Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

On 9/11/2024 11:43 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:56:24 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 11/8/2024 3:49 PM, Crash Gordon wrote:

On 11/8/2024 12:03 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

You can't tell me that Hopeless Harris was the best the Dems had to
offer.

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Early in the campaign (long before there was any discussion of Biden not
being the nominee), I would ask Biden supporters if, hypothetically,
Biden didn't run, was there anybody the Dems could nominate that they
wouldn't vote for?  With one exception, every single Biden supporter
said no, they'd vote for whoever the democratic nominee happened to be.
The single exception was one smartass who said that if the Dems
nominated Trump, he wouldn't vote for him.  That guy gets points for
snark, at least.
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When it developed that Biden was in fact *not* running, I asked the same
question about Harris and got the same answer.
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I really don't think it mattered at all who the Democratic nominee was;
the vote would have turned out pretty much the same.
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Love him or hate him, you have to give marketing props to Trump.  He
successfully made the entire election about ->him<- and nothing else.
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World's most famous man and his sidekick the world's richest man
successfully voted in as world's most powerful men. Film at 11.

 Look on the plus side. They're rich enough not be hired for rent like
the typical politician is. You can't buy guys like them.

Of course you can. But you don't use money. Trump met with Kim Jong Un because it offered him an unparalleled photo-opportunity, and you can always tempt a narcissist by offering to put his face on a lot of front pages.
Elon Musk seems to have been bought by Trump with much the same sort of inducements.
There is stuff that money can't buy directly.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney