Thank you again for your steady hand in this Trump-Era sewer. This is another masterpiece. Your cool and masterful reasoning is calming to my soul. Though there may be few of us, the fact that one of us can still reason well makes me feel a bit less lonely and dismayed. As long as there is still one of us reasoning with precision, there is still hope for mankind. At least, I like to think so. Thank you for your service.
#REMEMBERASHLIBABBITT The young looney tune died for a complete BIG LIE, brought to U.S. by a crook, line and sinker, uttered over and over and over again by a shameless, mendacious, narcissistic megalomaniac, crony capitalist pig, casino card shark magnate, NFT, I mean FTX huckster, serial adulterer, reality tv porn star, sociopath, GOP crashed, anti-Truth Neo National Socialist, formerly the world’s biggest twitter troll and Americas Now Biggest Sore Loser Donald J Trump…leave aside, speaking of Ukraine, “Savvy Genius” that [ war criminal] Putin is…let alone “My friend Xi”…makes me wish that kid didn’t miss (forgive me Jesus…and you my atheist hero). Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant, for now, An Atheist that still reads The Bible. God help U.S. Peace through superior mental firepower
I am not disputing what you have written about Trump. I am curious, though, what you think will happen to US support for Israel should Harris win. There are two wars going on and it seems to me that one or the other is going to lose crucial and significant support depending on which candidate wins.
Ukraine being sold down the river and emboldening Putin / Russia is certainly awful. But Israel being forced into yet another situation of not being able to complete militarily necessary action to defeat its enemies is, I would argue, even worse. I think it is perfectly reasonable to predict that is likely to happen if Harris wins. Combine that with all of the add-on negatives about her (and the entire D agenda and party) and even if I think Trump is unfit for office, I certainly can't justify voting for Harris, either.
OK, so you may not know this if you don't follow the left-of-center press as much, but there is a certain amount of panic in Democratic circles that Kamala Harris may face a problem because she supports Israel too much. Basically, they're concerned that in a tight election they will lose the votes of the anti-American far left and especially the votes of Arab immigrants in Michigan. I think I mentioned in my coverage of the Democratic convention that pro-Palestinian protesters planned big demonstrations against Harris (that fizzled), and they also tried to disrupt her recent big speech on the Ellipse in DC.
So the pro-Palestinian left disagrees with you on the idea that Harris is likely to abandon Israel. And they're right. The Biden administration policy so far has been to express a lot of humanitarian concerns and try to negotiate a cease-fire deal in which all Israeli hostages would be released--which was never going to happen--but while still providing US weapons and support for Israel.
I'll probably cut and paste this reply into my article on Harris, but the upshot is that no, I am not worried that she will undermine Israel. That, plus the fact that Israel is way less dependent on US support than Ukraine is (because Israel is stronger relative to its enemies than Ukraine), so I consider Ukraine to be the far more urgent matter in the presidential election.
I agree that Ukraine is a far more urgent matter in the sense that Trump would be a disaster for Ukraine. But (and it is difficult to say this because I don't want to minimise what is at stake with Ukraine), I think Israel is more important to the US (and the entire West). Unless and until Biden (or potentially Kamala) can come out directly and with moral conviction state that the US stands with Israel to do whatever it takes to secure itself against its enemies, then even if Israel has done a brilliant job so far of ignoring Washington, the job cannot be completed. And that is a bigger worry for the US (and the West) than Ukraine.
The Islamic menace is simply greater than the menace of Putin in the biggest of pictures. I have no reason to believe that Harris would be strong enough to resist those within her own party (and the elite universities) and fully back Israel (and, indeed, even to have confidence that is what she actually would like to do - after all, "she's studied the maps" and advised against going into Rafah).
Robert, another prescient early warning by you of what’s really at stake here for America and the world community. I just hope that voters, at least enough of them, outside of the party stooges, will see it the same way and make the right choice!
I guess that I'm not much of an activist. Those acquaintances of mine who support Trump are immune to any arguments against him. I still admire their good qualities and most of them are highly educated in the usual meaning of the word, but their mindless support of Trump is dismaying.
Thank you for this series. Given how manifestly obvious the case against Trump is, it seems to me that the really interesting question is: why is it this close? Is it all just because of information silos and confirmation bias, perhaps helped along at the margin by the aging of America? Are we just decadent? A Republic, but we can't keep it?
Thank you again for your steady hand in this Trump-Era sewer. This is another masterpiece. Your cool and masterful reasoning is calming to my soul. Though there may be few of us, the fact that one of us can still reason well makes me feel a bit less lonely and dismayed. As long as there is still one of us reasoning with precision, there is still hope for mankind. At least, I like to think so. Thank you for your service.
The Case Against Trump, Part Duh
#REMEMBERASHLIBABBITT The young looney tune died for a complete BIG LIE, brought to U.S. by a crook, line and sinker, uttered over and over and over again by a shameless, mendacious, narcissistic megalomaniac, crony capitalist pig, casino card shark magnate, NFT, I mean FTX huckster, serial adulterer, reality tv porn star, sociopath, GOP crashed, anti-Truth Neo National Socialist, formerly the world’s biggest twitter troll and Americas Now Biggest Sore Loser Donald J Trump…leave aside, speaking of Ukraine, “Savvy Genius” that [ war criminal] Putin is…let alone “My friend Xi”…makes me wish that kid didn’t miss (forgive me Jesus…and you my atheist hero). Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant, for now, An Atheist that still reads The Bible. God help U.S. Peace through superior mental firepower
I am not disputing what you have written about Trump. I am curious, though, what you think will happen to US support for Israel should Harris win. There are two wars going on and it seems to me that one or the other is going to lose crucial and significant support depending on which candidate wins.
Ukraine being sold down the river and emboldening Putin / Russia is certainly awful. But Israel being forced into yet another situation of not being able to complete militarily necessary action to defeat its enemies is, I would argue, even worse. I think it is perfectly reasonable to predict that is likely to happen if Harris wins. Combine that with all of the add-on negatives about her (and the entire D agenda and party) and even if I think Trump is unfit for office, I certainly can't justify voting for Harris, either.
OK, so you may not know this if you don't follow the left-of-center press as much, but there is a certain amount of panic in Democratic circles that Kamala Harris may face a problem because she supports Israel too much. Basically, they're concerned that in a tight election they will lose the votes of the anti-American far left and especially the votes of Arab immigrants in Michigan. I think I mentioned in my coverage of the Democratic convention that pro-Palestinian protesters planned big demonstrations against Harris (that fizzled), and they also tried to disrupt her recent big speech on the Ellipse in DC.
See here: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/harris-faces-gaza-protest-during-ellipse-speech/3378807
So the pro-Palestinian left disagrees with you on the idea that Harris is likely to abandon Israel. And they're right. The Biden administration policy so far has been to express a lot of humanitarian concerns and try to negotiate a cease-fire deal in which all Israeli hostages would be released--which was never going to happen--but while still providing US weapons and support for Israel.
I'll probably cut and paste this reply into my article on Harris, but the upshot is that no, I am not worried that she will undermine Israel. That, plus the fact that Israel is way less dependent on US support than Ukraine is (because Israel is stronger relative to its enemies than Ukraine), so I consider Ukraine to be the far more urgent matter in the presidential election.
I agree that Ukraine is a far more urgent matter in the sense that Trump would be a disaster for Ukraine. But (and it is difficult to say this because I don't want to minimise what is at stake with Ukraine), I think Israel is more important to the US (and the entire West). Unless and until Biden (or potentially Kamala) can come out directly and with moral conviction state that the US stands with Israel to do whatever it takes to secure itself against its enemies, then even if Israel has done a brilliant job so far of ignoring Washington, the job cannot be completed. And that is a bigger worry for the US (and the West) than Ukraine.
The Islamic menace is simply greater than the menace of Putin in the biggest of pictures. I have no reason to believe that Harris would be strong enough to resist those within her own party (and the elite universities) and fully back Israel (and, indeed, even to have confidence that is what she actually would like to do - after all, "she's studied the maps" and advised against going into Rafah).
Clear, compelling and practical reasons for not voting for Trump.
Robert, another prescient early warning by you of what’s really at stake here for America and the world community. I just hope that voters, at least enough of them, outside of the party stooges, will see it the same way and make the right choice!
I guess that I'm not much of an activist. Those acquaintances of mine who support Trump are immune to any arguments against him. I still admire their good qualities and most of them are highly educated in the usual meaning of the word, but their mindless support of Trump is dismaying.
Thank you for this series. Given how manifestly obvious the case against Trump is, it seems to me that the really interesting question is: why is it this close? Is it all just because of information silos and confirmation bias, perhaps helped along at the margin by the aging of America? Are we just decadent? A Republic, but we can't keep it?