Metoo said:

An interesting angle is that the black voters who appeared to have made the difference on Tuesday are very patriotic and for-greater-good type people. Think about it - given the socio-economic stats they predominantly voted AGAINST the candidate who promoted policies directly benefitting them (extensive transfer of wealth from the rich of the not so). In their wisdom they decided that either if it sounds like a con it is one or that there are basic values which cannot be sacrified for a personal gain.

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It had nothing to do with "basic values which cannot be sacrified", once again most simply didn't know any better. 

They voted for Biden because he was affiliated with Obama and that's good enough for them. There is no analysis of the issues, there's no value system at work here. It's based on pure emotion and nothing more in the majority of the cases.

Most of them don't have a clue that Biden is suffering from serious dementia at this point and has zero chance against Trump.

Tantrika said:

filthyknees said:

I'm not butthurt, don't dislike you either.

It's ironic that the first thing you say is commenting about her appearance , then complain about the conversation about discussing someone's physicality.

Isn't that called hipocracy? Lol. I'll leave it at that and stop responding.
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Claims not to be butthurt-->immediately resorts to hypocrisy claims without knowing how to spell the word

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cannabinated said:

Its because 50% of people didnt know who they were voting for

dont blame trumps next term on black ppl, thats cruel.... its clearly the DNC fucking over voters

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Metoo said:Despite the banging on of his opponents Trump has taken no steps to dismantle any of the checks and balances, broke no laws (so far as we can tell), and has not stepped outside his constitutionally mandated powers. Think about it - an aspiring authoritarian would have taken less than 3.5 years to start using the state to go after his opponents, defying court orders, consolidating his control of the army etc. Historically we have not been so lucky - the likes of Hitler, Trotsky and Fidel were all tremendous persuaders but their untimate motives were dodgy.

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I mostly agreed with your post until the part I quoted above.
You must not be paying attention to a lot of things going on because anyone that did would clearly see Trump is dismantling our system of checks and balances:

1. He orders people to not obey Congressionally-approved subpoenas.
2. He interjects his opinion in legal matters (Roger Stone case).
3. The media.  "While not stipulated in the Constitution, the media’s free-ranging role in questioning and challenging elected officials is a clear and historically validated check on power. Few things frustrate Trump as viscerally and frequently as reporting that positions Trump’s policies or actions in a negative light."  Link
4. He publicly admits he doesn't believe our own nation's intelligence agencies.
5. He doesn't turn over documents requested by Congress.
6. On numerous occasions he has mentioned wanting to serve more than the two maximum terms a president is allowed to serve. 

He publicly ridicules anyone who doesn't support him. 
This is the early mindset of an authoritarian. 

Also, your logic of "an aspiring authoritarian would have taken less than 3.5 years to start using the state to go after his opponents, defying court orders, consolidating his control of the army etc" is very wrong.  LOL do you think there is a magic number that every authoritarian has to reach in time in order to be an authoritarian?  Is it 1 year?  15 months?  Four months, three days, two hours, and five seconds?  The reason Trump is, in your eyes, "slowly" dismantling the system of checks and balances is because of two reasons:

1.  He needs to gain a strong platform of trust among his supporters and government officials so that he can get away with doing things that an authoritarian does.  If he did those things on day 1 then he probably wouldn't have made it as far as he has now.
2.  He needs to learn the actual job of being President of the United States of America because he hasn't done it before, nor has he really been in politics.  There is a lot to learn first before you can have a good idea for how to advance your dream of authoritarianism. 


Bernie/Biden 2020

lifeiswhatyoumake said:

I mostly agreed with your post until the part I quoted above. (...)

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lifeiswhatyoumake said:

You don't understand what a system of checks and balances means with regards to the USA.
Trump was impeached on two articles: abuse of power and contempt of congress.

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

feldman114 said:

Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Since we both understand there is DNC fuckery going on, don't you think the NY Times should talk about it?

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Of course not. There’s no solid proof.

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Let me reread a quote from the article above:  "We don’t have time to correct every error"

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PatrickKn said:

I don't think Trump is losing his memory in the same capacity. I think the way he speaks is willfully flimsy and roundabout. He avoids making points in his speech and just says things in a way that fills time and conveys some stretch at emotion.

Biden has seemed far gone for a while. Can't really comment on his current state, I haven't actually watched a clip or video with him in it probably since he was vice president.

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