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Election 2024 – Random Thoughts
Some random thoughts on Trump's reelection.
Trump's win in 2024 does not prove that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats but it raises a new stink about the issue.
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When Biden was pushed out of the race there were calls among Democrats not to rush a choice, but to hold full-fledged primaries. Barack Obama had called for it. But Nancy Pelosi and the Clinton clan kept pushing for Harris. As a vacuous and unlikable person – carrying all the baggage of the Biden administration – she was the most likely to lose.
This is, hopefully, the end of wokeism and DEI nonsense. And of 'trans' children and teens.
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To send Bill Clinton to Michigan to justify the mass killing of Palestinians was not a good idea. The 2024 result in Dearborn, Michigan, a 90% Muslim area that Biden had won with 88% of the vote:
- Trump: 46.8%
- Harris: 27.68%
- Stein: 22.11%
The Democrats will blame various groups – Muslim, progressives, youths – who's opinions and desires they had ignored, for their loss. And of course Russia.
Trump won the working class:
Jeff Stein @JStein_WaPo – 14:27 UTC · Nov 6, 2024
Staggering class realignment/shift in working class
Harris lost DESPITE major shift of affluent voters her way
2020: Trump wins voters over $100K, 54-52
2024: *Harris* wins voters over $100K, 54-45
2020: Biden wins voters $50K-$100K, 57-42
2024: *Trump* w/ voters $50K-$100K, 49-47
2020: Biden wins voters under $50K, 55-45
2024: Trump massive improvement w/ voters under $50K, 49-48
Harris had more billionaires on her side:
The Billionaire-ification of the U.S. Election
For the 2024 election, a staggering $15.9 billion has been spent on ads and campaigning by both Democrats and Republicans, making it the most expensive election in history; in just one week, nearly $1 billion has been poured into political ads.
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Eighteen percent of all political ad funding has come straight from the pockets of a tiny handful of America’s mega-rich. In fact, according to USA Today, Harris has 83 billionaires supporting her—making up 6% of her campaign funds, according to Al Jazeera—while 52 are backing Trump, but they’re extremely generous donors, making up 34% of his campaign fund.
In other words: the country’s wealthiest are bankrolling the election, wielding political power and influence like never before. Not only is this bad news for democracy, it’s catastrophic for the planet.
Trump is unlikely to have a full term. J.D. Vance will become president. He is the future of the Republican party.
Here’s my worry, nobody in the DNC has the authenticity to mobilize the American working class to the world war they have in the works, they planned it all out perfectly since 1997 except for a little bugaboo, no public trust left from the neoliberal breakdown, I really think they believed neoliberalism was functional and would leave enough prosperity around to maintain the legitimacy of the government but it all went down the toilet.
Trump on the other hand does have the needed credibility, fraudulent but when has that ever mattered, he’s the only one in the American political spectrum that can flip the narrative for the march to war – jingoism, enlistment drives, yellow ribbons and all that jazz. Trump is world class at making China an existential danger to middle America, that’s his element, he makes hating China fun, he’s the perfect MC for the China boogieman show, especially after all the claims he made about wanting peace so badly. A phony man of peace can best sell a war, it might really be that well thought out.
When Trump talks of 100% tariffs on any country trying to avoid the dollar, and it’s one of the few things he’s not talking shit over, he’s talking about protecting the petrodollar and the hegemony that it created, not the greenback people use at home to buy groceries and pay the mortgage, the 100% tariff thing itself is nonsense, it’s code for war, the petrodollar is what allowed the hegemony but also the de-industrialization and disinvestment of the USA, empowered China, and India and Russia, and made enemies of the global south, painted us into a corner and has us now rushing towards the last Great War of the colonial era, which is what WW3 actually is. Trump/Vance are every bit the neocon team players as Biden, Harris, HRC, Obama, the transition to Trump and his MAGA movement is exactly what the warmongers need going ahead.
Hope I’m wrong and Trump actually rises to the occasion as a statesman and prevents WW3, but the system is bulwarked to prevent that, and despite the bloviating Trump is lazy and an accommodator, decent people like Tulsi and RFKjr are sold on him, but Trump is all bullshit all the time, he sees the American people as rubes in his casino, which sadly is what they are. I think Tulsi and RFKjr are in for a let down. Trump’s made his deal with the GOP which is why they are fully behind him this time, so it’s a deal the GOP likes, that’s key here, and peace isn’t something they like any more than the blood covered Democrats.
Heel-Face turn in the kayfabe, and Trump is the Face they need for war.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 6 2024 21:53 utc | 111
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 6 2024 18:43 utc | 24
The US didn’t “help” the Cuban Revolution, at most, in the end, it didn’t prevent its victory.
Mostly for two reasons:
-Batista had become too cumbersome
-when the revolution triumphed, it was Fidel’s M-19 that triumphed, not the Communist Party, and Fidel, at the time, was not and did not claim to be a communist.
The Cuban Communists, and even more so the Russians, didn’t trust Fidel first, suspecting him of being an adventurer or, worse still, an anarchist.
The first clandestine meetings of the M-19 in Havana were held in clandestine anarchist places, not communist ones.
Russians preferred his brother Raoul, an orthodox communist.
The USA and its agencies thought they could do with Fidel Castro, that it would be possible to turn him around.
There are many US media reports, made just after the Triumph, where Castro is presented in a favorable, sympathetic light.
This is probably one of the biggest failures of the empire’s agencies, they had not understood who they were dealing with : unable to detect and then unable to eliminate.
The rest is simple, in short while Fidel was looking for a new way and sovereignty by trading with the USA and the USSR, the US refineries refused to process the crude that Cuba bought from the Russians.
Without hesitation Fidel nationalized and expropriated.
The US responded by taking sanctions, the Cubans nationalized all the US companies present on the island.
Also, Fidel took control of the communist party of which he did not become a simple member but the president. which allowed him to obtain help from the USSR. Clever, right?
From that moment on, the USofA, usually through subcontractors, attempted countless times to assassinate Fidel. On the one hand, Fidel was very well protected, but above all, he benefited from luck that defied reason. A large number of these attempts, particularly in the early years of the revolution, remained attempts only thanks to luck (a delay, a vehicle that broke down, a shot that didn’t go off, etc.), luck that contributed to the aura and support that Fidel had from Cubans, a good number of whom (even within the party) practice religion(s) where luck has meaning.
Posted by: Tak-Tik | Nov 7 2024 0:54 utc | 154
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