[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JuanP', '[')b]"Make Way for Kamala Harris, the Deep State's Dream President"
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/ ... president/

I deeply dislike KH, as I suspect a majority of Americans do; her record as a prosecutor is extremely disagreeable. She seems to lack any redeeming qualities as a person. I really would love to have a minority woman as US President; I've often stated here that Tulsi Gabbard was my favorite presidential candidate in the 2020 election.

I seriously fear that having someone as KH as US President would be counterproductive to the advancement of minority and women's rights, though. She's not as bad a sociopathic, narcissistic, murdering bitch as Hillary Clinton is, but the potential for evil is obviously there, and, if empowered, it could bloom. She seems to completely lack empathy.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', ' ')First job accomplished: Win over Donald Trump. Now, what's next?

[Newfie]

Just to add a different perspective, here is an opinion piece summarizing the Israeli political history and present. We (me) lament the 2 party system, hut the multi-party way seems to he having its own difficulties. What is common is that the same old, same old political hacks remain in the spotlight.

Would term limits help?

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021 ... ons-circus

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'J')ust to add a different perspective, here is an opinion piece summarizing the Israeli political history and present. We (me) lament the 2 party system, hut the multi-party way seems to he having its own difficulties. What is common is that the same old, same old political hacks remain in the spotlight.

Would term limits help?

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021 ... ons-circus

[Ibon]

An additional thought. Recalling what I read about some indigenous cultures the chief held his position somewhat tenuously based on how the tribe accepted him as leader. This selected for a leader who SERVED his people and his position as chief was dependent on that. That is not politics by the way just leadership.

Once you get above the tribal level of a couple of hundred people this direct link between service in leadership is weakened. That is where politics begins.

Politics is n unavoidable attribute of civilization or any agglomeration of more than a couple of hundred humans.

Even when revolutions allow the common people to win back a bit of accountability it has no staying power. The Machiavellian personalities of politicians will always undermine the commons for self gain.

[Plantagenet]

Senate Ds call out Biden on racism and vow to block all Biden cabinet appointees

duckworth-hirono-biden-block-all-Biden-nominees

Senator Duckworth (D) and Senator Hirono (D) are vowing to block Biden nominees from being confirmed by the Senate because Biden's appointees don't include enough Asians. They have enough of this racist discrimination against Asians by Biden.

When you add Duckworth and Hirono to the 50 Rs in the Senate, there are enough votes to block EVERY Biden nominee.

Of course, all Biden has to do to fix this problem is tell his current nominees that their nominations are now withdrawn and then replace them with Asian nominees. But if he picks black nominees to withdraw, won't black D Senators decide to block all Biden nominations? And I can't see the Biden Hispanic nominees being willing to stand down so Asians can take their place either.

This is where identity politics inevitably take us------the skin color of the nominee is now the the most important thing to be considered by Biden and the Ds.

Cheers!

[JuanP]

"Killer talk: Democrats & liberal media whip up anti Russia, anti GOP hysteria to hide their misedeeds, but this ploy will fail"
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/518949-democra ... sia-biden/

"The Biden White House is quickly painting itself into a corner on the global and domestic fronts, labeling anyone outside of the Democratic franchise in the harshest terms. Is American hubris so bad it has forgotten diplomacy?
In the paranoid mindset of the Biden administration, sequestered as it is behind a barbed-wire enclosure it erected following the “insurrection” of January 6, enemies are everywhere. From the purported white supremacists and ‘domestic terrorists’ that fill the rosters of the Republican Party, to the “killer” inside of the Kremlin who apparently has nothing better to do these days than meddle in US elections, the list is a long one."

I expected the Biden administration to be a complete disaster for Americans, the USA, and the American Empire, but so far they have been actually WORSE than I expected them to be. I am amazed at the incredible delusion and ineptitude they've displayed so far; it is almost as if they were trying to be the worst possible US government in history on purpose. I find it completely incomprehensible. Is it corruption? Is it stupidity? Is it ignorance? Is it arrogance? Is it all of the above? I feel as dazed and confused about this as I did about life in my pothead days!

[dissident]

Biden is the festering pustule of hubris in the US elites. They are now fully dependent on their propaganda koolaid. They think their will will triumph over reality. Their "successes" in the near term are going to be:

1) Restart of the war in the Donbass. But the Kiev regime and its paramilitary outfits are going to be trounced like they were in 2014. No amount of US advisers can help them.

2) Restart of the war in Syria. The US has established an effective food blockade against Syria. This includes terrorizing 3rd party suppliers of food and fertilizers. Water is dual use danger for Americans.

3) Attempt to sanction Germany directly to kill the NS 2 pipeline. This is a key policy goal since Washington thinks it can force Russia to feed Banderastan by forcing Russian gas shipments through it. Russia is deploying massive LNG export capacity. Washington is going to be surprised.

4) A new wave of Putin "murdered his opponents" hysteria. The UK media is circulating some "hit list" of expat losers who are going to targeted by Putin. This includes Khodorkovsky whom Putin could have offed at any time over the last 20 years but only now is going to become a martyr. Must have expended his utility so that extra last squeeze of propaganda juice is going to be made by his NATO handlers.

5) Point 4 above will be used as the basis of a new round of sanctions that supposedly will bring Russia to its knees. Nothing says genius like doubling down on the same impotent move. If they keep on repeating the same process, eventually they will get the result they want. But aside from Sanctions, we have saber rattling. So the Donbass war will be used as an additional pretext to launch some sort of military action on Russia. NATO yaps are routinely barking about Kaliningrad. Crimea may be another target.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'B')iden is the festering pustule of hubris in the US elites. They are now fully dependent on their propaganda koolaid. They think their will will triumph over reality. Their "successes" in the near term are going to be:

1) Restart of the war in the Donbass. But the Kiev regime and its paramilitary outfits are going to be trounced like they were in 2014. No amount of US advisers can help them.

2) Restart of the war in Syria. The US has established an effective food blockade against Syria. This includes terrorizing 3rd party suppliers of food and fertilizers. Water is dual use danger for Americans.

3) Attempt to sanction Germany directly to kill the NS 2 pipeline. This is a key policy goal since Washington thinks it can force Russia to feed Banderastan by forcing Russian gas shipments through it. Russia is deploying massive LNG export capacity. Washington is going to be surprised.

4) A new wave of Putin "murdered his opponents" hysteria. The UK media is circulating some "hit list" of expat losers who are going to targeted by Putin. This includes Khodorkovsky whom Putin could have offed at any time over the last 20 years but only now is going to become a martyr. Must have expended his utility so that extra last squeeze of propaganda juice is going to be made by his NATO handlers.

5) Point 4 above will be used as the basis of a new round of sanctions that supposedly will bring Russia to its knees. Nothing says genius like doubling down on the same impotent move. If they keep on repeating the same process, eventually they will get the result they want. But aside from Sanctions, we have saber rattling. So the Donbass war will be used as an additional pretext to launch some sort of military action on Russia. NATO yaps are routinely barking about Kaliningrad. Crimea may be another target.

[Plantagenet]

The hypocrisy of the Ds stinketh unto high heaven!

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is presiding over the biggest covid surge in the US right now.......and she won't order Michigan back into lockdown. Gov. WHitmer has "requested" that People in Michigan not travel and that they not travel and stay home ..... but she won't actually do her job and ORDER Michigan into quarantine.

And then.....and then........Gov. WHitmer's closest aide gets caught traveling to Florida

michigan-governor-aide-vacations-florida-

So, once again, there is one rule for the little people....and those rules don't apply to the Ds themselves.

Like Gov. Newsome going to a huge dinner party when he banned dinner parties....or Nancy Pelosi getting her hair done all hairdressers are supposed to be closed.....now we've got Whitmer's personal aide traveling when Whitmer is telling everyone in her state not to travel OF COURSE Whitmer knows her aide isn't there......so she's a $%^%$ hypocrite!!!


Gov. Whitmer is a flaming hypocrite!!!!!!

cheers!

OH YE HYPOCRITES AND PHARISEES!!!!

[jedrider]

'Inside Job?': Republican strategist explains how GOP's vote against the Jan. 6 commission really looks
https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/inside-job-rick-wilson-explains-how-gops-vote-against-the-jan-6-commission-really-makes-the-insurrection-look/

Well, a plan for Democrats from a Republican.

[aadbrd]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')Once you get above the tribal level of a couple of hundred people this direct link between service in leadership is weakened. That is where politics begins.

[Newfie]

Aardb;

Lots to agree with there.

You have suggestions for a path forward?

[aadbrd]

Sure, but they won't be implemented because they would require those unfit to vote (or serve) to abdicate their rights and let the grown-ups take the wheel. Instead, off the cliff we go.

Conclusion, democracy doesn't work because people are simply too dumb on average to know how to govern or who best to represent them and govern. Democracy is far too optimistic about human nature and competence, which made sense during the great enlightenment but certainly not today in our ideocracy stupor.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aadbrd', 'd')emocracy doesn't work because people are simply too dumb on average to know how to govern…..

[Newfie]

MAYBE.....there is NO organizational structure that “works”. Hunans are just messy animals organizationally.

Or MAYBE they all work within limits, and the churn is our natural tendency for variation, trying to find works best at this instant.

What I am fairly sure if is we have extremely limited capacity to figure out and adjust for what will work as our situation evolves.

I don't see any one government that is adequately adjusting. We KNOW climate change and resource depletion are occurring. Yet we do damn little. The Chinese had the one child policy which was pretty insightful. Does that mean we want a Chinese type political system? Tough questions.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', ' ')The Chinese had the one child policy which was pretty insightful. Does that mean we want a Chinese type political system? Tough questions.

[Newfie]

$106 billion over 5 years to help eliminate racial wealth differences.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden- ... 021-06-01/

[Plantagenet]

I oppose the federal government discriminating against some people in order to favor other people, purely on the basis of their skin color.

It was wrong when the federal government took actions that favored whites over blacks and its wrong when the federal government takes actions that favors blacks and Hispanics over whites.

AND there is a very good chance that the kind of racial discrimination that Biden and the Ds are supporting is unconstitutional.

If discrimination against blacks and other POC purely on the basis of skin color is unconstitutional, surely discrimination against ANYONE purely on the basis of skin color is unconstitutional.

A better way to overcome racial disparities in the US, IMHO, would be to fully fund education so every talented person could afford to go to college and graduate and get a good job.


The Ds used to support a color-blind society. Now the Ds support racial discrimination. I think Biden is a racist and his plan to discriminate on the basis of skin color is racist.

Cheers!

[Newfie]

Yup.

I would not object to spending the $106 billion on education and mental health.

I have seen a lot of these set asides in action, the results are seldom help the target population. Basically they typically hurt a lot if folks through enforced inefficiency.