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Harris a Communist - the opposite of freedom. Freedom for Abortion snd Gender Queer
Trump is the True Candidate for Freedom - protecting Borders. reduce crime, reducing the size of government - against globalism. Biden/Harris is destroying America. Kamala a liar and a fake!!!!
Harris radical left candidate. She will not state her policy because she is hiding her true beliefs . Abortion up until the day of birth, Govt free money driving inflation up and raising the national debt. She is for fake climate change and for cutting all oil and gas.
Same policies Biden has championed - destroying America. No new wars under Trump. We are on the cusp of WW3 because of Biden and Harris!!!!
Trump is a life long failure as a person and business man. He has never told the truth and what ever you are somehow believing that comes out of his mouth makes you a complete fool.
Biden's been busted for plagiarism, what was it, 17, or 19 times? EZ to lose count. Harris says she'll ban fracking, then she says she won't, but that her values haven't changed. And you have the nerve to call other people fools?
And please stop with the tit for tat. It’s not going anywhere. My point was Trump has never had an honest successful career. His father gave him money, and bailed him out many times. He filed bankruptcy 5+ times and then borrowed excessively to keep up the illusion of success and when the banks cut him off he went to Oligarchs. The business community in NY stopped taking him seriously more than 30 years ago because of his repeated failures. He’s just not believable.
When Trump was in office, economy good, no wars, Russia invaded things in Ukraine during Obama admin & Biden admin. During Trump admin ISIS destroyed, border secured, affordable gas, no naked men claiming to be women in women's locker rooms, no Drag Queen story hour in kindergarten, no POTUS endorsement of child gender change mutilation surgery, leftist deep state & RINO uniparty exposed. If it was bad for America, Biden's America last admin demonstrated just how much it hates America by flooding its borders with foreign unvetted undocumented democrat invaders. If it's bad for America, the puppet show know as Biden/Harris, are for it. IMO.
And a sensitive little puss as well. Did you not call someone you don’t know an abject failure? Grow a pair kid. There are no safe spaces out here. You don’t have the moral high ground or even a righteous position to be telling others how to speak. You’re a lightweight!
Trump stuck to his pre-election agenda better than any president in modern history. Had the neo-cons within his party (who are now in power in the dem party) not pushed-back against that agenda, he would have achieved even more of his agenda - and that would have been even better for the nation.
You can lie about failure as you do, you do not even understand what it means, but you cannot lie that Harris has been a life-long fraud, a low-IQ adminstrative state lackey, and a token candidate for the easily swayed morons of the left looking to confirm their biases.
"Failure, liar" those concepts you've been groomed to regurgitate are laughable. But even if true, how do you overlook the lying whore harris and the lying racist braindead biden? We know, by projection.
I am constantly amazed by the deluded minions who will cling to the coattails of a proven liar, conman, felon, woman-hater and cheat (both in business and in wedlock) like ticks to a stray dog, and reject the massive weight of evidence that he is all of the short list mentioned above.
Let's call this election for what it is: A grudge match (for tRump, anyway). Forget trying to stay out of jail or imposing ultra-right wing policies under a dictatorship. He knows he can duck and dodge his way out of jail time with the aid of his sycophant Scumpreme Court. And he could care less about abortion or other major issues. Trump has stated time and time again that he doesn't get mad (he already is, as a March Hare), he gets even. That is what this is all about. He was beat in the last election and he can't tolerate losing at anything (even though he's lost at business multiple times, but prevailed by scraping up what's left and throwing investors under the bus). His aim is pure revenge against those who conspired against him. as outlined in HIS Project 2025. This is how we should view this election: one man's demented lust for revenge, abetted by his misguided stooges, against the welfare of the nation. Like his hapless victims, he's ready to throw democracy under the bus as well.
Biden/Harris idea of democracy is in its simplest form what is known as mob majority rule, which is what they're attempting to invade the border with, by their undocumented democrat invasion of foreigners who are used to being slaves & will serve the deep state dutifully. America's founders didn't like mob rule, which is why they established a Constitutional Republic. Biden/Harris spit on the Constitution, or ignore it. They reject freedom of speech, the right to question elections, except if Hillary or Stacey Abrams does the questioning, they reject due process, 2nd amendment, trial by jury of peers, and embrace 2 tier injustice system that rewards corruption & persecutes its detractors. Biden/Harris policy is MAD, Make America Destroyed. IMO.
Disturbingly, and illustrating the bizarre state of American political sentiment, your sensible comment has two likes, while an unhinged rant about Harris has 26 likes. If that's an indicator of the election, we're all doomed.
Trump stuck to his pre-election agenda better than any president in modern history. Had the neo-cons within his party (who are now in power in the dem party) not pushed-back against that agenda, he would have achieved even more of his agenda - and that would have been even better for the nation.
You can lie about failure as you do, you do not even understand what it means, but you cannot lie that Harris has been a life-long fraud, a low-IQ adminstrative state lackey, and a token candidate for the easily swayed morons of the left looking to confirm their biases.
"Failure, liar" those concepts you've been groomed to regurgitate are laughable. But even if true, how do you overlook the lying whore harris and the lying racist braindead biden? We know, by projection.
Wow, you really just gobble up anything Trump shoves down your throat, huh? Harris is center-right. There is very little representation of the left wing in the US politics. Also, protecting borders and reducing crime (through the use of authoritarian police forces) are the opposite of freedom. Trump also plans to impose tariffs on all foreign-made products (most of the products we use), which is anti-free trade.
The increase in national debt is mostly because less tax is collected after the tax cuts for companies and high income earners granted by the Trump administration.
Just once I’d like to see proof of all of those Trump talking points. He can’t even prove what he says, but that doesn’t matter, he knows MAGA doesn’t need to see evidence before they will repeat it.
Kamala is hardly a traditional candidate—she was installed—not one American got to vote for her. She was such a poor candidate when running for 2020 election that she dropped out in December.
Well, Americans will get to vote for her now and she will deliver a very well-deserved drubbing to her misogynistic malignant narcissist challenger, whose only reason for running is to wreak childish vengeance on those who whupped him in 2020. He cares zilch about the country other than it lets him get away with all his lies and scams. Wake up, Liz.
The new Kamala or the old Kamala? The pandering for conservative votes Kamala or the true Kamala. Therein lies the problem with her. Trump you know what you’re getting. Kamala is a wild card. Never received a vote, low ratings before her somehow miraculous rise. Nope!
Americans in particular democrats, didn't vote for her. She was installed by the democratic elite and when they saw that biden couldn't get past the camera that showed clearly his decline that has worsened since his installation in 2020.
If you truly believe in democracy as the u.s. has defined it in 1776, then you would see this.
The way democracy was defined in 1776 only allowed white male landowners to vote. But even then they were pretty flexible on how candidates were chosen.
"... showing-up on election day - is better than waiting for a Man with a plan." Did she forget only half the population votes? As if voterism is going to decide whether things 'change' in America. "How will democrats protect Democracy in the future?" Democracy is mob rule lady... Marxists have pretty-much synched that one up I'd say. "Trump only won 'in 16 because of the electoral college - Hillary had the populist voters,"... no election hanky-panky-conspiracy theorists here. Nah American 'political realignment' won't take down America... because like she said, "Dems have discovered taking down opponents dirty feels good." Enough of the Righty Vs. Lefty 'vote harder' paradigm... it's the State and Federal Reserve Vs. You. It's a simple search/fact that 78% of all women will vote democrat... millennial women have even higher numbers of dem voters. Voterism - 'mob rule' Marxism - killed America... too many women married to the government.
The answer is no. We as a country have become uneducated, almost stubbornly stupid. The mainstream media is misleading Americans and people are too lazy to actually look for the facts. On January 6th Trump proved that his base were extremely dangerous and now the Republican Party is scared to death of them. Trump gave them the opportunity to crawl from under the rocks in which they were concealed and they have no reason to crawl back
So, let me see if I've got this straight; you're complaining about stubbornly stupid Americans, and then you make with your sadly disgusting hate speech against Trump and his supporters. That's like a Nazi blaming the Jews for civil strife.
On Jan 6 there was a riot which pales in comparison to the wanton destruction by progressives in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and other cities, ALL SUMMER of 2020. On Jan 6 there was NO insurrection, in spite of Nancy Pelosi and others lying their asses off about it. Nancy told you there were five murders that day. There was only one, when a DC cop murdered unarmed Ashli Babbit. ALL the J 6ers were unarmed. Have you ever seen anyone try overthrow a country with no weapons?
Merick Garland, who would love to throw every Trump supporter in prison just for the pleasure of it, could find no way to charge anyone with insurrection on Jan 6. That means there wasn't one.
Trump violated no law. His challenges to the election were legal, constitutional, and have been done by both parties many times. Perhaps you failed to notice that, in spite of the bluster from TDSers, Trump has been charged with NOTHING concerning Jan 6. Take a hint.
So ,yes, it is sad that there are so many stupid people in America. Perhaps if you broke yourself from a steady diet of CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, PBS, NPR and Nancy Pelosi you might come off looking a little more intelligent.
Those rioters raided and tried to destroy the seat of our federal government and threatened to kill the Vice President. Are you effing kidding me?!?! JM&J! And unless you were comatose that day, every major network covered it live. SMH!
Because you say so? I made a very specific case citing facts. You are spouting gibberish.
And, no, no network except Right Side Broadcasting covered it live. Sure, other networks were in the city, but they weren't covering the riot until after the fact. And if you want to see video, ask yourself why you tolerate Nancy and her cabal locking up over 40,000 hours of security video. The videos were only released after republicans gained control of the House. A rational person would ask, if the videos show an attempted coup, why would Pelosi hide them, and republicans release them? And why has NO one been charged with a coup attempt or insurrection?
It appears that there are some seriously hate-filled people who don't want to let go of the warm pleasant feeling they get from hating Trump. Facts be damned.
You are incorrect. They might not have covered it live in Russia, but I watched it live, alternately on MSNBC and CNN.
As far as no weapons, that is false as well. The dirtbag neo-Nazis and Civil War cosplayers erected a gallows with a noose, many carried flagpoles sharpened into spears, there were knives galore and at least several firearms. At least one cop suffered a heart attack when a bunch of dirtbags took his taser and tased him multiple times. He was lucky to live.
There is not one redeeming quality to Donald & his affinity for murderous totalitarians is creepy and dangerous AF.
There were probably at least 100 feds in that crowd, not to mention several provocateurs, who weren't Trump supporters, who are actually are trying destroy the Constitutional Republic of America, which the so-called democrat party with its puppet leader Biden, spits on. What happened to Fed Ray Epps who yelled & encouraged Capitol breach? Do you know, or care? Was he held accountable? No, because he's a fed. That was a fed-surrection, not an insurrection, compliments of the despicable Nancy Pelosi, who admits in video her daughter made, that she, Nancy was responsible for there not be adequate security at Capitol that day. Even tho all the videos of that day have not been released yet, there's enough on youtube & other internet sites to demonstrate that J6 was a set up. Look up Tarik Johnson capitol cop, who says it was a set up. In case you haven't noticed, the only Americans in political danger these days are those who defy the fascistic Biden regime. Do you actually think there's an equal justice system in America from the Biden Admin? It may not bother you today, but it might someday, when it's your ox getting gored instead of the ox of the people you disagree with.
The problem you have in your incorrect stance is that you have yet learned how to change the station you choose and you cannot tell when you are being lied to in the face of the reality you are living in. Wake up.
Really, 5 dead including police, sorry, I do not listen to 24/7 news in any format. But to justify January 6th ,dem or rep is as un-American as any american can get.
Did you misunderstand? Nancy said five were killed. She was lying. One was killed, and she was an unarmed woman murdered by a DC cop. I don't watch 24/7 news either. I barely watch TV news at all. That is no excuse for being ignorant of the facts.
Nobody has justified what happened on Jan 6. NO ONE. So why do you say that?
Of course it has. It has placed the power of authority into corporate hands, that care not about the people other than they consume, consume, consume and stay lashed to the wheel of debt and corporate control of every aspect of their lives.
You know the word "Citizens" is a pejorative in the U.S. right? Like a Pagan in Christian circles... twas the home of the Free and the Brave - but now it's just the shotgun shack of the Fee and the Slave.
The Uber-wealthy own the media, we are their serfs, it’s as simple as that! Moneyed interest are the puppeteers of our duly elected, which has been the case for years. Excellent example would be the money trust that met on Jekyll Island and formed the Federal Reserve!
This Substack was a rather curious portrayal of our political system. Sharon made a few interesting observations, but the conversation lacked more visceral and substantive context!
That means get the three letter agencies out of media. That means to stem the massive reach and influence of covert intelligence services. People get killed trying to do that but I agree it's a good idea.
Our systems are fully corrupted. How do we fix that?
We make new ones that are more resistant to corruption. Then, we migrate there to solve our problems. We plug our new corruption resistant decentralized and radically transparent systems into our existing corrupted systems in order to fix them.
We should also use collective swarm intelligence systems to govern. This is how we fix corrupt government in 3 simple steps:
Harris more Conservative than Trump? What are you smoking lady? What a joke.
Harris wants to conserve the radical left, anti-conservative, anti-America, anti-Constitutional, pro abortion any time any where, up to birth, anti-1st & 2nd amendment, pro-censorship, pro weaponized gov against its political opponents, pro shut up & do as your told, left wing, tyrannical so-called democrat party, which is not the democrat party of JFK, She is a phony puppet, as is the puppet currently in White House, or should I say on the beach. That's what Harris wants to preserve & when she says Trump is a danger to democracy, what she really means, is he's a danger to the regressive regime that is now in control of the anti-Constitutional Republic that America used to be, before the un-American Biden Harris regime took over, IN MY OPINION, if I'm still allowed an opinion in the new not allowed to question authority, or elections America.
Trump is for Constitution & freedom of speech, of association & the right to protest grievances peacefully, secure borders, women in women's sport & locker rooms, not men, the rule of law, due process to name a few Conservative things, while Harris is opposed to law enforcement & has cheered on defunding the cops. She's a virtual Communist & communism is not a Conservative value.
Many, many political wonks are saying the same thing. This is the first you've heard it? Are you not paying attention at all? Kamala - well, the new Democrats - have more in common with Bush/Cheney and their love of war, their love of Wall Street earnings, their love of authoritarianism in general - than the Republicans.
That it is debunked is part of the lies. You should actually read the Mueller Report AND the most recent DoJ indictment of Russian money paying right-wing journalists. Your complete parroting sentence for sentence of Kremlin propaganda shows just how effectively they took over a US political party.
I have read the report to which you refer, Katherine. Did you? Do you recall the conclusion of said report? Apparently not. Hurry on back to MSNBC so they can dictate your reality for you...
So VP pick of Harris is a guy who honeymooned in Communist China & loves that Communist country, he's been there 50 times. Speaking of the Kremlin, Biden regime weaponizes gov & persecutes political opponents like they do in the Kremlin. He has more in common with Putin than Trump. Their motto is show them the man, they'll find the crime. Interesting Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Trump was in office. He knew better. So far the only things Kremlin takes over, like for example the Crimea, are while leftist democrats are in the White House.
Protest grievances peacefully? After Jan. 6? The orange ogre has not a peaceful cell in his whole hate-spewing being. It never ceases to amaze me that Trump's deluded minions will heed the ravings of a proven liar, cheat, fraud, misogynist, grifter, cheater (both in business and in wedlock), narcissistic, ignorant dolt (I mean, who else goes on record as thinking that the Continental Army seized all the airports during the American Revolution, or that a pandemic in 1917 brought an end to WWII. for God's sake?). He was fined 25mil for defrauding students at his bogus Trump U, he STOLE from his own "charitable" foundation, he has failed to pay thousands of people, including the attorneys who defended him from other plaintiffs who he didn't pay. And he thinks anyone who pays their taxes are dumb, because he said he avoids them because he's smart.
Oh, I give up. Just stick your fingers in your ears and go "La, la, la" and drink some bleach to avoid Covid.
I like the way you tell it. Spirited. Just like the orange ogre.
Yet, for all that, he's the best man for the job.
The other offering may be nowhere near as hateful, lying, cheating, fraudulent, narcissistic, not sure on doltish, and not sure on historical knowledge, as Trump, which makes it all the more amazing that Trump is, nevertheless, the far better prospect for our prosperous and safe, democratic future.
GAWD, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT KAMALA AND HER NEOCONS????
Spare us. We have all heard the FOX NEWS bullshit. He was teaching democracy in China. Lots of teachers work in China. They pay Americans to teach there. Also the REAL conservatives used to keep the date of the crushing of students by tanks by the communists in China as a date that fighters for Democracy hold in remembrance. They work in China to hold the light of freedom, just like the GOP used to before it was taken over by you Putin puppets.
Inheriting 700 million dollars in the 1970's is not making his own success. He borrowed money from North Korea as President (just paid it off before running this time) and took a 10$ million dollar bribe from Egypt while President to do nothing about Egypt's murder of an American journalist. Furthermore, Trump was about to go Bankrupt before he ran in 2016 as no U.S. bank would loan him a dollar (Trump bankrupted Every business- even his Monopolistic CASINOS in Atlantic City!!! Trump wouldn't willingly release his taxes like EVERY other candidate before him, because between 1983-1995 Trump not only lost more money than ANY other person in the U.S., he lost more than TWICE as much as the person that lost the second most amount of money. 12 years, Trump was the Biggest Money loser in the United States.
You may be right about most or all of that stuff. And yet, for President of the United States of America, despite all of that terrible stuff, he is, ironically, far and away the BETTER CHOICE.
How do you explain, then, their newfound love of war, of corporatism, of dictating to others what they need to do with their own healthcare decisions, with woke racism? The examples are frankly endless. As an old-fashioned leftist who DOES pay attention to these things - and whose values haven't changed - I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left ME. The new GOP is more up my - and my leftist friends' - alley: anti-war, anti-authoritarianism, anti-racist, critical of food manufacturers and their poisoning of the food supply (the Dems don't even TALK about this, wonder why?), skeptical of the motives of Big Tech and the billionaires, etc etc etc. I do believe, Joseph, that you're the one not paying attention.
And I didn't even mention the mass surveillance and censorship championed by the party who - at least throughout my lifetime - was typically opposed to such heavy handedness. No more!
I am indeed paying attention, but I was coming at it from a different direction. You raise some good points, and I see the paradox you’re describing. Certainly they are more hawkish than before, but there have always been hawkish Dems. I would offer that many of the issues you point out are the Democrats becoming more open about being about Big Government and Big Money. Also, on some issues (like corporatism), arguably it’s the corporations that have become more leftist. Opportunist as they typically are, they have migrated where they thought the zeitgeist was headed. It’s also probable that many younger management types (Millennials mostly), who are now in the leadership at many companies, have pushed them in a socially liberal direction. Whether that’s true or not across all of business, we agree that it’s true in the Big Tech sector, which the Dem government now finds useful as a tool for controlling the narrative. It’s also worth noting that some of the positions you mention as having been abandoned by Democrats (anti-war, anti-racism) were never the sole province of the Dems or the Left — the Dems just sold it that way. Having said all that, I can see it from your perspective. It’s just that, for me, they’ve moved way left of center on identity politics, abortion (ironically dressing it up as a personal freedom issue), the First and Second Amendments, the welfare state, the size of government, globalism, the founding, and other issues. Granted, Republicans’ (also part of Big Washington) hands aren’t squeaky clean on any of this either, but at least there’s a place for more traditional-minded people to stand on this side.
On a piece of paper. Good grief sheeple. We haven’t been a constitutional republic since WWI. We are a corporate dictatorship, oligarchy. Our “representatives” are bought and paid for.
How about if one of them stops telling bold face lies(about the other) and then repeating said lies as nauseam. All the while knowing their bold face lies and are just trying to win votes by smearing the other guy repeatedly. In my opinion that’s election interference .
I was a former dem when I was younger, but one look at Trump finning in 2015, I was republican. Once I had the best(Trump) President I didn’t want the rest. President Trump loves America and Americans. That’s why the globalists hate him.
Seriously, policy and track record count way more than looks! The ugly car is the lemon that looked good on the showroom floor and doesn’t perform on the road. That’s the Kamala lemon.
Kamala has had years being in office and nothing to show for it. No wifi connected, billions of funds gone where?
Trump had 4yrs of getting stuff done putting Americans first, while being attacked by the Dems: Russia hoax, and a handling a hostile media.
Compare how the media treats Harris, zero fact checking on her 36 bald faced lies in the debate, because she needs propping up.
Now Trump’s next term will be HUGE. The media has largely lost its audience.
Even the Dems are not looking forward to more Biden/Harris-omics.
The ‘Great’ again is pointing to Americans’ ingenuity and manufacturing abilities, bringing back jobs and American innovation.
No tax on tips, over-time and there will be more tax cuts coming under Trump.
Voting for personalities isn’t a thing for people who can read and take an interest in politics. Policies and track record speak way louder.
Trump has accomplishments: successful business and a successful first term.
Harris was placed into her position without due process. She is the most unliked candidate, to such an extent the Dems didn’t even put it to a vote. A DEI not a merit ride to candidacy.
People are way more attuned to the political processes, now more than ever before. Fools no more.
The British Conservative party is well known for its use of the "dead cat" strategy for political campaigns.
Neil Kinnock was denied the Prime Ministership by one such strategy that relied on a totally fabricated "Jennifer's Ear", campaign that focused on the manufactured difficulty experienced by someone seeking medical attention for an ear infection. This was used to shed light on how the National Health Service (NHS) under the British Labour Party was creating problems for seeking medical attention.
The "dead cat strategy" is described as a political tactic where a campaign introduces a shocking or controversial issue to divert attention from negative news or problems.
The name comes from the idea that if you drop a dead cat on a table, everyone will stop discussing the original topic and focus on the cat instead. The Republican party in the US, have embraced that strategy in its entirety, dead cat and all.
The GOP uses this strategy for several reasons; firstly, it serves as a distraction and helps shift the media narrative away from unfavorable coverage, allowing the campaign to regain control of the conversation. So Laura Loomer, Trump's defeat in the debate and JD Vance's fumbling could easily be sidestepped.
Secondly, it fosters engagement, where controversial topics can generate buzz, drawing more media attention and voter interest. Hence, JD Vance's comment to Dana Bash on Sunday on CNN.
The third benefit of the strategy is that it allows for the reframing of issues. It can reframe the political landscape by forcing opponents to respond to the new issue instead of addressing their own shortcomings. So, all of the issues that negatively affect the Trump campaign are drowned out by the immigration issue, purely on the basis of this dead cat strategy. The irony of it all is that the Republicans are so bereft of ideas that they actually use *"dead cats"* to promote the strategy.
While the party of alternative facts may see it as a pragmatic approach to navigating a tough political landscape, the lives of a community that have embraced immigrants in its rebirth are placed under serious threats.
This very manipulative strategy is detrimental to serious discourse on real issues and does nothing to provide clarity to the electorate on the issues that matter. It also further polarized an already divided country and signals a further descent into unchartered territory.
Democracy demands that leaders, even when under pressure, remain focused on the mission of improving the lives of the people they seek to represent. To do anything else is a betrayal of the electorate and a blatant attack on democracy.
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Harris a Communist - the opposite of freedom. Freedom for Abortion snd Gender Queer
Trump is the True Candidate for Freedom - protecting Borders. reduce crime, reducing the size of government - against globalism. Biden/Harris is destroying America. Kamala a liar and a fake!!!!
Harris radical left candidate. She will not state her policy because she is hiding her true beliefs . Abortion up until the day of birth, Govt free money driving inflation up and raising the national debt. She is for fake climate change and for cutting all oil and gas.
Same policies Biden has championed - destroying America. No new wars under Trump. We are on the cusp of WW3 because of Biden and Harris!!!!
Trump is a life long failure as a person and business man. He has never told the truth and what ever you are somehow believing that comes out of his mouth makes you a complete fool.
Biden's been busted for plagiarism, what was it, 17, or 19 times? EZ to lose count. Harris says she'll ban fracking, then she says she won't, but that her values haven't changed. And you have the nerve to call other people fools?
So people aren’t allowed to change their minds?
And please stop with the tit for tat. It’s not going anywhere. My point was Trump has never had an honest successful career. His father gave him money, and bailed him out many times. He filed bankruptcy 5+ times and then borrowed excessively to keep up the illusion of success and when the banks cut him off he went to Oligarchs. The business community in NY stopped taking him seriously more than 30 years ago because of his repeated failures. He’s just not believable.
When Trump was in office, economy good, no wars, Russia invaded things in Ukraine during Obama admin & Biden admin. During Trump admin ISIS destroyed, border secured, affordable gas, no naked men claiming to be women in women's locker rooms, no Drag Queen story hour in kindergarten, no POTUS endorsement of child gender change mutilation surgery, leftist deep state & RINO uniparty exposed. If it was bad for America, Biden's America last admin demonstrated just how much it hates America by flooding its borders with foreign unvetted undocumented democrat invaders. If it's bad for America, the puppet show know as Biden/Harris, are for it. IMO.
conveniently "changing your mind" 2 months before the election on every policy is shady af.
lol. He’s a better person and more successful than you. Far more philanthropic as well. You? Just another cunt on Substack.
Wow, name calling! That's impressive. Dude, you don't know me from adam's house cat. Relax and have an adult conversation. Otherwise, please leave!
Go cry to mumma.
And a sensitive little puss as well. Did you not call someone you don’t know an abject failure? Grow a pair kid. There are no safe spaces out here. You don’t have the moral high ground or even a righteous position to be telling others how to speak. You’re a lightweight!
Trump stuck to his pre-election agenda better than any president in modern history. Had the neo-cons within his party (who are now in power in the dem party) not pushed-back against that agenda, he would have achieved even more of his agenda - and that would have been even better for the nation.
You can lie about failure as you do, you do not even understand what it means, but you cannot lie that Harris has been a life-long fraud, a low-IQ adminstrative state lackey, and a token candidate for the easily swayed morons of the left looking to confirm their biases.
"Failure, liar" those concepts you've been groomed to regurgitate are laughable. But even if true, how do you overlook the lying whore harris and the lying racist braindead biden? We know, by projection.
You're really accusing him of a lot and you should back it up.
I am constantly amazed by the deluded minions who will cling to the coattails of a proven liar, conman, felon, woman-hater and cheat (both in business and in wedlock) like ticks to a stray dog, and reject the massive weight of evidence that he is all of the short list mentioned above.
Let's call this election for what it is: A grudge match (for tRump, anyway). Forget trying to stay out of jail or imposing ultra-right wing policies under a dictatorship. He knows he can duck and dodge his way out of jail time with the aid of his sycophant Scumpreme Court. And he could care less about abortion or other major issues. Trump has stated time and time again that he doesn't get mad (he already is, as a March Hare), he gets even. That is what this is all about. He was beat in the last election and he can't tolerate losing at anything (even though he's lost at business multiple times, but prevailed by scraping up what's left and throwing investors under the bus). His aim is pure revenge against those who conspired against him. as outlined in HIS Project 2025. This is how we should view this election: one man's demented lust for revenge, abetted by his misguided stooges, against the welfare of the nation. Like his hapless victims, he's ready to throw democracy under the bus as well.
Biden/Harris idea of democracy is in its simplest form what is known as mob majority rule, which is what they're attempting to invade the border with, by their undocumented democrat invasion of foreigners who are used to being slaves & will serve the deep state dutifully. America's founders didn't like mob rule, which is why they established a Constitutional Republic. Biden/Harris spit on the Constitution, or ignore it. They reject freedom of speech, the right to question elections, except if Hillary or Stacey Abrams does the questioning, they reject due process, 2nd amendment, trial by jury of peers, and embrace 2 tier injustice system that rewards corruption & persecutes its detractors. Biden/Harris policy is MAD, Make America Destroyed. IMO.
Great comment, thanks
Disturbingly, and illustrating the bizarre state of American political sentiment, your sensible comment has two likes, while an unhinged rant about Harris has 26 likes. If that's an indicator of the election, we're all doomed.
Couldn't agree more
Lots of trolling here,we must keep that in mind, most more than likely do not live in the USA
The content of the comments strongly suggest Americans (that thinking can't be faked!), and most writers and readers on Substack are American.
I'm not American.
Unfortunately it remains true that when America sneezes the rest of us catch a cold. So, we're deeply invested in your election.
Same old BS. Here's the same response.
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Trump stuck to his pre-election agenda better than any president in modern history. Had the neo-cons within his party (who are now in power in the dem party) not pushed-back against that agenda, he would have achieved even more of his agenda - and that would have been even better for the nation.
You can lie about failure as you do, you do not even understand what it means, but you cannot lie that Harris has been a life-long fraud, a low-IQ adminstrative state lackey, and a token candidate for the easily swayed morons of the left looking to confirm their biases.
"Failure, liar" those concepts you've been groomed to regurgitate are laughable. But even if true, how do you overlook the lying whore harris and the lying racist braindead biden? We know, by projection.
Oh shut up. This is absolute nonsense.
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you must be joking😅
AMEN!!
Wow, you really just gobble up anything Trump shoves down your throat, huh? Harris is center-right. There is very little representation of the left wing in the US politics. Also, protecting borders and reducing crime (through the use of authoritarian police forces) are the opposite of freedom. Trump also plans to impose tariffs on all foreign-made products (most of the products we use), which is anti-free trade.
Your nearly illiterate mini-diatribe reads like a parody of what I think MAGAts believe. You certainly express yourself like one.
You are wrong on every single point you tried to make
ROFLMAO!!!!
The increase in national debt is mostly because less tax is collected after the tax cuts for companies and high income earners granted by the Trump administration.
Just once I’d like to see proof of all of those Trump talking points. He can’t even prove what he says, but that doesn’t matter, he knows MAGA doesn’t need to see evidence before they will repeat it.
Kamala is hardly a traditional candidate—she was installed—not one American got to vote for her. She was such a poor candidate when running for 2020 election that she dropped out in December.
Well, Americans will get to vote for her now and she will deliver a very well-deserved drubbing to her misogynistic malignant narcissist challenger, whose only reason for running is to wreak childish vengeance on those who whupped him in 2020. He cares zilch about the country other than it lets him get away with all his lies and scams. Wake up, Liz.
The new Kamala or the old Kamala? The pandering for conservative votes Kamala or the true Kamala. Therein lies the problem with her. Trump you know what you’re getting. Kamala is a wild card. Never received a vote, low ratings before her somehow miraculous rise. Nope!
For what it's worth I'll take the wild card
Americans in particular democrats, didn't vote for her. She was installed by the democratic elite and when they saw that biden couldn't get past the camera that showed clearly his decline that has worsened since his installation in 2020.
If you truly believe in democracy as the u.s. has defined it in 1776, then you would see this.
The way democracy was defined in 1776 only allowed white male landowners to vote. But even then they were pretty flexible on how candidates were chosen.
"Well...." LOL.
You will say or do or give away anything simply to be a team player. Pathetic.
The real problem with her is the same problem with Hillary. Wrong thang.
You might want to interview someone with more knowledge of US politics than this woman. She is coming from a very unusual point of view
Yeah, a really unusual point of view. Like under a rock, or under the bed.
I totally agree. This is not a good interview.
"... showing-up on election day - is better than waiting for a Man with a plan." Did she forget only half the population votes? As if voterism is going to decide whether things 'change' in America. "How will democrats protect Democracy in the future?" Democracy is mob rule lady... Marxists have pretty-much synched that one up I'd say. "Trump only won 'in 16 because of the electoral college - Hillary had the populist voters,"... no election hanky-panky-conspiracy theorists here. Nah American 'political realignment' won't take down America... because like she said, "Dems have discovered taking down opponents dirty feels good." Enough of the Righty Vs. Lefty 'vote harder' paradigm... it's the State and Federal Reserve Vs. You. It's a simple search/fact that 78% of all women will vote democrat... millennial women have even higher numbers of dem voters. Voterism - 'mob rule' Marxism - killed America... too many women married to the government.
Really, and how's that?
The answer is no. We as a country have become uneducated, almost stubbornly stupid. The mainstream media is misleading Americans and people are too lazy to actually look for the facts. On January 6th Trump proved that his base were extremely dangerous and now the Republican Party is scared to death of them. Trump gave them the opportunity to crawl from under the rocks in which they were concealed and they have no reason to crawl back
So, let me see if I've got this straight; you're complaining about stubbornly stupid Americans, and then you make with your sadly disgusting hate speech against Trump and his supporters. That's like a Nazi blaming the Jews for civil strife.
On Jan 6 there was a riot which pales in comparison to the wanton destruction by progressives in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and other cities, ALL SUMMER of 2020. On Jan 6 there was NO insurrection, in spite of Nancy Pelosi and others lying their asses off about it. Nancy told you there were five murders that day. There was only one, when a DC cop murdered unarmed Ashli Babbit. ALL the J 6ers were unarmed. Have you ever seen anyone try overthrow a country with no weapons?
Merick Garland, who would love to throw every Trump supporter in prison just for the pleasure of it, could find no way to charge anyone with insurrection on Jan 6. That means there wasn't one.
Trump violated no law. His challenges to the election were legal, constitutional, and have been done by both parties many times. Perhaps you failed to notice that, in spite of the bluster from TDSers, Trump has been charged with NOTHING concerning Jan 6. Take a hint.
So ,yes, it is sad that there are so many stupid people in America. Perhaps if you broke yourself from a steady diet of CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, PBS, NPR and Nancy Pelosi you might come off looking a little more intelligent.
Those rioters raided and tried to destroy the seat of our federal government and threatened to kill the Vice President. Are you effing kidding me?!?! JM&J! And unless you were comatose that day, every major network covered it live. SMH!
Because you say so? I made a very specific case citing facts. You are spouting gibberish.
And, no, no network except Right Side Broadcasting covered it live. Sure, other networks were in the city, but they weren't covering the riot until after the fact. And if you want to see video, ask yourself why you tolerate Nancy and her cabal locking up over 40,000 hours of security video. The videos were only released after republicans gained control of the House. A rational person would ask, if the videos show an attempted coup, why would Pelosi hide them, and republicans release them? And why has NO one been charged with a coup attempt or insurrection?
It appears that there are some seriously hate-filled people who don't want to let go of the warm pleasant feeling they get from hating Trump. Facts be damned.
You are incorrect. They might not have covered it live in Russia, but I watched it live, alternately on MSNBC and CNN.
As far as no weapons, that is false as well. The dirtbag neo-Nazis and Civil War cosplayers erected a gallows with a noose, many carried flagpoles sharpened into spears, there were knives galore and at least several firearms. At least one cop suffered a heart attack when a bunch of dirtbags took his taser and tased him multiple times. He was lucky to live.
There is not one redeeming quality to Donald & his affinity for murderous totalitarians is creepy and dangerous AF.
There were probably at least 100 feds in that crowd, not to mention several provocateurs, who weren't Trump supporters, who are actually are trying destroy the Constitutional Republic of America, which the so-called democrat party with its puppet leader Biden, spits on. What happened to Fed Ray Epps who yelled & encouraged Capitol breach? Do you know, or care? Was he held accountable? No, because he's a fed. That was a fed-surrection, not an insurrection, compliments of the despicable Nancy Pelosi, who admits in video her daughter made, that she, Nancy was responsible for there not be adequate security at Capitol that day. Even tho all the videos of that day have not been released yet, there's enough on youtube & other internet sites to demonstrate that J6 was a set up. Look up Tarik Johnson capitol cop, who says it was a set up. In case you haven't noticed, the only Americans in political danger these days are those who defy the fascistic Biden regime. Do you actually think there's an equal justice system in America from the Biden Admin? It may not bother you today, but it might someday, when it's your ox getting gored instead of the ox of the people you disagree with.
The problem you have in your incorrect stance is that you have yet learned how to change the station you choose and you cannot tell when you are being lied to in the face of the reality you are living in. Wake up.
Really, 5 dead including police, sorry, I do not listen to 24/7 news in any format. But to justify January 6th ,dem or rep is as un-American as any american can get.
Did you misunderstand? Nancy said five were killed. She was lying. One was killed, and she was an unarmed woman murdered by a DC cop. I don't watch 24/7 news either. I barely watch TV news at all. That is no excuse for being ignorant of the facts.
Nobody has justified what happened on Jan 6. NO ONE. So why do you say that?
Oh please you’re nauseating !
Well that shows you're intellect
How about a counter argument
Rather than a babble of foul language.
The leader of the Proud Boys is doing 25 years. For insurrection. I mean, really? You didn't see the riot at the Capitol?
Exactly, unfettered capitalism has eaten away any requirement for basic human decency
Capitalism needs some fetters, but if you think it’s unfettered, let me introduce you to the FDA, FTC, EPA, the Dept of Agriculture, DOD, etc.
Of course it has. It has placed the power of authority into corporate hands, that care not about the people other than they consume, consume, consume and stay lashed to the wheel of debt and corporate control of every aspect of their lives.
... Marsha Marsha Marsha.
Gee I guess you really like your fellow citizens? Not a good look.
You know the word "Citizens" is a pejorative in the U.S. right? Like a Pagan in Christian circles... twas the home of the Free and the Brave - but now it's just the shotgun shack of the Fee and the Slave.
Kamala harris is a globalist out to destroy America…. Its life or death we dont need any shopping cart
Not marxism or www3 thats for sure… I see I struck a nerve, the truth hurts intellectual wokeness
Wtf are you smoking you deluded freak
No hope for St. Joan. She either lives in an alternate reality or fixes herself in front of the Rachel Maddow show.
Weed makes freaks
Very true!!
You lost me at let’s just switch the names of the parties and then that will explain exactly what’s going on. Moving onto the next post in my feed.
Get money out of politics.
Fix the mainstream media, it's the main driver of the toxicity.
Easier said than done however.
The Uber-wealthy own the media, we are their serfs, it’s as simple as that! Moneyed interest are the puppeteers of our duly elected, which has been the case for years. Excellent example would be the money trust that met on Jekyll Island and formed the Federal Reserve!
This Substack was a rather curious portrayal of our political system. Sharon made a few interesting observations, but the conversation lacked more visceral and substantive context!
That means get the three letter agencies out of media. That means to stem the massive reach and influence of covert intelligence services. People get killed trying to do that but I agree it's a good idea.
The internet n fox
Sadly, Bill Clinton signed the revised Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed FAUX (FOX) news network!
🤣 you mean CNN, ABC, and MSNBC.
Patrick. Oh, how droll.
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Yes it can be unbroken.
Our systems are fully corrupted. How do we fix that?
We make new ones that are more resistant to corruption. Then, we migrate there to solve our problems. We plug our new corruption resistant decentralized and radically transparent systems into our existing corrupted systems in order to fix them.
We should also use collective swarm intelligence systems to govern. This is how we fix corrupt government in 3 simple steps:
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in?r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Good thoughts! Not to be a downer, but I think it can be done in theory, but it won’t be done in reality, at least not for a couple of generations.
Harris more Conservative than Trump? What are you smoking lady? What a joke.
Harris wants to conserve the radical left, anti-conservative, anti-America, anti-Constitutional, pro abortion any time any where, up to birth, anti-1st & 2nd amendment, pro-censorship, pro weaponized gov against its political opponents, pro shut up & do as your told, left wing, tyrannical so-called democrat party, which is not the democrat party of JFK, She is a phony puppet, as is the puppet currently in White House, or should I say on the beach. That's what Harris wants to preserve & when she says Trump is a danger to democracy, what she really means, is he's a danger to the regressive regime that is now in control of the anti-Constitutional Republic that America used to be, before the un-American Biden Harris regime took over, IN MY OPINION, if I'm still allowed an opinion in the new not allowed to question authority, or elections America.
Trump is for Constitution & freedom of speech, of association & the right to protest grievances peacefully, secure borders, women in women's sport & locker rooms, not men, the rule of law, due process to name a few Conservative things, while Harris is opposed to law enforcement & has cheered on defunding the cops. She's a virtual Communist & communism is not a Conservative value.
Many, many political wonks are saying the same thing. This is the first you've heard it? Are you not paying attention at all? Kamala - well, the new Democrats - have more in common with Bush/Cheney and their love of war, their love of Wall Street earnings, their love of authoritarianism in general - than the Republicans.
Great example of the fully brainwashed by Kremlin and its takeover of America. They think the enemy is “the left” Good trick KGB!!
Kremlin😂😂 There was no Russia, Russia, Russia! Where have you been. That was all proven to be false. Putin endorsed Kamala😂
Huh? The Kremlin? Oh...you fell for the debunked Russiagate cop-out! God Help America with simpleton explanations such as this.
That it is debunked is part of the lies. You should actually read the Mueller Report AND the most recent DoJ indictment of Russian money paying right-wing journalists. Your complete parroting sentence for sentence of Kremlin propaganda shows just how effectively they took over a US political party.
I have read the report to which you refer, Katherine. Did you? Do you recall the conclusion of said report? Apparently not. Hurry on back to MSNBC so they can dictate your reality for you...
Um, no.
https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigation-education-project/other-resources/key-findings-of-the-mueller-report/
So VP pick of Harris is a guy who honeymooned in Communist China & loves that Communist country, he's been there 50 times. Speaking of the Kremlin, Biden regime weaponizes gov & persecutes political opponents like they do in the Kremlin. He has more in common with Putin than Trump. Their motto is show them the man, they'll find the crime. Interesting Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Trump was in office. He knew better. So far the only things Kremlin takes over, like for example the Crimea, are while leftist democrats are in the White House.
Could you be any more Lost and space than what you are?
Protest grievances peacefully? After Jan. 6? The orange ogre has not a peaceful cell in his whole hate-spewing being. It never ceases to amaze me that Trump's deluded minions will heed the ravings of a proven liar, cheat, fraud, misogynist, grifter, cheater (both in business and in wedlock), narcissistic, ignorant dolt (I mean, who else goes on record as thinking that the Continental Army seized all the airports during the American Revolution, or that a pandemic in 1917 brought an end to WWII. for God's sake?). He was fined 25mil for defrauding students at his bogus Trump U, he STOLE from his own "charitable" foundation, he has failed to pay thousands of people, including the attorneys who defended him from other plaintiffs who he didn't pay. And he thinks anyone who pays their taxes are dumb, because he said he avoids them because he's smart.
Oh, I give up. Just stick your fingers in your ears and go "La, la, la" and drink some bleach to avoid Covid.
I like the way you tell it. Spirited. Just like the orange ogre.
Yet, for all that, he's the best man for the job.
The other offering may be nowhere near as hateful, lying, cheating, fraudulent, narcissistic, not sure on doltish, and not sure on historical knowledge, as Trump, which makes it all the more amazing that Trump is, nevertheless, the far better prospect for our prosperous and safe, democratic future.
GAWD, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT KAMALA AND HER NEOCONS????
Spare us. We have all heard the FOX NEWS bullshit. He was teaching democracy in China. Lots of teachers work in China. They pay Americans to teach there. Also the REAL conservatives used to keep the date of the crushing of students by tanks by the communists in China as a date that fighters for Democracy hold in remembrance. They work in China to hold the light of freedom, just like the GOP used to before it was taken over by you Putin puppets.
Simply delusional
Simply delusional aren’t you?
Hurray, hip-hip-Hurray!
Totally feel what you say.
I couldn’t have said it better!
Kamala is a puppet for the elites… her whole career she’s been bought. At least Donald Trump made his own success.
Inheriting 700 million dollars in the 1970's is not making his own success. He borrowed money from North Korea as President (just paid it off before running this time) and took a 10$ million dollar bribe from Egypt while President to do nothing about Egypt's murder of an American journalist. Furthermore, Trump was about to go Bankrupt before he ran in 2016 as no U.S. bank would loan him a dollar (Trump bankrupted Every business- even his Monopolistic CASINOS in Atlantic City!!! Trump wouldn't willingly release his taxes like EVERY other candidate before him, because between 1983-1995 Trump not only lost more money than ANY other person in the U.S., he lost more than TWICE as much as the person that lost the second most amount of money. 12 years, Trump was the Biggest Money loser in the United States.
😂😂😂 Fid Mary Trump brainwash you?
You may be right about most or all of that stuff. And yet, for President of the United States of America, despite all of that terrible stuff, he is, ironically, far and away the BETTER CHOICE.
... get it out - get it allll out. Feel better?
If this lady thinks the Democrats are moving to the right, she hasn’t been paying attention for the last 40 years. Much less the last 10.
How do you explain, then, their newfound love of war, of corporatism, of dictating to others what they need to do with their own healthcare decisions, with woke racism? The examples are frankly endless. As an old-fashioned leftist who DOES pay attention to these things - and whose values haven't changed - I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left ME. The new GOP is more up my - and my leftist friends' - alley: anti-war, anti-authoritarianism, anti-racist, critical of food manufacturers and their poisoning of the food supply (the Dems don't even TALK about this, wonder why?), skeptical of the motives of Big Tech and the billionaires, etc etc etc. I do believe, Joseph, that you're the one not paying attention.
And I didn't even mention the mass surveillance and censorship championed by the party who - at least throughout my lifetime - was typically opposed to such heavy handedness. No more!
I am indeed paying attention, but I was coming at it from a different direction. You raise some good points, and I see the paradox you’re describing. Certainly they are more hawkish than before, but there have always been hawkish Dems. I would offer that many of the issues you point out are the Democrats becoming more open about being about Big Government and Big Money. Also, on some issues (like corporatism), arguably it’s the corporations that have become more leftist. Opportunist as they typically are, they have migrated where they thought the zeitgeist was headed. It’s also probable that many younger management types (Millennials mostly), who are now in the leadership at many companies, have pushed them in a socially liberal direction. Whether that’s true or not across all of business, we agree that it’s true in the Big Tech sector, which the Dem government now finds useful as a tool for controlling the narrative. It’s also worth noting that some of the positions you mention as having been abandoned by Democrats (anti-war, anti-racism) were never the sole province of the Dems or the Left — the Dems just sold it that way. Having said all that, I can see it from your perspective. It’s just that, for me, they’ve moved way left of center on identity politics, abortion (ironically dressing it up as a personal freedom issue), the First and Second Amendments, the welfare state, the size of government, globalism, the founding, and other issues. Granted, Republicans’ (also part of Big Washington) hands aren’t squeaky clean on any of this either, but at least there’s a place for more traditional-minded people to stand on this side.
To LMGs’s point:
https://substack.com/@shellenberger/note/c-69522274?r=4t6ju&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
JOSEPH, I think I understand your reaction to the lady, but I hope you read LMG's reply to you. It makes sense.
Thank you, Joe. I did reply to LMG.
It would help if everyone would understand that our Constitution is a Constitutional Republic. NOT A Democracy. Learn the difference.
On a piece of paper. Good grief sheeple. We haven’t been a constitutional republic since WWI. We are a corporate dictatorship, oligarchy. Our “representatives” are bought and paid for.
"... and if voting made a difference it would be illegal." [Mark Twain]
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Yeah, a republic is a democracy. Only Americans are confused on this point.
How about if one of them stops telling bold face lies(about the other) and then repeating said lies as nauseam. All the while knowing their bold face lies and are just trying to win votes by smearing the other guy repeatedly. In my opinion that’s election interference .
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I was a former dem when I was younger, but one look at Trump finning in 2015, I was republican. Once I had the best(Trump) President I didn’t want the rest. President Trump loves America and Americans. That’s why the globalists hate him.
Winning not finning🤣
And I’m praying for our Creator God, Source of everything, to help us get our world better from squabbles and politics.
Seriously, policy and track record count way more than looks! The ugly car is the lemon that looked good on the showroom floor and doesn’t perform on the road. That’s the Kamala lemon.
Kamala has had years being in office and nothing to show for it. No wifi connected, billions of funds gone where?
Trump had 4yrs of getting stuff done putting Americans first, while being attacked by the Dems: Russia hoax, and a handling a hostile media.
Compare how the media treats Harris, zero fact checking on her 36 bald faced lies in the debate, because she needs propping up.
Now Trump’s next term will be HUGE. The media has largely lost its audience.
Even the Dems are not looking forward to more Biden/Harris-omics.
The ‘Great’ again is pointing to Americans’ ingenuity and manufacturing abilities, bringing back jobs and American innovation.
No tax on tips, over-time and there will be more tax cuts coming under Trump.
Voting for personalities isn’t a thing for people who can read and take an interest in politics. Policies and track record speak way louder.
Trump has accomplishments: successful business and a successful first term.
Harris was placed into her position without due process. She is the most unliked candidate, to such an extent the Dems didn’t even put it to a vote. A DEI not a merit ride to candidacy.
People are way more attuned to the political processes, now more than ever before. Fools no more.
You’re not living in reality.
If she’s “Americas Government Teacher”, we should all be worried.
*TAKING THE DEAD CAT STRATEGY TOO FAR*
The British Conservative party is well known for its use of the "dead cat" strategy for political campaigns.
Neil Kinnock was denied the Prime Ministership by one such strategy that relied on a totally fabricated "Jennifer's Ear", campaign that focused on the manufactured difficulty experienced by someone seeking medical attention for an ear infection. This was used to shed light on how the National Health Service (NHS) under the British Labour Party was creating problems for seeking medical attention.
The "dead cat strategy" is described as a political tactic where a campaign introduces a shocking or controversial issue to divert attention from negative news or problems.
The name comes from the idea that if you drop a dead cat on a table, everyone will stop discussing the original topic and focus on the cat instead. The Republican party in the US, have embraced that strategy in its entirety, dead cat and all.
The GOP uses this strategy for several reasons; firstly, it serves as a distraction and helps shift the media narrative away from unfavorable coverage, allowing the campaign to regain control of the conversation. So Laura Loomer, Trump's defeat in the debate and JD Vance's fumbling could easily be sidestepped.
Secondly, it fosters engagement, where controversial topics can generate buzz, drawing more media attention and voter interest. Hence, JD Vance's comment to Dana Bash on Sunday on CNN.
The third benefit of the strategy is that it allows for the reframing of issues. It can reframe the political landscape by forcing opponents to respond to the new issue instead of addressing their own shortcomings. So, all of the issues that negatively affect the Trump campaign are drowned out by the immigration issue, purely on the basis of this dead cat strategy. The irony of it all is that the Republicans are so bereft of ideas that they actually use *"dead cats"* to promote the strategy.
While the party of alternative facts may see it as a pragmatic approach to navigating a tough political landscape, the lives of a community that have embraced immigrants in its rebirth are placed under serious threats.
This very manipulative strategy is detrimental to serious discourse on real issues and does nothing to provide clarity to the electorate on the issues that matter. It also further polarized an already divided country and signals a further descent into unchartered territory.
Democracy demands that leaders, even when under pressure, remain focused on the mission of improving the lives of the people they seek to represent. To do anything else is a betrayal of the electorate and a blatant attack on democracy.