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Quixote1818's JournalHow did we become more afraid of European Style Socialism than European Style Fascism?
This needs to be done a bit better showing Trump connected to the bottom photo or many stupid people won't understand this.
Regardless of who wins the Primary, who do you hope gets the VP nod?
I really like Stacey Abrams! Like Obama she is charismatic, likable, would probably bring more minorities out and she lost in fricking Georgia by a hair!
Washington Post VP ranker has Abrams 2nd and Harris 1st (I am not a fan of Harris): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/13/here-are-people-with-best-shot-vp-nomination/?arc404=true
Georgia and Texas will be blue states very soon
When that happens maybe we can finally start getting shit done if Trump hasn't taken over as dictator by then.
Georgia Polls from the article (a couple months old)
Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Biden 51% — Trump 43%
Sanders 48% — Trump 44%
Warren 47% — Trump 44%
Buttigieg 46% — Trump 43%
Survey USA:
Biden 47% — Trump 43%
Sanders 47% — Trump 44%
Warren 46% — Trump 45%
Buttigieg 41% — Trump 45%
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/24/1901637/-Georgia-May-Be-Turning-Blue-Faster-Than-We-Think
Texas
Texas Is Bracing for a Blue Wave in 2020. Yes, Texas.
Why Republicans are getting very nervous about maintaining their stranglehold on the Lone Star State.
By BOB MOSER
August 12, 2019 Add to Pocket
When Beto O’Rourke proclaimed, during the second round of Democratic presidential debates, that “there’s a new battleground state, Texas, and it has 38 Electoral College votes,” eyes rolled in unison across America. We’ve all heard that nonsense before! Pundits and progressives have been predicting that minority-white Texas would go blue for so long, it’s practically become a running joke. And while O’Rourke came tantalizingly close to knocking off Ted Cruz last fall, that race seemed to have all the hallmarks of a fluke—a Republican senator who even Republicans can’t stomach, running in a strong Democratic midterm cycle against a fresh-faced liberal who eschewed all forms of conventional political wisdom and ran a campaign so novel, so tireless, and so perfectly made for social media that it became a viral sensation. Post-Betomania, most people assumed that Texas Democrats would resume their role as American politics’ saddest underachievers, while Texas Republicans extended their quarter-century run of dominance as their national party’s ideological, financial, and electoral-vote stronghold.
More: https://newrepublic.com/article/154723/texas-bracing-blue-wave-2020-yes-texas
While I think the Bloomberg tactic of getting down to Trump's level is a probably a good strategy
I find myself saddened that things have come to this. That to fight Trump we now have grown people groveling to see who can act more like the alpha male to appeal to childish caveman bullshit in a battle better suited for a movie about adolescent teenagers. Has Trump really done this to our society? Is this what we have become? Adults are now acting like bratty kids who need discipline and tribal mentality is kicking in like in the book Lord of the Flies? It makes me wonder if instead of stooping down, we be the grownups in the match like the adult military fellow who shows up at the end of Lord of the Flies and in an in an instant all the kids realize what they have become. I am not quite sure how to do this effectively but we deal with Trump like a Principal would with a child bully. Key and Peele have this very profound video touching on the thought process of a bully and it seems like if we can get creative we can still take the higher ground, look like adults and highlight Trump's behavior as childish and petty. We need a grownup candidate to show up and stop the madness:
Here is the Key and Peele video. If we could do something like this but perhaps have the bullied kid be the one with the psychological insight. Or would this strategy backfire and play into the BS about us acting like elites? We are fighting against this Alpha Male mentality not in children but adults. At this point their is probably very little hope for them suddenly becoming insightful but we are only trying to reach a few halfway reasonable folks who may not live and breath politics and are not completely aware of how insane it has become. Thoughts?
Whistleblowers and truth tellers like Vinman who are being fired by Trump need to be taken care of
for the rest of their lives or other whistleblowers may be afraid to come forward under this criminal thug. For anyone Trump wrongfully fires I would like to see someone like Bloomberg give these patriots great jobs and a couple hundred thousand bucks as a slap in the face of Trump and to show him his intimidation and ousting folks will be met with them being set for life. If not Bloomberg, then some kind of Go Fund me thing.
Where others failed, now Amazon is taking up the case against the president
Feb. 12, 2020 at 6:00 am Updated Feb. 12, 2020 at 3:59 pm
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times columnist
First to have a crack at it was Robert Mueller. Next up was Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats, who took a mighty swing but also whiffed.
Could the one to finally strike a blow be … Amazon?
The filings this week in an obscure federal contracting court by our Seattle tech bad boys made some headlines, mostly because Jeff Bezos and company are brazenly seeking to depose the baddest boy of all, Donald Trump.
But “Amazon Web Services v. United States of America” seems to me to have the potential to develop into a full-blown political scandal. The motions made Monday show that our little Seattle online bookstore has decided to throw standard business and lobbying caution to the wind by joining into an all-out, and overtly political, war with the U.S. president.
At issue is a $10 billion Defense Department contract to transition the military into cloud computing. These are typically boring but important public bid fights, in which both companies and the government must follow arcane procurement rules on complex proposals that can run to tens of thousands of pages.
Long story shorter: Amazon thought it had won the big contract, but then lost it to Microsoft last fall after a seemingly abrupt turnaround. That’s where all hell breaks loose.
“This is not an ordinary bid protest,” the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington declared in a follow-up court filing on Tuesday. “Plaintiff Amazon … alleges not only that the U.S. Department of Defense inaccurately evaluated the technical aspects of its proposal for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (“JEDI”) contract—but also that DoD did so because President Donald J. Trump engaged in a ‘blatant and sustained effort to direct the outcome’ in order to ‘pursue his own personal and political ends.’ “
More: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/where-others-failed-now-amazon-is-taking-up-the-case-against-the-president/
For those of us who were around DU back in 2003 / 2004, who was your favored candidate then and
who are you for or leaning towards today? Thought it would be fun to see how many people used to be behind the same candidate then but are fighting like cats and dogs today. LOL Because at one point or another, most of us have probably liked the same candidate even if we disagree now. So we are a lot more alike than different. 
Me Wesley Clark then and today Warren, Sanders about even.
For that matter here is the entire gamut: Clark 2004, Obama 2008, Sanders 20016, Warren / Sanders 2020.
Noam Chomsky's thoughts on Sanders chances
I have to say, that as someone who has been a supporter of Sanders (I am sure several of you here know I have been doing that). Chomsky's take makes me nervous because I have always had a lot of respect for his opinion. I would love to get Sanders in but Trump is so extreme and dangerous I won't be taking a chance this year. While Bloomberg is probably the bottom of my list I may have to support him because I think he has the best shot and I think some of the moderates in our field need to start dropping out fast as to not keep splitting the vote and get behind one moderate, be it Bloomberg or perhaps Klobuchar. I absolutely hate to be working against my ideals but ridding the country of Trump is far, far more important at this juncture. We can't take a chance on someone like Sanders soon but not against a maniac!
There is a scene in the movie 1776 when Thomas Jefferson has written the ending of slavery into the Declaration of Independence but he doesn't have enough support for this in the Continental Congress. (This really happened: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/ ) Ben Franklin tells John Adams it's a noble idea and he is correct but taking on slavery would need to come later. That independence must come first and so tragically it is struck out but Independence is saved.
That is where I am at right now. We have to be pragmatic and this is not the year to be experimental to see if a far left candidate might do better. It's simply too risky against someone who is tearing down the Constitution in front of us an throwing the pieces in our faces:
There's Big Trouble Ahead For Pennsylvania's Economy
In the next six months, the state is projected to endure the most significant economic contraction since June 2009.
Pennsylvania and eight other states are expected to experience economic losses in the next six months, according to recent projections from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
In other words, recession could be on the horizon.
Experts say Pennsylvania’s economy will suffer the most significant contraction since June 2009, when the state was still in the midst of the Great Recession. The December report, which analyzed data from November, marks the second consecutive month in which the Fed projected Pennsylvania’s economy to shrink. Prior to the two most recent estimates, the Fed hadn’t projected a contraction in the state since June 2012.
West Virginia, which already has the third-highest unemployment rate, is predicted to suffer the most significant economic downturn in the country, while Delaware, Montana, Oklahoma, Vermont, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Connecticut are also expected to experience contractions in the next six months.
More: https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/01/08/theres-big-trouble-ahead-for-pennsylvanias-economy/
Trying to figure out how to warm up to Bloomberg in the event he gets the nomination
I won't be voting for him in the primary but I think he would be fine as President as far as bringing back normalcy, and I do think he understands something needs to be done about income inequality. He is a philanthropist so he isn't so clingy to his money that he will try to use the Presidency to enrich himself. I think he may be the strongest candidate to put up against Trump unless he ends up being seen as just another rich guy who will only look out for the wealthy. That is where I believe Sanders has the advantage with regular folks.
These are the areas he has focused his philanthropy:
Environment, Public Health, the Arts, Government Innovation, Education, Women's Economic Development in Africa, science. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Philanthropies
I don't know what the hell he was thinking with Stop and Frisk though??? That concerns me.
All in all I think he would be fine and I think it would bug the CRAP out of Trump running against someone who has 20 times his wealth and Bloomberg is self made. He could make fun of trump for being just another cocky under achieving trust fund baby.
I think Klobuchar is the darkhorse to watch right now and I think she would be stronger than Buttigieg against Trump. She had an extremely strong debate performance and she does her homework for the debates. Knows her stuff.
I still have a bit of hope for Elizabeth but her traction just hasn't been there as of yet so I am looking around.
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