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Tim Aurora says

Democrats have democracy

Thank God we live in a democratic republic rather than a socialist democracy.

Tim Aurora says

Hey we win some and lose some. US still has democracy. Right..

In the end, if nominated, I will vote and support Bernie, even if he is not my first choice, Few years ago, as an independent, I would not have voted socialist but we are in a different times. Maybe, unwittingly, Trump will push us towards socialism.

The point is that D elites illegally screw over candidates they dislike, and that is why they bombed in last elections. R elites were more honest last time by chance or design, and did not screw tRUMP out of nomination leading to winning of election. I have a suspicion that Bernie would have won last election as he also is a populist, albeit left-wing socialist type.

Pocahontas flamed out.

I was a fanboy after I read her book "The Two Income Trap" back in the day. It's a Spot-On discussion about much of the themes on this here blog of Patrick's.

But, she lost me when she played the Race Card, and wanted to forgive all student debt. I would probably support forgiving the compounded interest. But, she wanted to wipe out all of it.

B.A.C.A.H. says

I was a fanboy after I read her book "The Two Income Trap" back in the day.

I was a fanboy way back in 2010 after hearing her on our banking industry. It was rigged with toxic assets designed to rob the working/saving families out of their life savings while the Financial institutions get a golden parachute from the FDIC. She sounded like the right person to restore our Middle Class building financial institutions.

I think Iwog is one well connected dude, because he warned me, that within two years, I'll be her biggest critic. That's exactly what happened after the establishment gave her a corner office in the Senate. She hasn't mentioned anything real solutions, just race rhetoric. The CFPB was all about more race division in this country. Her key points were to protect illegal aliens that didn't understand what they were signing, and the black community that were preyed on with high interest rates. She doesn't give a fuck that the middle class are dumping billions into start ups and companies, that pump and dump the stocks. Walk away billionaires while those working people lose the bulk of their 401K.

HeadSet says

I predict Nikki Haley will be the first female

I predict Candice Owens will squeeze her out in the primary but someone like Tim Kaine will go on to win.
America is that fucking stupid.

Hahahahaha oh my god that’s too fucking funny.

Tim Aurora says

Democrats have democracy. From the outside it looks like chaos but it is a system that works. In the end, we will unite against Trump.

Up till a few years ago , republicans had it too but now it seems as in distant past.

I am all for tax cuts which tRUMP did, but his proposed budget cuts so far are similar to the ones proposed by the Onion:

https://politics.theonion.com/gop-completely-fixes-economy-by-canceling-funding-for-n-1819572524

WASHINGTON—Unemployment plummeted and stocks soared Tuesday after Republican leaders fulfilled their promise to cut funding for National Public Radio, a budgetary move that has completely rejuvenated the flagging U.S. economy. "Since eliminating federal spending for NPR, America's economic outlook is brighter than it's been in decades, with manufacturing on the rise and millions of jobs once sent overseas now returning to our shores," said Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), adding that by eliminating funds for NPR, the deficit has been slashed by 0.000004 percent and a newly thriving middle class once again has cause to believe in the American dream. "Pulling funding for Car Talk and Planet Money alone has created 4.2 million jobs and generated a $2 trillion budget surplus." Republicans announced Thursday they will now turn their attention to cutting the National Park Service, a move that should ensure Social Security's solvency for the next 350 years.

Cutting NPR funding is a good thing, but it is not a solution. If tRUMP gets re-elected and does nothing with respect to budget balancing, then he is just another typical politician.

If only your words one day were connected to actual reality...

Strange world your argument comes from. Left lives in fantasy land in their head, that explains rainbow flags I suppose.

jazz_music says

So why are you picking to death these relatively normal candidates, except Bloomberg, when Trump is this frothing crazed autocratic international criminal syndicate?

I have been promised the directorship of a gulag if I vote Dem and turn in all my misguided Trump voting neighbors.

RepCons narcissism & ego has them convinced that they are immune & need to do nothing.

Nah, we know we need to curtail unfettered illegal immigration and tariff or otherwise curtail imports from high polluting producers like China. Now run along and go back to arguing with deniers.

Asshole conjured up rain again!!!!

Fortwaynemobile says

Asshole conjured up rain again!!!!

Yes, Trump musta borrowed W's Hurricane steering machine.

It wasn't so bad. He was giving Melania a tour of the Cuban gardeners who take care of the Daytona grounds.

He made NASCAR Red Neck again and saved it from Fuitcakes and Queers with deep emotional daddy issues from ruining it.

XFL is gaining attendance for the first time since its inception, while NFL still flounders with Queers and Scumbags with emotional Daddy issues continues to ruin the league.

Trump!

It's OK to be Red Neck as Fuck!

Air force one approved.

Melania's private parts got all wet and turgid after the Cuban Gardener tour.

Keep in mind that faggots, dykes, trannies, transgenders, or whatever else they are calling themselves are the most mentally-ill group in the history of mankind. Domestic violence, drug use, suicides, alcoholics, self mutilation, bi polar, depression, hoarding, anti social, etc. etc. ...the list is endless. Not to mention the myriad of health problems that they incur including STD's, AIDS, herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc. And their assholes are usually so reamed out that they have to wear diapers.

So when you see them all cleaned up and trying to present themselves as normal in public it's all bullshit.

At least a couple times a week, he's out there at the park or in the alley behind the gay bar taking it up the ass from some other faggot he just met. That's what they do and that is part of their 'lifestyle'.

Trump's not dangerous he is what was desperately needed for this country. The maker complex of the left borders on mentally ill. The majority of people are doing fine under this presidency, many better than ever.

mell says

Trump's not dangerous he is what was desperately needed for this country. The maker complex of the left borders on mentally ill. The majority of people are doing fine under this presidency, many better than ever.

I agree that Trump is not dangerous, and that he was needed to knock some sense into so-called elites (this has failed, apparently), but the forces that brought him to power are dangerous. Eventually, we may end up in a situation where population does not believe in election system, and that is a pathway towards anarchy, Adolf-junior, or Mao-junior.

rd6B says

Eventually, we may end up in a situation where population does not believe in election system, and that is a pathway towards anarchy, Adolf-junior, or Mao-junior.

Every time the Republican wins the presidency, the crazy Left blame conspiracies like Diebold voting machines, Racism, Electoral College, Florida State Supreme Court and now Russian bots.

I know what will fix everything!
If we could just elect an honest-to-goodness true Oligarch, preferably with major control of the media, then we’d only hear happy stories and we could be happy again!

Flavius says

America was a murderous imperialist force whose citizenry were suffering under crushing austerity and steadily mounting authoritarianism

The belief that America is murderous and crushing people with austerity, or even authoritarian seems like a guilt trip by leftist utopian dreamers.
What country in history was more opened, more benevolent, more strongly guided by moral concerns?
Is it Russia?, China?, Iran?, North Korea?
What country in the past was historically more humane? Was it the Roman Empire? The Ottoman Empire? The Japanese Empire?
If no better example existed historically, what does it tell you about dreams of something better?
Give us a break!

Flavius says

The disease is the oligarchic imperialist dystopia which is tormenting millions and controlling billions all around the world

Under this 'dystopia' poverty fell, standard of living climbed like never before, while the number of people are dying from starvation, disease or violence all fell drastically.
The only people who suffered are middle class people of developed country.
And yeah this is type of betrayal by elites in the west, but certainly not one deserving a sentence like "oligarchic imperialist dystopia which is tormenting millions and controlling billions all around the world".
This doesn't make sense.

Flavius says

US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

Sorry Mao and Stalin each killed many more in their own countries. What if they exercised the type of power the US has? What a massacre....

At the same time the fall of violence, help to poor countries in the past 30 yrs alone saved many more than 20 millions.

Flavius says

US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051

Twenty billion gazillion killed?? Good grief.

The world sure has gone to shit under Pax Americana. Not only has poverty been greatly reduced, so has war.

Flavius says

Like it or not we have killed more people to free them and give them a democratic government than anyone else has killed sin e WWII.

Like it or not, the US has been the sole superpower (hyper power) responsible for almost single-handedly reducing poverty and violence around the world.

BTW - do the Marxists, Commies and Islamists have any responsibility for the deaths they caused in South/Central America, Africa and Asia since WWII? Or does America only get dinged for every death on the planet?

For instance, Chomsky went from praising the psychopathic Khmer rouge in the 1970's to blaming all of their murderous death on the US once the genocide was known throughout the world.

I don't think that the rag called globalresearch.ca should be cited in polite society. Russia and Syria good, US bad. US is the worst perpetrator of genocide, kills trillions of innocents, while Russia, Serbia, and Assad try to save them.

Flavius says

Like it or not we have killed more people to free them and give them a democratic government than anyone else has killed since WWII.

Where is the counterfactual? Who has killed less in proportion to their power?
You assume you can just decree "no one will die", just hold hands and sing Kumbaya, and the world will turn into an utopia.
It will not.
People fight each other. Most of the time for very bad ideas. People are stuck in bad situations. People fail to organize, to prevent disease, etc...

socal2 says

BTW - do the Marxists, Commies and Islamists have any responsibility for the deaths they caused in South/Central America, Africa and Asia since WWII? Or does America only get dinged for every death on the planet?

Nope, all that is fault of USA. Even Stalin's death camps were financed by Roosevelt, who also financed Nazi death camps. America also started WW1, WW2, genocide in Rwanda, and Franco-German war of 1870. Black death in 1300's was caused by American military industrial complex - they released modified pathogens in Asia and Europe to harm Russia.

socal2 says

Florida State Supreme Court

Except that the Katherine Harris/FL re-count thing of 2000 has nothing to do with Trump winning the Great Lake states, a fight which was won, fair and square, as Hillary had no interest in campaigning for 'loser' rust belt votes which she saw as lazy and stupid against her Ivy League types of Boston, NYC, and DC.

Back in 2000, there's an actual person, Ms Harris, and a state with 2.91M+ voters but with Bush winning only by 537, barely 0.01%.

This is how I'm making sure that my vote count ...

https://patrick.net/post/1329612/2020-01-09-rin-is-going-to-make-his-vote-for-trump-count-this-year-2020

and that the Democrats don't try to get away with a type of 2000 AD redux.

She is already flogging a line of Trump branded silk Muslim veils and gold plated instruments of torture.

I’d watch Bloomberg and Bernie in a fart contest.