Posted on 08/06/2023 12:11:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan
America enters an unprecedented political unknown, and our leaders appear helpless to find a way out
At this stage of the cycle three elections ago, on August 1, 2011, President Barack Obama signed a controversial debt deal and headed back on the trail, starting with a pair of birthday fundraisers in Chicago. Meanwhile, Michelle Bachmann left the stump in Iowa to return to Washington and vote against Obama’s deal, saying it “spends too much and doesn’t cut enough.” This was considered campaign excitement once. Boring is too mild a word for those mechanized non-dramas of yore.
A dozen years later, the campaign is pure chaos, Pompeii after the blast. In the annals of presidential races we haven’t experienced many days like yesterday, July 31, which ended with the futures of all major candidates appearing hopelessly clouded. Forget the national debt; there are now not-improbable scenarios in which the main issues in next year’s debates, which could easily involve both nominees in ankle monitors, are nuclear fallout and alien visitation. Our leaders, who once had the election process reduced to scripts more predictable than Everybody Loves Raymond, now seem to have no clue what will happen beyond the next few minutes.
If not for the fact that the disintegration of American society might be imminent as a result, I’d be laughing harder. It might be funny anyway. ....
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Democrats meanwhile are repeating the process of cooling turnout by blasting their own protest candidate, and instead of an alert-if-off-putting Hillary Clinton on the ticket, the standard-bearer is a half-sentient, influence-peddling version of Donovan’s Brain, with no one behind him but Kamala Harris — who just got asked by a trying-to-be-friendly reporter at ABC if “race and gender” were a cause of her own historically low approval rating.
I think one big difference between 2024 and 2016, a lot of folks aren’t going to bother voting.
We all need to plant multiple ballots now for harvest in the Fall of 2024.
A hundred or so per person.
Mostly folks on our side. Everyone and more will turn out on their side.
America is ruled by a Deep State oligarchy of scum, with a veneer of fake democracy posing as two parties.
Millions of 2016 Trump voters are dead from old age and/or COVID.
He has majority support of straight young men, but the homos, trans & confused (about 30% of young men) won’t vote for him. Young women are clueless or want to kill their potential offspring.
Demographics have helped bring us to this point. Expect the worst, hope for the best.
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