Amateur Hour, Part Two
jim h sends us a link to American Thinker, where Don Boys continues on his theme of Amateur Hour in the Democrat party hopefuls for the Presidency race in 2020. Here he gives insight into the backgrounds and qualifications of the Clown Car Crew.
Mr. Boys:
Running the most powerful nation in the world is not for amateurs, agitators, or airheads, but the Democrat Primary race has a good assortment of all three. It is serious business being a U.S. President, yet the current roster of Democrats running for that office is shockingly substandard.
Thanks Jim. Funny, isn’t it. that two old white hetro men are leading the pack, and one hasn’t even declared yet.
The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest first broadcast on NBC in 1976. Amateurs competed in a talent contest judged by three second-rate celebrities. A judge could decide an act was so bad it should be terminated did so by striking a large gong on the wall. Winners received a prize of $516.32 later increased to $716.32.
The show was pretty bad, but not as bad as the Democrat primary campaign, a gathering of the incompetent, the irresponsible, and the immoral. The Federal Election Commission reports that sixteen candidates have filed as Democrat Presidential Primary candidates.
Following are the long, long, long shots for the Democrat primary. Recently, I wrote about those with better chances of winning.
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigeig is an open homosexual (with a “husband”), a high IQ, a gift of gab, and an adequate personality. Of course, that has nothing to do with his political knowhow and ability, but he has been mayor of South Bend for almost six years. And South Bend is a city of 100,000 people and has fewer potholes than ever before! Pete ridiculed Vice President Mike Pence as a “cheerleader for the porn star presidency” on CNN’s town hall. Pete likes to think of himself as another Barack Obama, but he is the wrong race.
Pete is willing to consider lowering the voting age to 16, believes climate change is a national threat, supports gun control, a single-payer health system, DACA, transgenderism, and waves the LGBTQ flag at every opportunity.
Andrew Yang is an “entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America.” Now you know. His most outrageous issue is universal basic income ($1,000 per month to everyone age 18 and above) followed by Medicare For All. Andrew is very generous with your money. Oh, and he is against circumcision, a major campaign issue and major concern of Americans. Andrew likes to always be on the cutting edge.
Julián Castro, former mayor of San Antonio, is concerned with “affordable college, care for seniors, universal health care, and welcoming immigrants.” He is a big supporter of abortion, LGBTQ rights, tearing down the border wall, and is willing to consider reparations.
Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper said, “I’m running for president because we need dreamers in Washington.” No, we have enough dreamers in Washington. Those “dreamers” are dreaming if they think Americans would be so uninformed and so unconcerned as to put a sincere but unimpressive man in the White House. John is for civil unions and removing the death penalty at the federal level. He admitted that he took his mom to see a porn movie and they stayed to the very end.
John has as much chance as the proverbial snowball, but then, there was Obama, who had no résumé, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, and no understanding of how the economy works. So, maybe John has a right to dream; however, it must be remembered that Obama’s dream turned into a nightmare for Americans.
Washington governor Jay Inslee is hardly known outside of Olympia. He pledges to make climate change the main issue in the campaign. Of course, the climate is always changing. Jay favors legalized marijuana, abortion, “gay” rights, gun control, and “the best paid family leave and one of the best minimum wages” in the country.
Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota has two things in her favor: she is female and from the Midwest. However, her main claim to fame is being a mean boss, according to former employees. But then, there is no constitutional requirement that the president be “nice.” Amy has espoused rejoining the Paris climate deal, expanding Medicare to 55, a path to citizenship for most illegal aliens but would not abolish ICE, supports LGBTQ rights and abortion, and would stay in Syria. Generous with tax money, she promises a one trillion-dollar infrastructure program.
Wayne Messam is mayor of Miramar (Florida’s 13th largest city), and hopes to get the nod from primary voters. He was a wide receiver for the Florida State University’s 1993 national championship team, but bigtime politics is no playing matter. Being black will help Messam in the hood, but the hood is not big enough to put him over the finish line. He favors universal health care, student loan forgiveness, and gun control. Wayne is fortunate that he can keep his day job as he runs for the Big Job.
Tulsi Gabbard is a member of Congress from Hawaii and made her announcement as a presidential candidate on the Van Jones Show. For the record, Van Jones is a Communist. Gabbard has a blemished past (according to progressives) for criticism of LGBTQ people but she has “evolved” on “gay” rights and will consider lowering the voting age to 16. Her website states that she is for a higher federal minimum wage, gun control, same sex “marriage,” abortion, and is a Hindu.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from New York is anti-Israel, a leader in the anti-Trump “Resistance” movement, for single payer health care, for gun control, and pro “gay” rights. She is an open borders devotee, would provide Social Security for illegal immigrants, pack the Supreme Court, and abolish ICE. Gillibrand has as much chance of winning as the proverbial snowball.
Texan Marianne Williamson is a “spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, entrepreneur, and activist,” whatever that means. She is a spiritual advisor to Oprah having been a guest on her television show many times. Marianne is the proverbial blank slate.
John Delaney is a former Maryland congressman who describes Trump as “unfit for the office of the presidency” and “a stain on our nation.” See last sentence above.
Mike Gravel is a former senator from Alaska and at age 88 he is running but not too swiftly. He believes the 9/11 attack was an inside job. He is a liberal, standing for abortion and would abolish the death penalty. See the last sentence above.
All Democrat candidates are progressives who take far left positions but they all agree: perversion is not perversion. They are careful to keep a rainbow flag of the LGBTQ crowd nearby to wave at the opportune time.
They will spend billions of dollars, speak millions of words, and spin every issue as they seek leadership by running to the left to win the Democrat primary in 2020.
It is my advice that they run for the hills.
Read the article here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/amateur_night_the_democratic_primary_campaign.html
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I expect Lars to show up any second now, to advocate for any of the blank slates listed here. And,to tell us that we’re all racists/homophobes/misogynists and really yucky people.
The debates are gonna be epic.
Wasn’t it Gillibrand (or was it a different Dem candidate) That got the coveted David Duke endorsement? Funny how who that dochebag endorsed in 2016 was oh so important to Democrats and now they are silent on it.
I don’t know about that but I do know she used to be a huge supporter of rapists and women abusers. Then again, she later “evolved” (I just love that word) when it became uncouth for the leftists and white smoke billowed out of her chimney to signify her purity.
Not to mention a Clinton protege.
I remember how the Dems treated James Webb, the only one I had a bit of respect for in the last election.
Its like these fuckers are literally FORCING people to vote Republican because they are so fucking wacked out.
Forcing people to vote for the R’s? I dunno, Dog. Every once in a while an online article shows up about some of the D’s far left proposals and how rotten the R’s are and there are plenty of people in the comments who are in agreement. I’d say the D’s are actually pushing the left-leaning 50% of the population to move further left, not turning them off.
They just buy the votes. Even though most people don’t agree with many of their policies, they want the free shit.
Thanks for an update on the lineup. It’s nice to have a heads up on the competition. We all need to be very aware of what they are really like, even if it just skims the surface of their real intent.
My question is as always: in regard to their grand schemes, where do they expect the cash to support all this to come from?
that requires a skill set in critical thinking. there’s no plan for that other than “XXXXX needs to pay their fair share.” before , XXXXX meant “the rich” or “the top/wealthiest 1%” etc., but now apparently it even involves farmers. according to the boy wonder anyway.
Gonna need a program to keep up with all of these. I seem to notice a recurring theme here, and to paraphrase an old Jethro Tull tune…”eyeing tax payers money with bad intents.”
Still scratching my watch and winding my butt on why the majority of the people of this country should kow tow to a relatively small percentage of the population. The more we know of the enemy, the better we can defend ourselves against them.
What’s interesting to me is that winning in 2020 for the Democrats could be a gimme if they pick the correct candidate (I’m going to not name who I think that is at the moment). I have a sense however that the Democrats in 2020, as they did in 2016, will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory thanks to their pandering to the social justice crowd. Trump has made a series of blunders that an opposing candidate could drive home every day, instead the never-weres and has-beens on the Democratic side are all trying to out “Sanders” Bernie Sanders…they are all suddenly pretending to be progressives when they were all supporting the corporatist status quo hag last time around in 2016. The only thing it appears the Democrats hate more than Trump is the fact that an Independent is energizing the younger Democrats in a way no other Democrat is capable of at the moment. And the Democrats hate Bernie Sanders, well at least the super delegate Democrats hate Sanders. It’s why they cheated him last time around. He’s far more of a threat than anyone realizes in my opinion, and if he were to win the nomination he could easily be the guy who takes down Trump in 2020. Laugh and point if you like, but people under 40 don’t fear the word socialism like people over 40 do. Largely because the people under 40 tend to confuse socialism with social programs. That’s because corporatists label anything that isn’t unrestricted profit driven free market “socialism” to scare people away from taking back their nation from the current corporate oligarchy that has replaced the Republic most people think they live in today. When people point to the Scandinavian countries they don’t understand they are looking at free market economies with high taxation to support social programs. That’s not socialism in any form. Karl Marx pointed out that socialism is the first step towards communism and involves the government nationalizing the means of production on the way to taking over the means of production. That’s not… Read more »
This^^^^Right here.
Don’t forget economies of scale. The sheer size of the US economy makes implementing social programs like those Scandinavian countries much more difficult. To put it in perspective, here is a list of the top 10 economies by GDP in the world:
https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/the-largest-economies-in-the-world
And here is a handy chart comparing US state’s GDP compared to entire countries:
http://www.aei.org/publication/putting-americas-enormous-19-4t-economy-into-perspective-by-comparing-us-state-gdps-to-entire-countries/
Notice how many countries on that first list are also found on the second?
TLDR: Individual US STATES have larger economies than most sovereign countries in the world.
Indeed this is accurate, my point is that simply thinking a foreign country can be used as a model for the US is not considering the reality that, like or not, the United States is not like any other nation in either it’s founding or it’s continued existence. Comparisons to largely one societal group type societies are not apples to apples.
Local media coverage of Washington Governor Jay “Climate Change!” Inslee on a CNN Town Hall:
“Running exclusively on saving the environment, you’d think Inslee would be prepared for a question about recycling. He wasn’t. And it was embarrassing.
An audience member asked Inslee about foreign countries refusing to recycle our waste, which means what you think you’re recycling doesn’t actually end up getting recycled. The question was simple: How can we fix our broken recycling system?
“I thought I had the answers to every question and I don’t have (an) answer to that,” Inslee stupidly admitted. “But next time we meet, I’m going to have a better approach. I know that I have a team of people who are looking for options on this.”
So every single candidate is letting 4.5% of the US population have the loudest choice in possible policy decisions? I do not dislike gay people at all, but they are an EXTREME minority with a well organized lobby. They scream the loudest. No one ever waives the POW-MIA flag that I know of. Oh well.
Voice, not choice.
And Eric “Let’s nuke American gun owners” Swallwell has declared he is running to.
Wait a second!
Where the fuck is Vermin Supreme in all of this? Why isn’t he included?