Republicans

[SevMax2]

I don't give two shits about whether Bernie is or isn't a nominal Democrat. So the fuck what? He has moved the Overton window leftward more than any other public official in my lifetime. He helped draw me out of the center/center-right toward the left, and while I have my own issues with him at times, I can't forget that fact.

Bernie isn't about preaching to the choir, like so many Dems who refused to even go on Fox News. He's about convincing the unconvinced, and it worked in my case. So, fuck that whole damn narrative that he's unable to win over swing voters. It's total nonsense.

Wokeness scares off independent voters far more than economic populism, civil libertarianism, and anti-imperialism does. It's the Twitter pseudo-left, with their woke, hipster liberal, corporate version of liberalism/progressiveness that loses votes. It's cancel culture and the faux outrage du jour. People don't care about that. They care about what FDR cared about...what JFK cared about, what Jimmy Carter cared about...helping the multi-racial working class, both middle class and poor.

Do I think that socialism is an unwise label...probably. Populism would be better. Liberalism is still tainted by the coastal elites. Progressivism stirs up mixed feelings. But it's likely that future Berniecrats will avoid that dreaded "S" word and really win over more potential converts to the actual left. The populist left.

The Movement for a People's Party is one definite step in that direction, and they've wisely not nominated a candidate themselves yet. It's a nascent party or coalition, but I see a lot of potential there, particularly in "safe blue" states where progressives feel freer to defect without helping Republicans. Also as ranked choice voting eliminates the risk of a spoiler effect, not that such effect has ever been proven to my satisfaction (would an anti-war Libertarian Gary Johnson voter have really voted for Hillary instead, other than maybe William Weld?).

 

[KeithD]

Anyone still listening to Republicans are dipshits anyway. Facts don't matter. Reality doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter. They could claim Bernie is an illegal alien from Mars and Republican voters will demand an Intergalactic Space Wall to be built.
Compare Bidens and Bernie Twitter followers and see what it says.

Nothing, huh?
https://www.berniesandersfacts.com/criticism-bernie-hasn-t-passed-anyt

Uh, no, unfortunately. "Socialist" is still a dirty word that resonates with the electorate. "Marxist" does it even more. It doesn't matter what you or I think, and it obviously doesn't matter if it's true or not; it's what motivates the electorate, and the Republicans have shown a talent for Swiftboating anyone left of the center. They would have delighted in having Bernie running on the Democratic ticket. They would have eaten his lunch.

Comparing Biden's and Bernie's followers in the Democratic ranks, and it comes up Biden. Sorry. You Bernie people should try to form your own party rather than trying to steal someone else's. Then I think you'd find how difficult it is to do on more basis than just talking.

 

[KeithD]

I don't give two shits about whether Bernie is or isn't a nominal Democrat.

Noted. That and four pennies gets you less than a nickel.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

Uh, no, unfortunately. "Socialist" is still a dirty word that resonates with the electorate. "Marxist" does it even more. It doesn't matter what you or I think, and it obviously doesn't matter if it's true or not; it's what motivates the electorate, and the Republicans have shown a talent for Swiftboating anyone left of the center. They would have delighted in having Bernie running on the Democratic ticket. They would have eaten his lunch.

Comparing Biden's and Bernie's followers in the Democratic ranks, and it comes up Biden. Sorry. You Bernie people should try to form your own party rather than trying to steal someone else's. Then I think you'd find how difficult it is to do on more basis than just talking.

Republicans would have been terrified of Bernie. Just like you are. Afraid to change and live like the rest of the civilized world with Universal Healthcare, affordable college, equality, and livable wages. It's sad that you think all these things are 'Pie in the Sky.' when other countries already have them.
Republicans are reviled and becoming a small faction every day. There was an article today that said Biden's DNC speech had almost zero effect on his poll numbers. People aren't voting for Biden. They are just voting against Trump.
Biden: 8.9M Followers
Bernie: 12.8M Followers
Do you think those other 3 million are Republicans?
There are already several different political factions. Republicans and Democrats make sure they never gain power. So what would be the point in creating a party they'd crush?
Someone obviously didn't bother to click on the link I gave. Ignorance is bliss.
Bernie went to jail fighting for equal rights for black people. Biden wanted to keep schools segregated.

 

[KeithD]

You're not terrified of the Republicans? What sort of lalalaland do you live in? I didn't read any further. There's no reasoning with you people.

 

[SevMax2]

The DNC and its fans like Keith need not worry about us progressives/populists trying to "steal," meaning save or reform the Democratic Party. Bernie was who gave me some hope for redeeming the irredeemable, neoliberal, corporate Establishment machine known as the Democratic Party, which is every bit as corrupt now as Tammany Hall.

Win or lose, we're not coming for the Party anymore. We're washing our hands of it. It's beyond redemption, so thoroughly corrupt that it cannot be saved from within at all. We're coming for our country back, and we'll start with the safe blue districts that can be more easily taken off these partisan hacks with no real conscience or empathy.

Then we'll use jungle primaries and RCV to get the rest.

So, yes, stay comfortably in your ivory towers and bubbles, neoliberal, warmongering, corporate Dems. Get nice and cozy, while we chip away at your partisan hegemony right under your nose. And replace fake progresssives and fake populists with the real McCoy. Because the working class is tired of your lies and false promises of "just wait until next time...we'll someday do a public option, if you just give up on the single-payer that the rest of the world has, but America can't afford, because our MIC paymasters need that money for more war and the private prison moguls need it for more prisons."

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

After Bannon got arrested, Trump got very nervous and claimed he had nothing to do with Bannon's "Build the Wall" scam.

Trump is now saying that he “didn’t like it” and thought it was “showboating and maybe looking for funds.” In a stumbling response, he repeatedly said he never approved of the project and Bannon aside, that he didn’t know anyone involved. A quick perusal of the facts says otherwise.

Trump's OWN SON, Donald Jr, praised Bannon's project, calling it "private enterprise at its finest" and saying that what Bannon was doing was "amazing".

Trump's Acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, called the group’s work a “game changer” and said he “welcomed” their efforts.

Right now Trump is nervously attempting to place a huge amount of distance between himself and Bannon's group of con men, but he welcomed this group’s efforts right up until ProPublica reported on the shoddy construction of the privately built wall, which was in danger of falling over. Nevertheless, the contractor, Fisher Industries, was awarded a massive government contract to

Trump is a big fan of people that are terrible at their jobs. Whether it is brutal dictators, fake Christians, his own administration, corrupt law enforcement officials, his own stable genius intellect, or special projects like a wall that falls over during a strong wind.

 

[KeithD]

The DNC and its fans like Keith

You don't have to be a fan of the DNC (kindly stop telling me what I believe) to oppose a non-Democrat and his fanatics trying to take over the DNC's network and pissing in its tent.

 

[KeithD]

After Bannon got arrested, Trump got very nervous and claimed he had nothing to do with Bannon's "Build the Wall" scam.

Trump is now saying that he “didn’t like it” and thought it was “showboating and maybe looking for funds.”

Donald Trump is a congenital liar.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

You're not terrified of the Republicans? What sort of lalalaland do you live in? I didn't read any further. There's no reasoning with you people.

You should never fear bullies. Because they are craven cowards who live off of fear. You didn't read any further because you are afraid you might see you are wrong.

Both parties were scared of Bernie. Afraid he'd wipe out the corruption they've enjoyed for so long. Republicans are by far the worst. Working towards fascism. But Dems are more interested in keeping things the way they are. A handful of progressives are now in Congress. While Republicans are having a handful of QAnon nuts joining them.

The funny part is he said Bernie doesn't have enough supporters while he is outnumbered 2 to 1 on this post.

 

[KeithD]

You should never fear bullies. Because they are craven cowards who live off of fear. You didn't read any further because you are afraid you might see you are wrong.

Both parties were scared of Bernie. Afraid he'd wipe out the corruption they've enjoyed for so long. Republicans are by far the worst. Working towards fascism. But Dems are more interested in keeping things the way they are. A handful of progressives are now in Congress. While Republicans are having a handful of QAnon nuts joining them.

The funny part is he said Bernie doesn't have enough supporters while he is outnumbered 2 to 1 on this post.

I don't fear Trump as a bully. I fear what he's been able to do to destroy the fabric of the United States.

It's interesting what you think Bernie could do when, given many years in the national saddle, he's actually done very little. He's all nice talk--and, pretty much, you're all talk about him and what he could have done if he could just be the Trump on the left and steal a party mechanism while pissing in the works and then, just maybe, start thinking about how to get from here to there. Because he certainly hasn't explained that yet.

 

[SevMax2]

I don't fear Trump as a bully. I fear what he's been able to do to destroy the fabric of the United States.

It's interesting what you think Bernie could do when, given many years in the national saddle, he's actually done very little. He's all nice talk--and, pretty much, you're all talk about him and what he could have done if he could just be the Trump on the left and steal a party mechanism while pissing in the works and then, just maybe, start thinking about how to get from here to there. Because he certainly hasn't explained that yet.

You do realize that Bernie was the Amendment King, right?

 

[SevMax2]

You don't have to be a fan of the DNC (kindly stop telling me what I believe) to oppose a non-Democrat and his fanatics trying to take over the DNC's network and pissing in its tent.

Why do you care so much about party affiliation? Most Americans hate both parties or are at best indifferent to them. The major parties are a huge part of the problem and need to just go away.

And kindly do me the same favor that you ask of me. You still know nothing about me.

 

[The_adorable_slut]

Since Donald Trump was sworn into office I've heard Republicans proclaim that collusion isn't a crime, fraud isn't a crime, sexual assault isn't a crime, perjury isn't a crime and lying to the FBI isn't a crime.

Once upon a time, didn't the Republican Party claim to be the Party of Law and Order? How did they become the Party of Obstruction and Cover-Ups?

Trump is trying to paint himself as the "law and order” candidate while simultaneously backing a 17-year-old who came to town in out of state, with a gun that was illegal for him to carry openly, and shot and killed people.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/cn...rican-violence/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[JackLuis]

GOP senator burned to the ground for absurd grandstanding against racial justice protesters

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was brutally mocked on Twitter on Tuesday after a far-right activist posted on Twitter that Kentucky’s junior senator was planning to subpoena Antifa.

“BREAKING REPORT: Rand Paul has called to SUBPOENA ANTIFA plane records, hotel records, all travel records & all funding,” former GOP candidate Chuck Callesto posted on Twitter.

Good Fucking Luck with that Senator!

 

[JackLuis]

DOJ ‘preparing’ to indict top Trump fundraiser in scandal over foreign corruption of US government: Washington Post

Throw another hog on the fire!

“Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter, a result of a sprawling, years-long investigation that involved a figure who helped raise millions for Donald Trump’s election and the Republican Party,” the newspaper reported. “Broidy is under scrutiny for his alleged role in a campaign to persuade high-level Trump administration officials to drop an investigation of Malaysian government corruption, as well as for his attempt to push for the extradition of an outspoken Chinese dissident back to his home country, according to the people, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation.”

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

GOP senator burned to the ground for absurd grandstanding against racial justice protesters



Good Fucking Luck with that Senator!

Meanwhile, they can't name one person that has been killed by Antifa. But 1,000's have been killed by far-right groups.

 

[jaF0]

Must not get too cocky.

 

[UnpublishedEroticaWriter]

When people say,"Defund the police."
Trump hears,"Defund the Post Office."

Trump running for re-election is his idea of Revenge Porn. Because he wants to keep fucking our country as we all have to watch in horror.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP Congressman Threatens to Shoot Armed Protesters in Unhinged Facebook Post

Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, a former SWAT cop who’s big on gun rights, threatened to shoot protesters in a wildly deranged Facebook post that accompanied a picture of armed Black men.

“Look, fair warning. If this shows up, we’ll consider the armed presence a real threat. We being, We, the people of Louisiana,” Higgins’ post began. The Republican congressman, elected in 2016, went on to say, “I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand. Because some of we, like me…We, are SWAT. Nothing personal. We just eliminate the threat.”

The accompanying picture, taken during a rally in Louisville to protest Breonna Taylor’s killing earlier this year, shows three heavily armed Black men from the Not Fucking Around Coalition, an all-Black militia.

WHen did SWAT become SOG? "Kill 'em All and Let God Sort Them Out!"

 

[jaF0]

Will the US be de-Mitched this year?

 

[KeithD]

Will the US be de-Mitched this year?

Probably not. American voters can be really dense.

 

[SevMax2]

if the dems win this country will be dead on arrival in Jan. God help you dumbasses who think the dems will save you.

If Trump wins, the elderly and disabled lose their Social Security and will die....so....

 

[KeithD]

if the dems win this country will be dead on arrival in Jan. God help you dumbasses who think the dems will save you.

In what way will it be worse than now, under Trump, who has brought the 1918 flu, 1929 economic crash, and the 1968 race riots all together, bless his little lack of a heart (and brains)?

 

[JackLuis]

Taliban Ted and the Pill!

Ted Cruz, Friends: If We Lie About Abortion Pill REAL BAD Can We Get FDA To Ban It?

Ted "Osama bin Texas" Cruz lies and panders to the Evangelical American Talibans!

Back in July, US District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that, due to the pandemic, requiring an in-person doctor's visit to obtain the abortion pill created a "substantial obstacle" to a medication abortion, thus violating patients' constitutional rights.

This did not please a whole lot of anti-choice types, who were really hoping that the upside to a pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of people in the US would be that more women than usual would be forced to give birth against their will. Judge Chuang's decision clearly did not please Ted Cruz and his friends, who are now striking back.

Cruz, Joni Ernst, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, James Inhofe and pretty much all of the other worst people in the Senate have signed on to a letter urging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to respect their total lack of medical authority and classify Mifiprex as a dangerous pill and remove it from the market entirely.

Surely, they are all just doing this because they care about the safety of those seeking abortions and not just because they really don't want them to be able to have an abortion!