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If there is one person dissidents on the left and the right alike should celebrate, it’s Hillary Clinton. She is the reason Donald Trump was able to win the presidency and the reason Bernie Sanders was able to get within sniffing distance of becoming the Democrat party’s standard bearer. So bad a candidate is she that we may have the nation’s first dementia patient occupying the oval office in less than a year.

Joe Biden did much better against Sanders than Hillary Clinton did. The only states Clinton won that Biden did not are California–a consequence of the golden state being moved near the front of the primary schedule in 2020 after having been an afterthought in 2016, voting after the nomination was already been sealed–and Nevada, because Clinton pulled Hispanics in 2016 and Sanders pulled them in 2020.

Biden, meanwhile, has won or will win several states that Sanders took in 2016, including the crucially important swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin, states Clinton lost in both the primaries and the general election.

Biden’s negatives are lower than Clinton’s. His senility is salient, but that will matter much less than many expect. Clinton literally collapsed multiple times over the course of the 2016 campaign.

Biden does much better among the white working class than Clinton did. Biden does as well as Clinton did among college educated white women. He does not do worse than she did among any demographic with the possible exception of Hispanics out west. The only competitive state they’ll have a significant impact in this time around, though, is Arizona. And it’s probably a win-more state, not one Democrats must take.

The economic bubble candidate Trump rightly criticized in 2015 and throughout 2016 has popped. Coronavirus is the prick, but something had to be. The only weapons the Fed has at its disposal haven’t stopped the carnage, and a few more rounds of rate cuts and quantitative easing won’t do the trick. They may kill the dollar but they aren’t going to kill the bear.

Then there are the actuarial tables. A lot of 2016 Trump voters are no longer with us, and more of them will depart between now and November.

On the other side of the ledger, Trump has more money this time around. He also has Conservatism Inc on board. That’s the movement notorious for sinking each ship they hop onto before opportunistically swimming over to the ship still floating. They were for Jeb Bush until Bush sank, then Marco Rubio until Rubio sank, then Ted Cruz until Cruz sank, and finally resigned themselves to Trump–on the condition he throw overboard the crew members who’d helped him weather the ferocious storm that sunk the other ships. Trump complied. Time will tell if it was worth it.

 
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  1. Joe Biden did much better against Sanders than Hillary Clinton did.

    Pantsuit Cankles has been a grossly divisive figure in American politics—perhaps THE most divisive—since the 1990’s.  It was a foregone conclusion that she would lose any serious contest by turning off a substantial part of those who should have been her base.  Losing by a landslide in 2016 was just the icing on the cake.

    • Agree: Sick of Orcs
    • Replies: @Charles Pewitt
    @Mr. Rational


    Pantsuit Cankles has been a grossly divisive figure in American politics—perhaps THE most divisive—since the 1990’s. It was a foregone conclusion that she would lose any serious contest by turning off a substantial part of those who should have been her base. Losing by a landslide in 2016 was just the icing on the cake.

     

    Hillary Clinton won the popular vote over Trump by almost 3 million votes in 2016.

    Hillary Clinton ran up big vote numbers on Trump by grabbing millions of votes out of Los Angeles County and Manhattan and the Bronx and Queens County and Brooklyn.

    Hillary Clinton's high IQ moron campaign manager, New Hampshire Dartmouth type bonehead Robby Mook, should be held somewhat responsible for some of the blame for major bonehead moves -- e.g. Hillary Clinton not going out to Wisconsin, the dummy 'deplorables' speech to rich White donors...etc -- but Hillary Clinton failed to focus on the Electoral College when Trump and his team were obsessed, like Captain Ahab obsessed with the White whale, with the Electoral College and the White voters in the Great Lakes states.

    Hillary Clinton is possessed of a JEZEBEL SPIRIT so demonic that she only brings grief and destruction and utter mayhem and obliteration to everything she touches.

    The historic Jew named Ahab was married to a Jezebel.

    WHITE VOTE

    WHITE WHALE

    WHITE MALE

    WHITE FEMALE

    WHITEY HERZOG

    WHITEY ROW YOUR BOAT ASHORE, HALLELUJAH

    WHITEY FORD

    WHITEY BULGER

    WHITE CORE AMERICA

    BILL WHITE

    ROY WHITE

    WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER....and on and on.

    IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE

    Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 by using the GERMAN STRATEGY to win the Electoral College votes that pushed him to victory.

    GERMAN STRATEGY explained:

    The GERMAN STRATEGY is to win the votes of German Americans in the Great Lakes states in combination with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Southern states. Trumpy put the cherry on top of the GERMAN STRATEGY by winning Florida with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Northern portion of Florida in combination with the votes of the snowbirds from the Great Lakes states and the Northeast.

    https://www.unz.com/anepigone/miscellany-of-brief-remarks/#comment-3712358

    The important Great Lakes swing states crucial to winning the Electoral College vote are loaded up with German American voters.
  2. Maybe Hillary can get in through the back door by becoming Biden’s VP. He can’t possibly live much longer.

    • Replies: @Paw
    @Daniel Williams

    Both ,he either die or will be placed in a psychiatric asylum..Nurse Ratchet is ready.

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @Daniel Williams

    Frankly, to actually enter Biden's back door, she needs a really large and forceful strap-on! :D

    , @houston 1992
    @Daniel Williams

    Biden is trim and healthy looking overall. he has one obvious malady. Reagan lived for a decade after he went public with his diagnosis. Why should JB differ?

    Replies: @Daniel Williams

  3. I am cautiously optimistic looking at state polls in upper mid west. Yes Trump makes you pull your nails out sometimes by the stuff he does and says, and yes the 2 groups he has satisfied the most are billionaires and Israelis, but look what is on the other side? They have declared an out right war on your side. Trump does have a few wins which while could be reversed by the next Democratic president, they never the less have opened the Overton window for now, things like cutting refugees to almost 0, cutting finding for sanctuary cities, public charge rule which BTW will go farther than any thing we could ever imagined to cut the number of new citizens from green cards. Studies indicate that >50% of green card to citizen applicants use Medicaid, they would be barred under the new new rule.

    In the event Trump wins, I am highly certain that Republicans will win the house and keep the Senate, he can further cut immigration for next 4 years, it is already down to 1M in 2016.

    We need to keep the faith pilgrims, and try to bring sense in the heads of not crazy liberal whites, one at at time. I think I have convinced 3+ people over past years to look at our side.

    • Agree: iffen
    • LOL: eah
    • Replies: @anon
    @indocon

    things like cutting refugees to almost 0,

    Just about a year ago the southern border was hit with a wave of invaders, so many that they jammed up border airports, bus stations, etc. for a few days as ICE had to find ways to move them into "refugee" locations. Last month another 'caravan' was getting started in Guatamala and today it is ... nowhere. The Mexicans have for whatever reason decided to jam up these mass columns and so we do not see headlines about "Caravan of 10,000 moves northward". It's a negative gain rather than a positive, like when a headache goes away and hurting stops. , but it is still a win for Trump and this country.

    , @eah
    @indocon

    Trump endorses Tuberville in Alabama

    When he was in the Senate, Sessions was one of the best on immigration -- but because Trump, who in reality is weak and approval-seeking, couldn't be a MAN and use his authority as head of the Executive Branch to end the absurd Russia collusion hoax/probe (which he could have done at any time), and Sessions recused himself, Trump is now engaged in a childish vendetta against Sessions.

    Tuberville: We need ‘some kind of visa system’ for labor shortages with ‘no chance for citizenship’

    You're what's known as a Trumptard.

    https://twitter.com/TheCptBlackPill/status/1237586402071605249

    Replies: @eah, @DanHessinMD

  4. Audie Baby is going to eat a formidable Greater Adjutant once Biden gets obliterated in the general election :

    As unappetizing as that prospect is, there is an ever more formidable task ahead for Audie Baby. The current stock market crash has not caused the inflation that Audie Baby predicted (in fact, the opposite has happened), so he will have to consume the great Terror Bird of yesteryear, Kelenken Guillermoi :

    • Replies: @Audacious Epigone
    @Thomm

    Haha, I unironically love these posts. Something about big prehistoric birds makes me smile every time.

    Regarding inflation, we'll see. Core CPI is, IIRC, up ~2.4% over the last 12 months, which is modestly higher than it has been for several years. Oil is in the front line number. It's down a lot now, but if this causes some US production to go offline, it's going back up soon.

  5. @Daniel Williams
    Maybe Hillary can get in through the back door by becoming Biden’s VP. He can’t possibly live much longer.

    Replies: @Paw, @Mr. XYZ, @houston 1992

    Both ,he either die or will be placed in a psychiatric asylum..Nurse Ratchet is ready.

  6. >He also has Conservatism Inc on board.

    The negatives of that outweigh any positives.

    • Agree: Mr. Rational
  7. anon[187] • Disclaimer says:
    @indocon
    I am cautiously optimistic looking at state polls in upper mid west. Yes Trump makes you pull your nails out sometimes by the stuff he does and says, and yes the 2 groups he has satisfied the most are billionaires and Israelis, but look what is on the other side? They have declared an out right war on your side. Trump does have a few wins which while could be reversed by the next Democratic president, they never the less have opened the Overton window for now, things like cutting refugees to almost 0, cutting finding for sanctuary cities, public charge rule which BTW will go farther than any thing we could ever imagined to cut the number of new citizens from green cards. Studies indicate that >50% of green card to citizen applicants use Medicaid, they would be barred under the new new rule.

    In the event Trump wins, I am highly certain that Republicans will win the house and keep the Senate, he can further cut immigration for next 4 years, it is already down to 1M in 2016.

    We need to keep the faith pilgrims, and try to bring sense in the heads of not crazy liberal whites, one at at time. I think I have convinced 3+ people over past years to look at our side.

    Replies: @anon, @eah

    things like cutting refugees to almost 0,

    Just about a year ago the southern border was hit with a wave of invaders, so many that they jammed up border airports, bus stations, etc. for a few days as ICE had to find ways to move them into “refugee” locations. Last month another ‘caravan’ was getting started in Guatamala and today it is … nowhere. The Mexicans have for whatever reason decided to jam up these mass columns and so we do not see headlines about “Caravan of 10,000 moves northward”. It’s a negative gain rather than a positive, like when a headache goes away and hurting stops. , but it is still a win for Trump and this country.

    • Agree: YetAnotherAnon
  8. If there is one person dissidents on the left and the right alike should celebrate, it’s Hillary Clinton.

    But not Democrats. If there’s one person Democrats should loathe with all their being, it’s Hillary Rodham Clinton. When all is said and done, Mrs. Clinton’s only legacy will be that she stole the nomination from the one person who could have beat Donald Trump in 2016—Joe Biden—and forced him to run against an incumbent 4 years later when he was no longer quite cut out for it. Biden probably would have won in 2016, and it was his rightful turn anyway due to him being Obama’s VP. But some backroom deal was cut, and Biden was forced to go out on stage and foreswear his campaign with Obama glowering at him from side seats. HR Clinton screwed Biden out of the presidency twice, because he will not beat the incumbent Trump in 2020.

    We now see that I was right all along when I insisted Biden would be the nominee. Now that that’s in the can, please believe that I am right again when I insist that he will not be the next president. Trump is going to win amid deepening interconnected global crises, and from thereafter he will govern with an autocratic flair like a mediocre Caesar—not well, but “bigly.” There will be more monetary easing than ever before, which is the Western version of panem et circenses. None of this will prevent the underlying economy from further deteriorating, but it will make the ride down more enjoyable. Trump is about to turn the United States of America into a continent-scale version of one of his filigreed casino hotels, and Americans mostly will not object because this is inherently who we are and what we want.

    After Trump’s departure in 2024 is when things really get interesting, but that’s a subject for another time.

    • Replies: @JL
    @Intelligent Dasein


    But some backroom deal was cut
     
    I suspect this deal was cut back in 2008 during the democratic primaries. HRC was promised the nomination in 2016 in order to get her in line behind the magic negro.
    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Intelligent Dasein

    "because this is inherently who we are and what we want"

    No, I'd say this is inherently who they are and what they want. Did Core America want the banks bailed out and everything offshored? Admittedly I'm looking from long distance, but Core America is still there IMHO.

  9. A lot of 2016 Trump voters are no longer with us, and more of them will depart between now and November.

    The Size Of America’s Immigrant Electorate Doubled Since 2000

  10. Trump is also the incumbent and that does matter. The last incumbent to lose the presidency was George H. W. Bush (enough said). Aside from him, from Reagan to Obama, incumbents always won the reelection.

    November is a lifetime away in political terms. A lot of things – including the unexpected – could happen.*

    *Does anybody have a video of Biden using the “n-word”? 😉

    In all seriousness, I agree with AE that Biden seems to have demographic and electoral advantages over Trump. However, Trump’s ace card is that he – his reputation and image – is far less vulnerable to gutter politics than Biden is. Biden’s support is likely wider than Trump’s, but it is also less deep and is therefore more brittle.

  11. @indocon
    I am cautiously optimistic looking at state polls in upper mid west. Yes Trump makes you pull your nails out sometimes by the stuff he does and says, and yes the 2 groups he has satisfied the most are billionaires and Israelis, but look what is on the other side? They have declared an out right war on your side. Trump does have a few wins which while could be reversed by the next Democratic president, they never the less have opened the Overton window for now, things like cutting refugees to almost 0, cutting finding for sanctuary cities, public charge rule which BTW will go farther than any thing we could ever imagined to cut the number of new citizens from green cards. Studies indicate that >50% of green card to citizen applicants use Medicaid, they would be barred under the new new rule.

    In the event Trump wins, I am highly certain that Republicans will win the house and keep the Senate, he can further cut immigration for next 4 years, it is already down to 1M in 2016.

    We need to keep the faith pilgrims, and try to bring sense in the heads of not crazy liberal whites, one at at time. I think I have convinced 3+ people over past years to look at our side.

    Replies: @anon, @eah

    Trump endorses Tuberville in Alabama

    When he was in the Senate, Sessions was one of the best on immigration — but because Trump, who in reality is weak and approval-seeking, couldn’t be a MAN and use his authority as head of the Executive Branch to end the absurd Russia collusion hoax/probe (which he could have done at any time), and Sessions recused himself, Trump is now engaged in a childish vendetta against Sessions.

    Tuberville: We need ‘some kind of visa system’ for labor shortages with ‘no chance for citizenship’

    You’re what’s known as a Trumptard.

    https://twitter.com/TheCptBlackPill/status/1237586402071605249

    • Agree: iffen, Charles Pewitt
    • Replies: @eah
    @eah

    Hmm, an interesting question.

    https://twitter.com/MikePsJuice/status/1237584840528027649

    Replies: @UK, @follyofwar

    , @DanHessinMD
    @eah

    Trump couldn't end investigation against him on his own without seeming to be corrupt. Sessions was the one who could do that.

    Barr came in and immediately ended the mess that was the Mueller investigation. This shows that Sessions could have stopped it himself.

    Replies: @follyofwar

  12. Biden’s negatives are lower than Clinton’s

    Hillary is an awful person, but she is intelligent and coherent. Biden will crash during the debates, with his stories of stopping Corn Pop from assassinating Nelson Mandela and Trump reminding him every five minutes where he is.

  13. @eah
    @indocon

    Trump endorses Tuberville in Alabama

    When he was in the Senate, Sessions was one of the best on immigration -- but because Trump, who in reality is weak and approval-seeking, couldn't be a MAN and use his authority as head of the Executive Branch to end the absurd Russia collusion hoax/probe (which he could have done at any time), and Sessions recused himself, Trump is now engaged in a childish vendetta against Sessions.

    Tuberville: We need ‘some kind of visa system’ for labor shortages with ‘no chance for citizenship’

    You're what's known as a Trumptard.

    https://twitter.com/TheCptBlackPill/status/1237586402071605249

    Replies: @eah, @DanHessinMD

    • Replies: @UK
    @eah

    Because he is being human and petty.

    , @follyofwar
    @eah

    Sessions should have stayed in the Senate where he belonged, a cake job which does not demand much intelligence, and a seat he could have kept for life. He was in way over his head attempting to lead the Justice Dept, just as Biden will be if he becomes the next potus. Sessions was just another in a string of terrible picks by Trump.

  14. Trump is incumbent, his approval is higher than almost any other president’s at this point in their first term, Republican unity and voter enthusiasm is way higher than Democrats, and aside from stock market swings which neither party has any answer for, everything else about the economy is doing great, meanwhile Democrats have no message other than “orange man bad” which has alienated all of the moderates and about a third of Democrats will be furious about Bernie supposedly being cheated again.

    Trump has this in the bag. Quit being such a black-pilled bore.

  15. On the other side of the ledger, Trump has more money this time around. He also has Conservatism Inc on board. That’s the movement notorious for sinking each ship they hop onto before opportunistically swimming over to the ship still floating. They were for Jeb Bush until Bush sank, then Marco Rubio until Rubio sank, then Ted Cruz until Cruz sank, and finally resigned themselves to Trump–on the condition he throw overboard the crew members who’d helped him weather the ferocious storm that sunk the other ships. Trump complied. Time well tell if it was worth it.

    Good article, great conclusion.

    • Agree: El Dato
  16. @Intelligent Dasein

    If there is one person dissidents on the left and the right alike should celebrate, it’s Hillary Clinton.
     
    But not Democrats. If there's one person Democrats should loathe with all their being, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton. When all is said and done, Mrs. Clinton's only legacy will be that she stole the nomination from the one person who could have beat Donald Trump in 2016---Joe Biden---and forced him to run against an incumbent 4 years later when he was no longer quite cut out for it. Biden probably would have won in 2016, and it was his rightful turn anyway due to him being Obama's VP. But some backroom deal was cut, and Biden was forced to go out on stage and foreswear his campaign with Obama glowering at him from side seats. HR Clinton screwed Biden out of the presidency twice, because he will not beat the incumbent Trump in 2020.

    We now see that I was right all along when I insisted Biden would be the nominee. Now that that's in the can, please believe that I am right again when I insist that he will not be the next president. Trump is going to win amid deepening interconnected global crises, and from thereafter he will govern with an autocratic flair like a mediocre Caesar---not well, but "bigly." There will be more monetary easing than ever before, which is the Western version of panem et circenses. None of this will prevent the underlying economy from further deteriorating, but it will make the ride down more enjoyable. Trump is about to turn the United States of America into a continent-scale version of one of his filigreed casino hotels, and Americans mostly will not object because this is inherently who we are and what we want.

    After Trump's departure in 2024 is when things really get interesting, but that's a subject for another time.

    Replies: @JL, @YetAnotherAnon

    But some backroom deal was cut

    I suspect this deal was cut back in 2008 during the democratic primaries. HRC was promised the nomination in 2016 in order to get her in line behind the magic negro.

  17. Biden will triangulate during the election campaign, adopting enough of Bernie’s policies to win the support and turnout of Bernie’s followers. Loan forgiveness and free college will surely be included; this will appeal also to parents, of both parties, as they would really like to get the kid out of the basement (literal, or proverbial). Campaign appearances will be short, crisp, dignified. And soothing; “Joe” has such a soothing feel. Clyburn will get the black vote to turn out. So, President Biden. Joe. From Scranton.

    • Agree: Audacious Epigone
    • Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
    @SafeNow

    "Loan forgiveness and free college will surely be included"

    If a UK politician offered that (along with changing half the universities back to technical colleges i.e. trade school) he'd get a LOT of votes.

    , @Tulip
    @SafeNow

    The old "pivot to the Center" in the Primary then "pivot to the Wingnuts" in the General Election. That does sound like the kind of electoral strategy a senile old man might adopt.

    No, there is going to be an image of Joe. An image that makes him look foolish and senile. An image that will be plastered everywhere in the public's consciousness like Dukakis in his tank helmet. He will become the butt of jokes which will make people feel ashamed and guilty for laughing, but laugh they will.

    Trump should have to pay compensation to the DNC for services rendered in his re-election campaign.

  18. Biden has been a bloviating, hostile gaffe machine for so long that nobody even notices the obvious signs of senile dementia recently on display.

  19. @eah
    @eah

    Hmm, an interesting question.

    https://twitter.com/MikePsJuice/status/1237584840528027649

    Replies: @UK, @follyofwar

    Because he is being human and petty.

  20. Biden’s negatives are lower than Clinton’s.

    “Nuff said.

    On the bright side, if the Apocalypse is now here, the Dems will get the blame.

  21. Meh. Trump will likely win being the incumbent, but there is a certain disappointment of his fanbase and coronavirus + stock market recent developments do not seem to help, although things could change a lot in the next months. Biden is still unlikely to win, although he will probably have all the media and establishment support, but in the end it doesn’t matter so much, neither Trump nor Biden will change a single thing re: immigration replacement and cultural war, the left won those. All the different candidates have is different rhetoric, but their final policies are similar and dictated by others. I don’t see things changing substantially with one or the other, and Biden might provide more entertainment.

  22. @Intelligent Dasein

    If there is one person dissidents on the left and the right alike should celebrate, it’s Hillary Clinton.
     
    But not Democrats. If there's one person Democrats should loathe with all their being, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton. When all is said and done, Mrs. Clinton's only legacy will be that she stole the nomination from the one person who could have beat Donald Trump in 2016---Joe Biden---and forced him to run against an incumbent 4 years later when he was no longer quite cut out for it. Biden probably would have won in 2016, and it was his rightful turn anyway due to him being Obama's VP. But some backroom deal was cut, and Biden was forced to go out on stage and foreswear his campaign with Obama glowering at him from side seats. HR Clinton screwed Biden out of the presidency twice, because he will not beat the incumbent Trump in 2020.

    We now see that I was right all along when I insisted Biden would be the nominee. Now that that's in the can, please believe that I am right again when I insist that he will not be the next president. Trump is going to win amid deepening interconnected global crises, and from thereafter he will govern with an autocratic flair like a mediocre Caesar---not well, but "bigly." There will be more monetary easing than ever before, which is the Western version of panem et circenses. None of this will prevent the underlying economy from further deteriorating, but it will make the ride down more enjoyable. Trump is about to turn the United States of America into a continent-scale version of one of his filigreed casino hotels, and Americans mostly will not object because this is inherently who we are and what we want.

    After Trump's departure in 2024 is when things really get interesting, but that's a subject for another time.

    Replies: @JL, @YetAnotherAnon

    “because this is inherently who we are and what we want”

    No, I’d say this is inherently who they are and what they want. Did Core America want the banks bailed out and everything offshored? Admittedly I’m looking from long distance, but Core America is still there IMHO.

    • Agree: Mr. Rational
  23. The liberal media is saying old “Uncle Joe” isn’t senile—he has a stutter! And of course, his base MUST forgive and endorse that, because so many of them are unable to face and deal with the public in one way or another themselves.

    (I have never seen so many basement-dwelling, Democrat-voting 40- and 50-year olds before as I have in this allegedly “amazing economy”—and so many cite a veritable smorgasboard of mental troubles as Reasons 1, 2, and 22 why they can’t cope with the basic demands of life.)

    Personally, I don’t buy the stutter thing, but the MSM is desperate for arguments a la “Orange Man Bad” that aren’t word-for-word repeats of “Orange Man Bad”.

  24. @SafeNow
    Biden will triangulate during the election campaign, adopting enough of Bernie’s policies to win the support and turnout of Bernie’s followers. Loan forgiveness and free college will surely be included; this will appeal also to parents, of both parties, as they would really like to get the kid out of the basement (literal, or proverbial). Campaign appearances will be short, crisp, dignified. And soothing; “Joe” has such a soothing feel. Clyburn will get the black vote to turn out. So, President Biden. Joe. From Scranton.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Tulip

    “Loan forgiveness and free college will surely be included”

    If a UK politician offered that (along with changing half the universities back to technical colleges i.e. trade school) he’d get a LOT of votes.

  25. TG says:

    Indeed.

    But… Biden? How can anyone who works for a living vote for Biden? Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. From a generation starting out mired in unpayable debts, to “surprise medical billing,” to trillions spent on pointless overseas wars while our own nation is starved of capital, to tens of trillions in bank bailouts and subsidies (not a misprint), to an open-borders cheap labor immigration policy that will ultimately turn this nation into just another Brazil …

    Biden is so far to the right, he makes Richard Nixon look like Trotsky. Biden is so far to the right, he makes Calvin Coolidge look like Trotsky.

    One whit once said is that the problem with democracy is that the people get the government they deserve. If people can really be made to vote for an utterly corrupt waste of skin like Biden, maybe we deserve what’s coming to us…

    • Replies: @Intelligent Dasein
    @TG


    Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. 
     
    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That's why they get screwed. It's crabology; they're all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another's expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @TG, @dfordoom

  26. @Mr. Rational

    Joe Biden did much better against Sanders than Hillary Clinton did.
     
    Pantsuit Cankles has been a grossly divisive figure in American politics—perhaps THE most divisive—since the 1990's.  It was a foregone conclusion that she would lose any serious contest by turning off a substantial part of those who should have been her base.  Losing by a landslide in 2016 was just the icing on the cake.

    Replies: @Charles Pewitt

    Pantsuit Cankles has been a grossly divisive figure in American politics—perhaps THE most divisive—since the 1990’s. It was a foregone conclusion that she would lose any serious contest by turning off a substantial part of those who should have been her base. Losing by a landslide in 2016 was just the icing on the cake.

    Hillary Clinton won the popular vote over Trump by almost 3 million votes in 2016.

    Hillary Clinton ran up big vote numbers on Trump by grabbing millions of votes out of Los Angeles County and Manhattan and the Bronx and Queens County and Brooklyn.

    Hillary Clinton’s high IQ moron campaign manager, New Hampshire Dartmouth type bonehead Robby Mook, should be held somewhat responsible for some of the blame for major bonehead moves — e.g. Hillary Clinton not going out to Wisconsin, the dummy ‘deplorables’ speech to rich White donors…etc — but Hillary Clinton failed to focus on the Electoral College when Trump and his team were obsessed, like Captain Ahab obsessed with the White whale, with the Electoral College and the White voters in the Great Lakes states.

    Hillary Clinton is possessed of a JEZEBEL SPIRIT so demonic that she only brings grief and destruction and utter mayhem and obliteration to everything she touches.

    The historic Jew named Ahab was married to a Jezebel.

    WHITE VOTE

    WHITE WHALE

    WHITE MALE

    WHITE FEMALE

    WHITEY HERZOG

    WHITEY ROW YOUR BOAT ASHORE, HALLELUJAH

    WHITEY FORD

    WHITEY BULGER

    WHITE CORE AMERICA

    BILL WHITE

    ROY WHITE

    WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER….and on and on.

    IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE

    Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 by using the GERMAN STRATEGY to win the Electoral College votes that pushed him to victory.

    GERMAN STRATEGY explained:

    The GERMAN STRATEGY is to win the votes of German Americans in the Great Lakes states in combination with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Southern states. Trumpy put the cherry on top of the GERMAN STRATEGY by winning Florida with the votes of Anglo-Celts in the Northern portion of Florida in combination with the votes of the snowbirds from the Great Lakes states and the Northeast.

    https://www.unz.com/anepigone/miscellany-of-brief-remarks/#comment-3712358

    The important Great Lakes swing states crucial to winning the Electoral College vote are loaded up with German American voters.

  27. Isn’t there a unknown factor here? Do the real owners of the USA still want “Russia, Russia, Russia” to keep rolling? If so, Trump is still their man. Probably just like he was in 2016. Voting is just theater folks. Just pop some popcorn for the battle of the century between Overton window washer vs the senile credit card man. We really need to destroy all the nuclear weapons like in the next week or so.

  28. https://twitter.com/DogWalkingDame/status/1237497770526662656?s=20

    Now I want the GREEN PARTY to grow like gangbusters with all the voters and Americans who reject the Democrat Party ruling class and the Democrat Party presumptive presidential nominee ruling class stooge named Joe Biden.

    Trump the fat ass baby boomer slob has just stabbed Jeff Sessions in the back and that ensures that Trump will lose at least 10 million votes in the November presidential election.

    Trump is now flooding the USA with mass legal immigration “in the largest numbers ever.”

    Trump refuses to deport the upwards of 30 million illegal alien invaders in the USA.

    Trump and the rancid Republican Party and the bipartisan congressional Cheap Labor Faction are flooding guest worker foreigners and H-1B visa foreigners and H-2A visa foreigners and every other kind of visa foreigner into the USA.

    Trump is absolutely flooding the USA with foreigners and mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration.

    At least 10 million White voters will reject the mass legal immigration extremism and mass illegal immigration boosterism of baby boomer fat ass Trump and the rancid Republican Party and they will proudly and patriotically join the new political party called WHITE CORE AMERICA.

    WHITE CORE AMERICA PARTY IMMIGRATION PLEDGE:

    IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM NOW

    DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW

    REMOVE THE FOREIGNERS NOW

    Voters are on the march to the GREEN PARTY and WHITE CORE AMERICA PARTY.

    The Republican/Democrat two-party tyranny must be destroyed!

    God Bless The USA!

    • Replies: @James Braxton
    @Charles Pewitt

    What is your cite for the 10 million votes? Just a number you made up?

  29. Lesson of the primary is Joe Biden would be President right now if he had ran in 2016.

    Hillary Clinton was a uniquely terrible candidate.

    Bernie people didn’t realize this.

    And Bernie people are going to vote for Biden lmao.

    • Agree: iffen
  30. @SafeNow
    Biden will triangulate during the election campaign, adopting enough of Bernie’s policies to win the support and turnout of Bernie’s followers. Loan forgiveness and free college will surely be included; this will appeal also to parents, of both parties, as they would really like to get the kid out of the basement (literal, or proverbial). Campaign appearances will be short, crisp, dignified. And soothing; “Joe” has such a soothing feel. Clyburn will get the black vote to turn out. So, President Biden. Joe. From Scranton.

    Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Tulip

    The old “pivot to the Center” in the Primary then “pivot to the Wingnuts” in the General Election. That does sound like the kind of electoral strategy a senile old man might adopt.

    No, there is going to be an image of Joe. An image that makes him look foolish and senile. An image that will be plastered everywhere in the public’s consciousness like Dukakis in his tank helmet. He will become the butt of jokes which will make people feel ashamed and guilty for laughing, but laugh they will.

    Trump should have to pay compensation to the DNC for services rendered in his re-election campaign.

  31. @eah
    @indocon

    Trump endorses Tuberville in Alabama

    When he was in the Senate, Sessions was one of the best on immigration -- but because Trump, who in reality is weak and approval-seeking, couldn't be a MAN and use his authority as head of the Executive Branch to end the absurd Russia collusion hoax/probe (which he could have done at any time), and Sessions recused himself, Trump is now engaged in a childish vendetta against Sessions.

    Tuberville: We need ‘some kind of visa system’ for labor shortages with ‘no chance for citizenship’

    You're what's known as a Trumptard.

    https://twitter.com/TheCptBlackPill/status/1237586402071605249

    Replies: @eah, @DanHessinMD

    Trump couldn’t end investigation against him on his own without seeming to be corrupt. Sessions was the one who could do that.

    Barr came in and immediately ended the mess that was the Mueller investigation. This shows that Sessions could have stopped it himself.

    • Agree: follyofwar
    • Replies: @follyofwar
    @DanHessinMD

    Yes, Trump would have to be a total cuck to endorse Sessions in his Senate race. Spineless Sessions, who failed to tell the President he was going to recuse himself on the Russia probe, is the man most responsible for ruining Trump's first term. Trump should have fired him immediately instead of waiting two years.

  32. @TG
    Indeed.

    But... Biden? How can anyone who works for a living vote for Biden? Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. From a generation starting out mired in unpayable debts, to "surprise medical billing," to trillions spent on pointless overseas wars while our own nation is starved of capital, to tens of trillions in bank bailouts and subsidies (not a misprint), to an open-borders cheap labor immigration policy that will ultimately turn this nation into just another Brazil ...

    Biden is so far to the right, he makes Richard Nixon look like Trotsky. Biden is so far to the right, he makes Calvin Coolidge look like Trotsky.

    One whit once said is that the problem with democracy is that the people get the government they deserve. If people can really be made to vote for an utterly corrupt waste of skin like Biden, maybe we deserve what's coming to us...

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein

    Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. 

    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That’s why they get screwed. It’s crabology; they’re all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another’s expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    • Agree: Dissident
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Intelligent Dasein

    "The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests."

    To the contrary, they are more than ever united based on class interests, as they seek to combat the Trump tax cuts and his cadre of Jewish advisors who cater to the elites.

    , @TG
    @Intelligent Dasein

    "The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it."

    Ouch. Good point.

    , @dfordoom
    @Intelligent Dasein


    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That’s why they get screwed. It’s crabology; they’re all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another’s expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.
     
    Sadly that's all true. Especially the last sentence.

    Replies: @William D. Wall

  33. Trump couldn’t end investigation against him on his own without seeming to be corrupt.

    So what? — his opponents, which is pretty much the entire Establishment, hate his guts; have you not noticed that? — do they appear to hate him less for allowing the Mueller “investigation” to drag on? — they hate him so much, they tried to impeach him after the Russia collusion bullshit didn’t work — so how much worse would it have been for Trump to, say, give a 6 month deadline, and then put an end to it? — instead he let it go on and on and on, staining almost his entire Presidency, culminating in the ridiculous Mueller Report, and the even more ridiculous, pathetic even, appearance of Mueller before Congress — the whole farce was an insult to working people/taxpayers who had to foot the bill for it — talk about a missed opportunity to start ‘draining the swamp’.

    Trump is stupid and weak.

    But tune in to his next rally to hear about the latest washing machine technology.

  34. The reason Biden did better against Sanders is because Bernie sold out in 2016, angering a lot of his base. Why commit to him again if he’s just going to accept another lake house from the DNC? Also, I suspect Bernie’s move to the left on immigration is doing him no favors. Even some of his supporters realize open borders and Medicare for all is insanity.

  35. @Intelligent Dasein
    @TG


    Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. 
     
    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That's why they get screwed. It's crabology; they're all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another's expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @TG, @dfordoom

    “The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests.”

    To the contrary, they are more than ever united based on class interests, as they seek to combat the Trump tax cuts and his cadre of Jewish advisors who cater to the elites.

  36. @Intelligent Dasein
    @TG


    Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. 
     
    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That's why they get screwed. It's crabology; they're all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another's expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @TG, @dfordoom

    “The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it.”

    Ouch. Good point.

    • Agree: Rosie
  37. The Senate is already digging at Biden family corruption in Ukraine, and there is likely to be more “Quid Pro Joe” to be found. After making this an issue versus Trump, they have no way to escape discussion about Biden family enrichment.

    Biden’s mental issues are a substantial problem. There will be at least three grueling multi-hour debates between Trump and the DNC nominee. If Biden cracks on stage, almost anything is possible.
    _____
    _____

    I am still somewhat suspicious that Buyer’s Remorse is going to kick in at some point as Dems see more of Biden in action, and there are enough delegates out there for the DNC to arrange a brokered convention.

    If Biden is the DNC pick, Trump will win any legitimate election although the Dems will likely keep the House.

    Many groups outside of Fake Stream Media’s control will be looking for a rigged election. Hopefully, the Dems are not crazy enough to try something that would cause a Constitutional Crisis.

    PEACE 😇

  38. If there is one person dissidents on the left and the right alike should celebrate, it’s Hillary Clinton. She is the reason Donald Trump was able to win the presidency and the reason Bernie Sanders was able to get within sniffing distance of becoming the Democrat party’s standard bearer. So bad a candidate is she that we may have the nation’s first dementia patient occupying the oval office in less than a year.

    Hillary Clinton is a spiteful mutant baby boomer globalizer who has dedicated her evil life to attacking and destroying the USA and all of European Christendom.

    Hillary Clinton has so much pure baby boomer evil in her that she is able to aim beyond destroying European Christian nation states by pushing globalization and neoliberalism and financialization and transnationalism. Hillary Clinton also sets her sights on national sovereignty destruction for the rest of the planet. Hillary Clinton called for open borders globalization in front of some bankers that were potential donors.

    This nasty baby boomer harpy Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite fraud in her pretensions to love Black people and other non-White people. Hillary Clinton moved to the mostly White town of Chappaqua, New York, in order to avoid having to live around Blacks and other non-Whites.

    Hillary Clinton wants you to have to live cheek by jowl with Blacks and other non-Europeans, but she herself won’t put up with that.

    Attention Hillary Clinton:

    Here is a bootleg of a Brian Eno and David Byrne song that features a woman talking something about seeing into the spirit world. I wish you had the soul to ponder the spirit world beyond imagining yourself having lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Hillary, you and Bill Clinton know damn well that mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration will lead to Civil War II, but you push it anyway.

    This song called “Into The Spirit World” was the basic origins of a song called “Jezebel Spirit” that was on the Eno/Byrne My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts album from 1981:

  39. RANDOM

    AE, have you ever encountered, or heard of, a Jew who supported tariffs?

    Growing up around rural proles, the common man’s common sense belief was that “small government” (rednecks love their guns and hate their taxes) and “tariffs on cheap Chinese crap” went together like peanut butter and jelly.

    It wasn’t until I later forayed into “movement conservatism” that I ran into the notion that “tariffs” are synonymous with tyranny, or something. Imagine my surprise, as a one-time “movement conservative,” to read and learn that Washington, Madison, Clay, and Lincoln all favored tariffs.

    • Replies: @Rosie
    @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan


    Growing up around rural proles, the common man’s common sense belief was that “small government” (rednecks love their guns and hate their taxes) and “tariffs on cheap Chinese crap” went together like peanut butter and jelly.
     
    Of course, when you have tariffs, there isn't nearly as much need for welfare spending. It's more of a safety net than a way of life, as it should be.

    Replies: @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan

  40. This turnaround for Biden certainly speaks volumes to the power (if not the obsessive ruthlessness) of the Democrat machine. That said, it’s hard not to imagine Trump running rings around a 4th Stage Dementia patient. Those who have had elderly loved one go through this know it doesn’t take long from that point for the symptoms to become more serious and pronounced. The concerned look on Jill Biden’s face every time he is in public is pretty saddening and brings the point home to any casual observer.

    As a general question to the room, would the Democrats be better off having Biden step aside at the convention in July while handing the nomination to someone else? Off the top of my head I can’t think of anyone with as broad an appeal to the moderate left (or more vanilla) than Uncle Joe. Perhaps they feel that pairing him with a young, woke POC should be enough, but having this guy lead the ticket will undoubtedly keep their strategists up at nights – at least until election day.

  41. “They were for Jeb Bush until Bush sank, then Marco Rubio until Rubio sank, then Ted Cruz until Cruz sank, and finally resigned themselves to Trump–on the condition he throw overboard the crew members who’d helped him weather the ferocious storm that sunk the other ships. Trump complied. Time well tell if it was worth it.”

    I hate to make my own case. But I was advocating for the current executive be given a serious look back when Gov Mitt Romney was selected. An I don’t think much of blaming him for the flu.

    Frankly where the current executive bet out his opponents the last cycle was issue orientation. They spent so much time calling people like me names they utterly missed the issues of concern. An inspite of clear messages otherwise, they routinely took the opposite position and declare -people like myself as not only idiots, but ungodly as well.

    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
    @EliteCommInc.

    An whatever my differences , unless a candidate arrives with a better agenda . . . or the current executive does something really out of my deference zone . . .


    I remain where I am

  42. @EliteCommInc.
    "They were for Jeb Bush until Bush sank, then Marco Rubio until Rubio sank, then Ted Cruz until Cruz sank, and finally resigned themselves to Trump–on the condition he throw overboard the crew members who’d helped him weather the ferocious storm that sunk the other ships. Trump complied. Time well tell if it was worth it."




    I hate to make my own case. But I was advocating for the current executive be given a serious look back when Gov Mitt Romney was selected. An I don't think much of blaming him for the flu.


    Frankly where the current executive bet out his opponents the last cycle was issue orientation. They spent so much time calling people like me names they utterly missed the issues of concern. An inspite of clear messages otherwise, they routinely took the opposite position and declare -people like myself as not only idiots, but ungodly as well.

    Replies: @EliteCommInc.

    An whatever my differences , unless a candidate arrives with a better agenda . . . or the current executive does something really out of my deference zone . . .

    I remain where I am

  43. @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan
    RANDOM

    AE, have you ever encountered, or heard of, a Jew who supported tariffs?

    Growing up around rural proles, the common man's common sense belief was that "small government" (rednecks love their guns and hate their taxes) and "tariffs on cheap Chinese crap" went together like peanut butter and jelly.

    It wasn't until I later forayed into "movement conservatism" that I ran into the notion that "tariffs" are synonymous with tyranny, or something. Imagine my surprise, as a one-time "movement conservative," to read and learn that Washington, Madison, Clay, and Lincoln all favored tariffs.

    Replies: @Rosie

    Growing up around rural proles, the common man’s common sense belief was that “small government” (rednecks love their guns and hate their taxes) and “tariffs on cheap Chinese crap” went together like peanut butter and jelly.

    Of course, when you have tariffs, there isn’t nearly as much need for welfare spending. It’s more of a safety net than a way of life, as it should be.

    • Agree: dfordoom
    • Replies: @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan
    @Rosie

    Exactly.

    Plus, it's an American tradition. Even Jefferson and Monroe, both of whom liked Ricardian theory, came around to reality.

  44. If Biden becomes a president, I would blame the Russians for it. Hear me out. We all know that Trump became president because of Russian interference, and by doing so, Russia probably gave the Americans some terrible ideas.

    If Russia can interfere in American elections, why couldn’t Americans interfere in their own elections? Are they any less capable than the Russians? I don’t think so.

    I think that democracy lost its innocence in 2016. Up until then – it was blemish free, uncorrupted and pure. Now all that is gone. With every new incoming president, one cannot help but wonder whose interference made it possible for him/her to become a president.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Cyrano

    If Russia can interfere in American elections, why couldn’t Americans interfere in their own elections? Are they any less capable than the Russians? I don’t think so.

    Are you kidding? The Russians in 2016 were totally doing a job Americans wouldn't do, because globalization! In fact the US gov should just create another office of Federal elections that's staffed in Moscow and get on with things.

    I think that democracy lost its innocence in 2016.

    This is wisdom.

    Up until then – it was blemish free, uncorrupted and pure. Now all that is gone. With every new incoming president, one cannot help but wonder whose interference made it possible for him/her to become a president.

    This is very deep and will require much thought.

  45. @Daniel Williams
    Maybe Hillary can get in through the back door by becoming Biden’s VP. He can’t possibly live much longer.

    Replies: @Paw, @Mr. XYZ, @houston 1992

    Frankly, to actually enter Biden’s back door, she needs a really large and forceful strap-on! 😀

  46. If there such a thing as over compliance that was it. And it was not worth it. It stagnate the entire agenda.

    I on’t think any democrat could have won that election.

  47. anon[252] • Disclaimer says:
    @Cyrano
    If Biden becomes a president, I would blame the Russians for it. Hear me out. We all know that Trump became president because of Russian interference, and by doing so, Russia probably gave the Americans some terrible ideas.

    If Russia can interfere in American elections, why couldn’t Americans interfere in their own elections? Are they any less capable than the Russians? I don’t think so.

    I think that democracy lost its innocence in 2016. Up until then – it was blemish free, uncorrupted and pure. Now all that is gone. With every new incoming president, one cannot help but wonder whose interference made it possible for him/her to become a president.

    Replies: @anon

    If Russia can interfere in American elections, why couldn’t Americans interfere in their own elections? Are they any less capable than the Russians? I don’t think so.

    Are you kidding? The Russians in 2016 were totally doing a job Americans wouldn’t do, because globalization! In fact the US gov should just create another office of Federal elections that’s staffed in Moscow and get on with things.

    I think that democracy lost its innocence in 2016.

    This is wisdom.

    Up until then – it was blemish free, uncorrupted and pure. Now all that is gone. With every new incoming president, one cannot help but wonder whose interference made it possible for him/her to become a president.

    This is very deep and will require much thought.

  48. I’ve been confident Trump would win re-election from the beginning, but the coronavirus makes me less confident. What the impact of it will be is a big unknown.

  49. @Intelligent Dasein
    @TG


    Even more than Hilary, the man is a total whore, the Senator from MasterCard, who has never missed a chance to stab the middle class in the back if only he was paid for it. 
     
    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That's why they get screwed. It's crabology; they're all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another's expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @TG, @dfordoom

    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That’s why they get screwed. It’s crabology; they’re all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another’s expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.

    Sadly that’s all true. Especially the last sentence.

    • Replies: @William D. Wall
    @dfordoom

    One of the defining creeds of current America is that no one is working class and middle class is only a bridge to the upper class. Everyone in America thinks they are on the verge of being rich.

  50. Solution: every state votes at the same time.

  51. @Rosie
    @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan


    Growing up around rural proles, the common man’s common sense belief was that “small government” (rednecks love their guns and hate their taxes) and “tariffs on cheap Chinese crap” went together like peanut butter and jelly.
     
    Of course, when you have tariffs, there isn't nearly as much need for welfare spending. It's more of a safety net than a way of life, as it should be.

    Replies: @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan

    Exactly.

    Plus, it’s an American tradition. Even Jefferson and Monroe, both of whom liked Ricardian theory, came around to reality.

  52. @dfordoom
    @Intelligent Dasein


    The middle class has no feeling of mutual solidarity which is expressed as a customary ethic, i.e. they do not act or vote based on class interests. That’s why they get screwed. It’s crabology; they’re all trying to move up out of the middle class at one another’s expense. The middle class is composed of people who would stab the middle class in the back if only they were paid for it. A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.
     
    Sadly that's all true. Especially the last sentence.

    Replies: @William D. Wall

    One of the defining creeds of current America is that no one is working class and middle class is only a bridge to the upper class. Everyone in America thinks they are on the verge of being rich.

  53. @Daniel Williams
    Maybe Hillary can get in through the back door by becoming Biden’s VP. He can’t possibly live much longer.

    Replies: @Paw, @Mr. XYZ, @houston 1992

    Biden is trim and healthy looking overall. he has one obvious malady. Reagan lived for a decade after he went public with his diagnosis. Why should JB differ?

    • Replies: @Daniel Williams
    @houston 1992


    Biden is trim and healthy looking overall. he has one obvious malady. Reagan lived for a decade after he went public with his diagnosis. Why should JB differ?
     
    He’s old. Old people die. Most people don’t live as long as Reagan did. Why would Biden be any different from them?
  54. @DanHessinMD
    @eah

    Trump couldn't end investigation against him on his own without seeming to be corrupt. Sessions was the one who could do that.

    Barr came in and immediately ended the mess that was the Mueller investigation. This shows that Sessions could have stopped it himself.

    Replies: @follyofwar

    Yes, Trump would have to be a total cuck to endorse Sessions in his Senate race. Spineless Sessions, who failed to tell the President he was going to recuse himself on the Russia probe, is the man most responsible for ruining Trump’s first term. Trump should have fired him immediately instead of waiting two years.

  55. @eah
    @eah

    Hmm, an interesting question.

    https://twitter.com/MikePsJuice/status/1237584840528027649

    Replies: @UK, @follyofwar

    Sessions should have stayed in the Senate where he belonged, a cake job which does not demand much intelligence, and a seat he could have kept for life. He was in way over his head attempting to lead the Justice Dept, just as Biden will be if he becomes the next potus. Sessions was just another in a string of terrible picks by Trump.


  56. ******

    The factor that actually explains 2016, as some of us chagrined liberals insisted at the time, was Hillary Clinton’s idiosyncratic personal unpopularity. It turned out large portions of the public, even of the Democratic electorate, simply detested her. Sexism is obviously a very large reason, along with Clinton’s own mistakes and the media’s frequently unfair coverage of her. But the important thing is that Clinton’s toxic standing among wide swaths of the electorate was the gravitational force causing the phenomenon Bernie fans misread. Clinton hatred allowed Sanders to draw more than 40 percent of the primary vote, and Clinton hatred allowed Donald Trump to narrowly win.

  57. @Charles Pewitt
    https://twitter.com/DogWalkingDame/status/1237497770526662656?s=20

    Now I want the GREEN PARTY to grow like gangbusters with all the voters and Americans who reject the Democrat Party ruling class and the Democrat Party presumptive presidential nominee ruling class stooge named Joe Biden.

    Trump the fat ass baby boomer slob has just stabbed Jeff Sessions in the back and that ensures that Trump will lose at least 10 million votes in the November presidential election.

    Trump is now flooding the USA with mass legal immigration "in the largest numbers ever."

    Trump refuses to deport the upwards of 30 million illegal alien invaders in the USA.

    Trump and the rancid Republican Party and the bipartisan congressional Cheap Labor Faction are flooding guest worker foreigners and H-1B visa foreigners and H-2A visa foreigners and every other kind of visa foreigner into the USA.

    Trump is absolutely flooding the USA with foreigners and mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration.

    At least 10 million White voters will reject the mass legal immigration extremism and mass illegal immigration boosterism of baby boomer fat ass Trump and the rancid Republican Party and they will proudly and patriotically join the new political party called WHITE CORE AMERICA.

    WHITE CORE AMERICA PARTY IMMIGRATION PLEDGE:

    IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM NOW

    DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW

    REMOVE THE FOREIGNERS NOW

    Voters are on the march to the GREEN PARTY and WHITE CORE AMERICA PARTY.

    The Republican/Democrat two-party tyranny must be destroyed!

    God Bless The USA!

    Replies: @James Braxton

    What is your cite for the 10 million votes? Just a number you made up?

  58. Biden didn’t do well with blacks in CA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/12/campaign-live-updates/

    According to exit polling in California, Sanders led Biden among white voters by six points; among Asian voters by 12 points; and among Latino voters by 27 points.

    He trailed among only black voters, but not by the landslide margins he lost them by in Super Tuesday’s Southern primaries. According to the exit poll, Biden won just 37 percent of black voters in California, compared with 23 percent for former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, 15 percent for Sanders, and 10 percent for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).

    As in many other states, Sanders also won overwhelmingly among California’s younger voters, while Biden won those ages 65 and older. The two were neck-and-neck among voters ages 45 to 64.

  59. “Sexism is obviously a very large reason, along with Clinton’s own mistakes and the media’s frequently unfair coverage of her. ”

    Absolute nonsense Secretary Clinton, excuse my uncivil pushback here — I understand that I as supposed to give undue deference to my betters — however, The democratic party and others were looking forward to her as a candidate. That remained the case until one began looking at her record and listening to her advocacy.

    She was always strident. There are times when strident is ok and even appropriate, but she was on strident mode 24/7. There never appeared to a time when she was vulnerable and personable in her presentations or argument. It’s one thong to respond to someone’s condescension inkind and quite another to always be condescending.

    At a time when she should have been more conciliatory about her choices on invasions she blamed the WH and took no responsibility. On the events regarding Bengazi, she blamed the ambassador and the embassy staff. Now certainly there were things they could have done differently. However, they had been asking for help repeatedly — reference the emails sent by staff to the Secretary’s Office and take note of her responses. It is horrifying . She even went so far as press them to find some political rhetoric to assuage the the public about the mounting violence. They eventually, in jest talked about getting some attention by asking other embassies for help — still nothing. She chose to ignore the cities and rural US. That she referred to the opposition as deplorables —- well, not the best of choices, but tit for tat . . . But that she chose not to hit the ground among her strongest supporters, who have been blue collar working democrats, and those using support systems along with the college educated, millions of whom – most of whom do not attend elite schools and live in the country’s interior. That she openly flaunted her allegiances to Wall Street is a sort of honesty, but she did so at a time when WS was suspect by with the entire country and with good reason.

    I have no idea who her coaches were, but they missed the golden opportunity. No women, would be shamed for wearing how she manged ti weather one of the most excruciating events in anyone’s life and more so one in public office and that goes triple for a “first lady”. She could have turned that entire mess into a battle charge. How she worked through, stayed in the game and that game included serving the country. How she rose above the failings of her husband and the pettiness of of others to maintain her marriage and the nation she served. I am scarying myself here. I think democrats and others even Republicans and Independents actually thought that is the women they wanted to see but never did.

    Nothing elicits compassion from me for the Sec. more than the those events that led up to and post impeachment. Having been publicly humiliated more than once — including today – grrrrrrr, she absolutely gets no added humiliation on that score, at least I don;t think I have suggested as much. But that shame could have been used to her strength, a million fold. I think that period along thto Healthcare debacle seriously damaged her being. And again, I think she could have used both her stead.

    She could have in joking aside remarks, “You know had the country listened to me xx years ago, affordable care would not even be an issue.

    “Well, it nice to see the boys finally caught . . . when I am in office we’ll fix their mistakes.”

    “You know I love Bill, but there are entire years, well no a specific year, when I just want to ring his ears. What say you Monica?” (Miss Lewinski)

    But I am conservative so my ideas are reserved for my candidates. And while I am in the pits . . . . that was the Sec Clinton, I would have loved to see in a debate and on the campaign trail.

    No. Sec. Clinton was by and large appreciated by the boys, even the good ol’ boy establishment types — sexism was not her problem, until it became clear that spanking the rest of us nonWS types was her tend.

  60. “A lot of the middle class actually idolizes the people who screw them over and perversely applaud them for it, against their own interests.”

    No. I think maybe somewhere they would they had that level of weak ethics. I certainly bemoan my tendency to get to the actual data as opposed to how it gets manufactured. I remain as shocked as ever that so many people in power abuse it. If I am jealous, it’s that one doesn’t seem as duplicitous as what appears the standard — its angering to no end. But I don’t think envy is the right tenor, even if they themselves say as much. The meaning here is not to idolize, but in effect, booster one’s own ethical standard.

    In my view.

  61. From Refugee Resettlement Watch:

    If Elected President, Joe or Bernie Will Dramatically Increase Refugee Admissions

    He will set the annual global refugee admissions cap to 125,000, and seek to raise it over time commensurate with our responsibility, our values, and the unprecedented global need.

    Per the Refugee Act of 1980, the President has the authority to set the annual level.

  62. @houston 1992
    @Daniel Williams

    Biden is trim and healthy looking overall. he has one obvious malady. Reagan lived for a decade after he went public with his diagnosis. Why should JB differ?

    Replies: @Daniel Williams

    Biden is trim and healthy looking overall. he has one obvious malady. Reagan lived for a decade after he went public with his diagnosis. Why should JB differ?

    He’s old. Old people die. Most people don’t live as long as Reagan did. Why would Biden be any different from them?

  63. @Thomm
    Audie Baby is going to eat a formidable Greater Adjutant once Biden gets obliterated in the general election :

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/9d/10/109d10ee6580feb572d9766390f705fa.jpg


    As unappetizing as that prospect is, there is an ever more formidable task ahead for Audie Baby. The current stock market crash has not caused the inflation that Audie Baby predicted (in fact, the opposite has happened), so he will have to consume the great Terror Bird of yesteryear, Kelenken Guillermoi :

    https://i.imgur.com/cSK43fdg.jpg

    Replies: @Audacious Epigone

    Haha, I unironically love these posts. Something about big prehistoric birds makes me smile every time.

    Regarding inflation, we’ll see. Core CPI is, IIRC, up ~2.4% over the last 12 months, which is modestly higher than it has been for several years. Oil is in the front line number. It’s down a lot now, but if this causes some US production to go offline, it’s going back up soon.

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