(07-13-2020 12:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-13-2020 11:22 AM)ausowl Wrote:  

(07-12-2020 06:03 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-12-2020 04:43 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(07-12-2020 04:20 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  More like the Bolsheviks, IMO. Or maybe the "useful idiots".

OO - I'm going on vacation next week (not to Taos, NM or Colorado, sadly, but all the way to a cabin by the Blanco River with limited wifi). If you could recommend one book that would give me insight as to why Tammy Duckworth, former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Tammy Duckworth, K Harris, S Rice or Raimondo are "useful" idiots or a cat's paw for an imagined Bolshevik coup, what book would that be? I'm not going to promise to read the whole book as I have my reading list picked out. But I do promise to buy it and bring it along to dip into.

Book? Just watch the news. The entire party is moving left at breakneck speed. Duckworth, talking about Trump's speech at Mt. Rushmore, was at best uninformed, and at worst an outright liar. Susan Rice - just go back to the five Sunday morning appearances reiterating the video as the cause of Benghazi. I wouldn't trust her to bring me a drink of water. Harris would be the best of the bad bunch for me - I care little for whether she did or did not sleep her way to the top. Not a big deal for me. Raimundo I know little about. What qualifies her other than her last name? There are worse possibilities out there - Abrams for one. I wonder why you didn't list Bottoms, Demings, or some of the others. Whitmer would be a better choice, but apparently she is either too white or too moderate.

But they are all "useful idiots", even Biden, if they help pave the way for the far left to gain power and pass laws, even if they themselves are not the far left. It might be under the guise of compromise, or interior party politics, but they will in the end be no different than the Russian peasants who propelled Lenin to power.

As for surviving a Biden Presidency, I think I can last two years. The doctors say I am doing well. I would feel better if the 47th president was selected on some basis other than sex and ethnicity.

You mention Haley. I would have loved her to have been the 45th President instead of Trump. I would love for her to be the 46th or 47th president.

But the choices are Trump or Biden and the shadow gang behind him. I like a lot of what Trump has done, and I fear the shadow gang. The narrative that was thrust upon us was that Trump was a Russian puppet. I think Biden will be a puppet, and I don't know who is/will be pulling the strings, but I highly doubt they will be centrists.

I have as much or more basis to worry about a Biden win as you do to not worry about it.

wiki link Gina Raimondo

Current Gov of RI, prior to politics, VC - venture capitalist, not Viet Cong. I assume she's invested in making sure private property rights,and capitalism generally, continue for the foreseeable future.

Found that Duckworth interview on CNN - agree it's cringe worthy. Not the polish of a S Rice of K Harris. Haven't seen her enough to know if that was a one off.

Bottoms and Deemings - just not front of mind for me. No particular reason.

The claims she made were in direct contrast to what Trump actually said and to what I saw in the 15 minutes or so I watched the speech. Complete fiction. Like I said, at best uninformed, at worst a liar. I was giving her more credit for her service before that debacle.

Raimundo just went to the top of my list. Probably means she has no chance. But I have been fooled before by a Democrat masquerading as a business person, namely Jimmy Carter.