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…Dang, I was right.

I guessed this about the Democratic debate:

…I think that Martin O’Malley will end up being the one most likely to come the closest to trying to play for the percentage of the electorate that likes to see our enemies dead, and piled up in a heap.  After all, Bernie Sanders is the hardcore Left’s darling, their darling, their darling: you think that he’s going to tell them NOW that George W Bush was right, and that they were wrong? No, me neither. And while Hillary Clinton might be inclined to sound tough, she knows full well that Sanders would love to attack her from the Left on foreign policy. So she’s going to have to come up with something on the fly, and Hillary Clinton does not make good decisions under pressure, and on short notice***.

So Martin O’Malley might in fact go for it.  I mean, shoot, what does he have to lose at this point? He’s certainly not going to win as things stand now. I also assume that O’Malley will mess it up somehow, of course – but that’d just be his garden-variety incompetence on display.

…including the ‘mess it up somehow.’ He should have never have let this line of questioning go.

So, should I watch the Democratic debate Saturday?

I mean: no-one’s supposed to, after all. The system is designed to let Hillary Clinton hide until the general election.  Admittedly, once that happens it’ll become abruptly clear that the woman doesn’t actually know how to campaign properly, which is why I’m not too exercised about that – but I don’t know if I want to watch the festivities on Saturday, either.  As it is I’m trying desperately not to refer to the Democratic field as the Three Stooges, because that’s a bad mindset to get into.

Thoughts?

CNBC Dumpster Fire Debate brings in 14 million viewers.

Ten million less than the first two*; mind you, the first two weren’t playing opposite the World Series and were available online via free streaming. You have to wonder whether or not CNBC is relieved that they didn’t make that aforementioned dumpster fire of a debate freely available: on the one hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the other hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the gripping hand, CNBC should probably enjoy their record numbers and/or ad revenue from last night, because it’s going to be a cold day in Perdition before the GOP will let them host another one. Continue reading CNBC Dumpster Fire Debate brings in 14 million viewers.

Last Debate Tweet/Post, I swear.

I finally turned on the radio – thanks to Constant Reader Compound for the link – and this pretty much sums how CNBC did tonight.

As I noted on Twitter, this wasn’t CNBC having a dumpster fire, or them fornicating the canine. This was them fornicating the dumpster fire.

Why no progressive inquisitors at the Democratic debate?

Via @AdamBaldwin by this tweet by Joan Walsh… and it has a question that has some veritable teeth to it. No, really. This is a great question, and I wish that I had thought of it first:

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