Mister Roboto
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I think even Democrats who are drinking very deeply of the Kool-Aid know that the less that is expected of Joe Biden these days, the better.
It seems odd that popularity-polling in the mid-thirties is solid support. I’m sure it is by today’s standards, but that today’s standards are so different only makes the case that Zogby brought up that we’re a very badly divided and polarized society now.
It’s worth noting that if you decide to donate to BLM through their website, you will get taken to the website of ActBlue, which collects donations for Democratic Party candidates. That doesn’t necessarily mean the BLM takes all its “marching orders” from the DNC, but it certainly implies that they are part of the same nexus of political activism. At first, I didn’t want to believe that the protests were some kind of Democrat-orchestrated “color revolution”, but there are too many signs that it is (the biggest one being the pallets of bricks that would mysteriously show up in areas of cities where protests were happening).
@lasttwo: Yeah, pretty much. At least you’ll have more fun playing your guitar and singing songs. 🙂
I expect the next three months to be…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM
Well, I, for one, stopped reading when I realized this was a screed from another anti-mask crank. “Dr. D”, whoever the hell he is, might be interested to know that many employees of stores with mask-wearing policies have been assaulted by cranks like him for doing their jobs and trying to enforce these policies.
Welp, in my home state of Wisconsin, there was at least one instance this weekend where the gratuitous violence came from the police, and this, in turn, precipitated unrest and property-damage that has the City of Kenosha on edge today.
Well, now that wearing face-masks is so widely mandated and accepted, unlike during the very uncertain and anxious primary-season of this year, I think it should be okay to show up to City Hall to early vote the way I normally do. And I’m pretty sure the city clerk’s office will have hand-sanitizer ready in abundance for people who are coming in to fill out their ballots for the election.
One thing that the Washington Examiner piece glosses over is that people, including combat veterans, not getting the medications upon which they seriously rely in a timely fashion is becoming a dire systemic problem in this country. If the Trump Administration would willing to help these people get their medications on time, I might be more willing to listen to the other points the author makes in the WE article.
I live in a swing state (Wisconsin), and my conscience tells me to vote no more for the institutional duopoly, and that holding on to false hope by voting for likes of Biden and Harris is but a form of enabling. The Democratic Party faithful really only care about preserving the position and perks of the big-city, blue-state neo-liberal elites, who are singularly indifferent to the sufferings of Flyover Country folk under aegis of economic globalism.
If I’m going to be completely honest, Biden could have my vote if he would pledge to sponsor legislation that would put a cap on how much Big Pharma can charge for insulin. But I know damn well that his campaign and the DNC are so beholden to moneyed interests such as Big Pharma that this would never happen, despite the fact that such a little demand would be considered perfectly reasonable and moderate in a western European country.
But what it really boils down to is that our politics are hopelessly sick and broken because the societal context in which they exist is hopelessly sick and broken and offers nothing worth trusting or believing in. That’s why despite how much I hate what Trump is doing to the US Post Office right now, just to give one example, I can simply accept that “it’s all over except for the shouting” and realize that whatever is going to happen will simply happen. That said, if voting for Biden makes it a little bit easier to sleep the night of election day, then go right ahead and do that with my blessing, for whatever little that’s worth. 😉
My understanding is that hydroxychloroquine was considered a fairly safe medicine before it became associated with the Bad Orange Man.
What I’m hoping for WRT Covid-19 is that we’ll soon reach a point where the pandemic has picked most of the “low-hanging fruit” in terms of death and serious illness.
@teri: I agree that it’s dismaying that some people feel the need to defend the likes of Donald Trump just because Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and the DNC are very lousy excuses for public servants. The USA is a declining hegemonic power, and everything about it now reflects this fact.
Forgive me for regurgitating the patently obvious, but I think Biden’s lead over Trump may be shrinking because he is coming across like the first major-party “figurehead candidate” in US history. He’s probably never going to debate Trump (the former veep would probably have to be pumped up with way too many chemical stimulants for such debates for that to be a good idea), and he’s not even going to attend the convention events in Milwaukee in person (though one could argue about how much that matters, as so much of the Democratic Convention this year will be virtual/ online). You really have to wonder how much confidence such a candidate can possibly inspire in the voters. Though we can be sure the DNC does no such wondering!
Covid denialism and conspiracy-theories kill people. The latest casualty is Herman Cain.
Some useful pandemic perspective can be read in this article from New York Magazine: Death cult: Why has the Republican response to the pandemic been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?
The Democrats like to take their constituents out to a nice little movie first (preferably a romantic comedy with no bad words in it) and at the end of the date, they rape you. The Republicans don’t want to spring for a movie and popcorn – they just hit you over the head and rape you with no foreplay.
Well said, teri, well said. 🙂
One thing that guy in the “reality will win” article about Covid-19 neglected to mention is that a lot of people who had severe cases of Covid-19 are still suffering with various serious afflictions even months after they have supposedly recovered. I know the crackpot-right will cling to the “It’s Just A Flu, Bro” narrative until the bitter end, but if you watch Chris Martenson’s video series on Covid-19 on his “Peak Prosperity” website, it’s painfully obvious that it’s not “Just A Flu.”
The idea of Joe Biden being some kind of far-left Trojan Horse has to be one of the most laughable things I’ve read in a while, but also entirely predictable considering this claim was penned by somebody whose job it is to shill for Trump. The most Biden will likely do with the recommendations of the “unity platform” is pay very vague lip-service to the ideas and proposals expressed within it. I really hope this blog hasn’t joined the march to the crackpot-right that has become something of a fashion in the “doomosphere” in the last few years.
Your description of Thatcher’s legacy made me think of Alec Baldwin’s profanity-laden “1, 2, 3” speech from the movie *Glengarry* *Glenn* *Ross*.
