Brass
Tacks Time
Here's
a dirty little political
secret (or non-secret):
No Democrat has won
the white vote since
LBJ. After the Civil
Rights Act was passed
the Republican Party
went full-bore racist
with the Southern
Strategy. And it
has worked ever since.
(Even so, let's not
forget that Nixon
conspired with the
Vietnamese to win
in '68, Reagan conspired
with the Iranians
in 1980, Dubya was
illegally appointed
President
by the Supreme Court in 2000 and was gifted Ohio and the White House in 2004
by Governor Ken Blackwell.
And Trump conspired with the Russians to win the 2016 election.
But I digress.)
Carter snuck in on
the heels of a Republican
political disaster
and still only barely
won. Bill Clinton
(maybe) needed the
help of Ross Perot.
Twice. Barack Obama
proved that if you
have the minority
vote in your pocket
you can win in record
numbers. Hillary
Clinton lost key
states, and the 2016
election, because
black voters, targeted
on social media by
Republican/Russian
operatives, were
convinced that Clinton
was running a pedophile
ring in a pizza joint
basement.
It was a close race.
Just 77,000 votes
in four states was
the difference between
President Hillary
Clinton and the Chosen
One.
"Evangelical" is
shorthand for "white
racist".
White racism runs
deep in this country
but that era is ending
and the Republican
Party knows it. Texas
will go Blue eventually
and then it's game
over for the GOP.
That's why their
new strategy is "Autocracy
Now". You can
see it in their desire
to wall brown people
out of this country,
in their Supreme
Court picks, in their
RWNJ Judiciary assignments,
in the way the Republican
Senate says "Screw
You!" to anything
remotely socialized
or that will result
in secure, fair elections.
That's why I predict
that Biden is going
to be the Democratic
nominee for President,
by hook or crook.
The DNC knows he
will bring the minority
vote with him. The
RNC knows this, too,
which explains why
Fat Hitler was perfectly
willing to be impeached
for extorting foreign
countries into spreading
disinformation about
Biden and his son.
It had to be done,
but there's more
disinformation to
come.
Biden is also corporate-friendly.
The rich like that
about him. But this
means nothing substantial
will get done, especially
if Democrats don't
take the Senate.
Sigh. (Even so, this
beats the bloody,
living HELL out of
four more years of
this current madness.)
I preferred a President
Warren. She is whip-smart
but Corporate America
can't have a smart
president. (Bill
Clinton and Barack
Obama are brilliant
men but the GOP shut
them down fast with
Whitewater and Monica
and racist TEA Party
shenanigans.) The
GOP prefers dumb-asses
like Trump or Dubya,
quislings who are
just smart enough
to sign a document...
a sentiment they've
actually shared out
loud.
Trump will surely
lose the popular
vote, again, but
whether he will lose
the White House is
now up to whichever
method the Republican
Party and their Russian
pals choose to fuck
us over with this
time. The only answer
is to vote Democrat
in such large numbers
that there can be
no question in the
result. Something
I also predict will
happen.
Stop me if you've
heard this but "Vote
Blue, no matter who."
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I've read that Bloomberg's
candidacy was designed
to force the centrists
in the Democratic
Party to coalesce
towards Biden. True
or not, we would
have been better
off if Bloomberg
had run as an Independent,
which would have
thrown the GOP into
chaos. Now, instead
of watching t-Rump
and Bloomberg fracture
the party all the
way to November it'll
be Biden and Bernie
feeding the media
monster while t-Rump's
DOJ ramps up the
Biden Allegation
Machine.
And all because Bloomberg
didn't want to pay
more taxes.
Man, fuck Bloomberg.
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The World Health Organization: "80 per cent of
patients will suffer mild illness from the coronavirus,
14 per cent will suffer severe disease, 5 per cent
will become critically ill and, so far, 3.4 per cent
have died."
t-Rump: "Get back to work, you slackers!"
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Stay healthy, folks.
=Lefty=
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