The Razor's Edge
In the next few days we will know if America has any national honor left or not.
In the face of the prospect of the worst human being in presidential history sitting in the Oval Office for 1500 more days many Americans are distracted by shrinking inflation, a border crisis that has existed for 40 years, and whether a handful of transgenders are running in girl's high school track meets.
Priorities anyone ?
The United States of America could elect someone to its highest office who tried to overthrow the United States government.
This is Hollywood darkest political satire on steroids.
The blame for all this falls squarely on the cowards in the Republican Party, Graham, McConnell, Mccarthy, Rubio, Collins, etc, the so called establishment leaders who should have put an end to it in January or February of 2021 while the memory of Trumps traitorous actions were fresh. Instead they allowed him to keep his head above water long enough for the MAGA horde to rejuice his energy and set the country on the path to todays crisis.
As a pundit said the other day, Trump Derangement Syndrome does exist, but it exists in his supporters not his opposition.
And now shit is getting real.
If Trump wins and the Democrats retake the House as predicted I expect Trump to be impeached within weeks.
The country will go through four more years of clownish insanity, the evil clown kind, and we will prolong the devastating truth that an entire generation of kids will have grown up thinking that this is politics as normal and that Trump is a great American.
May God forgive us if that happens.
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I hope that's not a Nuclear Explosion...... jk
That alone should be embarrassing enough to not vote for trump but the right wing seems totally fine with it. That's just sad. On the global stage, we look like fools thanks to trump and his supporters.
Our allies are already resigned to a world where the US influence will deteriorate under Trump and they will adjust accordingly.
It is said that we, the US has survived much worse than Trump, in my lifetime I can’t remember anything that is or could be as damaging to the US as Trump.
Trump's enduring popularity tells us more about our country than we want to know. His dedicated followers are the biggest threat to the America we have known in our lives. Decency, honor, common sense, believing your own eyes, are all being washed away.
“His dedicated followers are the biggest threat to the America…”
Agree. And this includes dear friends and family…
Less worried about trump, as he only awakened the beast. The next man up, without the bluster, without the idiocy, but with more eloquence and more clarity may give them life. Can only hope as trump inevitably fades away, his followers in their sycophancy crawl back into the shadows.
It is clear there is more WORK to be done. They won't leave others alone. It is sad that these people delude themselves to think that God's green earth can be owned by a select few people. And please do not miss it. . . they really TELL THEMSELVES that they are the inheritors of this country. . . and there is no other BESIDE them.
"The blame for all this falls squarely on the cowards in the Republican party,"
Yes, yes it does. They have FAILED US
They have failed America and the Constitution.
....and on those women of America who prefer to live a life as "Handmaidens", pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen.
Imagine believing women in America live as handmaidens. Such a silly fantasy life some progressives have.
A much more dystopian and realistic fantasy is a government forcing women to have abortions to limit family size. Imagine supporting a government that did that.
Can you ever say anything without twisting it.
Nobody is saying women in America are living as handmaidens today
I doubt you read the book and I doubt you watched the TV show so I don't think you're coming from a point of knowledge of The Handmaid's Tale.
What some have envisioned is an America that becomes Gilead and no woman has any rights. The only freedom is death
They are scared that women are about to toss fat ass on the garbage heap.
The majority of the elections that have been decided since the end of Roe have been won by candidates in favor of reproductive freedom rights.
Throwing up history again. I can do that too. Imagine a nation where the colonists and their descendants enslaved those of a different colour, slaughtered the indigenous population, put into concentration camps those they feared and about half of the population of that nation want a convicted criminal to be their leader. As well, I personally prefer a nation where ALL women make the decisions about their bodies and are guaranteed equal rights and benefits that men possess, and abortion is permitted because if it isn't deaths and horrors that could have been prevented are experienced. History is a bitch, isn't it.
The point is that the fantasy is idiotic. Women have never been freer and never exercised more power than they do today and that power will keep increasing every day, no matter who is elected. It's truly mind boggling that any adult with a memory can think Gilead becomes more likely as America becomes less religious and women exercise more power by the day. More women graduate from college now more than men. The world has changed.
There are actually millions of women in the world who do live those sort of lives, and pretty much the only ones in America who do are Muslim. If bored white women want to help actually oppressed women, why don't they wear the hijab in protest?
History is a bitch, isn't it.
I don't even need to talk about history. Everything I mentioned is all happening right now in the concentration camps, except the forced abortions aren't to limit family size, they are to wipe a religious minority from the face of the earth. They are modern day Nazis.
But anytime you want to talk history, I'm here for it. Just in living memory, we have man created famine, the cultural revolution, forced abortions to keep family size down, massacring thousands of peaceful protesters at Tiananmen Square, slave labor, child labor, nets to keep exploited workers from killing themselves etc.etc..
China has murdered tens of millions of its own citizens during your lifetime. Consider that history.
you didn't even address my points
Who knows? Perhaps the motivation they need is a smart, strong woman as POTUS to show them that they don't have to be meek and subservient.
you didn't even address my points
Of course I did.
What some have envisioned is an America that becomes Gilead and no woman has any rights
The point is that the fantasy is idiotic Again, It's truly mind boggling that any adult with a memory can think Gilead becomes more likely as America becomes less religious and women exercise more power by the day.
It's like dressing up and pretending to be worried that we are going to be taken over by England and be ruled by a king tomorrow.
Many on the GOP side have openly stated that they feel the bible is more important than the Constitution, and America should be based more on bible teachings than the Constitution.
So ask yourself, how are women reflected in the bible as far as rights are concerned?
So ask yourself, has the United States become more or less secular in your life time?
For fucks sake, in 2008 OBAMA defined marriage as between a man and a woman with God somewhere in the middle. Obama ran a more socially conservative campaign than the current Republican nominee, who is probably the least socially conservative nominee in the party's history. The idea that there's some looming threat of America becoming a Christian theocracy is just too stupid to take seriously.
.The reality is American women are not oppressed. They aren't about to be oppressed. Look at what's going on in Afghanistan or Iran if you want to see what actual oppression is. Dressing up in costumes and playacting as victims is not actual oppression. The very fact that women can, in fact, engage in such protests with no other repercussion other than being laughed at proves how silly the whole concept is.
@ Sean Treacy 4.2.6
"Vas you dere, Sharlie?"
Were you at any of the events you referenced?
Have you been in the Uighur concentration camps?
Only a person who has never stepped a foot in China would say something ignorant like this:
REALLY? The Uyghurs are Muslims. How come ALL the Uyghurs aren't in what are better described as re-education camps? Oh, wait, of course a person who has never been to China wouldn't know that because they've never been to Xinjiang Province where they live. And never being in China they wouldn't know that there are 11 million Muslims in ALL of China, including the Uyghurs, and that most of the 11 million are not terrorists and separatists disturbing the peace of the nation and are ALL living in peace in China, worshipping in their mosques (the biggest mosque I ever saw in my life is in Chongqing and I've been to Israel), carrying on successful businesses, and being taught in China's schools and universities, and even I taught Muslims in a Chinese school and privately, and I have eaten in their busy and popular restaurants because I prefer lamb to pork, and I KNOW they enjoy their lives here and I know that FOR A FACT THAT A PERSON WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TO CHINA WOULD LIE ABOUT ALL OF THAT.
So you haven't been inside a Uigher concentration camp than? So if that's your standard, why should any of your opinion matter?
If you mean the caused deaths of the Indigenous people, slavery, the Japanese internment camps, the fact that the polls show that almost half the USA wants convicted felon Trump to be their PotUS and I had forgotten to add Guantanamo Bay, then you are right, I have not been there for them. So do you deny those things from happening, because I am sure there are more than a few members of NT who will agree that the first two of those things have happened and the last two are still happening.
I have not been to the Uyghur camps, but then neither have you. I did not deny that there WERE or ARE such camps, but you tell horror stories about them that you cannot prove.
But all of YOUR opinions about China DO matter? You speak as if I have less experience about ALL the things I said than you do.
Totally avoiding the context of the question?
Many republican politicians are opposed to allowing same sex marriages and even Justice Thomas has floated the idea of SCOTUS over turning it. Many republicans will also state for the record that the bible is more important than the Constitution.
So ignore everything you see, read, and hear, and just believe you?
Many republican states are trying to force a women to go through the entire pregnancy with their rapist's offspring. How is that not being oppressed?
Do you really want to go there? Afghanistan and Iran are prime examples of oppressing women because those country's governments are run by religious figures. It would be just as oppressive if the US allowed the bible to run the government.
Again, how are women reflected in the bible as far as rights are concerned?
nice job, Oz
If I get a reply it will most likely be off topic or disingenuous.
Oh , another thing, if he wins he will have gotten away with all his crimes. Good message for the nations children. /s
"Sweetheart, you should learn from our President and be just like him when you grow up so one day you too could stand on 5th Ave and shoot someone and not lose any voters. I mean, if a convicted felon can be elected President than even your dad could become President someday just as soon as he gets out of jail. He shouldn't have served any time at all, mind you, I deserved that black eye for daring to vote for a woman for President! But I learned my lesson, we should only look up to strong men who protect us and put us in our place when we deserve it. Right Billy?"...
Right, Billy???? Billy????
Imagine thinking Kamala is a good message for the nation's children.
compared to Trump, Mother Theresa Harris to you. The pathological LIAR heavy pants breathing down
un-receptive women's backs as he throws 'friends' under the bus while wife listens to his beauty pageants offers, so as to iincriminate said friends so he can try and bang the wives of these faux friends, probably, for a fee, cause fee phy foe fumb, i see the fall of a pathetic won, who lost, and at such a tremendous cost, his cult flock excuses where the Mutha Flocker done flocked up, yet again N again, leavin the rest to have to wander, when the get lost too will say as when, is when, cause their seems not an end...
from the beginnin he played on the fears and insecurities, bringin to the surface so many impurities, and then does tease the impures width how much worse more, our pandemic recovery tour, has and will be, unless elected is he,
though I B leave a lot MORE than can admit, cause they don't wish to admit how they were suckered into believing SO DAMN MUCH bullshit
will be showin up and voting for Harris Walz, the only choice of a patriotic American in my dim lit dim wit observation station ,where i/ve observed far too many on far too long vacation, and this voyage needs to end Tommorrow, and B leave he will need exit, the whirled ofPolitix me off off 10, and enters our court system to face the SO MANY vile violations he has trespassed on this once great country.
THe mental midget maniacle mucus with the deformed mem-brain is insane, like a clown posse grabbin pussy, he is a, and i B leave many more think sew, as they a tempt to stitch back the torn moral fabric Trump has shredded, cause there are reasons this dreaded, buffoon should be out drinkin tang poon on the moon, as he orbits not far, just way past bazaar bangin porn star microphones with a throat that fucks, ole Mr. 'mommy' war bucks, while grabbin Uranus, as he fucked hours with the special powers weak individuals empowered him with, and many others won';t be sad when he is a stiff stifling Edith(formerly Ed) in a bunker down hunker, with Archie(balled Cox) and his big Meathead, swirling round not someones, butt, Trumps and Uranus, and hopefully many cumps, and any and all that allowed the fall, of this once great nation, cause the rest of US in this nation, are ready for a
FCKN TRUMP Vacation
A much much better message than an adjudged rapist and felon.
Oh my God!!! I don't have to imagine the empowerment and self-confidence and self-respect that every young girl in America is going to have enhanced if Kamala Harris (yes, women do have last names) becomes the PotUS, the leader of the free world, the most powerful individual on this planet Earth. Is that a problem for some?
I should have named my article "Vic's Corner" and then it would have got some comments.
This is far preferrable to the daily dump.
agreed
Trump rally today
Seems a little sparse
They have all voted already. They are staying in because they have to flood the zone with bogus claims tomorrow.
Do they provide the rally goers with placards? Notice the placards on the empty seats
I feel pretty sure (though I have not looked it up) that is the way campaigns, plural, all sides, do it (and people can bring their own too - if allowed/approved). It is a way to show interest, association, and importantly message control.
Print services love campaign 'seasons'! It likely comes out of campaign funds.
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Richards Rantings would've worked too
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SNL Maya Rudolph and Kamala Harris
I have far more faith in the majority of the young people of America than that.
Of course some kids will escape the brainwashing, but many dont , wont.
We have had right now over a dozen years of Trump being normalized by mainstream media, not to mention what these kids parents families and friends tell them. I dont have any doubt at all that right now tens of millions of kids ( up through teenager) think Trump is normal because that is all the society has shown them.
Many are already
It all started with him.
That is 100% Orwellian nonsense. Within living memory, it's been going on since Truman called Dewey a Nazi at least.
Probably shouldn't have a Presidency with this much power if it causes that much anxiety, though. I wonder why Democrats keep fighting to give the executive even more unchecked power while claiming to fear Trump.
I'm 75 years old and I cant recall hearing much about a second civil war until MAGA came along.
I guess you are just hanging out with the wrong (?) people
Doug Emhoff kinds of makes it impossible to vote for Kamala than....
If you say so.
Trump already said who MAGA hold responsible when Trump loses tomorrow, and Doug Emhoff definitely fits Trump's bill...
Watt an A whole lotta something wrong with this ding dong
Thought for the Day: When Crooked Donald stated, "When Mexico is sending its people, they are not sending their best. . . . "
Full Stop: Why would Mexico (or any country in the Southern Triangle for that matter) send its best?
To Crooked Donald's mind. . . these countries should send their business elite: millionaires, billionaires. . . .
But the problem is, Mexico and the Triangle countries are not actually sending their rank and file population either; the ordinary workers are simply leaving their homes because of crime, unseemliness, and inoperability in their respective homelands!
The business elite of those southern countries would be STUPID in the EXTREME to deplete their 'workers' pool' of artisans, mechanics, journeyman and journey women, plus. That includes even future entrepreneurs that migrate away whom could serve the business elite in those nations while they enjoy their prosperity and its indulgences.
Instead those workers and such MIGRATE away to other places. . . taking their talents and visions with them. Now we have Crooked Donald expressing rather ignorantly that he wants to send them back. Send back talent, vision, and entrepreneurs to disperse themselves in other and remote lands (not our own).
The quote above was a specious statement made by Crooked Donald in 2016 which had 'legs' that it never should have 'walked' on for all these many years.
Nate Silver's final election modeling gives a minute edge to Kamala Harris. This after as little as two weeks ago he gave Trump a 54% chance.
FINAL Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast
Final Predictions - presidential election
Economist - Harris 276
Five Thirty eight - Harris 270
Crystal Ball - Harris 276
Nate Silver - Harris 271
Split Ticket - Harris 270
Decision Desk HQ - Trump 275
She will be the best looking president in US history.
She's already the best-looking VP.
She's a cutie.
I have to admit that I thought she was cute when she came on the scene in the Senate, but this picture is highly photoshopped or 20 years old. She looks nothing like this today.
Maybe so, but still prettier than any PotUS or VP yet.
Dealing with politics at the presidential level will do that to men (Donald) too. It ages a person. All that traveling. All that talking. All that 'stretching and pulling.' All that talking. All that thinking.
AND, all that historically proven possibility of being assassinated. I hope that she will be well protected by the Secret Service who should have now learned to be a hell of a lot more careful, should she be the winner today.
It's a 'cheek squeezer' right now. Nerves are stretched as we watch the numbers come.
I just saw a kid on CNN say that he voting for Trump because he can speak without a script. There are morons like this out there canceling out your vote.
What you commented and the fact that the MAGA cult even exists should be no surprise to anyone with a brain, and I've been aware since I was a teenager when I realized that the cause is due to the quality of most of American education, in particular at the primary to high school levels. I don't question most American University education because both my children obtained their Masters degrees there and added to the fact that their previous education was in Canada and with both benefits they are leaders in their successful careers, both smart enough to think critically.
Off to work the polls with a parting shot, actually more of a heart felt thought…
This is a day we should all cherish…as it is in reverence we celebrate our heritage, it is in gratitude for those who sacrificed in giving us the opportunity, and it is in hope that the future is not lost in our pettiness.
To honor a wise man who is sorely missed…
Peace and Abundant Blessings!
Thanks for working the polls!