Care to make it interesting? Super Tuesday predictions

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Monday March 02, 2020 · 6:07 PM PST

2020/03/02 · 18:07

So, by the time the dust settles for Super Tuesday (which will probably not be until next week), there will have been 1615 or so delegates awarded to the various campaigns. Care to make your prediction? Here’s mine:

Sanders: 645
Biden: 633
Warren: 182
Bloomberg: 121
Buttigieg: 26
Klobuchar: 7

A Trump assault caught on tape

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Monday October 10, 2016 · 5:15 PM PDT

2016/10/10 · 17:15

As everyone heard, in 2005, Trump was recording boasted that his celebrity status allowed him to kiss and grope women with impunity.

This brings to mind a short video he created with Giuliani in 2000. In it, Giuliani is dressed in drag in a store. Trump remarks on Giuliani’s beauty, who begins sampling perfume, spraying some first on her neck, then on her breasts. Trump then pushes his face into Giuliani’s cleavage, who slaps him: “Oh, you dirty boy! Donald, I thought you were a gentleman!”, and turning and leaving. Trump then boyishly assures the camera, “You can’t say I didn’t try.”

If you want to see it yourself, here is the youtube. (Trigger warning: it might cause you throw up a bit in your mouth.)

YouTube Video

The clip was made for laughs, of course. But many a true word—as the saying goes—is spoken in jest.

I am struck how much the narrative arc of this vignette resonates to the modus operandi that Trump claimed in the Billy Bush tape.

In the Bush video, Trump tells Bush that he had unsuccessfully tried to seduce a married woman by taking her furniture shopping, adding “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. I don’t even wait.” (Trump’s celebrity status, Bush is told, gives him impunity for this and more.)

This is basically his play for Giuliani-in-drag. They are shopping and he makes his move by shoving his face between Giuliani’s fake breasts. He doesn’t even wait. It’s like a magnet.

Secret Romney Sesame Street tape exposed

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Friday October 05, 2012 · 8:19 PM PDT

2012/10/05 · 20:19

It is now clear why Romney wants to ban Sesame Street. See below.

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 4:59 PM PDT

2009/07/22 · 16:59

Canadian citizen Shona Holmes said in a commercial designed to frighten Americans about public healthcare that her life was threatened by delays in treatment under the Canadian healthcare system. Several have pointed out the gaps in her story: that she had a cyst, not a tumour, and that her eye-sight was threatened, not her life.

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 7:03 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 19:03

As you all know, the Troopergate report has been released and is available via pdf. It is, however, not searchable in the form that was released.

I have OCRed the pdf, however, and uploaded the file at Rapidshare.

(Unfortunately Rapidshare will make you wait a minute before you get to download the file. Sorry!)

Anyway, it will be easier to find the important passages with a searchable pdf, and easier to select, copy, and paste the relevant sections.

The pdf, again, can be downloaded the file at Rapidshare.

McCain's ethanol comment

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 9:46 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 21:46

One thing that struck me in the debate the other night was McCain's forceful opposition to ethanol subsidies. He is, of course, right about this -- corn-based ethnanol is economically and environmentally suspect -- and I respect him for saying this. It nonetheless seems to me that this could be used against him.

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 7:00 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 07:00

One line that McCain seems to like and will surely be repeating in the coming debates is "what Obama doesn't understand is …". It is pretty lame and seems to have harmed McCain more than Obama, since it made him seem negative and condescending.

Nevertheless, this is a hanging curve-ball and it will surely appear again, and not all that difficult to counter-punch on. A response would be something like this.

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McCain's ethanol comment

Counterpunch for "what Senator Obama doesn't understand…"