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A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
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@Siam said in US Politics:
A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
They had 4 whole years to realise Hillary's strategy didn't work. Looks like they've learned very little. If Trump gets 4 more years they will have got what they deserved
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@Siam said in US Politics:
A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
Tulsi Gabbard is not popular with the Democrat base who still have to turn out and vote for the candidate.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
I don't agree with all of this, but this is one of the most brilliant independent diagnoses of the last four years in US politics I have ever read.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-era-sucks-and-needs-to
Excellent read. Thanks.
First comment and subsequent replies was interesting
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Brian OlsonSep 4The cultural revolution predates Trump by years. It’s a mistake to believe that Trump is somehow responsible for the predations of the identitarian left. They were going to burn us down anyway. He might throw fuel on the fire and I’m glad he does because I’ve been watching the revolution unfold for years and nobody believed me. They do now.
The radicals have gotten a foothold in our major institutions and they aren’t going anywhere. Cultural revolution doesn’t come about in three years because “orange man bad.” It happens because of an organized and deliberate ideological long game campaign that seeks to overthrow the state. Nobody needs to conspire. They only need to learn a few simple strategies and remember that the foal (sp) is to seize power for the group, by any means necessary."
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@Godder said in US Politics:
@Siam said in US Politics:
A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
Tulsi Gabbard is not popular with the Democrat base who still have to turn out and vote for the candidate.
If you say so. I still say she'd win if announced tomorrow
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@Siam said in US Politics:
@Godder said in US Politics:
@Siam said in US Politics:
A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
Tulsi Gabbard is not popular with the Democrat base who still have to turn out and vote for the candidate.
If you say so. I still say she'd win if announced tomorrow
Before and during the Primaries, quite a bit of polling was done on the various Democrats vs Trump, and Sanders did the best in those, with Gabbard a long way down the field.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
I don't agree with all of this, but this is one of the most brilliant independent diagnoses of the last four years in US politics I have ever read.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-era-sucks-and-needs-to
I just loved this paragraph - directed at the Republicans but pretty much sums up the political "elite" on both sides.
"His opponents, a slate of mannequins hired by energy companies and weapons contractors to be pretend-patriots and protectors of “family values,” had no answer for his insults and offer-everything-to-everyone tactics. Like most politicians, they’d been protected their whole lives by donors, party hacks, and pundits who’d turned campaigns into a club system designed to insulate paid lackeys from challenges to their phony gravitas."
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@Godder said in US Politics:
@Siam said in US Politics:
@Godder said in US Politics:
@Siam said in US Politics:
A blow hard salesman cashing in on a dissatisfied electorate to become president is one thing, but the strategy and antics of the opposition party to waste 4 years only to offer an equally unpalatable option is something else.
Tulsi Gabbard could have won this thing for the democrats in a heartbeat.
Tulsi Gabbard is not popular with the Democrat base who still have to turn out and vote for the candidate.
If you say so. I still say she'd win if announced tomorrow
Before and during the Primaries, quite a bit of polling was done on the various Democrats vs Trump, and Sanders did the best in those, with Gabbard a long way down the field.
Yes, I think everyone remembers Bernie getting shafted.
All more fuel for what a corrupt trainwreck that party is.
The democratic base polling loses all relevance when the matriarch points and screams Russian asset at Tulsi then says nothing further.No great internal democratic process has decided the pecking order in that party.
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Not the hero we want... but maybe the one we deserve. Outstanding call.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Not the hero we want... but maybe the one we deserve. Outstanding call.
Who dreams up and mandates that narrative in the first place?!
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https://babylonbee.com/news/anonymous-white-house-source-claims-trump-punched-a-baby
An anonymous report from anonymous sources confirmed without a doubt that Trump has punched a baby directly in the face, completely unprovoked. According to the anonymous sources that are so anonymous they speak mainly through quiet whispers carried along on the north winds, Trump was in the Oval Office when he saw the innocent baby and ruthlessly assaulted him.
"That baby, he looked at me funny," said Trump, according to 48 sources who wish to remain unidentified. "I know a funny look when I see one. What a dope! That baby looks like a complete and total loser. You want a piece of me, baby?"
Secret witnesses who have not been named are confirming that Trump wound up and punched the baby square in the face, even though the baby had done nothing aggressive or right-wing that would rightly provoke such an attack. "I prefer babies who aren't total losers," said Trump. "That baby was a complete disaster. Looked at me funny. Probably a member of Antifa. Sad."
Nancy Pelosi has confirmed that the anonymous sources cited by the media have leaked further information on Trump's alleged altercation with the baby. She has assured the public she will be conducting a thorough and anonymous investigation.
The media has reached out to the baby, who chooses to remain anonymous. According to media investigators, the baby, in his first words, has anonymously endorsed Biden for president.
Republicans have denied the allegations, calling them "stupid" and "ridiculous" and saying they're 95% sure Trump would never do anything like that.
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Recent poll changes have shown a more realistic picture with Texas confi med as Trump leaning rather than toss up. That is the “big” state for the GOP in college votes (45).
Florida has moved from Dem leaning to toss up.
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Trump flotilla, Penascola, Florida this weekend
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Trump flotilla, Penascola, Florida this weekend
https://streamable.com/jyuzrjTypical. Vast majority of boats white.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Not the hero we want... but maybe the one we deserve. Outstanding call.
Meanwhile, across the pond: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/04/civil-service-has-infiltrated-extreme-politicised-ideas-race/
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