[rjnwmill]

Paternalism sucks whether by the government to create dependence or by monopolistic private entities that seek to exploit consumer dependence.

I understand the DoJ may soon step up. Google v Trump/the United States. Let’s hope smart people have formulated remedies that will open up the market for diverse thoughts. I’d hate to see remedies that are largely punitive.

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“Agree, but we shall see. I don’t like Trump, but the alternative is a nightmare.”

Cardcrimson, Trump can be quite charming socially…when he chooses to be.  However, I imagine charming  is more difficult to pull off when you’re trying to generate a sound bite in front of a crowd of 10,000 rabid partisans or a hostile press corp.  Trump surely isn’t another Reagan, but then I am not at all certain Reagan would be effective working with Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff & Nadler.  Not to mention AOC, Omar & Talib.  Seems to me, Tip O’Neil was much closer to Reagan stylistically than the present democratic leadership.

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[rjnwmill]

Mick, did you happen to see the Q&A portion of today’s Biden presser?  He couldn’t remember who to call on to get the softball questions.  He deferred to staff to acknowledge those who got to engage during the session.  You think that will work well in a debate?

I’ve also noted that everyone in his entourage is repeating the same line.  Even Joe has occasionally remembered to participate in the “Joe Goebbels” approach.  “Trump is a liar!”  “We need a trailer on screen during the debates to identify all of Trump’s prevarications in real time.”  “Liar, liar, liar!”  Jury nullification is the principle campaign strategy and it is underway, full time, involving the full panoply of surrogates.  We already know what’s going to be told in the spin room post debate.  After Biden has lost his train of thought and spewed bs on a national broadcast, the shelf life of this approach will be obvious.

After his debate performance you think there will be a vibrant market for a faulty rehash of Trump’s comments after Charolette, about the responsibility for civil unrest in Trump’s America, about Biden’s own “prescience” regarding the covid-19 virus? To the contrary, how about his Chief of Staff’s observations about his performance during the H1N1 outbreak, about the comments by Gates re his foreign policy chops, about Trump’s continuation of expanded unemployment benefits, about the continuation of rent abatement?  All Biden’ll have left is his compassionate whisper and open collusion with the media.  I don’t think it will work well.

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GPN38, Mick, each day there seems to be increasing evidence that we are in fact subject to a racist political class.  Further, it is increasingly clear that one of our major parties is not only embracing said racism, but they are reaching out actively to build coalitions with racists elements.  I can only hope this is the result of a morally bankrupt “win at all costs” mind set that will be rejected by the electorate.  I honestly can’t imagine how these interactions can be explained away and I hope the candidates who have embraced this crap are dead politicians walking.

How can Joe rationalize taking a meeting with a Farrahkan supporter? An anti semite?

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Rocky, I agree. This is a straight forward narrative. Pelosi’s career coincides with much of Biden’s. They’ve got a record.

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[rjnwmill]

Share them in this forum if they strike your fancy if you would.

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Rocky, I don’t have a crystal ball…just opinions. And it is my opinion that a modified Biden quote fits here perfectly…and describes his problem succinctly.

“If you’re voting for Trump, you ain’t progressive!”  Black voters found this condescending. Progressives will as well as Biden finally is forced to move to the center.

As this drama plays out, Bernie will be seen as a bamboozled old fool. Wouldn’t he make a great point person for our dialog with Xi.

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The lead dog in the democrat party…so what?  Didn’t she get a whole minute at the DNC to place Bernie’s name in nomination?

The squad is calling for continued “reparations”/looting. Hands off by law enforcement for rioters. Where’s Biden going Rocky?  Daily public statements and appearances…off script…on Orange turf?  He can’t focus on his running mate; COVID-19?

How long before Biden falls from the tight wire?  The Joe Louis/Billy Conn quote seems apropos here.  Doug Shoen’s observation was, if I read it correctly, limited to the Democrat factions?  Trump has a similar but manageable problem. He suffers with “never trumpers”. However, they are a much, much smaller minority of republicans than either faction in the Democratic Party. Therein lies the problem for Biden.

For your consideration from a Latino consultant.

The rise in support for Trump is due to “fatigue over all the destruction and hatred, tearing down businesses, by people — a lot of people that are from outside the community —

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Rocky, I think you’re perhaps in danger of missing the forest for the trees. I don’t think an incumbent defeating a challenger in MA is all that.

More interesting to me is the competing endorsements. Pelosi takes sides in a Senate race?  Backs a challenger instead of the incumbent?  Is on the opposite side of Schumer who is trying to retake the senate?  Just to be on the opposite side of AOC?  Hmmmm

it explains a great deal about the Biden campaign. A dead meat effort to reconcile an overly broad “coalition” that is fracturing before our very eyes. See Biden’s day trip to Minnesota?  A trip forced on the campaign by Trump’s law and order messaging; a trip that is nothing but one more opportunity to fail in papering over the fracture. Joe’s feeling the burn. The Orange is driving a narrative to appeal to the majority and exacerbate Biden’s frailties. Just wait till the money trail associated with the “peaceful protests” goes public before the first debate?

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[rjnwmill]

“Isn’t there a Kennedy from Louisiana still in the senate? Oh, not a camelot-er.”

With Joe’s philandering, are we certain there isn’t an underground LA chapter of Camelot?  Like the Hunter Biden dancer outreach program?

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On Ingrahm’s show, Trumpo proposed pre debate drug testing…works for me.

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Mick, the old adage about holding your nose and pulling the lever might be appropriate here?

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Watching the Portland mayor’s presser today, did anyone else flash back to General Honorè?  No attempt to explain why the violence and death is occurring in cities run by democrats?  No attempt to identify his failings for the last 400 days?  {Journalist Andy Ngo was assaulted by ANTIFA thugs in June 2019}  No suggestion as to why he won’t change course?  Who buys his stay the course bs?

And screw the police chief.  He’s now got blood on his hands too.  He and his department have been totally ineffective within the context of the Wheeler debacle.  At least the Seattle chief had the integrity to resign when she realized she couldn’t succeed; protect citizens and property, with the rules of engagement, diminished funding implemented by the city politicians.

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Mick, I see nothing, nada, zip as a narrative that works for the democrats…other than another dossier and possible voter fraud.

For Orange, the debates, extended supplemental unemployment, (spread it around money in the finest Chicago tradition), maybe a payroll tax holiday that impacts 80,000,000 voters, prescription drug price declines for seniors, the Durham report, quotes about Biden’s performance from his guys, (Klein on H1N1, Gates on foreign policy. And by the way, Panetta was recently flummoxed trying to respond to questions about the Gates quote), riots/looting and defunding police, (Did you hear about peaceful protestors taking up residence in Teddy’s building in Portland?), the Biden’s personal and for profit relationship with China and Ukraine, therapeutics for COVID, a COVID vaccine in 11months, (Did you know that the fastest vaccine cycle in the US prior to operation Warp Speed was 4 years; mumps 50+ years ago), jobs, jobs, jobs, falling unemployment, an accommodative Fed; inflation and looser money is a good thing and last but not least Joe out and about!  And to my eye, these narratives seem to fit well across a broad range of voter demographics.  For Biden, help me understand who “Pay your fair share” motivates?  Who exactly benefits when a bureaucracy that is running trillion dollar deficits takes in more money?  Is that on the top of voters Christmas list?  How about stopping fracking?

A do no harm, hold on and pray strategy vs in your face where there’s nowhere to hide?  We’ll see. Contrary opinions are what makes it fun. And I’ll go the other way, Orange, a Senate majority and Pelosi loses in her run for minority leader. In 2024, it’s our first female president; Haley or the South Dakota Governor. Hope you’re as wrong here as Biden was with his Harris pick.  

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This democratic plot to steal the election is despicable. I’d sure love know the demographics of the folks targeted with the ballots that were processed by the democratic election official.

I get the sense that the Orange campaign is hitting its stride.  With this type of preparation, the debates could be a “Whoa Nellie” moment?  Joe could become befuddled trying to remember and apply his canned…and misremembered lines.  As the mental impairment is exposed and is recognized as irrefutable, will they send Jill or Kamala out to pull him from the stage?

 

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