Folks, maybe it's time to admit something to ourselves; the Biden campaign is pretty good. They haven't gone off message. They haven't chased down wild Trump statements. And since the "You ain't Black" incident, there hasn't been a major gaffe. It's almost like they're better.
With all of the noise and chaos the Trump team generates, it's hard to see things for what they are. But the case is pretty clear here; the Biden campaign is disciplined, organized, and robust. We just don't talk about it because it's being drowned out by a clown show.
Biden and the Democrats raised $370million last quarter and there hasn't been a peep about it since the initial reporting. But Trump shows up at an airplane hangar and spits out a 90 minute hate laden word salad and that gets top billing. It's almost like it's two different races
It's like Joe Biden is running for President and Donald Trump is just trying to see what he can get away with. The polls are calcified and the Biden machine just keeps moving forward while Trump lurches from one outrage to the next. Meanwhile, voting has started. This is it.
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Dear Black Men Supporting Trump,
I'd like to introduce you to this man, Lee Atwater. Now, you may not know who Lee Atwater is, but he's had a profound impact on your life over the past 50ish years. You see, he's the architect of a thing called the Southern Strategy...
For those unfamiliar with the Southern Strategy, following the Civil Rights Movement, white people in the South who had been Democratic voters for generations felt like they were no longer welcome in the party. BUT, they weren't exactly sold on Republicans either...
So, to get these disaffected white Democrats into the fold, Atwater came up with a plan. They would use the ethos of segregationism and white supremacy, but wrap it in "State's Rights" as a way to embrace blatantly anti-Black policies...
I'm gonna tell y'all a story. In 2006, my brother passed away. I grieved for a couple of weeks, and then I walked that shit off. In 2009, out of nowhere, I suddenly lost my ability to drive on the highway. It was weird, but I just couldn't do it. The anxiety was overwhelming...
Over the next few months, I started having issues with my temper, I wasn't sleeping, and I was drinking heavily. It culminated in me snapping on someone at work and my job making me take anger management/therapy. I did not want to do that shit. But, I did like money, so I did...
In the first few sessions of therapy, I was just present but not engaged. Again, my job made me go but that's all I was there for. But, one day, the doctor asked me about my family and how I'd referred to having a brother in the past tense. That led to the breakthrough...
Some of y'all aren't old enough to remember 1992 when the term "Sista Souljah Moment" was coined. But since then, EVERY Democrat running for President has had to have an open clash with one the elements on the left of the party to prove that they'll stand up to the liberals...
In 1992, Bill Clinton's candidacy for President was HEAVILY buoyed by Black voters. Like, people said he was the first "Black" president. He was on Arsenio and everything. And this worried a lot of Southern white voters. Because, back then a Democrat could win in the South...
As a member ofthe DLC and New Democrats, Bill Clinton had to show that he wasn't one of the old New Deal Dems or a Northeastern liberal who would take us back to the era of big government. BUT, he still needed those liberal white voters to win because the GOP had New England...
Folks. Let's not look at the news over the past two days and reflexively tilt to, "JOE BIDEN NEEDS TO EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT!". It doesn't work like that. Elections have consequences and, when you lose, you lose. This was a 50+ year effort and it's not getting undone quickly...
If you feel bad about the results of the court's decisions, the only recourse you have is to organize and vote. The court is basically saying that, if you want these rights codified, they need to be based on laws passed by Congress specifically tailored to the issue at hand...
That means Democrats who are disappointed need to start thinking about how they get 225 House seats and 62 Senate seats. That's the answer and it's a more rational approach than thinking you'll magically get four more Supreme Court seats. The way out isn't over, it's through...
At the end of the day, the Titanic Missing Billionaire Submarine story is a perfect distillation of 21st Century capitalism: A small group of very rich people assume a clearly irresponsible risk. It goes predictably wrong. Scores more in public resources are used to save them...
Privatize the "thrill" of "discovery" and offer it to the monied few who have the resources and access to both assume large amounts of risk while simultaneously disavowing said risk when making decisions. Because they assume that, if it does go bad, someone will save them...
Only difference in this story than the usual "titans of business saved by the public good" story is that the CEO here might actually be held ultimately accountable for his failure. In reasonable times, this would be an excellent parable for the hubris of the wealthy...
The irony is not lost on me, as a Black man in America, seeing white people up in arms and claiming that there's a "two tiered" system of justice. But here's what I don't think they get; Hunter Biden or Donald Trump, rich white guys get away with shit ALL THE TIME...
There's not one set of rules for Trump and one set of rules for everyone else. No. In America, the amount of money and status that you have is directly proportional to the amount of due process and severity of the punishment you receive. Rich white people get special treatment...
To see conservatives on this here website today up in arms about Hunter Biden's plea deal while simultaneously railing against the system for Donald Trump is, to put it plainly, hilarious. Because they really think that a rich white former president can be "persecuted"...