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| | Subject: Re: 2024 Elections Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:03 am | |
| Mrs NoCo made an astute observation last night. She said Tim Scott will probably be Trump's pick for VP, because Trump thinks the Negroes will vote for him if there's a Negro on the ticket. And of course if he happens to be wearing shiny gold-painted tennis shows and has a mug shot. Watermelon! Most Republicans think he should put a woman on the ticket, so he can grab her by the pussy any time he wants ("When you're a celebrity they let you do that.") Also, the wimmen will vote for him if there a wimmen on the ticket. Babies! But I can't see Trump allowing a woman on the ticket. She might upstage him, or get press attention. No matter how obsequious, no matter how deferential, she'd never be as humiliated as a Negro having to bow and scrape to him (and his White Nationalist followers) in public. |
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| | Subject: Re: 2024 Elections Sun May 05, 2024 6:31 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- Mrs NoCo made an astute observation last night. She said Tim Scott will probably be Trump's pick for VP, because Trump thinks the Negroes will vote for him if there's a Negro on the ticket. And of course if he happens to be wearing shiny gold-painted tennis shows and has a mug shot. Watermelon!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-scott-avoids-2024-election-results-question_n_6637b5bbe4b03d2898dd496d?dnbI wonder if Tim will change his last name to Trump if he gets on the ticket? Isn't that what slaves did when a new master bought them? |
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| | Subject: Re: 2024 Elections Mon May 06, 2024 1:05 pm | |
| Oy, I just had a thought.
If the Trumpster is forced to pull out of the race at the last minute (October) by a conviction of some sort (or jailtime for contempt), will his VICE have to take over at the top of the Republican ticket?
In that case, who he chooses could actually make a difference. Noem or Scott would be DOA at the polls. Rubio might actually get some votes. |
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| | Subject: Re: 2024 Elections Tue May 14, 2024 8:19 am | |
| - “Thom Hartmann” wrote:
- The GOP’s favorite phrase when it comes to presidential politics appears to be, “Nobody knew at the time.”
Once a president is sworn into office, regardless of how much evidence there is of crimes and irregularities committed to get him there, both the press and the electorate just seem to want to ignore that evidence and move along. After all, there’s never been a successfully contested presidential election in American history.
Which is why the GOP will again count on getting away with their crimes against electoral democracy this fall. The big question for America will be, “What did we miss that we should have known at the time?”
We have, you’ll recall, seen this movie before:
— When Richard Nixon ran against incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968, nobody knew at the time that Nixon’s campaign had reached out to the South Vietnamese leadership and promised to make them rich if they’d refuse to go along with the Paris talks and thus sabotage the peace deal that LBJ had worked out with them earlier that summer.
A week before the election, LBJ discussed it with Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, who agreed that, “This is treason.” Nonetheless, both men took the story to their graves; America didn’t learn about Nixon’s treachery until the LBJ library finally published the tape recordings of the phone call.
— When Ronald Reagan ran against Jimmy Carter, nobody knew at the time that Reagan’s campaign had cut a deal with the mullahs of Iran to hold the hostages, making Carter appear fatally weak and politically impotent.
We didn’t learn about Reagan’s treason until the then-president of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, emigrated to America and wrote a 2013 article for The Christian Science Monitor in which he laid out the plot. The story was corroborated a year ago in The New York Times by Texas’ former Lt. Governor, Ben Barnes, who’d been along for the ride to Paris where the deal between the Reagan campaign and Iranian leaders was consummated.
— When the 2000 election recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court was halted by five corrupt Republicans on the US Supreme Court — handing the White House to George W. Bush by a disputed 537 votes — nobody knew at the time that Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, had commissioned a huge purge of voters, using a list of Texas felons that was 68% Black and Hispanic.
Harris did this because the national pool of Black and Hispanic names is relatively small: Black felons in Texas with names like Jim Washington or Jose Gonzalez are extremely likely to have similarly named counterparts in any other state with large Black and Hispanic populations like Florida.
Thus, when those Texas names were compared via a “loose match” (didn’t require a birthday or middle name match) with Florida voters’ names, disproportionate numbers of Black and Hispanic Florida voters were deemed to be possible felons who’d somehow recently moved to Florida from Texas, and tens of thousands were removed from the voter rolls. As the US Commission on Civil Rights noted:
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- “14.4 percent of Florida’s black voters cast ballots that were rejected. This compares with approximately 1.6 percent of nonblack Florida voters who did not have their presidential votes counted. … n the state's largest county, Miami-Dade, more than 65 percent of the names on the purge list were African Americans, who represented only 20.4 percent of the population.”
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— When Donald Trump was certified the winner of the 2016 election, nobody knew at the time that Russia had illegally poured millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours into targeting swing state voters identified by the RNC, whose names were handed off to Russian Intelligence by Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
When Robert Mueller’s FBI team determined this crime had helped put Trump in the White House, and that Trump had personally intervened in investigations ten separate timesin ways that could be prosecuted as criminal obstruction of justice, Bill Barr kept the news from America until the story had largely faded from the headlines.
What will it be this November? We have some clues.
— With the blessing of five Republicans on the 2018 Supreme Court, Republican-controlled states with large Black and Hispanic populations are purging voter rolls like there’s no tomorrow. Just between 2020 and 2022, fully 19,260,000 Americans — 8.5% of all registered voters — were purged. The purge rate in Red states was 40% higher than the rest of the country. We won’t know this year’s purge numbers until well after the election is over.
— The GOP is trying to organize an “army” of 100,000 rightwing warriors to show up at polling places to “oversee” elections and challenge voters they think look suspicious. They’ll also be challenging signature matches on mail-in ballots, particularly in Blue cities in Red states.
— Republican elected officials from the state level all the way up to the US Senate are refusing to say that they’ll accept or certify the result of the election this fall if Donald Trump doesn’t win. Multiple Republican members of Congress have asserted that only the House of Representatives should decide the presidential election this year (which would throw the election to Trump regardless of who the voters or electoral college choose).
— In multiple states, Republicans have passed laws allowing them to manipulate and change the location of polling places, criminalize voter registration drives, replace Democratic and nonpartisan election officials with partisan GOP hacks, and in Georgia and Arizona throw out ballots from entire precincts. As Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt noted for The Atlantic: “Throwing out thousands of ballots in rival strongholds may be profoundly antidemocratic, but it is technically legal, and Republicans in several states now have a powerful stick with which to enforce such practices.”
— Typically, when politicians engage in nakedly deceptive politicking or election theft they’re outed in the press and punished at the polls. Since 2020, however, Republicans have rewarded their politicians who tell lies and engage in underhanded tactics, suggesting there will be no limits to what the Trump campaign might do or say in the weeks leading up to the election, including the use of deepfakes and AI.
— Saudi Arabia and Russia — both allies of Trump — have cut oil production by over 1.4 million barrels a day to drive up gasoline prices leading up to this November, just like they did in a dress rehearsal during the fall of 2022. History shows that gas prices spiking over $5 or even $6 a gallon will have a measurable impact on inflation and thus the election.
— Russia fielded a small army of online trolls to assist Trump’s electoral efforts in 2016 and 2020. Expect the same in November, except this time, according to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, China is also getting into the act on the GOP’s behalf.
— Benjamin Netanyahu defied President Obama when he was engaged in delicate negotiations with Iran, visiting the US and addressing Congress at the invitation of Republicans. He’s expected to do the same slap-in-the-face gesture this fall to Biden, along with defying the president’s wish that Israel minimize civilian casualties in Gaza. Netanyahu will do everything he can to ensure Trump comes back into office if for no other reason than keeping himself out of prison; demoralizing young progressive voters will almost certainly be at the top of his list.
But these are all things we know about right now, even if there’s little we can do about most of them.
Given the Nixon/Reagan/Bush examples, our biggest concern should be to find the things we’d otherwise look back on after the inauguration and say about them, “Nobody knew at the time…”[/size] |
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| | Subject: Re: 2024 Elections Thu May 16, 2024 3:16 pm | |
| Republicans and Democrats aren't even playing the same game.
Democrats still assume that voters are intelligent, well-informed, and able to make decisions in their best interest. They continue to put forward qualified candidates for the toughest job in the world, well-seasoned politicians who understand the difficulties of international diplomacy. Hillary Clinton was over-qualified, Joseph Biden is over-qualified, Barack Obama was well-qualified, John Kerry was over-qualified, Albert Gore was over-qualified.
The GOP, on the other hand, assumes the stoopid electorate votes for a famous name, or for a man they'd like to have a beer with. Reagan was a washed-up B-movie actor with zero political experience, George W. Bush was a spoiled frat-boy who failed in everything except getting drunk. The other guy was a reality TV personality with a history of shady deals.
Turns out, an uneducated populace is prone to being brainwashed.
If Biden loses, as Hillary did, the Dems have nobody to blame but themselves. There are PLENTY of well-qualified candidates with better "beer factor" that Joe or Hillary (take Obama as an example). Candidate likeability MUST be the first determinate, and only from among that pool can you choose a final candidate.
Hell, the Republicans don't even do that. Most of their show clown candidates had no clue what the party operatives were doing while they slept in the Oval. |
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