Update: Sleepy Slow Joe Biden is winning because he took our advice. “So our advice is for you not to speak. Just run ads. Don’t debate. Don’t make appearances. Disappear. You’ll do better not speaking than speaking.”
Bernie Sanders is losing because he did not take our advice. “They are stealing the election from you and your bros but once again you do nothing to defend the votes of your bros. Dude, you’re being robbed. Do something. Do what candidate Trump did in 2016. Candidate Trump repeatedly threatened to withhold his support for the eventual RNC nominee if he was treated shabbily or the RNC tried to steal the nomination from him.”
Biden continues to follow our advice. He’s trying to shut down the next debate scheduled on the Ides of March. Sleepy Slow Joe is cutting his few “speeches” to under ten minutes. Sleepy Slow Joe is cancelling appearances under the guise of the Coronavirus. Sleepy Slow Joe is off to the nap room. Not a “dirt nap”, just a months long nap. Sleepy Slow Joe will only go to get cash from fundraisers free of any nasty cameras that can capture Sleepy Slow Joe napping during his nap period of months.
Bernie? Apparently Bernie persists. Bernie says he will persist with his flatlined campaign. Bernie won’t take our advice. Bernie won’t fight. Bernie won’t protect the votes of his supporters. But Bernie does have a brilliant strategy to win.
Bernie Sanders’ brilliant campaign strategy at the moment is simply to persist. Like a grumpy loser he won’t leave the race. To borrow from the NeverTrump losers “It’s over for Bernie”. But Bernie does have a brilliant campaign strategy.
Bernie Sanders will persist and that is simply brilliant. Bernie Sanders will go through the motions of a campaign because Bernie has a… well… a trump card. Bernie knows that at any moment… no matter how protected… no matter how sheltered… no matter how hidden… no matter how secluded… there is one thing we can all depend on – Sleepy Slow Joe Biden will do something monumentally dumb or possibly even keel over and take the final “dirt nap”. That is Bernie Sanders’ strategy.
Just be the other man standing when Sleepy Slow Joe goes belly up.
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In 2016 Bernie Sanders protected Hillary on emails and he lost. Will Bernie Sanders protect Sleepy Joe Biden on the many scandals of the Biden family? If Bernie Sanders does not fight on the landscape of the Biden scandals he will lose the Dim nomination again.
John Kass understands that simple formulation:
To Fight Biden, Sanders Should Learn How to Say ‘Comeback Kid’ in Ukrainian [snip]
Joe’s son Hunter Biden should know how to pronounce Povernennya Dytyny. Hunter had that $50,000-a-month no-show job with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, when his daddy was the Obama administration point man in Ukraine leveraging the firing of prosecutors against U.S. loan guarantees. And Hunter scored big in China, too, because his name was Biden. [snip]
If Bernie Sanders wants to really fight and draw a contrast between himself and Biden, he should go to that Ukrainian business. Yammering about Biden and Social Security won’t cut it.
Joe Biden is a swamp creature and his family has scored off Joe’s political leverage, just as if Joe were mayor of Chicago in the old days. Bernie is not a swamp creature. He’s an ideologue of the left and the Democratic establishment hates him.
It’s not policy. They’re all going the same direction. This is about control. If the Democratic establishment had a choice between losing elections or losing control of the party, they’d lose elections. Without control of the party they have no leverage to make their deals. The Republican establishment was the same in 2016. They would have rather lost the White House than have President Donald Trump run their party. But Trump rushed them and fought in the mud and the blood and the beer, biting ears off and giving no quarter.
Sanders didn’t fight against Hillary Clinton as if it were a battle to the death. He let her off the hook on that scandal about her unsecured email.
With the Democratic establishment and the Beltway media in lockstep against him, Bernie, too, must fight in the mud and bite off an ear. Slaps won’t do it. No one ever won a fight with little policy slaps.
That’s John Kass, a conservative journalist so Bernie Bros might dismiss the advice. Leftist Rolling Stone magazine asks the same questions of Bernie however so perhaps the Bernie Bros will wake up, or rather Bernie will wake up because the Bernie Bros know we are right:
To Rebound and Win, Bernie Sanders Needs to Leave His Comfort Zone
Current and former staffers say Sanders has run a great campaign — except when it comes to taking on Democrats like Joe Biden by name. Can he fix that?
In the 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders has done fantastically well. Even after a disappointing Super Tuesday, when Joe Biden surged past him in Texas, Massachusetts and Minnesota to re-seize frontrunner status, Bernie remains very much in the hunt. Heading into contests in states he won in 2016, such as Washington and Michigan, the self-described “Democratic Socialist” at this writing trails Biden in estimated delegates, 670-589. He’s behind, but no one with his politics has ever been this close to the presidency.
But Rolling Stone spoke to multiple current and former Sanders aides who worry the Senator’s personality — he’s phobic about personal confrontation and retains traces of an inferiority complex from his days as an Independent straggler — might lead him to miss a chance at history. They say the campaign, which declined to comment for this story, has, among other things, declined to aggressively confront Joe Biden on issues like Social Security, trade, and the bankruptcy bill.
“Bernie is conflict-averse,” says Matt Stoller, who worked for Sanders for two years. “His staff has always had real trouble getting him to criticize any Democrat by name.”
“Bernie is always better on the counterpunch, on the rope-a-dope,” says Mark Longabaugh, who was chief strategist for Bernie’s 2016 campaign. “When he lands, it’s usually a counterpunch, like ‘I wrote the damn bill.’ It’s hard for him to go on the attack.”
If Bernie can’t attack, then get the Hell out of the race. The office of president is not for the “conflict-adverse”. President, yes- President, Donald J. Trump took everyone on in 2016 whether candidate opponents or institutional opponents. President Trump is not “conflict-adverse”.
President Trump is not about to let Sleepy Joe off on his family scandals or his possible mental deterioration which render him not only too Sleepy but also too Slow. Sleepy Slow Joe will be forced to defend himself by President Donald J. Trump so Bernie Sanders does not do either Sleepy Slow Joe or his fellow Dims any favors by protecting Sleepy Slow Joe from the attacks that are coming in the general election.
The issues Rolling Stone identifies are not enough:
Biden led cheers for the Iraq War and repeatedly lied about that record (“Yes, I did oppose the war before it began,” he said just last year). On many occasions he’s expressed willingness to cut Social Security and voted for the insidious bankruptcy bill. He championed NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, helped write the atrocious 1994 crime bill, and even bragged that George Bush’s infamous Attorney General John Ashcroft got the idea for the PATRIOT Act from him.
Those issues are the appetizers. The main course has to be the Biden family scandals, for instance the latest one to emerge:
James Biden’s health care ventures face a growing legal morass
A mysterious FBI raid. New allegations from former executives. Questions are swirling about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s brother.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a health care business linked to Joe Biden’s brother in late January, seizing boxes of documents.
The raid of an Americore Health hospital represented a deepening of the legal morass surrounding James Biden’s recent venture into health care investing at a time when questions about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s relatives, and their alleged connection to the former vice president’s public service, continue to dog his presidential campaign.
In the weeks since the raid, two small medical firms that did business with James Biden have claimed in civil court proceedings to have obtained evidence that he may have fraudulently transferred funds from Americore “outside of the ordinary course of business,” and a former Americore executive has told POLITICO that James Biden had more than half a million dollars transferred to him from the firm as a personal loan that has not yet been repaid. [snip]
But recent filings in ongoing legal proceedings, along with new accounts provided to POLITICO by former executives of Americore and others, point to potential pitfalls for the former vice president, painting the fullest picture to date of James Biden’s health care dealings and the ways in which they allegedly related to his older brother. In 2017 and 2018, James Biden was embarking on a foray into health care investing, telling potential partners, including at Americore, that his last name could open doors and that Joe Biden was excited about the public policy implications of their business models, according to court filings and interviews with James’ former business contacts.
Tom Pritchard, a former Americore executive familiar with the business’ finances, told POLITICO that James Biden’s arrival exacerbated Americore’s financial problems. Holding out the promise of a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, James Biden introduced Americore’s founder to his older brother and helped land a bridge loan to Americore from a hedge fund, Pritchard said. But then, Pritchard said, James Biden received a six-figure personal loan out of Americore’s coffers while encouraging the firm to take on greater financial liabilities. The cash infusion from the Middle East never arrived, and, Pritchard says, James Biden has not paid back the loan, the terms of which are unknown.
“It was all smoke and mirrors,” Pritchard said.
There are lots of lawsuits related to the above Biden Bro scandal which will play out during 2020. There’s all that and Widow Hunter Biden too.
Very few of the so-called “progressives” have sided with Bernie over Biden. A left wing group has somewhat remained true to themselves by endorsing Bernie and of course Jesse Jackson endorsed Bernie but that was because the Biden Bros did not bother asking for the endorsement. PINOs (Progressives In Name Only) such as Ka-Ka Mala Harris and Corky Booker the heter0sexual have lapped up to Sleepy Slow Joe.
It’s the last stand of the Bernie Bros:
“WE’RE ABOUT TO WALK OFF A CLIFF”: THE PRO-BERNIE MEDIA MAKES ITS LAST STAND AGAINST BIDEN
The Sanders camp is making a final swarming social media attack on Joe Biden, as Cenk, Taibbi, and Chapo guys and an army of others question whether the former Veep is mentally fit. (“Disgusting smears, ” and Trumpian, says the Biden camp.) Coordinated or not, can these two sides ever unite come November? [snip]
They’re not only questioning Biden’s record, like voting for the Iraq war, but also his fitness for office. “We’re about to walk off a cliff if we let Joe Biden be the nominee,” said Cenk Uygur, host of the progressive YouTube program “The Young Turks.”
The anti-Biden pile-up may be the last stand for Bernieworld, a final social media assault before the primary—and the possibility of a President Sanders, a dream of many on the left for nearly five years—becomes out of reach. The amplification of questions about Biden’s fitness for office has demonstrated the reach of the pro-Bernie media world, with widely followed lefty journalists and podcast hosts sharing clips and claims to millions. It may not be officially coordinated, but it doesn’t have to be to be effective. The Sanders movement doesn’t have one brain, necessarily; social media allows its intelligence to be distributed. But the campaign also highlights the limits of an alternative media apparatus, given that mainstream newsrooms are less likely to casually throw around medical diagnoses from afar. A Biden adviser dismissed such commentary on the left as an act of desperation from Sanders supporters. “Bernie’s campaign lost 10 of 14 Super Tuesday states, got crushed in the suburbs, crushed with African American voters and had their whole theory of his revolution shot down by voters turning out in record numbers to vote for Biden,” the adviser told me. “He’s behind in the delegate count. Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess. Disappointing that they would turn to this trash.”
The Sanders campaign, officially, isn’t similarly challenging Biden’s cognitive abilities, but has suggested that the 77-year-old candidate doesn’t have the stamina of their 78-year-old. Over the weekend, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir drew attention to Biden spending comparatively less time speaking on stage than Sanders. The Sanders campaign also pushed back against the idea of the two leading candidates sitting during the next debate, on Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona. “Why does Joe Biden not want to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. Sanders on the debate stage?” senior adviser Jeff Weaver asked, per Politico. A Biden representative told Politico they’d participate in whatever format the Democratic National Convention and CNN decide upon, whether “standing, sitting, at podiums, or in a town hall.”
That won’t be enough. It is Bernie Sanders himself that must launch the attacks that matter.
The attacks must be comprehensive. And yes, we do mean Widow Hunter and James Biden Brother.
Some Bernie Bros see half of our formulation as their goal:
“It’s more difficult with Joe Biden because they’ve gone all in. They don’t have anyone left in the race. All we have is social media so we keep pounding that until enough people see it and it breaks through.” What Dixon hopes will break through next is a candid conversation about Biden’s mental acuity. Sanders and his supporters clearly see significant vulnerabilities in the former vice president’s policy record, but these days, scrutiny of Biden features as much talk of “sundowning”—a confused state that may be a symptom of dementia—as Social Security.
No longer just fodder for parody, Bernieworld now offers up Biden’s memory lapses and moments of incoherence as omens of a doomed general election campaign against Trump. “If you really see Trump as this existential threat that a lot of people in #Resistance do, I don’t know why you’d ever want to nominate someone who will be pummeled in the general and the debates,” said Katie Halper, a progressive writer and podcast host. “I think it’s striking that things that would have been fatal to a campaign in previous election cycles just don’t even make a dent in this media environment,” said Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, citing Biden’s false accounts of awarding a medal to a service member in Afghanistan and getting arrested in South Africa during apartheid. “He’s had numerous instances that were way weirder than the Dean scream.” [snip]
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald took issue Monday with criticism of Sanders’s supporters for questioning Biden’s cognitive fitness, pointing out that Democratic politicians and pundits raised concerns earlier in the race about the candidate’s fumbling with words. Some Democratic commentators have recently cried foul at “WebMD pundits” trying to diagnose Biden’s cognitive functions. But it may be difficult for such liberals to call such scrutiny inappropriate after broaching the same matters with Trump.
Sundowning is not the battle. CoronaVirus is not the issue. The economy is not the issue. Social Security, Iraq, Medicare for All, none of these is THE issue. The issue that will define the Bernie versus Biden race is whether Bernie Sanders is tough enough or smart enough to take the fight to Sleepy Slow Joe on the issues of corruption, Burisma, Widow Hunter, James Biden.
Granted, the Sundown aspects are kinda funny and fun to use to attack Sleepy Slow Joe:
But in the end the issue that matters is the corrupt political system. President Trump knows that and won on that issue. Bernie Sanders lamely says that is the issue. But Bernie Sanders has failed to make his central issue the central issue in the battle against Sleepy Slo’ Joe.
There is not much Bernie Sanders can do to save himself from the primary defeats of March 10, but Bernie Sanders will have one last chance on the Ides of March.
