This is the position of every third-world leftie. Such as his wife Usha. And JD is not smart enough to clock on to how he’s being co-opted for the cause of the anti-American “Global South.”
The idea that whoever hates America is the bad guy is alien to these people. To the contrary, hating America is a badge of honor.
Whatever the reason, I’m pretty sure a vote for Trump is a vote for JV. And that there’s a significant chance Trump wouldn’t make it through another 4 year term (because of age and health.) But if you think despite that JV will be better than Harris on arming Ukraine, vote for Trump.
I’d say turn in your mail ballot already if you have one to counteract any deep state media propaganda of Harris winning, but I know you prefer to vote on Election Day and you think mail ballots are fraud.
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Yes, we’ve seen how much Trump respects his veeps and what huge influence they have on him. :-))
But yes, Vance will run in 4 years, probably with some Tulsi-like leftoid, and we’ll be locked in a competition between two US-hating leftie tickets.
Forty years of telling people that America is evil. Well, those who went to school since it all began can’t conceive of a different approach.
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I forgot about the possibility Vance doesn’t make it all the way through.
Peak America hating started in 1984? Whar a weird thing to link to Reagan. Didn’t he win in a blowout?
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Yes, he won and then granted mass amnesty that guaranteed that California would never vote R again. Reagan was a neoliberal. Which is still a liberal.
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Right now, we effectively have two woke Indian women running on both sides. This will never be not funny.
♥️ India. I’m just saying.
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Mail ballots ARE fraud, by definition.
In person, pen and paper, on one day only, with photo ID and electoral cards that prove that you are a registered voter on the electoral roll, and with vote counting to start as soon as the voting is over and to continue non-stop until all votes have been counted is THE only way to ensure that elections are free and fair and virtually fraud-proof.
Which is how it’s done in most civilised non-Anglophone countries anyway.
I have to admit that it is changing, mail in is increasing…and that is not good.
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“In person, pen and paper, on one day only, with photo ID”
I agree with most of that, though I do think early voting (like absentee voting) should be allowed for those who won’t be able to go to the polls on the day though I think individuals should have to specifically request it.
Anyone opposed to the need for photo ID wants to be able to rig the election (or simply thinks most people are blithering idiots in which case why do you want them to vote). I cannot think of a benign reason for being opposed to voter ID.
This is impossible to explain to people from other countries. They just look at you like you are delusional. “Are you sure? That can’t be.”
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(instead of, you know, helping those people get IDs)
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“five old poor people who don’t have ID”
The arguments (from dems) against voter ID all boiled down to (when you take the hamster-wheel rationalizations away)
-minorities are stupid and can’t manage such a feat
-minorities are natually criminally inclined and so you can’t ask them to interact with government agencies….
Really that was it and I haven’t seen a coherent argument against ID at all.
If they *really* thought that was the problem, they’d have teams going out door to door, finding all these holdouts, and helping them get sufficient ID to vote… and then following up by helping them request a mail ballot every year when elections roll around. They certainly have the organizing capacity for that.
The fact that that *isn’t* what they’re doing, gives the lie to their intent.
Here in FL, we have a voter ID requirement. It doesn’t require a photo ID. A debit or credit card with your name on it is enough, so your SNAP card would qualify. The idea that there are scads of people out there with no photo ID whatsoever (you can’t even get a job without it), who are also not receiving any public benefits… is frankly ridiculous.
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“Third world leftie” — this explains so much. This is an important demographic to classify and identify on the spectrum of political discourse, given its unique position as an almost separate sub/species masquerading among unsuspecting humans.
I always used to (despondently) marvel at the rabid hatred of lefties in India for anything nationalist and how tame and centrist US left comes across as compared to them. Even as a student, I could sense how Indian academia was (and is) infested with them, so overt and loud they remained in professing their beliefs both inside and outside the classrooms! Even today, incredibly they seem to find a way to be on the wrong side of history — for instance, unlike the US, in India the professors proudly post pictures of themselves on Facebook holding “I support Palestine” placards.
Exactly. It’s the same in Latin America. The entire post colonial theory crap was invented in India. The indigeneity movement was invented in Latin America. We are now seeing its manifestations in the ridiculous mass graves scandal in Canada.
I was going to write about it in more detail here on the blog but I keep forgetting. The gist is that many of the ideas we associate with the far left are imported into North America from the “developing nations.”
I’m not a specialist on Africa but it also sent quite a lot of its intellectual by-product our way.
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I feel compelled to add that India as a nation is far above “third world”— a phrase of insult and irrelevance invented by colonialists. Thanks to our nationalist PM at the helm of affairs, India the fifth largest economy in the world.
But these lefties are perennially third-world in their heads and slavers of their own ideology which skews everything they see (domestic or international). Based on several examples you quote, I wonder if this is a trend in all countries which were colonized in the (post medieval) modern era — one would think that after snatching their freedoms from the jaws of colonial powers and a long struggle against imperialism, nationalism should be a natural outcome. But it seems to be the reverse (is it Stockholm syndrome of sorts or some internalized racism which manifests as self-hatred..!?)
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I admit that after spending some time in the “developing” or “third” world… I am now very confused by that term.
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Historically, the 1st world was the capitalist west. The 2nd world was the Soviet bloc. And the 3rd world was everyone else.
The Soviets positioned themselves as supporting the 3rd world against 1st world oppression, a position Russia seeks to continue, although China would seem to be the dominant “southern” power these days.
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2024/10/28/can-the-global-south-save-humanity/
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