DemocraticPatriot
DemocraticPatriot's Journal"REMEMBER THE ALAMO!" Yeah, ok....
(referencing the current disagreement between Texas and the Federal Government about the border, which the 'Supreme Court' has decided in favor of the Federal Government's supremacy about the border....)
Well, the thing to 'remember' about the Alamo is, that every white defender of that post DIED---
President Santa Anna, dictator of Mexico at the time,
kicked their asses and KILLED THEM ALL....
(somehow that is a 'matter of pride' among Texans,
even though it makes no sense from a military standpoint....)
Now many of them want to secede from the Union again---
no doubt they could call up many 'texas militia' armed with AR-15s....
Not much against the advanced weapons of the US military---
stupid Texan cannon-fodder......
Regardless, personally I am quite uncertain that I would favor spending patriotic American blood to force them to stay in the Union....
I would favor spending government funds to evacuate all those in that state who remain loyal to the Union---
after that, I don't give a shit what happens to the rest of those deluded people....
Via the 1968 Dem primary precedent, Trump has LOST the NH Primary!!!
He is the de-facto incumbent of the Republican primary---
as such, he should have WON by a much larger percentage.....
His results are pathetic tonight, and he knows it!
Brace yourselves for a late-night 'Truth Social' angry barrage....
So Dean Phillips is no Gene McCarthy, tonight...
Results at this moment appear to show President Joe Biden winning the New Hampshire primary with
about 74% to Phillip's 20.8%,
without even being on the ballot....
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Senator Gene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) was the initial challenger to the re-nomination of President Lyndon Johnson's re-nomination in 1968. He had an arguably "just cause"--- his opposition to the war in Vietnam. This year Mr. Phillips has had no such compelling cause for his challenge to President Joe Biden, only that 'Biden is old and he might lose'
Likewise in 1968, Johnson did not appear on the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot---
(not sure of the reason, only that he did not file for it?? Campaigns began much later back in 1968.... it seems to me that he had never 'declared' his candidacy for re-election at that point).
Regardless, write-in votes for President Johnson in the '68 N.H. primary defeated McCarthy by a margin of roughly 49-44 percent (according to my memory since I can't find a link, but I am a student of the 1968 campaign)
Even though Johnson out-polled McCarthy without even being on the ballot, the media decided that it had been a "victory" for Gene McCarthy-- because it was so close.... and the New Hampshire results may have had an influence on President Johnson's decision to withdraw from the race a month later... as well as the decision of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy to also challenge him for re-election, on the grounds of his opposition to the Vietnam war, and his perception that President Johnson was not doing enough about the problems of the cities...
Well, this is not 1968, we are not engaged in a questionable war, President Joe Biden is not Lyndon Johnson (although his domestic accomplishments are likewise commendable), and Rep. Dean Phillips is not Gene McCarthy or Robert F. Kennedy, nor does he have any justifiable cause to challenge the re-nomination of a president whom tonight, in his concession speech, he called a very 'good man'....
And he didn't come close to Gene McCarthy's New Hampshire primary results in 1968, against a candidate who was not even on the ballot.
Frankly, he got the shit kicked out of him......! And Rightly So!
(not-withstanding poor predictions from somewhere in Brooklyn)
Phillips will not be recognized in election history as much as McCarthy from 1968....
He is more on the level of the Republican congressman who challenged President Nixon for re-nomination in 1972....
Does anyone remember what his name was?
And do the rest of you remember that any such challenge ever took place???
If that guy had many public events, I suspect that he also suffered the embarrassment of no one showing up...
In the words of Dean Phillips, perhaps the most memorable quote from this ill-considered campaign,
'sometimes you build it, and no-one shows up...)
I am awaiting Mr. Phillip's inevitable endorsement of the re-election of President Joe Biden!!!
Trump has ALWAYS "appeared disoriented"--- even in 2016,
he could never appear to finish a complete sentence---!!!
much more in 2024....
To me, that has been one of the most annoying things about him---
in second place, that he has to try to interrupt and shout over his debate opponents....
President Joe Biden should not debate him, unless the microphones are muted between responses
as a condition
(but Joe should have a sign in his pocket awaiting deployment,
which says
"why don't you just shut up??!!!"
My personal reaction to the 2024 GQP Iowa caucuses.....
First off, these were the most predictable and most un-interesting and un-entertaining caucus results from Iowa that I have ever been forced to view
('forced to view' because that is my long-time habit since 1980)...
Iowa caucuses are very well-known for producing at least one 'surprise' result,
but they certainly failed us tonight
(of course the Democratic results won't be known until Super Tuesday,
but my opinion is that President Joe Biden will end up with more votes than Trump had---
especially since the Democrats are voting by mail, and didn't need to plunge into arctic temperatures to vote...)
Ok, moving on.....
Yeah, Trump "won". No surprise there....
but 49% of Iowa Republicans who showed up, voted for someone else....
In a state "Trump-full" of evangelicals, that seems like a disappointing number,
from the MAGAt point of view....
A "quasi-incumbent" who is the leader of a cult, should have done better than that, IMHO.
(OMG, it must have been RIGGED against him!) LOL
Moving on.... the Ron DeSantis speech was delusional---
(and just after I reached that personal conclusion, the Scripps-News moderator
described it with that very same word, LMAO)
There is no future state where 'DeSanctimonious' can win.... He spent the wad on Iowa, and came up short...
He barely ekked out a second-place finish in Iowa, which was probably the result of an expensive 99-county ground game
(and Nikki, even though overtaking him in the polls, had no statewide ground-game here, other than in some urban areas---
she has been banking on New Hampshire--- that is why she failed to take second-place here, although it was close....)
Haley has a chance to win in New Hampshire--- and Ron does her a favor by staying in---
(most of his votes would likely go to tRump when he quits)---
but Vivak's withdrawl and endorsement of Trump may make it a wash....
Even if Haley can pull out an upset over Trump in New Hampshire, (on the strength of independent and any Democratic cross-over votes,
she likely won't be able to win in her own state, and that will be the end of the story...
Meanwhile, dRumph filled his diaper--- I could smell it from here!
What I would really like to see in New Hampshire, is that Fighting President Joe Biden gets more votes in his primary than Donald Dumbass-- even though he isn't even on the ballot.... seems like an even chance to me...
Also, I root for Nikki to give him a black eye in that primary---
even though she has nowhere else to go from there afterwards....
Cheers!
Fill in the blank: "What a sick ________ !!!!!!"
(From President Biden's speech today, about when tRump talked about the attack on Paul Pelosi, and laughing about it....
President Biden didn't finish the sentence...... later he said 'Sometimes I'm glad the Irish in me can't be seen', lmao)
President Biden did a fine job today--- and I loved the FIRE in his delivery!
The American people love a fighter!
I have my own opinion about the missing words, but I'll leave it to someone else to fill in the blank...
I am SICK of this GAZA War....
YES, the HAMAS Fighters (or some of them) have proven themselves to be ANIMALS, and Deserve NO MERCY....
YES, they hide themselves underneath and among innocent civilians as"HUMAN SHIELDS"....
YES, Israel is quite justified in their desire to eliminate them....
but they are NOT justified in attempting to eliminate Hamas with no regard
for civilian casualties in Gaza---- much less for completely DESTROYING Gaza,
for the sake of killing a few Hamas fighters....
"Two wrongs don't make a Right"....
Throughout my life, I have been sympathetic to Israel,
as I was raised as somewhat 'evangelical'.... and well aware of the history of World War II...
YES, the HAMAS fighters acted like 'animals' in their October 7 attack on Israel....
That does NOT justify what the Israeli military has been doing in Gaza ever since....
I expect better from the Israelis...
I have never thought of them as 'animals',
but the results don't leave much to choose between them..... especially the numbers....
As I have said before, a Palestinian baby who has been killed by a 2000 pound bomb
dropped by Israel on Gaza, is "just as dead" as any Israeli
who was killed or tortured by the Hamas attack on October 7th....
The thing is, I expect better of Israel, than I do from Hamas or their ilk.......
So I am tired of hearing of the atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7th----
(as if those somehow justify killing 20 times the number in Gaza, who are mostly civilians anyway....)
STOP THE BOMBING!!!!!
Kill Hamas with your ground troops, ISRAEL !!!!
Emergency Rooms not morally required to perform life-saving measures for
Republican judges or politicians---- in my humble opinion---
Instead, they should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps"--
or pray to that god of theirs for relief....
/snark?
Maybe. Maybe not.
The #1 cause of the Civil War...
The #1 cause of the civil war, was the insurrectionists attacking Fort Sumter…
That was a choice they made, because many southern leaders feared that parts of the Confederacy would ‘reconstruct’ with the Union, unless they made it into a war…
Prior to that, in the five months between Lincoln’s election and their attack on the fort, the North made no hostile actions against them-— didn’t even raise additional troops. They only continued to occupy the forts that they still occupied in the south, which were federal property.
Just prior to the attack, one southern politician urged them to make war, with the words
(paraphrased)— ‘If you don’t sprinkle blood in the faces of the people of (my state),
they will be back in the Union in ten days!’
It was the South who started the actual war…
If they hadn’t made that fatal mistake, there is no telling what might have happened— they might actually still have their own country today!
The catchphrase they invented after losing the war,
“The War of Northern Aggression” was a total LIE-—
it was them who started the shooting and the war.
They FAFO-— “fucked around and found out”!
(Yes, slavery was the issue that started the whole argument, or more to the point, the southern demands that southern slaveholders be allowed to take their slaves into the territories--- and additional southern demands that the congress enact a "slave code" that would PROTECT slavery in the territories.... When Lincoln was elected on a platform of refusing to allow slavery in the territories, the 'confederate states' then presumed to leave the Union..... However, the North did not choose to make war upon them for doing so--- UNTIL they started the shooting themselves!)
There is nothing quite like attacking the troops of another country, to "cause" a war!
Former pretty-boy-actor John Schneider pees his pants all over the 'General Lee',
while back-tracking his threatening anti-Biden language, after receiving a phone call from the Secret Service.....
Probably should try to control your bladder better, Johnny...
My instinct says that urine is bad for paint, although peeing all over the Confederate battle flag
is an appropriate moral response....
P.S. The word 'actor' was used in a broad rhetorical fashion, although that WAS his claimed profession way back when....
however, I have no idea whatever happened to him after 'The Dukes of Hazzard'. Perhaps he had one or two appearances in Hallmark movies or some other throw-away appearance....
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