[Plantagenet]

Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist, as the founder of the John Birch Society had apparently believed......

Would you please try to post things that make sense?

I'm sure you have some interesting ideas....why not share your own interesting ideas with us instead of posting 70-year-old nonsense about Dwight Eisenhower?

Thank you.

Cheers!

[Newfie]

As if Hillary Clinton was the liberal Donald Trump. Dream on.

Actually I think she would have worse. I didn’t think so at the time of election but following all the FBI/DOJ dirty work on her behalf has brought me to that conclusion.

I still don’t like Trump, but that doesn’t make Hillary any more appealing.

[careinke]

Sorry to break it to you, but blockchain is a dead end technology. I say this from the perspective of a computer professional with 34 years in the industry. The computing resources needed to confirm blockchains are not compatible with sub-microsecond transaction rates.

In case nobody ever shared this with you, what digital currencies are really all about is paying for illegal substances and services with a secure online currency that is not easily traceable by the law enforcement agencies. This is being done in the furtherence of crime, and not in the name of freedom as the published literature would have you believe. No, they are not one and the same.

As for the accuracy of the information in a repository, the only thing that blockchain tech provides in this application is an assurance that the information downloaded is the same as what was originally created. IOW, that you got the actual original content.

There is no assurance that the original content is correct, complete, or appropriate. I am an amatuer historian with multiple published articles on the late 17th and early 18th century whaling industry. As such I had to learn the reason that a distinction is made between "history" (defined as information 100+ years old) and "current events" (defined as more recent events that still exist in the memories of those that experienced them). WW1 is history, WW2 is current events. History is recorded after a long and scholarly debate and the comparison of as many sources as possible. Even with these criteria, certain areas of the past are not settled - the best example I can think of being the US Civil War. Debate is lively and ongoing, and the history is still unsettled when it comes to those momentous events.

Excuse me, I thought we were discussing ways to track "corrections" made to documents on the internet. The only way I know to do that, without being counterfeited, is through blockchain technology.

Your other assertions also lack merit and are severely outdated. Afterall, Block chain was not even invented until 2008, so your 8086 technology is a little outdated.

BTW Cash is a much better option for using in criminal activities. It happens everyday, are you advocating the elimination of the dollar? Why would you use a currency like Bitcoin that can be easily tracked?

[KaiserJeep]

Cash is also easily tracked. The bills are serialized and any cash transaction within sight of an HD camera creates a tranaction record. Yes, transactions occur out of sight of cameras, and bills are easily tracked by serial number. Every deposit goes through a cash machine, every withdrawal creates a list of bills. Transactions can be inferred when serialized bills crop up in other people's hands.

[dissident]

The D. Party is full of scum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsU-oFyFUw

The D. Party should be renamed to "If you do not vote for us you are Putin's puppet" Party. One note Johnny abuse of power kleptocrats.

[Cog]

I'm really hope Warren gets the nomination but Kamala Harris works as well for pure entertainment value. Both will be beaten like a dog by Trump. The memes write themselves.

[dissident]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCfu4UJQiQ

Wow. Medieval diseases not seen in 3rd world countries are taking a foothold in LA. That is quite an achievement. Note the point about how new taxes have raised billions but the quality of life is getting worse and worse. So-called leftists are frauds. They use the promise of socialism (regardless if this promise is realizable or not) to con their way into power and then milk the masses including people who start and run their own businesses.

[Newfie]

“For all the plans, climate change does not seem to function in the Democratic Party the way that, say, abortion does within the Republican Party: There isn’t a well-organized contingent of voters waiting to glom onto a climate champion. There is a large, addressable set of voters who care about climate change—but they mostly seem to be activated Democrats, and as activated Democrats they care about a wide range of issues and as such retain a wide range of candidate loyalties. Thanks to years of careful organizing, the banner of climate action can unite the U.S. left’s many constituencies. But they come together as constituencies, and that means that even if they want climate action, it remains only one in a list of demands.

In other words, climate change may occupy a position in the party much like Elizabeth Warren does in the primary: Both are just about every Democrat’s second-best friend.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ts/596623/

[Newfie]

In other words - Humanity itself is at substantial risk - dead people have no human rights. - It’s refreshing and RARE to hear someone bluntly recognize that simple and obvious fact.

Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate

Having a habitable Earth is not a "single issue"; it is the single precondition for every other issue’s existence.

byNaomi KLEIN

Dear Members of the DNC:

Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place against a backdrop that is literally on fire. You are gathering one month after the hottest month ever recorded in human history. You are meeting on the same week that smoke from a record number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest turned day into night in the Brazilian megapolis of São Paulo. And you are meeting just days after Iceland’s prime minister led her country in its first funeral service for a major glacier lost to climate change.

This is the terrifying context in which you will vote on a series of resolutions to determine whether the presidential primaries will include a dedicated debate about the climate emergency. Not the already scheduled climate “forum” or climate “town hall,” which will surely be fascinating for those who seek them out — but a formal televised debate among the top candidates vying to lead your party and the country.

I am writing to add my voice to the hundreds of thousands of others who have called on you to use your power to turn that debate into a reality.

Many of you are already on board, including the chairs of several state parties, but you are up against some powerful opponents. Let’s take on their two main counterarguments in turn.

Full article at link below.



https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019 ... ate-debate

[Ibon]

Having a habitable Earth is not a "single issue"; it is the single precondition for every other issue’s existence.

This will increasingly be the case during this century. Related to the line Nature bats last. Also related to the point Heinberg made years ago that real fundamental revolutionary change will happen when the physical underpinnings that hold up a civilization become undermined.

Does the Democratic Party have the balls to be out in front of this issue any more than any other party?

Just like Trump didn't rise in a vacuum so this issue also will not rise in a vacuum. The collective has to be ready to hear it in order to be lead. That is the great hesitation on the part of the DNC to move this to a debate.

If the collective is ready then the issue resonates. IF they are not the issue will alienate.

I don't think we are hurting enough yet so I doubt we will see any real significant shift.
But climate change is definitely moving somewhere from the back burner of denial toward the front burner.... it is somewhere along that path.... How close? Just a little more hurt maybe and we will be there.

[Newfie]

I’m gonna make a prediction. Toning out on a limb here, y’all keep track of this and call me out if I’m wrong, which is usually the case. Here goes.

BIDEN will be the Democrat nominee. He will keep trudging along through the primaries, he will likely have a lead going into the convention but won’t win on the first ballot. On the second ballot nearly 100% of super delegates will vote for him making it clear he has a commanding lead. If he doesn’t make it on the second ballot it will be shortly thereafter.

[Revi]

I’m gonna make a prediction. Toning out on a limb here, y’all keep track of this and call me out if I’m wrong, which is usually the case. Here goes.

BIDEN will be the Democrat nominee. He will keep trudging along through the primaries, he will likely have a lead going into the convention but won’t win on the first ballot. On the second ballot nearly 100% of super delegates will vote for him making it clear he has a commanding lead. If he doesn’t make it on the second ballot it will be shortly thereafter.

I would like to say you're wrong, but I am not optimistic. That might give it to the Demagogue again.

[Plantagenet]

I don't think Biden will be the nominee. His lead in the polls just reflects name recognition. Most people don't follow politics closely, and Biden is probably the only name they know amongst the D candidates.

Just as Obama surged past Hillary in 2008 once people learned a bit more about him, I think some D will surge past Biden and get the 2020 D nomination. Right now its looking like Elizabeth Warren. She's rising in the polls and she's starting to attract crowds to her rallies.

My original prediction was that Kamala would be the D nominee---she's black and a woman and I thought that would be enough to win for her. But Tulsi Gabbard dissected Kamala in the last debate and she's faded in the polls.

Its looking now like its going to be Warren. She's a woman and a distant ancestor was a person of color, so the Ds will nominate her. Joe Biden doesn't have a chance---the age of the pale male in the D party has passed.


Momentum is starting to build for President Warren

[Newfie]

I’ve looked at both Betties and Bernie’s climate plans and they are both talking trillions of dollars in infrastructure investment. Better a do nothing than that.

But I wasn’t taking sides, it’s not about what who I would like to win, there are none acceptable to me. I’m talking about how I think the party will manage it.

[Newfie]

Monmouth University's polling unit, in a highly unusual statement, indicated Wednesday they do not have confidence in their jaw-dropping survey released earlier this week showing former Vice President Joe Biden plunging in the Democratic presidential primary.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/monmou ... an-outlier

[Plantagenet]

Monmouth University's polling unit, in a highly unusual statement, indicated Wednesday they do not have confidence in their jaw-dropping survey released earlier this week showing former Vice President Joe Biden plunging in the Democratic presidential primary.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/monmou ... an-outlier

Monmouth Univ. said their poll was an "outlier."

Thats just gibberish.

We won't know if the Monmouth poll is an "outlier" or if it is another data point showing a systematic decline in Biden's poll numbers until we get more polls in the coming weeks. Polling numbers aren't static---they are changing constantly. If you knew what the correct answer was then you could discard this poll as an outlier. But we don't know what the actual support is for Biden, and we don't know how Biden's support is changing on a week to week basis. Thats why we do multiple polls....to collect data on changes in polling numbers through time.


Cheers!

[Outcast_Searcher]

Monmouth University's polling unit, in a highly unusual statement, indicated Wednesday they do not have confidence in their jaw-dropping survey released earlier this week showing former Vice President Joe Biden plunging in the Democratic presidential primary.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/monmou ... an-outlier

Monmouth Univ. said their poll was an "outlier."

Thats just gibberish.

We won't know if the Monmouth poll is an "outlier" or if it is another data point showing a systematic decline in Biden's poll numbers until we get more polls in the coming weeks. Polling numbers aren't static---they are changing constantly. If you knew what the correct answer was then you could discard this poll as an outlier. But we don't know what the actual support is for Biden, and we don't know how Biden's support is changing on a week to week basis. Thats why we do multiple polls....to collect data on changes in polling numbers through time.

Cheers!

You're right that we won't know until we see more data. But you're WRONG to say "it's just jibberish" when THEY aren't confident in the poll until more data is available.

Outliers are outliers, no matter what part of the political spectrum the poll happens to be about. They're not saying it's wrong -- just that they don't know yet -- just like YOU are saying we don't know yet.

...

And note, I'll probably vote for Biden if he's a final candidate, given the alternatives. Not that I like him, but at least he's not HRC or Trump, so I'm NOT talking my book re hoping his numbers are declining.

[Plantagenet]

Outliers are outliers, no matter what part of the political spectrum the poll happens to be about. They're not saying it's wrong -- just that they don't know yet -- just like YOU are saying we don't know yet.

One of the worst things about US political polls is that they never include the statistical error on the poll numbers. Rather then saying Biden is at 27%, for example, they should honestly report that Biden is at 25 +/- 5% or whatever. That would clear up a lot of the confusion over what is an outlier and what isn't.

The statistical errors on US poll numbers are large. Biden might be at 35 +/- 5% in one poll and 27 +/- 4% in another, and perhaps the 27% number looks like an outlier....but when you include all the data and consider the errors on each poll those two polls it might mean Biden's really at ca. 31%.

Cheers!

[Cog]

From my Republican perspective, Trump can beat any of the more radical candidates rather easily, so I'd rather one of them is the nominee. Biden comes across as a more old style Dem that would have a good shot at beating Trump. Biden has lost a lot of his mental sharpness from earlier years, but I do believe he will muddle through and get the nomination.

[Tanada]

From my Republican perspective, Trump can beat any of the more radical candidates rather easily, so I'd rather one of them is the nominee. Biden comes across as a more old style Dem that would have a good shot at beating Trump. Biden has lost a lot of his mental sharpness from earlier years, but I do believe he will muddle through and get the nomination.

I think even the leadership of the D party understands that the more radical elements turn away many more "moderates" than they attract, and the M's are the key to winning any election.

President Trump's big policy of MAGA, even as a slogan, attracts moderates. Even more so all he has to do is ask the question Reagan asked in 1984, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago". The Obama economy stunk on ice for middle America and the only people who did very well under it were the coastal elites. Even Joe6P living along the coasts is better off today than he was four years ago, and that is what inflates President Trump's odds of reelection to such a great extent. The D party knows this and their fellow travelers in the MSM are constantly harping "recession is about to burst" because they know unless something sharply changes it doesn't much matter who their nominee is.

All that being said their best strategy is to select someone the M portion of the population finds tolerable as President, like "Uncle Joe" Biden. If they let one of the radicals have it then even a harsh recession might not be enough to let them win as the candidate will be too scary to attract the middle, and without the middle the D wing fails. On the gripping hand if they select Biden and he loses they are still likely to gain seats in state elections and the House of Representatives because those are local elections and a radical candidate can appeal to very local biases to win in a way that fails on the national level.