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Just joking!

» Posted By AdLib On September 21, 2019 @ 9:44 pm

Good to see you too!

» Posted By AdLib On September 21, 2019 @ 9:43 pm

Uh-oh, PPO got beaten to the punch on this one! Nice picks for the thread, Aquarius!

» Posted By AdLib On September 21, 2019 @ 3:35 pm

» Posted By AdLib On September 21, 2019 @ 3:33 pm

The MSM’s Whitewashing of Biden’s Racist Views Won’t End Well

I guess that’s the consequence of being in times when a horrible man has power over a country and is decimating its decency, phony words and facades can’t cover up such obvious and harsh realities…for those who aren’t marching as brownshirts behind a hateful tyrant.

Very generous but I will still direct all royalties from the usage of “muddlestream media” to your account.

» Posted By AdLib On September 16, 2019 @ 7:11 pm

I have seen Biden condemn others over racism but I have never seen him express regret for how all white people in his generation and before and since, benefited from institutional racism.

And reading speeches your paid staff writes for you about racism doesn’t cut it for me.

» Posted By AdLib On September 16, 2019 @ 7:06 pm

Biden spent the weekend on a “pander-to-black-people-after-portraying-them-as-bad-parents-and-ther-kids-as-mentally-troubled-tour”.

And as well as mechanically reading speeches written for him about how awful racism is, he told this nutso story centered around a violent black man who was a gang member and how brave Biden was as a white man to stand up to a black pool sweeper.

Biden’s campaign is a facade, just show business wrapped around a stuck-in-the-1950’s entitled old white man and if he makes it to being the nominee, I truly worry Dems will lose and Trump will complete his annihilation of our democracy.

Biden needs to be beaten in the Dem primary…and I know just the woman to do it.

» Posted By AdLib On September 16, 2019 @ 7:02 pm

» Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2019 @ 1:02 pm

Indeed and not only is MSNBC being dishonest, they are promoting propaganda to support a particular candidate which is outrageous for a cable station trying to portray itself as a news channel.

Your perspective on why Biden’s remark is so offensive, is so powerful. I don’t know that he has stopped to think for a second how he and his ancestors were born into advantage because of the suffering of slaves in this country. He wants to pretend they’re not connected? It is very offensive.

It’s well known how taken for granted racism is in the older generation that grew up in a society where it was more normalized. The crazy old aunt obliviously using the “n” word without any insult intended…is not unusual but evidence of having marinated in a racist society through her life. Just like Biden.

This is not the leader we need right now, not a leader to take us forward. His platform, his oblivious racism, it’s all rooted far in the past and supporting him as the nom is courting disaster and as I’ve written about, insuring that we have a one term Dem president, possibly followed by Don Jr. or President Ivanka.

We have to do batter than Biden. How’s that for a bumper sticker, “Let’s Do Better Than Biden”?

» Posted By AdLib On September 14, 2019 @ 8:01 pm

One thing about this Trump Era, the facades all around are being torn away. There have been other times where the craven corporatism of MSNBC has been exposed but it’s really revealed now when their favorite pro-corporate candidate gets himself in trouble.

Thanks for the full quote, it is kind of stunning. You described it well, it’s Biden saying, “So what? Corporations have every right to make lots of money off of human suffering.”

“Muddlestream” is an original to me, I’ve never heard it before and it’s fare more descriptive and accurate…and amusing, than “lamestream” or “Fake News”.

» Posted By AdLib On September 14, 2019 @ 7:49 pm

I am so glad to hear this, I didn’t read any articles with this POV before writing this, I wondered if it was a view that wasn’t shared by many or might seem way off base but it seemed so blatant to me. What was disorienting was the absolute ignoring of it in the major news outlets and instead, the promotion of Biden in alleged “liberal” bastions like MSNBC.

We always go after Trump’s cult for believing him instead of their own eyes. If we’re different from them, we can’t ignore what we witness even if most of the MSM acts as if it never happened.

Wrong is wrong and this mission that the NeverTrump Repubs are on, including the corporate media they work for, is to elect the closest thing to a moderate Repub that they can. But they’re still Repubs, they backed Bush and all the deceit behind him and his presidency (he stole the election with the help of a corrupt SCOTUS, let’s not forget…and these Repubs happily embraced that).

They may be against Trump but they’re not on our side and worked for or supported a corrupt administration.

So I think it’s important that we stand firm on our principles, against racism wherever it rears it’s ugly head and due to this performance by Biden, I think we need to aggressively oppose his candidacy for the Dem nom.

I do not want to be in a position of having to vote for him against Trump, as the lesser of two evils, if I have to I will but I feel very motivated to oppose him in the primary very vehemently.

There shouldn’t be support for any candidate who looks at fellow Americans as inferior because they’re not white. No one, especially a Democrat, should reveal that they believe that and get away with it.

» Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2019 @ 6:32 pm

Thanks NoMan!

I felt like I was in an alternate universe! The MSNBC crew applauding Biden and praising him as having a great night as if he never said what we all heard him say! Had Trump said the same thing, they would be calling him racist but because Biden said it, they simply ignored it like it never happened!

So what does that make the MSNBC hosts and pundits? Didn’t Mayor Pete say in the debate that it’s racist to support racists? Do MSNBC folk think that only applies if the racist is a Republican?

And another thing I haven’t seen MSNBC or other MSM outlets mention, when Bernie was arguing for M4A and said that we pay double per capita for health care with worse outcomes than the rest of the developed world…Biden interrupted and said something to the effect of, “That’s because we’re America.”

WTF? So Biden thinks it’s a point of pride that Americans are paying twice as much for healthcare and getting ripped off? He’s not on the side of Americans, he’s on the side of insurance companies!

I like “Muddlestream”! Much as I hesitate to criticize the media after Trump’s all out assault on them, I also don’t feel we can stand by as they enable racism in Democrats and are meddling in elections by twisting and manipulating truths to accomplish personal and/or corporate goals.

» Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2019 @ 6:20 pm

The Pathological, Narcissistic Liar-In-Chief Dishonors 9/11 at Pentagon Ceremony

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t claimed to have stormed the cockpit of Flight 93, forced them to crash then escaped using a jetpack.

But I haven’t seen tonight’s news yet so my surprise may be unwarranted.

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 6:05 pm

Trump Uses 9/11 Anniversary to Negotiate with Bin Laden in Seance

It was a strange feeling, being possessed by Trump’s ghost. It was like pounding my head into a wall while smoking meth but with much more racism.

» Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2019 @ 12:23 am

Thanks Kes! Must be the flavored vape I’m smoking…mmm…Pineapple Pneumothorax!

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 6:22 pm

Heh!

Didn’t Trump also criticize mass shooters for not crediting him in their manifestos?

I hear a demon from Hell tried to possess him once but found it too degrading.

Trump didn’t know who Mugabe’s ghost was when it came by to give him a high five, Trump hid under the Oval Office desk, he’s actually terrified when he sees a black man raises a hand.

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 5:15 pm

Cheers!

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 5:04 pm

Thanks so much, Nonpartay!

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 4:31 pm

I was possessed by the ghost of Donald Trump! You say he’s not dead yet? Fake News, the only thing keeping him walking and talking is an overuse of Adderall. When that wears off, he’ll drop to the ground like a sawed off tree limb.

» Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2019 @ 4:31 pm

Conservatism And Racism

Being Republican back then meant being conservative. The frantic, racist madness of Trump’s GOP doesn’t resemble the GOP of the early 60’s in any way.

Many of the main GOP issues back then, opposing the USSR, reducing deficits, etc. are the opposite of what the party supports today.

And the preview you got back then, of tolerance and now embrace of Neo Nazis and racists has consumed today’s GOP. It has devolved from a legitimate political party to a hateful cult. And much as I am strongly Progressive, it’s healthier for our democracy to have two legit parties instead of only one and a rabid cult.

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 9:40 pm

Hillary Warned Us About Trump

We can recall Trump and the RW/Russian propaganda trying to paint her as having severe physical ailments. That was truly evil. Just what a sociopath like Trump would love.

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 9:32 pm

She did catch pneumonia too, didn’t she? That was not doing anything wrong and as you say, through no fault of her own, all of the health matters could have fed into the misogynist view that women are too weak to be president.

I surely don’t hold her responsible for that BS.

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 9:30 pm

TOCB, I see it on social media and other sites. It’s primarily extreme Hillary and Bernie supporters praising their candidate like the Second Coming, describing them as immaculate and all those who disagree (including other candidates) as either “the enemy” or “traitors” to the Dem party and/or Progressivism.

I’ve learned that the only absolute that is true is that all absolutism is wrong.

Whether it’s Hillary, Bernie, Elizabeth, Joe, every American should be free to support whoever they think deserves their support but those who see flaws in the candidate one favors are not “the enemy” or a “traitor”.

I know you are not saying this in any way, you had asked where this was being seen so just sharing where I see it daily.

Folks here on The Planet are a bit more thoughtful than that, folks here don’t hesitate to disagree but no one is seen as an “enemy” just because they have a different opinion on a particular candidate or issue.

I do disagree with your proposition on Hillary and the 2016 election but we’ll agree on something else that follows so that’s cool with me.

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 12:55 pm

I think it is reaching far too much to try and completely blame American voters for not voting for Hillary.

Human beings have reasons for doing what they do. Sometimes good, sometimes poor but they have reasons.

Trying to deify Hillary as being above influencing any voters by her actions, that it’s all the fault of ignorant voters that didn’t see Hillary should be president is intentionally blinding oneself to truths one may not want to accept.

I have no negative feelings towards Hillary at this point and have no desire to whip them up in anyone else.

I will have to insist that Hillary is a human being, with her strengths and faults and to be frank, one of her faults was that she was not the most effective campaigner and politician. She said and did things that discouraged and turned off voters she needed. The Trump/Russian propaganda against her also accomplished this but had Hillary been universally seen as trustworthy and inspiring, she could have prevailed through all of that.

Look at Obama. He was hammered in the primary then the GE against McCain as not being American, being a Muslim and supporting terrorism, a pothead, a phony who faked his attendance and grades in college, an anti-white racist, an elitist for wrongly saying rural voters “clutch their guns and bibles”, a socialist, a radical, etc.

Yet he prevailed. Why? Because he inspired voters and their perception of him was that he was genuine and honest. He projected an image of himself to the public that helped deflect the nasty propaganda.

Hillary didn’t have that shield. She had done and said things along the way that had left some voters with doubts about her trustworthiness and character.

That is part of why the email server crap was more effective, because it fed into the existing perception of some voters that Hillary might not be trustworthy. She didn’t have the same defense against that with voters that Obama had.

And frankly, the FBI investigating this lent authority to the charge that Hillary was untrustworthy. The truth is that nothing bad happened because she used the private email server…aside from it being used to deny her the presidency.

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 12:47 pm

I’ll go along this far with you, voters ultimately decide an election but they do it based upon the information they receive from candidates and the media.

A candidate is inextricably linked to their words and actions in a campaign that influences voters. They are tied together. Candidates can’t be shielded from responsibility for what they do.

Yes, I am saying that Hillary was not as liked by Obama voters as Obama was, the numbers are absolutely clear about that. In Wisconsin and other swing states, some Obama voters voted for Trump because they preferred him over Hillary. And many minority and youth voters didn’t come out to vote for her in the numbers that they came out for Obama. She had very high negatives, much higher than Obama when he ran and many voters who had voted for Obama felt Hillary lacked his genuine and honest nature, wrongly perceiving Trump instead as “telling it like it is”.

What was widely felt among those Obama voters who didn’t come out to vote and those who voted for Trump was that she was not an agent of change, which she wasn’t, and she represented a continuation of the status quo that was already making them unhappy. So many of those who didn’t vote felt, “What’s the point?” and some who voted for Trump were voting against the status quo and wanted to shake it up.

What I believe is a major flaw in your proposition is the argument that people aren’t responsible for their actions or the perceptions they create. Asserting that the public doesn’t judge a public figure based on what they say or do. I really don’t understand that. With respect, it seems like a way of trying to indemnify Hillary for all of her unfortunate choices and blaming those who reacted to them by voting for Trump or not voting for not ignoring them.

Your argument also contradicts the established concept of cause and effect.

How do voters decide who they want to elect? Is it not based upon watching and listening to candidates and deciding whether or not they like one over another? How else do you think people discern things? How do people choose to vote for one candidate over another if not by the perceptions they have of them?

Bottom line, it seems to me that you have constructed a scenario designed to insulate Hillary from any responsibility for her words and actions because you think of her so highly. That is not a terrible thing, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion but if we are going to debate that proposition on its merits of logic and human behavior, I don’t think it stands up.

The flip side of having this perspective is blinding oneself to what actually happened. There is a reason that from this perspective, it is a mystery as to why voters in swing states voted for Trump over Hillary and why Hillary didn’t campaign in those states to prevent that.

If one sees Hillary as incapable of making mistakes that affected her election, one will never be able to identify what actually happened. IMO, she made a number of unfortunate decisions, she put resources into Repub states including TX instead of shoring up the swing states. It was a strategic decision that was not a good one, a gamble that assumed the swing states as a given.

From my perspective, it is no mystery that needs to be unraveled as to why Hillary lost in those states and the electoral college.

Hillary was a complex figure in the Dem party and the country. There was a segment of the Dem Party and Indies that had a negative perception of her when it came to being authentic, honest and genuinely Progressive. Granted, some of that may have been driven by Republican/Russian propaganda but some was also generated by her words and actions.

The theory you present leaves many blindspots, such as why turnout by minorities and youth was depressed. Putting your theory aside for a moment and accepting that Hillary was not the kind of inspirational and widely revered candidate that Obama was, answers that question simply and intuitively.

I think the lesson to learn from Hillary’s loss is very clear and it’s one I’ve been making for a while. Democrats need to nominate an inspirational candidate who will energize turnout as Obama did. Nominating Biden will be going down that same uninspiring moderate road that Dems went down with Hillary so I think that would be taking a bigger risk.

Secondly, nominating a candidate who does not carry an enormous amount of baggage with him/her avoids the other central issue that cost Hillary the election. Without everything in her past that was exploited by Republicans (and Russians) from her decades in politics, I think she would have won.

Simply put, Hillary made mistakes and was not the inspiring and “change” candidate that many voters wanted in 2016 and that opened her up to losing to a con man whose negatives rivaled hers. So, to boil down the lessons learned from 2016:

WHAT DEMS NEED IN A CANDIDATE TO WIN IN 2020:

A candidate who

1. Has real vision and charisma that will excite voters.
2. Little political baggage.
3. Is relatable and comes off as genuine and honest.
4. Is a fresher face, representing change.
5. Can stand up strongly to attacks and Trump.
6. Takes no state for granted, will wage a 50 state campaign.
7. Is not beholden or allied with corporate interests.
8. Is positive and inspires hope.
9. Shuns elitism and division, promotes unity.
10. Is unyielding in a commitment to core American principles

Yep, it’s a demanding list but the candidate who can check most, if not all of these boxes is the candidate who has learned from 2016 and is more likely to win in 2020. Candidates who have to cross out any of these are, IMO, more likely to lose for some of the same reasons Hillary did (though I still agree with her that the Comey intrusion into the election just before it took place may have been what threw the election to Trump).

» Posted By AdLib On September 6, 2019 @ 12:24 pm

Personally, I don’t relate to idolizing celebrities, politicians, etc. They’re all just people like ourselves, with strengths and flaws. Some are brilliant, some are destructive, what I’ve learned about life is that there isn’t simple duality to people. They’re not all good or all evil (though Trump is challenging that view), they’re a combination of pluses and minuses to one degree or another.

Hillary was not perfection. No one is including me. She surely would have taken responsibility for being successful in her campaign and winning the WH, as she should have. By the same rights, she has to take her share of responsibility for not winning the presidency.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t other factors but the choices she made in her life and campaign contributed in their way.

I see the same idolizing of Trump, Bernie, etc. Someone idolizing Trump would definitively declare how wrong it was to idolize Bernie or Hillary and justify the perfection of who they’ve chosen to idolize.

It is not objective to hold up any political figure as being above such human aspects such as making mistakes and having a degree of responsibility for the outcome of their endeavors.

And I really don’t understand why, in 2019, it is a timely issue to challenge Democrats on their degree of reverence for Hillary Clinton. What is hoped to be gained by this? How does it move the ball forward on uniting Dems and defeating Trump.

It seems self-destructive to me, whether it’s Hillary or Bernie or Biden or Warren, attacking fellow Dems for not having the same high opinion of a candidate, especially one who is no longer running for office, has no constructive aspect to it.

» Posted By AdLib On September 4, 2019 @ 6:06 pm

Absolutely, Americans can only benefit from knowing the full story of how the Russians invaded, manipulated and attacked our election in 2016 (and will try again in 2020 and beyond).

Having a commission as we had after 9/11 would have been ideal but Trump and the Repubs, who benefited from the Russian attack made sure that didn’t happen. It could be done and should be done after a Dem retakes the WH in 2020.

Many Democrats had reasons other than Republican lies to see Hillary in a less positive light, going back to her campaign in 2008 and through 2016. But I don’t see it as productive to rehash any of that. In the end, it was Hillary or Trump in 2016 and I enthusiastically supported Hillary.

At this point of time, I don’t see the value of criticizing fellow Dems for not viewing Hillary Clinton as highly as one may feel about her.

We have 20 candidates running now to become president in 2020, a Dem’s opinion of Hillary has absolutely no bearing on this very important election in front of us. Instead, I think it feeds into an unnecessary current of division and resentment that I don’t think we can afford with what’s at stake.

Many Democrats don’t favor the candidates I favor for 2020. I don’t see those Dems as unfair or unquestionably wrong because they may be critical of the candidates I support. Other people have their opinion of a candidate, I have mine. That’s why we’re Dems and not Repubs. The Repubs have that kind of mass allegiance to Trump, Dems shouldn’t expect that unanimity for any Dem politician. Good people can have different sensibilities and that’s okay in a democracy.

» Posted By AdLib On September 3, 2019 @ 10:57 pm

I fully agree with your primary points.

There was nothing illegal about Hillary having the private email server. It had been done before her and was never attacked so viciously. It was not an issue worthy of the hysteria and manufactured industry of outrage built around it but that’s how Repubs work.

Remember, Obama was savagely attacked for wearing a tan suit and having Common visit the WH. Repubs don’t need any legitimacy for their attacks, just a reference to build their lies and faux outrage on.

As to who was responsible for Hillary losing, it doesn’t make sense to me to claim that what she did and said that rubbed people the wrong way had nothing to do with why they voted for or against her. Yes, Repubs and the FBI said and did things that unfairly affected voters but that doesn’t erase the things she said and did.

You mentioned the issues of her choosing not to campaign in swing states (while Dem organizers on the ground desperately begged her to come out because they saw the Trump wave building). And her frank words to coal miners that she would support policies that ended their current jobs but wanted to train them for new green jobs. Then you suggest that none of that had to do with voters supporting or opposing her and that view baffles me.

Trump campaigned in those swing states and he promised coal miners that their jobs would be safe and coal jobs would grow if he was elected.

Even though it was BS, it is unquestionable that many swing state voters and coal miners chose to support Trump because they thought he cared about them and Hillary didn’t. Enough to swing the election? Maybe so, we don’t really know for sure.

As for the email server attacks, the Repubs would have exaggerated another topic had Hillary not used a private server for government emails. So that wouldn’t have changed no matter the decisions Hillary could have made.

However, the FBI investigation into Hillary’s email server and Comey’s last minute sandbagging of Hillary just before the election, would not have happened if she never had the server in the first place. Hillary herself has publicly stated that she believes she lost the election because Comey came out to reopen the investigation just before the election. That’s Hillary saying that.

So if she hadn’t made the choice to use a private email server to keep government emails, Hillary is saying that she would have won the election.

There were no other issues the FBI was investigating on her so without that, there is no FBI or Comey factor.

I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree on this issue. I don’t think it is justified for any government employee to shield their government emails from the public or from the National Archives. Whether a Republican or Democrat, even though it isn’t violating the law up to this point, IMO, it is unethical and shouldn’t be done by any public official.

I don’t know of any previous Secretary of State who did this prior to Hillary. If one of them had, I would’ve thought she might have offered that as being a standard practice as a defense.

She made a lot of mistakes in her 2016 campaign (and before) in my opinion but they were superficial compared to the horrible things Trump said and did.

However, to keep placing the blame for a politician’s loss solely on the voters and absolving the candidate as innocent in their own loss is trying to rationalize away their personal responsibility.

My concern is that I have seen on Twitter and social media lately, a kind of whitewashing of Hillary and even a purist aggressiveness (not from you of course but others) which is being used to attack anyone (including many Dem candidates) viewed as not being sufficiently reverent to Hillary.

Obama was flawed. Bill Clinton was flawed. Jimmy Carter was flawed. Hillary Clinton was flawed too. It doesn’t make her a bad person but it is the truth and one thing I think Dems can’t afford to do is play into the same willful denial that Trump supporters bask in about him when it comes to our views of our representatives and candidates.

They are responsible for their own actions, choices, successes and failures just as Republicans are. No one is perfect and sometimes they do hurt themselves politically and lose even though they should have won an election. And they are indeed sabotaged by the lies and mudslinging of their opponents, which is not something they are responsible for.

All of these can be true at the same time, she made mistakes and others did the wrong things, ignorantly or on purpose, which combined, led to her not winning the Electoral College.

A plurality of voters in the US chose Hillary to be President. Condemning them as failing her and holding up Hillary as wholly innocent of any reason some voters may have had to vote against her, is not seeing things fairly IMO.

» Posted By AdLib On September 3, 2019 @ 3:15 pm

I would think that nearly all sentient human beings (which excludes the lizard-brained Trump cultists) wish intensely that Hillary Clinton had become president instead of Trump.

Also, I don’t think it’s ideal for Democrats to be in conflict over the issue of support for Hillary at a time when all Democrats should be working for unity in 2019 and getting behind the current candidates to defeat Trump in 2020.

As you point out, in light of Trump’s actual betrayal of top secret information to Russia, Israel and the rest of the world, the hysterical and cynical attacks on Hillary during the 2016 election over her email server have clearly proven to be the dishonest political ploy that they were.

I have heard the sentiment that Hillary warned us about Trump and I do find it a little off putting because it infers that we didn’t have the same awareness about Trump at the time and needed to be told these things. I fully agreed with her portrayals back then of the madness a Trump presidency represented though I think most voters worried on their own about many of the same threats that Trump represented. Many articles and comments were written here at PlanetPOV and of course all over the internet, warning about the dangers Trump could (and has) caused and how imperative it was to elect Hillary instead.

So yes, she was right, as were many of the plurality of Americans who opposed Trump and voted for Hillary.

At the same time, I do think that rationalizing away any politician’s poor decisions, because it was our candidate, isn’t respecting what really happened.

I do think it was a poor decision by Hillary to have setup and used a private email server for government-related emails…even though it never compromised U.S. security.

Without making that decision, which was not respecting the rules of preserving communications, Hillary would have been president. Because it was ethically improper, she handed her adversaries a molehill to build into a mountain. So it is hard to see how that was not a poor decision for multiple reasons.

I was upset when it became public knowledge that Dick Cheney, as VP, had used private emails to conduct government business, including his secret dealings with the heads of energy companies. All to prevent transparency and the public from knowing what he was doing.

So as a principle, I think that public officials using private emails (as Trump, Don Jr., Ivanka and Jared are doing right now) is wrong. So I can’t see that Hillary’s doing so can be rationalized away because it didn’t end up compromising U.S. intelligence. No public official should do it whether or not they are later hacked, the potential compromise of security and evasion of transparency just shouldn’t happen in the first place.

I also don’t think it’s fair to deem the entire USA electorate as misogynist. Hillary did get the most votes, that would seem to me to prove that most voters were fine with a woman as president.

As for the Kentucky coal miners, the struggling midwest farmers, the fired factory workers and the 99% of Americans who have paid out more of their income thanks to Trump’s tariffs than the minimal savings the Taxcut for the Wealthy provided, most Trump voters should realize that his con man act was just that. And that they would have prospered so much more under Hillary and an expansion of green jobs to employ coal workers and others.

Unfortunately, as I have said often, you can’t reason people out of a choice they didn’t use reason to make. Many of these Trump voters whose lives are being damaged by him, rationalize away his responsibility for the harm to them, they NEED to believe he is their “chosen one” because they feel such validation in his hating the people they hate.

» Posted By AdLib On September 2, 2019 @ 4:46 pm

Why a Biden Nomination is Likely to Elect a Republican President in 2024

I’ve seen a number of respectable (and not necessarily respectable) folks around the interwebs trying to rationalize away Biden’s constructed story which he tried to pass off as true, about visiting soldiers in the field and trying to hand out a medal.

Their waving off of it as an issue is, “Aw come on, look how big Trump lies! This is nothing compared to that!”

The story was a fabrication, a combination and misrepresentation of separate incidents with different people.

It reminds me of when Hillary was hammered over the fabricated story about she and Chelsea being on a tarmac (in Bosnia?) dodging gunfire.

This is a sincerely troubling issue, Biden is intentionally spreading untruths he knows to be untrue and instead of apologizing, he brazenly attacks those who point it out by saying he was merely trying to express how valuable and honorable our soldiers are.

I can’t be the only one who looks at this and sees such a sensibility opening Biiden wide open to be slapped around by Trump as a liar and/or a sign of dementia (I’m not saying Biden has dementia, just pointing out Trump won’t hesitate to be so vicious as to say that).

We should not be grading Biden’s intentional falsehoods on a curve with Trump but hold him up against the other Dems running for the nomination and how truthful he is compared to them.

If Bernie, Warren, Kamala, Buttigieg, etc. were nailed for fabricating a story about them having a dramatic moment with a soldier, do you think for a moment that the media would be waving it away as nothing? Look at what happened to Buttigieg when it came to the way he dealt with the racial issues and the police chief in South Bend, he was knocked down and still hasn’t recovered.

This is dangerous territory to tread, rationalizing away Biden’s dishonesty and refusal to apologize because it pales in comparison to Trump. Biden comes off as having a glass jaw and Trump and the GOP (and Russians) aren’t going to ignore any untruths he proudly offers, they’ll swing hard at him and he could go down.

This incident makes me even more convinced that Biden, who has lost in both of the other attempts he made to win the presidency, could be far less electable and far more vulnerable than Dems should be comfortable with.

We should have a clear difference between the Dem candidate and Trump, especially when it comes to being untruthful, not an argument over degrees of dishonesty, we lose that very powerful difference then.

We should expect honesty from whoever the Dem nom is and if we recognize they have not been truthful, we need to see genuine regret and apologies from them so we can regain faith in them.

Biden has just chopped down my confidence in him and is just sitting on the stump defiantly.

» Posted By AdLib On August 31, 2019 @ 1:00 am

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