This isn’t quite as funny as BLA telling Dre he knew as much as him about how to play offensive line, but it’s close. Real close.
This is the Democratic Party.
- Thread starter lawpoke87
- Start date
A lot of that is tied to the French Government's incredibly unpopular pension reform.Looks like Macron’s current approval rating sits at 30% 😱
POLITICO Poll of Polls — French polls, trends and election news for France
France legislative election 2024 Your complete guide to the aftermath of the French legislative election. Latest What to know Polls France — President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating France…www.politico.eu
The hilarity is that he took the hit for asking the French citizenry to work 3 years fewer than our government already mandates us to work.
Marine Le Pen is still Putin's mouthpiece. It does seem like there is an awful lot of far-right propoganda happening across the globe right now. Most of it related to economic factors which have come from a combination of Covid recoveries and the cost of blackballing Russia. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the Kremlin's strategy. Push divisive narratives and support ultra nationalist leaders who will allow Putin to consolidate his gains.
Last edited:
Different culture, with different moral norms. Their sense of self is not as affected by those around them either, including to a certain extent their parents. We can't understand that fully. What other people think of us is where our sense of self starts, unlike in France.
Her youngest daughter who was 9 at the time said this, at 34...
"the children "suffered as little as possible" when her parents divorced." His parents made a request of her that she wait until he turned 18 to continue seeing him. They didn't try to outright stop the relationship. Yes the relationship caused the children pain, but I don't think the pain was as serious as if that had happened to a family in the US. Divorce causes pain no matter how old the individuals involved.
I'm not attempting to excuse or not excuse this behavior. While it was not approved of, I'm simply trying to explain that it was not seen by the community, the two families, the children, and the public at large with the same sort of revulsion that it evokes here.
Here is an example of something that isn't the same in our culture. I don't understand it, but even today, marriages exist with a mistress on the side. They certainly did when I was there in the early nineties. The wife usually knows about the mistress.(and their is also a manstress involved from time to time.) From what I understand, in at least 30% if not half of these relationships, the other person in the relationship is not upset or angry about it. I saw a marriage like this up close, in the family I stayed with for the first 3 or 4 mo I was there. He usually had a mistress that lasted for long periods of time, while she had dalliances from time to time. Both were very aware of the situation.
I couldn't be happy in a relationship like that. Nor could most of the people I know. But that's something ingrained in their culture. There are things one can't completely understand if they are not raised in another culture.
Sorry to torture you, but it was the most applicable thing I had direct experience with when I was there, that was semi applicable to the subject at hand. My apologies that I didn't have experience with an oedipal complex event while there. I did see a 46 year old single nurse for a short period while there.(at the age of 20) No divorce or long term relationship involved though. So it was just one of my 3 Miss Robinson experiences. French & France were involved in two of them.(French prof at TU)
No worries. Your comments were more entertaining than Astro's attempt at delegitimizing my non scientific polling methods.
At least you dont compare me to WATU... so i got that going for me..
"Walls don't work".. every democrat for the last 6 yrs..
Pay close attention to who wins the contract for construction
Pay close attention to poll numbers in sanctuary states....
That’s important. They are definitely worried about the black vote which is trending dramatically down. He can’t win without Obama level turnout numbers in swing states, particularly the black vote. But they know it’s too late to close the barn door as far as most of those voters are concerned. What’s really at play is he wants to avoid Black leadership brokering a compromise candidate at the convention because he did nothing to help them. Help both in the form of political cover but also cash to offset migrant expenses that are now consuming social services budgets that Black leadership typically siphons from public support projects. So called “walking around money” to quote President Obama.
Secondarily, the county where much of this project is located is 55% registered Democrat but broke +30 for Hillary. Trump was +5 over Biden. They are worried about greater losses there, and statewide, impacting their second term agenda. If Donald Trump wins the Hispanic vote on the border, your policies are an unworkable failure. congress, on a bipartisan basis, won’t fund it.
Finally, we are talking billions in construction awarded with waivers. That typically means single source procurement for sizeable portions of the projects. A year out from an election, for a project you categorically opposed for 4 years, (though he, like Obama and Clinton, publicly advocated for a wall for decades) reeks of quid pro.
It smacks of pandering to the center. They know the socialist base will vote for anything with a D next to its name but those middle "Reagan democrats" are tired of the pandering and they need some signs that the national party isnt abandoning them. Hence the move to the center by Biden, Newsome, Hochul etc..
Newsome has vetoed hard left legislation in recent weeks on LGBT issues and unemployment benefits for striking workers as he tries to move to the center as a moderate alternative..
They need to keep RFK jr (and Newsome) on the sidelines and avoid that populist surge that would sweep a Trump or DeSantis to victory in multiple swing states..
The last thing Biden/Harris want is a legitimate primary challenge.
Newsome has vetoed hard left legislation in recent weeks on LGBT issues and unemployment benefits for striking workers as he tries to move to the center as a moderate alternative..
They need to keep RFK jr (and Newsome) on the sidelines and avoid that populist surge that would sweep a Trump or DeSantis to victory in multiple swing states..
The last thing Biden/Harris want is a legitimate primary challenge.
Cornel West is a far bigger threat to them than RFK, who will mostly siphon libertarian votes from Trump if he’s the nominee at this point anyway.
The primary challenger is embarrassing but not really a threat given how the Democratic Party selects a nominee. The real threat is a coalition of Super Delegates who can throw it to multiple ballots or maybe even a brokered candidate. So they arent truly worried about a primary challenge beyond the fiscal cost. Nobody could win in straight up voting against him and it’s too late to get on the ballot in some states at this point anyhoo. As I said above, the convention leadership wants and needs their walking around money one way or the other. It’s a pander to them. None of these people care an inch about voters much less pander to them. If they cared about voters you wouldn’t see what you see. Government wouldn’t be organized in such a way that it’s legal to steal from it in hundreds of ways.
Fun fact: Cornel West is a Tulsa native and former board of trustees member at the University of Tulsa.
Last edited:
FIFY..
i always find it funny that RICOH laws go after the mob when the govt makes the mob look like amateurs..
You’ll notice this country didn’t really get serious about organized crime until the rackets began to focus on defrauding the government and collecting otherwise taxable revenue for itself.
West is an anachronism. Him getting any kind of real and solid publicity would definitely drag votes away from Biden. I don't think it will happen though.
He’s been consistently polling at 4 to 5% for several months. Stein polled at less than one percent, got 1.1% at the box, and that was enough to create a situation where political scientists and people who actually do this stuff for a living and make millions both cannot rule out that she cost Clinton the election and put Trump in the White House. Bush won by 537 votes in Florida and therefore the election. Ralph Nader banked more than 537 votes.
His threat is real. Especially when the primaries start and the networks are forced to at least mention him. And once they do, he is entertaining, but naive, on television. Folks will watch. Kennedy comes off as a crank and people tune out unless he’s on Rogan.
If Fox really controlled the Republican Party, they should have West on every other day if he will go on. Force the MSM to cover him.
Last edited:
Looks like he’s moved to NPA today, which has fundraising implications, but could cost him a place on the ballot in some states if he doesn’t have the infrastructure to make sure he can demonstrate enough support to get on the ballot. That could be a public admission that his candidacy isn’t legitimate. He could be saying he doesn’t care if people vote for him or not, in places like Florida and Wisconsin where it’s tough to get on the ballot as an NPA but the Green Party has enough support in past elections to immediately qualify. If so, it could just be a con to raise money that will get funneled back to Biden after a cut and some concessions on policy.
Cornel West switches from Green Party presidential candidate to independent
Progressive presidential candidate Cornel West is leaving the Green Party to launch an independent 2024 bid. This is the second time West has changed his party affiliation since launching his White…
thehill.com
I'm glad they don't do this yet, but I don't know why networks don't do this kind of thing, considering the partisan nature of the media now a days. They don't seem to have any semblance of acting unbiased. They sure act as if they would like to actively affect the elections in more ways than they do now. They have tried to prop up Nikki Haley unsuccessfully on the left. But you would think the left would be pushing RFK more into the news as well. And as you said, pushing somebody like Cornel on the right.
They have done a bit of this, but they don't seem to want to go full on with subversive moves like this. They just dabble on the outside. The democratic party did support these kinds of moves by pushing republican candidates out there financially, that they knew would bomb, and pull votes from valid candidates. But the media has not gone all in on moves of this nature yet. One of the only ones that seemed to play with anything subversive like this was Steve Bannon and Breitbart news.
I know these remarks are captain obvious, but oh well.
The Democrats are just as much showboating idiots as Gaetz is on this McCarthy deal. The new speaker will be harder to deal with than McCarthy.(by nature of self preservation) What idiots to take the short term battle, over the long term win. Now they have Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, and the wildcard that will never happen, Trump. There is no betterment of the Democrats position possible here, only a worsening. The Republican chaos won't benefit the Democrats in the end. Status quo was the best the Democrats could hope for, and they threw it out with the kitchen sink.
So I am questioning what the democrats true goal was. I am guessing it was the same as Gaetz/Trump's true goal, chaos and anarchy. Damned the benefit of the people, nobody seems to care about that on either side. At least not anybody that is able to get any traction. They had to know that anybody coming in after Gaetz pulled this stunt was not even going to try and work with the Democrats in a bipartisan way. Under the table, McCarthy was doing the best he could at bipartisanship. The democrats knew that when they broke their word.
The government is in even worse shape than it was when Trump was in office, because of the 8 Trump acolytes in the House. I know this ploy of Trump coming in to save the day, or at least offer to, was Trump's plan from the beginning. He wants to seem like he is a rational actor.
The party is trying to show a little backbone with all this talk of expelling Gaetz, hurting Mace's re-election bid, and throwing others off of committees. These are the things they should have done a long time ago. I doubt that goes much of anywhere or has the desired effect.
The Democrats are just as much showboating idiots as Gaetz is on this McCarthy deal. The new speaker will be harder to deal with than McCarthy.(by nature of self preservation) What idiots to take the short term battle, over the long term win. Now they have Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, and the wildcard that will never happen, Trump. There is no betterment of the Democrats position possible here, only a worsening. The Republican chaos won't benefit the Democrats in the end. Status quo was the best the Democrats could hope for, and they threw it out with the kitchen sink.
So I am questioning what the democrats true goal was. I am guessing it was the same as Gaetz/Trump's true goal, chaos and anarchy. Damned the benefit of the people, nobody seems to care about that on either side. At least not anybody that is able to get any traction. They had to know that anybody coming in after Gaetz pulled this stunt was not even going to try and work with the Democrats in a bipartisan way. Under the table, McCarthy was doing the best he could at bipartisanship. The democrats knew that when they broke their word.
The government is in even worse shape than it was when Trump was in office, because of the 8 Trump acolytes in the House. I know this ploy of Trump coming in to save the day, or at least offer to, was Trump's plan from the beginning. He wants to seem like he is a rational actor.
The party is trying to show a little backbone with all this talk of expelling Gaetz, hurting Mace's re-election bid, and throwing others off of committees. These are the things they should have done a long time ago. I doubt that goes much of anywhere or has the desired effect.
We worry about Putin going nuclear... the Israelis are likely to make Tehran glow in the dark.. and more power to them.
thehill.com
In Israel, the gardens of Armageddon are on fire
Hamas’s attack on Israel appears to be a large-scale, well-coordinated attack and executed operation.
thehill.com
For WATU
Climate anxiety is real and can be debilitating. But there are reasons for optimism
Climate anxiety is no joke. It’s as serious as, well, the challenges our climate faces thanks in large part to the profound damage human activity has inflicted upon our Earth. There’s a reason ...
www.dailykos.com
Don’t you have a speaker to nominate?For WATU
Climate anxiety is real and can be debilitating. But there are reasons for optimism
Climate anxiety is no joke. It’s as serious as, well, the challenges our climate faces thanks in large part to the profound damage human activity has inflicted upon our Earth. There’s a reason ...www.dailykos.com
not long ago to make $25/hr you needed skills, productivitity, reliability.
Today all you have to do is breathe
min wage Devalues the Work Ethic and Skills.
Today all you have to do is breathe
min wage Devalues the Work Ethic and Skills.
Last edited:
only democrats can declare Energy Independence bad, and Hamus good; and get away with it.
Last edited:
I'm betting Jimmy goes quickly. Won't make it to his October birthday. Might not even make it to Christmas.
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter
The majority of the people he is talking to have a low level of understanding. The message is tailored to the audience.
It’s a 20 year old kid running a media plan approved by 40 year old political operatives 6 months ago.
There’s a method to this type of messaging and tracking who responds.
Your complaint is probably best reserved for asking whether what they do with the data is a Hatch Act violation.
There’s a method to this type of messaging and tracking who responds.
Your complaint is probably best reserved for asking whether what they do with the data is a Hatch Act violation.
Oh I get it. Hey you low intelligent voters….blame those greedy corporations for inflation. Ignore basic facts or even current economic conditions. Sad thing…it will probably work for his base.
Wonder if Twitter places a community note on this for misinformation
It’s not blatantly false, there are absolutely companies who have artificially inflated prices independent of market dynamics.Oh I get it. Hey you low intelligent voters….blame those greedy corporations for inflation. Ignore basic facts or even current economic conditions. Sad thing…it will probably work for his base.
Wonder if Twitter places a community note on this for misinformation
It’s misleading at best and blatently false at worse. He’s saying EVERY company who hasn’t reduced prices is “price gouging”. He knows labor costs are up over 4% year over year and wholesale prices increased over 2% last month which was the largest increase since April. Yet Biden is calling every company who hasn’t lowered its prices as price gougers. As you said…I’m sure his low intelligent voters will believe it. However, Biden’s statement on the whole is fundamentally dishonest.
Certainly poor and misleading wording. I agree. Maybe twitter should mark it for inaccuracy or pull it down. I would be okay with that…. Except Elon whined against it for so long, he can’t.
