to evacuate with their aircraft while others sought shelter in hardened buildings or bunkers. However, many of the Alaska soldiers were to remain on the fence to ensure base security during the attack and sheltered in their vehicles.

    After the attacks, commanders sought accountability of their troops and checked for casualties. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal, or EOD, teams conducted sweeps to ensure no units remained unexploded. Afterward, they began the clean-up process to remove rubble, destroyed buildings and equipment.

    Steve DeVane (FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER) reports:

    The 82nd soldiers will take over security at the embassy in Baghdad from the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said. An element from the division's Immediate Response Force brigade will be assigned to the embassy, according to a statement released Tuesday by the spokesman.

    The statement did not give details of when the paratroopers will go to the embassy or how many of them will go.

    AFP reports on the continuing protests in Iraq:

    An Iraqi demonstrator was shot dead in the southern city of Basra overnight, a security source and the human rights commission said Thursday, the latest in a string of protester deaths. 
    [. . .] 
    It was the second straight night a protester was gunned down in Basra. Female activist and paramedic Janat Madhi, 49, was killed the same way late on Tuesday.
    The deaths bring this week's toll to 12 demonstrators killed, according to the Iraqi Human Rights Commission, a state-funded monitor which reports on protest violence.
    An Iraqi boy cries during the funeral for a female paramedic and activist, Janat Madhi Hussein, who was shot dead in by

    The young demonstrator was shot dead by unidentified assailants after he left the main protest camp in Basra, a security source said.

    The protests continue in , the security forces are reacting very hard on the people. The number of those who died in demonstrations is increasing. Images of the security forces who brutalized the demonstrators on the way to "Mohammed Al Kasım":

    Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Impeach Me If You Can" went up last night.  The following sites updated: