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His supporters understand this perfectly.

The latter isn't news.

Word on the street is that a good number of players are high at game time. Find a recent former player and ask them. It's not good. Athletes simply can't be at their best if they are smoking or drinking regularly.

He's Rachel Maddow in a disguise. Look close, it's true.

Yep, we know all too well over here.

And I liked Tillerson for a while. He became a swampite darned quickly.

Well this will be interesting. Bernie played mostly nice with Hillary in the debates in 2016. She was such an easy target, he could have hammered her on so many things but he mostly chose not to. Even after he learned the thing was somewhat rigged against him, he only complained mildly. Now Bernie's getting ganged up on again by his adopted party that doesn't like him. Joe will be another sitting duck in the debate and one that represents the corporate and party Democrat establishment. All the things Bernie rails against. Let's see if Bernie who has not a damn thing to lose at this point of the campaign and at his age will let Joe have it the same way he gives it to the right. I'm guessing he won't do that to his old friend Joe. He'll toe the party line of the party that is ***** with him again. In the end that makes Bernie a wuss that when the chips are down won't fight for his supporters. We'll see but that is my guess. He backs down.

Agree with your statement on the forward impact on economy and jobs and markets. As for Trump's admin being aggressive, I recall that those that tested positive early and/or re-entered the country with known cases were immediately quarantined in military and other health facilities. That's pretty aggressive and we continue to do that. Research on treatment and vaccines started immediately (but won't yield results for many months). Test kits I read are lagging in supply. Maybe screening of those coming into the country could have been more aggressive a week or two sooner, but a lot of prevention at this point comes down to us as individuals and the actions of localized health workers. Fortunately the proliferation of the virus in the US seems to be at much lower levels than countries who didn't act as swiftly as did we. It is early though as this will likely go on through 2020.

Mitt's gotta be compromised somehow. Seriously.

Mostly I question her statement: "a once-in-a-generation political and intellectual talent". The Trump part doesn't even apply. Tulsi Gabbard is still a choice and with more relevant experience.

I'm fine with millions of investors believing that.

I think that he would have been a larger factor had he gotten in the race months earlier and participated in more debates. Yes he had a bad debate performance but on average had he been a regular participant he would have done better in them IMO and he would have gained a greater share of the vote.

I can't believe it's going to be Biden.

Exactly. There is a huge difference between the two. The flu is a known commodity in society, happens yearly, there are vaccinations to prevent some of it and the death rate is very very low. Most of us have had it multiple times and know how to deal with it. This coronavirus thus far is an unknown in comparison. It appears to be highly contagious, there are no vaccines or treatments to date and the death rate (even though only the weak among us seem to die) is much higher. Fear of the unknown will change people's behavior and significantly if the number of active cases continues to increase. It doesn't take much of a change in consumer confidence and spending to cause a recession. We've been pedal to the metal with stimuli for the last decade + which has resulted in modest GDP growth on average. We love what that long expansion has done for equity markets but I don't see how this ***** virus doesn't cause a recession unless it quickly (in the next month or two) dissipates. It won't take much to go from +2.5% to -2.5% GDP for a couple quarters or more.

Michele Obama? Please no. I'm enjoying her relative silence.

I don't know how anyone even dem candidates can take Perez seriously. He's a lightweight and the DNC is pretty broke.

Joe's part of the club and he's more youthful than Bernie and Mikey.

Unfortunately I think you'll be correct on this.

I too put myself through school, not one dime from anyone else other than some small student loans which were paid back. Finished in 4 years and worked nearly full time (nearly 40 hours) many weeks while in school buying/selling/fixing cars. I learned the trade from my Dad and could not have done so without him so had that advantage but the work, the determination was mine and I commuted to school. It was hard work especially in the Buffalo outdoors in winter. It can still be done today but it's tougher given the cost of tuition at a lot of schools. In Illinois the in-state school system is poorly organized with most of the schools in rural areas where not much of the population can commute which makes it even more expensive. Really dumb that this state hasn't built another 4 year school in the Chicago burbs.

***** you. We still only have a roughly 65% labor participation rate in this country. Furthermore, put a plant or 2 on the south side of Chicago (and in other similar job starved areas) where people need opportunities and not just for line workers but for supervisors, plant engineers, equipment maintenance people, quality control people and others. Manufacturing facilities are fantastic job creation and upward mobility tools. Chicago as a sanctuary city employs more than 100K illegal immigrants meaning the dem pols that run the place blatantly allow non-citizens to take jobs that residents badly need. The citizenry unfortunately continues to elect the same type of leaders. ***** all of them too.

No Democrat has run a worse Presidential campaign than Joe.

Trump and this virus together will cause a significant shift away from Chinese manufacturing. The first things to be moved should be pharmaceutical manufacturing. We will come out of this a better nation once this virus is behind us.

We are counting on you being right. I'm very concerned that this ***** virus will trigger a global recession, maybe not as severe as the last one but that it'll be 7 years before we see the S&P 500 back above 3300. Of course a Trump victory in November could save our 401K's!

Is there anything Nancy says that is worth listening to or reading?

Bill Barr