Democracy in Chains -
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Tuesday, 11 August 2020
quote [ If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president. ]
Biden locking down the crucial swing state of California
Mr Make Matters Worse @ByYourLogic
Kamala is a perfect VP: someone you were told you were excited for but had to drop out of the primary before voting even began due to lack of interest, but not before morally castigating the guy who picked her and then backtracking https://twitter.com/Julian_Epp/status/1293281664051945473?s=20 Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school. That little girl was me. #DemDebate https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-HTFfcXUAEkmJJ.jpg Law Boy, Esq. @The_Law_Boy now it's time for Kamala to help bury Trump's campaign just like she helped bury evidence that would have exonerated hundreds of innocent prisoners during her tenure as California's Attorney General https://perchance.org/pgk4gv0c6p etc etc So to recap, Biden recently said he'd be in favor of increasing police funding nationwide, and now he picked california's ex top cop as a running mate. This is the blue lives matter ticket.
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spaceloaf said @ 2:48am GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:2 Underrated]
I mean, it's super underwhelming but who was really expecting anything different?
Joe Biden is practically a neo-lib spirit animal at this point; picking Harris is painfully on brand. |
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hellboy said @ 8:43pm GMT on 12th Aug
It’s the most unsurprising and probably least inspirational choice he could have made (I guess Klobuchar could have been worse, but she withdrew), but you’re exactly right: Biden’s never really been known for surprising or inspirational. That, unfortunately, is the horse we’re stuck with for this race. They’re still better than the shit-flinging narcissist and the embalmed corpse.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 9:34pm GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:1 laz0r]
I'm not happy with biden, or his vp choice, but frankly, I'd take a vacuum cleaner for vp.
The last four years have been a nightmare. Nothing can come close to equalling that other than another 4 years of dipshit donnie dumpster. Anything is an improvement. |
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SnappyNipples said[3] @ 9:49am GMT on 13th Aug
[Score:1 Insightful]
I'm voting for the guy that can hurt god...God hurting scares trump and that is a sign of weakness. I'm saying no to weakness. I'm good with any VP that is classified as Nasty by trump
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HoZay said @ 4:41am GMT on 15th Aug
[Score:1 Funny]
God has a lot to answer for.
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steele said @ 10:05pm GMT on 11th Aug
#BlueMAGA
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steele said @ 10:36pm GMT on 11th Aug
[Score:0 WTF]
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steele said @ 8:45pm GMT on 12th Aug
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C18H27NO3 said @ 9:26pm GMT on 12th Aug
Someone said in that tweet she'd make sec of treasury.
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conception said @ 11:00pm GMT on 11th Aug
Some positive takes because I could use them -
Biden has a pretty good take here - “I want the person who questions me on matters of race.” That’s actually a pretty great reason to pick a woman of color, and Kamala after she called him out. Whoever thought of that argument needs a raise. - Harris is terrible on race but people in CA barely know that much less Florida. And the best Trump could come up with is "She'd be a fine choice." thus - https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1293283740463108096 Eli StokolsEli Stokols @EliStokols Far less ready-made oppo on Harris as there was with Bass (Castro) or Rice (Benghazi, etc.). And hard for Trump to take issue with her career as a prosecutor while running on “law and order.” |
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steele said @ 2:58am GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:1 Underrated]
And hard for Trump to take issue with her career as a prosecutor while running on “law and order.”
I love how we're 4 years in and people are still making these logical and precise rules for how Trump and other republicans have to behave.  |
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endopol said @ 6:44am GMT on 12th Aug
So you think he'll win somehow? Have a concrete, falsifiable prediction for the next 12 months?
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ComposerNate said @ 2:33pm GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:2 Underrated]
Forecast: Republicans and End Times evangelicals will not lose power quietly
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steele said @ 4:54pm GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:1 Underrated]
Oh, who even fuckin knows. It's such a morbid comedy of errors that they're practically playing hot potato with the win. Whoever thought to kill the post office now hit a stroke of luck though and that's definitely going to work in Trump's favor. Plus, never discount Trump's ability to just buy a win before the election. He pulls the strings for something like a 6 month UBI and all is forgotten. I doubt they'd be willing to stoop to that, but a win really isn't out of the question for him. It's likely to come down to those last weeks of October and if it's still looking like a tie I would lean towards the incumbent to pull off the win.
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conception said @ 7:54pm GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:1 Sad]
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1293501681343373312?s=20
Nate SilverNate Silver @NateSilver538 Coincidentally, these are the exact same odds as in our final forecast in 2016!!! (Clinton 71%, Trump 29%) As was also the case in 2016, our model gives Trump a MUCH higher chance than other statistical models. |
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hellboy said @ 9:13pm GMT on 12th Aug
It’s going to be a lot tighter than it needed to be, given that the incompetent POSOTUS will be looking at close to 250,000 dead on his watch by the election - that’s almost 100 9/11’s, more than the Civil War and more than WWI+Korea+Vietnam added together. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dumpster managed to kill more Americans than WW2 by the time he leaves office in January. Or hell, by Christmas. And if somehow he doesn’t leave, then it’ll be even more like being locked up with a serial killer. The best scenario is that enough people are angry at the ongoing murder shitshow that it doesn’t matter that the Democrats are running an old shoe and a Nerese Campbell cosplayer.
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hellboy said @ 8:55pm GMT on 12th Aug
The first point is a good argument for choosing a woman of color.
As for the second point, playing defense against Trump is about the stupidest thing possible. He’s a sociopathic narcissist, he’ll flat out make shit up if he has to, he does it constantly. That’s how he walked through two dozen GOP candidates last time without even having a campaign budget. He’s also a huge coward, so the best way to deal with him is not to try to give him less of a target but to go right at him and demonstrate you’re not afraid of him. Part of the problem is that Washington is full of people incapable of doing that. |
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HoZay said @ 4:37am GMT on 15th Aug
Harris is capable of bringing it, based on her work in senate hearings, and prosecuting Trump will be her job in the campaign.
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hellboy said @ 3:28am GMT on 18th Aug
I agree that she's capable, and her opponent has trouble convincing people that he still has a pulse. They've already started with the racist birther bullshit (Oakland is in the United States, bootlickers), and I expect it will get worse.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 12:21am GMT on 12th Aug
I guess this is the Democrats version of “don’t impeach me or that person will be president”?
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steele said @ 1:23am GMT on 12th Aug
[Score:2 Insightful]
There's two ways of looking at this pick. Either it's incredibly tone deaf, or it's the biggest fuck you to the people fighting for change since the Clinton campaign's Tim Kaine pick. Like maliciously so. They're saying we see you, we hear you, and we're telling you that there is no hope of change and you can go fuck yourself because what are you gonna to do, vote for Trump?
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hellboy said[1] @ 9:24pm GMT on 12th Aug
Yeah, the best take on this is that it’s incredibly superficial: “Black people are angry! She’s the most successful black politician in office!”
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ooo[......7 said @ 1:05am GMT on 12th Aug
Because impeachment has any teeth...
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hellboy said @ 9:21pm GMT on 12th Aug
She’s being set up to be the next president after Biden. Though if he has a stroke before the election - despite being in good enough shape to go cycling, while the Dumpster has trouble with ramps and glasses of water and pictures of elephants - we could be in the fun position of having a nominee that no one actually voted for (and whose last campaign was a trainwreck).
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Anonynonymous said @ 1:45am GMT on 12th Aug
Can't believe that we're about to have even worse line-up on the ballot than the ones we got back in 2016. Looks like it's hunkering down for another 4 years of Trump folks. FUCK!
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rylex said @ 3:02am GMT on 12th Aug
Its ok. We can keep rioting until the boomers are dead from covid. Or they get the fucking clue we are trying to beat into them
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rylex said @ 3:01am GMT on 12th Aug
Well fuck. Good job on trumps 2nd term democrats. What the fuck do we have to do to get a viable 3rd party candidate elected?
It's starting to look like not much |
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Ebichuman said @ 12:01pm GMT on 13th Aug
If we want a viable 3rd party candidate to have any chance, we need a runoff voting system based on popular vote, not electoral college. With those factors, sure, I can see a 3rd party candidate being viable.
Frankly, if I had to prioritize any nationwide problem to fix right now, it is first-past-the-post voting combined with a partisan primary selection system. It pretty much ensures that we are always stuck with some undesirable compromise between two parties. |
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conception said @ 8:01pm GMT on 14th Aug
We'd need to get rid of first pass the post actually. Runnoff might get some 3rd party candidates in but they'd effectively be voting in block with the two big parties.
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ComposerNate said @ 7:50am GMT on 12th Aug
Assuming a top priority being the dissolution of the "Republican Party" as a criminal organization, including whatever turmoil it takes for majority enough of Fox brainwashed voters to rebuke, could Biden have chosen better? Can anyone imagine Harris allowing the excusing of this GOP mafia?
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steele said @ 8:02pm GMT on 12th Aug
Can anyone imagine Harris allowing the excusing of this GOP mafia?
Yes, I can. Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House |
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hellboy said[2] @ 8:36pm GMT on 12th Aug
Harris has a pretty solid record of punishing poor and black people and kissing the asses of the rich and corrupt. She dated Willie Brown for some time and either didn’t notice he was a crook or didn’t care - there’s good reason to believe he helped her get her career started.
Our best hope of seeing the GOP RICO-ed is probably letting Leticia James go after them. |
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WeiYang said @ 10:24am GMT on 12th Aug
Is CA a swing state?
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conception said @ 4:21pm GMT on 12th Aug
Decidedly not.
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hellboy said @ 8:46pm GMT on 12th Aug
No, but Silicon Valley is.
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Fish said @ 1:11pm GMT on 12th Aug
Have you guys watched video of Joe Biden in the last 6 months? He didn't pick’ Kamala Harris— he cant even pick a matching pair of socks. She was chosen by Perez/Obama to fight Trump when slow Joe stumbles off the stage.
You should be outraged that 1. No one in your party stepped up to battle Trump for the Presidency in the last 6 months and 2. They’ve chosen a looney tunes candidate who is going to drive away everyone who looked on in horror at the debacles in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis since April. And by that, I mean everyone who owns property and all of my formerly ultra-liberal friends and relatives who recently bought guns. Your problem isn’t Trump— it’s your own party. Good luck in November. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if you lose the house too. |
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steele said @ 4:58pm GMT on 12th Aug
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damnit said @ 11:21am GMT on 13th Aug
You guys don’t hate Trump enough, it seems.
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hellboy said @ 3:44am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Insightful]
Everyone in their right mind should vote for the Democratic ticket, because if Trump isn't removed from office there won't be a progressive agenda to fight for. The only exception is for people in deep blue states, who can vote green just to remind the DNC that there are voters who aren't moderate Republicans that they should be trying to appeal to.
It's possible to be unimpressed with the DNC's insistence on shitting on the left - they gave AOC 60 whole seconds to speak at the convention, but also gave speaking slots (and more time) to John Kasich and Meg Whitman, who are Republicans - and yet still recognize reality. |
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damnit said @ 4:00pm GMT on 18th Aug
The criticisms lobbed on Harris, especially, are things Sanders supported.
Three-strikes law. Tough on crime legislation. Pro-cop, Pro-gun. SESTA/FOSTA. Bernie supported and sponsored these bills and regulations. It wasn't until 2016 when Bernie changed his mind on criminal justice. Continue to criticize our politicians? Yes. But many are willing to overlook or forgive Bernie for those, and not Harris or anybody else. |
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steele said @ 5:22pm GMT on 18th Aug
lol. That's not what #KamalaIsACop was about.
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coffeejoejava said @ 12:59pm GMT on 13th Aug
[Score:-1 Flamebait]
filtered comment under your threshold |
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conception said @ 8:02pm GMT on 14th Aug
I cannot imagine a world in which there are debates for this election.
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hellboy said @ 3:35am GMT on 18th Aug
There are three scheduled I believe, plus one VP; Trump is begging for more because he's deep in the hole and needs every lifeline he can get. They could do them remotely if they had to, no one needs to be in the same room.
Someone suggested Biden should come out on a bike and do figure eights on stage. Meanwhile Trump has been bragging that he passed a cognitive ability test that is used to test for strokes. He's going to be a shitshow. |
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coffeejoejava said @ 12:15pm GMT on 15th Aug
[Score:-1 Wrong Category]
filtered comment under your threshold |
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conception said @ 4:57pm GMT on 17th Aug
OMG - there are going to be debates?!?!?
I cannot imagine this world. |
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