Members Suckrates Posted March 24 Members Posted March 24 IF Americans are OK and get used to ICE agents at all airports, why wouldnt they also be OK with ICE agents at polling places ?  At least that is what Trump is betting on.  It will just become another Trump NORM !  It also makes it easier for ICE to racially Profile and abduct people when they are just casually milling about and "supposedly" NOT on any hostile mission.  Its all a Trump Trap. Quote
Members Suckrates Posted 18 hours ago Members Posted 18 hours ago  TRUMP foot in Mouth,,,,,Ya Think ?   Yet, he can build a gilded Ballroom, Golden Arc, and Presidential Library Skyscraper ! MAGA CHEERS !   America First, Donnie ?   stevenkesslar 1 Quote
Members stevenkesslar Posted 8 hours ago Members Posted 8 hours ago 9 hours ago, Suckrates said:  TRUMP foot in Mouth,,,,,Ya Think ?   Yet, he can build a gilded Ballroom, Golden Arc, and Presidential Library Skyscraper ! MAGA CHEERS !   America First, Donnie ?    Watching that made me sad for Democrats.  And sad about 2020. Maya Rupert is introduced in this piece as an Elizabeth Warren 2020 advisor. So it made me think about those days, when lefty thinking was peaking. I have a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda thoughts. Biden won in part because he had been Obama's # 2. And in part because he was the least unacceptable and most moderate of the bunch. In Biden's defense, what most fucked up his Presidency was one word, that he could do nothing about. And the word is not AGE or SENILITY. It's inflation. Inflation wiped out leaders and leading parties all over the world. Inflation is what brought us Trump 2.,0. That said, this rant of mine always goes to Mexico, and Lopez Obrador. He fought like hell for three specific groups: workers, seniors, and the poor. The inflation and COVID death was just as bad in Mexico. But he got his successor elected in a landslide. If you fight like hell for people, they remember and fight for you. And there are of course people who do relieve Trump is fighting like hell for them. Poor things. Some of them are learning. If Democrats had had what I will call an "AMLO moment" in 2020 all of this misery and cruelty and stupidity could have been avoided. Meaning if someone with an actual vision and temperament for fighting like hell for the workers, the seniors, and the poor had prevailed, just like in Mexico enough could have been both said and done to overlook that whole nasty inflation thing in 2024, I think. There are people who think that the last true gasp of Democratic progressive economic policy was in 2016, when Sanders fought the good fight and lost. I think of 2020 as that moment. America was ready to move beyond Trump, People wanted change. I will always think that if Sanders and Warren had fought together, as a team, maybe they could have won the nomination. There are people who think a Sanders/Warren ticket would have been kooky. The polls never said that, in the moment. People relate to Sanders' vision, and Warren's, which is like the AMLO/Scheinbaum vision. My big assumption here is that Sanders and Warren, unlike Biden, would have been able to fight like hell for the kind of economic policies - in a word, affordability - that Rupert talks about in that clip. I don't believe that even in his prime, Biden was ever that kind of guy. He was never a visionary, and a fighter.  Which is what we needed. And what we need. Woulda. Shoulda. Coulda.  It's never too late.   The US, not to mention the whole fucking world, will be ready for a change again in 2028. In the mean time, this just makes me feel sad for what could have been. And all the misery and cruelty that could have been avoided. That said, on the bright side, who actually wants day care, or Medicare, or Medicaid, - or other such "scams" - when we can instead have war?  🫢 Quote
