Comments on: Here’s a question

By: non servator

non servator — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 04:45:17 +0000

Shane: How do you do, fellow right-winger?

And if you are not pretending: Your edgelord take on the “libertarian macho flash” routine intimidates absolutely no one, and does not serve to portray you as more principled, more educated, or more right-wing than the next guy.

By: cheeflo

cheeflo — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:32:50 +0000

There’s a lot of buzz about Bernie actually having a shot at defeating Trump. I cannot begin to believe this could happen, in spite of his apparent popularity among the young, the stupid, and the parasites. After 2016, with Hillary ordained as the certain winner and a permanent Democratic majority predicted, there isn’t a poll I find credible anymore and that includes the historically reliable ones.

The numbers in November are going to be interesting, maybe even a revelation. Trump is running on an impressive record, short as it is, while all of the Dem candidates spout the same bullsh!t about what they’re going to do, promising to undo everything Trump has accomplished. Bloomberg is the only one of them that understands that capitalism isn’t going anywhere, but he continues to pander to people who will never vote for him.

I don’t think people will swap their current circumstances and satisfaction with the way the country is going for a pig-in-a-poke, especially if that pig is talking about taking away their livelihoods, assets, and liberty. The Dems are twisted enough to hope for a black swan event like an economic crisis or a pandemic disease just to unseat Trump. It’s just not a winning platform.

By: Egg0

Egg0 — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:38:59 +0000

I once saw The Dwindling Few open for Nirvana.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:43:01 +0000

AesopFan at 4:00 pm.

In the 1980s Jewish “refusenics” were allowed to leave the USSR and come to the US. My mother was a member of HIAS, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and would help acclimate the women to the US. She said that without fail, the first time one of the refugee women would walk into a supermarket, she would simply stop and start crying. The abundance and quality were just unimaginable for someone from Russia.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:30:46 +0000

Here’s a possible answer to why young Democrats are not afraid of Bernie’s communism-lite socialism: it’s what they’ve been taught in school to prefer.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/27/dear-joe-scarborough-more-americans-hate-america-than-you-think/

Not only have American public schools now failed for generations to bestow a knowledge of and respect for their own country’s magnificent political achievements and uniqueness, they have begun open political indoctrination that feeds this ignorance with lies. The United States is now host to large numbers of citizens who believe that theirs is an evil country, with no exposure to facts and viewpoints that contradict this opinion.

It has been long known that American “education” institutions are spectacular failures at teaching the rising generation about their birthright to self-governance.
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2019’s annual poll from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that 37 percent of millennials think the United States is “among the most unequal societies in the world.” Despite their curricula’s obsession with so-called multiculturalism and diversity, they clearly have zero sense of what life is like in most of the world, and how that contrasts with the United States’ singular freedoms and opportunities.

I guess they never saw that video of grocery stores in the USSR.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:00:33 +0000

Here’s another question:
The video embedded here was made in the USSR in 1989; why does anyone in America still think communism “worked” — or would ever have worked — in the Soviet Union, or anywhere else?
(HINT: it has been as bad or worse everywhere it’s been tried).

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/13/how-a-russians-grocery-store-trip-in-1989-exposed-the-lie-of-socialism/

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:32:42 +0000

Here’s a cartoon that doesn’t really answer the question, but is tangentially connected.

https://www.trumparea.com/_pics/sorry-he-cant-talk-right-now.jpg

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:31:39 +0000

They are really worried and don’t have a clue what they can do.
Sad.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:31:38 +0000

LeClerc on February 28, 2020 at 7:20 am said:
Here’s an expression of the real anxieties of the MSM by OCD media foot-soldier A.B. Stoddard:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/28/dems_cant_wait_until_the_convention_to_stop_sanders_142514.html
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Sanders is their Trump, and they MADE him happen (“a choice not a necessity”).
At least the Republicans didn’t have any forewarning about The Donald’s support level in 2016, but the DNC knew what Sanders almost pulled off that year.

Maybe it’s time to pass them The Stupid Party Trophy for a while.

My question: why did both parties allow someone not a member-in-long-time-good-standing (a registered Independent and a very-recently-registered Republican) run on their tickets?

None of this party affiliation and control are in the Constitution; maybe we should institute a “none of the above” generic third party and run a primary for everyone not a member of one of the big two.

By: KyndyllG

KyndyllG — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:32:50 +0000

Ultimately, Bernie’s “sincerity” is the thing that makes him most terrifying. He really does not care if the great unwashed masses end up in dilapidated squalor with unreliable water and power, eating zoo animals. True believers in communism, which Bernie really is, will shrug off whatever violence and atrocious living conditions come with their glorious revolution. The dumbsh1ts willing to vote for him were either never taught this, or they know enough but assume it will never apply to them or anyone they like.