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How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?
yahoo News ^ | May 17, 2024 | Eric Alterman

Posted on 05/17/2024 3:05:53 PM PDT by Vendome

democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. two facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on what seems to be close to a majority of the electorate. The first more obvious one is few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, ...than Donald Trump. If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions.

The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president. His embrace of Bibi Netanyahu has clearly had disastrous consequences for Israel, Gaza, the United States, and for his own reelection prospects. But in terms of the way presidents are traditionally measured, Biden has been a smash. The U.S. economy is the envy of the world. Yes, inflation is higher than one would like, but jobs are plentiful, and so are raises for the people in them; wages are rising faster than inflation, as it happens. Violent crime is way down. Infrastructure investments are way up since 2020. Student loans are being forgiven. The labor movement is rebounding. We are leading the world in defending democracy in Ukraine.

Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite; (digital) rapist; serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented.

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To: Vendome

How can the DemonicRats steal it again?


101 posted on 05/17/2024 6:56:00 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: Vendome
The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

You got to be F'n kidding me!


102 posted on 05/17/2024 7:16:46 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Vendome

Short answer Eric... Because we’re not stupid, gullible and ignorant, like you are.


103 posted on 05/17/2024 7:22:53 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Vendome

He straight up called Trump a rapist. He needs to get hit with a lawsuit.

“Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite;****** (digital) RAPIST;****** serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented.”


104 posted on 05/17/2024 7:33:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: frnewsjunkie

Assuming this was not produced by AI, I conclude that the only skill worse than the author’s writing ability is his faculty for reasoning.


105 posted on 05/17/2024 8:15:16 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Vendome; Sarah Barracuda; COBOL2Java; pgyanke
Sarah Barracuda wrote:"LOL these commies look around, see what Joe Biden has done to this country, to the world, literally set it on fire and they say “Yeah this looks good lets keep it up”

The original meme:
This

The updated meme:
This

Hopefully most Americans are in Meme #2's realization. People like Alterman can melt away like Meme #1.

106 posted on 05/17/2024 11:00:34 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (They prove mental hospitals need reestablishment.)
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To: Vendome

The author requires professional help.


107 posted on 05/18/2024 2:12:27 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Vendome

The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

His below 38 approval rating says otherwise


108 posted on 05/18/2024 2:40:01 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Vendome

The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

His below 38 approval rating says otherwise


109 posted on 05/18/2024 2:40:04 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Vendome

At least the Donald isn’t stumbling around crapping his britches mumbling about nothing.


110 posted on 05/18/2024 3:32:07 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Vendome

“ Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite; (digital) rapist; serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented.”

A common leftist tactic is falsely accusing their opposition of being guilty of what the left is actually doing.


111 posted on 05/18/2024 3:42:24 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Vendome

https://www.brooklyn.edu/faculty-staff/eric-alterman/

Nuff said.


112 posted on 05/18/2024 3:44:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Babylon Bee


113 posted on 05/18/2024 6:25:18 AM PDT by batazoid (Plainclothes cop at Capital during Jan 6 riot...)
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To: MinorityRepublican
It's not lying if you believe you're telling the truth.

George Costanza, is that you?

114 posted on 05/18/2024 6:36:13 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Vendome

Please go back to Bizzaro World, where you obviously, come from.


115 posted on 05/18/2024 8:58:42 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Vendome
objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

116 posted on 05/18/2024 9:00:32 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Vendome

This guy is worse than Pauline Kael. She at least acknowledged that there existed Nixon voters outside her ken.


117 posted on 05/18/2024 10:54:08 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: jpp113

True


118 posted on 05/18/2024 3:35:14 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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