Joe was a terrible candidate in 1988. Things have done nothing but go downhill since then.

Reasoning Deficit Disorder, appearing simultaneously with autism, Asperger's and adult onset diabetes, will completely prevent Biden and his... followers, I'll call him, because he isn't leading... from learning from the mistakes of others, remembering the lessons of American history or imagining the result of the policies they profess.

They can only gape at the idea of what they will get, not what they must do. More candy, bigger presents, because Santa is real.

Are you sure that he - or, his handlers who keep him hidden away most of the time from unfriendly questioners - actually oppose it?

It is too little too late. As I recall the Biden campaign has posted bail for violent rioters. The Harris campaign too . . .

You can't possibly be voting for Harris.

Too late, don't care. The time for that was when the first building went up in smoke in...Minneapolis. As pointed out, the mobs have been encouraged ever since.

Besides, Joey Butterfingers isn't available after noon most days, and often earlier than that. Someone should keep track of when they put a lid on his day.

Not only would Biden/Harris NOT do such; they are doing the opposite.

Harris is praising such violence by stating that such "civil disobedience" is necessary for change.

Their hatred for all things Trump has blinded them and the faithful followers to go down the path to hell.

I knew something was deeply disordered when Hilary didn't say anything about the (then unprecedented) vicious physical mob attacks on people who were attending Trump rallies back in the summer of 2016. I kept waiting for a universal outcry from the media and from all politicians, some strong and sustained condemnation of political street violence, but that never happened. I doubt the average media consumer even had any idea that people were being chased down and beaten bloody by packs of human hyenas just for having the temerity to support a candidate---and that was back when the Dems/Left/Media were 100% sure that Trump would never even be elected. Eventually....eventually....Hilary said a few things against the violence but it was weak tea. If she had come out immediately, eyes blazing, renouncing violence and rejecting the support of any people who did not do the same, I would have probably voted for her. I would have thought her to be a reliable counterforce to the insane Left, and preferred her to the then unknown and allegedly unstable Trump.
So, I am sickened but not surprised that Biden and the Dems have not opposed this year's violence and rioting. They've shown us who they are, and I will crawl over hot coals littered with broken glass to vote for Trump/all Republicans this November.

I wouldn't say they won't opposed the violence Charles. After several months of consistent polling even Pelosi has started to condemn the violence. But as many of us noted it is too little too late. If you only oppose violence, arson, and looting because it's polling number are bad then you aren't worth much.

Bill Clinton knew he needed middle-of-the-road voters in order to win. He knew he needed to separate himself from the leftist revolutionaries who were then only starting to make the Democratic Party their home.

Today's Democrats won't admit their party has become hopelessly overrun with leftist revolutionaries; that it cannot, by default, carry the working class and suburban voters who once viewed the Republicans as the party of the corporate bosses.

Biden has started to denounce them -- but he's lying. The BLM/Antifa terrorists are every bit as much an intentional, strategic creation of the Democratic Party as the KKK were a century ago.

And at least for the leaders, their race motivation is phony too. It's just a talking point to persuade thugs to come out and play. Though even then a lot more opportunistic looters than haters come out.

That the BLM/Antifa carry communist flags and openly call for the destruction of America should scare the shit out of people. But the media won't report it. Every communist revolution ever has quickly led to hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths. Every time. That the Dems support this, and don't like our flag, and even changed the national anthem at their convention says clearly that they hate this country and would rather see it burned down than led by a republican.
By the way: what is this calling Trump "hateful" and "obsessive"? The only thing I can see is his call for a wall. Without a border you are not a country. Of course at CHOP the first thing they did was erect barricades. (I know, different when they do it...).

There's a whole house of cards built on the claim that rioting has been rare and that which has occurred is being orchestrated by white supremacists.

The savvier Dems know that's not true, but there's a major portion of their base that is less engaged and much more moderate. Those people still tend to believe what the national news media has been telling them.

Today's Democrats won't admit their party has become hopelessly overrun with leftist revolutionaries; that it cannot, by default, carry the working class and suburban voters who once viewed the Republicans as the party of the corporate bosses.

Conan the Grammarian at September 26, 2020 9:24 AM

I don’t think the dems have been the *party of the working man* since Harry Truman. Both the dems and the GOPe sold out to the global corporatists. Trump has exploited this gap quite skillfully.

It seems to me that the dems have attempted to make every election about personality, since the Kennedy campaign. There hasn’t been much substantive about most politicians in the last fifty years.

The dems push polls still tell them that gun control is a winner. (Because that is what they want to hear)

When you have people like Amy, a firm believer in the ability of government to protect her, buying a gun, or considering it, there is just no escaping the dems level of delusion on this topic, and a bunch of others.

Personally, I think they have given up on winning this election by legitimate means. Their only tactic now is to try and throw the whole process into chaos, Really not a good look, which I hope has long term repercussions for the viability of the party in its current form.

Well, Meeeeeee -

YYOWWWWWWW!!!!

> Democrats won't admit their
> party has become hopelessly
> overrun with leftist
> revolutionaries; that it
> cannot, by default, carry
> the working class and suburban
> voters

Apologies, but this seems optimistic… It suggests there's some kind of unexpressed shame in their hearts.

I think the two main constituents of the D party are line workers in education and government employment (many of whom are unionized[!]), and lawyers & higher administrative functionaries, who are by nature more-expensively educated and thus inclined to look down on lower-income types anyway. (They will nonetheless imagine their political alliance with party minorities, specifically blacks, to be evidence of their personal sophistication, even if they haven't spoken casually to a black person in thirty years.)

In either case, disdain for "working class and suburban voters" is the diamond core of their self-esteem.

> …Amy, a firm believer in the
> ability of government to protect…

?

Alkon?

…Amy, a firm believer in the
> ability of government to protect…

?

Alkon?

Crid at September 26, 2020 3:06 PM

Yep, She has an ingrained faith, at least until recently, that the police will come when you call.

And that all we need to correct every ill in society is just better government policy. We have been through this for the last ten years at least.

Never seen a more socialist leaning libertarian, except the recent crop of writers at Reason magazine.

> an ingrained faith, at least
> until recently, that the
> police will come when you call.

Perhaps informed rather than 'ingrained': Venice is bad now, but was much worse in the years just before she got here.

(There. Will always be home.)

Perhaps informed rather than 'ingrained': Venice is bad now, but was much worse in the years just before she got here.

(There. Will always be home.)

Crid at September 26, 2020 6:16 PM

I understand perfectly. I once lived in Flatbush for six months. We did not leave the building at night.

I think things will get much worse before they get better, and the reset may only be temporary if they lose their tax base.

I was in Southern California in 1965. I had cousins in Redondo Beach. It was, frankly, magical. If I could go back in time, it would be there, and then.

Amy's got as much right as any Californian to resent the decline of comity from recent government: She's paid dearly for the Golden State life she's lead, and always promptly. She's never been blasé about the charms of her setting, or the threats from those who'd pretend to defend it. Specifically, her reflex to check government authority is documented in hundreds of thousands of words on this blog, a fat fistful of book titles, a sheaf of columns & op-eds, as well as TV appearances and a substantial public & social life in media circles… Among the kind of peers who keep score in such matters.

It's beginning to look like you want to pick a fight, and somewhat indiscriminately. "Yep."

Trump did not hesitate to denounce the KKK, white supremacy, and the neo-Nazis, along with Antifa, yet somehow that was reported as him calling them "fine people." And Biden, to what should be his enduring shame, repeated that lie in his acceptance speech. Along with Michelle Obama repeating the lie that Trump was keeping Hispanic children in cages... it was such a falsehood that even leftist fact checkers called her on it, along with the photos of cages from when her husband was president.

I understand why some people hate Trump. However, at a time when there is a lot of racial fueled violence, to spread the lie that the president thinks racists are "fine people" -- along with the lie that police are killing blacks because they are black -- is literally deadly.

Biden wants the violence to continue because he thinks it will be blamed on Trump, and with the corrupt media he may be right. But if he wins this election, he and Kamala Harris will not be able to get the genie back in the bottle.

If he does, the Woke Brigade will be relentless. Clinton was before the mass mobs of the internet.