Posted on 09/17/2019 12:40:09 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
What did we just watch? Was it a political party committing suicide, or was it the country? Well find out next November.
That Democratic debate Thursday was something else, and by something else I mean horrifying. Not only wasnt there a sane person on that stage, there wasnt even a mildly crazy adult. Bat feces crazy comes to mind.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren didnt miss a beat as they promised to spend more money than exists by simply taxing the rich. Their health care, free college, student loan forgiveness, everyone gets an electric car, peace, love, and understanding platforms only lacked giving everyone a cash-excreting unicorn. But its still early in the process.
Kamala Harris wants to be clear about everything, then avoids every opportunity to get specific. All the candidates have had to disavow some of their past positions for being insufficiently woke, but Harris has had to deny everything shes done that brought her to this point. Being a former prosecutor would normally be a positive, people tend to like not having criminals roaming the streets. Somehow, having served law and order has become a liability in the Democratic Party you cant run on supporting cops in the party that hates cops. So Harris, being the only person who finds herself funny, just giggled a lot and spoke in platitudes.
Beto ORourke, on the other hand, spoke in his typical series of halting shouts. The cross between Napoleon Dynamite and Buttheads faux outrage was only eclipsed by his eagerness to continue to dance a jig on the graves of El Pasos shooting victims. Id say hes replaced coherent sentences with cursing and indignation, but hes never spoken in coherent sentences and likely doesnt know what indignation means. Someone told him he could win the nomination by calling everyone and everything racist while promising to forcibly take away the most popular rifle in the country and forgot to tell him they were joking. The drunk drivers campaign holds the record for setting the worlds largest pile of cash on fire. It, along with his ego, can be seen from space.
Joe Biden gave his best debate performance to date, which is a bit like celebrating your kid getting on base because he was hit by a pitch but otherwise went 0-for-4. Its amazing how low the bar can be set for a former Vice President of the United States. Not that the job requires any abilities, which made Biden perhaps the most qualified person to have ever held it. His dentures nearly fell out, he lectured on the importance of playing records for kids, and rambled off-topic a couple of times. For him, aces!
It was considered so good for Joe because it was so bad for Julian Castro. The twin who not only split a womb but also a brain with his brother, attacked Biden for being old, repeating three times that Joe had forgotten something hed said just 2 minutes earlier. The only problem was Castro was the one who was wrong. Oops. Castros resume is thinner than his short-term memory. He served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (YAWN) and Mayor of San Antonio, which is just this side of an honorary position with no power aside from wielding scissors at ribbon cutting ceremonies. He wouldve been chosen as Hillary Clintons running mate in 2016 because hes Hispanic, but he couldnt speak Spanish well enough so she went with a white guy who could. Hes completed his Rosetta Stone Spanish courses now, and seems to be running for the second slot on any ticket based on his last name. Doubtful itll be Bidens now.
Andrew Yang promised to give 10 people $1,000 per month for a year, drawn randomly from people who signed up at his website. My name wasnt picked, so who cares?
Pete Buttigieg didnt do himself any favors, he didnt do any harm either. Thats a problem for him since his time as flavor of the month expired several months ago and hes been relegated to top-tier of the also-ran category.
Cory Booker is trying to sell himself as the one candidate who lives in a poor neighborhood. But his parents were executives at IBM and he attended Stanford, Oxford, and Yale, so his poverty is closer to tourism and vanity than anything resembling reality. Thats is biggest problem nothing about him is sincere if you look under the surface. The image he seeks to project to the public is as real as the imaginary friend name T-Bone he pretended existed and spoke about often while Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. (Seriously, check it out.)
Amy Klobuchar was on stage too. A fact I had to Google because I couldnt remember who else was up there but knew there were 10.
One of these people will be the nominee of the Democratic Party, and whichever one ultimately falls out of the clown car needs to be taken seriously. They will have a 50 percent chance of becoming the next president. Then well discover whether we watched a party destroy itself, or the country last Thursday.
None of them want to run against Trump.
Running for the nomination is fun and profitable.
Running against Trump will just get them Mondaled.
(Recall Reagan won 49 states second time around.)
Themselves. That said, beware the cornered animal.
One direction leads to immediate destruction. The other still leads to destruction, but it delays it for a while.
“I was number 5 :)”
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Agreed. None of these even want to run against Trump. They’re trying to out-stupid the others to not get nominated.
Either a latecomer jumps in and nabs the nomination before anyone can vet, or we end up with a nobody who doesn’t want to run and will get destroyed.
Best indication the Democrats expect to lose is they’re not running anybody.
This Is How The Democrats Will Try To Steal The 2020 Election: Widespread Voting Fraud In California Is The Model They’ll Use As They Try To Put The Final Stake In America’s Heart
http://allnewspipeline.com/Voter_Fraud_in_California__Part_1.php
an exerpt from an excellent article:
“There are no safeguards in “ballot harvesting”, and nothing to keep the harvesters from changing the ballots, hold back and destroy any ballot from the incorrect party, or even turn in a ballot for you without your knowledge. The progressive socialists who have usurped power in California, the progressive socialists passed ballot harvesting on a strict party-line vote, handing the entire process over to their allies in the respective areas to assure votes that may have been illegal.
This is the primary reason that five winners for the Republican districts in California were overturned over the days and even weeks of the final tally. There was more than 250,000 vote by mail ballots delivered on election day were not verified but were counted. It is clear by what the progressive socialists in California have said in the past that individual responsibility for voting is racist.
We have a heroic president, standing in the breach. He has single handed destroyed the democrat party. It has become the party of anti-Trump and has no other function than to be the opposite of him in every instance. They oppose God, the constitution, the American people, the Armies of our nation, our borders, our economy, and literally every single word that comes from our president’s mouth.
“everyone gets an electric car”
The best role of electric vehicles should be as delivery vehicles that run a predictable, limited daily route and are brought back every evening for a recharge.
Vehicle manufactures and businesses have certainly talked about what is the best delivery vehicle. Businesses, who look seriously at fuel and maintenance costs must not be interested in electric versions since there aren’t any to be bought.
If electric vehicles are inferior in the delivery vehicle market then they must be even more inferior in the consumer market where driving patterns aren’t predictable.
“Come on, folks, ya gotta be kidding me....I mean Biden, Harris, Booker, Buttigieg, Warren, Sanders, ORourke, Castro, etc., these freaks belong in an animal zoo, or in a caged nuthouse, not running for POTUS. Trump wins....hands down!!!”
In 2015, many had the same thoughts about Trump. He was a buffoon, an idiot, bad hair,...She had an 85% chance of winning, per the media. I don’t put it past the people of this country to elect one of these idiots based on MSM lies alone.
That's the danger. With a nation of dumbed-down couch potatoes, they may just get the nod
Joe Biden gave his best debate performance to date, which is a bit like celebrating your kid getting on base because he was hit by a pitch but otherwise went 0-for-4. Its amazing how low the bar can be set for a former Vice President of the United States. Not that the job requires any abilities, which made Biden perhaps the most qualified person to have ever held it. His dentures nearly fell out, he lectured on the importance of playing records for kids, and rambled off-topic a couple of times. For him, aces!
Excellent writing.
Probably one of the few D senators who was smart enough not to sign up for the clown car debates. I'm sure a bunch of them are salivating. I have two from my state (VA) who pretend to be moderate (but are clearly not).
He wouldve been chosen as Hillary Clintons running mate in 2016 because hes Hispanic, but he couldnt speak Spanish well enough so she went with a white guy who could.
I read this sentence then tried to remember who was a running mate to cankles and I couldnt for the life of me remember it. I was beginning to fear early onset Alzheimers until I googled it and realized I can be forgiven for forgetting such a forgettable non-entity.
Themselves and they are setting themselves up so there is no way out.
“No, at some point the Democrat will introduce their savior.”
Hillary Clinton waits in the wings for her cue.
“They’re already dead ..... just won’t lay down and stop.”
I’d feel better about this if their poll numbers were near 10-20%.
Politicians by nature love attention, love to have their name in the news, people talking about them. When they say the craziest,insane things, insult POTUS, etc, - they get attention. As the old politician once said to his local paper’s editor, who had published a scathing article about him - “I don’t care what you write about me, just keep my picture on the front page.”
Most of these demokraps know they are primary losers. Nonetheless, the benefits are many - including stature in the party, ability to fund raise at a larger scale, possible position in the next demokrap cabinet, or POTUS nomination in the future. All these things feed the politician’s ego.
Recall how many elections Colin Powell was always talked about as the GOP “stature candidate in the wings”. For your scenario, the only leftist “stature” candidate I can think of at the moment is John Kerry. Enough is known about him, but there are many voters today who weren’t there in 2004. And, the major media has been outed in the last 4 years; they would work triple overtime to cover for him. But no one is talking about someone like Kerry b/c “red eye, loose lips, loose teeth” Biden is in the race. Unless old Red Eye drops out before then end of 2019, there is no chance for a stature candidate.
Your theory is an interesting one though, but given the calendar, I think it will be one of the demokraps that are on the stage that the media/party will select for their party. In politics, never say never.
Totally true. Good summary.
Electric cars ...
... need lithium batteries today. Lithium batteries need cobalt. Over 60% of the cobalt in the world is in the Congo. The Chinese have strong control in COngo over this strategic material. There are blatant human rights abuses in the Congo (China doesn’t care) related to Cobalt and other minerals necessary for the techno world. Amnesty International is on to this, Apple, auto makers, et al. But overall the left is silent on these abuses because their environmental agenda would be seriously impacted. Compare Congo to how the left went after mineral rich South Africa years ago in the name of human rights.
Each of these candidates should be asked specifically about whether human rights for poor Africans are secondary to their climate change hoax / power grab.
If some way isn’t found to reach young people and break the spell that socialism is holding over them, the country.
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