Biden: From No Campaign to Faux Campaign

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Seemingly an accurate analysis.  Comments?

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Biden: From No Campaign to Faux Campaign

by J.T. Young - September 12, 2020

 

Biden has gone from no campaigning to faux campaigning.  Over the last two weeks, America has gotten a good look at the Biden campaign's strategy and tactics for the race's homestretch.  They intend to focus primarily on race, while minimizing direct exposure and maximizing their indirect exposure through advertising.  [...]

 

Continues here:   https://spectator.org/biden-campaign-2020/  

 

[Dashinka 24,629]

Can you move that up a bit?

 

The simple fact is that the public relies on the press to do the vetting of the candidates, but what we have is one candidate that has been under constant attack by the activist journalists, and another that is a completely unknown quantity.  Sure people will say that Old Joe has a long public history, but that is just a history and tells us nothing about the person today.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

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The Biden-Sanders Manifesto

Voters should examine how far left the former vice president has moved since winning the primaries. 

When unemployment and poverty rates hit record lows in late 2019, while retirement accounts and average household incomes surged to record highs, Joe Biden understood that general-election voters would never go for Bernie Sanders’s tax-and-spend socialism or Elizabeth Warren’s command-and-control version. Mr. Biden also bet, taking longer odds, that the Democratic establishment and ultimately the Democratic primary voter, desperately wanting to retake power, would reject his primary rivals as well. So Mr. Biden offered a nicer version of the status quo. “Nobody has to be punished,” he told donors in June 2019. “No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.” 

Despite Mr. Biden’s shaky start, he surged in South Carolina once Democrats faced the reality that the alternative was Mr. Sanders, a self-identified socialist who was on record saying positive things about Venezuela, Cuba and the Soviet Union. The establishment swung behind Mr. Biden and the primaries were over. 

Yet after he won the nomination as the only “moderate” in the race, the new world of the coronavirus shutdown revealed a new candidate who wants “not just to rebuild the economy, but to transform it,” as Mr. Biden said in a May address. In rapid succession he adopted the Sanders platform, the cornerstone of the Warren candidacy, and the most radical racial agenda in recent U.S. history. 

Mr. Biden’s dramatic political transformation has exposed what many have always suspected: Moderate Democrats aren’t socialists unless they think they can adopt socialist policies and survive politically. 

The Biden-Sanders “Unity” manifesto envisions the socialism of an all-encompassing welfare state,with virtually every need a right, and every right guaranteed by taxpayer funding. Housing becomes a right, and “no one should have to pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing.” Public colleges will be “tuition-free” for “roughly 80 percent of the American people.” 

Student loans are expunged, payments are capped and eventually forgiven. School lunches, along with breakfast and supper, will be universally free. 

On health care, ]Mr. Biden bought Mr. Sanders’s “Medicare for All” scheme—though on an installment plan. First health care becomes a right where “no one pays more than 8.5 percent of their income.” Mr. Biden’s planned public option is heavily subsidized, with no deductibles and low copayments. Like current Medicare, this “Medicare option” would further inflate the cost of private plans by making them pay more to compensate for government’s underpayment to hospitals and doctors. The inevitable result would be that the Medicare option would quickly “compete” private plans out of business. Commercial banking would be similarly threatened by new publicly backed post-office banks along with the Federal Reserve, which Mr. Biden wants to grant permanent authority to lend to businesses. 

A President Biden would implement a version of the Sanders Green New Deal, only in 15 years instead of 10. Mr. Biden’s plan uses mandates and subsidies to dictate what kind of energy is produced, remaking the world’s most efficient energy industry in the image of Solyndra. 

 

Sorry for the pay wall.  Someone sent it to me, so I was able to read more from them than the WSJ allowed me to read.

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Voice of Reason said:

 

Sorry for the pay wall.  Someone sent it to me, so I was able to read more from them than the WSJ allowed me to read.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-sanders-manifesto-11596131322

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

11 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-sanders-manifesto-11596131322

Thanks, I guess I forgot to hit paste.

[Dashinka 24,629]

1 hour ago, Voice of Reason said:

Thanks, I guess I forgot to hit paste.

An NB moment?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

54 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

An NB moment?

More frequent these events are becoming.  I'm starting to feel guilty for laughing at him 5 years ago.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Back to Lyin' Biden from years ago...

 

 

[Dashinka 24,629]

4 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Back to Lyin' Biden from years ago...

 

 

The interesting thing is that no one really cares where he was ranked in his class, or how many degrees he may have earned, but the fact that he lied about both should matter.  Sounds like Brian Williams/Hillary Clinton syndrome.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

14 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

More frequent these events are becoming.  I'm starting to feel guilty for laughing at him 5 years ago.

Reported 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Reported 

No need.  I'll just go slink into the gulag on my own.

[laylalex 7,293]

I'm attending a virtual Harris fundraiser today where the guest is Hillary! I'll take notes for everyone about how they're actually scheming to put Hillary in the White House.  

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Say hello to the Chinese government for us!

[laylalex 7,293]

2 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Say hello to the Chinese government for us!

I'll be donating in your name. ❤️  

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

4 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

No need.  I'll just go slink into the gulag on my own.

Well Otis, you do know the way