[AGL] Propaganda floating

[Frances Morey]

Good one, Charlie. Seven tortuous months to go.
Best,
Frances

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:01 AM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Charlie Loving
>
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