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2020-08-24 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Frank G 2020-08-24 09:31|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Richard Spencer Backs Joe Biden, Says 'MAGA/Alt-Right Moment is Over'

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-24 10:01|| 2020-08-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The alt-right crowd was always just a bunch of aspiring grifters. The US is center-right and it doesn't have to move but one 1% further to the right to get Trump 4 more years. Then it's all about DJT avoiding the second term malaise / scandal syndrome and seeing if the left doubles down again on things that lost them the election.

If Trump wins, the GOP holds the senate and retakes the house, we probably won't see great strides, but more of the current program will be a rightward move.

If the situation allows Trump to get the US out of more military entanglements, restart the economy, get more judges in place and have a little juice left over to beat the left down every day, that's a yuuuuuge win.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-24 10:09|| 2020-08-24 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 If the GOP takes the house, it will be with the new breed of Republican. The one that supports Trump and his goals. We'll see if they allow the old establishment fucks to claim leadership or not.

If the old ways return, expect the GOP to get slaughtered again in 2022. If America is still around that is.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-08-24 11:05|| 2020-08-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe somebody called Mr. Spencer about his taxes... or made him an offer he couldn't refuse. You know, like Mike Flynn and his kids.

Posted by SteveS 2020-08-24 11:05|| 2020-08-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I got accused of being "alt-right" once. The poor guy was flabbergasted when I asked him what it was and had never heard of everything he talked about. I still am not really sure what "alt-right" is other than democrats in disguise.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-08-24 11:49|| 2020-08-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 an offer here couldn't refuse

Sprach ein Biden insider also,
"I'd sure hate to blackmail you, bro.
Such language... oh dear...
Course you could volunteer
And go leftward with Kampfgruppe Joe."

Posted by Squinty Cherert1278 2020-08-24 12:18|| 2020-08-24 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 If the GOP takes the house, it will be with the new breed of Republican. --DV
Redistricting after the 2020 Census tends to stir things up. The only term limits that seem to matter.

Posted by magpie 2020-08-24 13:27|| 2020-08-24 13:27|| Front Page Top

#8 and they are now well and truly stuck with him.

Eh, the Dems are past masters of changing the rules to suit whatever agenda they have at that precise moment.

If they need to get rid of Joe, they'll do it blinklessly.

Who will call them on it outside of the Schicters of the world, whose remit doesn't extend beyond the conservative echo chamber?

As for Richard "Tiki Torch" Spencer, his philosophy of life can be neatly summed up in the call:

"Look at mmeee!!!"

Posted by charger 2020-08-24 13:37|| 2020-08-24 13:37|| Front Page Top

#9 The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Spencer as "a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old."

The Best of Both Worlds.

Posted by Bobby 2020-08-24 14:47|| 2020-08-24 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 /\Referring to #1 - Richard Spencer.

Posted by Bobby 2020-08-24 14:48|| 2020-08-24 14:48|| Front Page Top

#11 #5 As far as I can make out, fascist, alt-right, white nationalist, white supremacist, and Hitler are all just left-wing terms for a "a person I disagree with".

Posted by Matt 2020-08-24 15:27|| 2020-08-24 15:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Who's in the wings when the old coot kicks before the ballots are counted?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-24 15:53|| 2020-08-24 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Alt-Right: folks on the populist right willing to fight back. After decades of mealy mouthed Repubs braying about standards of decency while at the same time delivering nothing of legislative value while our Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly were stolen, there were those on the right who decided to fight back and bang some skulls. Spencer was never Alt-Right. He was first and foremost a National Socialist. It took very little for him to go Socialist...he in fact already was.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-08-24 16:00|| 2020-08-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Who's in the wings when the old coot kicks before the ballots are counted?

Prediction: Biden falls and breaks a hip. Comma-La becomes the candidate with Governor Dearest Whitmer as veep.

Posted by SteveS 2020-08-24 16:20|| 2020-08-24 16:20|| Front Page Top

#15 >Biden: 'Light is more powerful than dark'

Was he speaking from Democrat Newsom's California during the rolling black outs???

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-08-24 19:03|| 2020-08-24 19:03|| Front Page Top

#16 #15 >Biden: 'Light is more powerful than dark'

soundz rayciss.. plus power is like a social construct thing

Posted by Junter Ulineper6461 2020-08-24 22:40|| 2020-08-24 22:40|| Front Page Top

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