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Mar 7 2020

President Trump Visits Tennessee Communities Devastated by Tornadoes – Video and Remarks…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 6, 2020 by 

Earlier today President Trump traveled to Tennessee to tour some of the devastated areas severely impacted by recent tornadoes.  The president met with local and state officials along with FEMA response teams while surveying the devastation prior to meeting with the residents of Cookeville, Tennessee, and Nashville suburbs.

Video and Transcript Added:

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[Transcript] – THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. This is Governor Bill Lee, and he’s done a fantastic job of working with FEMA and the federal government and state government and everybody, Bill. And this is real devastation like you’ll never seen, hopefully, again. This was about as big a tornado as you can have. It was 50 miles long, which is extraordinarily long, and a very wide one. And you see what’s happened. We saw it from the helicopter very well. You did too.

I just want to thank you very much for the great job you’re doing.

GOVERNOR LEE: We’re very grateful that you’re here, and Tennesseans are grateful for your support. We had immediate response from FEMA. You gave an emergency disaster declaration, which will be very helpful to the families in this community and all across Tennessee who have suffered great loss.

It’s been a — it’s been a painful, tragic week for our state, but Tennesseans are hopeful. God has used volunteers to bring hope to people all across our state. And your presence here reminds us that people all across the country care about what’s happening here. So we’re grateful.

THE PRESIDENT: They do. They do. Thank you.

GOVERNOR LEE: Yeah. We’re grateful. Thank you.

THE PRESIDENT: Would you like to say something?

MAYOR SHELTON: Well, we just so much appreciate you being here and showing compassion. You called the other night and expressed your sorrow, and now you’ve shown up. A first time sitting President has ever been in our city and county, and we so appreciate that. It does show hope and compassion to our community and to our residents. And we appreciate that very much. Very much.

THE PRESIDENT: Please.

MAYOR PORTER: We live in a great community. It’s been a devastation, loss of life like our county has never seen in its history. But the outpouring of love and support from our community, our first responders — we’ve got a great group of folks — it’s been — it’s been an outstanding response for those folks and from the community, all the love and support.

You coming here today just puts a big asterisk on the end of that and shows that the cooperation we’ve had from the federal government and the state government, the Governor and you, has been absolutely amazing. We have never seen that before.

I’ve been in emergency services for 35 years before I became county mayor. We have never seen the cooperation and response that we have seen from your administration and from this state’s administration. So, thank you.

MAYOR SHELTON: Yes. And your instant declaration for our communities last night. Thank you.

THE PRESIDENT: They’re great people. It’s a great state. And what is the final count of death in the state itself? The entire state.

GOVERNOR LEE: We had 25 Tennesseans lost their lives in this. Many injured. Thousands without homes and power and supplies.

But Tennesseans have showed up. We’re the Volunteer State. We’ve shown up by the thousands to surround our neighbors and to provide hope and to provide assistance. And it’s been inspiring. And we’re going to — we’re going to overcome. This state knows how to do that. That’s who we are. That’s what we do.

And government can do so much, but only the people can really provide the hope. And they’re — and they’re doing just that in Tennessee.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. We’re going to see some of the people that really survived, some not in good shape and some in very good shape — incredibly in good shape.

But anybody in these homes — this is a swath that it went right through, on this side — on this side of the street. And obviously, anybody in these homes, for the most part, they were killed. Given very little warning. They get a phone call, “Hey, there’s a tornado,” and boom, it’s on them. They just — they just appeared. And it’s — we’re working very hard.

FEMA is doing a great job.

GOVERNOR LEE: They’re doing a great job.

THE PRESIDENT: They were told to do the absolute best.

Thank you very much. Do you have any questions?

Q Mr. President, do you have a message for the survivors?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I do have a message, and I have a message for the families of those that lost their lives: We love them; they’re special people. It’s an incredible place, an incredible state. Tremendous heart. Already, you see people rebuilding. I mean, it took place literally hours ago — a couple of days — and they’re already rebuilding. I’ve never seen — we were flying over; you see the blue roofs going up. It’s all over the place.

It’s just great people. It’s a great state. And they have great leadership in this state, and that’s why it’s working out like it is. But still, 25 people, at least, and some really very badly hurt. Very, very badly hurt.

The mayor was telling me some of the houses came down and they got here right after that happened, and the people are walking out of the houses and — you might explain that, what that looked like.

MAYOR SHELTON: It was just — you know, it’s a war zone and it’s in the middle of the night, and it’s very — very difficult to maneuver that.

But the first responders — we can’t say enough about the first responders that were here. They went in — you know, they run in when everybody else is running out. And they ran in and took care of these folks — the police and fire and EMS. And it was an amazing night.

MAYOR PORTER: We had people that were — they were so disoriented, they were wandering out down the roads and through the fields and the woods, trying to get to safety and figure out where they could go. And our great group of responders took care of them immediately. And it was — we’re so sad (inaudible).

THE PRESIDENT: They didn’t know what happened.

MAYOR PORTER: No.

THE PRESIDENT: They just — all of a sudden, they’re watching television or something and, all of a sudden, they’re outside, walking on the street.

There was one young boy, I heard he was taken out of the house and —

MAYOR PORTER: He was. One minute he’s in his house, the next minute he’s laying in his yard. It happened that fast.

THE PRESIDENT: A couple of blocks away.

MAYOR PORTER: Yes.

MAYOR SHELTON: Another family was — the husband huddled over the wife and child, and the roof came off and he was sucked out. They were all sucked out into the yard. They survived.

But I think it’s important to note too that, here in Cookeville, in Putnam County, while there was 25 deaths in the state, 18 of them were right here in our city and county — 8 of them on this particular street. And so, you know, we can continue to ask for prayers for our community, but these families are going to be burying people in the next — over the next week.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.

Q President Trump, have you been able to speak to any of the survivors or any of the victims’ families while you’ve been out today?

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. We’re doing it and we’re doing it now. We’re going to also, I think, stop at the church where there are a lot of people huddled up in the church. It’s a cold day and they’re all huddled up. We’re going to the church also. We’re seeing some of the people over here.

Q Mr. President, on another, sort of, tragic topic regarding the coronavirus: Are you considering refer- — or deferring taxes for the airlines, cruise ships, and travel companies that are being hard hit by this?

THE PRESIDENT: We’re looking at different options. Different options.

We did get tremendous job numbers this morning. They were — you know, if you add the 80,000 to the 270 — you know, they were talking in the 350,000 range. But right now, that’s not something we want to be talking about. Okay? Thank you.

Q Mr. President, you approved federal funding in Tennessee.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.

Q Can you tell us when you would expect to see that money coming to the state?

THE PRESIDENT: Very quickly. Almost momentarily. I did it. The mayor called me. The Governor called me. We had calls from a lot of people. That was an immediate emergency. But we’ve spoken — we approved it within minutes of the call.

Q Do you know about how much?

THE PRESIDENT: To be determined. What they need — we’re going to take care of what they need.

GOVERNOR LEE: We’ll be doing assessments, and that helps determine what the numbers will be. The way it works is, as we determine the amount, that’s how the numbers will be assessed and that’s how — what the assistance will be.

THE PRESIDENT: Much of that money goes to help the people that got just wiped out.

GOVERNOR LEE: That’s right.

THE PRESIDENT: They’re wiped out. They have nothing. And — and many people died.

Q We’ve been talking to some people out here throughout the past couple of days. Do you have any words for them that you may not be able to meet today but have been devastated by this?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I love them. I love them very much. That’s why I’m here. Some people wouldn’t be here. There was no way that I wasn’t going to stop here first. And I was going to do it yesterday, but they asked me for one more day because they — they were looking for — they were looking for bodies, believe it or not, up until just now. They now — they’ve pretty much covered everything. But — and just God be with them. And we’re going to be with them. We’re going to be with them all the way.

And I can tell you, the Governor feels the same as I do. And the mayors — I just want to congratulate you, because the job you’ve done, everybody is talking about it. They haven’t slept in 48 hours. Neither have you, come to think of it. So we’re going to go see the people now and say hello to them and do whatever you can do. It’s tough.

A lot of them have lost people within the family. One family got entirely wiped out. There was one case, though — I heard a young man was — an 8-year-old boy was ripped out, flown to a certain area, and dropped off at the street two or three blocks away. And they found him walking. And he said, “I just flew in the air.” And he was walking down the street two blocks away from his home. And how did his parents do? Do you know?

MAYOR PORTER: We don’t — we’re not for sure exactly how they turned up.

MR. HERRICK: They were found deceased.

THE PRESIDENT: They were deceased? They were dead.

MR. HERRICK: (Inaudible) only surviving member of the household, and lost his sibling as well.

THE PRESIDENT: So it took him and he said, “I was carried by the air, away from my house.” He came back. But his —

MR. HERRICK: He was (inaudible) the house over there and dropped him in the neighborhood back behind us.

THE PRESIDENT: He was over there. And his parents were killed.

MAYOR PORTER: And sister.

THE PRESIDENT: And his sister. So we’re going to go see some of the folks.

[TRANSCRIPT END 11:46 A.M. CST]

Mar 7 2020

President Trump Remarks While Signing $8.3 Billion Coronavirus Appropriations Bill – Video and Transcript…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 6, 2020 by 

Prior to departing the White House for a visit with Tennessee disaster workers and victims, President Trump signs an $8.3 billion appropriations bill funding the ongoing efforts to combat Coronavirus.  [Video and Transcript Below]

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[Transcript] – THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Good morning. I’m going to Tennessee to meet with the governor and a lot of people. And it’s something. It’s really something. I guess some of you are coming along, I assume. Is that right?

Q No.

THE PRESIDENT: You going?

Q There’s a crew out at Andrews waiting on you.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay.

So we’re signing the $8.3 billion. I asked for 2.5 and I got 8.3, and I’ll take it.

(The bill is signed.)

Okay? So here we are, $8.3 billion. We’re doing very well. But it’s an unforeseen problem. What a problem. Came out of nowhere, but we’re taking care of it.

We have big news on the ship. And a lot of things are happening on the ship. People are being tested right now. And I just spoke to the governor of California, Gavin Newsom. We had a good conversation. We’re both working on the ship together. It’s close to 5,000 people. So, it’s a big ship. But we’re doing testing on those people. Okay?

Could I have those others papers I’m going to sign, please? These are additional papers relevant to various things.

Okay, this is it?

AIDE: Yes.

(The document is signed.)

THE PRESIDENT: Okay, give me the other one.

AIDE: These are the (inaudible) designations for the bill. There’s two of them.

(The document is signed.)

Do you have anything you want to say to the press?

SECRETARY AZAR: I just want to make it — make it clear that in terms of tests, we have provided all the tests to the State of Washington and the State of California that they’ve asked for. The production and shipping of tests that we’ve talked about all week is completely on schedule.

All of the CDC tests — the tests that are available to test up to 75,000 people — CDC has shipped to America’s public health labs. Those are out.

Then, IDT, the private contractor working with CDC to ship to the private sector and hospitals, has already shipped enough tests for 700,000 tests. And the remaining lots are arriving at CDC this morning for quality control and should get out, as we forecast, this weekend.

And then next week, we’ll keep ramping up production. So as many as 4 million tests next week are going to be driving forward.

So everything is on schedule for the tests.

Q Mr. President, why aren’t you going to CDC today?

SECRETARY AZAR: He’s actually sent me. I’m going to go down.

THE PRESIDENT: You — you can tell them.

SECRETARY AZAR: Yeah. He sent —

THE PRESIDENT: We may — we may go. There was a — they thought there was a problem at CDC with somebody that had the virus. It turned out negative, so we’re seeing if we can do it. But yesterday afternoon, we were informed that there may have been a person with — with the virus, and they now find out that that was a negative test. They’ve tested the person very fully, and it was a negative test.

So I may be going. We’re going to see if they can turn it around with Secret Service.

Q (Inaudible.)

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, we may —

Q You may go?

THE PRESIDENT: We may we may be going. Here, Steve, this is for you after covering me so well. (Laughter.)

Q How big a — how big a hit to the economy —

THE PRESIDENT: It’s the first time I’ve ever done that to a reporter.

Q How big a hit to the economy are you expecting (inaudible)?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, job numbers just came out and they’re incredible. The job numbers were tremendous. And we picked up close to 80,000 new jobs from the last report. And if you add that up, it’s over 350,000 jobs. The job numbers just came out a little while ago, and they were shocking to the people that were analyzing them.

Q Do you expect more gyrations in the stock market?

THE PRESIDENT: No, I think — I think, you know, a lot of people are staying here and they’re going to be doing their business here. They’re going to be traveling here. And they’ll be going to resorts here. And, you know, we have a great place. That’s where — so, foreign people come, but we’re going to have Americans staying home instead of going and spending the money in other countries. And maybe that’s one of the reasons the job numbers are so good. We’ve had a lot of travel inside the USA.

Q Do you think that Congress or your administration needs to take more action to diminish the risk of recession?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, all we can do is do what we do. I mean, we’re getting a lot of business from people staying. In other words, they’re — it’s — I’ve always liked anyway; you’ve known that for a long time. But people are staying here and spending their money here, as opposed to going to Europe and other places.

Now, that’ll change when this goes away, and hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.

But people were — I would say virtually everybody — you saw the job numbers, I guess — people were shocked, because you add another 80 or whatever it is, a lot of — a lot of numbers from last month, where they upgraded. So the job numbers were at a level that nobody thought possible. They were really incredible.

Q No stimulus needed?

THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know. I mean, we’re going to see whether or not the Fed wants to stimulate. In my opinion, they should because Europe is, and China is, and everybody is but us. We have a Fed that is not exactly proactive. I’m being very nice when I say that.

Q But no fiscal stimulus?

THE PRESIDENT: I think what happens is the Fed should cut and the Fed should stimulate. And they should do that because other countries are doing it, and it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. And we have the most prime. We are considered by far the most prime. And it’s our dollar that everybody uses. The Fed should stimulate and the Fed — they should cut.

And why should Germany have an advantage over us with interest rates? So Germany — you know, Germany, just announced that they’re stimulating and they’re cutting.

Asia is. All over Asia they are. China is. China is tremendously.

And we’re really not. And we pay higher interest; we have a higher rate. And it’s ridiculous, frankly. We should have the lowest rate by far, and instead we pay more than other countries. Other countries are paying zero and less than zero. You know it very well. And we’re paying interest, which is a very conservative approach, but it’s not a good approach because we’re also competing against other countries, whether we like it or not. Even our friends, we’re competing against.

Q Mr. President, on Afghanistan, are you afraid that once the U.S. pulls out, that the Taliban will basically just overrun the Afghan government?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, you know, eventually countries have to take care of themselves. We can’t be there for the next — another 20 years. We’ve been there for 20 years, and we’ve been protecting the country. But we can’t be there for the next — eventually, they’re going to have to protect themselves.

You know, this should have been done a long time ago. But you can only hold somebody’s hand for so long. We have to get back to running our country too. So you understand that.

Q So do you think the Afghan government will be capable, in the long term, of defending itself?

THE PRESIDENT: I’ll let you know later. You know, we’ll have to see what happens. I hope they are, but I don’t know. I can’t answer that question.

Q Mr. President, any concern that the coronavirus is —

THE PRESIDENT: It’s not supposed to happen that way, but it possibly will.

Q Any concern that the virus is more widespread than originally thought because of the lack of testing? Is that any reason why you’re not going to Atlanta today?

THE PRESIDENT: No, no, no. They had one person who was potentially infected.

And speaking of that, I’d like to go. So you guys are trying to work that out. I was going to Tennessee first, in any event, and then I was stopping in Atlanta, then going down to Florida for meetings. I think that they are trying to work it out that I do go.

No, I hadn’t heard that. I heard “one person.” And because of the one person at a high level — because of the one person, they didn’t want me going. But I would prefer going. And now that the person — the test came out negative, we’re going to try and go.

The most powerful man in all of the media. Come on over here, please. He has a little something to do with the Wall Street Journal. I don’t know if you know. This is real power. Right? (Laughter.) You used to do what they did.

MR. THOMSON: Yeah.

THE PRESIDENT: Right? And he did it — he did it so well that he’s the boss at News Corp. Of course, Rupert has something to say with that, I guess. Right? Lachlan.

It’s good to have you. It’s good to have you. They treat me very nicely — the media. Right? Except for the Wall Street Journal, but that’s okay.

Q How do you keep people from panicking from (inaudible)?

THE PRESIDENT: I don’t think they’re panicking. I don’t think people are panicking. I said last night — we did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, “Calm. You have to be calm.” It’ll go away.

We do have a situation where we have this massive ship with 5,000 people and we have to make a decision. You know, that’s a big decision because we have very low numbers compared to major countries throughout the world. Our numbers are lower than just about anybody.

And in terms of deaths, I don’t know what the count is today. Is it 11? Eleven people? And in terms of cases, it’s very, very few. When you look at other countries, it’s a very tiny fraction because we’ve been very strong at the borders. But then you have a ship with a lot of Americans on it. It’s got 5,000 people on it. It’s a massive ship and — you know, and they want to come in. So we have to make a decision. We’re working with the governor of California on that.

Q Are you meeting with President Bolsonaro this weekend, sir?

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I am. We’re having dinner at Mar-a-Lago. He wanted to have dinner in Florida, if that was possible — the President of Brazil. So we’ll be doing that today.

Q Do you think the financial markets are overreacting?

THE PRESIDENT: I think financial markets will bounce back as soon as this — really bounce back. Don’t forget, they’re down probably 10 or 11 percent from, you know, where they were, but they were up 70 percent. So, you know, it’s only a — it’s a relatively small piece. I don’t like to see it happen because I was looking for 30,000 very soon. You were — you were — it seemed days away from 30,000. And now we have a little more room to make up.

But I think financially — I think the country is so strong. We’re so strong as a country now. We have never been like this. The consumer is generating so much because of the tax cuts, the regulation cuts, and, you know, the things we’ve done. So I think we’re in great shape. I mean, I think we’re in great shape.

This came unexpectedly a number of months ago. I heard about it in China. It came out of China, and I heard about it. And made a good move: We closed it down; we stopped it. Otherwise — the head of CDC said last night that you would have thousands of more problems if we didn’t shut it down very early. That was a very early shutdown, which is something we got right. Okay?

Q So looking at the Super Tuesday results, are you worried the Democratic Party is unifying around Joe Biden and that will take away your argument about Democrats being too left wing and too socialist?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, he’s left wing and he’s got all people that are left wing. And in many ways, he’s worse than Bernie. Look at what he did with guns; he put Beto in charge of guns. Beto wants to get rid of guns, right? So that’s a bad — that’s a bad stance.

And he’s got a lot of people that are left wing, and they’ll be running the government. He’s not going to be running anything. If he ever got in, they’ll be running the government. They’ve got people further left wing than what Bernie has. So, not — not going to be good. Wouldn’t be good for Wall Street, I can tell you that.

Plus, if you look at his taxes, he’s going to raise taxes incredibly. He’s going to raise taxes more than Bernie. I looked at — and he’s open about it. Bernie doesn’t like to — doesn’t like to talk about it.

I mean, Joe Biden, his tax increases are — they’re staggering. It’s ridiculous. He’ll destroy everything that’s been built.

Q Do you think sexism was a factor in Elizabeth Warren pulling out? And do you believe you will see a female President in your lifetime?

THE PRESIDENT: No, I think lack of talent was her problem. She had a tremendous lack of talent. She was a good debater.
She destroyed Mike Bloomberg very quickly, like it was nothing. That was easy for her. But people don’t like her. She’s a very mean person, and people don’t like her. People don’t want that. They like a person like me, that’s not mean.

Okay, I’ll see you guys. Bye, bye everybody.

END 9:07 A.M. EST

Mar 6 2020

Elizabeth Warren Pulls the Plug on Her Campaign


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has pulled the plug on her campaign, reducing the Democratic presidential contest to a two-man race. All my sources have been talking about removing the contenders so they could stop Bernie who they see and the anti-Christ of the Democratic Party. They stole the votes from him in California back in 2016 and they are doing everything now to stop him on the first ballot in the Convention. This time, the effort may be the way the Democratic Party eventually ends up fracturing. There is no younger generation in leadership. This may be the last stand for the Democrats. Biden does not appear to be capable of doing 8 years as president. As I have been saying — the danger is what comes AFTER Trump.

Mar 6 2020

Fox News – President Trump Town Hall, Scranton Pennsylvania – 6:30pm Full Video Added


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 5, 2020 by 

Unfortunately, there were no live-stream options available for the Fox News town hall with President Trump at 6:30pm.   Additionally, the Donald Trump 2020 campaign did not provide a streaming service of the town hall on any of their platforms.

Despite the efforts of Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum to shape the questions against the interests of the President, the event was very good.  No politician is as good as President Trump when it comes to owning the downside and reversing the narrative.  [Video Replay Added]

Mar 6 2020

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Endorses Joe Biden – The Big Picture Challenge for Bernie…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 5, 2020 by 

Michigan and the subsequent 125 Democrat delegates is a critical state for the presidential primary contest between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.   Michigan (125 delegates), Idaho (20), Mississippi (36), Missouri (68), North Dakota (14), and Washington State (89) all vote next Tuesday March 10th.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden, an advocate for outsourcing U.S. jobs via corrupt trade deals, is hoping to leverage his phony pro-union bona-fides & crush Bernie Sanders in Michigan.

However, Bernie has a strong ground team in Michigan, understands the importance in delegate accumulation, and also knows it is critical to defeat the ‘unelectable‘ narrative the DNC Club has deployed against him.

Michigan is also critical for Bernie because his positions on Cuba have damaged his hopes in Florida (219 delegates) voting on March 17th.

If Bernie is going to mount a progressive charge against the power of the DNC apparatus he needs a strong outcome from working class voters in Michigan, Illinois (155) and Ohio (136 delegates).  The primary contests in Illinois and Ohio are held on March 17th along with Florida.

Into this critical moment comes Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who is: (a) part of the professional party apparatus; and (b) endorsing the party candidate, Joe Biden.

MICHIGAN – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Thursday endorsed Joe Biden for president, a significant boost for the former vice president ahead of next week’s primary in the Wolverine State.

Whitmer, whose state’s primary will allocate 125 pledged delegates, cast Biden as an advocate for working families, citing his work on health care, bailing out the auto industry and more during his time in the Obama administration.

“Working families in Michigan need a president who will show up and fight for them, and Joe Biden has proven time and again that he has our backs,” she said in a statement. “Michiganders have grit. We’re tough. We know what it’s like to be overlooked and counted out. And we know that when you get knocked down, you pick yourself up and get back to work. Joe Biden has been right there with us in the tough fights.” (read more)

Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer

In many ways the 2020 Democrat primary is even more difficult for Bernie because the potential for his success is/was higher.  In 2016 the Club apparatus knew Bernie Sanders was positioned as a primary candidate in name only.  The Club had already structured a pre-determined outcome; a road-map specifically designed for Hillary Clinton.

In 2016 DNC Club leadership didn’t initially pay too much attention to Bernie early in the primary because they never gave him a chance.  It was only after the primary race was well underway; and seeing an actual fire under the grassroots support he carried; that the Club realized Sanders was factually a threat.  Once the machine moved internally to eliminate Bernie as a possibility…. the rest -as they say- became history.

This year the Club obviously took Bernie very seriously and pre-positioned a multitude of defensive systems, all very well funded, to diminish him.

Team Bernie needs a win or split decision in Michigan (125 delegates) and Washington State (89 delegates)… because Idaho (20), North Dakota (14), Missouri (68), and Mississippi (36), are far less favorable.

The importance of Michigan on March 10th, and the alignment of the professionally-black caucus behind Biden, appears to be why Bernie is ceding Mississippi in the south and cancelling trips.

(Via Bloomberg) Bernie Sanders canceled a campaign trip to Mississippi scheduled for Friday and will instead campaign in Michigan, an aide said Thursday. The move means that Sanders is effectively ceding votes in the South to Joe Biden.

Sanders was supposed to campaign on Friday with Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, who endorsed the Vermont senator.

But, after losing 10 of 14 states on Super Tuesday, Sanders is redirecting his focus to Michigan, which holds its primary contest on Tuesday. Biden had particularly strong performances across the South on Tuesday, lifted by overwhelming support from black voters, and is expected to easily win Mississippi on Tuesday.

Sanders won a surprise victory in the Michigan primary in 2016, and the state will be critical to his ability to catch up to Biden, who overtook him in delegates after Super Tuesday.(read more)

This landscape is why the duplicity of Elizabeth Warren is particularly painful for the loyal Bernie Sanders supporters.  It would be immensely valuable for Elizabeth Warren to join with Sanders and mount a united progressive charge into the state of Michigan.

With both Sanders and Warren assembling their coalitions in Michigan a win would be much more likely.  However, the Club knows exactly this point…. And that is exactly why Liawatha is following Club directions and not endorsing Bernie.

The positive for Sanders is the DNC rule-changes that make every state proportional in delegate distribution.  If Sanders can stay a close second in states he does not win and  simultaneously expand large margins in the states he does win, then he has a viable path against the machine.   However, this approach requires BIG wins in BIG delegate-rich states.

Essentially that’s Bernie’s delegate road-map to the convention:

(1) stay a close second place in the smaller states that he loses; and

(2) have big wins in the big states where he has larger networks.

With that in mind the Sanders campaign likely regrets some of the recent remarks about Cuba that made Miami-Dade voters twitchy.  It will be interesting to watch what Team Bernie does in Florida; Bernie cannot concede 219 delegates and still hope to win the nomination, even with optimism toward Ohio (136) and Illinois (155).

March 10th and March 17th are critical dates for Bernie Sanders….

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Mar 6 2020

‘Stands With Tin Cup’ Takes a Knee…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 5, 2020 by 

As expected most media outlets are now reporting Elizabeth Warren is ending her ill-fated bid for the presidency and is gonna git her a beer.

NEW YORK TIMES – Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop out of the presidential race on Thursday and will inform her staff of her plans later this morning, according to a person close to her, ending a run defined by an avalanche of policy plans that aimed to pull the Democratic Party to the left and appealed to enough voters to make her briefly a front-runner last fall.

Though her vision excited progressives, that did not translate to enough excitement from the party’s more working-class and diverse base, and her support had eroded by Super Tuesday. (more)

It will be interesting to watch if Warren endorses Sanders on the trail of tears, or if she takes her tin cup to Joe Biden.

A most likely scenario for Liawatha is a non-endorsement of Sanders without an overt endorsement of Biden and the Big Club; simply because a non-endorsement of Sanders is a covert endorsement of Biden and her limo-liberal alliance.

Mar 5 2020

Grumpier Old men — Biden and Bernie!


UPDATE: BLOOMBERG IS OUT! AMERICAN SAMOA HARDEST HIT!

I drew this cartoon as the results were pouring in. I didn’t realize it took several days for California to tally their votes, so this cartoon may prove to be inaccurate. Bernie currently holds a large lead in California though, and many have projected him to win.

The big surprise was how well Biden did (especially in Texas), but maybe it shouldn’t be so shocking. He’s the choice of the Deep State Democrats and their picks have a habit of winning. Nobody thought much of John McCain and he was not doing well in the polls, but thanks to the Deep State Neocons he suddenly he caught fire too.

Both Democrat front runners are unlikeable and mediocre. Is this the best the Democrats have to offer? An old communist loudmouth and an old, mumbling, stumbling, corrupt gaffe machine? Both are pushing 80. They will make high energy Trump appear even younger.

I was happy to see Mike Bloomberg fail. The goblin billionaire found out he really couldn’t buy the presidency. Other characteristics are required to attract voters such a modicum of charm, speaking ability, and manners. He was caught on video coughing into his hand then promptly shaking the hands of others. He was also caught taking a bite of pizza and then tossing it back into the box. Warren couldn’t even win her home state. She has a lot of ego in the race and she refuses to quit. Good. We want to see her suffer more defeat.

If the race continues on relatively even, we can expect a lot of funny business at the convention. In which case you really will see Biden and Bernie become grumpier old men. I still don’t rule out Hillary inserting herself as an alternative to end a crisis. At the very least, she would want to become the Vice President if for no other reason than to avoid prosecution for her crimes.

—Ben Garrison

 

Mar 5 2020

Rigging the Democratic Elections


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

House-Testimony

COMMENT: Marty, JB here.

As always, I love you Man!!!

I just watched the Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders. I was impressed with Bernie’s clever use of middle class (and lower economic classes) socioeconomic concerns to win votes. What scares me is he believes taxes are the solution to everything.

Would it be possible for you or your firm to make a list of all of Bernie’s topics, his proposed solution for each, and your perspective on how each alleged solution would crush the economy.

My brother (age 63) has fallen for Bernie Sanders, it shocked me.

Thanks for all you do.

REPLY: I know. People just listen to these politicians who always assume the problem is the private sector. There is NEVER any analysis that is even permitted to review government. I have testified before the House Ways & Means Committee. I have sat in the private office of Dick Army when he was the majority leader in Congress. I have been close to the flame of power and realized that even with absolute access, I could not change the course of events.

Bernie cannot see the consequences of what he even says. He truly believes his own propaganda. I cannot say that Bernie is evil or deliberately lying to the people as Hillary and most other politicians actually do for personal gain. But this is also why the Democrats will not allow Bernie to be the candidate. I believe they will do everything in their power to conspire against Bernie right down to changing the votes again. As Stalin said, it is not the votes that count, but who counts the votes.

Mar 5 2020

Bloomberg Spent more than $5 million per delegate he won


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Alexandra Petri wrote a very funny piece on Bloomberg’s fiasco:

I’d like to speak to a manager about this election, please

It is a very good read. I am very pleased to see Bloomberg out. He personally scares me far beyond the Clintons. Hillary, I understand. It has always been: Show me the money! With Bloomberg, I put him in the same category as George Soros. It is because both are dangerous people who think they have a right to dictate to the world for they know best.

Mar 5 2020

Biden Becomes a Not So Moving Target


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
I previously reported that the Ukrainian prosecutor who Biden demanded be fired, filed a suit against Biden’s improper use of power that cost him his job in Ukraine. Now, a Ukrainian court has ordered an investigation into whether Joe Biden violated any laws when he forced the March 2016 firing of the country’s chief prosecutor.

The ruling could revive scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s lucrative relationship with an energy firm in that corruption-plagued country just as the former vice president’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is surging after a lackluster start. The New York Post reported: “Wherever Joe Biden went, son Hunter cashed in.” What goes around, comes around — as they say. The Democrats sought to use impeachment to influence the 2020 election, and now the Senate Republicans get to investigate Biden and his son. The US Treasury is now also investigating “potential conflicts of interest posed by the business activities of Hunter Biden and his associates during the Obama administration.”

Some question if Biden will simply self-destruct for he may not be mentally capable of handling the same degree of scrutiny and arrows that will be hurled at him and his family as Trump has endured. Is it really worth putting your family at risk for 4 years in the presidency? Biden does not appear to be mentally capable of holding down the job for 8 years. They are quietly talking behind the curtain and saying there is still hope to put Hillary in the White House.

Can the Democrats take what they have been doing to Trump? That is a very interesting question. My point all along was that the Democrats seem to have been foaming at the mouth and have been acting like a rabid dog crazed with a scorched earth agenda. What this was supposed to accomplish, I have no idea. Any rational person would realize that what goes around, far too often comes around. There is just no government for the people. This is now a full-blown grudge match to the death of Democracy.