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The Sean posted:So Biden clearly can't do debates at this point. But is he even campaigning to open audiences? This time in the cycle for 2020 he was challenging people at these events to push up contests like every other day. look, fat
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/the-obama-boys On how Obama dropped his grassroots movement: Let’s remember what the left critique of Obama’s administration is. Leftists argue, roughly, that while Obama came in with lofty promises of “hope” and “change,” the change was largely symbolic rather than substantive, and he failed to stand up for progressive values or fight for serious shifts in U.S. policy. He deported staggering numbers of immigrants, let Wall Street criminals off the hook, failed to take on (and now proudly boasts of his support for) the fossil fuel industry, sold over $100 billion in arms to the brutal Saudi government, killed American citizens with drones (and then made sickening jokes about it), killed lots more non-American citizens with drones (including Yemenis going to a wedding) and then misled the public about it, promised “the most transparent administration ever” and then was “worse than Nixon” in his paranoia about leakers, pushed a market-friendly healthcare plan based on conservative premises instead of aiming for single-payer, and showered Israel with both public support and military aid even as it systematically violated the human rights of Palestinians (Here, for example, is Haaretz: “Unlike [George W.] Bush, who gave Israel’s Iron Dome system a frosty response, Obama has led the way in funding and supporting the research, development and production of the Iron Dome”). Obama’s defenders responded to every single criticism by insisting that Obama had his hands tied by a Republican congress, but many of the things Obama did were freely chosen. In education policy, he hired charterization advocate Arne Duncan and pushed a horrible “dog-eat-dog” funding system called “Race To The Top.” Nobody forced him to hire Friedmanite economists like Larry Summers, or actual Republicans like Robert Gates, or to select middle-of-the-road judicial appointees like Elena Kagan and Merrick Garland. Who on Earth picks Rahm Emanuel, out of every person in the world, to be their chief of staff? ... Granted, these men are all devoted admirers of Obama who set out to defend his legacy. But in telling stories intended to make Obama and his staff look good, they end up affirming that the left’s cynicism was fully warranted. Litt, for instance, seems to have been a man with almost no actual political beliefs. Recently graduated from Yale when he joined the campaign, he was never much of an “activist.” Litt was drawn to Obama not because he felt that Obama would actually bring particular changes that he wanted to see happen, but because he developed an emotional obsession with Barack Obama as an individual person. Pfeiffer feels similarly—he fell in “platonic political love.” Litt’s book begins: On January 3, 2008, I pledged my heart and soul to Barack Obama… My transformation was immediate and all-consuming. One moment I was a typical college senior, barely interested in politics. The next moment I would have done anything, literally anything, for a freshman senator from Illinois. He describes the beginning of his brainless infatuation: “[Obama] spoke like presidents in movies. He looked younger than my dad. I didn’t have time for a second thought, or even a first one. I simply believed.” ... [B[Christopher Hitchens once observed that while there is almost universal agreement that Barack Obama is a memorable public speaker, almost nobody can actually remember or quote any lines from an Obama speech.[/B] Indeed, Litt comes away from an Obama event and says “yet here’s the remarkable thing: I don’t remember a word.” He felt “a kind of patriotic ecstasy” but he doesn’t actually seem to have been inspired by the idea of actually doing anything with the power of government. Indeed, Pfeiffer’s memoir says that while conventional wisdom in politics is that you should talk about “issues and policy positions” for Obama “the campaign was the message.” Paraphrasing Jay-Z (“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man”) the Obama staff concludes that Obama is not a “message man,” he’s the “message, man.” Pfeiffer says he had “desperately wanted” something in his life that felt “more like a cause than a campaign,” and in Obama he found it. But the “hope and change” they sought consisted of getting Obama elected. Obama “made our union more perfect simply by entering the White House,” Litt says. After that, it was all a bit “gauzy but vague” (Pfeiffer’s words). No wonder, then, that after being elected Obama disbanded his grassroots organizing apparatus—an act regarded by some as one of the worst political mistakes of his presidency. There was nothing to organize for. Scott Brown, whose 2010 election destroyed the Democrats’ Senate majority, has scoffed at the idea that the switch is what prevented Obama from getting his agenda through, pointing out that from 2009-2011: They had two years to do whatever they wanted and they did hardly anything. They didn’t do minimum wage. They didn’t do climate change. They didn’t do immigration. They didn’t do health care. They just assumed they would always have this supermajority… Litt’s memoir is remarkable for its lack of interest in actual policy. ... These three men are speechwriters, so we can forgive them for being preoccupied with descriptions of things rather than the things themselves. But this tendency to prioritize “getting the words right” over the actual experiences of human beings ran through the whole Obama presidency. Ordinary people were a kind of alien species—Litt says they referred to them as “real people (RPs)” and tried to litter speeches with “RP stories” to make them relatable. “In Washington you never stop hearing about the details of policy but you rarely see its effects.” This is only true if you rarely bother to examine the effects. --- Lot more in the link if you want details on how Obama was happy to throw his grassroots organisation to the dogs like Hitler the SA. PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 22:31 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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The US has vetoed a draft resolution that would have recommended to the 193-member UN General Assembly that “the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations.” Britain and Switzerland abstained, while the remaining 12 council members voted yes. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/18/israels-war-on-gaza-live-children-among-7-killed-as-israeli-strikes-rafah?update=2845580
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quote:Given his own personal experience, he is obviously in favour of academic freedom which he describes as not just the freedom to teach but to enquire and travel the road less travelled. He points out that in the US the idea went through various stages, freedom from churches, then from corporations and later the state (MacCarthy). Nowadays, all three encroach upon it, sometimes in unison and to the same end. He goes again into some detail on the issue and chooses the thorny ground of Holocaust denial. He is Jewish, so he is clearly not advocating that the Holocaust did not happen, but rather how it is dealt with on campus and links it up to other issues, giving examples when he himself has been uncomfortable teaching and the examples he relies on. He makes an argument for challenging ideas. This section, like the Obama part is overly long and could also have done with a bit of editing. But he clearly comes out against censorship and new morality police that abound everywhere.
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Nichael posted:if i was president, i simply wouldn't do genocide I would genocide the rich ending with offing myself since clearly i'd have to be rich to get there.
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Gripweed posted:I do think Harris could win the election if Biden died by the end of May. that'll be tough to do after they nominate hillary instead
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Could've built affordable housing for like 100 people in a building that size. Or just left it as a public park.
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silicone thrills posted:I would genocide the rich ending with offing myself since clearly i'd have to be rich to get there. nah the gulag for you instead. 
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silicone thrills posted:I would genocide the rich ending with offing myself since clearly i'd have to be rich to get there. I would simply isekai myself to become the overpowered communist president of the fantasy world.
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I would simply isekai myself to become the overpowered communist president of the fantasy world. lend lease truck kun
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Ytlaya posted:No...can't you read? Steel isn't indestructible. Jet fuel can't melt my spine!!
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Ytlaya posted:No...can't you read? Steel isn't indestructible. prove it: destroy some steel right now
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:prove it: destroy some steel right now just put some water on it an d wait
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Lib and let die posted:just put some water on it an d wait we're trying to destroy some steel, not grow a freakin houseplant
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quote:That 60ish days of the Obama barely held together supermajority have been used to say the "dems don't support this because they didn't pass a bill in this window" for 16 years now, it's getting tiresome. I feel like it's pretty damning of our system that the "good" party has only had 60 days of actually being able to Do Something in the last 16 years And also they didn't Do much during the 60 days the did have.
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Trump sure managed to get a lot of poo poo done even with the opposing party holding the House/Senate Obama was just a lovely politician as is Joe Biden They both got outmaneuvered by a guy who can barely read
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quote:He added that according to U.S. law, if the resolution passed, the Biden administration would have to defund the UN, which is not something it wants to do.
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WampaLord posted:I feel like it's pretty damning of our system that the "good" party has only had 60 days of actually being able to Do Something in the last 16 years a competent party would have had legislation drafted, reviewed, and ready to submit the second they see a legislative window they can exploit. 60 days should have been ten times as much time as they needed. look at how fast they passed the "it's illegal to protest at a SCOTUS judge's house" law!
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Trump sure managed to get a lot of poo poo done even with the opposing party holding the House/Senate It was pretty funny that the most productive period in the Obama administration was the last 20 days or so of his presidency where he laid down a lot of progressive rules but made sure to do it so that Trump had plenty of time to reverse them all in the first week of his presidency.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Trump sure managed to get a lot of poo poo done even with the opposing party holding the House/Senate The political remit of Biden and Obama was specifically to Not Do Anything. That's why Trump is a political outsider, and an enemy of the system, and is called a populist demagogue, because he says he will actually Do Something, He can't be trusted to do much good willingly, but by just promising Something he is shaking up a system based on worshipping and servicing the inertia of Capital.
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SixteenShells posted:a competent party would have had legislation drafted, reviewed, and ready to submit the second they see a legislative window they can exploit. 60 days should have been ten times as much time as they needed. look at how fast they passed the "it's illegal to protest at a SCOTUS judge's house" law! We know this because the Republicans obviously have cabinets with every evil plan they could hope for locked away somewhere, awaiting der tag. Remember how it came out by that by 9/12, war plans, and "economic reform" proposals for Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, etc. were circulating around the Bush administration?
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Norm did a great job explaining why Obama is a black hole of narcissism, to a pretty bewildering degree, but it's long form (with like 30 footnotes). How would you present the idea to a normal person? Barack Obama tried to hold a huge birthday party during a pandemic, and when he got called out on it, he responded by cutting from the list people who got him the presidency like David Axelrod but kept around celebrities like Jay-Z. There. One sentence.
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Probably Magic posted:Barack Obama tried to hold a huge birthday party during a pandemic, and when he got called out on it, he responded by cutting from the list people who got him the presidency like David Axelrod but kept around celebrities like Jay-Z. in obama's defense are you telling me you wouldn't be looking for an excuse to not have to hang out with david axelrod
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Probably Magic posted:Barack Obama tried to hold a huge birthday party during a pandemic, and when he got called out on it, he responded by cutting from the list people who got him the presidency like David Axelrod but kept around celebrities like Jay-Z. Thanks, that's perfect.
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WampaLord posted:I feel like it's pretty damning of our system that the "good" party has only had 60 days of actually being able to Do Something in the last 16 years
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Nichael posted:Dumb Shits of America DemonKKKratic No$ocialists of AmeriKKKa
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PoundSand posted:Trump replaced RGB in like 2 weeks so clearly doing stuff fast in politics is possible when you have desire and means. true but it's fascist
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PoundSand posted:Trump replaced RGB in like 2 weeks so clearly doing stuff fast in politics is possible when you have desire and means. How long did it take Biden to get the first Globemaster full of 2000 lb bombs to Israel
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/tab_delete/status/1781068533344165920 dumbass
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Yeah, wonder how college like is going for that smug little snitch Theo Baker these days. I'm sure everyone loves him on campus.
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"Long Island University" lol
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/tab_delete/status/1781068533344165920 
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He looks exactly like I expected: the face of someone who was born on third and thinks he hit a triple and invented the game of baseball.
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When will the US finally ban the hammer and sickle as the symbols of hatred they are??
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