Newfie wrote:R Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina now running for President.
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AdamB wrote:Newfie wrote:R Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina now running for President.
https://morganton.com/news/sen-tim-scot ... m=referral
Seems to lack the MAGA, white Christian nationalist bring back the Confederacy street cred required of the proto-fascist jackbooted goosestepping Republlicrat primary voters. I am not hopeful that he can win without this core of the party.
Newfie wrote:R Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina now running for President.
Newfie wrote:AdamB wrote:Newfie wrote:R Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina now running for President.
https://morganton.com/news/sen-tim-scot ... m=referral
Seems to lack the MAGA, white Christian nationalist bring back the Confederacy street cred required of the proto-fascist jackbooted goosestepping Republlicrat primary voters. I am not hopeful that he can win without this core of the party.
Of course he can not win, he can offer an alternative that can become the germ of a 3rd party.
And all the same can be said about your beloved D party where 1/3rd of the votes are seg aside foe the party faithful " Super Delegates." By comparison the R process is positively egalitarian.
Newfie wrote:Bottom line, the USA is NOT a democracy but is run by 2 corrupt geriatric oligarchsies. (That is probably not spelled correctly but the GD spell check insists)
ralfy wrote:In short, the U.S. is not even ruled by two competing political parties. Rather, those parties, together with the government itself, the military, businesses, and households, all work for and are dependent on the rich which control the bulk of assets of the U.S. itself.
ralfy wrote:One Chinese resource person interviewed, at one point, briefly explained the difference between China and the U.S. He said that China is ruled by a Communist Party and the U.S. by Wall Street.
ralfy wrote:In short, the U.S. is not even ruled by two competing political parties.
ralfy wrote: those parties, together with the government itself, the military, businesses, and households, all work for and are dependent on the rich which control the bulk of assets of the U.S. itself.
Newfie wrote:Ralph,
Again there is much to your arguments, and I agree at least in broad outline.
The point is where this turns in the future.
I do not know the USA must be “defeated” as I think that tide has already turned. Yes we are moving from the “uni-polar” or globalized world. That has been ongoing naturally for a while and it is being hastened by the Ukraine war.
Ask an anti-imperialist what's the worst thing Trump did and they'll talk about real things like Yemen, Venezuela, Soleimani, Assange, the JCPOA, and the new cold war.
Ask a Democrat the same thing and they'll talk about pretend nonsense like Russian collusion and insurrection.
There was a time -- not all that long ago -- when the evils of the US Security State (CIA/NSA/FBI) were the centerpiece of left-liberal politics in the US.
Those days are gone. That barely exists in mainstream left-liberal discourse.
I may not like Trump, but I love our Constitution, so I feel compelled to speak out.
The latest indictment, which I encourage everyone to read, attempts to criminalize Trump’s routine misstatements of fact and law in connection with the 2020 election.
But this is precisely the sort of wrong that must be addressed politically under our Constitution, not criminally.
ralfy wrote:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1688269542550564864
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/ ... 3417277440
Newfie wrote:Adam,
You sound like a guy who is afraid to speak his mind in person. So here, in anonymity, you make up for it by being extra insulting.
theluckycountry wrote:personally I think those in control of America must be very pleased with the state of political affairs.
Plantagenet wrote:
If only there were a cabal of powerful people secretly in control of America.
But no...
Insulin Prices 8x Higher in the US
For price index results, researchers compared prices in the US with those of each comparison country. They found that overall, the average US manufacturer price per standard unit across all insulins was $98.70, compared to $6.94 in Australia...
The Food and Drug Administration has had a "revolving door" problem for years. As consumer advocates have documented, the very government officials who decide how foods and medicines are regulated too often shift over to the same industries they were regulating. Some, like Daniel Fabricant — the former head of FDA’s division of dietary supplements — even return to the FDA, then bounce back to work in industry again.
This trend, the New York Times has pointed out, is like "appointing the fox to guard the henhouse."
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