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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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: a; demmoron; idiot; maroon; tds; what
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To: Vendome
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.

Oh, brother . . .

81 posted on 05/17/2024 4:50:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Eagles6

Nothing you can buy to smoke, legal or illegal, will make you as retarded as this DNC operative idiot is.


82 posted on 05/17/2024 4:51:40 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: doc maverick

Not true. The democretin party gave Portland a veneer of feces on sidewalks studded with hypodermics and junkies


83 posted on 05/17/2024 4:56:44 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: Vendome

I will read this drivel only after I’ve read the patterns in the diarrhea in a toilet.


84 posted on 05/17/2024 4:57:48 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Vendome

Prove just one of those accusations you deranged hateful liar!


85 posted on 05/17/2024 5:01:37 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: imardmd1

Well, he’s a proglib so not to be believed in the first place. You are correct. fdr, no bueno!


86 posted on 05/17/2024 5:04:35 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Kapo has its benefits


87 posted on 05/17/2024 5:06:26 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Vendome

He earned a BA in history and government from Cornell University, an MA in international relations from Yale University, and a PhD in U.S. history from Stanford University.[6]

Apparently, all of that expensive education didn’t do him a damn bit of good. He still asks stupid questions.


88 posted on 05/17/2024 5:11:12 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: Vendome

Just watch us elect him, A-hole Alterman.

CC


89 posted on 05/17/2024 5:17:02 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Vendome

Since we don’t follow the law anymore...

I say we elect Trump as in 2024 AND 2028


90 posted on 05/17/2024 5:27:22 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Vendome

Who cares what some homosexual thinks.


91 posted on 05/17/2024 5:29:59 PM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Vendome
Eric Alterman spews forth lies from His own "closed" Universe:

HUA

92 posted on 05/17/2024 5:45:28 PM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: Vendome

Drinkin the cool aid son ... that’s no way to live life ... in total ignorance.


93 posted on 05/17/2024 5:52:10 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: Vendome

Garbage society because of people like you, Eric Alterman!


94 posted on 05/17/2024 5:54:31 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Vendome

His check engine light is going nova.


95 posted on 05/17/2024 6:16:29 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: KevinB
The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

With the vaccine mandates, the Biden regime has killed more Americans than any president outside of wartime. And if we were able to get accurate numbers, it is possible more have been killed by Biden than the total from both sides during the Civil War.

96 posted on 05/17/2024 6:31:21 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: 230FMJ

He took a little from Part (A) and a little from Part (B) to contrive his delusions


97 posted on 05/17/2024 6:32:16 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: butterdezillion
The only positive thing that may be said about Alterman’s rant is that the Yahoo reaction was overwhelmingly negative. If Biden (or Michelle Obama or Gavin Newson) is going to win in 2024, the Democrats ate going to have to resort to North Korean or Russian levels of voter fraud.
98 posted on 05/17/2024 6:35:07 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Dr. Sivana
Wow, which Earth in the multiverse is this guy on. I'd like to go there.

Hoping for the Bearded Spock universe.

99 posted on 05/17/2024 6:42:34 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Vendome

Eric! We hate the world you and your friends have created, and we are electing Trump to see it destroyed.

Capisce?


100 posted on 05/17/2024 6:47:16 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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