While I'm on a roll (see [un]official disambiguation thread):
I gurgitated:
Phellow Phriamers -
Here are my anti-Trump ideations grounded in the SCrOTUS decision
of the day:
Warning, vivid imagery which
may induce */limbic chaos/*!
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President Joe Biden writes the following (official act) executive
orders and proclamations:
<more Gurge, less Limbic Chaos>
Regarding the debate and election:
Watching the debate (most of my friends chose to "know better" and
waited for select aftergame reports) I was deeply disheartened by both
performances.
That said, I realized (soon after?) that they were in fact
"performances", as virtually all politicking is (and virtually all that
DJT ever does?)...
While I have ideated exhaustively (exhausted myself and anyone who would
listen) on alternative scenarios where Biden (gracefully) steps aside,
including nominating a consensus candidate (implied team) of his choice
(e.g. Newsom/Harris, Booker/Whitmer, Jeffries/Warren, ??? ad nauseum)
with full-throated endorsements by everyone of significance in the left
(e.g. Pelosi, Obamas, Late Night Comicsa few senior Newshosts, ???).
And the Never Trumpers from the Right (Cheney-Kinsinger, Chris
Christie?, Judge Ludig, the Lincoln Project, et alii), I had another
simple thought.
What if this event really reduces the race to what it really is: Never
Trumping, Bald Authoritarianism vs flawed Democracy in the Democratic
Party's style?
Someone made the point that nobody who was going to vote for Biden will
now vote for Trump, maybe a few will cynically risk letting Trump
default in, but most of the "own the libs" Trumpsters just got the
satisfaction they crave (humiliating libs) and might forget to vote
(incels in their parent's basement watching porn). There were only
order 9M registered voters who failed to vote in 2020, a smallish (out
of 168M? registered voters) percentage, but enough to swing the election
wide. Some of those will always fail. I believe the number of
*eligible* voters in 2020 was 1.5x the number registered, or about 80M
unregistered voters.
The focus could/should be "get out the vote", trusting that Trump's
frenzied grievance politics has already wrung his turnip-truck-load of
turnips near-dry?
I also wonder at why nobody has said (enough?) much to "mainstream" or
"oldSkool" conservatives/Republicans about their role as a "Loyal
Opposition"? Don't they miss that role themselves and miss having one
in traditional Dems? The gloves have been off (on one side) for some
time, do they (all) really want to be left standing after a brutal
beatdown consisting of sand-in-the-face, brass knuckle rabbit and kidney
punches? I'm sure many are eager for that, despite the "careful what
you ask for" rule, but surely enough (like the afore-mentioned
never-trumpers).
Don't at least some want to get back to the "good old days" of a
gentle(wo)man's tug-of-war across a mud-pit (sans vipers)?
The new(ly re-realized) reality might bring some focus to those who
already (or nearly) recognize the dire threat of Authoritarianism (this
time in a Red Hat) in general?
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