If you want to save democracy in 2024, Biden is the only viable choice

[robosmith]

If you want to save democracy in 2024, Biden is the only viable choice

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I fear for America’s future and hence the world’s — more so now than ever. I had relaxed a bit after the last two national elections, which had seemed to signal a return to normalcy. Donald Trump was decisively defeated in 2020 and, in 2022, most of his fellow election deniers also lost in their bids to take over the election machinery of swing states.

But now we’re back in Crazytown. Trump is the almost certain Republican nominee in 2024. And, if current polls are to be believed, he has an excellent chance of winning the presidency again — despite his two impeachments, his incitement of an insurrection, and the 91 felony counts he currently faces in four criminal cases.

A year ago, I naively imagined that Trump would be politically hurt by being indicted. Once again, I either overestimated the American public or underestimated Trump. If anything, the criminal cases seem to have helped him politically. He leads all his Republican challengers by a very wide margin: In the FiveThirtyEight polling average, he is at nearly 56 percent among Republican voters.

The prospect of another Trump term is the greatest foreseeable disaster that can befall the United States and the world. Trump is likely to be 10 times more dangerous this time around, because he won’t allow any adults in the White House to act as a check on his worst instincts — no more Jim Mattis as defense secretary, John F. Kelly as chief of staff or H.R. McMaster as national security adviser. In a second term, Trump is likely to only appoint advisers as unhinged as he is.

We can only speculate what this will mean, but the likelihood is that Trump will cut off aid to Ukraine, pull out of NATO, eviscerate the civil service and the military’s top ranks, and appoint an attorney general who will prosecute his enemies. For a start. He was eager to do all of those things in his first term but was dissuaded or blocked by the “deep state.” He’s unlikely to allow that to happen again. He has become even more radical and more authoritarian since leaving office, and he now has much more experience in getting what he wants out of the government.

The consequences will be dire enough domestically, imperiling U.S. democracy, but they will be even worse internationally. Among other alarming consequences, a Trump presidency could allow Russian leader Vladimir Putin to defeat Ukraine and remake the 21st-century global order in favor of tyrants and aggressors. 

Only the MAGA CHUMP authoritarian autocrats will vote for Trump.

Let’s Not Sleepwalk Into Another Trump Presidency

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As anyone who lived through the past eight years can attest, you underestimate Trump at your own peril. By glossing over the unhinged things Trump is saying and doing, we in the mainstream media are enabling him to do even more.

Perhaps the largest underreported story out of Trumpworld right now is his hand in the coming government shutdown. It’s very likely the government will shut down on Saturday because Republicans in the House are refusing to fund it. (Something else many in the news media aren’t saying explicitly.) Matt Gaetz, who has emerged as Kevin McCarthy’s biggest antagonist, accusing the Speaker of empty politicking rather than accomplishing things for the right, certainly isn’t ignoring the former president. “Trump Opposes the Continuing Resolution. Hold the line,” Gaetz recently posted on X, along with a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post urging Republicans to “defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots.” Gaetz, part of the burn-it-all-down caucus, appears inspired by the biggest arsonist: Donald Trump.

After so many years of Trump’s outrageous comments, lies, grievances, and threats, it’s hard to be shocked anymore. And perhaps that’s our problem. This is the most likely Republican nominee, and a man who is leading Biden in some polls. Trump is not getting better—if anything he’s getting worse. Beyond the treason talk, he recently engaged in antisemitism toward liberal Jews on Rosh Hashanah—“Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!”—he suggested—and he seemed ready to buy a glock Monday in South Carolina while out on bail, which could be a federal gun crime, you know, like the one Hunter Biden is currently being charged with. (A Trump spokesperson later clarified that he didn’t buy it, but “simply indicated that he wanted one.”)

Now, I understand the mainstream media may be bored with the crazy, but our country is once again sleepwalking into disaster, and if journalists aren’t clear about the stakes of a second Trump presidency, it will be, at least partially, our fault. 

 

[CdnFox]

Wow - you sound more and more like the nazi's and commies every day  

I guess you're getting really scared that he's going to get in again? Figure you have to go all out trying to convince people not to vote for him?

BTW - this is a canadian board you're "advertising" on.  You know that right?

[robosmith]

52 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Wow - you sound more and more like the nazi's and commies every day  

I guess you're getting really scared that he's going to get in again? Figure you have to go all out trying to convince people not to vote for him?

BTW - this is a canadian board you're "advertising" on.  You know that right?

Nope. It is run on a US server by a US company. It is NO LONGER "Maple Leaf" anything.

Yes, I am afraid Trump will do what he's promising to do: consolidate power in the hands of POTUS. ?

That is something you would abhor if Trudeau did it.

[WestCanMan]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

If you want to save democracy in 2024, Biden is the only viable choice

That's a logical fallacy called "appeal to drivel". 

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

That's a logical fallacy called "appeal to drivel". 

And ^this is a JOKE from a poster with intellectual bankruptcy.

[reason10]

4 hours ago, robosmith said:

If you want to save democracy in 2024, Biden is the only viable choice

Only the MAGA CHUMP authoritarian autocrats will vote for Trump.

Let’s Not Sleepwalk Into Another Trump Presidency

 

Unelected Joe represents the END OF DEMOCRACY.

Only a fuggin ****** thinks he won that election.

[eyeball]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

Yes, I am afraid Trump will do what he's promising to do: consolidate power in the hands of POTUS. ?

That is something you would abhor if Trudeau did it.

Its a commonly acknowledged that a Canadian PM has more political power than a US president. Trudeau for example had the power to call out tanks to squash the trucker convoy and was apparently only hours away from doing so.

Like your President though the PMO only gets more powerful over time, but instead of having to seize it the opposition here encourages it.  For example, look at all the extra power the opposition says the PM should have had at his disposal to prevent the spectacle of Parliament giving a Nazi a standing ovation. You can bet if Trudeau doesn't say, 'sure, have it your way' that Conservatives will add it when they occupy the office.

Its sort of like that right wing ratchet thingy you have in the US except in Canada the hard right Conservatives and soft right Liberals use the process to give the government more power.

The adage that it doesn't matter who wins the election because the government still gets in couldn't be truer than in Canada.

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, reason10 said:

Unelected Joe represents the END OF DEMOCRACY.

Only a fuggin ****** thinks he won that election.

Only a ^MAGA CHUMP believes ANYTHING absent EVIDENCE.

The EVIDENCE proves that Joe respects democracy and Trump HATES IT. Duh

[robosmith]

36 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Its a commonly acknowledged that a Canadian PM has more political power than a US president. Trudeau for example had the power to call out tanks to squash the trucker convoy and was apparently only hours away from doing so.

Like your President though the PMO only gets more powerful over time, but instead of having to seize it the opposition here encourages it.  For example, look at all the extra power the opposition says the PM should have had at his disposal to prevent the spectacle of Parliament giving a Nazi a standing ovation. You can bet if Trudeau doesn't say, 'sure, have it your way' that Conservatives will add it when they occupy the office.

Its sort of like that right wing ratchet thingy you have in the US except in Canada the hard right Conservatives and soft right Liberals use the process to give the government more power.

The adage that it doesn't matter who wins the election because the government still gets in couldn't be truer than in Canada.

The US POTUS could easily call out the National Guard to remove truckers blocking a Federal Interstate.

All he needs is a court order, which would likely be easy to get, since there are laws against parking on the Interstates.

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, robosmith said:

Nope. It is run on a US server by a US company. It is NO LONGER "Maple Leaf" anything.

owner's a canadian.   

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Yes, I am afraid Trump will do what he's promising to do: consolidate power in the hands of POTUS.

Valid concern i'd say - most presidents move towards that.  It's  a problem in general. Trump certainly won't shy away from it.

But - that must mean you believe he's got a good chance of winning the next election.

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That is something you would abhor if Trudeau did it.

well he does do it and I do abhor it.  But - i abhor it if both sides in canada do it. You seem to be more concerned with one side as if obama and biden never did that, and they did.

[Deluge]

15 hours ago, robosmith said:

If you want to save democracy in 2024, Biden is the only viable choice

Only the MAGA CHUMP authoritarian autocrats will vote for Trump.

Let’s Not Sleepwalk Into Another Trump Presidency

 

"Democracy" is for closet communists. Closet communists like robohomo and the other woketards. 

If you REALLY want to save our Constitutional Republic in 2024, you'll vote for Donald Trump. 

 

[theMadArtist]

Biden is a Joke.