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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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Vendome

I would question as to whether this was written by a Liar or an Idiot, but nobody could be this stupid.


61 posted on 05/17/2024 4:00:41 PM PDT by 230FMJ (From my cold, dead hands.)
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To: Vendome
democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860.

I thought being able to vote for who you want was democracy.

62 posted on 05/17/2024 4:01:39 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Vendome

63 posted on 05/17/2024 4:02:40 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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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.”

Well- at least this person did give me a good, hearty laugh.


64 posted on 05/17/2024 4:04:21 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: Vendome

Does this azz clown write propaganda for Ukraine and Hamas as well? Because all he does is LIE.


65 posted on 05/17/2024 4:05:14 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: Vendome
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.

I want to repeatedly punch the mouth of the person who wrote this.

Biden is human garbage. Worst man to ever sit in the office, and this dumbass wants to bitch about Trump being unqualified?

Needs a beating.

66 posted on 05/17/2024 4:14:55 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Vendome

“If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy” liberals, socialists, progrerssives, and Democrats. We can only hope. But I don’t think the Don is our guy to do that.


67 posted on 05/17/2024 4:15:44 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: Vendome

Dialog from Planet of the Apes:

Dr Zaius: “A democrat has no understanding. He can be taught a few simple tricks. Nothing more.”

Doctor Zira: “I’m afraid l must disagree. According to my experiments...”

Dr Zaius: “Zira, l must caution you. Experimental brain surgery on these creatures is one thing, and I’m all in favor of it. But your behavioral studies are something else again. To suggest that we can learn anything good about human nature from the study of a democrat is sheer nonsense.”


68 posted on 05/17/2024 4:22:10 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Vendome

And they call us MAGA’s a cult. What delusional tripe. Oh BTW if Trump was such an egomaniac lusting for power how come his first presidency didn’t show his ‘dictatorial power grabs’? TDS leftards full of fear and loathing over untruths they swallow.


69 posted on 05/17/2024 4:22:13 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Vendome

Given the choice, how can they not.


70 posted on 05/17/2024 4:24:45 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Vendome

Given the choice, how can they not.


71 posted on 05/17/2024 4:26:31 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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72 posted on 05/17/2024 4:27:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Republican Wildcat

“If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear”

Can’t happen because Pedo Joe, he who takes showers with his daughter and sniffs children has already done that. If the death penalty meant anything, that little dork should experience it, given he opened the borders, ruined the economy, and has an unequalled foreign affairs failure record.


73 posted on 05/17/2024 4:29:36 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rktman; metmom
The author of this article has postulated that:

>> democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860 <<

That is absolutely not true. It is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the master of socialistic fascism that institute the policies of the Great Depression that destroyed the basis of the democratic republic that our Founders intended, and transformed the federal government into a titanic tax-gatherer that would have destroyed the American ideal if individual liberty had it not been greatly delayed by the total commitment to the Second World War, the deployment of the nuclear bombs, and the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who helped to somewhat reverse the four elections of Roosevelt, finally carried out by his stooge Truman.

Only those who lived through, and survived from this ever-deepening of the invasion of American individualism can appreciate what I am saying here. It was FDR who, with his socialism, laid the foundations for Satan's overwhelming strategies communicated through the denominational seminaries into all the episcopacies and their pulpits that have completely failed the Christ of the Bible and instituted another Jesus of the same kind, but still another; and another gospel propagated under the influence of another (devilish) spirit of evolutionary LGBism of hedonistic depravity that we now experience out of the third generation that succeeded the Great One that was born before FDR's rule.

This author's presumptions are pretty much false. Hopefully Donald Trump, taking up the staff of preserving the rights of the individual, may yet help still the angry waters of anti-Christian communism, Mohammedanism, and heathen atheism. But he must be only a leading spirit of many, many more of a knitted-together community whose beliefs are not of the abortionistic indulgencies of one's sex drive, but necessary for the created human's soul and spirit to continue.

74 posted on 05/17/2024 4:35:52 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: Vendome

For the third time!


75 posted on 05/17/2024 4:38:48 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Vendome
I...don't...even...know...

WTH is he / she, they / them smoking?

76 posted on 05/17/2024 4:39:29 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yes, they do.


77 posted on 05/17/2024 4:40:32 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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To: Vendome

Wow. Ya gotta go to College for a really long time to get that stupid.


78 posted on 05/17/2024 4:46:31 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Vendome

I am about done with children adults.


79 posted on 05/17/2024 4:47:52 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: tflabo

Oregon democrats from Portland running adds calling Trump voters MAGA EXTREMISTS.
Scare tactics since they can’t think of one thing the democretin partyhas done for Oregon.


80 posted on 05/17/2024 4:48:11 PM PDT by doc maverick
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