Sunday Open Thread [6.5.16]

Hillary won the Virgin Island caucus last night by some insane margin, garnering her 6 delegates to Sanders' 1. That means if the AP delegate count is accurate, he is now 65 delegates away from the nomination. If she wins Puerto Rico by some similarly insane margin, like 85-90% of the vote, then it is possible that she can win the 65 delegates she needs out of the 72 delegates available. But that's not likely. First, I'd imagine Bernie will do better on PR than on VI because he has taken a stand against the whole Puerto Rican debt bailout issue. Second, while VI's population was primarily of African descent, PR's population is obviously more Latino, so demographically he will do better. He will still lose, but I sense PR is more like a 70-30 percentage split. That should mean 42 delegates for Hillary and 18 for Bernie, leaving Hillary 23 short. So she will clinch at 8 pm on Tuesday when New Jersey closes.
It looks like it’s happening!!!! Warren to be VP.

It looks like it’s happening!!!! Warren to be VP.

The Boston Globe is reported last night that it looks very likely that the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, is going to choose Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to be her running mate, making it the first ticket in American history with two women on it. Why? How? Because of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid....
Saturday Open Thread [6.4.16]

Saturday Open Thread [6.4.16]

This week has been pivotal. First, the revelations of the Trump University Scam and Trump's defrauding of the veterans broke. Then Trump goes nuts on the press for revealing the truth in a preview of what press conferences under a fascist dictator will look like. Then Hillary's amazing speech on Thursday. Then Trump's insane racist attacks on the Judge in the Trump University case, which he has escalated throughout the week. And then last night he sees a single African American in a crowd at his rally, and in the middle of discussing black protestors who are thugs, says "Look at my African American over there. Look at him. Aren't you the greatest?" Everywhere I go, I see people on Facebook, Twitter, in real life, on cable TV, trying to find words or reasons for all this behavior, in particular the attacks on the Judge and the comments on "my African American." Look, it is all pretty simple, and people just need to accept it rather than rationalize their way out of saying what is really going on here. And that is this: Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath. He is a racist. He desires to be a fascist dictator that jails his opponents and cleanses the country of the minorities he hates. Seriously. It's not hyperbole this time. The Republicans have literally nominated the heir of Adolf Hitler. The sooner you all accept it, the better off you will all be, because everything will make sense.

The Weekly Addresses

In this week's address, the President discussed his return to Elkhart, Indiana, the first town he visited as President and one that was among the hardest-hit by the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. In his weekly message, Governor Markell pays tribute to our fallen heroes and honors Major Beau Biden.
Friday Open Thread [6.3.16]

Friday Open Thread [6.3.16]

Eric Levitz at New York Magazine:
Hillary Clinton's argument for why she would make a better commander-in-chief than her Republican opponent is fairly simple: She is not an emotionally erratic ignoramus who has praised the Tiananmen Squarecrackdown, refused to issue any plan for combating ISIS, and called on the American military to kill more civilians. On the other hand, she was in the room when President Obama ordered the hit on Bin Laden. And she did a bunch of other great things as Secretary of State. (You've forgotten about that Libya intervention by now, haven't you?) The likely Democratic nominee laid out this case in exacting detail in San Diego on Thursday. Her campaign had billed the speech as an attempt to paint Donald Trump as "unfit for the presidency." This is not a terribly difficult task, but she accomplished it with aplomb — deploying the old rhetorical trick of reciting all the insane, mutually exclusive proposals her opponent had improvised over the course of a 12-month campaign.