The coronation of Harris at the Democratic National Convention was a spectacle and clear reset of the American Election.
You forget the spiritual desert we have been lost in under Trump when you hear the beauty of Michelle and Barack Obama’s soaring g rhetoric and moral articulation of what modern progressive politics can offer.
You forget the decency of Joe Biden when he declares, ‘I gave you the best of me’.
And you forgot that America has enabled Israel to commit an ethnic cleansing war crime whose death toll is getting close to 200 000 Palestinians.
That is the true beauty of the Democrats, they can make us forget they are sitting on top of a Military Industrial Complex that needs war for profits.
There was little mention of the catastrophic reality of climate change and even less solutions for the multiple problem America faces, which is understandable because the threat of Trump winning is the immediate danger..
Harris made a good speech and Walz looks like the positive masculinity America has been begging for.
The momentum is certainly with the Democrats, but this is momentum with demographics who don’t turn up to vote, so this sugar high could crash.
The Democratic convention was what we all want America to be and the contrast between what modern progressive inclusive politics can promise vs the wounded masculinity culture war revenge fantasy Trump is selling couldn’t be further apart.
Why Trump might win comes down to 3rd Party candidates.
Hilary lost to Trump partly because 3rd Party candidates hurt her. This time around Kennedy Jr has stepped aside and endorsed Trump (he’s polling 5%) while Jill Stein is relentlessly attacking the Dems from the Left over Israel.
In an election as close as this one will be, this 3rd Party Candidate bleed could well determine the result with Trump winning.
The American Midnight inches closer.
What’s interesting is how Kamala Harris is being kept away from probing journalists. That’s because she will be exposed as the complete empty vacant bonehead that she is. Serious, she’s an actress saying her lines…sometimes repeating her takes 4 or 5 times. If she was elected it would be identical to how Jacinda was elected…by hype, except she wouldn’t have to really on a Winston to anoint her. But after one term or so the USA would go the same way as NZ….bankrupt from big socialist policy dreams that are unworkable. Trump is a fuck up but Harris is a bigger one.
hahah, imagine pretending that Willie Brown’s sidepiece has a ‘socialist’ or ‘leftist’ bone in her body.
If she is elected it would be the same as electing Biden, in as much as they managed to prop up an ailing/failing Biden for near four years so they should be able to prop up, or sort out, a conceited bonehead that is Harris for at least the same amount of time.
And mate, it takes big money, serious money to co-opt politicians/political parties. Socialists aren’t known to be big money spinners so your point about implementing socialist policy is ludicrous. We live in a world that the very top of the capitalist class has designed for us, this is why the choices for we the people are between idiot one and idiot two with the capitalist class, big media machine hitting overdrive to ensure that the people do not dare veer away from their choices!
So AO are you suggesting an insurrectionist, sexual predator and convicted felon in Trump is your pick?
As a Leftie, I don’t expect to be served up shite to pick from. I don’t give a rats ass about the other side, but I will scream bloody blue murder about the shenanigans of my side. But numbskulls on my side will lap up everything and anything that the Left serves up to them. hence why we have got shyt to pick from, yet again. As such, we friggin deserve what we get…with the much bigger picture being….US politics is all totally corrupted so the choice is typically between one bought and paid for puppet and another bought and paid for puppet, but the Demz side of this rotten equation are really, really insulting the Left with the quality of candidate they have chosen since 2016.
In fact, you are text book example of why the Demz can serve up crap to their voters as you are looking at this election equation all wrong, preferring….no being influenced into concentrating on the quality, and character of the other side rather than analyzing the quality and character of you own side on top of what they are offering policy-wise! We are deliberately influenced into concentrating on everything but policy and the political history of the candidate in question. You are unfortunately proof positive of this calamitous misdirection!
Misogynistic conservative defends Trump as being the lesser evil, what a shock.
Elected District Attorney of San Francisco
Twice Elected District Attorney of California
Elected to California State Senate
Elected to US Senate
Vice Presidentof USA
NOT BAD FOR A BONEHEAD …
“That is the true beauty of the Democrats, they can make us forget they are sitting on top of a Military Industrial Complex that needs war for profits.”
From the little I heard, keeping Israel supplied & the war machine rolling on were key election priorities. Unfortunately to do otherwise, would require “removal”.
Never fear Jacinda’s there rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful.
Her advice.”Make promises you never intend to keep.”
The brilliant Jacinda Ardern who said she went to Te Puke when in fact she went to Hawaii, that promise.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/07/26/luxon-defends-holiday-in-hawaii-despite-te-puke-social-media-post/
https://x.com/pearce_murray/status/1652945574797381634
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/498394/the-falsehood-christopher-luxon-was-allowed-to-repeat-in-the-leaders-debate
There you go for starters fucktard Bob the idiot.
Meanwhile people with high intellect around the world rub shoulders with Ardern, whilst Bob the clueless posts on the daily blog, bahahahahaha.
No not that brilliant Jacinda, but the one that lets in DJs from overseas while locking out NZ citizens. That one. She sold out her own people. That one.
No not that one. But whilst you’re down the rabbit hole Jonzie Kraut check out the looking glass and lay off the cool aid. You’re alive today because of that PM( that was her only mistake), yes that one.
She continues to wow the world whilst you post the daily blog. Your qualifications are less than zero Krauty.
She should have worked for National. That’s their game
Fuck off you wanker
Bob the festering foreskin down for wanking on Wednesdays
Here, it’s not Wednesday
Every day of the week is Wednesday for Bob the festering foreskin.
Martyn – Kamala Harris is refusing to tell people her policies until elected…unreal
You and Bob the fart the tug fest kings
Derek – you must be low IQ Harris supporter.
Yep they call me Big D at the double D supporters club
Derek – Hmmmmmmm
Yeah you hum it Derek can play it
Yes, she taken that straight from the Luxon playbook! Chromedome Luxon has also found a way to upgrade infrastructure without the Government having to pay for it- get the councils to do it! So when the councils have to increase rates massively while he gives a tax cut, they will have to take the public backlash while he continues with the open floodgates immigration policy, which has caused the problem (and incompetent government since 1984)
Martyn – Donald Duck is refusing to tell people her policies until elected…unreal
National are Squeaky Clean -Huh?
Here is the intellect and maturity of the right wing loser Trump…
” My advisors told me not to personally attack Kamala, so I said to my advisors…YOU’RE FIRED”
another of his quotes.
“I don’t need any more votes, I have enough already. If I lose it’s not because I don’t have enough votes, it’s because the Democrats have cheated”.
I’s the sort of thing the childish Bob the first would say, that of an 8 year old.
Never fear Jacinda’s there rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful.
Her advice.”Make promises you never intend to keep. Because it’s working for the coalition of chaos”
Bobs got it wrong
Aspiration not competence was Arderns mantra
What, shock, horror, Bob’s got it wrong? The man’s either one of two things, a moron or 8 years old.
Now what of Luxon, neither competent or aspirational.
hehe
It is a simple choice.
Trump = convicted felon, sexual predator, man who tells covid sufferers to inject themselves with bleach, openly states he will become dictator if elected (also desperate because presidential immunity may be his only way to avoid jail).
Kamala Harris = none of the above.
Yet another US election where its about everything and anything but policy – abortion, wokeness, and all the other lovely stuff designed to make people feel better about themselves – aside, while existing policy erodes income for most people at the same time. Ad the Left, the Left covets this shite…no wonder the Right is on the rise, sucking in more and more former Lefties at the same time, which in turn pushes long-time Righties further to the Right. Oh, the joys of a corrupted political system that then imposes itself on every other nation in the world. Fark me.
Trump might still win because the system if anything favours the Republicans, despite what that Orange wanker says. How many democrats have won the popular vote only to be defeated by the electoral college. More than one.
Another gamed Westminster System no longer fit for purpose…
…but hey, keep pushing the left/right class ideology thing if it makes y’all happy!
Have to agree, any system that sees a toxic coalition become govt as we have here in NZ is definitely not fit for purpose.
Illusion of choice George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8wizqfplEw&pp=ygUgZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBpbGx1c2lvbiBvZiBjaG9pY2U%3D
This election will be won before the polling booths open and after they close. The actual number of vote cast won’t matter and Harris might win the popular vote by a landslide.
If I were the Democrat party I would be seriously investigating the key districts in the 6 to 8 key swing seats
I would want to know
Who is in charge of the polling booths. Who is in charge of the ballot boxes
Who is in charge of vote counting
The Republicans have watched the process in Venezuela very closely. Trump supporters will steal this one
While I’m no trumpenator I’d posit that the word ‘hate’ means the necessity for change while the words ‘Hope’ ‘Heal’ and ‘Grow’ means tut-tut, never mind… now work harder.
The U$A, like us, desperately needs a bi-segmented politic i.e. Capitalism can only exist in the presence of socialism. Two toxic entities in co-existence becomes a curative self-balancing act. An holistic collaboration enabled by two opposites. Sure, freedumbs to explore and express, the decriminalisation of recreational drugs and dig that vegetable garden are all great goals to work towards. But so is violent insurrection when needed to protect those lovey dovey things.
The roger douglas effect is still with us and will remain with us until we say “Fuck this, let’s get rowdy! ” The rogergnome’s infectious diseases have been exploiting us for forty fucking years now and speaking of ‘merica! Fuck Yeah! Let’s be honest. The U$A is fucked. It’s a cold soup of chrome plated meandering madness. It’s so full of freedumbs and what-not dumbasseries that it’s unlikely to live beyond 2025.
It’s also worth noting that like we AO/NZ’ers , voting in the U$A isn’t required by mandate but yet you must enrol. You must become a recognisable statistic. [They] must know who you are and where you are and how much you earn and how old you are and what sex you are and how you live but you have no real power over anything at all. Living in a dream world of myth and fantasy isn’t going to put meat and spuds on the table mates.
Trump does one thing exceptionally well. He stirs shit up. Who could be said of doing that in beige, flat, bleak, grey little Nu Zillind where there’s poverty, homelessness, loneliness, hopelessness, hungry kids and 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires and four foreign owned banks stealing $180.00 a second net 24/7/365 while they say they don’t, and why is it ok to have multi-billionaires and multi-millionaires and four foreign owned banks again? Chris Cow-Cheek N cheese Hipkins? Has anyone found his personality yet? It must be out there somewhere. Farmers? You’re 2-3% of the population of AO/NZ and yet you’re 100% of the economy? What do you think? Do you think? Is anybody home up there? The reason why you’re vulnerable and constantly worry about yourselves is because you’ve been systematically individualised by your abusers. You MUST UNITE with other farmers. For your safety and security and that of greater AO/NZ. It’s not all about you, you know. Well, yes it is a bit. But then it isn’t, you know what I mean.
Recognised your driving writing above my first response to Martyn immediately.
Alrighty, no intelligent moral person can vote for ‘any’ genocider. This isn’t a choice, it’s just a recognition. Neoliberalist rich-rule is the volley-up for the Fascist smash.
Harris has outs, easy outs even, that even Chris Hedges would accept. But no, ‘better than Trump’ isn’t enough.
Playing the two party game over the past 40 years is one of the reasons we still suffer under neoliberalism. Throughout most western democracies.
People should get past the binary choices, it’s become a game of voting against the greater perceived evil rather than voting for the future that they really believe in.