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Another urgent action item for President Biden's agenda; drone strikes on the Heritage and Hoover Institutions, Turning Pint U.S.A., the Federalist Society, the NRC, Mar a Lago and any other nests of subversion within our borders.

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The extreme court gave kingship to the president because they knew Prez Biden believes in the actual constitution and would never use the presidency to fix this mess. What they need to do is find someone willing to do what must be done. Joe resigns making Kamala prez. Madam prezident makes this bad cop her vice and then resigns. President bad cop sends seal team six to deal with trump and the traitor 6 on the supreme court. Then this immune prez names Joe his vice and resigns. etc and so forth. Everything is fixed! Totally legal and good according to the now dismissed traitorous scumbuckets! hoooraaayyy!!!!!!

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Could not find away to link this, so - from Steve Phillips (not my words)

Dem Party’s freakout post-debate reveals cluelessness re: voters and modern-day politics

Steve Phillips

Today is July 4th and in the wake of President Biden’s poor debate performance last week, there’s a lot to think about. Since the debate, I have been deluged with frantic calls, emails, and texts from fellow Democratic donors desperately seeking a way to remove Biden from the presidential ticket. This collective alarm not only reveals a disconcerting lack of understanding about modern-day electoral politics, it also manifests a disturbing disrespect for the intelligence of Democratic voters.

What the collective panic reveals at the heart of the anxiety about Biden’s performance is a belief that the president’s missteps will cause significant numbers of Democratic voters to abandon the party—to either sit out this November or vote Republican. To arrive at that conclusion one has to believe that many Democrats are either too unintelligent to grasp the extraordinary high stakes in this election or too uncommitted to progressive principles to

stand firm in the face of a Republican candidacy rooted in rolling back all progress towards creating a multiracial democracy.

A battle between two constellations of people Journalist and analyst Ron Brownstein presaged this reality 12 years ago when he described modern American politics as a battle between two constellations of people—what he called the Coalition of Restoration and the Coalition of Transformation. Democrats, he observed, “are now operating with a largely coherent Coalition of Transformation that will allow (and even pressure) them to align more unreservedly with the big cultural and demographic forces remaking America.” Conversely, Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012 “clearly stamped the Republicans as a Coalition of Restoration, overwhelmingly dependent on the votes of whites unsettled by those changes.” In my books, I describe these groupings as the New American Majority and the Modern-Day Confederates, but the concepts are the same, and the implications for onntemporary elections are far-reaching and under-appreciated.

Multiracial democracy vs. white-dominated nation It is no accident that Trump’s rise followed the election of the first Black president, especially when he made his stance clear on whose interests he’s championing. Most have forgotten that Trump was languishing in the polls with support from just 5% of Republican voters when he first entered the race in June of 2015. Then in his campaign announcement speech he labeled Mexican

immigrants as rapists and murderers, signaling he would defend the white way of life and sending a message that was heard as a clear commitment to make America white again. He immediately shot to the top of the pack and has never looked back. Ever since a Black man occupied the nation’s White House, presidential elections have become far less about the performance of the candidates and far more about where the candidate’s party

stands on the existential question of whether this country should be a multiracial democracy or a fundamentally white nation.

Our side is still bigger

The good news for Democrats is that the Coalition of Transformation is larger than the Coalition of Restoration. Republicans know this in their bones and in their spreadsheets, and that is why they are relentlessly focused on voter suppression. Census data and election results over the past 40 years further affirm the fact that the Coalition of Transformation is larger. With the sole exception of 2004, the Democratic nominee for president has won the popular vote in every single presidential election since 1992. Furthermore, the logical result of one party rooting its politics in appeals to white racial fears and resentment is that the other party gets the majority of support from people of color.

Start mobilizing asap

Nervous Democrats should stop worrying and start spending ASAP on the kinds of programs, groups, and work that can mobilize their voters and ensure that they are able to—and do in fact—cast ballots in record numbers. That is how elections are won in the 2020s, not by impressive performances on debate stages.

In Solidarity and Hope,

Steve Phillips and the Democracy in Color Team

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Evan, you're a god, but you're sooooo wrong about Pussy Ass Bitchworld really really really not wanting to run against someone else. They wank hourly at the thought of Harris as PAB's opponent. They cream at the thought of Newsom or Whitmer (though fucking obviously it would be Harris or no-one.) They adore their slander/libel campaign against Harris and are slavering at the idea of her as a full time 24/7 target for their toxic lies. Heritage Foundation is insane even for Rapeublicunts, and this is not the mainstream Rapeublicunt view. they KNOW Biden can and will beat them. they KNOW (and are probably correct) that Harris cannot.

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Oh yeah. Joe's going all right. To his inauguration.

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They "want" their "dementia patient"? They have their dementia patient, and he ain't Joe Biden.

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Here's a deal. We'll replace Joe Biden if the GOP replaces Trump.

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And then as there are no rules about this, they replace whomever they replaced Trump with...

with Trump.

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If Joe Biden was too be replaced, the time to do it was a year ago. Anybody talking about it now is simply helping Trump.

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YES YES YES

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So... Heritage came up with this idea the Biden's family would convince him to drop out, wrote up a press release/policy paper, and released it just before the debate. Debate happened, Biden has a terrible first twenty minutes, and the Beltway/Acela Corridor media went into a feeding frenzy. How many copies of the press release went out and to which media outlets?

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Never in a million years will I understand the attraction of Donald Trump. How is it that such a goofy looking and goofy acting loser dipshit has soo much allure. WTF is wrong with people?

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His example makes it okay for all the worst people in America to stay just as they are, racist, mean and dumb. Imagine 60 million Bob Ewells, sick of having to try to act civilized, yearning to wild out without consequence.

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He says he hates whoever they hate, and promises to hurt them. The "attraction" is to sadism, not to him--except that he also had a TV show, so they recognized him.

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"WTF is wrong with people?" No education and decades of propaganda is partly to blame.

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If Joe Biden went full blown senile. He'd still know more than Trump. Trump knows nothing about anything. Bing. Bing. Bing!!!

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Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts will be coming for you. Expect a visit. He's here to fulfill his promise to "kill the Left". This is now even more legal, in U.S. America.

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Biden is not going to be replaced. It's a waste of time and effort to even think about it.

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Defeatism never won a single war, not even a battle.

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Ta, Evan. The only "dementia patient" is TFG, the PAB.

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like

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Making things up, recounting past event inaccurately. irritability, personality changes, lack of restraint, nervousness. hallucination, or paranoia, jumbled speech, sleep disorder. Sounds more like Trump than Biden

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Insiders say Trump wakes screaming "...h.. h.. hair!" each morning around 4am. Sounds right.

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Truth be told Trump actually exhibits more signs of age related dementia than Biden. Biden seems a bit doddery . Doddery is not senile. Politicians, preachers, and lawyers need to stop trying to practice medicine

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I'm praying PAB will mentally collapse at the convention. That plus the three days of gloating over liberal genocide that the convention is bound to comprise should end the matter, I keep telling myself.

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"AMEN": every sane woman in the country."

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And every decent man! Good men support and uphold the rights of good women.

Support a dirtbag, and you're a dirtbag too!!

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May I suggest an amendment?

Refuse to oppose a dirtbag, and you're a dirtbag too!!

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Thank you sweetie, absolutely so.

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In other news, Mrs. Witty had a job interview today after nearly 10 months of unemployment. We think it went well... but have to wait a week until they've interviewed the other finalists.

Grrr.

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I was "unemployed" for a while in 1978. After a few weeks a said, "Fuk this shit" and decided to become self- employed. My all the time advice to everyone, find something you're good at, you like to do, and figure out how to make people pay you for it. You won't be sorry

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"figure out how to make people pay you for it." As a bottom feeder musician I spent 50 years trying to do this. Was largely unsuccessful.

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Nothing I like to do can be monetized.

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