Last night, CNN persisted with their silly lightning round “debate” format encouraging 0% candidates to attack the few actual serious candidates.  Whoever thought that was a good idea was wrong, dead wrong, because it gave idiots like Bill De Blasio, who has ZERO chance of being nominated, an amplified voice to attack the front runner.  To illustrate the point, here is a chart I built that plots each candidate’s average national poll average from realclearpolitics.com against the minutes they talked during this round of debates as timed by the Washington Post.  To be clear, though, what’s illustrated here is total airtime, not the subject of that airtime.  For example, over HALF of Biden’s airtime was spent defending himself from attacks most of who are polling at less than 5% nationally.  The blue bars are national average poll percentage.  The orange bars are airtime spent in this round of debates.  Have a look:

This chart illustrates how goddam stupid the DNC is allowing 0% candidates on a national debate stage.  What it doesn’t illustrate, and it’s an important point, is that these 0% candidates used their time to attack…wait for it…Barack Obama.  It was shocking how, to get at Biden (and to be fair, Harris did it, too) these candidates attacked policies of the Obama administration.  The burning dumpster in the room, Donald Trump, was almost completely ignored while Joe Biden fought off withering attacks on his record of 50 years of public service.  The entire episode was shameful, set up by CNN as some silly cage match, and enabled by the incompetence of Tom Perez and the other leadership of the DNC.

During both of these most recent debates circular firing squads I followed several debate threads.  Almost every one of those threads, which were of DEMOCRATS, had a number of “Sleepy Joe” and “sleepy old white man” comments that were surprising.  And what was shocking were that many of those making those comments supported Warren or Sanders.  Let’s look at some of the ages of some well known people:

Bernie Sanders – 77
Joe Biden – 76
Elizabeth Warren – 70
Charlie Watts – 78
Mick Jagger – 76
Keith Richards – 75
Ronnie Woods – 72

I saw the last four guys outperform most 20 year olds onstage last Saturday.  So let’s be fair here.  If you’re a Bernie or Warren supporter, attacking Biden for his age is hypocritical and a Trump talking point.

But I digress from slamming the DNC and CNN for yet another disastrous night for Democrats that HURT not helped them mount an offense against the worst president in US history.  It’s long past time for the DNC to stop being stupid, get 75% of those people off the stage so we can have a serious discussion about the future of our nation and strengthening actual candidates so they can aim their fire where it should be aimed, Donald Trump, not each other.

Y’all, you might want to click your way over to the Dallas Observer to see them damage Ted Cruz with videos of … Ted Cruz.

How a man can embarrass himself so much is a mystery to me.

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Republican Congressman Mark Walker of North Carolina is on the House Homeland Security Committee and heads the Republican Party on the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, which kinda makes him spooky to begin with.

Now he wants the Navy to fess up about UAPs, which are UFOs with a new name so people won’t giggle when he talks about being abducted and subject of an anal probe.

He says …

“Based on pilot accounts, encounters with these UAPs often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics.”

Now I have to stop here and let you know that Walker is a graduate of Piedmont International University (yeah well, they haven’t heard of you either) and is currently involved in a federal corruption probe.  On top of all that, he thinks that John Ratcliffe is an excellent choice for Director of National Intelligence.

So … excuse me if I kinda think that his knowledge of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics might be limited to operating a shower curtain.

Now, I’m not saying he’s looking to distracting us all by telling us to look at the little green men, but … what the hell, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

You gotta watch these Republicans – they are a tricky bunch of sumbitches.

Y’all, he had a bug exploring his face and hair during a speech.

Normal people would probably feel that.

You know how how flies always gather around the trash can?

I have this sinking feeling that the Dems are really going to blow it.  They’re going to lose to the worst president in US history because the DNC is leading the candidates over a cliff with the idiots at CNN giving an assist by running tonight’s debate like it’s some kind of lightning round for a grand prize of a Hillary 2016 T-shirt.  Holy Jesus, what a shit show.  It was like a pop quiz for some Bible verse memorization contest.  If the DNC thinks this kind of bullshit will engage new voters – well, we’re screwed.  Just screwed.

I tried finding a movie to watch after the flag waving at the beginning, but ran back across it, glued to it by becoming so appalled that, like a car accident on the freeway, I just couldn’t look away.  It was worse than the freeway car accident, like that slow fire that starts under the hood that nobody can extinguish; you KNOW what’s going to happen in the end.  We’re doomed; doomed.  I can only hope that the adults tomorrow night do better, but with the morons moderating playing speed questions, I fear it will be Shit Show 2 of Round Two of the series of Shit Shows.

I have no words.

Texas Republican congressfool Mike Conaway, representing the Midland / Odessa area, is joining the Republicans chickening out of re-election.

Conaway sit on the House Intelligence Committee and is credited with halting any investigation of Trump’s relationship to financial dealings with Russia.

His seat is probably the most Republican in Texas.  But the rats jumping the ship can’t be a good thing for Republicans.