Re: Sympathy for the Devils...
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:31 pm
As Biden ramps up for a Trump rematch, Democrats worry he’d lose to another Republican
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
Published 5:00 AM EST, Mon November 21, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks at a meeting with business and labor leaders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2022.
Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Top Democrats see Republicans’ unenthusiastic greeting of Donald Trump’s third White House bid with a combination of schadenfreude and perhaps some other German word for terrifying, unintended consequences: They love seeing the former president struggle, but privately some tell CNN they worry this could lead to a more difficult 2024 campaign against a younger, fresher Republican.
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When asked, though, how they’d feel about Biden’s chances against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or other Republicans who could make a generational argument without the baggage Trump brings, many Democrats’ voices tend to tighten. “Not great,” said one top operative. “Uneasy,” said two others, in separate conversations.
Others point out that nearly all of Democrats’ key midterm victories were narrowly won, leaving them worried about how little room for error there likely will be next time.
Four Democratic members of Congress, asking not to be named to speak candidly, estimated that at least half of their colleagues would pick someone other than Biden as their 2024 nominee – if they could vote by secret ballot.
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A Trump rematch might be easier, several Democratic operatives involved with the preliminary thinking said, because they’d know how to go about it. They hope that one lesson of the midterms is Democrats’ ability to make voters see many leading Republicans as extreme and tainted by Trump.
(more...)
https://us.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/ ... index.html
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Said in the least Marilyn Monroe–like voice possible.
BY BEN MATHIS-LILLEY
NOV 20, 20225:45 AM
Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photos by Jupiterimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Samuel Corum/Getty Images.
Happy birthday, Joe Biden! You made it: You are the oldest president. You were already the oldest president. You’re now the first eighty-year-old president. Wow!
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Then, earlier this month, voters returned your party to power across the country—a historically non-disastrous showing—largely because of two other things you had very little to do with: An unpopular Supreme Court decision and the lingering weirdness and frankly unprecedented unpopularity of your 2020 opponent.
Now, because the opposition party is taking control of the House of Representatives, but by a very narrow margin, you have two years of your term left to enjoy with neither the expectation that you will do much of anything, nor the threat that they will cause you too many problems.
(more....)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... s-old.html
Biden 'delivers' reliably for the ruling class, therefore their suckfish in the DNC will support him to the hilt. Trump, despite throwing bribes at his boss peers, is unreliable in executing the eternal hegemony of the USA. Biden promised them 'no changes' upon nomination and has surely achieved that. He has delivered nothing to the working class except the increased possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Internally, Trump plays the divide & conquer card against the working class too diligently due to his racist inclinations. As we can see by the ruling class embrace of 'wokeness' a more subtle approach achieves the purpose without inciting civil war as 'diversity' subsumes any mention of unifying class. (From an Olympian perspective one must admire how they have taken our cause and twisted it to their purpose, jujitsu like. We cannot underestimate the bastards)
Biden, by his adroit play of Democratic Party politics utterly neutralized his party's 'progressive left'(which ain't really much of either anyway...), foregoing any possibility of relief from the ever growing inequality of the classes.( Which was in the final analysis the core reason for the fall of Rome, though of course historians favored by the bourgeoisie don't see it that way. )
Biden needs Trump to run like a bat needs a ball.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
Published 5:00 AM EST, Mon November 21, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks at a meeting with business and labor leaders in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2022.
Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Top Democrats see Republicans’ unenthusiastic greeting of Donald Trump’s third White House bid with a combination of schadenfreude and perhaps some other German word for terrifying, unintended consequences: They love seeing the former president struggle, but privately some tell CNN they worry this could lead to a more difficult 2024 campaign against a younger, fresher Republican.
<snip>
When asked, though, how they’d feel about Biden’s chances against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or other Republicans who could make a generational argument without the baggage Trump brings, many Democrats’ voices tend to tighten. “Not great,” said one top operative. “Uneasy,” said two others, in separate conversations.
Others point out that nearly all of Democrats’ key midterm victories were narrowly won, leaving them worried about how little room for error there likely will be next time.
Four Democratic members of Congress, asking not to be named to speak candidly, estimated that at least half of their colleagues would pick someone other than Biden as their 2024 nominee – if they could vote by secret ballot.
<snip>
A Trump rematch might be easier, several Democratic operatives involved with the preliminary thinking said, because they’d know how to go about it. They hope that one lesson of the midterms is Democrats’ ability to make voters see many leading Republicans as extreme and tainted by Trump.
(more...)
https://us.cnn.com/2022/11/21/politics/ ... index.html
*********
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Said in the least Marilyn Monroe–like voice possible.
BY BEN MATHIS-LILLEY
NOV 20, 20225:45 AM
Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photos by Jupiterimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Samuel Corum/Getty Images.
Happy birthday, Joe Biden! You made it: You are the oldest president. You were already the oldest president. You’re now the first eighty-year-old president. Wow!
<snip>
Then, earlier this month, voters returned your party to power across the country—a historically non-disastrous showing—largely because of two other things you had very little to do with: An unpopular Supreme Court decision and the lingering weirdness and frankly unprecedented unpopularity of your 2020 opponent.
Now, because the opposition party is taking control of the House of Representatives, but by a very narrow margin, you have two years of your term left to enjoy with neither the expectation that you will do much of anything, nor the threat that they will cause you too many problems.
(more....)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... s-old.html
Biden 'delivers' reliably for the ruling class, therefore their suckfish in the DNC will support him to the hilt. Trump, despite throwing bribes at his boss peers, is unreliable in executing the eternal hegemony of the USA. Biden promised them 'no changes' upon nomination and has surely achieved that. He has delivered nothing to the working class except the increased possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Internally, Trump plays the divide & conquer card against the working class too diligently due to his racist inclinations. As we can see by the ruling class embrace of 'wokeness' a more subtle approach achieves the purpose without inciting civil war as 'diversity' subsumes any mention of unifying class. (From an Olympian perspective one must admire how they have taken our cause and twisted it to their purpose, jujitsu like. We cannot underestimate the bastards)
Biden, by his adroit play of Democratic Party politics utterly neutralized his party's 'progressive left'(which ain't really much of either anyway...), foregoing any possibility of relief from the ever growing inequality of the classes.( Which was in the final analysis the core reason for the fall of Rome, though of course historians favored by the bourgeoisie don't see it that way. )
Biden needs Trump to run like a bat needs a ball.