"The campaign of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has been under fire for attacking progressive Palestinian-American march organizer Linda Sarsour after her appearance on a panel of Muslim delegates during the convention. 'She has no role in the campaign whatsoever,' Biden spokesperson, Andrew Bates said in a statement Tuesday night. 'Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform..."
"The anti-war wing of both major parties is dead. Your presidential choice is between war and war. There's no faction of Republicans or Democrats which combines real power with a durable, principled interest in turning American foreign policy away from global empire..."
Jennifer Epps-Addison: The first thing I want to say is progressives are not sitting around waiting to be invited into the conversation or to the table. And so I know there was a lot made about who was speaking, and who wasn’t speaking, but I think people actually should have paid a lot more attention to who was organizing their own events on the side of the convention conversation.
From Linda Sarsour organizing Muslim voters. Our own network had a launch of our United Against Trump, which is a program with lots of progressive organizations and activists across the country who understand our task is to defeat Donald Trump in this election.
So I understand why people made that point, but I want to be clear. Joe Biden clearly has a strategy where he believes that there are enough 2016 Trump voters who are willing to cross over to vote for him in 2020 in order to secure this election. I do not share that analysis, nor do I believe history has born that out. People should remember that Barack Obama won the presidency twice, neither which of those times did he win a majority of white voters. I believe that if a Democrat wins in 2020, it will not be with the support of a majority of white voters.
What does that mean to groups like ours and to Progressives? It’s our community, and it’s our responsibility to help them participate in this election at record numbers. We should anticipate that the Biden administration or the Biden campaign should I say, will not help us with that. They will continue to make choices that play to a constituency that ultimately does not share our values.
And yet we are in the position we’re in, and so we again have to have the right conversations with our communities about what our strategy will be in pushing a Biden administration. And part of that strategy is defeating authoritarianism and this racist regime in Donald Trump in order to get to a place where we can push for co-governance and push our policies forward.
BREAKING: "Danny Glover and Chris Hedges will speak at the People's Convention. They will be joined by former Democratic congressional candidates. More than 12,000 people have registered for what is becoming a watershed moment in American politics."
Michael Moore on Twitter is sounding the alarm that Trump is ahead of Biden in Michigan and is gaining hard in key swing states. Biden is way behind Clinton was in all these swing states at the same time last year and she lost the election.
"The people must remain mobilized through the election and beyond. We will not win the change we need at the ballot box. The two candidates of the parties of the billionaires ignore the super-majority of people in the US who support improved Medicare for all, a robust Green New Deal, and an end to inequality and taxation of the wealthy, and end to the never-ending wars and US imperialism.
Neither party is responding to the call to stop racist militarized policing, invest in alternatives to policing while cutting police budgets and democratic community control of the police. No matter who is elected the people must be mobilized in 2021 to make the country ungovernable until the people's demands are met. WE DEFEND:
Resistance and uprisings against racism and police violence
Education workers opposing dangerous school reopening
Organization of rent strikes and against evictions
BLM movement everywhere
Solidarity with those resisting US imperialist violence
"President Trump unleashed an especially intense barrage of Twitter messages overnight and Sunday morning, embracing fringe conspiracy theories claiming that the coronavirus death toll has been exaggerated and that street protests are actually an organized coup d’état against him,” the New York Times reports.
“In the weekend blast of Twitter messages, Mr. Trump also embraced a call to imprison Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, threatened to use force against demonstrators outside the White House, attacked CNN and NPR, embraced a supporter charged with murder, mocked his challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and repeatedly assailed the mayor of Portland, even posting the mayor’s office telephone number so that supporters could call demanding his resignation.”
"Another disheartening development. The Republican takeover envisaged by Saint Reagan is all but complete. Republican hawks have found a happy home in the Democratic Party. Just as we would have gotten with Hillary, a Biden victory looks destined to give neocons the greenlight for putting the US officially in the 'all wars all the time' business..."
"Yesterday, Kamala Harris had a conference-call with 1800 Jewish Democratic donors and assured them a President Biden will never condition aid over any 'political decisions that Israel makes and I couldn't agree more.' Biden-Harris will show 'unwavering support' for Israel..."
"Yesterday the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden was allowed to leave his basement for a 'campaign event' in Pittsburgh. Here is one of the curious things he said (video):
'Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year, look, here's the lives, it's just when you think about it.'
It's a good thing Obama intervened to coalesce the party against Bernie Sanders during the primaries or else they might have a nominated an unelectable candidate...A week ago Hillary Clinton urged Biden to not concede the election 'under any circumstances.' It seems clear that the Democrats will contest the election unless Joe Biden wins an electoral majority..."
Many voter suppression techniques have been around a long time, and some even get regular media coverage, but in this month’s Lowdown, I want to highlight some of the newer and lesser known repressions spreading across the country.....
Many voter suppression techniques have been around a long time, and some even get regular media coverage, but in this month’s Lowdown, I want to highlight some of the newer and lesser known repressions spreading across the country.....
President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by mail and once in person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results.
"So let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote," Trump said when asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in system in North Carolina, a battleground state.
"If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do," he said.....
Many voter suppression techniques have been around a long time, and some even get regular media coverage, but in this month’s Lowdown, I want to highlight some of the newer and lesser known repressions spreading across the country.....
Or Vice Versa...Whereas 'Russiagate' was the Dems 'Insurance Policy' for Hillary's loss in 2016, this is sounding like their possible explanation for losing in 2020...In any case given the crookedness of the duelling big-business warparty duopoly, it's looking like it's going to be a bumpy ride and whoever wins the American people will surely lose. Let us hope Ottawa has the good sense to stay well out of it.
Crenshaw Says Democrats Are Building a Tale that If Trump Gets Reelected, 'It will Be Illegitimate'
"The fact that Hillary Clinton urged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to not conced defeat on the night of the Nov 3 election, no matter the circumstances, is 'eerie', Rep Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said on Wednesday
An intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security warns that Russia is attempting to sow doubt about the integrity of the 2020 elections by amplifying false claims related to mail-in voting resulting in widespread fraud, assertions that have been repeatedly pushed by President Donald Trump
But it’s important to underscore a critical point about this: Russian disinformation and Trump disinformation are basically identical and have the same goals.
"I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” He goes on, “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”
That would be 'Mad Dog' Mattis who famously said of his 'Murder Inc' career as an American general that 'killing some people is one hell of a hoot.' A war criminal's words on 'our values as a nation'.
"Do those DHS folks ever look into mirrors? Those scenarios are the Color Revolutions Coming Home and they are promoted not by Russian media but by the US establishment..."
"There's a very easy case against Trump: he's overseen a disastrous pandemic response and done exact opposite of 'drain the swamp'. Instead DNC and media allies continue to showcase their deranged, chauvinist, failed Russiagate mania. They need help, psychologically and strategically."
"...The publishing of the smear piece seems to have been well coordinated. The Democratic lobby group Vote Vets was running an advertisement with quotes from the Atlantic piece the morning after it was published. There was also a rare Biden press conference designed to amplify the topic. The Atlantic piece was designed to lower the military and veteran support for Trump. The next two months will of course see more such attacks from both sides.
If I had a vote in the election I would give it to neither of the parties or candidates. But it is somewhat disappointing to see how little the Democrats have learned about how Donald Trump's campaigning works and how attacks against him are only helping to make his case. As Matt Taibbi analyses in a must-read piece. The Democratic Party has no message - literally none - apart from him. Why does anyone believe that such attacks will have a different outcome than to help Trump win another election?"
"The few times this COVID-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they're horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and I didn't vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time... here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):..."
"...The publishing of the smear piece seems to have been well coordinated. The Democratic lobby group Vote Vets was running an advertisement with quotes from the Atlantic piece the morning after it was published. There was also a rare Biden press conference designed to amplify the topic. The Atlantic piece was designed to lower the military and veteran support for Trump. The next two months will of course see more such attacks from both sides.
If I had a vote in the election I would give it to neither of the parties or candidates. But it is somewhat disappointing to see how little the Democrats have learned about how Donald Trump's campaigning works and how attacks against him are only helping to make his case. As Matt Taibbi analyses in a must-read piece. The Democratic Party has no message - literally none - apart from him. Why does anyone believe that such attacks will have a different outcome than to help Trump win another election?"
Because people have seen Trump as president the last four years.
And interesting that this supposed "leftist" is making charges even Republicans haven't made. A response to a story becomes "coordination."
"Canadian officials should read this: in all scenarios except a landslide Biden win, there is a good chance of violence, instability and a constitutional crisis in the US after the November election. This has major implications for Canada."
DNC 'Transition Integrity Project' agit-prop comes to the great white north. Better get to work on that border wall Canucklheads!
The Transition Integrity Project purports to be a neutral force but, in reality, the initiative is replete with fervent Never Trumpers and hard leftists. Not a single Trump-supporting Republican has been identified as a member.
NDPP and the Republicans. Perfect together. Once again.
[quote=NDPP]
Must have missed that. News to me. Both parties evil and ill-intentioned. Sadly see you're still being well played by the NYT and duopoly politics. Good luck with that hope it all works out for you. And your godawful country.
Not in generations has a sitting president so overtly declared himself the candidate of white America. While Mr. Trump’s campaign sought to temper the culture war messaging at the Republican National Convention last month by showcasing Black and Hispanic supporters who denied that he is a racist, the president himself has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his campaign to win a second term.
Perhaps the Horseshoe Theory of politics is true after all. The far right scribes quoted in this blog post are recycling all the golden oldies from NDPP's pals Aaron Mate, Jimmy Dore, and most recently, the Moon of Alabama gang.
Steve M. wrote:
The hot new trend in right-wing commentary is to argue that expressions of concern about Donald Trump stealing the election add up to an effort to start a "color revolution" in the United States, similar to rebellions that have arisen in former Soviet bloc nations. The belief on the right is that the uprisings in former Russian satellites were ginned up by a sinister cabal of left-leaning globalists; right-wingers argue that when we say it might require force to remove Trump from office if he's legitimitely defeated, we're saying it because we want to use force. In August, Michael Brendan Dougherty argued this for National Review, and now we have Miranda Devine of the New York Postmaking a similar assertion, under the headline "Antifa Riots May Be Part of Democrat Power Grab."
When all else fails (and it has), shoot the messengers of the obvious, cling for dear life to the usual purveyors of putrefaction and try to fail again only better.
When all else fails (and it has), shoot the messengers of the obvious, cling for dear life to the usual purveyors of putrefaction and try to fail again only better.
If you take the insults out of this comment, there's nothing left. That seems to be a trend with many of your posts.
Many voter suppression techniques have been around a long time, and some even get regular media coverage, but in this month’s Lowdown, I want to highlight some of the newer and lesser known repressions spreading across the country.....
Or Vice Versa...Whereas 'Russiagate' was the Dems 'Insurance Policy' for Hillary's loss in 2016, this is sounding like their possible explanation for losing in 2020...In any case given the crookedness of the duelling big-business warparty duopoly, it's looking like it's going to be a bumpy ride and whoever wins the American people will surely lose. Let us hope Ottawa has the good sense to stay well out of it.
Crenshaw Says Democrats Are Building a Tale that If Trump Gets Reelected, 'It will Be Illegitimate'
"The fact that Hillary Clinton urged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to not conced defeat on the night of the Nov 3 election, no matter the circumstances, is 'eerie', Rep Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said on Wednesday
The mail-in ballots won't have been counted election night, so it will be impossible to declare a winner. If there is no winner election night, there is no reason to concede defeat. Of course, you realize that, don't you?
The mail-in ballots won't have been counted election night, so it will be impossible to declare a winner. If there is no winner election night, there is no reason to concede defeat. Of course, you realize that, don't you?
That won't stop Donald Trump from declaring himself the winner on election night if the results show him in the lead. Because he's already declared that he thinks mail in ballots are fraudulent.
"...A particularly alarming and disturbingly credible assumption of the Transition Integrity Project game is that in this election, neither side is prepared to accept defeat. The scenario exercises 'revealed that for many Democrats and key Democratic constituencies, this election represents an existential crisis, the last chance to stop a rapid and irreversible US decline into authoritarianism and unbridled nativism.' So, as much as Trump, many Democrats are ready to stop at nothing to win this election - for the best of reasons, of course..."
Why a Biden Presidency Will Disappoint Progressive Democrats
"...The ones who would be most disappointed with a center-right Biden regime will be those 'progressives' who currently support his campaign. At the same time, Biden's foreign policy team is filling up with liberal interventionists from the Obama era, and with neo-conservatives. A Biden win will mean a revival of the war on Syria, no renewal of the nuclear deal with Iran and other hawkish foreign policies.
Sure the policies of a Biden presidency would look more polished and presentable than the boorish ways in which Trump acts. But we can certainly expect that a Biden presidency, won in the election or through the Democrats well planned color-revolution scheme, will be to the right of the center-right policies Barack Obama implemented. This will hold for domestic issues as well as with regards to foreign policy."
"Biden blasts Trump on latest revelation, calls it 'a life and death betrayal'..."
As I have long suggested, targeting Trump's mishandling of COVID-19 will prove far more productive than implausible fairy-tales about a 'Kremlin asset.'
"Biden blasts Trump on latest revelation, calls it 'a life and death betrayal'..."
As I have long suggested, targeting Trump's mishandling of COVID-19 will prove far more productive than implausible fairy-tales about a 'Kremlin asset.'
Complete proof that the rule of law in international relations has been reduced to the US having numerous departments and agencies that feel they have the right to steal anyone's money anywhere in the world if they try to expose American corruption at work in their country.
The Ukraine like many of the former SSR's got fleeced by a roving cabal of US based financial grifters. Talking about that apparently amounts to immorally trying to steal an American election. That after decades of US lies and propaganda being sent around the world by VOA.
Why a Biden Presidency Will Disappoint Progressive Democrats
That's actually not true. Many progressives who are voting for Biden are under no illusions that he will do anything progressive. Their argument is that Trump represents a unique threat to democracy, that the most urgent matter right now is removing him from office, and then after that they plan to organize to get their priorities implimented. That is why the Movement for a People's Party is resonating right now. Their goal is to build a viable thrid party for the long term. While tapping into the frustration people feel about having to choose between Biden or Trump, they aren't running a candiate for President who can take votes from Biden. This shields them against the criticism that they will only split the vote and re-elect Trump.
If the People's Party runs candidates [i]anywhere[/i], even in the safest Democratic seats in the country, Democrats will accuse them of being the reason Republicans win and double down on their appeal-only-to-the-right strategy. Canadians have seen this playbook in every election since the CCF was formed.
"...The problem with elections is that it's all reduced to personalities based on fear. You vote for Joe Biden because of the fear of Trump. Biden himself is not offering anything other than the kind of continuum that got us into this mess. In fact Biden was one of the architects of neo-liberal policies and endless war. We should be clear. It's not just voting against Trump, you're voting for something.
You know I teach in a prison. We can begin with The Victims of Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which Biden pushed through and gave over 30 billion dollars to police and prisons. Biden pushed all the death penalty issues. He was one of the architects of NAFTA. He was one of the cheerleaders of the war. He was a segregationist. He's many times called for an assault on social security.
Look, there is no way within the American political system to vote against the interests of Goldman-Sachs. So whether you have the civil and palatable face of Biden or the narcissistic, divisive racist rants of Trump, the actual system of corporate power is untouched. Let's be clear. Biden was selected by the Democratic Oligarchic elite figures like Lloyd Blankfein and others who made very public that if Bernie Sanders was the nominee, they would vote for Trump..."
If the People's Party runs candidates [i]anywhere[/i], even in the safest Democratic seats in the country, Democrats will accuse them of being the reason Republicans win and double down on their appeal-only-to-the-right strategy. Canadians have seen this playbook in every election since the CCF was formed.
Jesse Ventura is a major player in this movement, and I think his involvement is crucial. I think he can win over Republican voters who vote Republican mainly because of resentment of the Democrats as the Estbalishment.
Biden Campaign Under Fire After Attacking Women's March Organizer Over BDS Support
https://qudsnen.co/biden-campaign-under-fire-after-attacking-prominent-w...
"The campaign of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has been under fire for attacking progressive Palestinian-American march organizer Linda Sarsour after her appearance on a panel of Muslim delegates during the convention. 'She has no role in the campaign whatsoever,' Biden spokesperson, Andrew Bates said in a statement Tuesday night. 'Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform..."
Obviously.
The Anti-War Wing of Both Parties is Dead
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55483.html
"The anti-war wing of both major parties is dead. Your presidential choice is between war and war. There's no faction of Republicans or Democrats which combines real power with a durable, principled interest in turning American foreign policy away from global empire..."
Mike Pompeo: Full Speech at the 2020 RNC
https://youtu.be/05alxh2Zjvw
"I'm speaking to you from beautiful Jerusalem..."
(https://ca.usembassy.gov/secretary-of-state-michael-r-pompeo-meeting-wit...)
Counterparts.
Honest Government Ad | Mail-in voting
Trump warns of a rigged election as he undercuts the post office
quote:
Jennifer Epps-Addison: The first thing I want to say is progressives are not sitting around waiting to be invited into the conversation or to the table. And so I know there was a lot made about who was speaking, and who wasn’t speaking, but I think people actually should have paid a lot more attention to who was organizing their own events on the side of the convention conversation.
From Linda Sarsour organizing Muslim voters. Our own network had a launch of our United Against Trump, which is a program with lots of progressive organizations and activists across the country who understand our task is to defeat Donald Trump in this election.
So I understand why people made that point, but I want to be clear. Joe Biden clearly has a strategy where he believes that there are enough 2016 Trump voters who are willing to cross over to vote for him in 2020 in order to secure this election. I do not share that analysis, nor do I believe history has born that out. People should remember that Barack Obama won the presidency twice, neither which of those times did he win a majority of white voters. I believe that if a Democrat wins in 2020, it will not be with the support of a majority of white voters.
What does that mean to groups like ours and to Progressives? It’s our community, and it’s our responsibility to help them participate in this election at record numbers. We should anticipate that the Biden administration or the Biden campaign should I say, will not help us with that. They will continue to make choices that play to a constituency that ultimately does not share our values.
And yet we are in the position we’re in, and so we again have to have the right conversations with our communities about what our strategy will be in pushing a Biden administration. And part of that strategy is defeating authoritarianism and this racist regime in Donald Trump in order to get to a place where we can push for co-governance and push our policies forward.
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/0cVn90nwgwI
"Big donors cash-in on human suffering!"
Movement For A People's Party: People's Convention - Aug 30
https://twitter.com/4aPeoplesParty/status/1298417554394886144
BREAKING: "Danny Glover and Chris Hedges will speak at the People's Convention. They will be joined by former Democratic congressional candidates. More than 12,000 people have registered for what is becoming a watershed moment in American politics."
Does anyone know where North Report is? He's not posting his polling updates anymore.
He last posted on June 29, 2020.
Michael Moore on Twitter is sounding the alarm that Trump is ahead of Biden in Michigan and is gaining hard in key swing states. Biden is way behind Clinton was in all these swing states at the same time last year and she lost the election.
https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/1300069277102465024?s=21
Here is his tweet on Michigan
https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/1300062465921822720?s=21
After the DNC & RNC: WE CAN'T BREATHE!
https://iacenter.org/2020/08/26/sun-aug-30-after-the-dnc-rnc-we-cant-bre...
"The people must remain mobilized through the election and beyond. We will not win the change we need at the ballot box. The two candidates of the parties of the billionaires ignore the super-majority of people in the US who support improved Medicare for all, a robust Green New Deal, and an end to inequality and taxation of the wealthy, and end to the never-ending wars and US imperialism.
Neither party is responding to the call to stop racist militarized policing, invest in alternatives to policing while cutting police budgets and democratic community control of the police. No matter who is elected the people must be mobilized in 2021 to make the country ungovernable until the people's demands are met. WE DEFEND:
The Rotten Alliance of Liberals and Neocons Will Likely Shape US Foreign Policy for Years to Come
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/the-rotten-alliance-of-liberals-...
"Another disheartening development. The Republican takeover envisaged by Saint Reagan is all but complete. Republican hawks have found a happy home in the Democratic Party. Just as we would have gotten with Hillary, a Biden victory looks destined to give neocons the greenlight for putting the US officially in the 'all wars all the time' business..."
The Democratic Party Won't Be Out - Israel'd This Fall
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/the-democratic-party-wont-be-out-israeld-...
"Yesterday, Kamala Harris had a conference-call with 1800 Jewish Democratic donors and assured them a President Biden will never condition aid over any 'political decisions that Israel makes and I couldn't agree more.' Biden-Harris will show 'unwavering support' for Israel..."
The People's Convention (and vid)
https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1300169398079172608
"It's so refreshing to hear folks critique our inflated $700 BILLION military budget and endless wars at a party convention..."
Here Are The Billionaires Backing Joe Biden's Campaign
https://www3.forbes.com/business/the-billionaires-backing-joe-bidens-cam...
"Biden's billionaire backers ordered by net worth..."
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/TXl3jJTV5CU
"Chris Hedges: Why we must break away from two-party system."
Election 2020: The Color Revolutions are Coming Home (and vid)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/election-2020-the-color-revolution...
"Yesterday the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden was allowed to leave his basement for a 'campaign event' in Pittsburgh. Here is one of the curious things he said (video):
'Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year, look, here's the lives, it's just when you think about it.'
It's a good thing Obama intervened to coalesce the party against Bernie Sanders during the primaries or else they might have a nominated an unelectable candidate...A week ago Hillary Clinton urged Biden to not concede the election 'under any circumstances.' It seems clear that the Democrats will contest the election unless Joe Biden wins an electoral majority..."
Six Ways the Right Is Shredding the Vote
quote:
How the Right Rigs Elections
Many voter suppression techniques have been around a long time, and some even get regular media coverage, but in this month’s Lowdown, I want to highlight some of the newer and lesser known repressions spreading across the country.....
Indeed, and then there's this pandemic related problem.
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system
President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by mail and once in person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results.
"So let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote," Trump said when asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in system in North Carolina, a battleground state.
"If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do," he said.....
Indeed, and then there's this pandemic related problem.
[quote=NDPP]
Or Vice Versa...Whereas 'Russiagate' was the Dems 'Insurance Policy' for Hillary's loss in 2016, this is sounding like their possible explanation for losing in 2020...In any case given the crookedness of the duelling big-business warparty duopoly, it's looking like it's going to be a bumpy ride and whoever wins the American people will surely lose. Let us hope Ottawa has the good sense to stay well out of it.
Crenshaw Says Democrats Are Building a Tale that If Trump Gets Reelected, 'It will Be Illegitimate'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-crenshaw-hillary-clinton-telling-bi...
"The fact that Hillary Clinton urged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to not conced defeat on the night of the Nov 3 election, no matter the circumstances, is 'eerie', Rep Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said on Wednesday
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/politics/russia-intel-bulletin-mail-in-voting-warning/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/03/trumps-own-officials-just-confirmed-that-russia-is-amplifying-his-lies/
You've been warned folks. If Dems lose again it'll be RUSSA's fault again...'There's no Trump without Biden paving the way!'
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://youtu.be/TeKRakJSe_8
"BIDEN polls under TRUMP in Michigan..."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
That would be 'Mad Dog' Mattis who famously said of his 'Murder Inc' career as an American general that 'killing some people is one hell of a hoot.' A war criminal's words on 'our values as a nation'.
DHS: Russia Will Interfere With US Elections By Promoting Alleged Russian Interference With US Elections
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/dhs-russia-will-interfere-with-us-...
"Do those DHS folks ever look into mirrors? Those scenarios are the Color Revolutions Coming Home and they are promoted not by Russian media but by the US establishment..."
"There's a very easy case against Trump: he's overseen a disastrous pandemic response and done exact opposite of 'drain the swamp'. Instead DNC and media allies continue to showcase their deranged, chauvinist, failed Russiagate mania. They need help, psychologically and strategically."
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1301941528462594048
How Attacks on Trump Help Him To Make His Own Case
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/how-attacks-on-trump-help-him-to-m...
"...The publishing of the smear piece seems to have been well coordinated. The Democratic lobby group Vote Vets was running an advertisement with quotes from the Atlantic piece the morning after it was published. There was also a rare Biden press conference designed to amplify the topic. The Atlantic piece was designed to lower the military and veteran support for Trump. The next two months will of course see more such attacks from both sides.
If I had a vote in the election I would give it to neither of the parties or candidates. But it is somewhat disappointing to see how little the Democrats have learned about how Donald Trump's campaigning works and how attacks against him are only helping to make his case. As Matt Taibbi analyses in a must-read piece. The Democratic Party has no message - literally none - apart from him. Why does anyone believe that such attacks will have a different outcome than to help Trump win another election?"
Bill of Particulars
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bill-of-particulars/
"The few times this COVID-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they're horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and I didn't vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time... here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):..."
Yikes!
Because people have seen Trump as president the last four years.
And interesting that this supposed "leftist" is making charges even Republicans haven't made. A response to a story becomes "coordination."
Tulsi Gabbard Sues Hillary Clinton over 'Russian Asset' Remark
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1302400062916628480
"Is anyone surprised that the man who criticized John McCain belittles those who serve our country? You know who honors our military? Joe Biden" - HC-
'The Election Will Likely Spark Violence - And a Constitutional Crisis ('In every scenario except a Biden landslide')
https://twitter.com/thomasjuneau/status/1302598563541721090
"Canadian officials should read this: in all scenarios except a landslide Biden win, there is a good chance of violence, instability and a constitutional crisis in the US after the November election. This has major implications for Canada."
DNC 'Transition Integrity Project' agit-prop comes to the great white north. Better get to work on that border wall Canucklheads!
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/election-tip-biden-donations/
NDPP and the Republicans. Perfect together. Once again.
But I figure you'd be quite experienced enough to spot agitprop
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NDPP and the Republicans. Perfect together. Once again.
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Must have missed that. News to me. Both parties evil and ill-intentioned. Sadly see you're still being well played by the NYT and duopoly politics. Good luck with that hope it all works out for you. And your godawful country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-race-2020-election.html
Perhaps the Horseshoe Theory of politics is true after all. The far right scribes quoted in this blog post are recycling all the golden oldies from NDPP's pals Aaron Mate, Jimmy Dore, and most recently, the Moon of Alabama gang.
When all else fails (and it has), shoot the messengers of the obvious, cling for dear life to the usual purveyors of putrefaction and try to fail again only better.
If you take the insults out of this comment, there's nothing left. That seems to be a trend with many of your posts.
Indeed, and then there's this pandemic related problem.
The mail-in ballots won't have been counted election night, so it will be impossible to declare a winner. If there is no winner election night, there is no reason to concede defeat. Of course, you realize that, don't you?
Useful Idiots...
https://youtu.be/QxIjbulIYDs
That won't stop Donald Trump from declaring himself the winner on election night if the results show him in the lead. Because he's already declared that he thinks mail in ballots are fraudulent.
Useful idiot? Physician, heal thyself.
Election 2020: Bourgeois Democracy Meets Global Governance
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/28/election-2020-bourgeois-democracy-...
"...A particularly alarming and disturbingly credible assumption of the Transition Integrity Project game is that in this election, neither side is prepared to accept defeat. The scenario exercises 'revealed that for many Democrats and key Democratic constituencies, this election represents an existential crisis, the last chance to stop a rapid and irreversible US decline into authoritarianism and unbridled nativism.' So, as much as Trump, many Democrats are ready to stop at nothing to win this election - for the best of reasons, of course..."
Why a Biden Presidency Will Disappoint Progressive Democrats
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/why-a-biden-presidency-will-disapp...
"...The ones who would be most disappointed with a center-right Biden regime will be those 'progressives' who currently support his campaign. At the same time, Biden's foreign policy team is filling up with liberal interventionists from the Obama era, and with neo-conservatives. A Biden win will mean a revival of the war on Syria, no renewal of the nuclear deal with Iran and other hawkish foreign policies.
Sure the policies of a Biden presidency would look more polished and presentable than the boorish ways in which Trump acts. But we can certainly expect that a Biden presidency, won in the election or through the Democrats well planned color-revolution scheme, will be to the right of the center-right policies Barack Obama implemented. This will hold for domestic issues as well as with regards to foreign policy."
Trump Acknowledged Seriousness of COVID-19 Privately to Bob Woodward in Early February (and vid)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-coronavirus-woodward-book-1.5717368
"Biden blasts Trump on latest revelation, calls it 'a life and death betrayal'..."
As I have long suggested, targeting Trump's mishandling of COVID-19 will prove far more productive than implausible fairy-tales about a 'Kremlin asset.'
I think you're right about that.
https://www.axios.com/andrii-derkach-election-interference-biden-d8df0ee9-5911-42d3-a481-e955ad3bf8e8.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics
Complete proof that the rule of law in international relations has been reduced to the US having numerous departments and agencies that feel they have the right to steal anyone's money anywhere in the world if they try to expose American corruption at work in their country.
The Ukraine like many of the former SSR's got fleeced by a roving cabal of US based financial grifters. Talking about that apparently amounts to immorally trying to steal an American election. That after decades of US lies and propaganda being sent around the world by VOA.
That's actually not true. Many progressives who are voting for Biden are under no illusions that he will do anything progressive. Their argument is that Trump represents a unique threat to democracy, that the most urgent matter right now is removing him from office, and then after that they plan to organize to get their priorities implimented. That is why the Movement for a People's Party is resonating right now. Their goal is to build a viable thrid party for the long term. While tapping into the frustration people feel about having to choose between Biden or Trump, they aren't running a candiate for President who can take votes from Biden. This shields them against the criticism that they will only split the vote and re-elect Trump.
If the People's Party runs candidates [i]anywhere[/i], even in the safest Democratic seats in the country, Democrats will accuse them of being the reason Republicans win and double down on their appeal-only-to-the-right strategy. Canadians have seen this playbook in every election since the CCF was formed.
"...The problem with elections is that it's all reduced to personalities based on fear. You vote for Joe Biden because of the fear of Trump. Biden himself is not offering anything other than the kind of continuum that got us into this mess. In fact Biden was one of the architects of neo-liberal policies and endless war. We should be clear. It's not just voting against Trump, you're voting for something.
You know I teach in a prison. We can begin with The Victims of Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which Biden pushed through and gave over 30 billion dollars to police and prisons. Biden pushed all the death penalty issues. He was one of the architects of NAFTA. He was one of the cheerleaders of the war. He was a segregationist. He's many times called for an assault on social security.
Look, there is no way within the American political system to vote against the interests of Goldman-Sachs. So whether you have the civil and palatable face of Biden or the narcissistic, divisive racist rants of Trump, the actual system of corporate power is untouched. Let's be clear. Biden was selected by the Democratic Oligarchic elite figures like Lloyd Blankfein and others who made very public that if Bernie Sanders was the nominee, they would vote for Trump..."
Chris Hedges in coversation with Richard Wolff
https://rabble.ca/comment/567976#comment-5679761
Jesse Ventura is a major player in this movement, and I think his involvement is crucial. I think he can win over Republican voters who vote Republican mainly because of resentment of the Democrats as the Estbalishment.
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