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How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?
yahoo News ^ | May 17, 2024 | Eric Alterman

Posted on 05/17/2024 3:05:53 PM PDT by Vendome

democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. two facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on what seems to be close to a majority of the electorate. The first more obvious one is few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, ...than Donald Trump. If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions.

The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president. His embrace of Bibi Netanyahu has clearly had disastrous consequences for Israel, Gaza, the United States, and for his own reelection prospects. But in terms of the way presidents are traditionally measured, Biden has been a smash. The U.S. economy is the envy of the world. Yes, inflation is higher than one would like, but jobs are plentiful, and so are raises for the people in them; wages are rising faster than inflation, as it happens. Violent crime is way down. Infrastructure investments are way up since 2020. Student loans are being forgiven. The labor movement is rebounding. We are leading the world in defending democracy in Ukraine.

Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite; (digital) rapist; serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented.

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1 posted on 05/17/2024 3:05:53 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Is this assclowns Rip VanDumbass?


2 posted on 05/17/2024 3:07:24 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Vendome
If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear

Oh, yes, of course he will...

3 posted on 05/17/2024 3:08:51 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Wow, must have been written by biden’s handlers, for sure!


4 posted on 05/17/2024 3:09:08 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Vendome

LOL these commies look around, see what Joe Biden has done to this country, to the world, literally set it on fire and they say “Yeah this looks good lets keep it up”


5 posted on 05/17/2024 3:09:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Vendome
The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

The mind boggles.

6 posted on 05/17/2024 3:09:39 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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Multiple phenomena are at work, but the two most important are these: First is the fact that members of the mainstream media whose job it is to both inform and contextualize the nation’s politics have lost their nerve.

Wow, which Earth in the multiverse is this guy on. I'd like to go there. Maybe I'd get to meet Jay Garrick or Spider-Gwen.
7 posted on 05/17/2024 3:10:03 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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Alcohol and drugs - never a good combination.


8 posted on 05/17/2024 3:10:05 PM PDT by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: KevinB

This guy was given a math problem to make an equation that adds up to 3 and still got two of the numbers wrong


9 posted on 05/17/2024 3:11:49 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Who wrote this... Words are not enough.. Surely he knew he was lying...
Just..!!!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 05/17/2024 3:12:12 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie ( )
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Every presidential election since 2000, people have said it’s the most important election ever.


11 posted on 05/17/2024 3:13:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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...Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

Statement by Paul Pelosi. Don't forget, he took a hammer to the cranium.

12 posted on 05/17/2024 3:13:58 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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“If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions.”

Yeah, right, everyone remembers all that happening in his first term too.

What a macaroon.


13 posted on 05/17/2024 3:15:31 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: GrumpyOldGuy
"Wow, must have been written by biden’s handlers, for sure!"

Russian handlers, Chinese handlers or sanitarium orderlies?
14 posted on 05/17/2024 3:16:17 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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About that Mandatory Drug Testing and Mental Wellness test for presstitutes using High Capacity Transmission Devices...


15 posted on 05/17/2024 3:16:21 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Vendome

If you were in touch with America you would know why, Eric Alterman. Interesting last name.


16 posted on 05/17/2024 3:16:48 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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It has twice.

How could it not again?


17 posted on 05/17/2024 3:18:15 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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"How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?"

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18 posted on 05/17/2024 3:18:17 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah, it took beat out “We’re at a Crossroads” for the top spot.

“Every presidential election since 2000, people have said it’s the most important election ever.”


19 posted on 05/17/2024 3:19:03 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Vendome

The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

Joseph Goebbels didn’t lie this much.


20 posted on 05/17/2024 3:19:11 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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