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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:40:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:43:15 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:37:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
>>> presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country ...
>> 
>> I’ve heard that nonsense from countless supporters of the Dumbfuckistani
>> voting system, and I still don’t understand it.
>> 
>> Don’t you take it as “self-evident” that all your people are created
>> equal? If so, why shouldn’t their votes count equally too?
>
> Never forget that even when that document was written so pigs were a lot 
> more equal than others. 3/5 in fact. 
>
> Without quibbling over constitutional republic and so forth the Electoral 
> College is a bandaid on the problems of democracy. Don't forget the first 
> paragraph of the document you alluded to.
>
> "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When 
> in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to 
> dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and 
> to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to 
> which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent 
> respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the 
> causes which impel them to the separation."
>
> Most of the rest of the document is a list of grievances against the king 
> of Great Britain.
>
> The fascist Lincoln negated the concept of peacefully dissolving political 
> bands and imposed his will with the force of arms. Were the red states to 
> submit a similar list to a government that considers them a basket of 
> deplorables, how would that play out? 
>
> I will make no predictions but I will say if the Democrats lose they 
> brought it on themselves, putting the junior varsity in the game so late. 
> After he won they should have said "Joe, you've fulfilled your career 
> ambition and you'll have your 4 years. Now let's build the next 
> president." Had they done that I truly doubt Harris would have been the 
> anointed. 

I don't think they had much choice. The campaign money was collected for the 
Biden - Harris campaign. I don't think it can be legally passed on to anyone 
else. Besides, the Rosthschilds have done fine with one brain-dead 
president, why not a second? 

And these hyenas run both parties anyhow, so what difference does it make?

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien