In my opinion Mayor Pete performed the best.
Smooth talker without saying anything.

The moderators seemed to protect Mini Mike, by not letting him talk at times, limiting self inflicted damage.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
In my opinion Mayor Pete performed the best.
Smooth talker without saying anything.

Exactly like Obama. Eloquent but empty.

I know it’s kind of like choosing the best turd out of the outhouse, but I thought Liawatha did the best, mainly because she went hard after Mini Mike.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I need to take a shower. I feel dirty after watching that.

LOL! Totally agree, that was more virtue signaling than I thought possible, even from these phony ass clowns.

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Which one of these will make for the most entertainment if they engage our a President in a debate? I think Sleepy Joe.

If Steve Martin played a Presidential candidate he’d be Joe Biden.

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Originally posted by Minnow:
Which one of these will make for the most entertainment if they engage our a President in a debate? I think Sleepy Joe.

No way. Trump constantly referring to Bernie as a communist during a debate would be pure entertainment for me.

Fun fact: Bloomberg once said "if Bloomberg terminals could give blow jobs, woman in the office would be out of work." Ah hahahaha

Who won ?

Bernie Sanders

Going into this is it was widely forecasted the primary would become a Sanders / Bloomberg competition. I'm not sure Bloomberg could have done much worse tonight.

None of the other candidates had first rate nights. How can you look like a president in an uncontrolled screaming match ?

Sanders won because Bloomberg bombed.

Well, by that logic so did Biden. Bloomberg's been reportedly going around to Biden's donors and talking them into supporting Bloomberg by not donating to Biden. If Bloomberg's a deflated balloon while Biden's actually slugging in the arena, then its likely the financial taps might just open a bit more for Biden going forward.

I don't know why, but I'm beginning to think that Bernie's starting to coast a little bit. It's a classic strategy in a multi-player debate like this to let your opponents savage each other. But in his case there was a little bit of cockiness in it, as if he felt a bit entitled to be the grand old man of the debate. If he loses in Nevada, it may well be because he took his foot off of the gas pedal because he thought he already won the race.

I don't know how but this is the first one of these things I have watched. I guess the Bloomberg appearance roped me in. Prior to tonight, Bloomberg had me worried because I saw him convincing his party, that he was the moderate in this group of loons and the only one, who could beat Trump. Tonight it became obvious that the guy is a stiff. He wouldn't last ten minutes in a debate with Trump. The first 30 minutes or so, he looked like "what the hell am I doing here? Whose idea was this?"
When they started in on the non-disclosure agreements, he looked like he wished he were even shorter so he could hide behind the podium. Other impressions...
Warren looks like your third grade teacher threatening to call your parents.
Bernie looks like the last guy you want in the front row if it's your first night doing stand-up. Has this guy ever laughed at a joke, even a smile?
Amy looks like she belongs on SNL so she could just play herself this weekend.
Joe just keeps trying to convince us his son did nothing wrong. Yeah, sure, Joe. Don't kid a kidder.
Mayor Pete? What can I say? He's like the latest version of Slick Willie but I still can't believe we have a gay guy running for President named Butt-Gig. As the fellow said, you can't make this stuff up.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Anybody else who hasn't been watching the Democrat debates going to watch tonight's?

Nope. Chancel Choir practice is definitely more important.

flashguy

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Originally posted by sdy:
Who won ?

Bernie Sanders

Going into this is it was widely forecasted the primary would become a Sanders / Bloomberg competition. I'm not sure Bloomberg could have done much worse tonight.
None of the other candidates had first rate nights. How can you look like a president in an uncontrolled screaming match ?
Sanders won because Bloomberg bombed.

I agree. Bernie will win Nevada. If he also wins South Carolina he will most likely be the Dem nomineee.

This comment had me rolling. Pulled from another forum...

We should just require primaries to be some form of Hunger Games down selection process. Lock all candidates into stadium. Take bets. Only one exits. I bet Warren would win if given a tomahawk or bow/arrows.

Tony.

This is an excellent summary of the debate. I also had to laugh when Quid Pro Joe stated "my admin, our administration..." No doubt that has to rankle Zero.


Nevada Democratic debate was the greatest debate in human history

By John Podhoretz


February 19, 2020 | 11:40pm



Forget Lincoln and Douglas. Forget Nixon and Kennedy. Hell, forget the Athenians and the Melians back during the Peloponnesian War. Last night’s Democratic primary slagfest in Nevada was the greatest debate in all of human history.

Oh, was it glorious — the sheer raging hostility spraying across the stage as every campaign besides the Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg bids face the desperate possibility each might fade into the woodwork against the Bernie surge and the Bloomberg billions.

It’s not that the gloves were off. No, my friends, everybody was wearing steel-tipped boots and going right for the crotch. Those weren’t snowflakes. They were nunchucks.

Some priceless highlights:

Pete Buttigieg wagging his finger at Amy Klobuchar after she said she’d made an error by forgetting the name of the president of Mexico in an interview.

Klobuchar wheeling on Buttigieg and demanding to know if he was trying to say she was dumb. “Are you mocking me here, Pete?”

Joe Biden saying he’s the only one on stage who has met all kinds of Mexican presidents — whose names he clearly couldn’t remember.

Bloomberg saying he was too rich to release his returns because he can’t do Turbo Tax like all of you losers.

Sanders fuming that Bloomberg would dare mention he has a summer house.

And then there was Elizabeth Warren, desperately trying to get back in the game and spraying fire at everyone else on stage like Machine Gun Kelly. She spared no one, and by the end she had yelled herself hoarse and seemed like she needed an oxygen tank.

Warren signature moment came at the very beginning, when she went right for the jugular.

“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against — a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians,” Warren said. “No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”

So how was Bloomberg? At the midpoint, it seemed like he had just spent the past three months lighting half a billion dollars on fire, given just how disastrously he had performed.

Everybody took a turn beating him up, and his responses were painfully clueless — especially when he said that his company struck non-disclosure agreements with ex-employees at his company to protect them.

He apologized unconvincingly for stop-and-frisk and when he was asked a second time to explain himself, he got huffy and basically said, hey, he’d already apologized!

In that first hour, Bloomberg wasn’t just a Not Ready for Prime Time Debater. He was Mr. Monopoly stripped naked on the Community Chest card.

He staged a bit of a comeback in the second half when he got an opening to face off against Bernie Sanders and offer the stark rationale for his own campaign.

After listening to Sanders offer a passionate defense of his democratic socialism, Bloomberg said, “I can’t think of a better way to elect Donald Trump than for people to listen to this conversation.”

The thing is, even if the entire night had been the epic disaster the first hour suggested it would be, Bloomberg isn’t going anywhere — and he is likely only to increase his insane level of spending to do what he can to erase memories of his performance.

Buttigieg, who appears to have won Iowa and came basically within a point of winning New Hampshire, nonetheless didn’t quite seem like a formidable player. Once again he focused his strangely calm scorn on Klobuchar, who’s crowding him. Her loathing for him, in turn, was so palpable it’s lucky she didn’t have a stapler or something on her podium she might have launched at his head.

Klobuchar wouldn’t do that, of course, because she’s actually disciplined and controlled and rose to the occasion with a second great performance … that may not do anything for her. Biden had his good moments and his bad moments, but just didn’t seem like he was even a serious part of the discussion.

The free-for-all on the stage had, I think, the effect of leaving Bernie Sanders pretty much unmolested at the summit of the race. Bloomberg didn’t really lay a glove on him when it comes to the politics that will govern the caucus voting in Nevada on Saturday.

And if he wins there convincingly, as the cognoscenti think he will, his path forward as the national poll frontrunner and the King of the Bros will be secure as the major contests land over the 10 days that follow Nevada.

And in Bloomberg, he’ll have the un-woke billionaire of his dreams to serve as a continual punching bag as he charts his course for Milwaukee.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/...te-in-human-history/

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Originally posted by chellim1:
I agree. Bernie will win Nevada. If he also wins South Carolina he will most likely be the Dem nomineee.

If I understand correctly, the primary voter turnout has been extremely low for the Dems. With Bernie winning and/or placing high, it would mean that the crazies are the only ones turning out enthusiastically. Given that the more moderate Dem voters are staying home, they are likely not to turn out in November, cross over to vote for Trump, or vote 3rd party. We have to hope that will not only lead to a massive electoral and popular sweep, but also that Trump will have enough coattails to take back the house and hold, or increase, the Senate majority.



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If I understand correctly, the primary voter turnout has been extremely low for the Dems. With Bernie winning and/or placing high, it would mean that the crazies are the only ones turning out enthusiastically.

Yep. In a low turn-out election it's all about who can turn-out their own voters. So, yes, it's the Bernie Bros. There don't have to be an awful lot of them - they are enthusiastic and show up.
Plus - the non-crazies are split between the Not-Bernie candidates. Bloomberg is right that if they don't coalesce around one Not-Bernie that Bernie will win but his entry doesn't save them, it only further divides them.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

... Bloomberg is right that if they don't coalesce around one Not-Bernie that Bernie will win but his entry doesn't save them, it only further divides them.

I think you are right, but I don't think they can be united no matter who is running. The Bernie/AOC/Omar crowd is the loudest voice in the Dem Party now. Any moderates that are still hanging around will be shouted down if they dissent. Among the candidates, the only so-called moderate remaining is Biden, and he will do/say anything to get elected. If elected, his handlers would run the White House, while he wanders around the building chasing young girls. And I believe the handlers are likely hardcore Leftists.



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Originally posted by NK402:
I don't know how but this is the first one of these things I have watched. I guess the Bloomberg appearance roped me in. Prior to tonight, Bloomberg had me worried because I saw him convincing his party, that he was the moderate in this group of loons and the only one, who could beat Trump. Tonight it became obvious that the guy is a stiff. He wouldn't last ten minutes in a debate with Trump. The first 30 minutes or so, he looked like "what the hell am I doing here? Whose idea was this?"
When they started in on the non-disclosure agreements, he looked like he wished he were even shorter so he could hide behind the podium. Other impressions...
Warren looks like your third grade teacher threatening to call your parents.
Bernie looks like the last guy you want in the front row if it's your first night doing stand-up. Has this guy ever laughed at a joke, even a smile?
Amy looks like she belongs on SNL so she could just play herself this weekend.
Joe just keeps trying to convince us his son did nothing wrong. Yeah, sure, Joe. Don't kid a kidder.
Mayor Pete? What can I say? He's like the latest version of Slick Willie but I still can't believe we have a gay guy running for President named Butt-Gig. As the fellow said, you can't make this stuff up.

^^^
This is the funniest (and most accurate) assessment of the debate I have read!
Thanks for posting..

The Democrats’ personalities were exposed in Nevada and it wasn’t pretty

Wednesday night’s Democrat debate in Nevada allowed for a sharp focus on the candidates’ personalities. It wasn’t pretty. They were the six unappealing dwarfs -- Supercilious, Shrill, Angry, Confused, Smug . . . and that unpleasant nameless something that is Klobuchar.

This was Elizabeth Warren’s debate for she aggressively dominated the available airtime. As the debate progressed, the other candidates fell silent when she spoke out of instinctive deference. With her hoarse voice and scolding manner, she was every mean old lady that children learn to fear.

Given that Bloomberg was the biggest threat to the “old-timers,” Warren stood out for landing the sharpest blows against him. The debate had barely started when she said that one candidate is a “billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians and, no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”

Warren also got her claws in when Bloomberg was asked about allegations that he mistreated women in his workplace. He tried to sidestep the question by saying that he had hired a lot of women over the years and given them good jobs. Warren checked him, saying, “I hope you’ve heard what his defense was. ‘I’ve been nice to some women.’” Bloomberg’s response was the dreaded eye roll.

Additionally, Warren harshly interrogated Bloomberg about the unknown number of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) into which he’s entered with women who complained about him. There was an instant pile-on, with Bloomberg ineffectually saying that the women wanted these agreements and he was standing by them. The phrase “deer in the headlights” seems apt.

Bloomberg was generally out of his league in the jostle and thrust of a debate. He’s used to the boardroom, a place in which everyone falls silent when he speaks. He came across as condescending and disconnected, although he showed a modicum of common sense and hit hard on the fact that he was the only person there with managerial experience.

Bloomberg’s best moments came in attacks against Bernie. He called Bernie a hypocrite for attacking the wealthy when he’s a multimillionaire who owns three homes. Bernie, wisely, bobbed just a little, taking the punch and then deflecting it. Bloomberg could have done more but lacked the debating skills. Bloomberg also called Bernie’s plans “communism,” which Bernie called a “cheap shot.”

Bernie, as always, was the angry old man. He reiterated his usual points: socialized medicine, a hugely exaggerated number of medical bankruptcies, the wonders of Denmark, the horror of billionaires (he no longer mentions millionaires now that he’s one too), the evil of students stuck with loans they voluntarily assumed, and the need for a command-and-control economy to fight climate change.

Bernie’s best moment as a debater was when he deflected remarks about his hanging onto his medical records by slipping in the fact that Bloomberg has also had heart problems. The net effect, though, was to emphasize that the two putative Democrat front runners are sick, old, white men.

Poor Biden. Obama has practically disavowed him, but Biden is still clinging desperately to his coattails. Biden gyrated between dormancy and spitting defenses of his record (“I’m the guy….”). He’s only marginally articulate most of the time and, as the evening wore on and fatigue caught up with the old guy, he stopped making sense.

Buttigieg is just a bundle of smug. He’s the smart-ass teacher’s pet no one likes. He delivered his canned, mostly meaningless homilies with knowing little grins, although occasionally he landed a few blows. He picked too many silly arguments, such as trying to denigrate Klobuchar for forgetting Mexican President Obrador’s name. It was like seeing the kid who thinks he’s the smartest in the class argue with his rival whether it’s a hard “c” or a soft one in the phrase “veni, vidi, vici.”

And what was it with that unshaven upper lip? Was he trying to look older or did he forget to shave? Ick.

Klobuchar is a non-entity who desperately wants to be an entity. There’s a vacuum where her personality should be and she tries to fill it by boasting about her Minnesota election successes and her having voted on multiple bills in Congress. She comes across as the PTA leader who does all the work because nobody likes her and she’s so desperate for even fake friendship that she’s willing to be the general dogsbody.

Not a single person on the stage is a leader or a statesman. Without exception, they are small people, and that’s true with or without standing on boxes. There’s something almost tragic about the fact that the essence of the Democrat Party – the oldest continuously existing political party in the world – has been reduced to these six uninspiring, unqualified people.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.co...y.html#ixzz6EVNaCjkf

This will probably send PETA over the edge...forcing pigeons to support Trump against their will...


https://apple.news/A2vhtJDjvTGGN5a9LLzA9Ww

A Trump booster group released a flock of pigeons with MAGA hats glued to their heads in Las Vegas ahead of Wednesday night's Democratic debate.

Pigeons Wearing MAGA Hats Released In Las Vegas Ahead Of Democratic Debate
A Trump booster group released a flock of pigeons with MAGA hats glued to their heads in Las Vegas ahead of Wednesday night’s Democratic debate.
The anonymous group responsible for the bizarre stunt is called “Pigeons United To Interfere Now (PUTIN)” and is led by a man who goes by the name “Coo Hand Luke.”
They said in an apparent satirical statement that the stunt was “inspired by the 1970’s Cold War Operation, ‘Tacana’, in which the CIA explored the use of pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to spy on Soviet sites of interest.”
“The project was the result of months of exhaustive research, logistical hurdles and pigeon care taking,” read the statement.
They also told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the hats were attached using eyelash glue, which means they will naturally fall off the pigeons within a couple of days.
The stunt comes as six of the Democratic candidates for president are set to square off in the ninth debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas. They include Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.