Joe Biden defeats Trump to win US election

[TysonRoux]

Trump abandoned by Republicans -- during two major votes​

Trump abandoned by Republicans -- during two major votes: report

With less than one month remaining in Trump's time in the White House, his grip on the Republican Party is loosening.After Congress passed a bill with $600 direct stimulus relief, Trump demanded that it be raised to $2,000. After waiting for days, he eventually signed the original bill he had...

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After Congress passed a bill with $600 direct stimulus relief, Trump demanded that it be raised to $2,000. After waiting for days, he eventually signed the original bill he ad criticized. When Republicans in Congress had the opportunity to vote to raise the relief to $2,000, only 44 Republicans supported it while 130 GOP members of Congress rejected Trump's position.

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House votes to override Trump's veto of defense bill

The House of Representatives on Monday voted to override President Donald Trump's veto of the sweeping defense bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, delivering a bipartisan rebuke to the President.

www.cnn.com

 

[cerebus]

TIL Ingsoc is fascism.

Yes Ingsoc is fascism

Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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In the "forbidden" book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the enemy of the state Emmanuel Goldstein describes the ideology of the Party as an anti-socialism that rejects the political principles of the Socialist movement. The ubiquitous Big Brother personifies the Inner Party, by way of oversized posters and telescreens that continually watch the citizens of Oceania, whilst Ingsoc demands the submission (mental, moral, physical) of the people, that power for the sake of power is the purpose of Ingsoc, O’Brien explains to Winston Smith:

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

 

[CaptainOblivious]

Yes Ingsoc is fascism

Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In the "forbidden" book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, the enemy of the state Emmanuel Goldstein describes the ideology of the Party as an anti-socialism that rejects the political principles of the Socialist movement. The ubiquitous Big Brother personifies the Inner Party, by way of oversized posters and telescreens that continually watch the citizens of Oceania, whilst Ingsoc demands the submission (mental, moral, physical) of the people, that power for the sake of power is the purpose of Ingsoc, O’Brien explains to Winston Smith:

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

TIL the USSR was a fascist state.

 

[CaptainOblivious]

Inb4 I get told that Animal Farm was a metaphor for Germany, not Russia.

 

[ForceFate]

Inb4 I get told that Animal Farm was a metaphor for Germany, not Russia.

Wasn't it a metaphor for totalitarianism, which Nazi Germany and USSR were? Just curious.

 

[CaptainOblivious]

Wasn't it a metaphor for totalitarianism, which Nazi Germany and USSR were? Just curious.

Animal Farm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.[3][4] Orwell, a democratic socialist,[5] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.[6][a] The Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"),[7] and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".[8]

Napolean = Stalin, Snowball = Trotsky.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Animal Farm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Napolean = Stalin, Snowball = Trotsky.

Brutal state driven by cult of personality. That's the direction where the Trumpskiyites were heading.

 

[surface]

Yes because to the Dems wanting universal health care and free College in America is far left in other developed countries it's policy.

AOC is not a socialist.

That's why the world richest country won't even provide stimulus checks because that's socialism.

AOC, Greta, Ilhan omar, Rashida are generally trigger words for some. It has nothing to do with any understanding of socialist, communist, commie - that is just a word salad thrown at random and apparently supposed to demean someone.

 

[surface]

For the US. Chris "I work in news/media" the Brit should know the difference.

Well, I have triple PhD in diverse fields like medicine, engineering and in history as well. So, I am not too shabby either. Also, I post in NCA section, doesn't that make me part of elite journalism?

 

[scudsucker]

Well, I have triple PhD in diverse fields like medicine, engineering and in history as well. So, I am not too shabby either. Also, I post in NCA section, doesn't that make me part of elite journalism?

But how is your data science skillset?

 

[greg0205]

Hey Siri, can you show me a visual representation of the 134 House members who voted 'nay' to giving Americans $2000,00 during a pandemic?

 

[The Trutherizer]

Despicable POS Trumptards.

Marco Rubio facing furious backlash after calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and an elitist​

Marco Rubio facing furious backlash after calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and an elitist

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is potentially facing a campaign against Ivanka Trump in 2022 and appears to be desperately trying to appeal to the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump. In his latest move, Rubio went after National Institute of Health virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci. Rubio is...

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is potentially facing a campaign against Ivanka Trump in 2022 and appears to be desperately trying to appeal to the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump. In his latest move, Rubio went after National Institute of Health virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Rube-io

 

[tetrasect]

 

[buka001]

Hey Siri, can you show me a visual representation of the 134 House members who voted 'nay' to giving Americans $2000,00 during a pandemic?

I would love to see a correlation of those red states to those who need the $2000 the most and to those areas where the virus is at its worst.

 

[greg0205]

I would love to see a correlation of those red states to those who need the $2000 the most and to those areas where the virus is at its worst.

COVID-19 United States Cases by County - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Johns Hopkins U.S. County Level COVID-19 Tracking Map

coronavirus.jhu.edu

 

[The Trutherizer]

Oh so heavenly the devout christian Orange Fuhrer.

Trump Fakes His Christianity During Insensitive Christmas Tape, Melania Forced To Join Him​

One word: vacuous

I really can't wait for these two stooges to be booted out of the Whitehouse. I hope Trump resists. Oh my goodness do I hope Trump resists... Oh... Wow, but I really, really hope that Trump resists. Biden could walk up to him, point his finger and say: "Donald - You're fired" [cue security]
I propose they should keep a radar gun trained on Melania though - The speeds she will reach during the exit will likely push the boundaries of science.

 

[greg0205]

How do you even respond to someone this disconnected from objective reality?

These folks are broken. They're beyond intervention by family and friends... Around 20% of Americans literally need professional deprogramming.

 

[AlmightyBender]

I would love to see a correlation of those red states to those who need the $2000 the most and to those areas where the virus is at its worst.

You already know the answer to that question...

 

[surface]

You already know the answer to that question...

flat earthers?

 

[TysonRoux]

Trump pressuring Pence to steal the election -- but legal experts say that can't work​

Trump pressuring Pence to steal the election -- but legal experts say that can't work

President Donald Trump has sent strong signals that he expects Vice President Mike Pence to hand him re-election when Congress meets Jan. 6 to count Electoral College votes.The vice president will preside over that joint session, and Trump and some of his Republican congressional allies are...

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President Donald Trump has sent strong signals that he expects Vice President Mike Pence to hand him re-election when Congress meets Jan. 6 to count Electoral College votes.

"His powers are ministerial, and that circumscribed role makes general sense: The whole point of an election is to let the people decide who will rule them. If an incumbent could simply maneuver to keep himself in office — after all, a maneuver to protect Mr. Trump also protects Mr. Pence — the most foundational precept of our government would be gravely undermined. In America, 'we the people,' not 'we, the vice president,' control our destiny."