2020 USA presidential election

The Jimmy Dore Show

https://youtu.be/QxPYiZeM8HY

The Election: Who to blame?!

Craig Murray on the future, when/if Trump leaves office:
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I know that many of my readers will be triumphant at the departure of Trump. I can understand that. From the viewpoint of US domestic policy and particularly attitudes to social division, race and immigration, the end of Trump’s cynical manipulation of atavistic instinct among the electorate will be in itself a good thing. This has not been a healthy period in US politics.

But Trump has not been defeated by a Bernie Sanders; he has been defeated by a corrupt political hack backed to the hilt by the large majority of the billionaire owned media, financed out of Wall street and with no intention of pursuing anything other than neo-liberal economic policies. It is also the firm re-establishment of the rule of the security state and the military-industrial complex. Trump’s instinctive isolationism made him an enemy of the security state interest which spent a great deal of time in trying to undermine its President.

With Biden we will return to business as usual, and that means war and invasions. Under Trump we have had no new wars started, even if he continued old ones with little control. Without Trump, I have not the tiniest doubt that Syria would have been bombed back to the Stone Age, exactly like Libya, and millions more people would have been killed. Irrespective of the undoubted damage Trump has caused inside the United States across many fronts, Hillary would have killed a lot more people. Just not Americans....

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/11/american-presidents/

[quote=NorthReport]

You are a master of fake news Call Trump as he needs to hire you

[quote=NDPP]

Coming from you high praise indeed, Mr Mainstream...

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Boden now has it made. Everytime the progressive wing of the Democrats will want something Biden will just throw his hands up in the air and say that he can't do it because Mitch McConnell controls the Senate

Which in practical terms is not significantly different than him saying his hands are tied because he can't get Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema on board.

Election fraud allegations lodged in Michigan

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/election-fraud-allegations-lodge...

"...In a separate but related legal matter, GOP poll-watcher and lawyer Jessica Connarn, who is a member of the state bar, alleged that she witnessed election misconduct related to the dates listed on absentee ballots received in Detroit. Connarn said in an affidavit filed Thursday in support of the Trump campaign's Wednesday lawsuit that workers were 'changing the dates the ballots were recovered.' 'When I approached the poll worker, she stated to me that she was being told to change the date on ballots, to reflect that the ballots were received on an earlier date,' Connarn said in an affidavit, according to the Detroit Free Press. She claims that the poll worker also slipped her a note that read: 'Entered received date as 11/2/20 on 11/4/20..."

Played by the Duopoly and Ready to Explode:

Riot declared in downtown Portland. Oregon National Guard Activated (and vid)

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/march-rally-portland-rev...

"A riot was declared and the Oregon National Guard was activated in respones to demonstrators smashing windows in downtown Portland. Unified command said a man accused of throwing a firework at officers was arrested. The suspect, 23-year old William K Beecher, was armed with a loaded rifle and several magazines, a knife and other fireworks. The Defend Democracy Coalition, a coalition of more than 50 different community groups, organized the demonstration, calling on politicians to 'stand up for Black lives, demand that every vote be counted and defend our democracy..."

'I just want to say to the press, we ain't bullshitting' (and vid)

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1324514012579590144

"We are not going to stand for it, we are not going to back down. We are going to fight. This is a battle cry."

Michael Moriarity wrote:

melovesproles wrote:

Who could have guessed having Republicans in your campaign and at your convention might hurt you downballot?

The Democratic Party of Schumer, Pelosi and Biden is a party of ghouls. If there isn't a complete clearing out of the leadership, the next election will be horrifying.

I don't know if you've seen it or not, but Nathan J. Robinson names the same 3 Dem "leaders" when he takes the party to task in this article.

Nathan J. Robinson wrote:

If Joe Biden couldn’t thrash Trump under these circumstances, God only knows how he could have won if COVID-19 hadn’t happened. Trump has been an abysmal president. His approach to climate change threatens the lives of countless human beings. The case against him should be open-and-shut. Yet the Democratic Party lost to him once and has come close to doing it again. How?

I hadn't seen that but I do agree with a lot of what Robinson usually says. I think Pelosi will (hopefully) go but Schumer is the one I am most worried gets a pass. There is no way the Democrats can have any legitimacy with the working class until he is replaced. It's ridiculous that the post-financial crisis Democrats have him in a key leadership position.

From:

The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making US All Poorer by Nicholas Shaxson

In November 1999, a few months after Rubin had left his post to become the head of Citicorp, the new breed of American anti-regulators brought down their biggest trophy kill, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a singularly effective piece of antitrust legislation that had for six and a half decades prevented banks from gambling with depositors’ money. If they did not pass this, Democratic senator Chuck Schumer thundered, London or other financial centers would surpass New York as the center of global finance (188).

My exhibit A here is a remarkable lobbying document issued by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Chuck Schumer in January 2007, just months ahead of the first shocks of the crisis. Entitled ‘Sustaining New York’s and the US’ Global Financial Services Leadership, its core argument rested on two words. One was “London,” which it mentioned 135 times in as many pages, and second was “competitive” (or variations of that word), with more than two hundred mentions. New York was losing out in a great global race with the City of London and other financial centers, and it was urgent to keep up with London’s “more amenable and collaborative regulatory environment” through massive further financial deregulation. “While our regulatory bodies are often competing to be the toughest cop on the street,” the authors urged in an article complementing the document, "the British regulatory body seems to be more collaborative and solutions-oriented. New York was still “in the lead” in terms of size, the anxiety-inducing summary said, but London was “ahead” of the United States in many areas, like derivatives. America risked being “marginalized” in this “ultracompetitive marketplace.” The solution: relax regulations, stop policing financial markets, and chase London down into the votex (194).

Everytime he has wielded his power, it has been to run terrible candidates for the Senate.

[quote=NorthReport]

There are only so many lies the Networks can carry with a straight face...... ABC, CBS, NBC all cut away from Trump's news conference on the election https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-cbs-nbc-all-cut-way-trumps-news-confer...

[quote=NDPP]

Nonsense. They spewed 4 years of Democrat/CIA/MSM Russiagate conspiracy nonsense  and chumps like you swallowed it all. As long as I've been here I've never known you and your 'progressive'  pals not to answer the msm  warcry and cheerlead propaganda campaigns against Russia, China, Syria, Julian Assange etc. No matter how putrid and poisonous you gobble it up. PS Notice how the 'Russian election meddling for Trump' is suddenly curiously absent? Only here on babble does it somehow still cling to life.

Johnstone: Don't Fool Yourself: Your Biden Vote Was Not A 'Vote Against Fascism'

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1324535029549051904

"The election is over. The lies that people on the political left have been telling themselves in order to psych themselves out for a painful Biden vote must now be dispensed with. There are accusations of cheating and shenanigans on both sides, and at this point I honestly don't know how to care about any of it. Like what am I supposed to say? 'Oh no, you mean the fake election for two fake candidates is really fake??! One corporate war whore is as good as another. Let Raytheon pick the winner for all I care..."

I can't believe that slow minded.greasy orange pig is most likely going to be re-elected.

Dumb Americans....Hey, wasn't tthat a lyric from David Bowie's ' Dumb Americans ' ?

They are a disgrace.

The Jimmy Dore Show

https://youtu.be/NjdE-0zcDXg

"Democrats failing working people exposes need for a People's Party."