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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump's one real strategy to discredit Biden seems to have been his Perfect Phone Call to get Hunter investigated. And that one blew up in his face, at least as far as getting that investigation goes. And that seems to have been their only strategy on that front. So now they go after Clinton, I presume in the vain hope that it will rub off onto Biden somehow.
Well, there was that Reade allegation, but that case was apparently so flimsy, even a desperate Trump won't touch it with a ten foot barge pole. That's quite something.
On the "deep state", there is a bit of truth to the idea, in that governments tend to build a large cadre of career bureaucrats who are not answerable to voters and can quite easily serve under many presidents (or coalitions, as the case may be). Combine that with lobbying interests, and those people can indeed wield considerable power behind the scenes. Of course, the alt-right has hijacked the concept to suggest that this is a specifically left wing group, which is where the idea of shadow government comes in as well.
How much power these groups really hold, and how progressive or conservative they are, is all up for debate of course. I suspect that while they can hold some sway with politicians, they are not nearly as all-powerful as conspiracies are wont to suggest.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesFor the Reade allegations, irrespective of it seeming to be faked, I have the feeling that even Trump knows that if he tries to hit Biden with that, the hypocrisy of the situation will cause him to shrivel upon himself because he's done much, much worse.
Alternatively, he doesn't see anything wrong with sexually assaulting women so he can't think of it as an attack.
Yeah, I mean, if they are going to bring it up at all, you'd think now is the time to do it. People are already voting, after all.
Trump afraid of being seen as a hypocrite? HA. No, whatever the reason, it certainly is not that. The man will brazenly accuse anyone of things he himself is guilty of.
I do wonder though, why doesn't he even mention it? Is it because Fox won't pick it up? That would be some irony.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 9th 2020 at 3:53:53 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesNot to mention that they only think their way of life is threatened due to a massive persecution complex. When one looks at things objectively, they've gotten a lot of what they wanted from Trump. To say nothing of all the court packing done by the evil Turtle.
FFS, these people still think they are the victims and are on the losing end even after their guy won the WH.
Edited by M84 on Oct 9th 2020 at 11:07:27 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedBlargh, 2016 flashbacks.
An unelectable candidate went up against another unelectable candidate.
People like acting as the underdog.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Oct 9th 2020 at 11:08:23 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I actually see it as the self-defeating nature of evil. It is a failure of good that Trump was elected but Donald has been inflicting unimaginable damage on the organization he joined.
Because he's evil.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.If these references to Trump's interview with Sean Hannity are accurate
, the drugs are doing way more than I ever expected.
Edited by RainehDaze on Oct 9th 2020 at 4:36:37 PM
You... Don't seem to know what the term 'accelerationist' means.
Any way, yeah, the American Right has a persecution complex a mile wide because, like all conservatives, they're trying to maintain the status quo and unlike most conservatives, the status quo they're trying to maintain is actually (and has been for a while) 'what the status quo was twenty-to-forty years ago'.
They're perpetually trying to stop progress today that they've failed to notice already happened yesterday.
Angry gets shit done.

Edited by ElSquibbonator on Oct 9th 2020 at 9:22:31 AM