they think Biden can be victorious against a Trump challenge. Like you....I have my doubts. The echo chamber inside the belt line is deaf to those living outside of that loony farm.
I agree with you - the Democrat's rhetoric doesn't match pushing the incompetent Biden/Harris ticket as the only salvation of the country. But what is the focus of their argument?
For all the fear that is stoked about Trump as the Great Disruptor and The Greatest Threat Ever to Democracy, his first term showed him to be rather conventional like all modern Presidents - he passed a tax bill that favored the upper classes; he had Soleimani assassinated; and he allowed/pushed a huge government takeover of health care through the COVID pandemic. About his only real crimes were his boorishness and his inclination to go off the reservation at times and tell the truth - both of which caused the heads of the DC elites to explode.
A second term likely would be more or less the same. He will provide unquestioning support of Israel (just like Biden); nothing will fundamentally change for the elite class (just like Biden); and there will be the same questions about personal enrichment (just like Biden).
Perhaps the question of illegal immigration and the border - both which need addressing - would be a difference, but he lacks any philosophy of governance and self discipline to push something to completion.
He may surround himself with people more determined to seek revenge on his persecutors that would please his base, but at some point the emerging economic conditions (i.e., recession and collapse of the dollar) will overshadow even those witch hunts.
What people rarely talk about is why the Democrats fear left-wing candidates. It is not because they worry they can't win, it is because they know they would win against the right-wing DNC candidates. It is all about maintaining the unregulated capitalism stranglehold on the government. It is why you hear constant screeching about the evils of socialism, when socialism just means implementing a less stratified, less oligarchical society. It would mean the end of billionaires, along with a great lessening of poverty and hunger. That can't be allowed, and it is the Blue Team who acts as the guardians of the status quo.
Reminds me of the thought process as a kid. "If adults really believed in Hell, we'd be at church every day of the week." This realization set me on my way to getting out of having to go to Sunday school.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is not its own, but is indebted to Wall Street, the MIC, AIPAC and other high rollers in this country. Biden has fulfilled their every wish - even on the limited progress on environmental and infrastructure issues. They like Joe. He's good for General Bullmoose and what's good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. So the money is behind Joe.
Equally, or even more unfortunately, Joe is the best thing that could happen for Trump.
The sad reality is that neither of the two political parties represent the majority of Americans as they are both clients of big money. Worse, most American voters are loathe to give up the two party system as they live in fear that a vote for a third party candidate can only produce a win for the worst candidate. It's a worst case of catch-22.
Grinning Israeli War Vets Admit to Raping and Murdering Palestinians.
Jimmy Dore shows us stunning and appalling admissions coming from elderly Israeli vets. Smiling and laughing as they detail the atrocities they committed in the first Nakba.
Israeli's falsely accusing Hamas of atrocities like rape and killing babies is actually self-projection of their own acts and attitudes!
What the establishment cliques clearly want at this point isn't Biden facing off against Trump, but Haley. Keeping Biden on the ticket almost surely guarantees her election. Any why not? She is just the right recipe for: 1) a woman president (at last); 2) one as grotesque a war monger has HRC would have been (and is); 3) one to carry the torch of exceptionalism into our inevitable demise; and 4) blaming it on every world leader who stands up to us.
I might have thought RFK Jr had a chance to upset the apple cart (finally) but his hardline on Israel has certainly put some early supporters off--and likely for good unless he has some "come to Jesus meeting" and changes his tune big time.
The argument you present is based upon the presumption that we have a democracy. Both parties claim the other is a "threat" to what no longer exists. A democracy.The claimed threat maintains the illusion that we have a democracy. Accepting this fact is too horrible for Americans to face. If they did it would be the one thing to unite them in solidarity.
We're being fed a chocolate covered turd of hope by the boomers. The generations below them are going to be left to deal with the coming in progress climate disaster at the best of things. Those who are truly in power are at an age where they are betting they're going to miss the catastrophe because they will be dead. So why should they care?
As you ably point out, the contradiction between what the Democratic establishment says about the danger of Trump, while continuing to push Biden/Harris is crystal clear. As you suggest, while the Party would rather have Biden than Trump, TPWRM (The People Who Really Matter to them) won't really lose either way. They likely know that foreign policy will continue to be driven by neocon imperialists, that military spending will continue on its rapid trajectory upward, that fossil fuel subsidies will continue, and that such spending will be prioritized over public health, education, environmental protection or other public goods- no matter which is in the White House.
Those who hopefully think Trump would at least end the forever wars and/or stop new ones are engaging in purely wishful thinking. He doesn't have what it takes to do so, even if for a few minutes he actually once again thought it might be better to "make business, not war" (with nods to our VietNam-era chant , "make LOVE, not war").
The bottom line is that there'll be enough voters who are unquestioningly loyal to one side of the Duopoly or the other to make sure that nothing fundamentally changes. And steadily down the drain we'll go, barring some miraculous, unforseeable event. This will be true EVEN IF Trump isn't the GOP nominee, and Biden isn't the Dems'.
Congressman Matt Gaetz believes President Trump is in serious danger.
Recent liberal media publications are pushing the idea that Trump will become a dictator when he's re-elected. Like Hitler they are saying! No kidding!
Gaetz believes this creates an open season on Trump for Democrats to do something drastic.
Like assassinate him!
Dems go into PANIC mode over Trump and they are DESPERATE | Redacted with Clayton Morris
As a Canadian, I always watched as important self-interest, what was happening in that great Goliath South of the border, and especially during the 2 year cycle of Presidential Elections.
In 2016, I couldn't believe Americans would elect anyone President with so many character flaws as Donald Trump. He already showed himself to be a serial liar and a self-centred egomaniac. I already saw him as preaching Nihilism defined as
1a: a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
Nihilism is a condition in which all ultimate values lose their value.—
Ronald H. Nash
b: a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
2a: a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility
Trump and his followers are Nihilists, as this World is already heading down the Path to more disorder, uncertainty and ARMAGEDDON, also known as the Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty, as far as I can tell by the leading Indicators.
But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32.
Being mindful of that in 1976 when The Kansas City Times interviewed me for the Historical Newspaper Record of September 13, 1976, publishing, "There are 30 months before the fate of the world will be sealed with EITHER Destruction OR the Universal Brotherhood of Man,¨ he said. ¨The 30 month figure concerned a Treaty between Israel and Egypt."
NOTE: This does not say Armageddon happens in 30 months from the article.
Not 29 or 31, but exactly 30 months later, in March 1979, history shows a Treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed. The Camp David Accord.
History shows talks broke down on the 12th day and no Treaty was to be signed.
Begin and Sadat were leaving. It was on the 13th Day, as in the date of the Article and the picture accompanying it, an unexpected window of opportunity appeared and opened the way for the Treaty to be signed.
This signified the Universal Brotherhood part of the quote.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution happened in the 29th month from the September 13, 1976 Public record. There is no doubt Israel and the US is scapegoating Iran for what happened October 7 and the Destruction part of the 1976 record appears immanent if you believe what the MSM is Propagating and Reporting.
Obviously I did not, do not, have the POWER and Influence to orchestrate History to conform to that 1976 Timeline, but I would be derelict in my Duty not to point out the Historical facts as a Messenger then and now.
It is a FACT of my Curriculum Vitae, which started that February 1, 1975 when I came alive to God within, the FUNDAMENTAL of the Christian Faith, the Secret Service called me out of the compressed crowd of Republicans in the Lobby of The CROWN Centre Hotel for questioning.
They were all looking up to the Secret Service restricted Mezzanine having the President's Podium set up, expecting the President of the United States to be standing there any minute.
To my great surprise, instead of questioning me in some anteroom, the Secret Service Agent led me right to the President's Podium and questioned me in view of all those Republicans below. He asked me if I was Jesus Christ. Having NO ILLUSIONS of that then and now, in a nanosecond said, "NO!" The next question was, "Who are you then? a Prophet?" I couldn't answer as quickly and definitely because I didn't know.
The Secret Service has the record of that 1 night in my Live buried somewhere in their Archives.
I say this not as a boast, but simply as a Fact in my life for what it represented. All these 48 years later, I'm still trying to make sense of it all.
From the September 13 Kansas Times record 2 weeks after the end of the Republican Convention, my Image standing at the President's Podium was as Revolutionary as the 1976-1776 Revolution.
they think Biden can be victorious against a Trump challenge. Like you....I have my doubts. The echo chamber inside the belt line is deaf to those living outside of that loony farm.
I agree with you - the Democrat's rhetoric doesn't match pushing the incompetent Biden/Harris ticket as the only salvation of the country. But what is the focus of their argument?
For all the fear that is stoked about Trump as the Great Disruptor and The Greatest Threat Ever to Democracy, his first term showed him to be rather conventional like all modern Presidents - he passed a tax bill that favored the upper classes; he had Soleimani assassinated; and he allowed/pushed a huge government takeover of health care through the COVID pandemic. About his only real crimes were his boorishness and his inclination to go off the reservation at times and tell the truth - both of which caused the heads of the DC elites to explode.
A second term likely would be more or less the same. He will provide unquestioning support of Israel (just like Biden); nothing will fundamentally change for the elite class (just like Biden); and there will be the same questions about personal enrichment (just like Biden).
Perhaps the question of illegal immigration and the border - both which need addressing - would be a difference, but he lacks any philosophy of governance and self discipline to push something to completion.
He may surround himself with people more determined to seek revenge on his persecutors that would please his base, but at some point the emerging economic conditions (i.e., recession and collapse of the dollar) will overshadow even those witch hunts.
What people rarely talk about is why the Democrats fear left-wing candidates. It is not because they worry they can't win, it is because they know they would win against the right-wing DNC candidates. It is all about maintaining the unregulated capitalism stranglehold on the government. It is why you hear constant screeching about the evils of socialism, when socialism just means implementing a less stratified, less oligarchical society. It would mean the end of billionaires, along with a great lessening of poverty and hunger. That can't be allowed, and it is the Blue Team who acts as the guardians of the status quo.
Reminds me of the thought process as a kid. "If adults really believed in Hell, we'd be at church every day of the week." This realization set me on my way to getting out of having to go to Sunday school.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is not its own, but is indebted to Wall Street, the MIC, AIPAC and other high rollers in this country. Biden has fulfilled their every wish - even on the limited progress on environmental and infrastructure issues. They like Joe. He's good for General Bullmoose and what's good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA. So the money is behind Joe.
Equally, or even more unfortunately, Joe is the best thing that could happen for Trump.
The sad reality is that neither of the two political parties represent the majority of Americans as they are both clients of big money. Worse, most American voters are loathe to give up the two party system as they live in fear that a vote for a third party candidate can only produce a win for the worst candidate. It's a worst case of catch-22.
There are a lot of lies told by the anti-Hamas mobs about the "war".*
(On Oct 7 Israeli women were deliberately shot in their vagina's.)
But even more told by the "Trump wants to be a Dictator for life" folks with Stage 3 TDS.
Robert De Niro Doesn’t Know Why He Hates Trump So Much!😝
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaVFD-TDez4
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*Members of Israel's intelligence community expose the workings of Israel's war machine.
One by one the lies are being exposed. "+972 Magazine" is a good source for BV readers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbxF7GXfHs
Off topic - sorry Bill.
Grinning Israeli War Vets Admit to Raping and Murdering Palestinians.
Jimmy Dore shows us stunning and appalling admissions coming from elderly Israeli vets. Smiling and laughing as they detail the atrocities they committed in the first Nakba.
Israeli's falsely accusing Hamas of atrocities like rape and killing babies is actually self-projection of their own acts and attitudes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWka3LDmsIk
Well written, but have to ask, who is there out there who could be a stalwart Dem candidate.
Hairdo Newsom?
BBC reporting, "Biden says he's 'not sure' he'd be running for president if Trump wasn't"
So, the paradox continues.
In the words of the cartoonist, anyone who would introduce logic into this conversation must be pretty unsure of himself. Ha ha ha.
What the establishment cliques clearly want at this point isn't Biden facing off against Trump, but Haley. Keeping Biden on the ticket almost surely guarantees her election. Any why not? She is just the right recipe for: 1) a woman president (at last); 2) one as grotesque a war monger has HRC would have been (and is); 3) one to carry the torch of exceptionalism into our inevitable demise; and 4) blaming it on every world leader who stands up to us.
I might have thought RFK Jr had a chance to upset the apple cart (finally) but his hardline on Israel has certainly put some early supporters off--and likely for good unless he has some "come to Jesus meeting" and changes his tune big time.
Democracy?
The argument you present is based upon the presumption that we have a democracy. Both parties claim the other is a "threat" to what no longer exists. A democracy.The claimed threat maintains the illusion that we have a democracy. Accepting this fact is too horrible for Americans to face. If they did it would be the one thing to unite them in solidarity.
We're being fed a chocolate covered turd of hope by the boomers. The generations below them are going to be left to deal with the coming in progress climate disaster at the best of things. Those who are truly in power are at an age where they are betting they're going to miss the catastrophe because they will be dead. So why should they care?
As you ably point out, the contradiction between what the Democratic establishment says about the danger of Trump, while continuing to push Biden/Harris is crystal clear. As you suggest, while the Party would rather have Biden than Trump, TPWRM (The People Who Really Matter to them) won't really lose either way. They likely know that foreign policy will continue to be driven by neocon imperialists, that military spending will continue on its rapid trajectory upward, that fossil fuel subsidies will continue, and that such spending will be prioritized over public health, education, environmental protection or other public goods- no matter which is in the White House.
Those who hopefully think Trump would at least end the forever wars and/or stop new ones are engaging in purely wishful thinking. He doesn't have what it takes to do so, even if for a few minutes he actually once again thought it might be better to "make business, not war" (with nods to our VietNam-era chant , "make LOVE, not war").
The bottom line is that there'll be enough voters who are unquestioningly loyal to one side of the Duopoly or the other to make sure that nothing fundamentally changes. And steadily down the drain we'll go, barring some miraculous, unforseeable event. This will be true EVEN IF Trump isn't the GOP nominee, and Biden isn't the Dems'.
Congressman Matt Gaetz believes President Trump is in serious danger.
Recent liberal media publications are pushing the idea that Trump will become a dictator when he's re-elected. Like Hitler they are saying! No kidding!
Gaetz believes this creates an open season on Trump for Democrats to do something drastic.
Like assassinate him!
Dems go into PANIC mode over Trump and they are DESPERATE | Redacted with Clayton Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GX2X3B7SlM
Starts at -1:08:45
As a Canadian, I always watched as important self-interest, what was happening in that great Goliath South of the border, and especially during the 2 year cycle of Presidential Elections.
In 2016, I couldn't believe Americans would elect anyone President with so many character flaws as Donald Trump. He already showed himself to be a serial liar and a self-centred egomaniac. I already saw him as preaching Nihilism defined as
1a: a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
Nihilism is a condition in which all ultimate values lose their value.—
Ronald H. Nash
b: a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
2a: a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility
Trump and his followers are Nihilists, as this World is already heading down the Path to more disorder, uncertainty and ARMAGEDDON, also known as the Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty, as far as I can tell by the leading Indicators.
But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32.
Being mindful of that in 1976 when The Kansas City Times interviewed me for the Historical Newspaper Record of September 13, 1976, publishing, "There are 30 months before the fate of the world will be sealed with EITHER Destruction OR the Universal Brotherhood of Man,¨ he said. ¨The 30 month figure concerned a Treaty between Israel and Egypt."
NOTE: This does not say Armageddon happens in 30 months from the article.
Not 29 or 31, but exactly 30 months later, in March 1979, history shows a Treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed. The Camp David Accord.
History shows talks broke down on the 12th day and no Treaty was to be signed.
Begin and Sadat were leaving. It was on the 13th Day, as in the date of the Article and the picture accompanying it, an unexpected window of opportunity appeared and opened the way for the Treaty to be signed.
This signified the Universal Brotherhood part of the quote.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution happened in the 29th month from the September 13, 1976 Public record. There is no doubt Israel and the US is scapegoating Iran for what happened October 7 and the Destruction part of the 1976 record appears immanent if you believe what the MSM is Propagating and Reporting.
Obviously I did not, do not, have the POWER and Influence to orchestrate History to conform to that 1976 Timeline, but I would be derelict in my Duty not to point out the Historical facts as a Messenger then and now.
It is a FACT of my Curriculum Vitae, which started that February 1, 1975 when I came alive to God within, the FUNDAMENTAL of the Christian Faith, the Secret Service called me out of the compressed crowd of Republicans in the Lobby of The CROWN Centre Hotel for questioning.
They were all looking up to the Secret Service restricted Mezzanine having the President's Podium set up, expecting the President of the United States to be standing there any minute.
To my great surprise, instead of questioning me in some anteroom, the Secret Service Agent led me right to the President's Podium and questioned me in view of all those Republicans below. He asked me if I was Jesus Christ. Having NO ILLUSIONS of that then and now, in a nanosecond said, "NO!" The next question was, "Who are you then? a Prophet?" I couldn't answer as quickly and definitely because I didn't know.
The Secret Service has the record of that 1 night in my Live buried somewhere in their Archives.
I say this not as a boast, but simply as a Fact in my life for what it represented. All these 48 years later, I'm still trying to make sense of it all.
From the September 13 Kansas Times record 2 weeks after the end of the Republican Convention, my Image standing at the President's Podium was as Revolutionary as the 1976-1776 Revolution.
https://rayjc.com/2013/09/01/signs-of-the-times/