Kamala Harris for President
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Quote:Trump and his Trumptards have troubled lives but they reject the explanation -- they run their mouths when they should be quiet. Trump's constant lip-flapping attracts people who have the same handicap. They will flap the lips even more if Trump loses and cause more trouble for themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You don't possess the necessary skills to be making the observations you allege, yet alone the ability for you to make judgements about anyone's character and honestly think anybody takes you seriously.
THUGR: Thats rich coming from one of Trumps useful idiots.
SIX: It's continuous comments like this from your masters and people like you that make you a useful idiot for Trump.
You're 1000% Trump-brained like Second is.
If it weren't for all the articles you two retards post here everyday, I think about Trump maybe 1 day every other week. The guy hasn't been President for almost 4 years and he lives inside your heads.
Indeed. With the amount of obsession over Trump and Russia, you'd think they were living in Russia with Putin as their President, facing a landslide Trump victory.
Right?
The funniest thing to me about this Harris campaign is when they try to spin it as "Hope and Change 2.0". Hope and change from what? The last 4 years?
They only get away with it because of how stupid and ignorant their voter base is.
Unfortunately for them, outside of college "educated" white people it doesn't appear to be working anymore.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump Is the Tyrant George Washington Feared
By Tom Nichols | October 9, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/george-washington
-nightmare-donald-trump/679946/
The Moment of Truth
The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.
Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington’s historic accomplishments—his leadership and victory in the Revolutionary War, his vision of what an American president should be. And then Kelly offered a simple, three-word summary of Washington’s most important contribution to the nation he liberated.
“He went home,” Kelly said.
The message was unambiguous. After leaving the White House, Kelly had described Trump as a “person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about.” At Mount Vernon, he was making a clear point: People who are mad for power are a mortal threat to democracy. They may hold different titles—even President—but at heart they are tyrants, and all tyrants share the same trait: They never voluntarily cede power.
The American revolutionaries feared a powerful executive; they had, after all, just survived a war with a king. Yet when the Founders gathered in 1787 to draft the Constitution, they approved a powerful presidential office, because of their faith in one man: Washington.
Washington’s life is a story of heroic actions, but also of temptations avoided, of things he would not do. As a military officer, Washington refused to take part in a plot to overthrow Congress. As a victorious general, he refused to remain in command after the war had ended. As president, he refused to hold on to an office that he did not believe belonged to him. His insistence on the rule of law and his willingness to return power to its rightful owners—the people of the United States—are among his most enduring gifts to the nation and to democratic civilization.
Forty-four men have succeeded Washington so far. Some became titans; others finished their terms without distinction; a few ended their service to the nation in ignominy. But each of them knew that the day would come when it would be their duty and honor to return the presidency to the people.
All but one, that is.
Donald Trump and his authoritarian political movement represent an existential threat to every ideal that Washington cherished and encouraged in his new nation. They are the incarnation of Washington’s misgivings about populism, partisanship, and the “spirit of revenge” that Washington lamented as the animating force of party politics. Washington feared that, amid constant political warfare, some citizens would come to “seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual,” and that eventually a demagogue would exploit that sentiment.
Today, America stands at such a moment. A vengeful and emotionally unstable former president—a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, an admirer of foreign dictators, a racist and a misogynist—desires to return to office as an autocrat. Trump has left no doubt about his intentions; he practically shouts them every chance he gets. His deepest motives are to salve his ego, punish his enemies, and place himself above the law. Should he regain the Oval Office, he may well bring with him the experience and the means to complete the authoritarian project that he began in his first term.
Many Americans might think of George Washington as something like an avatar, too distant and majestic to be emulated. American culture has encouraged this distance by elevating him beyond earthly stature: A mural in the Capitol Rotunda depicts him literally as a deity in the clouds. In the capital city that bears Washington’s name, other presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson are represented with human likenesses; Franklin D. Roosevelt even smiles at us from his wheelchair. Washington
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J.D. Vance Says Trump Was Right to Try to Steal the Election, Because of Twitter
The most ludicrous rationale yet.
By Jonathan Chait | Oct 11, 2024
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jd-vance-trump-steal-2020-elec
tion-twitter-hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-times-interview.html
The reason J.D. Vance has a chance to become vice-president of the United States is that, unlike Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate on his two previous campaigns, he’s willing to repeat Trump’s false claim to have won the 2020 election. His support for the Big Lie is the essential act that has thrust him into his upward trajectory.
But Vance knows perfectly well that Trump did legitimately lose the 2020 election. And unlike Trump, who is unable to articulate linear arguments, Vance is a Yale-trained lawyer who holds a certain pride in his standing among fellow intellectuals, even as he postures as their class enemy. And so, even as he supports Trump’s lies, he cannot simply parrot them. He feels compelled to wrap them in a pseudo-intellectual veneer.
A new interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times put Vance’s sweaty dishonesty on vivid, almost uncomfortable display. When first asked whether he believes Trump lost the 2020 election, Vance tries to deflect, as he did during the vice-presidential debate: “I think that Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we’re focused on the future. I think there’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020. I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable.”
Deflection is a familiar move for use when one’s allies do something unacceptable. A hackish response is to insist the unacceptable position should not be discussed because it is a distraction — a move that allows you to avoid endorsing it directly but avoids a breach within your own coalition. Conservatives hardly have a monopoly on the form of argument “Why are you angry about a bad thing done by my allies when you should be angry about a bad thing done by my opponents?” You’ll see some progressives pull it out any time the left does something indefensible. In the Trump era, though, this reflex has become possibly the most dominant tic of conservative rhetoric.
In addition to deflecting, Vance suggests that Trump is also moving beyond the 2020 election (“Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we’re focused on the future”). That is flatly untrue, of course — Trump continues to raise the 2020 election routinely.
When Garcia-Navarro repeats the question, Vance pivots to a different claim. Trump’s rhetoric is true, or at least justified, he suggests, because Facebook and Twitter briefly blocked news stories about the Hunter Biden laptop.
“Let me ask you a question,” he asserts. “Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysis have said cost Donald Trump millions of votes?” Vance, finding this argument easier to maintain, continues repeating it as Garcia-Navarro drills down.
Very few people will defend the social-media response to the Hunter Biden laptop story. However, the notion that it justifies Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 election is absolutely absurd, as Vance is surely capable of understanding.
First, the block on laptop stories — a hasty decision, made in an uncertain environment shaped by the experience of Russian efforts to help Trump in 2016 by hacking and leaking his opponent’s emails as well as circulating false information — held up only for a short period of time. As Philip Bump showed, the social-media block probably drew more attention to the story, search interest in which soared after social-media companies took down links to it. There’s no reason to believe social-media companies even reduced public exposure to the story at all.
Second, Vance repeatedly asserts that “independent studies” found that the social-media policy swung the election. This is even sillier t
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump and his Trumptards have troubled lives but they reject the explanation -- they run their mouths when they should be quiet. Trump's constant lip-flapping attracts people who have the same handicap. They will flap the lips even more if Trump loses and cause more trouble for themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You don't possess the necessary skills to be making the observations you allege, yet alone the ability for you to make judgements about anyone's character and honestly think anybody takes you seriously.
THUGR: Thats rich coming from one of Trumps useful idiots.
SIX: It's continuous comments like this from your masters and people like you that make you a useful idiot for Trump.
You're 1000% Trump-brained like Second is.
If it weren't for all the articles you two retards post here everyday, I think about Trump maybe 1 day every other week. The guy hasn't been President for almost 4 years and he lives inside your heads.
Indeed. With the amount of obsession over Trump and Russia, you'd think they were living in Russia with Putin as their President, facing a landslide Trump victory.
Right?
The funniest thing to me about this Harris campaign is when they try to spin it as "Hope and Change 2.0". Hope and change from what? The last 4 years?
They only get away with it because of how stupid and ignorant their voter base is.
Unfortunately for them, outside of college "educated" white people it doesn't appear to be working anymore.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
My life is just fine. You're talking about somebody else.
How many times had I mentioned Obama after Trump was president? A dozen total?
You invoke Trump's name more times than that every single day.
You need help.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:A quality Trump/Trumptards and 6ix have is an inability to understand why things don't go the way they want. They blame the government. I live around them and all the blame should be on themselves. Can they understand that? Absolutely not, which is why they are trouble wherever they go, whatever they do.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My life is just fine. You're talking about somebody else.
How many times had I mentioned Obama after Trump was president? A dozen total?
You invoke Trump's name more times than that every single day.
You need help.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
How many times have I mentioned Obama after he left office? Zero. I talk about Trump and Trumptards because I live side by side with Trumptards and Democrats. Trump/Trumptards are not high-functioning compared to ordinary Americans. Trumptards have poorer physical and mental health than typical Americans because Trumptards are comparatively stupid and emotionally fragile. This is not something Trumptards can accept about themselves no more than they can accept that Obama has far fewer problems since retiring from the Presidency than Trump because Trump is as obviously defective mentally as are his followers.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Cultist.
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Trump will be fine.
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Oh nos!!!
Double standards being used by the Trump populist wing??
Say it ain't so!! 
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I'm lucky. CA is a solid Dem state. I don't have to worry about whether Trump will be a good President or whether his policies make sense.
I get to happily indulge my protest vote .
And yanno I think for a lot of people this is a protest vote.
The blob that controls DC has been so godawful for the past 30 years that people are ready to vote for anybody else.
The blob is so gorram arrogant if they came up with anybody who was the teensiest bit credible, who might possibly not be as godawful as the previous cretins who got us into this mess, this election would have been a slam dunk. But they managed to wedge a nearly brain dead puppet into the Oval Office four years ago, and now they're propping up a sleazy dumb blond brunette puppet for the election?
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Oh BTW one more thing: I'm noticing a slackening of pro- Harris pressure in the media. Obama is saying things in public that are supposed to be supportive (the brothas are too sexist to vote for a black chick, shame on them!) but in reality are driving support away. And I don't about Hillary, but her harping about freedom of speech needing a "deterrence" makes her look even more unhinged than before, if such a thing is possible, and driving away everyone except the most rabid of partisans.
It almost looks like the blob is subtly throwing the election to Trump.
If that's the case, I can think of a few reasons.
The first is like CHRISISALL posted lo these many years ago: Trump got threat on a napkin, not against him personally but against his family, and now he'll do as he's told.
The second is that there is a faction within the blob that ISN'T nut- job crazy neocon, and that faction is using Trump to lever the neocon nut jobs out of the WH.
The third possibility is that a significant portion of the blob realizes that this bus is about to go over a cliff, and they don't want to be the ones driving when that happens. They'll let Trump take the flak, and try again for power in 4 years.
Or, they're so out of touch with reality and clumsy that ordinary people just don't listen to them anymore
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Signym, you are physically ill, per what you write over at "In the garden, and RAIN!!!".
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm lucky. CA is a solid Dem state. I don't have to worry about whether Trump will be a good President or whether his policies make sense.
I get to happily indulge my protest vote .
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&p=92
Between illness and your vague/lukewarm support for Putin and Trump, your soul is a diseased mass. As for 6ixStringJack, give a Heil Hitler salute to Trump.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:You are a Nazi and you are smart enough to recognize it, but deny it:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cultist.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump sounds like a fascist because he is a fascist
A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.
By Myah Ward | Oct 12, 2024 01:44 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigra
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Donald Trump vowed to “rescue” the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, from the rapists, “blood thirsty criminals,” and “most violent people on earth” he insists are ruining the “fabric” of the country and its culture: immigrants.
Trump’s message in Aurora, a city that has become a central part of his campaign speeches in the final stretch to Election Day, marks another example of how the former president has escalated his xenophobic and racist rhetoric against migrants and minority groups he says are genetically predisposed to commit crimes. The supposed threat migrants pose is the core part of the former president’s closing argument, as he promises his base that he’s the one who can save the country from a group of people he calls “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.”
He is no longer just talking about keeping immigrants out of the country, building a wall and banning Muslims from entering the United States. Trump now warns that migrants have already invaded, destroying the country from inside its borders, which he uses as a means to justify a second-term policy agenda that includes building massive detention camps and conducting mass deportations.
In his lengthy speech Friday, Trump delivered a broadside against the thousands of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora. And he declared that he would use the Alien Enemies Act, which allows a president to authorize rounding up or removing people who are from enemy countries in times of war, to pursue migrant gangs and criminal networks.
“Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens,” he said.
His rhetoric has veered more than ever into conspiracy theories and rumors, like when he amplified false claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. And Trump has demonized minority groups and used increasingly dark, graphic imagery to talk about migrants in every one of his speeches since the Sept. 10 presidential debate, according to a POLITICO review of more than 20 campaign events. It’s a stark escalation over the last month of what some experts in political rhetoric, fascism, and immigration say is a strong echo of authoritarians and Nazi ideology.
“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015 conditioning them … step by step instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University who writes about authoritarianism and fascism.
“So immigrants are crime. Immigrants are anarchy. They’re taking their jobs, but now they’re also animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us. That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”
Continue reading https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigra
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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