I'm referring to the 2020 Democratic primaries, as I understood how they progressed. If I have it wrong, I'm listening.
2020 Presidential election
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I'm referring to the 2020 Democratic primaries, as I understood how they progressed. If I have it wrong, I'm listening.
NAOS
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A Vice Presidential candidate isn’t a zero when it comes to electoral success, fwiw
leftyjace
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Ah - got it. You're absolutely right.
"Sleepy Joe" is the old smiling fart well beyond cognition enjoying a somnolescent reverie of glories of the past..... the political equivalent of "Delta Dawn" ,, who indeed sleeps on the hearth, or on the porch like the old dog who's been given a steak by the thieves who are ransacking the house.
Nobody thinks he is a genius. Everyone knows he's open for any and all bribery, flattery, exploitation, and manipulation, surrounded by about three dozen billionaires, and every corrupt head of state and UN official on the planet.
This is the political corruption deal of the millennium.
The glaring hypocrisies of the Trump Dumpsters who are still making profound accusations against Trump for "emoluments of office" and access to tax returns are incredible. Biden 's the living image of all that corruption of office...... Unprincipled to the core, the self-professed "Revolutionaries" for "Progress", meaning "Fascist" America are in fact mostly Deep State racketeers wanting to end the law enforcement that applies to their political operatives on the street, their "voter base" of gangs and illegal slave laborers who fear programs of law enforcement, as well as the threat of law enforcement being applied to the honhos in the bureaucracy who are defying every applicable law in their public office domains.....
It's an extreme outbreak of "Arrogance of Power" wherein the political activists pushing for "Transforming America" really mean to just absolutely treat "Law" with contempt, to demonstrate that their power is no longer subject to any check of any kind.
It transforms Kicky's boast of "Criminal Lawyer" into a chilling truth.
The fact is, the crooks don't want a cop on the beat, or a responsible President interested in enforcing any good law or any kind of human rights.
We have a little crew of smarties in here who are all for this because they have some notion of having a personally benefit from the new order, but as I have said before, multiple times, they are actually dupes. As it was in the Bolshevik revolution, and every other fake communist revolution, the idealists who believed they were bringing in a fine new better way...... the sincere believers in political utopia....... have always been the first wave of inmates in the prisons of the new government they installed.
Why is this so??????
Because on the general "principles" of absolute power, in the "Arrogance of Power" mode of human philosophy, the first necessary thing a tyrant must prove is the uselessness of critics, followed swiftly and absolutely by the elimination of everyone capable of political opposition.
So, my friends, it's time to think, whether for the first time or the second, about who your next real tyrant will be, and to consider whether he/she will have more power and use is more malevolently, than the tyrant you have now.
The one fact about all governments without a system of checks on government power, is that they all use it against the common people, including sooner or later their own "management" level operatives.
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Zombie
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I like how you present this as a hypothetical for a Biden administration as if this very thing isn't playing out right now on the streets of our cities.
Political Jazz Fan
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The Thriller
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It’s real cute that trump sycophants are still trying to claim that Donald isn’t a racist with racist policies. I just don’t understand why they’re doing it.
Donald’s racist base doesn’t want to believe that their savior is a civil rights proponent. And those with brains (the resistance) know he’s a racist. So I’m not sure what the audience is here. It’s weird. I guess if it briefly takes the focus off Donald’s flailing pandemic response, then that’s a positive.
Donald’s racist base doesn’t want to believe that their savior is a civil rights proponent. And those with brains (the resistance) know he’s a racist. So I’m not sure what the audience is here. It’s weird. I guess if it briefly takes the focus off Donald’s flailing pandemic response, then that’s a positive.
Are they larger than an infinitesimal, though?
The would be a perfect representation of the Trump administration.
I wonder if you, or anyone, understands what is going on. Pretty clear we have all kinds of issues, likely with more than one promoter working the streets to create politically useful lines of division or political narrative opportunities.
It'd be a stretch to explain how Trump is orchestrating riots to stir up patriots to want more federal law enforcement, but that is exactly the kind of thing a political operator would do.
As outlined above, it'd be a stretch to imagine Biden has the cognitive function to imagine or manage schemes like this, but it is no stretch to understand much of what we see as classic Marxist textbook operations...... My idea is that Biden provides nothing more than a sedative image many people will prefer, while those who want to exploit that image create the news that will make the sedative look like the solution.. But for sure, Biden is mouthing a lot of rot being fed to him by his team, The political equivalent of daily little jars of baby food.
Well, hell, Hitler did some fabulous political operations in his rise to power. He had lots of boys in the streets marching to orders, burning buildings like the Reichstag and doing impressively organized events. You might imagine Hitler as right-wing, but no doubt he read Trotsky and Lenin for political instruction. The difference between a Hitler and a Lenin or Stalin or Mao is about zero when it is measured on the government power scale.
A Biden administration will be a Deep State Nirvana.
I'd think more in terms of you needing to see yourself in the mirror of what you imagine Trump is......
The idea of dem "projection" of their own ills onto Trump is already out there in spades.
He's referring to Trump sending anonymous government officers in unmarked cars to round up protestors.
The idea of Trump supporters denying what he is is also out there in spades.
Thanks for explaining. I wasn't even thinking/hadn't heard of/that. But yes, I expect that's the mode Trump is in.
Red
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Yes, indeed......
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
John Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding and other forms of torture, with Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress
www.theguardian.com
The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree.
John Yoo told Axios he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders that flout federal law.
In a Fox News Sunday interview, Trump declared he would try to use that interpretation to try to force through decrees on healthcare, immigration and “various other plans” over the coming month.
Constitutional scholars and human rights activists have also pointed to the deployment of paramilitary federal forces against protesters in Portland as a sign that Trump is ready to use this broad interpretation of presidential powers as a means to suppress basic constitutional rights.
Red
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Trump eyes Supreme Court ruling on DACA as license to skirt the law
Lawyer John Yoo believes the ruling paves the way for Trump to implement policies that Congress won't.
www.axios.com
Zombie
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I'm so glad we held the Bush administration accountable for their eight years of authoritarian ********.Yes, indeed......
Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree
John Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding and other forms of torture, with Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress
The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree.
John Yoo told Axios he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders that flout federal law.
In a Fox News Sunday interview, Trump declared he would try to use that interpretation to try to force through decrees on healthcare, immigration and “various other plans” over the coming month.
Constitutional scholars and human rights activists have also pointed to the deployment of paramilitary federal forces against protesters in Portland as a sign that Trump is ready to use this broad interpretation of presidential powers as a means to suppress basic constitutional rights.
The Thriller
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Oh this is gonna do his campaign wonders!
Can’t wait to see his approval rating after a few weeks of blowing up reporters and suggesting we inject Lysol and flashlights up our butts!
The Thriller
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Yeah. Dems should definitely not make the same mistake again. There needs to be some accountability this time. I’m also not a huge fan of rehabbing Bush and Reagan’s images. If it helps in peeling off suburban support? Sure whatever. But I think most Dems can see through some of the fake Reagan nonsense that some of these Never Trump Republican groups are putting out. Reagan made Trump and Trumpism possible. And Reagan too dragged his feet during a pandemic.
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