Ah yes, yet another unbiased source about Russian disinformation. LOL…
EDIT: I’d have read your article, for a laugh. But I am damn sure not subscribing to the trash that is the NYT.
Treco - I know you were replying to Loppar but I think your post is on point as well. It’s probably lost on here lately that I’m a conservative which isn’t obvious with my recent posting history. 16’ was the first election I supported a D and I hope this one will be the last. I’d vote for any Republican candidate from my lifetime over Biden, except for Trump. I’m not scared of antifa either or the right wing militias. I think your points are valid, but two things occur to me after reading it.
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The prospect of a strongman/autocracy taking over this country is being realized as we speak. The guy proports to be a conservative, but he’s not. He may take us to the place you and I fear going around the circle the other way, but we’d wind up in the same place if he had his way.
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T-Bolt has put this in the most succinct way I’ve seen in that Biden is a garden variety D. He’s pretty much a centrist. I’m not a fan of his but his policies aren’t going to drive us hard one way or the other. I could be wrong but I just don’t fear for it with Biden like I would under say, Warren or Bernie.
What Trump may get us is a huge blue wave with the D’s taking increasing their presence in the House and the Senate as well as the Oval Office. That’s not good!
As long as people on the far left and far right are really unhappy with who’s in the oval office I think we’ll be in good shape.
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Just look at the basic facts. Who is advocating and enforcing authoritarian rule, where it’s possible? The current iteration of the democrats. I am fully willing to concede that this is not what the democrats used to be, this is fairly new but it’s also blatant.
What are the conditions in states and cities led by this new left? California has become a complete shit hole. People who have lived there and have been to Somalia have compared it to Somalia.
Which party wants to keep the economy shutdown?
Which party wants to ‘mandate’ behavior such as mask wearing even in conditions where masks are completely worthless?
Which party wants to raise taxes, dramatically?
Which party is affiliated with mass unrest?
Which party supports segregation?
Which party wants to remove civil rights legislation?
Which party wants to have re-education camps?
Which party wants to pack the SCOTUS?
Which party want’s to re-write history?
Which party wants to actually do away with the constitution, because it’s racist?
Which party comes to restaurants and screams at patrons until those patrons bend their knees?
What party supports critical race and gender theory?
The answer is the democrat party. There is not an unhinged, insane, radical idea they will not entertain. As long as you hate one man, you are in until you say something they don’t like.
I have disliked many people in my life. I have never hated someone so much that they would suck up every ounce of my being from morning 'til night every day, all the time. Nobody, who ever it is or what position they hold is worth that much energy.
The reason nobody really knows what the platform of the DNC is, is because there is not one. It is, only ‘get Trump’ by any means necessary, at any cost. There is not a price too high to hurt this one guy. That’s the definition of insanity.
Which is just nuts that you think that. Especially, with covid and the lockdown and the riots, do you not think Trump had the authority and power to be an autocratic maniac, send in the military and control the country? He had the perfect chance and he didn’t do it. He tweeted, that’s it. He let local governments handle things when he had the right and reason to send in the feds and take control.
If you have motive and opportunity to wield more power than any president in history, that was the chance to do it. He didn’t. He could have taken over New York and have federal authority over the city, he only needed to implement the insurrection act. He could have done that and people would have thanked him for it. They would have given him the city over DeBlasio with applause, but he left it alone. Cuomo begged for help and Trump sent it. Trump could have told him to get out of the way, but he didn’t. Trump may be boorish but he’s no autocrat.
Apparently the 60 minutes interview that Trump walked out of could be fun. Trump doing his usual I didn’t say that. Fake news remains asking Trump a question about an actual statement Trump made. Are we tired of winning yet?
“Stahl reads Trump’s words back to him verbatim and he scrams FAKE NEWS
Stahl: “You said to suburban the other day ‘will you please like me? please’”
Trump: “Oh I didn’t say that. That’s so misleading…the way you said is why everyone thinks of you as fake news”
@Pat - after reading your quote of mine, I overstated it. I don’t think it’s actually being realized right now, but Trump would take is there if he thought he could. If he gets another term he’ll certainly try as he’ll feel he has the mandate to do it. The larger point I was making was that worrying about a centrist like Biden leading down the road to autocracy compared to Trump doesn’t make sense to me. I get what you’re saying about Trump’s opportunity to do some strongman stuff during the pandemic but he knows the economy is his big ticket item. If he thought he could grab more power because of the pandemic and still get elected he’d do it in a flash.
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Biden himself as a worry. Nope.
But he is a puppet on a string.
A very short string.
His 'policy’is being fed to him, in the open for all to see.
Yes, and I’ve kept the dialect
How about the deficit?
Oh c’mon. There’s no way that’s ever happening, not least because it provides the illusion of freedom, only defined through the 2A.
Someone is banning megachurches? Also, we’re witnessing in real time a birth of a new puritan religion of woke with a developing caste system and secular rites.
And the Democratic nominee is almost a desperate throwback to the bygone days of centrism.
Biden, as Bill Burr insightfully put it, is so old that he probably campaigned off the back of a train. A living monument, a yearning fo continuity that is irrevocably being destroyed.
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Well, he had that opportunity and he didn’t take it. If I trusted Biden to be an actual centrist then I would be less worried about it. the whole party has skewed far-left. The narratives being proposed sound like a metaphor for the far left, but they’re now mainstream.
I am more afraid of identitarianism and critical race and gender theories becoming even more mainstream ideologies. I don’t want everything to be discussed in the lens of race and gender. I don’t want kindergartners to contend with ‘gender is a social construct’ crap. Biden is too scared and frail to stand up to the whacko’s in his party. And he’s too scared to stand up to the establishment. So what we end up with is some weird oligarchy where ‘silence is violence’ and censorship and fear of retribution for holding different ideas is a constant threat. And un-hyperbolically speaking, that is where we are right now.
Trump, for all his faults, is not going to allow neither the establishment nor wingnut lunatics a seat at the table.
The only abuses of power happening right now are all coming from the left. Look at the democrat run cities and states and the state they are in right now and imagine the whole country looking like that. No way I want those failed policies enacted country wide.
The Constitution does a great job of checks and balances. As long as everybody agrees to work with in those bounds, nobody will wield ‘too much’ power. There are way too many mainstream democrats calling for the dismantling of the constitution. For all of Trump’s faults, he stays within the bounds of the constitution and he has not undermined its authority. When you have a large contingent calling for the end of law and order as we know it, you have a recipe for authoritarianism. If Trump wanted to be King, he wouldn’t have waited for a 2nd election cycle. Authoritarians take the power as soon as they can get their grubby hands on it, they do not wait for the people to decide.
Whose emails are they? Hunter’s? How would joe know one way or another if they are real?
That’s the kind of thinking authoritarians thrive on. Venzuela never thought it would happen to them. It can happen here. It can happen anywhere.
Gary Newsome and Bill DeBlasio, for instance…
Not according to his website, which embraces critical race theory and the green new deal, which is just critical race theory in disguise.
Just my opinion, but this almost makes the ideas more credible to many people.
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He takes up those seats himself.
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Here’s an interesting set of circumstances to consider:
Biden flips AZ, WI and MI. That’s a 269-269 tie.
Democrats flip a House seat in AZ and PA then no party has a majority of the House.
Democrsts get 3 in the Senate, so 50-50.
Nancy Pelosi is then acting president who gets sworn in, in January.
Where is the betting market on this? In 2020, I’ll sign up for this happening
You do know the article you posted is an OPINION article right?? i.e. in no way unbiased. It says it right there in the title.
Now this is fascinating. No idea whether it’s true or not, but the joint ideas that a) Iran feels threatened by how close DT has been to the Saudis and b) they, as nothing near a superpower, feel bold enough to try to influence our election are both highly interesting and also disturbing.
Sadly the same for me too. I feel ya.
Yes and his attitude shows it. In fact his entire life in the public eye can reinforce it.
Yes
YES, and that’s what I’ve been concerned about since 2016, even though it’s not readily apparent in recent posts.
Ditto.
How about Kamala?
I’ll sign up for almost any crazy thing “with no chance of happening” actually happening in this year.
My only question is if the pot odds are enough to justify a longshot bet.
She won’t be African American after the election.
Kamala concerns me much more than Joe. But still not as much as a Warren or a Sanders.
The Dems have a lot of potential to lock in power if they get enough of it all at once (I don’t see the potential with the GoP).
Puerto Rico, DC, Guam could all become states with likely DEM senators and electoral votes.
Many states that have GoP drawn districts will be redrawn by DEMs if there is a blue wave.
I think if this happens the GoP has to scratch many of their former ideas and come back with centrist ideas to be competitive.
Who knows though? We will see what happens.