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Quote:Either Trump or Ted Cruz can win in 2024. How? Between Ted and Trump, there isn’t much difference, other than Trump is fatter and stupider. The GOP candidate will get as many votes as in 2020. Joe Biden will be dead and Kamala Harris will be running. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will receive millions of votes as a third party Presidential candidate, splitting the Democratic vote and ensuring the GOP wins.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
– Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Either Trump or Ted Cruz can win in 2024. How? Between Ted and Trump, there isn’t much difference, other than Trump is fatter and stupider. The GOP candidate will get as many votes as in 2020. Joe Biden will be dead and Kamala Harris will be running. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will receive millions of votes as a third party Presidential candidate, splitting the Democratic vote and ensuring the GOP wins.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
– Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Come on two why so negative. Trump hasn't even conceded yet. OAC told the NY Times just the other day she isn't sure she wants to continue in politics, yet you have her running for president in 2024. What are you trying to stir up?
T
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Quote:You have a very short memory. In case you don't recall, Ted Cruz shutdown the government in attempts to kill Obamacare. In case you don't recall, Trump can run again in 2024. There is no reason to think they can't win.
Originally posted by THG:
Come on two why so negative. Trump hasn't even conceded yet. OAC told the NY Times just the other day she isn't sure she wants to continue in politics, yet you have her running for president in 2024. What are you trying to stir up?
www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleague
s-government-shutdown-097753
www.annenbergclassroom.org/22nd-amendment/
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AOC thought about quitting early on. It wasn't the constant hate, lies and death threats coming her way from the reich wing that discouraged her. That is always to be expected.
It was the hate from her own party. The Dems are already trying to blame their failures on the left, when it is their own damn fault for not listening to what Dem voters actually want.
Like I already said, progressives won, big time. Center-right Republican lite candidates lost.
AOC won in a landslide against her well-financed center-right Democratic primary challenger, then went on to destroy her $10 million Republican opponent.
Why? Because she's what Democrats want. Just look at any survey.
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The Republican Party Needs To Be Razed and the Earth Salted Behind It
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/11/the-republican-party-needs-to-b
e-razed-and-the-ground-salted-behind-it/
Why do I think the Republican Party is beyond redemption? I view their policy positions as mostly appalling, but that’s not the reason. I’m going to disagree with pretty much any conservative party, after all. It’s more about the underlying nature of the party leadership and what it believes it has to do in order to win. Over just the past decade or so, the Republican Party:
1 Chose Donald Trump as its presidential nominee.
2 Has openly strategized about suppressing the Black vote because Black voters heavily favor Democrats.
3 Plays footsie with insane conspiracy theories like QAnon.
4 Spent the entire Obama presidency ginning up fake scandals.
5 Lies relentlessly about its dedication to reducing the deficit.
6 Lies equally relentlessly about its dedication to passing a health care bill.
7 Lies about the impact of its tax bills on the rich.
8 Has killed thousands by making mask-wearing into a partisan football during a pandemic.
9 Has openly appealed to racial bigotry as a way of increasing its share of the white vote.
10 Denies the obvious reality of destructive climate change solely for partisan benefit.
11 Is currently doing its best to convince its base that the entire 2020 election was fraudulent.
This is, needless to say, not an exhaustive list, and none of it has anything to do with conservative policy. It speaks solely to the moral judgments of the party’s leaders, and these moral judgements are now so ingrained that I see no hope they’ll ever be abandoned. Perhaps in a different media universe they would have already paid a price for this, but in a conservative media universe dominated by Fox News, talk radio, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page they can get away with almost anything. Most Republican voters probably don’t even know their party has sunk to this level.
The key question is whether it’s possible to convince moderate conservatives to care about this kind of stuff. Or, like so many of us, are they willing to give it a pass as long as Republicans do the things they want them to do? It’s a discouraging thought.
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Interesting that RF's and SECOND's posts track each other in content.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You have a very short memory. In case you don't recall, Ted Cruz shutdown the government in attempts to kill Obamacare. In case you don't recall, Trump can run again in 2024. There is no reason to think they can't win.
Originally posted by THG:
Come on two why so negative. Trump hasn't even conceded yet. OAC told the NY Times just the other day she isn't sure she wants to continue in politics, yet you have her running for president in 2024. What are you trying to stir up?
www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleague
s-government-
My point is that you're looking at 2024. Nothing of what you speculate about is meaningful, so why bother?
T
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Quote:I am not reaverfan. We are both pulling articles from the sources at the left end of the political spectrum.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Interesting that RF's and SECOND's posts track each other in content.
I don't think reaverfan ever expressed this opinion: I am amazed Trump wasn't murdered BEFORE 2016 by one the thousands of people he cheated, but then again, it is amazing no Germans murdered Adolf Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_
Hitler
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/trump-chicago-taxes.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You have a very short memory. In case you don't recall, Ted Cruz shutdown the government in attempts to kill Obamacare. In case you don't recall, Trump can run again in 2024. There is no reason to think they can't win.
Originally posted by THG:
Come on two why so negative. Trump hasn't even conceded yet. OAC told the NY Times just the other day she isn't sure she wants to continue in politics, yet you have her running for president in 2024. What are you trying to stir up?
www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleague
s-government-
My point is that you're looking at 2024. Nothing of what you speculate about is meaningful, so why bother?
T
I bother because I plan a decade ahead in business. Why not four years ahead in politics?
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