...over RFK endorsing Trump and getting a warm reception at one of his rallies:
No Jimmy, they're not cheering him because he's an environmentalist, they're cheering him because he is a prominent critic of vaccines and the govt's covid policies. Being to the left of the dems on some issues (which doesn't take much) doesn't make them actually left wing, ffs... At least Gaza is still a sticking point for him, but bloody hell, has he forgotten that politicians lie in the run up to elections to get votes? Or that Trump talked a big talk before his last term and followed through on precisely none of it? Why get all hot and bothered now over this? He's as bad as the liberals fawning over Harris because she used the word 'ceasefire'. And the less said about his theory about Trump secretly planning to bring Israel to heel, the better.
Or that Trump talked a big talk before his last term and followed through on precisely none of it?
That's what gets me about the MAGA cult; even in the heavily propagandised US it's beyond simple to take a look at the Orange Messiah's record and see that he did the sum total of bugger all for his base and instead did what both parties always; looked after the donor/oligarch class.
I can't believe he thinks Trump has a super secret plan to stamp on the apartheid state. The same guy that move the embassy to Jeruslem? Sure, Jimmy, sure.
As if to illustrate that point, from the blurb below the title:
"Although admitting that he and Trump are not aligned on all issues, Kennedy cited areas of commonality, including anti-censorship, opposition to vaccine mandates and concerns about clean air, food and water."
Yeh, the guy that put Scott Pruitt in charge of the EPA, who then gutted the living shit out of it. The same guy that presided over a bonfire of regulation in all the agencies and bodies that protect the very areas you think Trump and RFK Jr have "commonality" in at the behest of their billionaire, big energy donors. Sure Jimmy, sure.
Dore is such a transparent lost cause now....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Keeping the vile Harris out isn't a positive reason for voting but I'll laugh my head off if she gets dished. I wouldn't vote if I was a Septic because presidential elections aren't democratic.The last working-class hero in England.
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Rask said: 'I can't believe he thinks Trump has a super secret plan to stamp on the apartheid state. The same guy that move the embassy to Jeruslem? Sure, Jimmy, sure.'
Yeah, he's basing it on some leaked recording of Trump complaining that he was able to get Hamas to the table for peace talks but Netanyahu wasn't interested, and the perception that Trump likes to cut a deal. Maybe he does, but it would be a 180 degree turn not only on all his recent rhetoric (which Dore has even covered) but also on his past behaviour when in power totally supporting Israel, moving the embassy, assassinating of Soleimani on their behalf etc. At least with Ukraine he's made public statements against the war, so that might not escalate to the same degree with him in power. I could see the situation for Palestinians getting worse rather than better though...
Just to mention: I know, and see, a lot of wealthy republicans who are passionate and knowledgable about their food supply. I can honestly say, they are passionate about, and practice very healthy eating and healthy living.
To what extent they advocate this for everyone, at affordable prices, I cannot honestly say. But they know, and exercise, the best lifestyle choices for health.
There is certainly some fancy footwork going on with these big party platforms :-) But that is how you win US elections - have a popular message that strikes a chord in the hearts of voters, so why would Trump not do this?
In the big picture, the Republicans have managed to reinvent themselves in the period since Obama, and the Democrats have not yet done so. When either are in power, nothing changes for the average person. I can recall the night Obama won his first term in 2008 and came out to meet his supporters on election night. He was disinterested and tired of his slogans, the same rather subtle “you idiots” tone as his speech on gaining the nobel peace prize. These candidates are spending 3 months almost entirely in the company of campaign strategists and probably find the quick-fire exchange of ideas exhilarating. On election night those guys are gone, and the candidates are pretty much left in the company of their own brains.
on August 25, 2024, 6:21 pm