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Trump has tweeted about Bernie Sanders 4 times in less than 12 hours (3 of those in just the last hour). It seems Bernie has gotten under Trump's skin.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 17, 2019

You're so cute. Tell us, Kyle, all that you see of this iceberg.

Tell us, all that you know of this geode.

Jason, tell Kyle what you see in those tweets. [Comment made elsewhere]

One of the things I love best about POTUS is that his foes so often underestimate him that they don’t even know when he’s executing a deliberate strategy.

POTUS picks his opponents, like any smart competitor does. Why take on Beyonce when you can fight with Rosie O’Donnell instead? Why battle with a German Sheppard if you have the option to combat a chihuahua?

POTUS wants to face Bernie. That’s a slam-dunk win. Reagan-Mondale. Nixon-McGovern.

Bernie is not a slouch, particularly in these radical post-Barry days. But the real truth is that POTUS beats Bernie easily because the Democrats wont let Bernie win the general election. They won’t. They will run Schultz or Bloomberg to stop him, and thus POTUS wins easily in 2020.

Hence, POTUS deliberate elevation of Bernie.

He’s doing the same thing to Omar. It’s all planned, all calculated. And it’s working brilliantly.

If the Democratic primary were held today, Bernie would win. And the Democrat Establishment knows it, and hates it.

And POTUS loves it. So expect more of these Bernie “call outs” in the time to come.

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Actually, the Democrat club hasn't yet announced their chosen candidate. Once they do then everything else falls into line. 

All the data sets collected by various candidates devolve to the chosen candidate. As a club, a very old-fashioned club, they are remarkably predictable. 

They are grooming their chosen candidate, and their chosen one is grooming themself. They strongly prefer a person of color, they are after all race-oriented. And they strongly prefer a female, because they cynically play the precious conceits of their base. A woman of color with some faint experience is their perfect candidate. It doesn't matter how qualified the candidate. It doesn't matter how good the person will be for the country. It doesn't matter how alienating to the rest of the country. All they care about is who they believe they can drag across the finish line. 

And that's why we get stories about Michelle Obama touring the Seine past the Notre-Dame relating her own stories about visiting the Cathedral briefly as a child, while publicizing her book.

She wants us to believe that she sprang from disadvantaged background due to race, and she wants us to know she visited the Notre-Dame as a child. The discordant lines are irrelevant for a Democrat candidate being groomed. The Democrat base dismisses discordant lines in their candidates.

Imagine it, taking a boat ride past the latest international catastrophe and making it about yourself. The timing just so exquisite. If a Republican had done that the reporting would be quite different. The coordinated attention given this woman is purposeful. 

And strange things like floating past a burnt ancient monument still smoldering and delivering a discordant message doesn't matter to Democrat base any more than Bernie Sanders not answering a question about his own discordant position on taxes, his supporters so easily misdirected by deflection to Trump who never made the case for higher taxes or government control over healthcare.