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Elizabeth Olbert's avatar

Well, that was upbeat!

Thanks, Barbarian. :)

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MrMickeysMom's avatar

Outside of that, Mrs. Lincoln - How did you like the play??? 😟

OB...This is a good list to have handy, as it can be used to remind Mr. & Mrs. Zombified America exactly what we have all been played for. Do you think Hunter will just be wanded over for income tax evasion and walk away free with the rest of this present set of criminals? When do you think the big day is coming when 75% of us pop our heads out of our somnolent asses? Yes, these are rhetorical questions, but I ask them, just the same. I want a longitudinal study to see how boosters are affecting American jingoism.

By the way, I finally saw Joe Rogan's podcast interview of RFK Jr. If I can understand or even see past his Bobby's take on Israel, he is what Biden should really be afraid of.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Hunter Biden already did a plea deal, a slap on the wrist with no jail time. Unlike some black guy from Cleveland or white guy from say, East Palestine, who would spend years in prison for the same crime thanks to the crime bill his daddy wrote.

The big day will come when the working class is ready to move, not one day sooner or later. Sorry, that's as specific as dialectical materialism allows me to be.

I can't get past RFK's stance on Israel, or the fact that he is a multimillionaire from America's political aristocracy. If Cornel West makes it to the ballot in Ohio, I'll be happy to vote for him. I just hope he succeeds in launching a mass working class movement. That is what is important, not whether or not he can "win."

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MizzGrizz's avatar

I too will vote for Cornell,or Marianne in the primary if I can.I have no use for Joe and even less for Trump.In a decent world neither man would be holding office.I’m not holding my breath till people pull their heads out of their rear ends.They watch too much Tv for that.

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The Passionate Progressive's avatar

On the RFK Israel statement = reminds me too much of 'Joe Biden is my friend' Sanders who. despite his so-called independence and having two other Biden challengers to leverage his support, immediately endorsed Biden, and 'Mr. Hope and Change's' waffling and then, once in office, doing the exact opposite of what he led his followers to believe he would do....At the end of the day we should be wary of anyone who succeeds within the Democratic Party - Kennedy or not....Cornel gets my vote - he doesn't have to 'win' by defeating the GOP. A 'win' for me is starting a genuine movement and standing FOR the principles that I support...No one has a better chance of doing that than West.

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Elizabeth Olbert's avatar

No kidding. There's something very dodgy about a guy who calls himself Famous Good Guy Jr, claims the CIA is bumping off his entire Famous Good Guy family, and then runs for office in the very same party that has the CIA in its pocket.

That just doesn't work for me. I'm for Precious Brother Cornel all the way. :)

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

RFK Jr represents the old liberalism of his uncle and father. He is self-aware and capable of intelligent rational thought, so that does put him head and shoulders above Biden and Williamson, but so long as he holds the illusion the Democratic Party can be reformed, he will go nowhere and really isn't worth much of my time.

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Elizabeth Olbert's avatar

That makes sense to me too. I'd pick him over Biden or Trump, and Maryann too, I suppose, but I wouldn't have particularly high hopes.

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Babel-17's avatar

Well written!

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