I see. And not surprising, at this point.
Some of them are still around. The rest RIP.
Hey, just recognizing we won’t agree.
In fairness, this is probably only because he is obviously smarter than the rest of yousz combined.
That’s fine - it’s the moving goal posts that’s an issue.
“Biden won’t even come out and condemn the violence!”
“Ok, he came out and condemned the violence. You good?”
“No! Not good enough! He needs to call out groups by name!”
My guess is if Biden actually did that, you’d still complain it wasn’t enough. As I said, I see. You’ll keep moving the bar to make sure he can’t clear it.
Personally, I think Biden was too slow to condemn - not so much because he was on the wrong side of the issue (that’s idiocy) but because it’s a situation crying out for leadership, none was being provided, and of you want to be President, you don’t shrink in that moment. He waited till too many people thought he was shrinking. But condemn he did, late as it was.
But, not good enough. The goal posts will be moved again.
Trump is a lot of things…but dumb is not want of them…
Wisconsin? My understanding is that it is/will be a “battleground” State?
Win=Trump.
I hate him, but you’re right. Even if it’s just like his coal country promise (which basically came to nothing), it’s politically winning. Slam dunk.
We still have 60+ days to the election, but if Dems don’t get their shit together and this kind of messaging keeps getting applied by team Trump…yeah. Polls be damned.
This is the part that actually scares me most on the domestic side of a Trump re-election.
For the love of all that is good in life, I hope not. Shit.
Agree.
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Can you explain what this means; in simple terms; for the simple-minded like myself?
(Don’t quite understand the “intricacies” of British Politics and British Politicians to understand the comparisons being made).
Thanks!
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Absolutely. Ed Milliband was the moderate leader of the Labour Party prior to Jeremy Corbyn.
It was assumed he was going to win the election, and he got shellacked. Once he failed to win, the Labour Party veered wildly to the left in a way that we hadn’t seen since the 1980’s under Michael Foot.
The party disappeared up its own fundament and it paved the way for the biggest collapse in the Labour Party for decades (not that this collapse wasn’t earned, for the record).
That’s the broad strokes of it anyway. But two centrist losses for the DNC in a row is exactly the type of thing that caused the Labour Party disaster.
UK survived in spite of Parliament.
Maybe you should go back to strictly Monarchy… hmmm Charles at the ready.
Oops My bad 
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Ignore the German usurpers of the throne, the rightful king is duke Franz of Bavaria!
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The line must be restored! It is time!
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Pathetic.
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You should see his challenger for mayor. She apparently claims to be a member of antifa.
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Portland deserves its fate if they elect such a homonculus.
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A article worth reading during your push for 2020:
Twenty-four trillion USD in national debt and nearly 20 million unemployed. And neither Trump nor Biden have provided a clear path back from the COVID-19 financial abyss.
The only clear strategy for each party candidate is “I’m not him.” That’s not great leadership, folks. However, I’m going to leave presidential politics aside for one moment and focus on something that would fix the system that delivers us the choice of “Head or Gut punch?” in November.
The real sad thing I’ve reflected on recently is that our two-party system of politics is so toxic. Most of America’s great leaders (we have a lot of them) have a “Born to Lose” tattoo on their political bicep. Very few want to run for office because of the toxicity a modern campaign brings. People will search out any reason to light the internet torches and rally the mob.
How many of us did incredibly stupid things in our youth? Stuff that would make us cringe if we saw it today? It’s all fair game today, to be twisted and packaged up for the town square lynch mob.
Nothing is safe. Just ask Brett Kavanaugh.
I’m not a constitutional scholar but I’ve read enough to arrive at the conclusion that the founders of this country didn’t envision a system of government run by career politicians.
We’ve reached the bottom of the political barrel
I’ve studied enough about economics and incentives to arrive at the conclusion that if Americans were to demand and implement just one thing, it would go a long way to fixing our political pigpen. Remove or put in place proper incentives and it drives behavior.
Term limits.
This not only gets rid of the political royalty in America (the Clintons, the Bushs, and Kennedys to name a few). It also takes away most of the incentives that have our politicians making poor policy decisions across the board.
Start ticking off your personal list of things that you would like to see fixed in America and term limits goes a long way towards solving most of our big problems.
My Personal Top Three:
1. Education: We’ve fallen way behind here. Investing in our children’s education should be a top priority. Corona is highlighting how messed up the entire system really is from kindergarten to college.
2. Healthcare: We pay enough taxes to ensure every American gets basic healthcare at no cost. A rich kid with cancer shouldn’t live longer than a poor kid with the same condition, but it happens.
3. Foreign Policy Gone Wild: We’ve spent over $2 trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan and at what cost? What is the benefit to us? Some of our best and brightest are dead, maimed, or walking dead back home. They are committing suicide en masse because they’ve been overexposed to combat trauma with no purpose. Purpose gives us the ability to rationalize what we’ve seen or done.
Nobody wants to talk about this shit, but I refuse to let it go.
****So let’s put the hero-worship, and the social media posts about dead heroes, aside for one minute. Rather, let’s think about two simple things we can all do to really realign American incentives.
1. VOTE
2. Demand Term Limits
Time to stop talking and start doing.
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Hear, hear!
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Was just in a rural area of Wisconsin today for a business meeting. I was surprised by the relatively equal distribution of Biden signs. I was thinking for the rural area I was in, that it would be 5:1, but it appeared to be 5:4 Trump : Biden.
Based on how much support Biden has in the rural parts, I think it is up for the taking. I wouldn’t make a bet on either in Wisconsin.