Dems, Be Afraid

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I had a lot of fun last night making fun of Donald Trump’s bullshit State of the Union speech. However I’m really scared. Because I think he laid out a campaign agenda that was very effective, despite the lies. Maybe even because of the lies. Like any demagogue, he brilliantly rallies the disaffected and then martyrs himself to their perceived plight. Consider these words from his speech:

murder

murders

brutal rape

terrible (3x)

aliens (5x)

catastrophic

gruesome

deadly

viciously

smashed

hijacked

barbarians

bloodthirsty

horrifying

miserable

ruthless

butcher

evil

terror

Look at every word and think about a response. This is what we’re up against.

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  2. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/read-speaker-pelosi-s-response-to-trump-s-state-of-the-union-address/ar-BBZF4KT?pfr=1

    “The manifesto of mistruths presented in page after page of the address tonight should be a call to action for everyone who expects truth from the President and policies worthy of his office and the American people. The American people expect and deserve a President to have integrity and respect for the aspirations for their children.”

  4. Good Morning,
    Craig,  Listening ears hear what they want!  If you back up and listen to the positive comments that might be interesting.  
    Interesting race in the Dem party,  Would be fun to be back with Dr T Wayne and have a productive argument.  Seems almost impossible today.
    And THANK YOU CRY BABY NANCY!!  You just lost the house.

  5. It worked last time, but has any of his base in swing states worn away?  It worked last time, but will voters who didn’t bother to vote, show up this time?  If it happens once, it’s an anomaly.  If it happens twice, it’s a pattern.       It won’t happen twice because folks now know his hyperbolic BS  when they hear it.      Craig’s idea of a Bloomberg/Warren ticket makes sense.   If Mike isn’t on the ticket, he will back the nominee, and, in other Dem races.  I think Warren would need to be on the ticket if Pete or Yang were to be the nominees, as well.  Klobuchar would need Pete or Booker.  I’d still like to vote my preference in the primary, but now I think I have to vote for whomever can get rid of SFB.   And, despite how anyone feels about the eventual nominee, everyone  will be on board this time, because there is a common entity.   

  6. Ping – You wanted to hear lies and made up statistics?  Well, I guess that’s what flies at your Nazi rallies.   

  9.  Trumpsky couldn’t cry “socialist” with Mike.   The most  he can do is call him short, again, like a playground bully.   I hate the thought of not voting for Warren in the primary, but.. whatever it takes.   The Republicans have completely destroyed their brand by propping up a bankrupt, lying, rapist.   Hey, maybe that list of words he used was about himself, after all, he does think everything is about him.  

  10. Meanwhile, Dumbass Junior is selling the opportunity to go trophy hunting with him, the heartless  scumbag.  

  11. can’t find it now, but morning joe ran the newest Bloomberg ad that is being released soon and has a lot of Obama saying nice things about mike in it.  wonder how that will play with the biden folk.

  12. The Biden folks were probably thinking he was the safe bet, but he’s clearly been off his game.  Looking at his feet when answering questions.    
    I hope Trumpsky’s base does their taxes today.  They will see their vanishing refunds.  Just ran through mine; less than last year.   

  13. Didn’t watch a second of it.  Watched the Bruins win a hockey game instead.
     
    I agree that Biden is looking very tired and old lately.  We’ll see how he does Friday night.  If not good…  I have to make another choice.  The Union Leader endorsed Klobuchar.  I’ll think about it.
     
    Oh yeah….  we must be mindful of having a fight on our hands.  But panicking is not my choice either.

  14. Yes, Ping, listening ears hear what they want to hear.  I heard lies.  Wapo fact checker lays out the details on 31 of the more “dubious” claims. One of my favorites:

    “Since my election, we have created 7 million new jobs.”

     

    Trump often inflates the number of jobs created under his presidency by counting from Election Day, rather than when he took the oath of office. There have been almost 6.7 million jobs created since February 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
     
    Job creation under President Barack Obama’s last three years, 227,000 a month, still exceeds the monthly average of 191,000 a month under Trump.

    And this one is just fucking beyond the pale.

    “We will always protect patients with preexisting conditions.”

    In an ongoing court case, the Trump administration is supporting a total repeal of the Affordable Care Act — including its guarantee that patients can’t be denied coverage for preexisting conditions. Republicans in Congress tried for years to repeal the whole law. Trump has not presented a plan to cover the gaps in case the court challenge is successful. Moreover, he has promoted short-term plans (which he touted in his speech) that are not required to cover preexisting conditions.

    As Billy Pilgrim, quoting the Tralfamadorians said, “And so it goes.”

  20. James Carville would do anything to stay relevant but no one should help him

    Ohio get a grip get rid of Rob Portman — a man of no courage and apparently a brain the size of a pea

  21. Mike Bloomberg has a new ad with John Cougar Mellencamp.   Focus on building the new and that will take the wind out of the orange, windbag.  

  23. Thirty years ago I told our city director of finance (he worked for me) to stop broadcasting Rush’s daily program in his office. He stopped but started taking lunch-hour in his car with the windows closed (fine with me).

  24. The biggest mistake Dems make is to let the goops set the tone of the media.  I was pleased to see Tim Kaine refuse that role with Mrs. Greenspan.  When she criticized Nancy P for ripping up the speech, Kaine said –“It’s ok for him to act like a jackass but you are going to focus on what she did.”   Mrs. Greenspan had the grace to look like the tool she is,

  25. KGC… good on Time Kaine!  Time for Dems to stop being so damned polite.  Time to start pointing out that this time around the media had better do it’s job.
     
    And let’s hope that Maine has had enough and get rid of Susan Collins.

  26. The caucuses were not messy and muddled — only the reporting
    Reporters are sheep

    The mass media makes me so angry they are the reason we have Donald Trump SFB as president
    do your effing jobs

  27. Caucuses are nonsense, just vote.

    If my state was a caucus state, i’d stay home rather than get bullied and yelled at.
     
    The electorate is going to vomit Our National Embarrassment out.

  28. FWIW- i convinced my Trump-voting friends to watch the last Dem. debate (believe it or not), and they were most impressed with Warren.  i made no statements supporting her to them, beforehand.
     
    Vote Warren, RR, and all your friends and family, too!

  29. Here’s the thing, people:
     
    A lot of people you know are doing well in this economy, but everyone of them has someone they love that isn’t doing so well, and those people are worried for their loved ones.

    Drug addiction, working 3 jobs, working 2 jobs with kids, can’t afford childcare, can’t afford healthcare, can’t get 40 hours (shifts get cut once you hit 37 now), no time to get re-educated and couldn’t afford it, anyway…

    You get the idea.

  30. Bink, although I’ve never lived in a caucus state, I think one of proponents’ arguments is that only truly committed citizens will participate in the pain-in-the-butt process; that filter, in their eyes, is a good thing. The failure of the tallying is systemic and caused by government. It is an anomaly in recent cycles.

  31. keep the caucus then and go last- they can be the moral-judge of the party electorate, after-the-fact.

    All those good candidates that dyed-in-the-wool Dems favored are out because of the silly Iowa caucuses and their inability to appeal to an unrepresentative electorate in an undemocratic process. All that money and time- *poof*

  32. “With my vote I will tell my children and their children that I did my duty,” Romney says. “What the president did was wrong. Grievously wrong.”

  33. I’m with Bink on caucuses.  I certainly wouldn’t want to have to devote 2+ hours to attend a caucus just to say I want Joe Biden to be the nominee.  That’s a 10 minute process – and that included standing in line for 8 minutes to get checked in.

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