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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    As opposed to the right-wing idiot that's in the White House these days?
    why aren't YOU running for president? Not smart enough?
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Yeah, that sounds about right. Sounds like exactly the kind of thing the Democratic Party would do: learn from the Republicans and nominate a pseudo-populist billionaire.

    I've suspected that Joe Biden would be the most likely Democratic nominee this time around, but yeah, Bloomberg probably has a chance. Why not? I've heard the CEO of Starbucks is weighing a Democratic run as well.

    Honestly, I'm not even sure I'm going to vote in 2020. I mean I'll vote in the Democratic primaries, but if my only real alternative to Trump in the presidential election itself turns out to be someone like Biden or *shudders* Bloomberg...I dunno. Both of those actually like kind of a step backward compared to Hillary Clinton for me. I'm not about to vote for some "law-and-order", anti-BLM, billionaire neoliberal gentrification candidate or some anti-abortion, TPP-hawking servant of the financial aristocracy (oh, who also headed up the Anita Hill show trial!) just because he "sounds Midwestern" (the big argument in Biden's defense). I see little evidence of the Democratic Party being willing to move in a more left direction beyond selected individual House districts.
    odd you should mention Hillary and law and order in the same paragraph...............
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    The XL wrote:
    If you think Trump is smug and arrogant, wait until you get a dose of this asshat.
    Well I wouldn't go that far. It's pretty tough to actually compare negatively to Trump in my view of it.

    Captdon wrote:
    It doesn't matter, Polly. We aren't in need of your kind of loon for President. One was enough.
    The last halfway Polly kind of president that we've had to date was Franklin Roosevelt, whom I think we very much needed.

    MMC copy/pasted:
    Jun 20, 2018 · Mr. Bloomberg — a political independent who has championed left-of-center policies on gun control, immigration and the environment — has approved a plan to pour at least $80 million into the 2018 election, with the bulk of that money going to support Democratic congressional candidates, advisers to Mr. Bloomberg said.
    Notice the curious absence of left-of-center economic or policing policies that are mentioned.

    jet57 wrote:
    I sense a mess coming. Word is that Biden might run. Of course Sanders is going to jump in and pee on everything again. Wouldn't it be nice if the Democrats could just pick someone who knows what the hell he or she is talking about and just get behind THAT person like a title wave and unseat every Republican in both houses as well for a super majority? But noooo, Pelosi is going to kick and scream and burn her bra, the Dems are going to go Immigration and LGBT again. They're going to keep talking about this ghost called "The Middle Class" like it even exists anymore and they're going to clearly demonstrate why THEY TOO are so $#@!ed up they don't know whether to $#@! or wind their watch!

    And then there's Trump.
    Hahahahaa, I get it, because she's a woman! Hahahahahaahaaarrr!! You're such a knee-slapper, dude.

    Anyway, this radfem would like to point out that bra burning is an urban myth. There was no burning of bras. Not now. Not then. It's a fun idea, but it's a myth.

    What there actually was was a small protest of the 1968 Miss America Pageant both inside and outside the event. On the outside, as part of the protest, demonstrators set up a what they called a Freedom Trash Can (these protesters were drawn from the anti-Vietnam-War movement and employed its type of rhetoric often) and dumped what they regarded as symbols of beauty culture into it. Some chose high-heeled shoes. Others girdles or Playboy magazines. Some chose bras. But there was no burning. They also brought out a sheep to symbolize the pageant participants. It was a small event that captured the often playful spirit of early radical feminism, not unlike organizations with such titles as W.I.T.C.H., shorthand for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, which famously cast a hex on Wall Street. (The Dow did fall a few points the next day. Draw your own conclusions.)

    Nancy Pelosi is incapable both of having that much fun and of challenging the most painfully obvious forms of sexism in our society, such as our beauty culture, which is stronger today than ever before. A modern analogy to the type of action that was the 1968 Miss American Pageant protest would be the current-day phenomenon of beauty resisters in South Korea. They are awesome, IMO.

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    ahhhhhhhh good ol' FDR, the Great Socialist..................funny how people who like free stuff often defer to FDR.
    why aren't YOU running for president? Not smart enough?
    odd you should mention Hillary and law and order in the same paragraph...............
    You know, you've made an appropriate choice of avatar.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Well I wouldn't go that far. It's pretty tough to actually compare negatively to Trump in my view of it.



    The last halfway Polly kind of president that we've had to date was Franklin Roosevelt, whom I think we very much needed.



    Notice the curious absence of left-of-center economic or policing policies that are mentioned.


    Hahahahaa, I get it, because she's a woman! Hahahahahaahaaarrr!! You're such a knee-slapper, dude.

    Anyway, this radfem would like to point out that bra burning is an urban myth. There was no burning of bras. Not now. Not then. It's a fun idea, but it's a myth.

    What there actually was was a small protest of the 1968 Miss America Pageant both inside and outside the event. On the outside, as part of the protest, demonstrators set up a what they called a Freedom Trash Can (these protesters were drawn from the anti-Vietnam-War movement and employed its type of rhetoric often) and dumped what they regarded as symbols of beauty culture into it. Some chose high-heeled shoes. Others girdles or Playboy magazines. Some chose bras. But there was no burning. They also brought out a sheep to symbolize the pageant participants. It was a small event that captured the often playful spirit of early radical feminism, not unlike organizations with such titles as W.I.T.C.H., shorthand for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, which famously cast a hex on Wall Street. (The Dow did fall a few points the next day. Draw your own conclusions.)

    Nancy Pelosi is incapable both of having that much fun and of challenging the most painfully obvious forms of sexism in our society, such as our beauty culture, which is stronger today than ever before. A modern analogy to the type of action that was the 1968 Miss American Pageant protest would be the current-day phenomenon of beauty resisters in South Korea. They are awesome, IMO.







    You know, you've made an appropriate choice of avatar.
    my first comment was sincere. FDR was known as the Great Socialist. And he was. Period.
    and the crack about Hillary was just as sincere. She's a thief and a liar. She's even more corrupt than Bill could ever hope to be.
    as for the second question: Why aren't you the president? I assume you believe you'd be a better president........the way you batter Trump must leave you with a certain air of arrogance.
    oh, here's you non-existant bra burning
    https://sites.google.com/a/lakewoodc...men-s-protests

    and your avatar is appropriate...a cartoon character, one worthy of you............
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    Quote Originally Posted by gamewell45 View Post
    Great; another nutcase billing himself as a democrat running for the presidency. This is one of the main reasons I have consistently written in my name for President.
    Bloomberg was a Democrat before.....then a Republican and now an Independent that leans Democrat. What he always was from the beginning. He certainly will cause some of the Demos major worries. They can't compete against his money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Bloomberg was a Democrat before.....then a Republican and now an Independent that leans Democrat. What he always was from the beginning. He certainly will cause some of the Demos major worries. They can't compete against his money.
    He can't make up his mind what he is; I think he's an opportunist. Your right though, he'll definitely cause the dems some worry. Maybe this will cause them to clean house and put up a candidate that's electable.
    God Bless America, God Bless our Military and God Bless the Police who defended the country against the insurgents on January 6, 2021

    Think 3rd party for 2024 folks. Clean up America.

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    But, but, but, he is rich so he must be a crook and stupid!
    When Donald Trump said to protest “peacefully”, he meant violence.

    When he told protesters to “go home”, he meant stay for an insurrection.

    And when he told Brad Raffensperger to implement “whatever the correct legal remedy is”, he meant fraud.

    War is peace.

    Freedom is slavery.

    Ignorance is strength.

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