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John Schmeeckle's avatar

My assessment, even though I could never vote for Trump, was that Biden was/is even worse.

I'll suggest that the rights and wrongs of the laptop are, practically speaking, less important than what the Establishment intends to do with all. They now clearly have the option to throw Biden under the bus and, if they want, bring Trump back for another term.

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Just Sayin''s avatar

In what fashion is he even worse? What isn't "out" already? I don't see that his conduct over the last 18 months, even his conduct as VP, warrants equivalence to His Royal Orangeness. Any potentially constructive policy positions tfg might have taken were totally overmatched by his personal revulsiveness and many of them were blatantly aimed at increasing the privilege of the already exalted economic elite. I'm waiting to hear about things Biden has done to deconstruct democracy, reverse socially successful institutions within our political history, widen the gap between the top 2% and the bottom 20% of our economic demographic. I just don't see it. And "the establishment"? Which Cabal are you referring to? The Dems political machine might be divided, ineffectual, rudderless even, but doesn't appear aimed at shielding the most privileged class in America from everyone else...I say that from a place of having enjoyed a great deal of fruits of the American Opportunity as a health care "elite" for 35 years, except for the fact that I witnessed a progressive disenfranchisement of almost every person I cared for at the hands of an ascendent corporate culture whose definition of "efficiency" was squeezing more juice out of an already overburdened system to the benefit of ever increasing layers of management, consultancy, risk management and other fleas on the back of the dog, with less service rather than more delivered to the consumer public per dollar spent. The American capitalist experiment, unconstrained...

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