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Omigod! How’d they get him up there? Don’t tell me he climbed-
People his age shatter easily-
Rumor has it that Warren is negotiating with both Sanders and Biden. She wants a Veep slot in return for her delegates. She knows they’re both elderly enough they may die or be incapacitated while still in office. She’s going to try to lever herself into the presidency one way or another. I hope Biden turns her down. I’m not sure Sanders will take her. He’s too power-hungry to be comfortable with her as Veep.
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
Bloomberg's a lock then.
Joe has promised to bring honesty and wholesome integrity back to public life in America, so he needs a running mate of impeccable credentials and unmatched reputation. The natural choice is Robert Swan Mueller III. I know, I know, Mr. Mueller is "a lifelong Republican," but no one remembers that, least of all Robert Swan Mueller III.
Their bumper stickers will say "Remember to Vote for Us."
Joe has promised to bring honesty and wholesome integrity back to public life in America, so he needs a running mate of impeccable credentials and unmatched reputation. The natural choice is Robert Swan Mueller III. I know, I know, Mr. Mueller is "a lifelong Republican," but no one remembers that, least of all Robert Swan Mueller III.
Their bumper stickers will say "Remember to Vote for Us."
Holy Moses!
Who doesn’t like adulation?
But no one wants cooties.
Is ‘Average Joe’ Biden the Big Man now?
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/president-idi-amin-is-carried-by-four-britons-into-official-reception-picture-id515402900
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous, @Buck Ransom, @Buck Ransom
Warren couldn‘t even win her own state. She offers very little as Veep material.
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms – maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.
The real question is what is Biden's IQ when he is suffering from dementia/senility? Low 80's? So who will really be doing the Presidenting since Biden will be very unable given his cognitive impairment? Obama from the shadows?Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Jack D, @Jack Armstrong
On the other hand, he's so -- how to put this politely? -- intellectually unprepossessing that he'll make everyone forget Joe's steep cognitive decline.Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Corn
I am more Hispanic than Castro. I'm not an American citizen but I'm sure I could sneak over and fake a birth certificate. Please let him pick me. I'd like working with Biden. He seems like he'd be an easy boss to have.
Great Ewokening
People his age shatter easily-Replies: @George, @slumber_j, @obwandiyag
Zoom in on his socks falling down around his ankles.
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
I agree on Biden needing a Latino — blacks basically threw the Mexicans under the bus by siding with Biden. But there is no way Sanders can pick the establishment darling Kamala. He would be dead within the first week of taking office. He needs someone the establishment fear more than him. My choice would be Tulsi Gabbard although others may disagree.
The real question is what is Biden’s IQ when he is suffering from dementia/senility? Low 80’s? So who will really be doing the Presidenting since Biden will be very unable given his cognitive impairment? Obama from the shadows?
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
Until shortly before the beginning of this campaign, Julian Castro couldn’t even speak Spanish. He had to be tutored to reach minimal competency in the language. It’s hard to imagine he can help Biden carry Texas or Florida.
On the other hand, he’s so — how to put this politely? — intellectually unprepossessing that he’ll make everyone forget Joe’s steep cognitive decline.
I used to go to a public pool in a black neighborhood for swim lessons back in the 80s, and the blacks in the above picture are a lot fatter and softer than the ones I remember.
Joe looks like he’s really enjoying himself there. Kind of makes his black support understandable. Can you imagine any of the other candidates pulling that off? I can’t. I guess that’s why Joe, despite his obvious mental decline, is the democrat frontrunner.
Btw, blacks seem more tolerant of advanced age in leaders. Isn’t the average African leader something like twice as old as the average African lifespan?
Someone should tell him he needs sock garters to go with the support hose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUvUxynOgkReplies: @HammerJack
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous, @Buck Ransom, @Buck Ransom
Nixon outsmarted himself by picking Agnew. Agnew was so unlikable and had so little clout in Washington that Nixon lost his impeachment insurance.
Old Grey Fox, more like.
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous, @Buck Ransom, @Buck Ransom
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves.
Bloomberg’s a lock then.
Then one couldn’t see the blonde hairs on his legs stand up in the sunlight … according to Uncle Joe himself, black kids love to rub his hairy legs (30 secs in):
Biden at least had the good grace to thank Goldberg for endorsing him after dropping out.
Black man’s Burden.
The real question is what is Biden's IQ when he is suffering from dementia/senility? Low 80's? So who will really be doing the Presidenting since Biden will be very unable given his cognitive impairment? Obama from the shadows?Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Jack D, @Jack Armstrong
Torn and Frayed asked:
Mid-90s, I’d guess.
Which raises another question: Can’t Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn’t want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls “the clerisy” feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik — as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry’s, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He’ll let Joe win.
The one issue Biden still has to resolve is the Latino vote. Blacks appear to have thrown Latinos and poor whites under the bus on socialism. Free healthcare and universities? "Dat sheet already free" say the brothaz.
Sure it was never going to happen but why not vote for it anyway?
There is a risk to Biden that the coming debates could give video fodder to Trump's reelection campaign. On the one hand Biden can play the moderate to Bernie's socialism and look good for the general election. But Bernie can get him on record as being against universal healthcare, open borders, free university, etc. This is going to split the progressives off. And it could hurt him with Latinos, who, if they are not going to get any gibmedats from either candidate, are culturally more attune to Trump's butch prole schtick than to Biden's senile old grandpa vibe.
Biden's people may decide that they already have this primary wrapped up and he may skip any debates and more or less be put out to pasture until the convention.
I go back and forth on Sanders. One minute I think he is a phony but the next minute I think he is a the real deal, an erstwhile "True Believer". The problem is that if he really were the latter, he would have flipped the bird to the DNC in 2016 and run third-party. Instead, he folded like a cheap camera and endorsed the Goldman Sachs candidate. If he is denied the golden ring again in 2020 and he pulls the same stunt as he did in 2016, we will know what he really was all along.Replies: @Jack D
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https://youtu.be/031vKBPk5eAReplies: @anon
It's like his supposed "independent" status. They did a survey years ago that showed he voted with the Democrats more frequently than even the party leaders. He's not an independent, he just plays one on TV (Perhaps the "I" after his name is for Israel, like Joe Lieberman?)
Who should Nixon have selected ? Did not PJB play a role in the selection ? Did not Agnew limit Governor Wallace’s gains outside of the Deep South ?
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous, @Buck Ransom, @Buck Ransom
Sloppy Joe’s VP pick will not be Stacy Abrams or Pocahontas or Kamala Harris or any other Woman of Color.
Joe has promised to bring honesty and wholesome integrity back to public life in America, so he needs a running mate of impeccable credentials and unmatched reputation. The natural choice is Robert Swan Mueller III. I know, I know, Mr. Mueller is “a lifelong Republican,” but no one remembers that, least of all Robert Swan Mueller III.
Their bumper stickers will say “Remember to Vote for Us.”
Traditionally, Presidents have an uneasy relationship with Veeps, and try to pick someone who is of lower stature than themselves. Biden would be smart to offer Warren a cabinet position and keep the Veep slot open for someone who looks less nuts to the average voter than Warren.Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @ScarletNumber, @Anonymous, @Buck Ransom, @Buck Ransom
Sloppy Joe’s VP pick will not be Stacy Abrams or Pocahontas or Kamala Harris or any other Woman of Color.
Joe has promised to bring honesty and wholesome integrity back to public life in America, so he needs a running mate of impeccable credentials and unmatched reputation. The natural choice is Robert Swan Mueller III. I know, I know, Mr. Mueller is “a lifelong Republican,” but no one remembers that, least of all Robert Swan Mueller III.
Their bumper stickers will say “Remember to Vote for Us.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUvUxynOgkReplies: @HammerJack
Good God that guy is creepy. Yeah I know that’s his nickname already but he really makes my skin crawl.
No wonder he lets Obama (clips) do all the talking in his campaign commercials.
He “sort of” masters the pandering thing, though. Which is, after all, how Democrats win elections.
Why should blacks vote for gibs that they already get?
People his age shatter easily-Replies: @George, @slumber_j, @obwandiyag
Yeah: maybe it’s more like “I think I’m becoming a god,” Vespasian-style.
those slaves do NOT look happy 🙁
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
Bernie is now just the caretaker of a dwindling movement that he will be handing over to AOC and The Squad after the election. He cucked on immigration and at that point, while playing the socialist, it was clear to most high information voters that he was really just a grifter. You can have a welfare state or you can have open borders but you cannot have both for very long.
The one issue Biden still has to resolve is the Latino vote. Blacks appear to have thrown Latinos and poor whites under the bus on socialism. Free healthcare and universities? “Dat sheet already free” say the brothaz.
Sure it was never going to happen but why not vote for it anyway?
There is a risk to Biden that the coming debates could give video fodder to Trump’s reelection campaign. On the one hand Biden can play the moderate to Bernie’s socialism and look good for the general election. But Bernie can get him on record as being against universal healthcare, open borders, free university, etc. This is going to split the progressives off. And it could hurt him with Latinos, who, if they are not going to get any gibmedats from either candidate, are culturally more attune to Trump’s butch prole schtick than to Biden’s senile old grandpa vibe.
Biden’s people may decide that they already have this primary wrapped up and he may skip any debates and more or less be put out to pasture until the convention.
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
Kamala didn’t do well with blacks because she is mixed and isnt a descendant of a us slave. The same was true for Obama but he had black support. Tulsi destroyed Kamala.
Newt Gingrich made a bizarre point about Jack Kemp having showered with lots of blacks during his football career. Maybe swimming with blacks is the new way to increase one’s street cred???
And ironically with black voters.
Maybe mid-90’s in the mid-90’s before the full onset of dementia. Cognitive decline from dementia isn’t apparent when people are allowed to rattle stock phrases that they’ve been saying for decades. Like Tuesday night when Biden recited that Seamus Heaney poem, right after he introduced his wife Jill as his sister.
What is the DNC going to do for a candidate when Biden can’t even give a coherent speech anymore? Do they pivot to HRC?
Poser…
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
Castro?
I am more Hispanic than Castro. I’m not an American citizen but I’m sure I could sneak over and fake a birth certificate. Please let him pick me. I’d like working with Biden. He seems like he’d be an easy boss to have.
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
Well said.
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
Bernie was the mayor of Burlington, VT and made real decisions. For someone who DOESN’T want to be President he seems to be trying awfully hard.
Mayor of Burlington VT? What real decisions need to be made there? Total population estimated at about 43,000 in 2020.
So, how many snowplows are needed, one or two? How many cops, 15 or 16? Really, this tiny place barely qualifies as a town.
Yes, Bernie likes to run for President. Quite flattering, that. But he is a schemer too, so he might be making a deal, or trying to, with Warren. Ultimately though, if he can't line up the votes and push ahead despite the DNC, he will fold up like a butterfly. Try to make some deals for future appointments of people, which are worthless regardless of who wins.
Vermont is barely more populous than Wyoming. In his gut I think he knows he doesn't have the chops for the Big Game. He has far fewer political skills than Trump, which is saying a lot. Democrats in DC dislike him and pushing Marxism will end any chance of him surviving in office for long. Even if the Dems control Congress.Replies: @Brutusale
The real question is what is Biden's IQ when he is suffering from dementia/senility? Low 80's? So who will really be doing the Presidenting since Biden will be very unable given his cognitive impairment? Obama from the shadows?Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Jack D, @Jack Armstrong
I imagine it will be his staff, just like Strom Thurmond’s staff used to wheel him to the floor of the Senate and guide his hand to press the voting buttons in his declining days.
On the other hand, he's so -- how to put this politely? -- intellectually unprepossessing that he'll make everyone forget Joe's steep cognitive decline.Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Corn
Julian Castro would bring in votes from the trans-women concerned about their abortion rights.
On the other hand, he's so -- how to put this politely? -- intellectually unprepossessing that he'll make everyone forget Joe's steep cognitive decline.Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Corn
It’s a sad reminder of our decline when “poor/no knowledge of Spanish” is considered a liability.
As a previous commenter noted, C3PO in the chair hoisted by Ewoks in Return of the Jedi (1983) is what immediately comes to mind.
The thing is, extending the idea means the assembled Negroes plan to eat Mr. Biden's entourage, unless one of them can impress them with telekinesis.
I'm not quite how sure that extension of the analogy might hold up, but it does remind me of Farnham's Freehold....
Sloppy Joe would be more appropriate.
Better one of these:
Sanders probably needs a black woman to shore up his weakness with blacks and suburban moms - maybe Kamala.
Biden needs a Latino. Castro makes sense.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @Gary in Gramercy, @Sean c, @UK, @Prester John
Still too much time between now and July to assume that Biden will be the nominee. However, if he is, he needs a either VP who is competent (and young!) or, alternatively, a “Chief Minister”–the equivalent of a Cardinal Richelieu– on his staff who would serve as de facto POTUS should Sleepy Joe fall asleep permanently. That person would also have to be relatively young, so that would leave out, say, Hillary Clinton. Biden’s candlepower is clearly deteriorating and he may very well be entering his dotage. The real concern here is that, in the event he was elected, he wouldn’t be able to finish off a half a term, never mind a full term. Given the state of affairs in this county that cannot be allowed to happen.
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
“Bernie is a carnival act.”
I go back and forth on Sanders. One minute I think he is a phony but the next minute I think he is a the real deal, an erstwhile “True Believer”. The problem is that if he really were the latter, he would have flipped the bird to the DNC in 2016 and run third-party. Instead, he folded like a cheap camera and endorsed the Goldman Sachs candidate. If he is denied the golden ring again in 2020 and he pulls the same stunt as he did in 2016, we will know what he really was all along.
He knew that a 3rd party on the Left would have only insured Trump's victory. He also wanted to preserve his ability to run again as a Democrat in 2020, as he has in fact done.
There are True Believers who are fools and then there are the smart ones who actually take power (e.g. Lenin, Castro, etc.) Bernie is the latter type, though let's hope he doesn't make it to the White House. The fact that he was not willing to set himself on fire to prove his beliefs doesn't mean that he he isn't a True Believer.
Biden is hugely popular with USA blacks, afire on the web with a ‘Ridin’ with Biden’ theme
It’s logical … Those in place and benefiting from government programmes, are understandably resistant to people like Bernie Sanders who want to expand those programmes to millions more
Minority beneficiaries of benefits, sense quite correctly, that there is not really enough money available to fund their benefits on a scale 5x or 10x larger
USA heritage blacks reasonably fear that the Democratic party programme of open borders and unlimited new migrants in tens of millions, will spoil the party, and quickly limit or terminate benefits they currently receive
Someone like Biden – visibly comfortable amidst black audiences – seems like a ‘status quo’ nice old guy to black voters, more likely to keep things as they are for the black community … Biden’s gaffes also being much more minor to a community, where age still tends to be symbolic of wisdom, a little eccentricity part of the package
Here we see that blacks operate in the same way. They like Biden, because he symbolizes the status quo. They hate immigrants, because they threaten the Welfare State. They hate actual socialism, like Bernie, because they have their gibs and everyone else can go screw.
If they were White, they'd be called ignorant racists. Unlike Whites, they are allowed to act in their own ethnic interests.
The real question is what is Biden's IQ when he is suffering from dementia/senility? Low 80's? So who will really be doing the Presidenting since Biden will be very unable given his cognitive impairment? Obama from the shadows?Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Jack D, @Jack Armstrong
Joe might also have an undiagnosed/untreated/undisclosed hearing deficiency.
“Let’s drop this mofo and get some purple drank.”
It is if you are the “Latino” candidate.
No one would expect a candidate named Barletta to speak Italian, or a candidate named Schultz to speak German.Replies: @Jack D
I think people here are exaggerating Joe’s decline. He was never that sharp to begin with.
LOL
The Dem race at this point has stumbled into sitcom territory — Gabby and The Geezers.
But one serious question — have Bernie or Biden ventured any thoughts on how best to handle the COVID threat, now or when they take office in Jan 2021? Has the bootlicking press asked them for any intelligent input on this? Or are global warming and “inequality” still taking center stage?
True. But it still shows how fragmented we’ve become and how much we’ve given up on assimilation.
No one would expect a candidate named Barletta to speak Italian, or a candidate named Schultz to speak German.
https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/10/9/columbus-day-1944-mayor-fiorello-laguardias-broadcasts-to-italyReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Hibernian
Remember folks, the Commonwealth is the most important organization in the world. And the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is it’s head, therefore the most important person in the world. The main function of the royals is to be photographed with little black kids.
Elizabeth also owns every dolphin in Britain.
Amazingly most people don't realize that feudalism never ended.
Isn’t HRC prone to wild rages and either drunk or on mood medication all the time? There’s only so much Prozac can do.
Joe is like W.
Beginning in the year 2000 it was proved that it is possible to get an incompetent POTUS elected and run things through him.
We need to be concerned about Joe, because he is now the Democrat W.
No one would expect a candidate named Barletta to speak Italian, or a candidate named Schultz to speak German.Replies: @Jack D
NY’s Mayor LaGuardia used to give speeches in Italian. He also spoke a passable Yiddish, being 1/2 Jewish. And as an Episcopalian, he spoke English. He had all the bases covered.
https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/10/9/columbus-day-1944-mayor-fiorello-laguardias-broadcasts-to-italy
Biden is the dead guy in Weekend at Bernies, with Obama puppeteering everything. Every Democrat knows this and plays along.
People his age shatter easily-Replies: @George, @slumber_j, @obwandiyag
It was fixed. They fix everything. Come on. Computer voting machines? You trust them? Really?
https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/10/9/columbus-day-1944-mayor-fiorello-laguardias-broadcasts-to-italyReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Hibernian
And he has an airport named after him. That’s more than most of us can say.
We know the saying, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” Well, there could be a real principle very close to that:
He who has the most things named after him has won.
Almost all of us here don’t amount to much of anything compared to the cads we criticize. That does not make them right or good, just more successful than us.
If goodness is defined by success or recognition, however, than we are dismal failures. From an HBD perspective, this is in fact the truth. Pretty funny, huh?
Confused infighting, Talcum X vs Rachel Maddow:
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
One of the most remarkable (non) events of the last 40 years is the effective purging of New Deal/Socialist and Protectionist/Paleoconservative thinkers and politicians. Many of the more “effective” leaders like Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan were successfully isolated and purged by neoliberals/neoconservatives. People like Trump and Bernie likely had to be quite and defensive during the Boomer peak years 1980-2012. The better candidates were destroyed and they’re all that’s left. But both are still much better than nothing.
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
One of the most remarkable (non) events of the last 40 years is the effective purging of New Deal/Socialist and Protectionist/Paleoconservative thinkers and politicians. Many of the more “effective” leaders like Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan were successfully isolated and purged by neoliberals/neoconservatives. People like Trump and Bernie likely had to be quite and defensive during the Boomer peak years 1980-2012. The better candidates were destroyed and they’re all that’s left. But both are still much better than nothing.
The New Dealers had already purged plenty of American thinkers long ago. It's been going on more than 40 years. For example, most of Mencken's work has been edited or just forgotten. Also you can search for anything written by John T. Flynn, such as his book about the New Dealers titled As We Go Marching and see if you can find much. Unz wrote a good piece on this a couple of years ago. The revo is perpetual.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-great-purge-of-the-1940s/
This is not a drill!
From
Fake JoeMentum: US media & Democrats are forcing a new pro-Biden narrative. Will it hold until November?
and also:
American politics is a Ponzi scheme and that’s how Michelle Obama could become the next US president
>>Bernie was the mayor of Burlington, VT and made real decisions. For someone who DOESN’T want to be President he seems to be trying awfully hard.<<
Mayor of Burlington VT? What real decisions need to be made there? Total population estimated at about 43,000 in 2020.
So, how many snowplows are needed, one or two? How many cops, 15 or 16? Really, this tiny place barely qualifies as a town.
Yes, Bernie likes to run for President. Quite flattering, that. But he is a schemer too, so he might be making a deal, or trying to, with Warren. Ultimately though, if he can't line up the votes and push ahead despite the DNC, he will fold up like a butterfly. Try to make some deals for future appointments of people, which are worthless regardless of who wins.
Vermont is barely more populous than Wyoming. In his gut I think he knows he doesn't have the chops for the Big Game. He has far fewer political skills than Trump, which is saying a lot. Democrats in DC dislike him and pushing Marxism will end any chance of him surviving in office for long. Even if the Dems control Congress.
Of course, a lot of former (((New Yorkers))), like Bernie himself, populate Vermont, so I'm sure Bernie had a few tedious times with constituents.
https://youtu.be/xSN6BOgrSSU
https://youtu.be/031vKBPk5eAReplies: @anon
One of the most remarkable (non) events of the last 40 years is the effective purging of New Deal/Socialist and Protectionist/Paleoconservative thinkers and politicians.
The New Dealers had already purged plenty of American thinkers long ago. It’s been going on more than 40 years. For example, most of Mencken’s work has been edited or just forgotten. Also you can search for anything written by John T. Flynn, such as his book about the New Dealers titled As We Go Marching and see if you can find much. Unz wrote a good piece on this a couple of years ago. The revo is perpetual.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-great-purge-of-the-1940s/
I go back and forth on Sanders. One minute I think he is a phony but the next minute I think he is a the real deal, an erstwhile "True Believer". The problem is that if he really were the latter, he would have flipped the bird to the DNC in 2016 and run third-party. Instead, he folded like a cheap camera and endorsed the Goldman Sachs candidate. If he is denied the golden ring again in 2020 and he pulls the same stunt as he did in 2016, we will know what he really was all along.Replies: @Jack D
Bernie IS a true believer. His belief in socialism has not changed in 40 years, but the Dem. party finally (almost) caught up with him. He is also not a dumb guy. He started out as a hopeless loser – the kind of guy who runs for city council on the ticket of the Social Democratic Democrat Socialist Party and gets 2% of the vote. But eventually he figured out a winning formula and won successively higher elective offices, all the way to the US Senate.
He knew that a 3rd party on the Left would have only insured Trump’s victory. He also wanted to preserve his ability to run again as a Democrat in 2020, as he has in fact done.
There are True Believers who are fools and then there are the smart ones who actually take power (e.g. Lenin, Castro, etc.) Bernie is the latter type, though let’s hope he doesn’t make it to the White House. The fact that he was not willing to set himself on fire to prove his beliefs doesn’t mean that he he isn’t a True Believer.
He’ll die early in his first term. Who’s likely to be his VP?
People keep saying this but it’s bloody unlikely. He seems to be in fine health – only his mind is fading (and even that is being exaggerated). Reagan lived for 10 years after his Alzheimer’s was diagnosed. Unz is like an echo chamber. Out in the real world people (Democrats) are going to be in total denial that there is anything whatsoever wrong with him – the media sure won’t say anything. Trump will make snide remarks but the media will say that he is “lying”.
Don’t you mean: to procreate little coloured kids.
Black Americans are much more socially conservative than their white SJW counterparts in the democratic party, so it didn’t surprise me at all that traditional issues triumphed over wokeness in this one instance; Biden had been my pick for months due, in part, to this fact. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the end of the Great Awokening by any measure. Tucker Carlson has been mocking the democratic establishment on his show by saying they “want it to be like 2009 again” with Joe Biden. I think that’s wrong. The establishment fears losing their pocketbooks more than anything else. My guess is that we’ll see a return to Obama’s second term of divisive racial politics as those at the top move to protect themselves from those at the bottom by pitting various groups against each other as a diversion.
You can see some of this in the cultural products Hollywood has planned going forward. Here’s a short list:
1) A black male is set to play the fairy god mother in Disney’s upcoming live action Cinderella.
https://www.rt.com/usa/470868-transgender-fairy-godmother-cinderella/
2) “Disney makes Little Mermaid’s Ariel black, a win for diversity or pandering to PC culture?”
https://www.rt.com/usa/463385-little-mermaid-ariel-black/
3) DC Comics is planning to replace many of their older white characters with diverse ones.
4) “Marvel’s Next Phase Gets Super-Duper Woke”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/25/marvel-next-phase-gets-super-duper-woke/
*There’s also a rumor floating around that the male lead in one of the upcoming Black Panther movies will be replaced by a woman. The original Black Panther did well because its target audience was male. How is it a smart idea to change this formula?
5) “Artificial intelligence technology to review Disney scripts for gender bias”
https://techinsight.com.vn/language/en/artificial-intelligence-technology-to-review-disney-scripts-for-gender-bias/
6) Antebellum
Premise (guess): People and things pop back and forth between a slave plantation and a modern American city. (Atlanta?)
7) CW’s Supergirl is getting renewed. They removed the character’s girly outfit and gave her a pantsuit in the newest season; the cast cheered the change as some kind of empowering moment. The ratings then predictably crashed because girls don’t naturally like superhero stuff and only watched in the first place because they thought the actress was cute in her Supergirl skirt. By avoiding the male gaze, they turned off the female one.
https://www.themarysue.com/supergirl-new-costume-bangs/
Supergirl Superfeminist Cut: SJWs Strike Back
*(check out the other two cuts if you want to see what your kids are watching these days)
8) “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Series Reboot With Black Lead In Works From Monica Owusu-Breen & Joss Whedon”
https://deadline.com/2018/07/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-series-reboot-in-works-black-lead-monica-owusu-breen-joss-whedon-1202430592/
9) Disney’s High Republic, the basis of future films, puts wokeness (and dinosaurs) at the top of their wish list.
The writers have a history of making controversial tweets:
https://disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/project-luminous-hates-old-white-men/comment-page-1/
10) “Disney Will Censor Classic Animated Movies on Disney Plus”
https://www.10news.com/news/national/debate-surrounding-disneys-decision-to-censor-racist-content-on-streaming-service
I wouldn’t bet on wokeness going away any time soon. The demographic situation is changing fast enough to scare a lot of affluent, influential white liberals in the coastal areas. Perhaps we might see a temporary fall off on restrictions on female beauty depictions with the rise of transgender acceptance, but the ruling class will still be tempted to stir the racial animus pot as a diversion least an AOC type threaten to raise their taxes. Blaming misfortune on a convenient scapegoat is a tried and true method of control. Coalition building through negative depictions of a common enemy is another. Planting your tribe’s flag on the other side’s territory yet another, and so on.
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
” Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn’t want to really be responsible for making real decisions. ”
It’s like his supposed “independent” status. They did a survey years ago that showed he voted with the Democrats more frequently than even the party leaders. He’s not an independent, he just plays one on TV (Perhaps the “I” after his name is for Israel, like Joe Lieberman?)
Of course; I’d thought is obvious that was the nature of Mr. Sailer’s allusion. (I think in fact he made a similar post in the past using this photograph (unless I am having a case of déjà vu).
The thing is, extending the idea means the assembled Negroes plan to eat Mr. Biden’s entourage, unless one of them can impress them with telekinesis.
I’m not quite how sure that extension of the analogy might hold up, but it does remind me of Farnham’s Freehold….
You have a degenerate notion of what constitutes success.
Counting his chickens? I hear Biden has already had his Presidential portrait done:
It's logical ... Those in place and benefiting from government programmes, are understandably resistant to people like Bernie Sanders who want to expand those programmes to millions more
Minority beneficiaries of benefits, sense quite correctly, that there is not really enough money available to fund their benefits on a scale 5x or 10x larger
USA heritage blacks reasonably fear that the Democratic party programme of open borders and unlimited new migrants in tens of millions, will spoil the party, and quickly limit or terminate benefits they currently receive
Someone like Biden - visibly comfortable amidst black audiences - seems like a 'status quo' nice old guy to black voters, more likely to keep things as they are for the black community ... Biden's gaffes also being much more minor to a community, where age still tends to be symbolic of wisdom, a little eccentricity part of the package
https://i.ibb.co/tHyK2WR/We-Ridin-wit-Joe-Biden.jpgReplies: @Peter D. Bredon
A frequent “alt Right” or “dissident Right” talking point is that homogeneous societies (e.g. Denmark) are able to have popular support (not just be able to afford) a Welfare State because such people are able to see their society as a large kind of family. The “you racist” version is, white people don’t like to have tax money go to blacks.
Here we see that blacks operate in the same way. They like Biden, because he symbolizes the status quo. They hate immigrants, because they threaten the Welfare State. They hate actual socialism, like Bernie, because they have their gibs and everyone else can go screw.
If they were White, they’d be called ignorant racists. Unlike Whites, they are allowed to act in their own ethnic interests.
Apparently, you have forgotten completely about Ronald Reagan, the “amiable dunce,” who was elected in 1980 after some illegal shenanigans with the Iranians, involving GHW Bush and Bill Casey, to delay release of the hostages until after the election.
https://www.salon.com/2015/12/27/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed_2/
Of course, Nancy Reagan was getting frequent advice from her astrologer Joan Quigley, so there’s that.
Listen, nobody, no human, can do the job of President of the United States of America without a lot of help from a lot of people. It is a very large executive job. Ronald Reagan did it rather well in most areas (minus a little problem with immigration). He was not an empty, mediocre vessel for the powers that be, which is what W and B.O. were, and Biden is.Replies: @Sparkon
I don’t think the selection of Agnew made much of a difference one way or another. Wallace had a strong appeal to the white working class in border and Rust Belt states, too, but that wasn’t enough to win states wholesale outside of the Deep South.
Had Nixon lost South Carolina, he would have still won the 1968 election. (North Carolina voted for LBJ in ’64.)
Which raises another question: Can't Crazy Bernie simply slice and dice Sleepy Joe once they start having one-on-one debates? I mean, a bright middle-school kid should be able to flay Joe alive!
My guess is that Bernie will take a dive. Seems like Bernie has lived his life playing the role of crazy old Bolshevik radical, but doesn't want to really be responsible for making real decisions. He could have beaten Hillary if he had focused on Clintonian corruption.
What Joel Kotkin calls "the clerisy" feel virtuous supporting the Old Bolshevik -- as long as he does not really interfere with their lattes, with Ben and Jerry's, etc.
Bernie is a carnival act. He'll let Joe win.Replies: @Torn and Frayed, @B36, @Jack D, @Prester John, @Kronos, @Kronos, @Peter D. Bredon, @nebulafox
>Bernie is a carnival act. He’ll let Joe win.
Bernie’s real problem isn’t that he’s a clown: his real problem is, to be frank and crude, that he’s a pu***. His willingness to buy into RussiaGate, his unwillingness to go for the jugular when it comes to DNC corruption, both back in 2016 and presently, his flip-flopping on issues like immigration (which is every bit as much an economic issue as a social one, like it or not) in order to appease the neoliberals and the SJWs. Etc, etc. This is his last chance at power, and he’s not taking it.
The clerisy flirts with Bernie precisely because they know he’s harmless.
The immigration flip was a big (fatal) mistake. He could have built a larger coalition if he’d stuck to his true thinking and not pandered. Blacks are clearly in competition with Latino immigrants, and he gave up any hope of making inroads with them by caving to the pro-immigration mob.Replies: @nebulafox
Not sure who, someone thinks
Soma Joe will pick Michelle O.
Could be.
Headlines: Biden drowns in tub.
5ds
https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/10/9/columbus-day-1944-mayor-fiorello-laguardias-broadcasts-to-italyReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Hibernian
He had plants in various neighborhoods saying, when he arrived, “Speak to us in our language!”
Bernie gets revenge – supports Trump.
Trump appoints Sanders Secty of HHS.
Sanders gives America Single Payer.
Double revenge and America wins.
5 dancing shlomos
Obama had black support in part because Bill Clinton dismissed and patronized him. Before, blacks were more divided about him.
Those three extra votes might just be the decider!
Reagan was not the establishment candidate. You forgot that.
Listen, nobody, no human, can do the job of President of the United States of America without a lot of help from a lot of people. It is a very large executive job. Ronald Reagan did it rather well in most areas (minus a little problem with immigration). He was not an empty, mediocre vessel for the powers that be, which is what W and B.O. were, and Biden is.
Tax breaks for the rich is one of the hallmarks of an establishment president, at least as I would define it. You don't include Hollywood, the MSM, General Electric, and the wealthy as part of the establishment, apparently.
October surprise, Iran Contra, tax breaks for the wealthy, immigration, astrology, outsourcing, offshoring, AIDS, Casey at CIA, Bush in the White House -- your man Reagan was an unmitigated disaster for these United States of America.
By the way, what do you think Reagan, Bush, and Thatcher were doing in Tehran in 1978? Was it just a coincidence that China opened its doors to foreign investment in 1979?
Recall when Ron stepped in as President of the Screen Actors Guild to conceal Nancy's Communist past by falsely attributing those Red affiliations to "the other Nancy Davis," which was a big, fat lie, but you can do that when you're a Big Cheese in Hollywood.
So there you have it. Former Hollywood playboy Ron Reagan gave up his flings with Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Doris Day -- the list goes on -- to take the hand of mousy little ex-Red Nancy Davis, and manages in 8 years to run up all that, ahem, Red Ink.
Mayor of Burlington VT? What real decisions need to be made there? Total population estimated at about 43,000 in 2020.
So, how many snowplows are needed, one or two? How many cops, 15 or 16? Really, this tiny place barely qualifies as a town.
Yes, Bernie likes to run for President. Quite flattering, that. But he is a schemer too, so he might be making a deal, or trying to, with Warren. Ultimately though, if he can't line up the votes and push ahead despite the DNC, he will fold up like a butterfly. Try to make some deals for future appointments of people, which are worthless regardless of who wins.
Vermont is barely more populous than Wyoming. In his gut I think he knows he doesn't have the chops for the Big Game. He has far fewer political skills than Trump, which is saying a lot. Democrats in DC dislike him and pushing Marxism will end any chance of him surviving in office for long. Even if the Dems control Congress.Replies: @Brutusale
Bernie’s toughest decisions as Burlington mayor were more of the “home-grown or Hawaiian bud” variety.
Of course, a lot of former (((New Yorkers))), like Bernie himself, populate Vermont, so I’m sure Bernie had a few tedious times with constituents.
Listen, nobody, no human, can do the job of President of the United States of America without a lot of help from a lot of people. It is a very large executive job. Ronald Reagan did it rather well in most areas (minus a little problem with immigration). He was not an empty, mediocre vessel for the powers that be, which is what W and B.O. were, and Biden is.Replies: @Sparkon
So you say, but you’ve forgotten all about what a disaster Pres. Reagan was with the budget. He merely managed to triple the national debt in 8 years with his “Voodoo Economics,” where the centerpiece was tax breaks for the rich.
Tax breaks for the rich is one of the hallmarks of an establishment president, at least as I would define it. You don’t include Hollywood, the MSM, General Electric, and the wealthy as part of the establishment, apparently.
October surprise, Iran Contra, tax breaks for the wealthy, immigration, astrology, outsourcing, offshoring, AIDS, Casey at CIA, Bush in the White House — your man Reagan was an unmitigated disaster for these United States of America.
By the way, what do you think Reagan, Bush, and Thatcher were doing in Tehran in 1978? Was it just a coincidence that China opened its doors to foreign investment in 1979?
Recall when Ron stepped in as President of the Screen Actors Guild to conceal Nancy’s Communist past by falsely attributing those Red affiliations to “the other Nancy Davis,” which was a big, fat lie, but you can do that when you’re a Big Cheese in Hollywood.
So there you have it. Former Hollywood playboy Ron Reagan gave up his flings with Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Doris Day — the list goes on — to take the hand of mousy little ex-Red Nancy Davis, and manages in 8 years to run up all that, ahem, Red Ink.
The defender of the faith holds title to 6.6 billion acres of land. Thats about 1/6 of all the land on earth. Queen Liz (the crown) owns almost all the minerals in Australia and 90% of all land and minerals in Canada.
Elizabeth also owns every dolphin in Britain.
Amazingly most people don’t realize that feudalism never ended.
But William does. 🙂
Any candidate unwilling and/or unable to seriously expose Israel lobby criminality & treachery is unfit for office.
Totally agree. Bernie was the Dems’ version of Trump. A populist with a connection to a particular demographic, in Bernie’s case it was young people.
The immigration flip was a big (fatal) mistake. He could have built a larger coalition if he’d stuck to his true thinking and not pandered. Blacks are clearly in competition with Latino immigrants, and he gave up any hope of making inroads with them by caving to the pro-immigration mob.
The immigration flip was a big (fatal) mistake. He could have built a larger coalition if he’d stuck to his true thinking and not pandered. Blacks are clearly in competition with Latino immigrants, and he gave up any hope of making inroads with them by caving to the pro-immigration mob.Replies: @nebulafox
Why choose? Chances are that Jorge the Houston house painter isn’t a fan of the idea of importing all of Central America, either. But as long as the GOP remains the CEO worshiping market fantasists they are on all things economic, it won’t matter.
Immigration is an important issue, but people here make the mistake of thinking that it is the only issue, or even a decisive one. Overall populism and a willingness to stand up to oligarchization, on all fronts: that’s the way to go. Hell, be openly anti-ideological. People are sick of ideology. If it is a good idea, use it: left right, right wing, openly reject such labels. Be candidly cynical and pragmatic, reject the theater and stagecraft of modern American politics. That would be so welcomed. An infusion of anti-Beltway sentiment on foreign policy wouldn’t go amiss, either.