Tag: 2020 Presidential Campaign

Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election

In his interview with Fox News, Trump discussed an incident in the city in which US Marshals shot dead a suspect in the killing of a member of a rightwing group.

“There has to be retribution when you have crime like this,” Trump said.

He also said protests such as those in Portland would lead to “a backlash” from the political right, “the likes of which you haven’t seen in many, many years”.

The Brooks Brother riot comes to mind!

‘It’s insanity!’: How the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ killed the 2000 recount in Miami

Biden and Australia (Asia Link Sep 8, 2020)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden and Australia (Asia Link Sep 8, 2020)

That said, in recent months, several common themes have emerged from American thinkers, some of whom will serve in a Biden administration. These themes will impact on American allies.

Biden will prioritise rebuilding those alliances that have contributed to keeping the peace since World War 2. We have an active interest in this. As with the Trump Republicans, not all the Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of America’s security commitments.

Second, while the Democrats share some of the wider American reservations about multilateralism, they will put constructive energy into multilateral endeavours and structures at the regional and global levels, including reforming some of them. They will be looking to Western democracies, including Australia, to work to this end.

Third — and crucial for Australia — will be the Biden administration’s approach to China.

Mainstream American foreign policy thinkers, including the people around Biden, are realistic. They understand that China has changed. But rather than espouse the ideological crusading language of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, they are developing alternative concepts.

Related:

Why America Must Lead Again — Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump

Majority of Voters In Wisconsin, Where Jacob Blake Was Shot, Think Trump’s Response Has Been Harmful

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Majority of Voters In Wisconsin, Where Jacob Blake Was Shot, Think Trump’s Response Has Been Harmful

More than half of respondents from all six states said they support both protesters and law enforcement, as racial justice protests have erupted across the nation for over three months. Fifty-three percent of swing-state voters have a favorable view of protests for criminal justice reform, and 72 percent said they have a positive opinion on their local police department.

Despite support for cops, the majority of respondents said they agree that “we should invest more in education, mental health and social services and spend less on policing” — a notion many Black Lives Matter activists have shortened to “defund the police.”

US is fascist police state run by Wall Street crowd

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US is fascist police state run by Wall Street crowd

There are some good people in Congress, but there are very, very few and nobody in power is anything but a-dirty-business-as-usual-politician. And these are the ones that will run the country next January whether it’s Trump, Biden or anybody else. It’s the way it’s always been in the US. There was one exception.

And he didn’t go into office that way, and the exception was Jack Kennedy, who was far out of the programs. He would really turn things around in the US and geopolitically. He was anti-war. He wanted all US forces out of Vietnam. He supported Palestinian rights. He wanted denuclearization, and normalize relations with Russia. And for those reasons and others, the CIA killed him and killed his brother Bobby for the same reason. It killed Dr. Martin Luther King for the same reason. That’s the disturbing truth about how America is run. It’s a fascist police state, a fantasy democracy. Never the real thing. And the founders that created the country. Today we would call them a Wall Street crowd. That’s exactly what they were. There was nothing glorious about them. It’s a disturbing situation. One day, either we find a new way to change things in Washington, or we may all be doomed.

How Trump Is Losing His Base

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How Trump Is Losing His Base

It is critical to listen for what they did not say: “What an ass I was to vote for that guy in the last election.” They did not regret or say they made a mistake. All working Americans have been in financial trouble since the 2008 crash, and rising health care problems and disabilities, health care costs and deductibles, and empowered insurance and pharmaceutical companies were an explosive brew. It is why many working people voted for Trump in 2016. It is why many working-class Democrats of color and millennials failed to turn out and defend Obamacare in midterm elections and in 2016. All these voters had reasons for those choices.