[AGL] Propaganda floating

[Charles Loving]

Abrams would be the kiss of death. The Barney folks want someone they can
trust to break the bank. Right now the choice box  is  pretty empty.
Maybe Biden/Palin has a nice ring to it.

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:44 AM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It seems hard to believe that the Dems will nominate Biden but it also
> seems as though they will have to. As for Biden's promise to pick a woman
> as vp candidate, if he goes through with that promise, I suspect his people
> will nix Stacey Abrams who is the cat's meow to the politically correct
> folks (why?) but will turn off untold thousands from voting Democrat at the
> thought of this obese, chip on her shoulder black woman becoming president
> sooner or later.
>
> On 5/2/2020 10:16 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
>
> I knew this. It is horrifying to think that even Trump could be a
> better choice since he has a two sided brain. On the Left side there is
> nothing right and on the Right side there is nothing left.
> Welcome to 1984, thirty six years late.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:43 AM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges,
>>
>> "What does it mean to vote for Joe Biden? He has this kind of goofy
>> persona which some people find charming. What is Biden's record? What is a
>> person voting for if they back Biden on Election Day 2020?
>>
>> "The humiliation of courageous women like Anita Hill who confronted her
>> abuser. You vote for the architects of endless war. You vote for the
>> apartheid state in Israel. Biden supports those things. With Biden you are
>> voting for wholesale surveillance by the government, including the
>> abolition of due process and habeas corpus. You vote for austerity
>> programs. You vote for the destruction of welfare. That was Biden. You vote
>> for cuts to Social Security, which he has repeatedly called for cutting,
>> along with Medicaid. You vote for NAFTA, you vote for "free trade" deals.
>> If you vote for Biden, you are voting for a real decline in wages and the
>> loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs.
>>
>> "With Biden you are also voting for the assault on public education and
>> the transfer of federal funds to Christian "charter schools." With Biden
>> you are voting for more than a doubling of the prison population. With
>> Biden you are voting for the militarized police and against the Green New
>> Deal.
>>
>> "You are also voting to limit a woman's right to abortion and
>> reproductive rights. You are voting for a segregated public school system.
>> With Biden you are voting for punitive levels of student debt and the
>> inability of people to free themselves of that debt through bankruptcy. A
>> vote for Biden is a vote for deregulating banking and finance. Biden also
>> supports for-profit insurance and pharmaceutical corporations.
>>
>> "A vote for Biden is also a vote against the possibility of universal
>> health care. You vote for Biden and you are supporting huge, wasteful and
>> bloated defense budgets. Biden also supports unlimited oligarchic and
>> corporate money to buy the elections.
>>
>> "That's what you're voting for."
>>
>> Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central
>> America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He has
>> reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian
>> Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,[5] where
>> he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
>> In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that
>> received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's
>> coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International
>> Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.[6] He has taught at
>> Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and
>> Princeton University, where he is a visiting lecturer in African American
>> studies.
>>
>
>

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Charlie Loving
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