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RNC 2020: The Republican Party now the Party of Trump
About the Right - or at least the R party - being accidentally right.
One of the traditional duties of the delegates to the quadrennial national party conventions, both Democratic and Republican, is to adopt a platform stating their policy preferences and principles.
These documents - akin to British party manifestos - are typically the subject of intense haggling and debate among the delegates, but are largely ignored by the candidates themselves, unless opponents decide to highlight a portion they think general-election voters will find extreme or unpopular.
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Instead, the delegates gathering for the limited in-person convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a one-page resolution stating that they weren't going to have a new platform, but instead the party "has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's America-first agenda".
The delegates said they made this decision because they did not want their reduced number in Charlotte making policy decisions for the entire party.
And so, the logic goes: "If there are not enough of us to take a decision for the entire party, then surely a single idiot will be better than us, so we'll support him enthusiastically".
A sincere admission of incapability.
It continues:
a June decision by the party's executive committee to adopt the 2016 platform as-is in 2020.
While that might seem a reasonable decision given the circumstances, doing so without any changes meant the document included shots meant for the then in-power Democrats, like "all international executive agreements and political arrangements entered into by the current Administration must be deemed null and void as mere expressions of the current president's preferences".
They got it right in form at least. It still means "we are supporting Trump, in spite of policies being just a matter of current president's preferences"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:12AM (3 children)
Jerome Powell just announced that inflation has been so low they need to make more inflation to cancel it out for an indefinite time in the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:43PM (2 children)
Inflation is an unfortunate side-effect of economic growth and expansion. Econ 102. Controlling inflation usually hampers the economy. The economy is (obviously) in an extreme fragile state. When evictions and foreclosures start happening, likely soon, the ripple effect could be much worse than the 2008 Great Recession. Right now it's best to not risk making things worse. No easy answers to any of this. Someone's going to be greatly hurt by all the economic loss due to COVID-19.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:16PM
Planned inflation is how the rich get richer and corporations get bigger.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 29 2020, @02:32AM
Inflation is an unfortunate side-effect of economic treachery and skullduggery. Enron 101.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @04:39AM (1 child)
We only want somebody that looks good on camera and mingle in the bourgeoisie with grace and decorum
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @12:06PM
Correct, that's why Bernie is not allowed:
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ihnp8j/hi_im_bill_binney_nsa_whistleblower_the_russians/ [reddit.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @04:55AM (3 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imDoT5zBvsA [youtube.com]
My my, seems like that really highlighted the core of the problems that followed.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 28 2020, @05:23AM (2 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @06:04AM (1 child)
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 28 2020, @07:00AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0, Troll) by Bot on Friday August 28 2020, @07:16AM (37 children)
>...then, surely a single idiot...
I don't challenge this axiomatic assumption of yours, only consider that a single idiot did more for your country's economy than 8 years of coordinated policy from the lefties (coordinated with the think tanks and the international commissions, of course). Which puts lefties under the idiocy level. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but if they cannot even match incompetence the only possible explanation remains malice. Or so the saying went.
To be honest, there was a good leftie, Bill Clinton left the USA economy mostly alone and so accidentally built a solid economy. This wasn't acceptable so he was impeached and replaced with the friend of saudis Bush Jr. that proceeded to rectify the problem through wars and the building of the surveillance state. That subsequent lefties carefully avoided to dismantle.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @11:06AM (18 children)
"Nice city you have there..." [twitter.com]
I don't know why this presumptive president thinks he controls the Democrime mob but the attempt at extortion is not without precedent. [bizpacreview.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @11:31AM (17 children)
Anyone who votes for Trump should be enslaved. Biden is the correct vote and with mail in voting we will see who are the uncle toms voting against their interest.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @12:23PM (16 children)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:17PM (3 children)
I have to agree: "if Trump is the answer, how stupid is the question?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:05PM (2 children)
A BLM mob screaming at Rand Paul to acknowledge the shooting of Breonna Taylor when he sponsored the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act. About that stupid!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:37PM (1 child)
That's right, that mob of idiots must speak for all BLM supporters everywhere.
Oh wait, just maybe a few trolls on the left don't speak for the entire left. Unlike the right, which is pretty well united behind the guy too fucking stupid to advocate wearing masks - and responsible for probably 10-50% of the deaths right now from COVID-19 as a result.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:27AM
> That's right, that mob of idiots must speak for all BLM supporters everywhere.
why BLM merits distinctions and trump supporters don't? hypocrisy galore.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 28 2020, @05:05PM (11 children)
Oh yeah, the country is a complete shithole right now. Remind me again, whose in charge currently?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:19PM (5 children)
Lol. No one falls for it. Even cnn is saying the polls are favoring Trump now.
People dont want to be locked down and screamed at by useful idiots. Who knew?
Not that it matters, the free money is flowing.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 28 2020, @05:41PM (4 children)
Oh yes, remain complacent, Trump is totally gonna win. Any poll that says otherwise is FAKE NEWS.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @06:14PM (2 children)
I dont care either way, yall wasting your time on this as you get robbed by the fed and friends buying everything.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @08:03PM
Oh... no one wants to touch that grenade! Keep your eyes on the center ring and see the siamese elephants!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:28AM
this comment is +5 prophetic
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @06:24PM
We were indoctrinated 4 years ago to ignore the results of any polls conducted by the left. Hillary was going to win in the biggest landslide in history, remember? It was her turn, after all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @06:51PM (1 child)
Yes, who is in charge... of the riots?
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricMMatheny/status/1299393650628190210 [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:42PM
We can hope the rioters are stupid enough to riot in D.C. There is no governor, and the mayor will be powerless to stop the feds coming in to quell the riots. Oh, please, please, please, go to D.C. and riot!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 31 2020, @12:21AM (2 children)
Ain't you?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:29AM (1 child)
you asking for battery status? I am 73% charged right now.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday September 04 2020, @09:22AM
No, just about the battery charge [wikipedia.org]. Have you been charged in full since then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:33PM (10 children)
You have some good insights, but I think world politics are too complex for anyone to fully understand. For instance, you don't seem to have factored in Islamic extremism. Much of the "wars" you refer to were due to Islamic extremists' violent attacks on US citizens at home and abroad. Of course hindsight is 20/20, but when someone is building up military hardware and suicidal fighters, you don't have much choice in how to deal with it.
Look what the Chinese are doing to Muslims. Surely it's as horrible a human rights violation as we've seen and I'm in no way condoning it (not sure what the world can do about it anyway) but it may be that the very intelligent Chinese understand the chaos and destruction that the extremists can cause in society.
At the very end of his presidency, Bill Clinton signed a bill that pretty much dismantled the Glass-Steagall act that had stabilized banking and the economy after the Great Depression of the 1930s. There is much discussion, arguing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over how much Clinton's repeal caused the Great Meltdown and Recession of 2008 onward, but the connection is pretty obvious. Anyone can websearch on it. I could list 20 search results, and everyone will have a biased opinion about the reference being biased one way or the other, left or right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the_Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act [wikipedia.org]
"The love of money..."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Friday August 28 2020, @06:06PM
Islamic extremists like the Osama family, partners of the Bushes? never mind.
As for clinton
- bill
- wat
- sign here
- let me read first
- you know that your semen is in lewinski fridge right
- k k i sign
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 28 2020, @06:28PM (3 children)
"Much of the "wars" you refer to were due" to Operation Ajax. Need I remind you that the US and UK destroyed a legitimate democracy, installed a puppet, who was eventually overthrown by a justifiably enraged religous cult? Iran was a modern, progressive country, until we bent them over an oil barrel and took turns raping the country.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @08:08PM (2 children)
Please. You know the routine. Had to keep the Russians out
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:40AM (1 child)
Thankfully with the new russian usa axis embodied by trump and putin these things are of the past.
Always been at war with eastasia.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 31 2020, @04:57PM
Always been at war with everybody. Such is life in a petri dish
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:03AM (4 children)
It's just attacking another perceived threat to the Chinese government. Don't attribute to competence or intelligence, that which is best explained by self-interest.
Sorry, I don't buy the "I'm in no way condoning it" apologism here. Noting that acts of evil against innocent people happen and then remarking positively on the intelligence and understanding of the perpetrators is a condoning of that evil. Further, Muslims != "the extremists". People who simply want to air legitimate complaints against their government are also considered "the extremists" and subject to many of the same punishments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:22PM (1 child)
As usual, Khallow misses those little words "may" and "can". Khallow picks out the words the fit his nutty "thinking".
You're a very triggered person. ECT would help with that.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 31 2020, @01:42PM
I'm quite aware of how this game is played. No serious justification for mass imprisonment was ever made in that post. It "could" have happened, but it didn't.
It's not, but it "may" be. The very intelligent Chinese don't, not "might not", have the above understanding or the Communists wouldn't be in charge. And you seem quite unaware of who can be considered "the extremists". It's too easy to be a threat, real or imaginary, to those in power. Including you. That's why democracies have rule of law rather than vague concerns about possibilities as the deciding factor for who gets punished.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:38AM (1 child)
>against innocent people
I think somebody must decide whether adopting an ideology makes you criminal by intent. It's either yes or no. If yes, mohameddans are like people wearing the ss uniform in wwII. Either you like the reich or you fight them. If no, muslims are innocent unless they actively knife somebody or blow up, but so are fascists, racists, plutocrats, and in general non-lefties.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 31 2020, @01:28PM
I decide no. Can we move on now?
Indeed. I don't have a problem with any of that.
My view has always been punish behavior not beliefs.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Friday August 28 2020, @02:15PM (4 children)
Are you really speaking about my country?
Who would be that idiot that did alone for Australia's economy more than 8 years of coordinated policy from lefties?
What do you call "lefties" when the American "progressive" party (the Democrats) are at the right of the Australian National Liberal Party which is considered to be right wing in Australia?
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In case you think that Trump did more for US'es economy than Obama, let me check - I'll make sure to select data before COVID has hit. So, here I go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 28 2020, @06:03PM (3 children)
U aussie? then interpret "your" country as second person plural and let it address ameriburgers. Gee, you are more inflexible than a database.
As for your data, slowing the growth is a second order derivative. So, still growing it was. Anyway, those non partisans who were better off with trump will vote him, the one who were worse off likely won't and the partisans won't switch for any reason, either side. As for covid, remember this conversation if, when, it will emerge that locking people in homes actually made the covid worse then letting them in open air.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:04AM (2 children)
Yeah, I can see the kind of people that would support Trump. He's making a snuff film. The psychosis is more contagious than the covid, and more deadly. If the fed money machine could print masks, we'd be neck deep. The damn stock market should be flatline. Bunch of phony shit that says they're recovered all losses from 2020... Uh huh... all 180,000 of them
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:42AM (1 child)
You have some pointer resolving bugs, anyway the problem stays. No matter the pretty graphs, manufacturing back in the USA is good economy.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 31 2020, @05:02PM
Understood, the problem stays, just needs a new coat of paint, a different shade of gray. A good economy isn't much good when the accountants are gangsters robbing the till
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @03:48PM (1 child)
:-) Funny stuff, man.. I tried to mod you up, but the 'Troll' tag stuck. Sorry I couldn't do more
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 31 2020, @11:42AM
first they ignore you, then they ridicule you...
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @07:59AM (4 children)
"what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @10:54AM
Read my pamphlet instead. We'll get you your daily bread.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:47PM (1 child)
I'm intrigued and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @04:39PM
Just follow Trump on Twitter and watch the Ministry Of Truth aka Fox News.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 28 2020, @04:36PM
I was told that murder is peace just yesterday...
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 28 2020, @05:25PM (10 children)
Trump's re-election pitch: Only Donald Trump can save us from Donald Trump's America
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @06:35PM
Harris/Biden's "socialist agenda" (lol) is the way to go. Trump is a total disaster. America used to be great, and now it's pretty much turned into yet another internationally irrelevant shithole police state.... wswsws (proletarian boogaloo 2020): Trump runs for Führer [wsws.org] - Trump administration sabotages COVID-19 testing [wsws.org]
Let's hope Republican voters realize there are different people to vote for before tossing their values and traditions to the blazes of fascism, if a conservative like Biden is somehow unacceptable (Jorgensen/Cohen 2020): Presidential Ballot Access: Five States To Go [lp.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @01:21AM (8 children)
It's not Republicans burning cities though is it? Much projection, much DeathMonkey!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @02:42AM (7 children)
How do you know this? Have you not heard that large numbers of the Boogerloo are infiltrating marches, because they like burning stuff down, and the protests provide them cover. So I bet a lot of Republicans are burning cities. Just not the parts they live in. Tend to smash windows of Jewish and minority owned businesses, as is traditional. They call it "the Republican Kristallnacht".
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:49PM (6 children)
That is the very observation I made a few days ago in my journal. You've changed "Democrat" to "Republican" and regurgitated it back at us.
I'm in a god-damned echo chamber here, that warps sound.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:47PM (5 children)
You are the user desperately trying to create your own echo chamber, complete with astro turfing as ACs on your own posts. I can understand why you don't want to engage in the topic of rightwing militia types who go to these cities to instigate unrest and start violence. Just run away already.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:57PM (4 children)
Every city that is being burnt is being burnt by left/progressive/democrat funded Antifa. I'll stop short of accusing BLM, because they have been so well behaved in Richmond. The media doesn't give us enough news to establish precisely which group is guilty in each case, but Antifa is clearly at fault here.
Which city has Proudboys burnt? Which of the other right wing groups has burnt a city down? St. Louis - was that burnt by right or left wing activists?
Citations, or you're simply full of shit.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday August 31 2020, @06:55PM (3 children)
You keep blaming Antifa for all this bad stuff. You keep accusing people to be members of Antifa. Show some citations please. Most of the looting and destruction are from opportunistic criminals causing mayhem while the cops are busy elsewhere, not some nebulous non-organization.
The constant cry of "Antifa this" and "Antifa that" is starting to sound like a dog whistle.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @11:22PM
It is their boigeyman because antufa explicitly calls out the Relublican fascism. They do not like addressing reality.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 31 2020, @11:33PM (1 child)
The self-professed "enforcer" who murdered the Patriot Prayer guy in Portland would differ with your assessment here.
https://www.sinsthatcrytoheavenforvengeance.com/2020/08/portland-shooter-michael-reinoehl.html [sinsthatcrytoheavenforvengeance.com]
Use that name, Micahel Reinoehl, in your internet searches. He the same sort of bottom-dwelling cretin that Kyle Rittenhouse cleaned off of the streets in Kenosha.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:59PM
Bleah... religious blogs... just no. The URL alone killed a few brain cells.
Regardless, my point still stands. All you've proved was that the Portland killer is a criminal, not that he was Antifa. You won't convince me until you offer some real evidence.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.