Your last comment is so on point. This years conference is focused on increasing funding from NATO countries.
“We are the Priests of the Temple of Syrinx.
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.”
Your last comment is so on point. This years conference is focused on increasing funding from NATO countries.
That's how I felt watching him in the run-up to 2016. To me his speeches & rallies seemed to have a lot more energy/entertainment back then, though maybe some of that was due to the newness of it all. Still remember some of his random quotes from time to time and laugh. "I love the poorly educated", no politician but Trump was saying those type of things out loud.
Yeah, the physical & mental condition of Biden is legit terrifying. Weeks of debate preparation & presumably drugged to the max. And that's the best they could make him appear.
Kamala Harris has a pretty bad reputation in DC, and I notice that Obama does not seem to have endorsed her yet (and he's the real kingmaker, or in this case queenmaker, in the Democratic party). I've got a dear friend who has worked with her in a professional capacity on a couple of occasions and doesn't have anything nice to say about her. She's regarded by a lot of people here as being the worst combination of intellectually lazy and viciously cruel. Staff turnover in her office is pretty high.Bartek wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 20:46 Well yes, you're right with these example, yet statistically and biologically the older you are the worst your convitive ability become. Fact there are examples poving otherwise doesn't make this wrong.
Saying that Kamila Trump is another opponent as Joe has stepped down. The corpses in her wardrobe can't wait to come out and strangle her (unlike in Donald Harris, who's wardrobe have been searched numerous of times).
People of USofA and the rest of the world must learn again how to deal with Orange Goblin (yet i really want to be wrong here; but more investors from Silicon Valley are supporting the Goblin, and betting on his win, also because he is less willing to make them any troubble and maybe even some tax preferences to come).
That is pretty much what I've heard listening left-wing podcast here. But it's down to people, to media machinery to make people's mind, to convince them by using popularity and voices of celebrities (which is already happening), that Kamala is the best what Democrats has to offer to the people of the USofA (and btw the rest of the world). But to me it looks the same as here in PL, so-called liberals from big cities are puzzled why citizens of mid-size, smaller towns, and villages are not loving them, trying to find good from their perspective "moral" and "intellectual" explanations/excuses to that, throwing words like: "fascism", "populism", but not trying to understand their pains and needs and address it properly. But in USofA is also about representation; so have fun watching how hundreds of millions of dollars are being burned.She's regarded by a lot of people here as being the worst combination of intellectually lazy and viciously cruel. Staff turnover in her office is pretty high.
Sure, they can say that. If they want to guarantee an election loss.
$, easy as that.Ocean Moves wrote: ↑29 Jun 2024, 06:43 I'll go :
I'd like someone to explain to me in layman's terms why in a country of over 330 million human beings, the only candidates in the electoral race are a convicted criminal (who happens to be a pathological liar)
and a frail octogenarian.
This. Well said.Here's the problem: the Republican Party is not popular. Since 1988, they've won the popular vote ONCE, 20 years ago when the USA was actively engaged in two wars. And Trump is the only Republican candidate who can get a lot of people out to vote, there's nobody else since the party has been a full blown cult for a long time now. As far as being as corrupt as he is, they just want to keep their jobs. That's it. The worst thing imaginable for creatures like Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham is that one day they are "ex-Senators". So they'll get up there and agree that 2+2=5. The Republicans had multiple chances to get rid of him: two impeachments where a conviction would have barred him from office, and the 25th amendment which they could have
Post of the year! I disliked Harris mainly because of the Democrats facilitating the appalling things going on in Gaza. Obviously, I have no time for Trump either. I feel sorry for Americans with a soul.
The fact that the Harris campaign thought trotting out Daddy Warping and his daughter would win the votes of the people whose children were maimed and killed in their disastrous wars shows just how absolutely out of touch they were.longtimelurker wrote: ↑Yesterday, 11:39 Unsurprisingly, "kamala IS brat" + Dick Cheney didn't turn out to be the best strategy. Wonder if Eldritch will finally stop watching so much MSNBC now? (still can't get over his "she’s clearly got something that connects to the American people" interview quote)
On a serious note, it sucks to see some really ugly anti-latino racist comments from people on the left (Democrat voters) already. I think most strangers assume I'm Eurasian instead, and my will be spouse is actually East Asian, so maybe I can sidestep being on the receiving end of most of that
There are many, many reasons for someone to vote against Harris other than misogyny; that's a lazy argument. She was a vacuous candidate who ran a terrible campaign, and was complicit in hiding Biden's decline from the country. Trump's also the only American president in my lifetime not to start a new war other than Biden (some credit him with 'starting' Ukraine, but I don't). When the neocons in his administration tried to get him to retaliate against Iran for downing a drone, he rejected their advice on the grounds that nobody has been killed. As one of my students put, he's not a 'dove' on foreign policy, he's more like a pigeon - a noisey dove covered in s**t.Incoming! wrote: ↑Yesterday, 18:37 Some thoughts :
Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)
We are still fighting the US Civil War
Democrats still a mess
9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban
One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4
There won’t be a January 6 uprising
Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time
Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0
Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use
I think that this reads to me like a justification for the inexcusable. Obviously, it did happen, and I don't know all the reasons why, I am sure that they differ from person to person, but misogyny was a big part of it. It is interesting to me that Kamala's electoral map looks eerily similar to Clinton's.sultan2075 wrote: ↑Today, 00:28There are many, many reasons for someone to vote against Harris other than misogyny; that's a lazy argument. She was a vacuous candidate who ran a terrible campaign, and was complicit in hiding Biden's decline from the country. Trump's also the only American president in my lifetime not to start a new war other than Biden (some credit him with 'starting' Ukraine, but I don't). When the neocons in his administration tried to get him to retaliate against Iran for downing a drone, he rejected their advice on the grounds that nobody has been killed. As one of my students put, he's not a 'dove' on foreign policy, he's more like a pigeon - a noisey dove covered in s**t.Incoming! wrote: ↑Yesterday, 18:37 Some thoughts :
Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)
We are still fighting the US Civil War
Democrats still a mess
9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban
One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4
There won’t be a January 6 uprising
Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time
Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0
Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use
You're too outraged.sharedgum wrote: ↑Today, 01:47I think that this reads to me like a justification for the inexcusable. Obviously, it did happen, and I don't know all the reasons why, I am sure that they differ from person to person, but misogyny was a big part of it. It is interesting to me that Kamala's electoral map looks eerily similar to Clinton's.sultan2075 wrote: ↑Today, 00:28There are many, many reasons for someone to vote against Harris other than misogyny; that's a lazy argument. She was a vacuous candidate who ran a terrible campaign, and was complicit in hiding Biden's decline from the country. Trump's also the only American president in my lifetime not to start a new war other than Biden (some credit him with 'starting' Ukraine, but I don't). When the neocons in his administration tried to get him to retaliate against Iran for downing a drone, he rejected their advice on the grounds that nobody has been killed. As one of my students put, he's not a 'dove' on foreign policy, he's more like a pigeon - a noisey dove covered in s**t.Incoming! wrote: ↑Yesterday, 18:37 Some thoughts :
Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)
We are still fighting the US Civil War
Democrats still a mess
9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban
One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4
There won’t be a January 6 uprising
Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time
Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0
Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use
I don't buy the no wars started argument. In general, after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars started by Bush, US has been involved less in foreign wars and in more limited ways. I truly don't understand how people can claim that Trump is good in that regard while at the same knowing full well that he refused to acknowledge that Biden had beaten him and that Trump tried to take the power forcefully back in 2020. He should be in jail for that, not be the president. If he was willing to do that in 2020, how can people not connect the dots and realize that he would be willing to do something similar, if not worse, both here and internationally? Am I missing something? His own hand-picked chief of staff from his own party called him a fascist. And what did Harris (and H. Clinton) do after losing? She gracefully congratulated her opponent. For this reason alone, which speaks volumes, in my opinion, there is no comparison between the two candidates in terms of who should be disqualified from running the country.
And regarding Biden's decline, how about Trump's decline? He is swaying to Ave Maria and performing sexual acts on microphones. He has no business running the country.
This travesty is 100% on the American people, who definitely know who he is by now. Trying to elevate someone who should be getting 5% of the vote above someone who is clearly far more qualified for the job and nitpicking things here and there is just not right. There should be no reason for anyone but a fringe to vote for him given the threat that he presents. And yes, as I have noted, I realize that this did happen, and I don't have all the answers, and this is just my personal opinion.