US Presidential Election 2024

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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby stickdog99 » Tue Oct 01, 2024 6:37 pm

Could I be more cynical about the current state of politics in the USA?

Both major parties are headed by banal, braindead, talentless clowns.

Both major parties almost exclusively serve our oligarchs.

Both major parties support endless wars, genocide, constant spying on all innocent citizens, the continued looting and decimation of the middle class, and total oligopolistic capture of every single social institution, especially healthcare.

Republicans add to that list the desire to impose austerity on us in the name of bankers and restrict women's bodily autonomy in the name of God.

Democrats add to that list the desire to impose austerity on us in the name of climate change, restrict our bodily autonomy in the name of Big Pharma, and repeal the First and Second Amendments.

Both parties are wholly owned by Israel, Wall Street, Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, and various other oligopolists.

The "choice" is no longer between the lesser of two evils but the yes, sirs of true evil.

Of course, I am forgetting a lot, but am I missing something?
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elihu » Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:14 pm

stickdog99 wrote:Could I be more cynical about the current state of politics in the USA?

Both major parties are headed by banal, braindead, talentless clowns.

Both majors parties almost exclusively serve our oligarchs.

Both major parties support endless wars, genocide, constant spying on all innocent citizens, the continued looting and decimation of the middle class, and total oligopolistic capture of every single social institution, especially healthcare.

Republicans add to that list the desire to impose austerity on us in the name of bankers and restrict women's bodily autonomy in the name of God.

Democrats add to that list the desire to impose austerity on us in the name of climate change, restrict our bodily autonomy in the name of Big Pharma, and repeal the First and Second Amendments.

Both parties are wholly owned by Israel, Wall Street, Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, and various other oligopolists.

The "choice" is no longer between the lesser of two evils but the yes, sirs of true evil.

Of course, I am forgetting a lot, but am I missing something?
most people that pay attention will end up feeling exactly like this. It hit me years ago. with the country renegade, out of control, and being looted, i think the only moral action any "citizen" could take at this point is non-compliance. a person won't get anything out of it but a beating and possibly imprisonment and death. the purpose of doing it would be the hope that 90% or more of the citizens would join in and the "gov" would be brought to heel that way. but don't do it hoping for a result. only do it in the spirit of martyrdom. But, this end was foretold when we left our principles and thought statism would work for us where it never has before..
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby SonicG » Sat Oct 05, 2024 3:17 am

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Kamala and Harris spelled backwards
This is also a wild coincidance/synch
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Kamala is mentioned as a peace bringer in Star Trek. She is played by Famke Jansen who is born on the 5th of November the day of the US election.
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Great catch from Jake. In the episode, Kamala (Famke Jenssen) is essentially a high class prostitute engineered from birth to service powerful men and is brought out of stasis by evil Ferenghi.

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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby DrEvil » Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:16 pm

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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby SonicG » Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:15 am

"Here we see the man who would soon become the Adolf Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin of the United States captivating a massive crowd with his...vague dancing to a gay liberation anthem..."
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Trump jamming out to YMCA at his town hall which he just turned into a concert.

There will never be another like him.

(scorned lover Laura Loomer still swooning over him)

Donald Trump’s campaign wants its candidate to talk more about policy, but on Monday night it was all about the music.

Trump was in Oaks, Pennsylvania, to host the type of town hall event his advisers hope will keep the former president on track talking both about his policy positions and those of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. But the evening quickly took a bizarre turn after two rallygoers had medical issues.

Rather than continue after paramedics assisted the two people, Trump instructed his staff to just play music from a playlist he has personally curated and famously often turns on during dinners at Mar-a-Lago.
“Who the hell wants to hear questions?” Trump said at the event where the entire point was to take audience questions. “Right?”

What followed was more than 30 minutes of Trump swaying on stage and occasionally doing his well-known two-handed dance to some of his favorite tunes, chatting with the event's host, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, and occasionally interacting with attendees who were seated behind the stage.


Trump looked tired or coming down from stimulants...But still, according to the polls, it's a tight race! Such a great distraction at the end of the day as the Uniparty posts above point out but on some level, I can't wait to see how it all plays out...
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby DrEvil » Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:05 pm

Is it bad that I want it to be as close as possible? Like two votes in one swing state with dodgy voting equipment? Harris wins and Trump sets himself up as the antipopepresident in Mar-a-Lago.
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elihu » Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:25 am

Is it bad
hoping your favorite wins? not at all. that's only natural.

it's bad that our development has been arrested at the point we trust our lives to one of two choices both unreliable
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby SonicG » Thu Oct 17, 2024 9:43 pm

DrEvil » Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:05 am wrote:Is it bad that I want it to be as close as possible? Like two votes in one swing state with dodgy voting equipment? Harris wins and Trump sets himself up as the antipopepresident in Mar-a-Lago.


The chances of government spooks ginning up pissed-off feeling on either losing side is so high, it seems definite that there will be some protest actions immediately after. Jan. 6 was such a small focused effort and I doubt you would see the typical lard-ass Trump fans running riot in the streets but if there are sparks for BLM, Antifa, queer, abortion rights etc. actions, my poor poor America might burn. Well-armed militia, neo-Nazi and sovereign citizen types are the biggest worry if Trump loses. He could well win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote...

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And I don't know whether their fantasies will be shattered or dramatized, which is the craziest part.
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby DrEvil » Fri Oct 18, 2024 3:28 pm

I wasn't being entirely serious. The problem is that actual, worthwhile reform into something sane is probably going to take decades to achieve, and that's boring, and I struggle to see people following through on it with vested interests fighting it tooth and nail all the way. It would take a large, dedicated movement, and it would be constantly vulnerable to all the divide and conquer techniques perfected over decades by the ruling elites. There's a non-trivial chance that a serious movement for reform would meet so much organized opposition and so many dirty tricks, it would become paranoid, and then radicalized, and everyone but the hardcore zealots would leave or give up.

The alternative is a quick, disastrous implosion with God knows who ending up on top after the dust settles, but it sounds mighty tempting in a rip-off-the-band-aid way, and it's exciting! You just have to hope it doesn't take off too much skin in the process, but someone is probably ending up in a ditch.
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elihu » Sat Oct 19, 2024 2:19 pm

believe in democracy? it's now or never

Kucinich / Paul
Paul / Kucinich

write em in. it's all you can do
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elvis » Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:12 pm

Elihu wrote:Democrats add to that list the desire to impose austerity on us in the name of climate change


Austerity is what we get if we don't address climate change. Government investment in physical & human infrastructure makes us healthier and wealthier. :thumbsup
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elvis » Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:14 pm

Elihu » Sat Oct 19, 2024 11:19 am wrote:believe in democracy? it's now or never

Kucinich / Paul
Paul / Kucinich


Rand Paul? Rand Paul wants the financial industry to have the power to decide what kind of society we have. I guarantee you won't like it.
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Re: US Presidential Election 2024

Postby Elihu » Sat Oct 19, 2024 10:33 pm

Elvis please
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