2020 USA presidential election

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.

Trump warns of a rigged election as he undercuts the post office

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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.

Does anyone know where North Report is? He's not posting his polling updates anymore.

He last posted on June 29, 2020.

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:

• 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
• Social movements seeking peace and justice.

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 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..."

The Jimmy Dore Show

https://youtu.be/TXl3jJTV5CU

"Chris Hedges: Why we must break away from two-party system."

Six Ways the Right Is Shredding the Vote

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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.....

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.....

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

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/politics/russia-intel-bulletin-mail-in-voting-warning/index.html

But it’s important to underscore a critical point about this: Russian disinformation and Trump disinformation are basically identical and have the same goals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/03/trumps-own-officials-just-confirmed-that-russia-is-amplifying-his-lies/

"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.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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..."

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?"

NDPP wrote:

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?"

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." 

'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!

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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.

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 Post making a similar assertion, under the headline "Antifa Riots May Be Part of Democrat Power Grab."

NDPP wrote:

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.

Useful Idiots...

https://youtu.be/QxIjbulIYDs

NDPP wrote:

Useful Idiots...

https://youtu.be/QxIjbulIYDs

Useful idiot?  Physician, heal thyself.

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.'

U.S. sanctions Ukrainian lawmaker for election interference targeting Biden

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

NDPP wrote:

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.

"...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