radius777
radius777's JournalExactly. Those instigating the riots are
far-right (fascists, white nationalists, etc) and far-left (anarchists, communists, etc) and are mainly white individuals... many videos now on social media shared by peaceful PoC activists are showing this... of mysterious whites geared up w/gas masks and black outfits who slip into the group and do mayhem (break windows w/hammers, arson, grafitti to make it look like blacks did it, etc) and then slip away.
far-left and far-right white individuals
are the ones mainly breaking the windows with hammers, committing arson etc - there to kickstart the mayhem - there for reasons having little to do with racial justice.
Note that these are very blue/diverse/urban areas that are being destroyed (many black and brown owned businesses) and not red/rural/white areas.
Bill Clinton won in the wake of the '92 LA Riots.
Biden is no Bill (in terms of political talent) but he comes at politics with that similar 'feel your pain' empathetic angle that suits this moment.
2020 is different that 2016. Trump had his racist base but also the advantage of being the 'infomercial salesman' who some (especially independents and apoliticals) voted for hoping 'for magic'. Trump may still win - but he lacks that advantage now, as most people (outside of his core base) know he isn't effective and can't work magic.
Just proves how much racial justice matters
and isn't all about 'class' issues (although class obviously is important).
Because as Malcolm X noted, even a 'black man from Harvard' is still 'just a nigger' in the eyes of many/most whites.
This black man is/was accomplished upper class professional - yet was treated as 'just a scary nigger in the park threatening the safety of a (mediocre) white woman'.
Should be on Biden's campaign as an adviser.
Carville is a political genius who 'gets' what is relevant at any given moment.
He's a street fighter who goes for the throat - which is sorely lacking in how Dems take on Trump/GOP as well as the anti-Dem left.
It was Carville (and Bloomberg/Tim Obrien) as much as Clyburn who took down Bernie and helped Biden, IMO.
Hayes is a solid journalist.
He had to cover the Reade story because mainstream outlets like WaPo, NYT etc were covering it.
Hayes, as a high profile white male, was (IMO) attempting (perhaps too hard) to avoid being the stereotype - ie the type who downplays women's claims that MeToo talks about.
But even Alyssa Milano and others came out in support of Biden, seeing through Reade's shenanigans.
+1. This is not the 90s - Hillary picked Kaine with that mentality
of 'winning over the white moderates in swing states'.
The problem as Rachel Bitecofer and others have noted is: (a) the country is heavily polarized and you have to mobilize base voters (and 'base' doesn't mean far-left, but just core constituencies like PoC, women, youth, liberals, etc that powered Obama); (b) elections are nationalized and picking a VP to 'win a swing state' doesn't work anymore, Hillary would've won VA without Kaine; (c) winning swing states is not just about winning over moderates but mobilizing those marginal base voters who may just stay home. Hillary's PoC and youth vote was down in several key states. If she picked someone like Booker, who would've held moderates just as well as Kaine, but also added more PoC/youth vote - she would've won easily; (d) it simply doesn't look good to have an all-white ticket in the year 2020, when PoC make up such a large portion of the Dem party's base vote. Younger PoC (Gen-X, Millennials and younger) will not take well to an all-white ticket.
Harris is this year's Booker, with a better resume, and should be the obvious pick.
She's a star with the resume to be president. She has broad-based appeal to moderates and white women as well as WoC and others. She's tough and can take/give a punch. She's a Gen-X'er and could appeal to younger generations.
Leftists may not like her, but she did support M4A in the primaries and has moved left since her time as AG.
Exactly, Fauci is another Mueller,
ie a 'sane' establishment white guy who is going to save America from Trump - yeah right.
Fauci, like Mueller, is better than the rest of these guys, of course.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Fauci endorses Trump in the end - then we would've set ourselves up by lauding this guy, like we did with Mueller/Rosenstein.
Maybe not Abrams, but an all white ticket won't cut it in 2020.
Whites are underestimating the blowblack from PoC (especially younger PoC) if we get a bland, all-white ticket.
PoC came out for Biden largely due to the fact that he was the 'wingman' of the first PoC president; and the fact that Biden implied from the beginning of his campaign that he would choose a WoC as running mate.
If Hillary had chosen Booker instead of Kaine she wins easily; PoC turnout was down in several key states.
Palmer is our Drudge. His site is entertaining, taken with grain of salt.
There are angles/narratives that Palmer sees about Trump, Bernie etc that make perfect sense to me.
He covers topics the MSM won't, in a way they won't.
Palmer stood firm that Biden would win the nomination (due to his strong support amongst black voters in the South) while the MSM was crowning Bernie the winner on the basis of a few small primary (mainly white) states.
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