Comments on: The right is in a bind

By: Bill Serra

Bill Serra — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:54:45 +0000

If these bastards could manage to concoct 81 million votes for this dessicated old fool–11 million more than “historic” Obama in 2008 & 15 million more than “historic” Hillary in 2016–than you can bet they’ll do it again no matter who runs in 2024.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:16:52 +0000

@Rufus T. Firefly:Robert Kennedy, Jr. has thrown his hat into the ring on the Dem side. That is no, minor issue for Joseph Biden.

Bernie’s too old. Kennedy’s the new Bernie, that’s all. There’s no threat. The superdelegates decide like they did with Obama and with Hillary Clinton and with Biden. It’s not 1980 anymore. You still seem to think that voting and voters matter. They don’t. It’s who controls the process.

Bernie and Kennedy are the football that the Democratic Establishment promises the progressives they’ll get to kick if they just Vote Harder. If Kennedy looks like he’s starting to win primaries the same shenanigans that happened with Biden in 2016 will happen again.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:58:13 +0000

Barry Meislin,

As I wrote on the Open Thread; Robert Kennedy, Jr. has thrown his hat into the ring on the Dem side. That is no, minor issue for Joseph Biden. Kennedy is no shrinking violet. Has strong opinions opposite Biden on some key issues and has tremendous name recognition among Democrats.

Having Trump, DeSantis or some other twin of Hitler as his opposition is much easier for Biden than having to address real, substantive criticisms from his own team.

By: stan

stan — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:33:32 +0000

huxley,

That various people in a land of millions have engaged in hyperbole over the years is not a logical rebuttal to any assessment of the stakes in 2024.

I don’t see any possible way that any honest observer can disagree that we are facing corruption and criminality on a scale never before seen. That matters.

Political prisoners, rampant censorship, plots by the CIA, FBI, NSA and a host of other govt agencies against Republicans — this is some serious s+%t.

Election fraud on a scale never before seen. It matters.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:01:42 +0000

The long and short of it:
“The Trump Trials: Changing the Subject”—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19570/trump-trials
Opening graf:
“What’s a politician to do? Going into a presidential election year, the incumbent president looks to be facing a difficult reelection campaign. Persistently high inflation numbers remain a problem. Energy prices are still up. America’s southern border is being overrun with illegal border-crossers and fentanyl. Major bank failures have raised the specter of a banking crisis. There are multiple House of Representatives investigations covering Biden family finances, the weaponization of government agencies, China, and the origins of COVID. For the current administration and its supporters, the answer is as easy as it is familiar: change the subject to Donald Trump….”

By: Turtler

Turtler — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:52:02 +0000

@BrooklynBoy

You again. Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it is gone, and I hadn’t realized how much I had enjoyed the blog without your own dishonest, trollish, cretin asshole clogging it up. I’ve vigorously contested with a great deal of people I deem going too far in condemnation of Trump, and a few who I feel do not go far enough, but they are almost never completely one dimensional or unable to talk of other matters or reasons.

You on the other hand? You STRUGGLE to reach one dimensionality and can rarely sustain it for long without slipping back beneath it.

There is no way that Ron DeSantis would ever team up with the cretinous Donald J. Trump after the latter has trashed him so childishly.

I think you greatly underestimate both men, especially DeSantis. They have worked together before, as Sarah Rolph shows.

When Trump loses in 2024, he (Trump) will already have started planning for another run in 2028.

For once I can actually believe that. Let it never be said that I am not prepared to acknowledge a possible truth, even when it comes from a displaced troll.

By: Sarah Rolph

Sarah Rolph — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:39:29 +0000

I think it’s possible that Trump and DeSantis could team up in the end. After all, Trump did eventually endorse Cruz, right? If Trump is still strong in a year, I can see DeSantis negotiating with him to create a winning ticket. I think it all depends what happens between now and whenever the field shakes out. I have a bad feeling that things will much, much worse a year from now, both economically and from the perspective of national security.

By: Rich Cook

Rich Cook — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:37:56 +0000

When the voters themselves are compromised the only direction is down.

By: BrooklynBoy

BrooklynBoy — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:07:43 +0000

There is no way that Ron DeSantis would ever team up with the cretinous Donald J. Trump after the latter has trashed him so childishly. When Trump loses in 2024, he (Trump) will already have started planning for another run in 2028.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:09:16 +0000

It is a certainty that we shall all vote for the republican candidate in 2024. If that candidate wins, though on life support, America will live to fight another day. If the Democrats win, the Republic is over and beyond resuscitation.

–Geoffrey Britain

I’ve been hearing this every four years since 1960. I just don’t believe it anymore.

Things can certainly get worse or … get better.

But if every election were really the Make-or-Break one I would already be in a reeducation camp by now or living in the ruins of the last world war.