Will America Elect a Socialist President?
Pretty much everyone agrees that Mike Bloomberg did a terrible job last night. However, there was a one-minute segment where he went after Bernie Sanders: This is what I’m afraid of in the general election. Sanders doesn’t get a lot of pushback from his fellow liberals for being a socialist, but Republicans will have no…
Biden Previews The Road Ahead, Blasts Bernie Again Over Gun Vote
Matt York / Associated Press Thursday is a light day on the Nevada campaign trail, with no events scheduled in the afternoon for any of the major candidates. (Everyone’s presumably getting some R&R ahead of Tom Steyer’s big concert with TLC.) But this morning, Joe Biden issued a last-minute advisory: he’d be speaking at a…
Elizabeth Warren Has No Intention of Letting Up on Michael Bloomberg
John Locher / Associated Press If you thought Elizabeth Warren was going to take a deep breath and change the subject after last night’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas…well, no. Before a packed room of volunteers at her North Las Vegas field office on Thursday, she picked up where she left off by ripping into…
Under Pressure, Apple Mulls Possibility of Not Being Jerks
Over at Recode, Jason Del Ray reports that Apple is finally taking antitrust concerns “seriously.” How do we know this? Apple is considering allowing iPhone users the ability to make third-party apps such as Chrome and Gmail the default on their phones. That’s it? That’s a sign of taking antitrust concerns seriously? This is a…
Quote of the Day: Mr. Trump, Tear Down That Wall!
From Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s chief of staff:¹ We are desperate — desperate — for more people. We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants. Technically, this is true. GDP growth has two components: population growth and…
Roger Stone Gets 40-Month Prison Sentence
Win McNamee/Getty Image After originally asking for a 7-9 year sentence for presidential pal and longtime Republican ratfucker¹ Roger Stone, Attorney General Bill Barr intervened in the case and sent in a new prosecutor who recommended 3-4 years instead.² Today, judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to . . . 3-4 years: In a lengthy…