OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

It turns out this pledge was unnecessary. I did *not* see that coming! I was sure it would be at least a week before we had definitive results, that they would be very close, and that there would be multiple challenges.

I am as agog as most democrats at this point.

It was never close. That was just another MSM lie so it would be easier to fix the result again. But Trump was *so* far ahead that any fix would have been easily exposed as such. It was just too risky to even contemplate. I hope Trump will leave office in 4 years having made the weaponization of the law for political ends impossible going forward, because what we have seen has been outrageous abuse of the legal system in a flagrant attempt to crush any second term for him. We really have been in banana republic territory of late, what with that and the assassination attempts.

Cursitor Doom snipped-for-privacy@notformail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Agreed.

One more very important thing needs to be added to the goals for President Trump and his team. (IMHO) Bringing both sides together is a nice goal, but a better goal improving on that idea is to teach all Americans of all ages the values that created this great country. So that in the future we might combine our efforts to improve instead of listening to those efforts that divided us on many false issues. We need to focus on what is important.

The media will not tell you what that means.

Politicians cannot tell you what that means.

God told us what we need to do. Our Great Founding Fathers new the path.

Amen,

The polls were pretty much bang on; that _someone_ would likely sweep the swing states was known for weeks, months. The scenarios where swing states got split were statistically unlikely.

Running a candidate like Kamala who had not even a primary mandate and three months to do a not particularly inspiring campaign up against a billionaire celebrity like Trump was a big gamble, anyone with a brain knew that. Did the Democrats? Who can say..

Whether you are a believer or not, The Enlightment started with The Ten Commandments, the teachings of Jesus, the Gutenberg bible, the Reformation, the Magna Carta, and the US Constitution as amended.

Religion is the firmware, the axioms, of our morality and law.

What would really be interesting is a Cabinet with one guy who was a poor hillbilly orphan, and another guy who is the richest person on Earth.

I hope DT will make a victory lap of the USA and adbicate to Vance.

There are lots of people here, and in other countries, who think that we have too much government. Killing the squirrel was an example.

Vance is an odd duck; seems to believe his mother stealing pills from her workplace to feed her drug addiction was the fault of somebody other than herself and Purdue Pharma.

Having Trump, Vance, RFK Jr. and Musk is a hazard, the gravitational pull of many massive egos in once place is likely to cause a rip in the space time continuum.

Dream on. Biden had some sense (far too late) to bow out but there's no way Trump is turning over the keys to Vance, or anyone else, easy.

We'll never know what Nancy said to get Joe to quit. Probably threatened to put his entire family in prison.

And, like most of John Larkin's opinions, this was inculcated by lying right-wing American propaganda.

Natural monopolies need to be regulated by elected politicians - privatisation is one of those popular fads that doesn't work.

And, like most of John Larkin's opinions, this was inculcated by lying right-wing American propaganda.

Natural monopolies need to be regulated by elected politicians - privatisation is one of those popular fads that doesn't work.

Lots of people don't like Democrats, but are fine with faceless progressive policy and are happy to vote themselves higher wages, free education and more money from the government.

Trump's main message is not "small government" it's a chicken in every pot and trading freedom for security. This used to be the Dem's main selling point...

Of all the major crime going on in the city they go after one pet squirrel. Seems about right for the mentaliy of this country. The squirrel was easy to find. Trapped in just a few rooms. Maybe they should give the man harboring the squirrel a few years in prison for doing something so serious of a crime.Don't worry about the thousands of illeagal people in the city.

It seems the parties are reversing the ideas.

Appropriating some left-wing populist ideas and making them meaner has been a right-wing thing for a while.

But though Trump tries to be everything to everyone, at least he has a brand, a coherent message of a sort.

Lately the Dems have just been a rather generic centrist party whose message such as it is, is that we'll be business-as-usual, keep the cash and money flowing overseas, keep a bunch of Trumps policies, but at least not be him. It's insufficient.

Anyway, maybe there should have been a primary.....

cash & bombs, rather

That was the idea. There are plenty of things wrong in US society, but the authorities chose to after an easy target and politicians sought to use it to their advantage. Both parties deserve our scorn.

Jeroen Belleman

Political parties should have no official existance in the workings of elections or in government.

The framers of our constitution debated that, and got it wrong.