—Mike Bloomberg is not funny.

—The only thing Joe Biden seems to remember from his “Catholic school upbringing” is that he should be polite and keep to the time prescribed during debates.

—Bernie Sanders can make Pete Buttigieg sound like Ronald Reagan when it comes to Cold War issues.

—For a party that should be trying to steal white, working-class voters from Donald Trump, all the Democratic candidates talk about are the problems of poor black people and poor Latinos… as if there are no struggling white people in America.

—The fact that Mike Bloomberg might have told a woman to “kill” her baby when she became pregnant isn’t quite enough to shock a quiet Democratic debate audience.

—It was cute that they actually let Tom Steyer talk sometimes.

—Man, they are old and white, and if this were the Republican field, the media would be doing two stories a day on their lack of diversity.

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