Biden Admin Urban Policies (formerly-The 2020 Federal Elections Thread)

DTGstl314 · PostJan 14, 2021#11762021-01-14T06:32+00:00

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑
Jan 13, 2021
10 GOP voted to impeach- most ever for their own parties president. Many more would have if they didn’t get murder threats from the MAGA Cult. 2 more dozen took the off ramp when censure option for presented

It was also the first presidential impeachment in history to receive unanimous support of the party that brought the impeachment. There were a few dissenters in each of the the three previous presidential impeachments in our nation's history.

Wonder how Trump feels with the knowledge that fully half of all the presidential impeachments that we've ever had in our 240+ year history were against him?

Bart Harley Jarvis · PostJan 14, 2021#11772021-01-14T13:11+00:00

DTGstl314 wrote: ↑
Jan 14, 2021

Wonder how Trump feels with the knowledge that fully half of all the presidential impeachments that we've ever had in our 240+ year history were against him?

You're giving him a lot of credit for suggesting he has feelings.

Baltimore Jack · PostJan 14, 2021#11782021-01-14T14:35+00:00

Then you had the turducken of irony yesterday of GOP Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene--a known anti-masker, wearing a mask with the word "Censored" on it--while she is freely giving a speech on the House floor.

I'm proud of the 10 Republicans who bucked the party yesterday, I'm angered by those who continued to defend Trump (many of their speeches said we need to "heal" from the events of last week--then went on to bring up BLM protests of last summer) and I'm saddened that many apparently felt they would be in danger if they voted for impeachment.
Looks like the Q Klux Klan has achieved what other terrorist organizations like ISIS and Al-Qaeda never could--intimidating Congress

symphonicpoet · PostJan 15, 2021#11792021-01-15T06:30+00:00

Baltimore Jack wrote: ↑
Jan 14, 2021
I'm proud of the 10 Republicans who bucked the party yesterday, I'm angered by those who continued to defend Trump (many of their speeches said we need to "heal" from the events of last week--then went on to bring up BLM protests of last summer) and I'm saddened that many apparently felt they would be in danger if they voted for impeachment.
Looks like the Q Klux Klan has achieved what other terrorist organizations like ISIS and Al-Qaeda never could--intimidating Congress

ISIL (I rather like Egyptian history and don't wish to sully the name of Isis) and Al-Qaeda lack something the furious leaders red shirts posses: the right to vote. Now, Q-Annoying will land some of them in the klink and temporarily or permanently lose them an array of their traditional prerogatives, but too many more on the outside will still trade on their anger to make everyone else suffer.

dbInSouthCity · PostJan 20, 2021#11802021-01-20T14:59+00:00

It’s time to make America great again....

sc4mayor · PostJan 20, 2021#11812021-01-20T17:50+00:00

Bart Harley Jarvis · PostJan 20, 2021#11822021-01-20T20:01+00:00

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑
Jan 20, 2021
It’s time to make America great again....

Let's leave that phrase in the trash. It was garbage 5 years ago, and it's still garbage.

symphonicpoet · PostJan 20, 2021#11832021-01-20T22:55+00:00

^^Great picture sc4mayor.

DTGstl314 · PostJan 21, 2021#11842021-01-21T02:41+00:00

Sweet Jesus, tell me this is a parody...

pattimagee · PostJan 21, 2021#11852021-01-21T20:04+00:00

This would be so interesting to watch...

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald- ... wsj-2021-1
"Trump is said to be considering starting a 'Patriot Party' after facing criticism from top Republicans over the Capitol riot"

RockChalkSTL · PostJan 21, 2021#11862021-01-21T20:22+00:00

I don't think forming a new party would do anything other than splinter Republican votes and pave a way for Biden or Harris to keep the Oval Office in 2024.

So, naturally, I'm rooting for this.

pattimagee · PostJan 21, 2021#11872021-01-21T20:56+00:00

Agreed.

gone corporate · PostJan 21, 2021#11882021-01-21T21:05+00:00

Patriot Party?!?!?!? BWAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahaha!

From Wikipedia:

The Patriot Party was a socialist organization of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States that organized poor, rural whites in the Appalachian South and Pacific Northwest. The party was formed after a split with the Young Patriots Organization. The YPO's membership was drawn from street gangs of Appalachian whites in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois; it became politicized after working with the Young Lords, an ethnic Puerto Rican gang; and the African-American Black Panther Party.
The Patriot Party was a member of the original Rainbow Coalition, formed by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party and others to create a broad-based, multi-racial political coalition. It formed after the United Front Against Fascism conference held in Oakland, California in 1969. The coalition included the Young Lords, the Brown Berets and I Wor Kuen. Hampton's intention was to have multi-ethnic gangs working together to accomplish peaceful solutions, rather than battling each other.
The Patriot Party borrowed strategies of community organizing from the Black Panthers, with whom they were especially close. For instance, they established a Free Breakfast for Children program. The Eugene, Oregon chapter, location of the University of Oregon, garnered much community support with their "Free Lumber" program. At this time in the Northwest, some poor people still relied on wood-stoves for cooking and heating, and cheap wood was hard to come by.
In 1970 the FBI arrested the entire central committee of the Patriot Party^[who?] and charged them with various felonies. They later dropped the charges but, by the mid-1970s, the FBI's COINTELPRO program had effectively suppressed the organization.
In 1982 the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson adopted the name of "Rainbow Coalition" for organizing multi-ethic groups to support and vote for liberal (generally Democratic) candidates for public office, in order to strengthen minority voices by acting in collaboration.

Absolutely hilarious. Who knows, if he starts up a "Patriot Party", he could be liable for copyright infringement to Jesse Jackson, the Rainbow Coalition, and/or the GDMF Black Panthers!

I thought that, with his term ended, we'd have a return of satire, but I guess not yet...

RockChalkSTL · PostJan 21, 2021#11892021-01-21T21:35+00:00

Trump bungled his exit so hard that I think he's politically dead.

He's probably going to realize that after he sees what the price tag would be to create a viable third-party option by 2024.

wabash · PostJan 21, 2021#11902021-01-21T22:04+00:00

KansasCitian wrote: ↑
Jan 21, 2021
a viable third-party option

A contradiction in terms.

dredger · PostJan 21, 2021#11912021-01-21T22:20+00:00

KansasCitian wrote: ↑
Jan 21, 2021
Trump bungled his exit so hard that I think he's politically dead.

He's probably going to realize that after he sees what the price tag would be to create a viable third-party option by 2024.

I agree on the first part but can see the Trump family pursuing a 3rd political party as a never ending fundraising/cash cow pursuit in which it doesn't matter or not if he ever wins an election on any level. As long as he his enough supporters willing to go to rallies and checks for which the supporters are covering the family five star hotel jet setting lifestyle.

gone corporate · PostJan 21, 2021#11922021-01-21T22:52+00:00

^Secular televangelists.
Got to admit it's kind of genius, as well as highly unscrupulous.

kipfilet · PostJan 21, 2021#11932021-01-21T23:04+00:00

Agree that that would be a genius move, and I think it would be successful (for the Trump family that is).

dredger · PostJan 22, 2021#11942021-01-22T00:29+00:00

gone corporate wrote: ↑
Jan 21, 2021
^Secular televangelists.
Got to admit it's kind of genius, as well as highly unscrupulous.

GC, wish I could have came up with that elegant two word summary. Says exactly what I was trying to articulate

NPR back in Dec reported 3.65 billion with a B was raised between the two candidates. Can't help but think of the link that someone posted to story of how Trump family set up a Delaware media company to manage several hundred million of campaign media spending. Which not out of norm for any major or national campaign on either side of aisle but the article was eye opening in just how much money is now involved with these type of campaign entities and in part how it works once funds are raised.

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/85834747 ... 0-election

As far as unscrupulous, their probably has been a few candidates that you could make the argument for being unscrupulous before Trump came along but Trump would take it to whole new level just by the sheer numbers of his supporters and dollars now involved..

Trololzilla · PostJan 22, 2021#11952021-01-22T07:00+00:00

The risk of Trump splintering the GOP and trying to run again in 2024 is probably why Turtle Boy in the Senate has at least put up a façade of endorsing a conviction of Trump and bar him from ever holding office again.

symphonicpoet · PostJan 22, 2021#11962021-01-22T08:38+00:00

^Turtle Boy is nothing if not politically shrewd. And a deeply dedicated dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Maybe it's not a facade.

STLinCHI · PostJan 22, 2021#11972021-01-22T18:44+00:00

The possibility of creating a new party is exactly why the Senate will convict Mr. Trump. This guy just can't stop destroying everything he touches.

DTGstl314 · PostJan 28, 2021#11982021-01-28T11:00+00:00

STLinCHI wrote: ↑
Jan 22, 2021
The possibility of creating a new party is exactly why the Senate will convict Mr. Trump. This guy just can't stop destroying everything he touches.

So... seems pretty certain the Senate is not going to be convicting Trump, given the fact that 45 Republicans voted to completely dismiss the trial before it even started - and one of those Republicans was the senatortoise from Kentucky.

I think Cocaine Mitch realized his colleagues are still terrified of Trump destroying them if they go against him, and McConnell knows he can't get 17 Republicans to go with conviction. So he decided to cave and side with the insurrection apologists.

Such is life. If the trial still goes forward, I hope the 5 Republicans who voted against dismissing it stick to their guns and vote guilty when the time comes, even though that obese spraytanned asshat is all but certain to get acquitted. I want a 55-45 guilty vote on his record at the very least.

STLinCHI · PostJan 28, 2021#11992021-01-28T16:34+00:00

DTGstl314 wrote: ↑
Jan 28, 2021
STLinCHI wrote: ↑
Jan 22, 2021
The possibility of creating a new party is exactly why the Senate will convict Mr. Trump. This guy just can't stop destroying everything he touches.
So... seems pretty certain the Senate is not going to be convicting Trump, given the fact that 45 Republicans voted to completely dismiss the trial before it even started - and one of those Republicans was the senatortoise from Kentucky.

I think Cocaine Mitch realized his colleagues are still terrified of Trump destroying them if they go against him, and McConnell knows he can't get 17 Republicans to go with conviction. So he decided to cave and side with the insurrection apologists.

Such is life. If the trial still goes forward, I hope the 5 Republicans who voted against dismissing it stick to their guns and vote guilty when the time comes, even though that obese spraytanned asshat is all but certain to get acquitted. I want a 55-45 guilty vote on his record at the very least.

Yep. I've changed my expectations. No conviction. Which aptly describes the party as a whole. I guess the hijack is not reversible. This will not end well.

dbInSouthCity · PostJan 28, 2021#12002021-01-28T16:36+00:00

Uncle Joe comes out fast out of the gate....

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