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U.S. Election Thread 2016-05
- Clinton selects Kaine, a "moderate" right winger somewhat left to her, as her Vice President candidate. "Screw all progressives," she said.
- Trump selects right winger Pence as his Vice President candidate. "Blah, blah, blah," he said while no one at the lunatic Republican National Convention listened.
- The Democratic National Committee under its Zionist leader Wasserman-Schultz had from day one on schemed against other primary candidates to get Clinton elected. (True even if some of the leaked DNC emails may well be fakes.)
- Sanders proved he was fake himself when he sold out to Clinton and endorsed her.
That's my take. Yours may vary.
More bad stuff ’bout the Greens.
Her hometown paper, The Boston Globe believes there is A new low for Jill Stein.
Criticize the Obama administration’s record on deportations, or Clinton herself as too hawkish, sure. But making the Democrat’s shortcomings in those areas equivalent to those of a guy who wants to build a wall, expel millions, intimidate the press, revive torture, and have the military commit war crimes, is so ridiculous I feel stupid just typing it.
Yeah, a dirty job, somebody’s gotta do it. Fortunately, many hands make light work.
Salon may be a bit dismissive of leftist economics, but it is spot on about Steins anti-scientific vaxxer stand as “in keeping with the last official Green Party platform, from 2014, which supports the ‘teaching, funding, and practice’ of ‘alternative therapies’ such as naturopathy and homeopathy, i.e. funneling money into quack medicine….” It also gets on her as well about cheap moral equivalence. Stein is not the leader the left is looking for.
Finally, I would be remiss not to note the plainly self-interested way in which Stein elides the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. This is, of course, standard third-party politicking. But in Stein’s case, it’s especially egregious. Her 2015 response to the State of the Union is replete with comments about how Barack Obama “led the charge for austerity” and “made the Bush tax cuts permanent.” Obama did, of course, team with John Boehner to push for a grand bargain to raise taxes and cut entitlements—a push that failed, by the way. He also made some, though not all, of Bush’s cuts permanent. But he did so in the face of a radicalized Republican opposition that has repeatedly threatened not to raise the debt ceiling (which, according to Stein’s On the Issues page, she also opposed raising, preferring a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts—the definition of austerity) and at one point followed through on its threat to shut down the government. To ignore that is to blind yourself to eight years of political history.
Emphasis added above.
I was at a cabin in the woods on vacation, so I didn’t get a chance to have any fun with this bit of old news. How could calling on two foreign powers to dig up what you think are incriminating emails on you opponent not be an act of treason? Incitement, maybe aiding and abetting, of espionage, no?
The Donald has since gone on to claim it was “sarcasm,” though the clip seemed to lack the typical signifiers. And the Huffpost item, even before the sarcasm spin was announced, I think, notes that he tweeted the prompt again, also in earnest.
That he bragged about his Chinese and Russian friends helping him with the earlier hack of the DNC makes his order of the same again quite plausible.
Well with a nice load of compost, courtesy of The Donald, time to get back to Junior’s Farm. “Low life, high life, oh, let’s go/Take me down to Junior’s Farm.”
Posted by: rufus magister | Aug 3 2016 2:18 utc | 131
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