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    2020 South Carolina Primary Results Thread

    So the corporate mediawhores IMMEDIATELY call it for Biden with 0% of the precincts reporting. Joe apparently has finally won his FIRST state in his third time running for President (out after Iowa both of the other times), but he should enjoy it while he can. It's not going to help him on Tuesday.

    Bernie is in 2nd place. Not really a surprise there, as he gained considerably in the state polls in recent weeks, and remains the leader everywhere else.

    Only real surprise here so far is Tom Steyer running in third place. Obviously his best showing yet. But again, probably not enough to help him on Super Tuesday.
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    Does it worry you at all how enthusiastic Republican commentators and Trump himself are about facing Bernie?

    Do you think they are bluffing or just wrong?
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    I think they're making assumptions based on their own bigotry... just like when they couldn't wait to run against "the Kenyan Muslim" in 2008.

    Of course the Democrats are guilty of the same thing.... they thought the washed up B Movie actor (1980) and serial failure reality TV star (2016) would be easy to beat.

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    Meanwhile, Tom Steyer is finally giving up....

    I guess coming in third in South Carolina wasn’t the results he thought he paid for?

    Of the two billionaires who had no business running for President, he was by far the least offensive of the two. I’d really rather see Bloomberg drop out. (He still doesn’t have a single vote or delegate)

    At least this will lower the number of ad onslaughts on TV considerably.

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    I have not seen a Steyer ad yet and I guess I won't now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    I have not seen a Steyer ad yet and I guess I won't now.
    They've played a few here, but I never took him seriously as a candidate...
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    Congrats to Biden for finally winning one primary on his 3rd time running for POTUS... I got this feeling it's one and done for him though.

    Super Tuesday is gonna be a mess...

    I seriously don't think the Democratic mainstream will let Bernie win the nomination.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZahZoo View Post
    Congrats to Biden for finally winning one primary on his 3rd time running for POTUS... I got this feeling it's one and done for him though.

    Super Tuesday is gonna be a mess...

    I seriously don't think the Democratic mainstream will let Bernie win the nomination.
    Biden's primary win, for a variety of reasons, brought the expression 'dead cat bounce' to my mind.

    But, as you say, I find it hard to believe if the mainstream Dems (mistakenly or not) think they have a reasonable shot at beating Trump with Biden that they're gonna just let Bernie win the nomination with a slim plurality...because the Dem Establishment think Bernie will get trounced by Trump. Luckily for those Dem Centrists, I assume the DNC still has those byzantine primary rules put in place in the wake of the 1968 and 1972 elections to prevent another McGovern-style ass whomping, so doubtless the superdelegates and megadonors will flex their muscles and attempt to insert Biden in there even if [Biden] gets his ass handed to him Tuesday and beyond in the remaining primaries and caucuses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Does it worry you at all how enthusiastic Republican commentators and Trump himself are about facing Bernie?

    Do you think they are bluffing or just wrong?
    I think those folks have a general belief that if the economy, jobs numbers and the stock market hold and Trump manages not to blunder a response to any potential big events on the world stage in the next 9 months, Trump will end up prevailing in November regardless of who the opposition candidate is.

    I'm not so sure they're wrong about that, either.

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    Well, the "potential big event on the world stage" might be the one we're seeing in real time right now, the coronavirus. And Cheeto has already blundered the response to it, actually calling it a "hoax". It's already making the stock market nervous, and odds are good that it's gonna cause the summer Olympics to be cancelled, which will ripple through travel, tourism, retail, media, clothing manufacturing, and fuck knows how many other industries. The Olympics cash cow is so profitable that they split up the winter & summer games so they can cash in on the shit every 2 years instead of 4. And this is all on top of the doom & gloom predictions of the coming recession that existed long before the pandemic hysteria.

    Then there's the cost of the virus itself. With a $3200 price tag on the testing kit to find out if you have this shit or not, let alone the treatment if you find out that you DO, it puts the case for Medicare For All front and center again. Bernie Sanders sure as Hell would never have asked to get a campaign boost that way, but it might end up helping him make his case regardless. People in the US will die from this shit because they can't afford to go to the doctor to do anything about it. And a lot of that is going to happen in red states - especially the ones with the ALEC payroll governors who refused Obama's Medicaid expansion - which in turn, might provide a wakeup call to some voters who otherwise might vote a right wing ticket.

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    Ford's right, if the economy begins to go into recession because of Shittybeervirus, then the whole "socialist Bernie" thing backfires on Trump...

    Actually pretty much anything backfires on Drumpf, the whole "Hey! Yeah I'm a fucking asshole dumbsumofabitch, but hey the economy's great so so what?!" thing backfires, which is why drumpf and his band of dumbshit petties are already melting down...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Well, the "potential big event on the world stage" might be the one we're seeing in real time right now, the coronavirus. And Cheeto has already blundered the response to it, actually calling it a "hoax". It's already making the stock market nervous, and odds are good that it's gonna cause the summer Olympics to be cancelled, which will ripple through travel, tourism, retail, media, clothing manufacturing, and fuck knows how many other industries. The Olympics cash cow is so profitable that they split up the winter & summer games so they can cash in on the shit every 2 years instead of 4. And this is all on top of the doom & gloom predictions of the coming recession that existed long before the pandemic hysteria.

    Then there's the cost of the virus itself. With a $3200 price tag on the testing kit to find out if you have this shit or not, let alone the treatment if you find out that you DO, it puts the case for Medicare For All front and center again. Bernie Sanders sure as Hell would never have asked to get a campaign boost that way, but it might end up helping him make his case regardless. People in the US will die from this shit because they can't afford to go to the doctor to do anything about it. And a lot of that is going to happen in red states - especially the ones with the ALEC payroll governors who refused Obama's Medicaid expansion - which in turn, might provide a wakeup call to some voters who otherwise might vote a right wing ticket.
    It may well turn out that the coronavirus ends up undoing Trump, specifically in terms of how his administration responds to it. Doubtless, the continual attempted and actual defunding by the Trump Administration (and like-minded individuals in Congress) of health care programs which provide access to health services for middle and lower class citizens won't be something Trump, his staffers and media spokespeople will be able to square the circle on merely by chanting "USA! USA! USA!" at a rally. At least, one hopes that will be true in terms of those who voted for Trump in 2016 vs. potential repeat Trump 2020 voters re: the ability to distinguish between rhetoric and what has actually been done in terms of health care in the last 3 years.

    I must say, Trump putting Mike Pence in charge of the Administration's handling of the coronavirus doesn't exactly mean much of anything to me, other than perhaps a person for Trump to lay blame on later should the virus situation in this country turn out to be mismanaged: Pence has never exactly reeked of any particular competence in terms of a practical administrative skillset.

    Indeed, the coronavirus and the containment of it may well end up being the "potential big event on the world stage" that Trump won't be able to walk between the raindrops on, or sidestep with a rude tweet. It doesn't strain credulity to posit that something is going to happen at some point which is going to require any president to demonstrate leadership as opposed to showmanship. I'm hoping this viral outbreak ends up not being a calamitous pandemic in terms of containment and treatment, because I don't have a great deal of competence in our president in terms of either his intellect or his leadership qualities: that he was publicly pissing and moaning about HIS political prospects in the face of the virus entering this country doesn't leave me with the impression that President Trump has the ability to put his own self-interests aside and deal with this situation in a rational, informed manner that will put the interests of the nation above his own. In the end, as ever, EVERYTHING is ALWAYS ONLY about Donald Trump to Donald Trump.

    I sure as shit hope the federal, state and local health agencies have competent officials and resources in place. The economy will do what it will do: sometimes stable, sometimes panic-driven.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    Ford's right, if the economy begins to go into recession because of Shittybeervirus, then the whole "socialist Bernie" thing backfires on Trump...

    Actually pretty much anything backfires on Drumpf, the whole "Hey! Yeah I'm a fucking asshole dumbsumofabitch, but hey the economy's great so so what?!" thing backfires, which is why drumpf and his band of dumbshit petties are already melting down...
    I won't be sad if Trump loses, regardless of which current Democratic hopeful aspiring for the nomination gets it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terry View Post
    I must say, Trump putting Mike Pence in charge of the Administration's handling of the coronavirus doesn't exactly mean much of anything to me, other than perhaps a person for Trump to lay blame on later should the virus situation in this country turn out to be mismanaged: Pence has never exactly reeked of any particular competence in terms of a practical administrative skillset.

    Indeed, the coronavirus and the containment of it may well end up being the "potential big event on the world stage" that Trump won't be able to walk between the raindrops on, or sidestep with a rude tweet. It doesn't strain credulity to posit that something is going to happen at some point which is going to require any president to demonstrate leadership as opposed to showmanship.
    If we somehow get through a Trump presidency and the only major incident that happens on his watch is this flu then the planet has been really fucking lucky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    So the corporate mediawhores IMMEDIATELY call it for Biden with 0% of the precincts reporting.
    Correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    If we somehow get through a Trump presidency and the only major incident that happens on his watch is this flu then the planet has been really fucking lucky.
    "Lucky"? or something else?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Does it worry you at all how enthusiastic Republican commentators and Trump himself are about facing Bernie?

    Do you think they are bluffing or just wrong?
    Oh Trump can't wait to face Bernie. It's a guaranteed victory. Unfortunately, the Dems have gotten the message and it will be Uncle Joe. See South Carolina.

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    Bernie's actually the only one who has consistently beaten the Orange Asshole in polls by the largest margin in both 2016 and 2020. The DNC would be damned fools (or more accurately, clueless corporate whores) to ignore this fact a second time.

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    Bloomberg is going to be the one who fucks everything up. Watch him run as an independent and become this year's Ross Perot.

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    Because of Ross Perot, the two major parties have pretty much guaranteed a stranglehold on the political process. All of Bloomberg's money won't buy him ballot access or a place on the debate stage if he runs as a third party. And because of that, he won't do any better than Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Rocky Anderson, or any of the others long forgotten.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Bernie's actually the only one who has consistently beaten the Orange Asshole in polls....
    Ford that is just not true, almost EVERY Dem candidate beats Trump in almost every poll...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    If we somehow get through a Trump presidency and the only major incident that happens on his watch is this flu then the planet has been really fucking lucky.
    I certainly felt that way throughout most of 2017.

    I will say, thus far, jaw-dropping rhetoric aside, Trump has shown a restraint in terms of foreign affairs - specifically a military restraint - that has surprised me. If this restraint owes more to the JCS slow-walking Trump's worst impulses or to just plain luck of circumstance than Trump's judgement I'm not 100% sure of.

    I didn't vote for the man, and won't be this fall, but in terms of what I said above...it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge what I did.

    Even if I didn't vote for a particular President, I still want to see said President perform capably while in office.

    Like, if the economy nosedives into a bad recession (coronavirus-related or not), that could obviously inhibit Trumps' chances in the fall. As much as I want him out of the WH, I don't want to see the country tank economically (with the attendant suffering for working-class folks...you know, like myself, for instance...) in order for that to happen. Or have Trump/Pence mismanage the coronavirus response and lose the election due to what voters think is a lack of competence on their part.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    Bloomberg is going to be the one who fucks everything up. Watch him run as an independent and become this year's Ross Perot.
    I tend to think if he was going to go that route, he would have done so from the outset and probably much earlier than he ended up doing.

    Bloomberg, rightly I think, saw that Biden was going to be a weak candidate. Think Bloomberg also believes Sanders is unelectable. Thus, Bloomberg finally took the plunge he had only been toying with in previous election cycles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twonabomber View Post
    Bloomberg is going to be the one who fucks everything up. Watch him run as an independent and become this year's Ross Perot.
    The problem is nobody likes Bloomberg. It’s all about beating Trump. Even Dems who hate Bloomberg would vote for him if he got the nomination because they want Trump out. I don’t think Mike could play spoiler.
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    That’s what Bloomberg is betting on. He doesn’t view the average voter as all that intelligent. He figures if he saturates everything with money he can buy the nomination. Then everyone votes the party line after that. I hope he gets the nomination. It will be the nastiest political race in a 100 years. It will be very entertaining.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terry View Post
    I certainly felt that way throughout most of 2017.

    I will say, thus far, jaw-dropping rhetoric aside, Trump has shown a restraint in terms of foreign affairs - specifically a military restraint - that has surprised me. If this restraint owes more to the JCS slow-walking Trump's worst impulses or to just plain luck of circumstance than Trump's judgement I'm not 100% sure of.

    I didn't vote for the man, and won't be this fall, but in terms of what I said above...it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge what I did.

    Even if I didn't vote for a particular President, I still want to see said President perform capably while in office.

    Like, if the economy nosedives into a bad recession (coronavirus-related or not), that could obviously inhibit Trumps' chances in the fall. As much as I want him out of the WH, I don't want to see the country tank economically (with the attendant suffering for working-class folks...you know, like myself, for instance...) in order for that to happen. Or have Trump/Pence mismanage the coronavirus response and lose the election due to what voters think is a lack of competence on their part.
    Dubya was a far worse president than Trump. Most our problems can’t be blamed on any one President. At this point the economy is nothing more than a psyops. Actually we would be better off now if we had a depression in 2008. It would have cleaned out the dead wood. Instead we papered over it and grew the credit bubble even larger. It’s all illusion.

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    I smell a brokered convention. The Burn will get burned and maybe Milwaukee will burn but expect anything. This election is like watching a fight at the nursing home. Just a bunch of old crazy people with heart problems and dementia wanting to be president.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    The problem is nobody likes Bloomberg. It’s all about beating Trump. Even Dems who hate Bloomberg would vote for him if he got the nomination because they want Trump out. I don’t think Mike could play spoiler.
    Bookies have Bloomberg out around 15-1 for the nomination, I don't think he's going to get there at this point.

    What does seem absolutely certain is the president for the next term is going to be a flawed elderly white man with health issues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Bookies have Bloomberg out around 15-1 for the nomination, I don't think he's going to get there at this point.

    What does seem absolutely certain is the president for the next term is going to be a flawed elderly white man with health issues.
    Mike is trying hard. He’s even wearing lifts to make himself look taller. If the Democrat Convention becomes brokered anything can happen. You could even see Hillary jump in saying she’s here to save the party. Bernie was the popular candidate last time and he got the shaft. Wall Street does not want Bernie and they own the Democrat Party. They will take Bloomberg, they will take Biden, they will take Warren. Anyone but Bernie.

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    But the powers that be know the Democrats will fall in line behind whoever get’s the nomination because at the end of the day it’s partisan politics and Orange Man must go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nitro Express View Post
    They will take Bloomberg, they will take Biden, they will take Warren. Anyone but Bernie.
    I thought Warren was a good bet, if all the candidates are that old you're best going for a woman since they live longer.

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    Warren could have had a legitimate shot. Until she backtracked on Medicare 4 All and started taking bad advice from the DLC consultants who lost the elections of 2010/2014/2016 and left 2000 & 2004 close enough to be stolen by a Chimp.

    Then she started stabbing Bernie in the back out of desperation. Don't know how the fuck she thought that was going to help her. Now she's not even likely to be Bernie's VP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by private parts View Post
    oh trump can't wait to face bernie. It's a guaranteed victory. Unfortunately, the dems have gotten the message and it will be uncle joe. See south carolina.
    bump!

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