Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election
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As if trump could be that eloquent. We all know it's going to be more like that video of him bouncing on the space hopper, crying and saying "I don't wanna go" "I don't wanna go".
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Maybe what was going on right now was best for the country. If Donald Trump had won, the Left would have burned down the cities. If Joe Biden had won decisively and flipped the Senate, conservatives would have loaded the guns into their pickup trucks and laid siege. Maybe I would have confronted JT, pointed out that she’d really let herself go. But instead, everyone got a little something. And everyone was a little disappointed.
Already the Left was blaming the Cubans, who were no longer to be considered people of color. The Right made gains with every group except white people. There were calls to hold people accountable, but it didn’t seem likely to go anywhere. The president was saying all the wrong things and there would be no reconciliation, but there would also be no riots, for the moment, except perhaps in Portland, where they had accepted the destruction the way Hazel, in the movie Synecdoche, New York, accepts moving into a house on fire.
“I I like it. I do! I’m… I’m just really concerned about dying in the fire.”
“It’s a big decision,” the realtor responds, “How one prefers to die.”
Years later, she passes from smoke inhalation.
https://quillette.com/2020/11/06/without-and-within-a-fin-de-siecle-moment/
Already the Left was blaming the Cubans, who were no longer to be considered people of color. The Right made gains with every group except white people. There were calls to hold people accountable, but it didn’t seem likely to go anywhere. The president was saying all the wrong things and there would be no reconciliation, but there would also be no riots, for the moment, except perhaps in Portland, where they had accepted the destruction the way Hazel, in the movie Synecdoche, New York, accepts moving into a house on fire.
“I I like it. I do! I’m… I’m just really concerned about dying in the fire.”
“It’s a big decision,” the realtor responds, “How one prefers to die.”
Years later, she passes from smoke inhalation.
https://quillette.com/2020/11/06/without-and-within-a-fin-de-siecle-moment/
And you sir, are you waiting to receive my badly tanned, limp orange penis?
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Plane just gone over with a banner.
The world knows Trump won, in red behind it.
Must be hoping BT
Or the press pick up on it.
The world knows Trump won, in red behind it.
Must be hoping BT
Or the press pick up on it.
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It is looking like nipping the public option in the bud is going to be the first priority.
Biden (who ran his first fundraiser sharing a stage with the Republican CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield) has made it clear that this will essentially just be Medicaid under a different label: “It’s only for those people who are so poor they qualify for Medicaid they can get that free in most states, except governors who want to deny people who are poor Medicaid... Anyone who qualifies for Medicaid would automatically be enrolled in the public option. The vast majority of the American people would still not be in that option.”
As Biden famously put it, "nothing will fundamentally change", and this is certainly the expectation among his real constituents: "It’s not our expectation that a change in the administration will transform our relationship and direction from a regulatory standpoint"
This is of course notwithstanding having promised a strong, competitive public option throughout the campaign - just like Obama, who likewise immediately broke this same promise en route to be thoroughly routed in 2010, paving the way for a decade of unprecedented Republican legislative control, gerrymandering + voter suppression (which again worked a charm for the Democrats in their own primary) + dark money.
For the Democrats' base of comfortable professional class boomers and failed professional class millennials, promises like these don't actually mean anything: the assumption is that anyone who voted for Trump is a racist barbarian who is probably too stupid to even want affordable health care. And now Harry Potter has outmagic-ed the troll under the bridge, breaking his evil spell across the land, and we can all go back to brunch and ignoring politics. They actually believe Democrat Party elders who tell them that we have to make health care even worse because the Republican base demands it. America is a 'conservative' country, after all.
But this is wrong. Support for the public option - never mind Medicare for All - is 70% nationwide, more than 20 points more popular than Biden himself. Once again, the Democrats will be the Party that spends four years promising to do something about healthcare, by far the most important political issue in America, and that breaks every promise before the votes are even counted. Once again, they are the party that subsidises universally loathed health insurers and compels voters to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month for low quality insurance that they cannot even afford to use:
Behind closed doors there is probably great relief in some quarters that the Republicans have done so well in the Senate and the House, as it makes the Democrats' primary task of servicing capital by managing the base's expectations that much easier.
And Jim Clyburn, who takes more money from pharmaceutical and health insurance companies than anyone else in the House or Senate, can expect handsome rewards for his enormously valuable services.
Biden (who ran his first fundraiser sharing a stage with the Republican CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield) has made it clear that this will essentially just be Medicaid under a different label: “It’s only for those people who are so poor they qualify for Medicaid they can get that free in most states, except governors who want to deny people who are poor Medicaid... Anyone who qualifies for Medicaid would automatically be enrolled in the public option. The vast majority of the American people would still not be in that option.”
As Biden famously put it, "nothing will fundamentally change", and this is certainly the expectation among his real constituents: "It’s not our expectation that a change in the administration will transform our relationship and direction from a regulatory standpoint"
This is of course notwithstanding having promised a strong, competitive public option throughout the campaign - just like Obama, who likewise immediately broke this same promise en route to be thoroughly routed in 2010, paving the way for a decade of unprecedented Republican legislative control, gerrymandering + voter suppression (which again worked a charm for the Democrats in their own primary) + dark money.
For the Democrats' base of comfortable professional class boomers and failed professional class millennials, promises like these don't actually mean anything: the assumption is that anyone who voted for Trump is a racist barbarian who is probably too stupid to even want affordable health care. And now Harry Potter has outmagic-ed the troll under the bridge, breaking his evil spell across the land, and we can all go back to brunch and ignoring politics. They actually believe Democrat Party elders who tell them that we have to make health care even worse because the Republican base demands it. America is a 'conservative' country, after all.
But this is wrong. Support for the public option - never mind Medicare for All - is 70% nationwide, more than 20 points more popular than Biden himself. Once again, the Democrats will be the Party that spends four years promising to do something about healthcare, by far the most important political issue in America, and that breaks every promise before the votes are even counted. Once again, they are the party that subsidises universally loathed health insurers and compels voters to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month for low quality insurance that they cannot even afford to use:
Behind closed doors there is probably great relief in some quarters that the Republicans have done so well in the Senate and the House, as it makes the Democrats' primary task of servicing capital by managing the base's expectations that much easier.
And Jim Clyburn, who takes more money from pharmaceutical and health insurance companies than anyone else in the House or Senate, can expect handsome rewards for his enormously valuable services.
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Where do you even start with this?
Trump supporters dancing to RATM.
A woman wearing the blue line flag singing along to one of the most famous anti-authority songs ever...
I can’t even... lol
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And you didn’t even mention the inexplicably shiny pants the woman doing the dancing is wearing.
How Candace Owens sleeps at night is completely beyond me.
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