Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 02:54 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:54 AM Just think how many books will be written in the future about the events of July 2024. And there's still 2 weeks left in this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 03:13 AM Share Posted Thursday at 03:13 AM The reason the Dem mega-donors want to install their own candidates is because they know Trump is the worst nominee in political history and will be comically easy to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 03:15 AM Share Posted Thursday at 03:15 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 03:26 AM Share Posted Thursday at 03:26 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted Thursday at 07:05 AM Share Posted Thursday at 07:05 AM Whew! Helluva speech! J.D. and Jim Di. two peas in a pod "Make Nazi Zelensky bow before Putin and beg his forgiveness!" Come on, it's a joke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fite Posted Thursday at 12:56 PM Share Posted Thursday at 12:56 PM 9 hours ago, Matt Allison said: The reason the Dem mega-donors want to install their own candidates is because they know Trump is the worst nominee in political history "they" must have awful short memories or have been blasted by the Men in Black to have forgotten the nominee who lost to the nominee that "they" know is the worst nominee in political history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fite Posted Thursday at 01:37 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:37 PM The American republic is crumbling before us – and Democrats must share the blame The dysfunctional US economic system doesn’t work for ordinary people – making it ripe for exploitation by a demagogue such as Trump Excerpt: Earlier this year, a poll found that more than a third of Americans believe civil war in their lifetime is likely, with another 13% opting for “very likely”. In 2021, a leading Canadian political scientist and scholar of violent conflict warned that the weakening of US democratic institutions over decades could lead to the whole system’s collapse by 2025, leading to extreme violent instability and a rightwing tyranny prevailing by 2030. A decade ago, such prophecies would have seemed outlandish, deranged even. Now only the foolishly complacent would dismiss them as lying outside the realms of plausibility. ......... How did it all go wrong? The truth is the US system has long been dysfunctional, with Democratic elites partly to blame. When Trump came to power, the real average wage had about the same purchasing power as it did four decades earlier. Most gains had been accrued by top earners. Such stagnation breeds pessimism, ripe for demagogic exploitation. Democrats failed to transform this broken order. Trump’s surge is also a racist backlash, but it is linked to the failure of Democratic economic policy. Republicans have assiduously exploited and promoted a white backlash ever since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, deploying racist dog whistles which only escalated under Obama. But the Democrats’ approach to social reform did not help. Corporate taxes were slashed from the 1960s onwards, while the tax burden on middle-income Americans nearly doubled between the mid-1950s and 1980. Social programmes targeted at poorer Americans were therefore easily demonised as being paid for by blue-collar workers, breaking down the solidarity of the traditional Democratic coalition. That resentment was easily and crudely racialised as undeserving poor black America being subsidised by hardworking white people. The foreign military ventures of Democratic elites such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden – principally in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also Libya – were also characterised by bloody turmoil and international humiliation. Today, Biden has infuriated natural Democratic voters and morally disgraced the US globally with complicity in Israel’s genocidal rampage. Republicans are enthusiastic about their nominee: Democrats are not. Crumbling Republic Article - the Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted Thursday at 02:13 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:13 PM Trump fans wear bandages on ears to show support https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2024/jul/18/donald-trump-fans-wear-bandages-on-ears-to-show-support-in-pictures I am not, repeat not going to check their diaper status. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted Thursday at 02:31 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:31 PM American rule of law is vanishing at the tips of Trump-appointed judges’ pens | Moira Donegan | The Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 03:21 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:21 PM Shooter also did searches on Biden, Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray In addition to those searches, Crooks looked for public appearances scheduled for both Trump and Biden, according to The New York Times—ultimately landing on Trump’s Pennsylvania speech, which was held roughly 50 miles from his home. After zeroing in on the event, he reportedly searched for more detail on the rally. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shooters-search-history-shines-new-light-on-shooting?ref=home?ref=home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted Thursday at 03:28 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:28 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 03:51 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:51 PM 2 hours ago, Bill Fite said: "they" must have awful short memories or have been blasted by the Men in Black to have forgotten the nominee who lost to the nominee that "they" know is the worst nominee in political history. "they" isn't ambiguous, as I mentioned, it is wealthy Dem mega-donors. Without those people, candidates are simply unable to run for office. One of the reasons they're looking to do this now is because they feel their preferred candidates stand a far better chance of winning this year, rather than in 2028. They know Trump is a historically weak candidate that will lose this year, and It is generally rare for a political party to win 3 Presidential elections in a row, so they'd rather run their people now instead of 2028. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fite Posted Thursday at 04:52 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:52 PM 1 hour ago, Matt Allison said: Without those people, candidates are simply unable to run for office. Hi Matt Didn't Bernie do well without relying on large donations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted Thursday at 05:13 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:13 PM 10 minutes ago, Bill Fite said: Didn't Bernie do well without relying on large donations? He did extremely well. Didn't win, but did very well. But bog standard local House candidates that run every 2 years couldn't really survive on small individual donations; there wouldn't be enough small donors to completely fund a successful campaign. So they're usually either already wealthy themselves, have a wealthy person sponsoring them, or they rely on the wealthy mega-donor political machine for funding. The first group of House Dems that called for Biden to step down, all essentially unknown members, were told to do so by this machine. Essentially blackmailed. Told their money would be cut off if they didn't go along with the plan. Or perhaps we should be calling it a plot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Varnell Posted Thursday at 06:38 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:38 PM (edited) Harris-Shapiro '24 That's a prediction, not necessarily a preference. Edited Thursday at 06:47 PM by Cliff Varnell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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