US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

Could we get a new tv show The Apprentice: Presidential Edition! this time around?

 

[STARS158]

Oop, Kamala just stanned for Israel. Progressives on suicide watch.

Which is hilarious because she's so repulsive even an IDF soldier wouldn't rape her.

It's the Indian thing isn't it.

 

[Dick Mason]

"muh Palestine" is the current thing among the vocal woke leftoids.

Its not just the left. Anyone who isn't a moron or a ghoul is aghast as the jews' genocide in Palestine.

Let's hope the Israel/Palestine schism truly drives a wedge between the left this election.

Its the right's support of Palestine that they've been worried about. They've got JVP on the left to lead them into retardation, and Trump on the right doing the same, but its not been anywhere near as successful as it previously was. Both left and right have been sticking to their guns harder than usual over this. It's very hard to overlook the level of atrocities those fiends are committing.

The Al Aqsa Flood has fucked them long-term. I'm at least glad we get to live in a time where we get to see them forced from the river right into the sea.

Kamala Harris is using Beyoncé's ‘Freedom’

I'm not sure how anyone can stand her voice. Even without her annoying warbling, what a terrible song. Does no one make good R&B music anymore?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/25/us/harris-trump-biden-election

https://web.archive.org/web/20240726045627/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/25/us/harris-trump-biden-election

Harris Is Said to Plan to Name Running Mate by Aug. 7​

Vice President Kamala Harris is aiming to squeeze a normally monthslong vetting process into just over three weeks. She could soon gain the endorsement of former President Barack Obama, perhaps the most important missing piece in what has been a cascade of support from her party’s most influential leaders.

Vice President Kamala Harris is making plans to name a running mate by Aug. 7, according to four people briefed on the plans, as the presumptive Democratic nominee aims to compress the usual monthslong vetting process into just over three weeks. Since President Biden’s departure from the race on Sunday, she has swiftly united Democrats behind her campaign and meeting that deadline would allow her to enter the party’s convention with the ticket fully set.

To meet that accelerated pace, Ms. Harris is expected to conduct the initial interviews with her running mate candidates not in person but on video calls. She is said to be considering a number of potential candidates, though those in more serious consideration include Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Govs. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Tim Walz of Minnesota and Andy Beshear of Kentucky.

I dont like the word 'monthslong'. That sounds vaguely sexual. Slong.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

A big reason i wouldn't feel too bad about Kamala Harris being president is that she's like only 5 feet tall and the concept of a tiny president is hilarious to me.

I don’t think Obama ever was a great politician.

he actively is responsible for not giving a shit about down ballot races and letting the Rs get a fuck load of power in state, local, and federal government by just not giving a fuck. Every story or thing i've seen from him makes him seem like the most aloof person out there. Just doesn't give a fuck.

. Would certainly help in AZ

the problem is that's a blue state at this point anyways. also the Dems lost in 84 because the VP overshadow'd the presidential candidate which intensified people seeing them as weak.

namely, the Neocons - who absolutely were warmongers and, more often than not, chickenhawks as well.

in a way you could make the arguement that the Neocons were like the US version of the taliban. the neocons rose to power because the jews needed a group of people monstrous enough to make sure the nigs that did the crown heights riots were put in their place, but suddenly and quickly became more trouble than their worth when they started using their training and power to go against them

As much as i love this meme it doesn't explain why Jeff Epstein and his pals all look amazing and why Hunter Biden is literally medicare age and looks fantastic and celebs like Paul Newman or George Clooney can be calling for white genocide and looked better at 60 than most men do at 20.

 

[babadook]

Guys, I think I'm Kruisin' With Kamala.
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Wtf i love Kamala now

 

[Jacques1194]

Kamala has bent the knee.

Sad thing is pro Palestine morons will still be voting for her and think "She'll change her mind once she sees all the dead palestinian children." if she gets elected.

 

[Wendell X]

I’d tell you to drive onto a base to see for yourself but you unfortunately don’t have a family member willing to die for Israel or a cushy job extracting wealth from the fed.

Another interesting fact is tacos are legally sandwiches now, because a base food court wanted a Subway and the wrong restaurant purchased the space. Bases are kinda like small towns from a population perspective but they’re run like mini dictatorships by the base commander. Imagine a four lane road but the speed limit is 25 MPH and the cops WILL pull you over for going 5 over. These are big boy federal court tickets too.

I think my explanations are perfectly reasonable:
Option 1) Sexually frustrated military wives are forced to live in a town where they need to drive 25 MPH everywhere and deal with the most anally-retentive traffic cops imaginable. They spend all day at home, sipping wine and talking about how they literally live in a handmaid’s tale.

Option 2) the ultimate tranny janny lives on that base. He logs onto Reddit 500 times a day to goon and 500 times again to sweep. Since base populations are relatively small, he skews the average by being such an outlier.

In the first post bases were cities, then towns, now they're kinda like small towns. In two posts time are you going to unnecessarily eli5 what an industrial estate is and how a base might compare to it?

I don't even know what you're fucking arguing about man. A gish gallop is supposed to overwhelm the opposition with information, not a bunch of words explaining shit everyone knows like people live on military bases or what a town is. What I know is that Eglin studied manipulating media narratives, and they have an anomalous amount of Reddit usage. Is it a dedicated propaganda centre? Of course not. Is the reddit posting exclusively propaganda? Of course not. But one thing I do know is that saying "it's probably nothing" is not good enough. Especially not since covid.

 

[Bob's Fuckass Head]

I don't want to rehash anything that's already been discussed here, but I'll say by way of anecdote that the atmosphere at my local outdoor range feels very different than it did two weeks ago. I haven't heard any RSO explicitly reference the assassination attempt and there isn't any new signage up, but you can tell something has shifted. There's just a lot of tense energy. It might just be my imagination, but I sorta doubt I'm the only person looking around and wondering if any of these other range-goers could be of the fluorescent variety.

 

[STARS158]

As much as i love this meme it doesn't explain why Jeff Epstein and his pals all look amazing and why Hunter Biden is literally medicare age and looks fantastic and celebs like Paul Newman or George Clooney can be calling for white genocide and looked better at 60 than most men do at 20.

Theres various elite beauty treatments that use blood or even aborted baby parts.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Anyone who isn't a moron or a ghoul is aghast as the jews' genocide in Palestine.

I’m not. If the shoe was on the other foot, Palestine would do violence 100x times worse. Who gives a shit about either country? Only Jews and fat chicks. That’s who.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

He's not a felon. We don't hear much about that case any more do we? What happened with that?

Project 2025 is all the rage

 

[Betonhaus]

I don't want to rehash anything that's already been discussed here, but I'll say by way of anecdote that the atmosphere at my local outdoor range feels very different than it did two weeks ago. I haven't heard any RSO explicitly reference the assassination attempt and there isn't any new signage up, but you can tell something has shifted. There's just a lot of tense energy. It might just be my imagination, but I sorta doubt I'm the only person looking around and wondering if any of these other range-goers could be of the fluorescent variety.

Just loudly ask "hey does anyone know if Harris plans to campaign nearby?" and see who reacts.

 

[STARS158]

I’m not. If the shoe was on the other foot, Palestine would do violence 100x times worse.

According to the history Palestine was doing fine until the strangely highly funded and trained Zionist terrorist groups started bombing everything the British basically created and handed Israel over the their leader Ben Gurion. Terrorists win.

 

[mlanguishi]

These guys are usally pretty good.

 

[Dick Mason]

I’m not. If the shoe was on the other foot, Palestine would do violence 100x times worse. Who gives a shit about either country? Only Jews and fat chicks. That’s who.

Spoiler: both sides

That's what I said, only morons or ghouls don't care. I was specifically referring to you. I apologize for not tagging you in.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/whole-society-american-politics

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/uxxuQ

Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society’​

You cannot understand what’s going on with American politics today without it​

To make sense of today’s form of American politics, it is necessary to understand a key term. It is not found in standard U.S. civics textbooks, but it is central to the new playbook of power: “whole of society.”

The term was popularized roughly a decade ago by the Obama administration, which liked that its bland, technocratic appearance could be used as cover to erect a mechanism for the government to control public life that can, at best, be called “Soviet-style.” Here’s the simplest definition: “Individuals, civil society and companies shape interactions in society, and their actions can harm or foster integrity in their communities. A whole-of-society approach asserts that as these actors interact with public officials and play a critical role in setting the public agenda and influencing public decisions, they also have a responsibility to promote public integrity.”

In other words, the government enacts policies and then “enlists” corporations, NGOs and even individual citizens to enforce them—creating a 360-degree police force made up of the companies you do business with, the civic organizations that you think make up your communal safety net, even your neighbors. What this looks like in practice is a small group of powerful people using public-private partnerships to silence the Constitution, censor ideas they don’t like, deny their opponents access to banking, credit, the internet, and other public accommodations in a process of continuous surveillance, constantly threatened cancellation, and social control.

And there’s an additional catch. “The government”—meaning the elected officials visible to the American public who appear to enact the policies that are carried out across the whole of society—is not the ultimate boss. Joe Biden may be the president but, as is now clear, that doesn’t mean he’s in charge of the party.

Rather than a coup, Biden’s precipitous decline forced into public view a political maneuver that would ordinarily have been carried out behind closed doors. Nevertheless it was an orderly transfer of power with party bosses Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi firmly in control of the process. Try to imagine the GOP attempting a similar replacement of Donald Trump and see how quickly your mind fills with images of mass protests and open revolt by Trump supporters. Only the Democratic Party establishment could pull off such a move months before the election. How?

One can imagine a President Kamala Harris using the whole-of-society push to enact various equity initiatives, which she has championed in the past. But, equally, if Trump wins in November, the same tactic will be used to coordinate the “spontaneous” resistance movement of government groups, media outlets, and billionaire-funded nonprofits who carry out the functions of the party state. It is this party-state itself that is incompatible with democracy. And the whole of society is what it demands.

This is good to read.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

I would like to remind everybody that YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL THE WORLD HOW YOU PLAN TO VOTE. Hell you can even lie about it before and after the fact. WHY IS ANYONE TELLING PEOPLE HOW THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE?
Jesus Herbert Walker Christ, people.
Sorry but I yelled at folks all over the damn place last couple elections because it was causing so much unnecessary IRL drama.
Keep your shit private, including what comes out of your real-life physical mouth.

This is from a few pages back, but thank you for posting this because I myself am sick and fucking tired of hearing the same garbage from people as well, and also some seriously good advice. Having lived in the belly of the beast (LA) learning to keep your power levels to yourself is a good skill to have.

As for the 1984/BNW debate from a few pages back one aspect about comparing both novels that people often overlook is in 1984 the party almost completely ignores the goings on of the proles (the proletariat for people who haven't read the book), asides from having a few thought police spies to take out and eliminate subversive elements in their ranks. Asides from that proles were free to do whatever the hell they pleased, and the party even catered to their discretions and tastes in the agitprop and media that was produced for them. The full, oppressive internal surveillance and security apparatus instead was targeted full blast towards outer party members like Winston and Julia. I find that ironically more free than what's transpired in real life for the west, and also compared to the lives of the gammas and deltas of BNW.

Oop, Kamala just stanned for Israel. Progressives on suicide watch.

Which is hilarious because she's so repulsive even an IDF soldier wouldn't rape her.

I want a full-out prog vs "normal" dem civil war to rage out in the next few months to help sink their campaign even further so bad.

 

[BULLY HUNTER_78]

I know is that Eglin studied manipulating media narratives

I don’t believe this. You are confusing Florida with the Pentagon. I am very confident that Eglin specializes in finding innovative ways to kill brown people, like almost any military base outside of Virginia and Maryland.

Whether you compare it to a small town or a city depends on the size of the base. Is an aircraft carrier a small town or a city? The average base population is like 3000 people. If people live in a place, then there is Internet traffic. Sorry for the information overload buddy.

My point has always been this: Why isn’t the pentagon on the number 1 spot? Why isn’t Langley? This is where people actually scheme about how to control the narrative. You are so afraid of these schemers that you’re likely mistaking winemoms for feds. I’m saying you should get a grip.

 

[Betonhaus]

I wonder how long this Harris hysteria will last. the Trump assassination shock only lasted just over a week, maybe in a few more days the shine will wear off Harris? has she done any real speeches yet?

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

I wonder how long this Harris hysteria will last. the Trump assassination shock only lasted just over a week, maybe in a few more days the shine will wear off Harris? has she done any real speeches yet?

it might (or might not) ramp up further during the 'Democratic' National Convention, but will almost certainly die down a month later (late September)

 

[mlanguishi]

it might (or might not) ramp up further during the 'Democratic' National Convention, but will almost certainly die down a month later (late September)

It's funny how a lot of Dems were saying 'nothing matters until Labor Day' before, but now they're coping hard that she'll do great, or something.