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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article was written by Douglas Mackinnon. A political consultant who has written for multiple publications including Fox News. Here's a quick list of article headlines he's written there: "Latest wave of wokeness to hit west point reveals one simple solution", "Woke left will erase american history unless we stop them", "A 'Star Wars' story: How can I get a job as a woke ‘activist’?", "We must speak to save our founding fathers from the woke left", "Bidens nasa launches new mission to planet woke", and "Moms for liberty shows spirit that would make the founding fathers proud".

If these article headlines haven't made it obvious, this man is not worth paying attention to. Talk about biden being a bad candidate all you want but don't use pieces of shit who are focused on "wokeness" to hide their idiocy and bigotry.

Also, biden is not going to be replaced at the convention. Not gonna happen. But if you're putting forward the idea of it happening, you better bring with it an idea of who should replace him.

This article is shit, return2ozma, you can do better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean it's too easy now. Anything critical at all about Biden brings out Blue MAGA to defend Biden. Read it, downvote it if you hate it. It's all interaction and discussion. Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Blue MAGA” - what does that even mean? MAGA isn’t even a cogent ideology, it’s a fawning cult of personality acting in lockstep and built up around a single man – in what way is there any equivalent on the left? Ask twelve liberals for an opinion on something and you’ll get fifteen different answers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now this is some serious BS here. "Blue MAGA?" Nonsense.

You're being called out for posting biased bullshit pushed by a Team Red operative. Team Red is counting on people like you to push the bullshit narrative that Biden needs to be kicked out of the party to convince just enough of us to stay home or vote Third Party in November so that Team Pepe can steal the fucking election and run roughshod over Gays, Minorities, Transgender people, and yes, even Palestinians and other Muslims on a level that would make fucking Netanyahu blush, and they count on useful idiots on our side of the political aisle to eat up the bullshit they're generating to make that happen. I'm here to point out that your post is chock full of bullshitium provided to you by actual MAGA, and I'm not the only one here to point that bullshitium out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The only way Biden (or Trump, for that matter) will be replaced at their conventions will be if God exercises His Ultimate Veto on either one of them.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

“Far left”

✔️Foster an image of an equally radical group

By:

Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and former special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three years of the Bush administration.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think even replacing Biden would get the anti-genocide people to vote for him; If Biden doesn't end all support for Israel, no promise to do so by a dem-backed candidate is going to be taken seriously.

Trying to pressure the DNC to replace Biden makes more sense than trying to shame voters, but it's still less effective than pressuring Biden to end the genocide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, just to clarify, should we only be posting right wing anti-democracy articles in this community now? Or is it just this one post?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It’s a small group of people posting in bad faith from multiple accounts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I have this nice bridge y’all could buy…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

...Three major vulnerabilities have crested the Biden reelection horizon: A new, improved and highly focused Trump campaign; the populist independent campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; and possibly the greatest threat to Biden’s reelection chances — he has become radioactive to the far-left wing of his party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“Denial” isn’t just a river which runs through Egypt — its banks also surround the Biden White House, submerging it in a pool of fantasy.

Last November, Axelrod —a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and now an analyst for CNN — suggested that Biden may want to drop out of the race.

Over at the New York Times on Feb. 16, Klein — before taking it back after being subject to massive criticism from the left and after Biden’s State of the Union Address — released an audio opinion essay titled “Democrats Have a Better Option than Biden.” It’s a very logical and powerful piece.

To be sure, almost all the arguments — Alexrod’s and Klein’s included — were folded around the joint worries about Biden’s advanced age as well as his perceived cognitive issues.

To be sure, the Democrats who do feel Biden is now a liability to holding the White House are deeply concerned about Trump’s poll numbers, his massive base, his increased fundraising and his more locked-down, disciplined campaign.

These “uncommitted” results came after far-left activists pushed voters to refrain from voting for Biden in protest over a host of issues — most especially his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.


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