BARACK OBAMA SPEECH @2020 Democratic Convention

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Good evening, everybody. As you've seen by now, this isn't a normal convention. It's not a normal time. So tonight, I want to talk as plainly as I can about the stakes in this election. Because what we do these next 76 days will echo through generations to come.

I'm in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed. It wasn't a perfect document. It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to guarantee women – and even men who didn't own property – the right to participate in the political process. But embedded in this document was a North Star that would guide future generations; a system of representative government – a democracy – through which we could better realize our highest ideals. Through civil war and bitter struggles, we improved this Constitution to include the voices of those who'd once been left out. And gradually, we made this country more just, more equal, and more free.

The one Constitutional office elected by all of the people is the presidency. So at minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us – regardless of what we look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have – or who we voted for.

But we should also expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy. We should expect that regardless of ego, ambition, or political beliefs, the president will preserve, protect, and defend the freedoms and ideals that so many Americans marched for and went to jail for; fought for and died for.

I have sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for president. I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies. I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.

But he never did. For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.

Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.

Now, I know that in times as polarized as these, most of you have already made up your mind. But maybe you're still not sure which candidate you'll vote for – or whether you'll vote at all. Maybe you're tired of the direction we're headed, but you can't see a better path yet, or you just don't know enough about the person who wants to lead us there.

So let me tell you about my friend, Joe Biden.

Twelve years ago, when I began my search for a vice president, I didn't know I'd end up finding a brother. Joe and I came from different places and different generations. But what I quickly came to admire about Joe Biden is his resilience, born of too much struggle; his empathy, born of too much grief. Joe's a man who learned – early on – to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity, living by the words his parents taught him: "No one's better than you, Joe, but you're better than nobody."

That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts – that's who Joe is.

When he talks with someone who's lost her job, Joe remembers the night his father sat him down to say that he'd lost his.

When Joe listens to a parent who's trying to hold it all together right now, he does it as the single dad who took the train back to Wilmington each and every night so he could tuck his kids into bed.

When he meets with military families who've lost their hero, he does it as a kindred spirit; the parent of an American soldier; somebody whose faith has endured the hardest loss there is.

For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big decision. He made me a better president – and he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country.

And in my friend Kamala Harris, he's chosen an ideal partner who's more than prepared for the job; someone who knows what it's like to overcome barriers and who's made a career fighting to help others live out their own American dream.

Along with the experience needed to get things done, Joe and Kamala have concrete policies that will turn their vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality.
They will get this pandemic under control, like Joe did when he helped me manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores.

They'll expand health care to more Americans, like Joe and I did ten years ago when he helped craft the Affordable Care Act and nail down the votes to make it the law.

They'll rescue the economy, like Joe helped me do after the Great Recession. I asked him to manage the Recovery Act, which jumpstarted the longest stretch of job growth in history. And he sees this moment now not as a chance to get back to where we were, but to make long-overdue changes so that our economy actually makes life a little easier for everybody – whether it's the waitress trying to raise a kid on her own, or the shift worker always on the edge of getting laid off, or the student figuring out how to pay for next semester's classes.

Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world – and as we've learned from this pandemic, that matters. Joe knows the world, and the world knows him. He knows that our true strength comes from setting an example the world wants to follow. A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. A nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change, terrorism, poverty, and disease.

But more than anything, what I know about Joe, what I know about Kamala is that they actually care about every American. And that they care deeply about this democracy.
They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred, and we should be making it easier for people to cast their ballots, not harder.

They believe that no one – including the president – is above the law, and that no public official – including the president – should use their office to enrich themselves or their supporters.

They understand that in this democracy, the Commander-in-Chief does not use the men and women of our military, who are willing to risk everything to protect our nation, as political props to deploy against peaceful protesters on our own soil. They understand that political opponents aren't "un-American" just because they disagree with you; the free press isn't the "enemy" but the way we hold officials accountable; that our ability to work together to solve big problems like a pandemic depend on a fidelity to facts and science and logic and not just making stuff up.
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None of this should be controversial. These shouldn't be Republican principles or Democratic principles. They're American principles. But at this moment, this president and those who enable him, have shown they don't believe in these things.

Tonight, I am asking you to believe in Joe and Kamala's ability to lead this country out of these dark times and build it back better. But here's the thing: no single American can fix this country alone. Not even a president. Democracy was never meant to be transactional – you give me your vote; I make everything better. It requires an active and informed citizenry. So I am also asking you to believe in your own ability – to embrace your own responsibility as citizens – to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure.

Because that's what at stake right now. Our democracy.

Look, I understand why a lot of Americans are down on government. The way the rules have been set up and abused in Congress make it easier for special interests to stop progress than to make progress. Believe me, I know. I understand why a white factory worker who's seen his wages cut or his job shipped overseas might feel like the government no longer looks out for him, and why a Black mother might feel like it never looked out for her at all. I understand why a new immigrant might look around this country and wonder whether there's still a place for him here; why a young person might look at politics right now, the circus of it all, the meanness and the lies and crazy conspiracy theories and think, what's the point?

Well, here's the point: this president and those in power – those who benefit from keeping things the way they are – they are counting on your cynicism. They know they can't win you over with their policies. So they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that your vote does not matter. That's how they win. That's how they get to keep making decisions that affect your life, and the lives of the people you love. That's how the economy will keep getting skewed to the wealthy and well-connected, how our health systems will let more people fall through the cracks. That's how a democracy withers, until it's no democracy at all.

And we can't let that happen. Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy. Make a plan right now for how you're going to get involved and vote. Do it as early as you can and tell your family and friends how they can vote too. Do what Americans have done for over two centuries when faced with even tougher times than this – all those quiet heroes who found the courage to keep marching, keep pushing in the face of hardship and injustice.

Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis. Some years ago, I sat down with John and the few remaining leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. One of them told me he never imagined he'd walk into the White House and see a president who looked like his grandson. Then he told me that he'd looked it up, and it turned out that on the very day that I was born, he was marching into a jail cell, trying to end Jim Crow segregation in the South.

What we do echoes through the generations.

Whatever our backgrounds, we are all the children of Americans who fought the good fight. Great grandparents working in firetraps and sweatshops without rights or representation. Farmers losing their dreams to dust. Irish and Italians and Asians and Latinos told to go back where they came from. Jews and Catholics, Muslims and Sikhs, made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped. Black Americans chained and whipped and hanged. Spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters. Beaten for trying to vote.

If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work, and could not work, it was those Americans. Our ancestors. They were on the receiving end of a democracy that had fallen short all their lives. They knew how far the daily reality of America strayed from the myth. And yet, instead of giving up, they joined together and said somehow, some way, we are going to make this work. We are going to bring those words, in our founding documents, to life.

I've seen that same spirit rising these past few years. Folks of every age and background who packed city centers and airports and rural roads so that families wouldn't be separated. So that another classroom wouldn't get shot up. So that our kids won't grow up on an uninhabitable planet. Americans of all races joining together to declare, in the face of injustice and brutality at the hands of the state, that Black Lives Matter, no more, but no less, so that no child in this country feels the continuing sting of racism.

To the young people who led us this summer, telling us we need to be better – in so many ways, you are this country's dreams fulfilled. Earlier generations had to be persuaded that everyone has equal worth. For you, it's a given – a conviction. And what I want you to know is that for all its messiness and frustrations, your system of self-government can be harnessed to help you realize those convictions. For all of us. 

You can give our democracy new meaning. You can take it to a better place. You're the missing ingredient – the ones who will decide whether or not America becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed.

That work will continue long after this election. But any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election. This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win. So we have to get busy building it up – by pouring all our effort into these 76 days, and by voting like never before – for Joe and Kamala, and candidates up and down the ticket, so that we leave no doubt about what this country that we love stands for – today and for all our days to come.

Stay safe. God bless.


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just another reminder of how great obama was. even if you didn't agree with him, his style was unparalleled 
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democrats dont need to be convinced that trump is bad
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  • Obama addressed everybody, he was talking to you.  As you say, Biden already has my vote.
    • Obama did not argue "bad,"  he warned of threat.

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Obama addrssed democrats at the DNC, he didnt target me
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If you are an eligible voter than you are old enough to remember the peace and prosperity of 2016 as contrasted to the political and economic free fall of 2020.  Democrats are already in the bag.  The Trump voters now bear the burden of accountability for all of Trump's corruption and chaos.  Trump has already promised to cheat and contest and disrupt and discredit the most fundamental pillar of American Democracy.  Trump has openly deployed cynical, sinister attacks on our foundation.   The only way to prevent that civil turmoil is to present Trump with an indisputable show of no confidence.  That is your job to do, not mine.
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If you are an eligible voter than you are old enough to remember the peace and prosperity of 2016 as contrasted to the political and economic free fall of 2020.
due to a global pandemic that wiped off liberal economies like Spain,italy and France too, trump's previous economy was great 

The Trump voters now bear the burden of accountability for all of Trump's corruption and chaos. 
which is

Trump has already promised to cheat and contest and disrupt and discredit the most fundamental pillar of American Democracy.
USPS conspiracy

Trump has openly deployed cynical, sinister attacks on our foundation
not true

 The only way to prevent that civil turmoil is to present Trump with an indisputable show of no confidence.  That is your job to do, not mine.
nope.Trump 2020
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DNC ratings were lapped by America's got talent.

Fitting for a windbag professor taping a speech excusing the reasons why he personally allowed the country on his watch to get so fucked up that the people had to elect Trump.

Some legacy there bud.
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I wonder if Obama refers to "threat" in the same way Chuck Schumer used the word "threat"

You remember his famous 6-ways to Sunday threat he made to Trump if he dared "meddle" with the intelligence agencies?

Perhaps Obama was hinting there would be more paid Soros city burnings if we dare elect Trump again. Maybe that kind of threat.
The Bolshevik revolt threat.

There used to be a time where you could just reliably buy off Democrats with Mansions and stock options. 

Now they want unlimited power and the transformation of the country.

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Barack Obama is practically useless. He couldn’t convince his own voters to vote for Hillary. How the hell is he gonna convince voters to vote for Joe Biden. “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f— things up.”
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By DAVID KLEPPER and LORI HINNANTJune 21, 2020 GMT

They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police.
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

They have been accompanied by online ads bought by conservative groups that call on authorities to “investigate George Soros for funding domestic terrorism and his decades-long corruption.”
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Soros, 89, has donated billions of dollars of his personal wealth to liberal and anti-authoritarian causes around the world, making him a favored target among many on the right. The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for decades.
Such hoaxes can now travel farther and faster with social media.

Over just four days in late May, negative Twitter posts about Soros spiked from about 20,000 a day to more than 500,000 a day, according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London think tank focused on extremism and polarization, also found a pronounced jump on Facebook, where there were 68,746 mentions of Soros in May. The previous record of 38,326 Soros mentions was in October 2018, when angry posts alleged he was helping migrant caravans headed to the U.S.

The new wave began as nationwide demonstrations emerged over George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Some insist Soros financed the protests, while others say he colluded with police to fake Floyd’s death last month. But all available evidence suggests the protests are what they seem: gatherings of thousands of Americans upset about police brutality and racial injustice.

“I think partly it’s an attempt to distract from the real matters at hand — the pandemic, the protests or the Black Lives Matter movement,” Laura Silber, chief communications officer for Soros’ philanthropic Open Society Foundations, said of the theories. “It’s pretty demeaning to the people out there protesting when someone says they’re all paid. It’s insulting.”

A look at some of the claims:
  • — Soros pays protesters. No evidence has been presented to suggest demonstrators were paid by Soros or his organizations. It’s a new take on an old hoax: past versions claimed Soros paid for a long list of other events, including the 2017 Women’s March held just after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
  • — Soros pays to transport protesters. Last week, a photo claiming to show two buses emblazoned with the words “Soros Riot Dance Squad” got widespread attention. The photo was cited as proof of Soros’ involvement in the protests, but it was bogus. The original photo showed two unmarked buses; someone later doctored it to add the language supposedly implicating Soros.
  • — Soros organizes stashing piles of bricks near protests. Several false claims involving stockpiles of bricks have been debunked, and no evidence has turned up showing they were purposefully placed.
Experts who study conspiracy theories say the new claims about Soros are a way to delegitimize the protests and the actual reasons behind them. Some see anti-Semitism, or a new spin on the age-old hoax that a shadowy cabal of rich men — whether it’s the Illuminati, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Bill Gates or Soros — is manipulating world events.

The theories have had real-world consequences. In 2018, amid news of caravans of migrants making their way toward the U.S.-Mexico border, online misinformation about Soros was linked to violence. Cesar Sayoc, a Florida man who was obsessed with Trump, mentioned Soros dozens of times on social media before mailing pipe bombs to newsrooms, top Democrats and Soros himself.

Despite significant scrutiny, no evidence was ever found to tie the caravan to Soros. Trump, however, helped fan the flames when asked whether Soros was involved.

“I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people say yes,” the president said.

Still, some Republicans have begun pushing back on false claims of Soros’ connection to the protests and those spreading the rumors. After several Republican Party chairpeople in a Texas county shared posts claiming Soros was behind the demonstrations, the state party leader called on them to resign.
Experts say conspiracy theories can become a problem when they lead to threats of violence or cause people to lose trust in important institutions. They can fade into the background only to reemerge at times of crisis.

“Conspiracy theories are like themselves viruses,” said Josh Introne, a Syracuse University information studies professor who researches conspiracy theories. “The characters may change a little, and the theory itself may mutate. But they stick around.”



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Barack Obama is practically useless. He couldn’t convince his own voters to vote for Hillary. How the hell is he gonna convince voters to vote for Joe Biden. “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f— things up.”
Obama was the ultimate political actor.  There are still people out there singing his praises without being paid to do so.
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Billionaire Leftist George Soros Bought America's Media. Why Hasn't Anybody Noticed?

Clenched-teeth presidential debaters unloaded Tuesday night on Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big-Almost-Everything -- any industry that pours Big Bucks into influencing American politics. Yet, they skimmed right over the scariest and most sinister big sell-out of all: Big Media.
Where during the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate was the crumbling Fourth Estate, whose downhill slide in the 21st Century has sent it on a desperate treasure hunt for sugar daddies to prop it up?

Why didn't the name George Soros pop up?

Democrats don't talk about Big Media's influence because they're the ones who benefit from it. With the exception of FOX, every one of the most influential national news outlets are campaigning -- I mean really flagrantly campaigning -- for far-left liberal candidates and causes.

Early in the 21st Century, George Soros, net worth $26 billion and No. 46 on Forbes' list of the World's Richest Men, discovered he had enough money and the know-how to buy opinion from ethics-challenged or foundering publishers and individual reporters, outfits large and small. Soros never owned a single media outlet. In a tangled web of lofty-sounding foundations he created to "give to causes he wanted to influence," Big Media in all its evil glory was born. 
It grew like Jack's beanstalk. 

Soros, 89, who made his fortune in investing and currency trading, is pretty much done with bringing money in. Now he makes his name for  handing it out -- in the area of politics and policy. 

Since the 2004 election, when he spent $27 million trying in vain to defeat George W. Bush, the controversial financier has used his influence and billions to push a laundry list of left-wing causes. 

Says the Reston, Va.-based media watchdog organization Media Research Center, "Pick an issue and (Soros') Open Society Foundations (OSF) likely fund the liberal position -- pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, pro-national health care, pro-drug legalization, pro-Big Government, anti-Israel and, ultimately, anti-America."
The $27 million "was a drop in the bucket compared to the $8 billion he has donated just to his Open Society Foundations," says the report. Soros followed that presidential failure by earning the well-deserved reputation as one of the top liberal contributors. Soon after the election, "Soros headlined a meeting of 70 millionaires and billionaires in Scottsdale, Ariz., to discuss how to grow the left's ideological assets," explained the Aug. 18, 2005, Christian Science Monitor.
Read the executive summary of Media Research's mind-boggling report, "George Soros: Media Mogul." The Hungarian-born billionaire "has managed to insinuate himself and his money into the media culture, making connections with the nation's top publishing organizations. He has direct ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets -- including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN and ABC. Each one of those operations has employees, often high-level ones, on the boards of Soros-funded media operations."

Soros' "gift" of $1.8 million to National Public Radio became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media.

The investigative reporting start-up ProPublica is a prime example of Soros' targeted media campaigns. ProPublica, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to "strengthen the progressive infrastructure" -- "progressive" the code for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, that have contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.
ProPublica's stories are thoroughly researched by very good professionals who formerly worked at some of the biggest news outlets in the nation. "But the topics are almost laughably left-wing," says Media Research. "The site's proud list of 'Our Investigations' includes attacks on oil companies, gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools and more. More than 100 stories on the latest lefty cause: opposition to drilling for natural gas by hydraulic fracking. Another 100 on the evils of the foreclosure industry.

"Throw in a couple investigations making the military look bad and another about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and you have almost the perfect journalism fantasy -- a huge budget, lots of major media partners and a liberal agenda unconstrained by advertising."

One more thing: a 14-person Journalism Advisory Board in 2011 was stacked with CNN's David Gergen and representatives from top newspapers, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Several were and are today working journalists, including:
  • Alberto Ibargüen, the former publisher of The Miami Herald, on the board of directors. He's also president and CEO of journalism's prestigious John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
  • Jill Abramson, a managing editor of The New York Times;
  • Martin D. Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe;
  • David Boardman, the executive editor of the Seattle Times;
  • Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News;
  • Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
ProPublica is a newer and more prominent example of Soros' opinion buying, but it's far from the only organization the billionaire stacked with members of the supposedly neutral press. There's also the Center for Public Integrity. Its board of directors is filled with working journalists like Christine Amanpour from ABC, right along side blatant liberal media types like Arianna Huffington, of the Huffington Post and now AOL.

"Like ProPublica, the CPI board is a veritable Who's Who of journalism and top media organizations," says Media Research, including:
  • As mentioned, "Amanpour -- Anchor of ABC's Sunday morning political affairs program, 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour.' A reliable lefty, she has called tax cuts 'giveaways,' the Tea Party 'extreme,' and Obama 'very Reaganesque.'
  • "Also as mentioned, Huffington -- Co-founder of the popular left-wing website named after her, The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and thanks to a recent $315 million sale, the person in charge of AOL's news divisions.
  • "Paula Madison -- Executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBC Universal, who leads NBC Universal's corporate diversity initiatives, spanning all broadcast television, cable, digital, and film properties.
  • "Matt Thompson - Editorial product manager at National Public Radio and, at least in 2011, an adjunct faculty member at the prominent Poynter Institute, owner of the Tampa Bay Times."
The well-known Center for Investigative Reporting follows the same template -- important journalists on the board and a liberal editorial agenda. Both the board of directors and the advisory board contain journalists from major news outlets. The board features:

  • Phil Bronstein (President), San Francisco Chronicle;
  • David Boardman, The Seattle Times;
  • Len Downie, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, now VP;
  • George Osterkamp, CBS News producer.
  • The Advisory Board features prominent liberal journalists like Bill Moyers, Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker, former '60 Minutes' host Mike Wallace, and representatives of both PBS and NPR.
Why does it all matter? Says Dan Gainor, Media Research's vice president for Business and Culture and author of the report, "Journalists, we are constantly told, are neutral in their reporting. In almost the same breath, many bemoan the influence of money in politics. It is a maxim of both the left and many in the media that conservatives are bought and paid for by business interests. Yet where are the concerns about where their money comes from?"

This is personal to me. I've reached the end of the line in a business I have loved, leaving it in real trouble. I long for the days when reporters began their investigations with questions, not statements. When they set out to find the answers, not prove some assumed, deliberately trumped-up conclusion. If I learned nothing else in 50 years, I learned that nothing is black or white. The life we live and report on is somewhere in the middle.

But, as Media Research's Gainor points out, "George Soros is teaching journalists that their industry has a future as long as he opens his wallet."

The American people may not know all they're missing, but they've sensed for a very long time that the mainstream media have failed them in a society in which "Freedom of the Press" used to mean something. Now they know their instincts were right and they know why. 

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lol, it really explains how state propaganda TV CNN can keep functioning without advertiser revenue.

It's utterly ironic that the Soros pet project attempting to fight Totalitarianism by monopolizing the media coverage actually gave birth to the worst breed of them all. The American Marxist. Unhindered by any media scrutiny, it's disgusting what they have been able to get away with in the last decade, and they now have the political power to enforce their ideals on most blue city areas unhindered by any real threats to their power.
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lol, it really explains how state propaganda TV CNN can keep functioning without advertiser revenue.

It's utterly ironic that the Soros pet project attempting to fight Totalitarianism by monopolizing the media coverage actually gave birth to the worst breed of them all. The American Marxist. Unhindered by any media scrutiny, it's disgusting what they have been able to get away with in the last decade, and they now have the political power to enforce their ideals on most blue city areas unhindered by any real threats to their power.
Kamala Harris is knowingly supporting a rapist and a racism. Let that sink in.
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It's a last ditch effort by Establishment Democrats to delay the inevitable Marxist takeover of the Democrat party.

Unintended consequences of Soros meddling with American Democracy.
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hes also banned in countries

but no, just a "right wing boogyman"
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but no, just a "right wing boogyman"
cONsPirACy tHEOrY
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It's a last ditch effort by Establishment Democrats to delay the inevitable Marxist takeover of the Democrat party.

Unintended consequences of Soros meddling with American Democracy.
It’s not failing. Last few polls show Minnesota close. If they’re close then Trump is easily winning.
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soros is the worst, just the worst
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Obama's speech was great and I like Michelle's, but for the love of god, no one honestly cares what Billie Eillish says.

Also Obama said Biden could royally f*ck things up

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Not sure if I agree at all with the sentiment he was trying to express but thank you Oromagi for pasting the full speech.
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Michelle Obama was only proud of America when she was in power.

That's not the kind of fair-weathered citizens America needs. Either you believe in the concept of American liberty from a tyrannical government, or you do not.
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So far as I can tell, the past 3 years have constituted the use of a new tactic: an absolutely unbreakable wall of oligarch consensus about how unprecedentedly bad and "dangerous" the new administration is, with a barrage of surrounding literature and "reports" that, at this time, in the heat of the moment, with the vast bulk of fact-finding organized resources in the hands of those very same people, it's impossible to know whether most of them are true, fabricated, or exaggerated.

This could all be one extremely elaborate ruse. Since that's possible, its sheer elaboracy does not afford it the right to be taken at face value. If it is a tactic, then what works against Trump will work against literally any future president who the oligarchs want out of power, or presidential candidate who they don't want elected.
In other words, the current situation is probably without parallel. If Trump loses, there's the possibility that it happened because a few elites made enough noise to sway the masses. In that event, the American citizenry's free will is forfeit. They simply vote per the intents of the loudest noisemakers, who have the most money and influence.

Trump himself has done what all presidents before him have done: attempt to consolidate authority in his own executive. He has been remarkably ineffective in this regard, having been repeatedly defeated in his various efforts and often being without the backing of even his own party. This makes his remarkably undangerous. The stakes to American democracy from the fact of him getting reelected are not very high and in fact the longer he's in power the more political authority might be decentralized (whether he likes it or not). It must be proven in 2020 that the American people could re-elect Donald Trump in spite of paid noise demanding that they not. The only way to prove that is to do it. If as an experiment it's demonstrated once, I likely won't be as concerned in the future.

It's almost unfeasible that the next Republican will be another Trump. His campaign was driven by a unique charisma, and posers won't be taken seriously.  Assuming his re-election in November, his successor in 2024 will certainly be Mike Pence, an establishment Republican. Even many of his supporters are tired of Trump's often unprofessional airs and would welcome an establishment Republican so long as they weren't a complete ideological sell-out.

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I agree, Trump 's purpose wasn't to fix America, it is far too broken at this point for that. Trump's purpose right now is to fix the Republican party so that one day when America hits rock bottom, the people at least have a place they can turn to without worrying that both parties care more about power than the people.