Been watching the Democratic convention on CNN this week and I agree with the CNN pundits that they did an excellent job considering covid precluded the large crowds and excitement that normally accompany such events.
There was an intimacy of seeing Dr. Jill Biden talking alone in a classroom about her husband and it was touching when old Joe creeped out of the corner to embrace her. Biden is the perfect person to steal the older working class white racist vote from Trump because he looks and sounds like an old white working class racist himself, yet by picking a woman of color as his running mate, he gets the minority vote to boot!
Thought Michelle Obama did a good job with her speech last night and it must be killing Barack that CNN keeps calling him the second best speaker in his family. Barack loves to praise Michelle himself (“she’s much better than I am”) but only because he gets the virtue signaling points of praising a black and a woman while resting assured that no one will believe it. But to hear it from the white and Jewish elites at CNN who really do believe it…oh that must have been painful.
When you’re half-white like Obama, you grow up thinking you’re special. He deliberately chose to get a black wife for political convenience but I doubt he ever saw her as even remotely his equal so to watch her eclipse him in star power has been tough, and we saw a glimpse of his jealousy when he was quoted as saying he wrote his book himself (a reference to the fact that Michelle’s huge best-selling memoir was ghost written).
Even better than Michelle’s speech was Bill Clinton’s. Despite being a weak elderly shadow of his former self, Clinton nailed Trump’s failure to take responsibility with one powerful line: “The buck never stops there”.
Pumpkin Person 
it’s horrible. even more unwatchable than the last one. i couldn’t isten to bernie for more than 2 minutes he was selling out SO HARD.
now i think bernie was a straight up FRAUD from the beginning or he’s being controlled too.
I watch the young turks quite a lot and I think the general feeling among progressives is that Biden won the primaries fair and square and it was thanks to the blacks, who are above criticism.
Essentially Bernie would be the nominee if blacks didn’t exist. The ironic thing of course is that Bernie would be much better for blacks than biden will ever be.
No that’s what happened only sort of. there is no “fair and square” in american politics. it’s all professional wrestling. [redacted by pp, aug 19, 2020]oprah got obama elected. [redacted by pp, aug 19, 2020]
what happened is biden won the SC primary after black clyburn endorsed him, then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed biden.
the only reason there were so many other candidates rather than just two like last time was to split the bernie vote.
and yes. blacks with IQs of the white mean or higher would’ve voted for bernie.
Are lawyers glorified bureaucrats? They exist in the private sector kind of like a tax on economic activity. Some people would say they add value – maybe in things like criminal law or corporate tax dodging.
“he looks and sounds like an old white working class racist himself,”
I’m 90% sure biden has views on race that aren’t much different from mine. Jimmy Dore made the great point that all his gaffes are basically him telling the truth about blacks.His legislative history suggests it as well.
Its kind of hilarious how a person who doesn’t like blacks owes his career in its later years specifically to blacks and the guy who picked him as vp.
Its kind of hilarious how a person who doesn’t like blacks owes his career in its later years specifically to blacks and the guy who picked him as vp.
obama picked him precisely because he was an old white working class racist because that demographic was obama’s weakness
Wonder how the clinton foundation is doing. Donations must have fallen off a cliff when Hilary lost. Notice how bill clinton used the foundation to make himself richer and bill gates uses his foundation to increase africa’s population.
and how buffett has only one house, the same one he’s had for 50+ years and bernie has 3 houses, michael moore has 3 houses, and oprah has at least 3 houses.
buffett has tatse. bernie and oprah don’t.
More like buffett has autism
Pumpkin, is it reasonable to say that bilinguals’ verbal iq is underestimated by 5 points? Vocabulary is certainly affected, but what about information and similarities?
we don’t what the effects of being tested in your second language has on your scores; it would require very controlled experiments.
so-called “systemic racism”, “microaggressions”, a klansman behind every tree, etc. are ridiculous but with the mugabe hermeneutic they’re real.
but are insuperable, irremediable.
whenever you see an us vs them thing you should try to get in the head of both and steel man both.
and then you will say, both are right and both are wrong. both are describing the same reality but in different terms and have the illusion of disagreement.
the bottom line is to alter the reagan proverb:
diversity isn’t the solution. diversity is the problem.
this is so fucking funny
this one’s even better
yarvin says all sides were “eliminationist” during ww ii. the germans for the jews. the british for the germans. the americans for the japanese. etc.
maybe.
but one thing is clear. in idea space, the warriors of propaganda wage an eliminationist war against nazism, half-nazism/mischlinge-nazism, even quadroon nazism…
and pat themselves on the back for their extremism.
but killing ideas is an endless war. it can’t be won. it’s like the war on drugs but worse. eventually it devloves into killing people.
did stalin really say this?
Pumpkin, I came across some data for Hispanic folk. The discrepancy between Verbal and PIQ is around 2 points, except around 30% of Hispanics are monolingual in English, so if everyone in the sample was bilingual, it’s safe to say that there would be some increase right?
So I can’t attack you personally , but I can still attack your ideas right?
So it’s cool if I say that idea about Obama only marrying Michelle for “political convenience” is fucking stupid right and is utterly baseless? Or does that hurt your feelings too? LOL.
If you could clear that up it’d be great.
How is it stupid? You don’t think aspiring politicians choose wives for political reasons? And it’s not baseless, it’s based on solid reporting by a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer.
Does that particular author believe what you just stated or is that something you merely extrapolated from his findings?
What piece of information specifically are you basing this on?
The author appears to believe it. He quotes a Eurasian college girlfriend of Obama’s telling him that Obama told her he was going to need to eventually find a black woman to marry so he could make it in Chicago politics.
Can you actually provide the quote? Because I thought he was saying that he was seeing the girl while he was with Michelle, I didn’t hear anything about that.
no state has voted for the winner more consistently than ohio. 34 of 38 presidential elections it’s been right. the last time it was wrong was 1944.
https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/ohio/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8645087/FBI-slammed-reckless-tweet-sharing-anti-Semitic-Protocols-Learned-Elders-Zion.html
Not even click-bait some weird shit going down 2020.