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Subject: Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:23:43 +0000
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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:
>> 
>>> On 11/7/2024 10:19 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>>>> In article <672cd48a$1$2385539$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
>>>> user@example.net says...
>>>>>
>>>>> 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...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems the parties are reversing the ideas.
>>>
>>>
>>> Appropriating some left-wing populist ideas and making them meaner has
>>> been a right-wing thing for a while.
>>>
>>> But though Trump tries to be everything to everyone, at least he has a
>>> brand, a coherent message of a sort.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Anyway, maybe there should have been a primary.....
>> 
>> You can't tell me that Hopeless Harris was the best the Dems had to
>> offer. 
>
>Obviously not. You are a right-wing lunatic, and not susceptible to 
>rational argument.
>
>> 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."
>
>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.
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. But that's governments for you: always sticking their
noses in and making everything 10X worse. The Gipper was dead right.

>
>Trying to do it in a late-starting campaign doesn't seem to have been 
>seen as practicable.