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

On 10/11/2024 1:23 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 16:46:22 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
 

On 9/11/2024 5:03 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 17:05:30 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 11/7/2024 10:19 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

In article <672cd48a$1$2385539$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
user@example.net says...

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Trump's main message is not "small government" it's a chicken in every
pot and trading freedom for security. This used to be the Dem's main
selling point...
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It seems the parties are reversing the ideas.

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Appropriating some left-wing populist ideas and making them meaner has
been a right-wing thing for a while.
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But though Trump tries to be everything to everyone, at least he has a
brand, a coherent message of a sort.
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Lately the Dems have just been a rather generic centrist party whose
message such as it is, is that we'll be business-as-usual, keep the cash
and money flowing overseas, keep a bunch of Trumps policies, but at
least not be him. It's insufficient.
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Anyway, maybe there should have been a primary.....

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

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Obviously not. You are a right-wing lunatic, and not susceptible to
rational argument.
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They threw away their chance with this pick. Having the
prospect of the 'first black woman ever to be US president' might
sound grand to you or your cohort, but it's utterly meaningless to
folks who care more about their pocket-book than the colour or gender
of a candidate. As someone once said, "It's the economy, stupid."

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The economy was actually doing fine under Biden, but the inflation
caused by the Covid-19 pandemic meant that regular citizens didn't
realise this, and it's not an easy idea to get across.

 Especially since there are 75 million developmentally subnormal people
in the US, as Bill believes.

I don't. The US population hasn't got any obvious developmental problems. They do have a problem getting a decent education, because the primary and secondary school system is funded by very small school districts, some of which have a lot more money to spend per pupil than others.

The pandemic did *not* cause the inflation. THAT was generated
directly as a result of the ludicrous response to the pandemic by
various governments across the world who should have simply let the
damn thing rip.

That would have killed a lot more people than ended up dying. Look at the Covid-19  deaths per million column in the worldometer data.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The US didn't do well. Others did worse.

But that's governments for you: always sticking their
noses in and making everything 10X worse. The Gipper was dead right.

That's "The Big Myth"
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/
Ronald Reagan was hired to present the propaganda, and got suckered by it himself.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney