{"id":913,"date":"2020-03-11T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=913"},"modified":"2020-03-11T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:25:29","slug":"gotta-love-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/gotta-love-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Love CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gotta love CNN, the mouthpiece of the intel community and\nthe corporate establishment. After Super Tuesday II, with primaries in\nMichigan, Idaho, North Dakota, Washington, Missouri, and Mississippi, Biden has\n787 delegates. Bernie has 647. 1,991 are needed to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Headlines on CNN as I write this at 8 a.m. Wednesday March 11:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cBiden Takes Command\nof Delegate Race\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCleveland (CNN) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJoe Biden is <strong>marching<\/strong>\nto the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe former vice president <strong>handily defeated <\/strong>Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in Michigan&#8217;s primary &#8212;\n<strong>halting <\/strong>the Vermont senator&#8217;s hopes\nof a comeback in the state where he&#8217;d stunned Hillary Clinton four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden also notched <strong>massive\nwins<\/strong> in Idaho, Mississippi and Missouri. Sanders won in North Dakota.\nWashington hadn&#8217;t been called yet, but as of Wednesday morning, Biden was in a\ntight race there with Sanders, another state Sanders needed to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday marked a <strong>clear\nturning point<\/strong> in the Democratic race. Biden is<strong> building a powerful coalition <\/strong>of African Americans, suburbanites\nand rural white voters who previously backed Sanders, while <strong>Sanders is failing<\/strong> to produce the\nelectorate-changing turnout of young voters that he&#8217;s promised.\u201d [emphasis\nmine]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cBiden\u2019s massive wins\non Super Tuesday II, capped a reversal of fortune.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, at least the latter part of that headline is correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no love for Bernie; he\u2019s a flake who (by his own admission) doesn\u2019t know how he\u2019s going to pay for his big government programs. Estimates are that Medicare-for-all will cost around 9 trillion or so. Even if the richest 3.4% \u2013 those who make over $250,000 per year \u2013 have ALL of their income taken for taxes, this will only generate about $3.4 trillion. But come on, Bernie is only 147 delegates behind! Biden needs 1,113 and Bernie needs 1,253. There\u2019s a long way to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if you read these headlines and stories you\u2019d think the race is over already! This is the definition of Fake News.  When the DOW  fell over 2,000 points last week CNN published huge headlines and several lead stories. The very next day the market rose back 1200 points. Strangely, CNN had no story about that.  Not even a small headline at the bottom of the page. Today, March 11, the DOW fell another 1400 points. Front page headlines in huge type on CNN. If the market gains tomorrow, will there even be a story? You\u2019d almost think that CNN wants the economy to fail. Nah, that\u2019s just a conspiracy theory. Sure, CNN has hired several commentators from the intel community (including former CIA Director John Brennan) but you\u2019d have to be a nutcase to assert that the intel community writes CNN\u2019s headlines and their stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I\u2019m Bernie I\u2019m hanging in there. Hell, even Trump is\nsympathetic. He keeps tweeting that the Dems are stealing the nomination from\nBernie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course there are the 700 Superdelegates, who can vote for anyone they want, so maybe the race really is over. Most political commentators say that the remaining states don\u2019t favor Bernie. And there\u2019s those pesky Superdelegates. But CNN never mentions Superdelegates in the article.  According to CNN, on March 11th, Biden has won and Bernie has lost.  Go figure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bernie should stay in until the end. He has a populist base\nthat doesn\u2019t want to give up, even if they don\u2019t always go to the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conspiracy Theory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s one for you. The coronavirus spreads here in the US.\nBiden and Sanders have already cancelled campaign rallies in Ohio on March 11.\nThe Task Force led by VP Pence, and the CDC, recommends cancelling all public\ngatherings over 1,000 people. This shuts down Trump\u2019s major source of momentum\nand publicity for his base \u2013 the rallies he\u2019s been holding since he was\nelected. Bloomberg has already bought the Democratic party with his billions.\nHe\u2019s got, according to Forbes, something like $55 billion. He\u2019s not running so\nhe can contribute as much as he wants to state parties. This dwarfs the Trump\ncampaign\u2019s measly $200 million. Bloomberg has already spent $600 mil on adverts\nto get 24 delegates. All he has to do is swamp the country with anti-Trump ads\nday and night. Trump has no answer for this because he can\u2019t rally his base.\nThe mainstream media will collaborate against Trump\u2019s reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a perfect anti-Trump storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Media Spreads Panic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today the markets are crashing again and the WHO has announced that the coronavirus is officially a pandemic. Mass media are spreading fear all over the world. As I said in a previous post, the same corporate capitalists who moved millions of factory jobs from the US to Asia, seeking cheap CCP slave labor, are the same guys who are panic selling and crashing the markets because their supply chains are broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something very strange has happened in central China. The\nvirus originated in Wuhan. Just before that another outbreak caused the CCP to\norder the slaughter of half of the country\u2019s pig population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even as my savings evaporate I am keeping calm, however.\nEventually we\u2019ll find out what the coronavirus is and how it was originally released\ninto the population of Wuhan. Until then I am avoiding large public gatherings\nand meditating for peace and prosperity. It can\u2019t hurt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love CNN, the mouthpiece of the intel community and the corporate establishment. After Super Tuesday II, with primaries in Michigan, Idaho, North Dakota, Washington, Missouri, and Mississippi, Biden has 787 delegates. 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