i dont see how democrats keep choosing such deeply insincere and dislikable characters like kamala and hillary. every sentence seems like a fucking sleazy scam. the laughs are so fake. its terrible. do they think we voters dont notice this? dont they know we vote on likability? clinton is a charming fellow. the bush seem like nice guys. even obama seems fairly nice. but hillary is clearly an evil cunt, as is kamala. these are people who have one charactierstic: ambition/thirst for power . and its so phony! remmeber when those balloons fell from the stage and hillary gawked at them like she was a 4 year old gleefully seeing something no one has ever seen? so phony! the facial expressions, the laugh, the condescending tones. its unbearable. i just dont understand how the dem party doesnt choose someone a little more believable. well, i guess i do know. they needed a black woman. yang seems like a nice guy. mayor pete seems cool. beto seems like a fuckface. booker is crazy. klobachar seemed like a cunt but at least she seemed like a sincere cunt. but they are not black women, and blacks vote as a single group all together, and dems must motivate them to go to the polls. but i dunno if it will work. barack could pass for a real black person. kamala? not close.
The Dems do gravitate to some idiots. What you say is certainly the conventional wisdom. I don’t get it. If Trump is 1/10 the arch-racist as the liberals portray him, how in God’s name would that not be enough to motivate every black voter in the country, either alive or dead, to vote for his opponent. Just don’t see why either President or VP are required to excite black voters when the alternative is 4 more years of Trump, a man the liberals detest at every turn.
Because his opponent was besties with a fucking klansman. I'm not talking about David Duke said some shit that was unsolicited I mean he loved this guy, said he was his inspiration and all that other glad handed shit. He then gave the eulogy at the fuckers funeral. Voted against the civil rights act, co wrote the bill that locked up half the black youth in America. For fucks sake Joe and the ho are responsible for the most black incarcerations in this country since Jim Crow. Yeah, solid choice those people have.
What’s in Joe Biden’s platform? 543 pages of mind numbing gibberish and lies. I Read Joe Biden's 564 Pages of Empty Promises So You Don't Have To By P.J. O'Rourke Dear reader, You're welcome. Now I'll tell you what you're thanking me for... I just read Joe Biden's presidential campaign platform so you don't have to. If you're thinking, "Thanks anyway, but I'll read it for myself," think again... Joe has 43 exhaustively detailed platform planks. My print-out totaled 564 pages, and that's not counting the pleas for campaign donations and campaign volunteers tacked onto the end of each document or the full text of "Joe's Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic" that sends you down a rabbit hole of links to everything Joe has ever said about the coronavirus. I burned through an ink cartridge and wasted more than a reforestation's worth of copy paper. (Joe has a plan for reforestation – Joe has a plan for everything.) I used up three pads of Post-It notes, dried out four highlighter pens, and spent three days I'll never get back reading and annotating Joe's platform. In the middle of the second day, I had to lie down in a darkened room with a cold compress on my forehead. But although Joe has a plan for everything and can't shut up when explaining his plans, he doesn't make it easy to find out exactly what these plans are. (And perhaps that's a wise move for someone trying to attract "Anybody-But-Trump" moderate voters.) If you care to repeat my reading experience, you'll have to go to the "Joe Biden for President: Official Campaign Website" and get past all the pestering for donations and amateurish videos of Joe interacting with highly diverse and moderately enthusiastic supporters until you find the little "Menu" icon among the screen clutter. Click on that, and you'll be presented with a list of (not very enticing) options. Ignoring "Home," "Joe's Story," "Action Center," "The Latest," "Store," "How to Vote," and "En Español," click on "Joe's Vision." This will take you to "Bold Ideas." Beneath that heading, there's an array of 43 boxes similar to Jeopardy! categories. (And unless you lack any political conservatism whatsoever and are bereft of every libertarian principle, the "jeopardy" comparison is apt.) What you find when you open the first box sets the tone: The Biden Plan to Secure Environmental Justice and Equitable Economic Opportunity in a Clean Energy Future... While Rubbing His Tummy and Patting His Head and Spinning a Plate on His Toe OK, I invented the last part, but you get the general idea. And please excuse me for reprinting (without invention) the exquisitely dull paragraph that follows. It, in turn, sets the tone for how Biden's general ideas are specifically presented. The current COVID-19 pandemic reminds us how profoundly the energy and environmental policy decisions of the past have failed communities of color – allowing systemic shocks, persistent stressors, and pandemics to disproportionately impact communities of color and low-income communities. That's Joe telling us what he's going to do about pollution. His "It's the End of the World – Poor and Minorities Hardest Hit" attitude persists through all 564 pages. So does the pretentious and silly verbiage – "disproportionately impact," "persistent stressors," "systemic shocks," "environmental justice," etc. Every one of the 43 platform planks seems to have been written by perfervid freshmen political-science majors in a dorm room bull session after taking methamphetamine. To give the briefest of examples, there's this phrase from "The Biden Plan for Combating Coronavirus (COVID-19)": "Stand up a Pandemic Testing Board to massively surge a nationwide campaign..." The platform planks are numbingly repetitious, full of grammatical errors, and occasionally just stupid. The little Jeopardy box that you open to read Joe's policy prescriptions for increasing the physical safety of women is labeled "The Biden Plan for Violence Against Women." However, the real problem with Joe's campaign platform is quantitative not qualitative. All presidential candidates make a lot of promises, but there is a point where "a lot" turns into a multitude, a profusion, a passel, a slew, oodles, scads, heaps, piles, and – frankly – a shitload. And then the promises, by dint of sheer number, become lies... Joe is lying his head off. He promises a carbon-pollution-free power sector by 2035, a net-zero emissions national economy by 2050, and the creation of "millions of jobs producing clean electric power for American families and businesses," presumably by rubbing our socks on the carpet and touching the doorknob. Plus, Joe promises "decarbonizing the food and agriculture sector." This is strange because I was under the impression that almost all the food we eat comes from carbon-based life forms. If we have any food to eat... Joe comes very close to promising the nationalization of agriculture with a declaration that new agricultural technologies and seed stocks "should be developed and owned by the American people, not private companies who can use patents to expand profits." And he comes close again in his proposal for "making sure small and medium-sized farms and producers have access to fair markets... and get fair prices." Here come price controls. Joe promises to create 250,000 jobs plugging abandoned gas and oil wells and reclaiming abandoned mines, part of his promise for "conserving 30% of America's lands and waters by 2030." Quit splashing in that mud puddle, Johnny, it's a national park. Joe promises 1 million new jobs in the American auto industry, although he also promises to establish "ambitious fuel economy standards," raise the gas tax, build the "cleanest, safest, fastest rail system in the world," and provide public transit for every city with a population of more than 100,000. (Bend, Oregon gets light rail! To take you to – according to Wikipedia – the last remaining officially licensed Blockbuster video store in the world.) Also, I'm sure the 1 million new auto-industry workers will be interested to hear Joe's lament that "families rely on cars, which can be a big financial burden [and] clog roadways." Those roadways, Joe promises, will have 500,000 electric-vehicle charging stations. But you won't need them because Joe promises "new highways that can charge electric cars while in transit" (and add a spark to the lives of America's school-crossing guards). Unfortunately, the highways won't work for Uber drivers... because there won't be any Uber drivers. Joe promises "tough enforcement to end the misclassification of workers as independent contractors" and to make sure that "workers in the 'gig economy'" receive "full benefit packages."
Gentlemen, Ladies and Kikicaca... We are now 78 days from Election Day. This is the weekly update on where the battleground states stand to date. This week marks four weeks since I started tracking these numbers. Today I will break down the "Safe" states for each candidate, the "Lean" states for each candidate and then the remaining battleground states. The criteria for getting into the "Lean" category is four consecutive weeks polling outside the margin of error. First for the Safe states for each candidate, which have not changed since I started putting this thread together. These leave Biden with 186 Safe electoral votes and Trump with 126. Now for the Leans category: Biden - Colorado - 9 electoral votes - polling average has remained steady at 13 point lead for Biden Florida - 29 electoral votes - first polling average was a 6 point lead for Biden, today it is 5.8 for Biden New Hampshire - 4 electoral votes - polling average has remained stead at 13 point lead for Biden New Mexico - 5 electoral votes - polling average has remained steady at 14 point lead for Biden Michigan - 16 electoral votes - polling average was 6 point lead for Biden, today it is 6.9 for Biden Minnesota - 10 electoral votes - polling average was 7 point lead for Biden, today it is 6.8 for Biden Pennsylvania - 20 electoral votes - polling average was 6.2 lead for Biden, today it is 6.1 for Biden Virginia - 13 electoral votes - polling average was remained steady at 11 points for Biden Wisconsin - 10 electoral votes - polling average was 4.4 point lead for Biden, today it is 6.1 for Biden This would leave Biden with 302 electoral votes. Trump has no Leans at this time Remaining battleground's look like this: Arizona - 11 electoral votes - Biden leads by 3.8 percent. Georgia - 16 electoral votes - Trump leads by 0.7 percent Iowa - 6 electoral votes - Trump leads by 0.6 percent Nevada - 6 electoral votes - Biden leads by 4 points North Carolina - 15 electoral votes - Biden leads by 0.7 percent Ohio - 18 electoral votes - Trump leads by 2 percent Texas - 38 electoral votes - Trump leads by 1.2 percent If the election were held today Biden would win by a margin of 334-204, unchanged from last week. Democratic convention this week followed by the Republican convention next week. I would imagine we might see some movement during and after the two conventions. That said, this year is so different from any other, who knows.
