Hilarious that the inciting event has been reported since ~April, but perhaps, it is finally beginning to begin in earnest.
Even Prof. Bowman comes out.
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Hilarious that the inciting event has been reported since ~April, but perhaps, it is finally beginning to begin in earnest.
Even Prof. Bowman comes out.
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Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
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My first post in this thread, so forgive me I havn't read it all (TLDR)
I like Trump. He's upsetting all the right people.
Oh and as a businessman he know how it goes. It shows in the economy.
Another thing he's stitched on for a 2020 win.
That is all.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Top kek.
For the record, Giuliani tried to do the same shazam in Romania as he did in Ukraine, trying to prop up the corrupt president of the ruling party with a letter sent to the government. That blew in his face and they quickly dropped the issue, causing even more problems to the ruling party.
He tried to attack the chief prosecutor - Laura Codruta Kovesi - who will now be the European Prosecutor. -> https://www.euractiv.com/section/jus...ic-prosecutor/
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/25/rud...rumps-payroll/
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
I like the meltdown he had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiIERTHvzfw
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"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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He is upsetting many of the right people, as well as a lot of the wrong people, as well as a lot of people who used to be staunch GOP.
He has had some positive influence on the economy (though some would assert this is short term economic gain at the expense of safety and global climate), though it is also true that the first half of a first term President's economy is at least half the product of the predecessor. Improved, yes. All Trump's doing....not so much.
He and McConnell are ratcheting the percentage of originalist judges way up in the federal judiciary. The traditional values crowd loves this a lot -- it is probably the number one reason so many evangelicals stick with him.
The Dems are pushing, so far, staunchly left of center where the hearts of their younger and most active and their ardent leftist core groups are happiest. But they will need to take back the white working class voter or Trump may well repeat his minority vote win in 2020.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
The four front runners are either senile, infirm, corrupt bordering on supervillian or, well, Warren. The only two candidates who have a chance of matching trump are relegated to the single digits or actively shunned by the DNC.
You might as well call it here; The dems are destined for the grave they dug themselves.
Nah, but if you keep the Big Lie going maybe others will believe you.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...eral_election/
The outliers seems to have a better chance of beating him and trump is narrowing the lead of the "big three."
We should not forget that last time Trump faced Clinton, but we also should not forget the American habit of just electing the same guy twice.
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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13 of the 44 who have served as POTUS won two terms consecutively. 1 won two separate terms (and two pres #s) but lost the intervening election. 4 more have acceded to the office to finish a term following a death and subsequently won a second on their own pins. FDR, or course, won 4 consecutive elections.
Historically, we have less than half who have won a second term in office. However, 4 of the last 5 have served two consecutive terms making it seem the 'norm.'
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
I'd be concerned if I believed they could keep that up over a year of campaigning, as it is the Big Lie is insisting the democrats havent backed the wrong horses but I'd believe that most of them dont see it yet.
After the eviceration Gabbard gave Harris the DNC have made every effort to avoid putting Biden and Warren on the same stage as her. They're scared shitless and it tells everything I need to know to how they'll fare with trump. Bernie is the exception, making the likelyhood he's blown before he could even begin downright tragic.
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In spite of the typically limited and diffuse impact of policy on the economy in the short-term, Trump has done more than almost any President since the antebellum era to singlehandedly and directly damage the economy, which is hard to do when administrations like Jefferson's, Jackson's, Polk's, etc. (hmmm, I'm beginning to detect a pattern) adopted basically suicidal economics. There's even an argument that, to the extent that this president's economic actions are largely executive as opposed to worked out with Congress (other than the 2017 tax law), he bears the responsibility and thereby becomes the very worst President on the economy. Though it does him no favors that the legislative action, the 2017 law, was so marginal a stimulus in its upward wealth transfer. Republican depredations are well-enough known to be an archetype, but the jokes about Trump running the country like a business by driving it into bankruptcy while enriching himself through embezzlement and fraud were obviously especially prescient.
Without having to challenge your premises, it should cheer you that Trump is indeed bleeding among the white working class, especially white women, whose votes he cannot afford to lose.The Dems are pushing, so far, staunchly left of center where the hearts of their younger and most active and their ardent leftist core groups are happiest. But they will need to take back the white working class voter or Trump may well repeat his minority vote win in 2020.
Remember that (you can check this against the certified results) the Trump 2016 electorate was something like 45% white men and 40% white women, compared to <50% whites among the Clinton electorate. He can neither lose any of that nor afford any increase in turnout among the opposition, and he's consistently down on both counts so far. Meanwhile, seemingly the only demographic among whom he has enlarged his vote share are Never-Trump Republicans (lol). More pertinent is to relate this to the Electoral College, where I reiterate he must win all the states he won in 2016 and has no prospect of capturing any new ones. But his clinches in the decisive states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are in danger of evaporation if they haven't already, Florida remains in play with a heavy blue shift among the electorate (perhaps too heavy to disenfranchise), and now even Texas is becoming a battleground state.
On the other side, Warren is a fairly skilled and persuasive politician.
Warren has won multiple teaching awards, and when I first profiled her in 2011, early in her Senate run and during what would be her last semester of teaching at Harvard, I spoke to students who were so over the moon about her that my editors decided I could not use many of their quotes because they were simply too laudatory. Many former students I interviewed for this story spoke in similarly soaring terms. One, Jonas Blank, described her as “patient and plainspoken, like an elementary-school teacher is expected to be, but also intense and sharp the way a law professor is supposed to be.” Several former students who are now (and were then) Republicans declined to talk to me on the record precisely because they liked her so much and did not want to contribute to furthering her political prospects by speaking warmly of her.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
I don't like her policy set, as you might well imagine Monty. On the other hand, she is intelligent, openly promoting relatively detailed policy initiatives (I don't have to agree with them to respect the policy goals intended or the fact that she has the ovaries to get this detailed this early in what is often only a beauty pageant at this stage), a solid public speaker, and seems likable personally. She would not, unlike the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania, constitute a stain on the executive.
I know that Trump's support has eroded in the working class in some of those swing states he must carry again to return to office. And I think he has slipped a bit in Florida too. However, running against socialism/communism is a doable "sale" to our working class (Reagan did it twice, as did Dubya and even term one Clinton with his Centrist stances on economics etc.). I am concerned that too ardent a progressive will backfire and yield a second term.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Cheers, but as often as conservatives recommend that Democrats can become more appealing by adopting conservative positions, it shouldn't be controversial to acknowledge a certain bias in the estimation.
"Hey bud, can you go get us two large pizza pies." "Regular?" "Some of that, but also some individual slices of pepperoni - and oregano and basil - and some mushrooms with chicken - and barbecue sauce - and buffalo - and Capricciosa if they have it." "Doesn't sound like that will leave much room for regular cheese." "Trust me, they're gonna love it."
For my part I'm not sure we could clearly establish as of now that any Top 5 candidate would lose to Trump, or more likely lose than another, though suspect with Biden the margins would be uncomfortably close. Trump loves nothing in his job more than campaigning, and by all I've seen he's a more energetic and confident campaigner than Biden could hope to be. We need that "crawl over broken glass" fervor, and yet Biden has been caught totally flatfooted by his role in the Ukraine controversy despite it being out there for months? This is the guy, who goes so far as to micromanage his campaign team, he is the electable one who is uniquely poised to defeat Trump?
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Is Warren the one who pretended to be a red indian to get into college?
Why would you vote for a cheat like that?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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