| | The contest in Michigan, which Sanders won in 2016, is said to be test of who commands the blue collar and [[working class]] vote, Biden or Sanders. Biden was greeted at the auto plant with cheers of “Trump! Trump! Trump!”'<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/trump-trump-trump-trump-detroit-auto-workers-cheer-president-trump-during-joe-bidens-plant-visit/</ref> | | The contest in Michigan, which Sanders won in 2016, is said to be test of who commands the blue collar and [[working class]] vote, Biden or Sanders. Biden was greeted at the auto plant with cheers of “Trump! Trump! Trump!”'<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/trump-trump-trump-trump-detroit-auto-workers-cheer-president-trump-during-joe-bidens-plant-visit/</ref> |
| − | Lawyers for the mother of Hunter Biden’s out-of-wedlock child filed a motion seeking to have the vice president’s son held in [[contempt of court]] for repeatedly refusing to turn over 2017 and 2018 financial information on his income from Ukraine, Burisma, the Chinese military, and [[Romania]]n<ref> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-s-legal-work-romania-raises-new-questions-about-n1071031</ref> sources in his ongoing paternity and child support case.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/mother-of-hunter-bidens-child-files-contempt-motion-he-willfully-defied-court-order-to-provide-documents/</ref> More than $1 Billion dollars was paid by the Bank of China on behalf of the Chinese military for drone technology to a partnership owned by Hunter Biden, the family of convicted [[mafia]] kingpin [[Whitey Bulger]], and formerly the stepson of [[Secretary of State]] [[John Kerry]].<ref>https://pjmedia.com/trending/as-biden-and-kerry-went-soft-on-china-sons-made-nuclear-military-business-deals-with-chinese-govt/</ref> Hunter Biden argues that coronavirus is preventing him from co-operating with the court until after the November elections. | + | Lawyers for the mother of Hunter Biden’s 18 month old out-of-wedlock child filed a motion seeking to have the vice president’s son held in [[contempt of court]] for repeatedly refusing to turn over 2017 and 2018 financial information on his income from Ukraine, Burisma, the Chinese military, and [[Romania]]n<ref> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-s-legal-work-romania-raises-new-questions-about-n1071031</ref> sources in his ongoing paternity and child support case.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/mother-of-hunter-bidens-child-files-contempt-motion-he-willfully-defied-court-order-to-provide-documents/</ref> More than $1 Billion dollars was paid by the Bank of China on behalf of the Chinese military for drone technology to a partnership owned by Hunter Biden, the family of convicted [[mafia]] kingpin [[Whitey Bulger]], and formerly the stepson of [[Secretary of State]] [[John Kerry]].<ref>https://pjmedia.com/trending/as-biden-and-kerry-went-soft-on-china-sons-made-nuclear-military-business-deals-with-chinese-govt/</ref> Hunter Biden, who's new wife is pregnant, argues that coronavirus is preventing him from co-operating with the court until after the November elections. The judge refused the request. As it became more clear Joe Biden would become the nominee, the woman suing Hunter Biden apparently signed another non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for an undisclosed amount of cash. Ironically just days earlier Joe Biden demanded on national television that Michael Bloomberg release women from NDAs and be forthcoming about how much cash Bloomberg paid to women women who had been wronged and abused. Hunter Biden has a long and troubled history with drugs; after being thrown out of the [[Navy]] for [[narcotic]]s, within months he was employed by Ukrainians as his father doled out $1 Billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer aid the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian businesses. Hunter's first wife filed for divorce when Hunter began an affair with his sister-in-law, the grieving widow of Vice President Biden's other son, [[Beau Biden]]. In the divorce papers Hunter's first wife alleged that Hunter spent all his money on dope and [[prostitute]]s. Hunter himself related to a national television audience aired on ''60 Minutes'' of all night crack binges with the homeless in [[L.A.]] while he was paid %83,000 a month by Ukrainians, for evidently doing nothing. |
| | Once again, long lines appeared at certain select precincts where many frustrated voters gave up and returned home. Sanders accused the Democrat party of [[voter suppression]].<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-calls-long-lines-michigan-polling-stations-outrage-suggests-dems-are-engaging-1491592</ref> As a committed [[idealist]], which anyone who knows the man or followed his career since he entered politics in 1981, these events explain clearly why Sanders never joined the Democratic party - because the Democratic party is not democratic. Democratic party insiders and office holders do not hold to the fundamental belief in one man, one vote. This was true when the Democratic party's forebearers inserted the 3/5 rule into the U.S. Constitution; it was true in the decade-long court battles ending with the [[Dred Scott]] decision, and after the [[Civil War]] it was the basis for, first lynching white [[carpetbagger|carpetbagging]] Republicans, then secondly turning on recently freed [[Blacks]] and imposing a century-long era of [[segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]]. Winning, and holding power at all costs are the core principles of Democratic party leadership since its founding, and those core beliefs have repeatedly compromised any notion of [[freedom]], [[equality]], or human rights to attain their objectives. Few contemporary, ordinary Democratic party voters understand these basic facts of the history of the Democratic party as well as Bernie Sanders does. By running from outside the party, Bernie Sanders attempted to reform it. Sanders is the living embodiment of the 38% of Democratic party voters, who identify as socially conscious [[liberal]]s or [[progressive]]s, whose valuers and beliefs may be high minded and noble, but are systematically mocked behind their backs as dupes and stooges by party insiders. In Sanders' case, Sanders has simply been honest with himself by ''not'' wearing the party label. Very few of his staff, supporters, or followers can make the same claim, or excuse. | | Once again, long lines appeared at certain select precincts where many frustrated voters gave up and returned home. Sanders accused the Democrat party of [[voter suppression]].<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-calls-long-lines-michigan-polling-stations-outrage-suggests-dems-are-engaging-1491592</ref> As a committed [[idealist]], which anyone who knows the man or followed his career since he entered politics in 1981, these events explain clearly why Sanders never joined the Democratic party - because the Democratic party is not democratic. Democratic party insiders and office holders do not hold to the fundamental belief in one man, one vote. This was true when the Democratic party's forebearers inserted the 3/5 rule into the U.S. Constitution; it was true in the decade-long court battles ending with the [[Dred Scott]] decision, and after the [[Civil War]] it was the basis for, first lynching white [[carpetbagger|carpetbagging]] Republicans, then secondly turning on recently freed [[Blacks]] and imposing a century-long era of [[segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]]. Winning, and holding power at all costs are the core principles of Democratic party leadership since its founding, and those core beliefs have repeatedly compromised any notion of [[freedom]], [[equality]], or human rights to attain their objectives. Few contemporary, ordinary Democratic party voters understand these basic facts of the history of the Democratic party as well as Bernie Sanders does. By running from outside the party, Bernie Sanders attempted to reform it. Sanders is the living embodiment of the 38% of Democratic party voters, who identify as socially conscious [[liberal]]s or [[progressive]]s, whose valuers and beliefs may be high minded and noble, but are systematically mocked behind their backs as dupes and stooges by party insiders. In Sanders' case, Sanders has simply been honest with himself by ''not'' wearing the party label. Very few of his staff, supporters, or followers can make the same claim, or excuse. |