Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
McCain did choose Palin. He absolutely did. I don't have the time to do this post justice at the minute and I'll come back to it tomorrow. Bottom line about the debt though, it doesn't work like that either. I'll have to write a fuckine essay to explain it though.

Amazingly presidential candidates do actually choose their vice presidents and they choose them to give them the best possible chance of winning the election. No donors control who gets picked. They may well have opinions but in the end that's all they have. Why would they be bothered about who the second banana is? Presidents as a general rule don't die in office. If they do die then the new prez needs the big donors to get reelected too. It doesn't matter who the prez is so long as the system is set up to allow moneyed interests so much say in the legislative process.

Imagine if Biden had picked Warren who was on the very left of the field and then carked it. Imagine Warren, or somebody even leftier, said fuck it, I don't care about getting reelected I'm going to pass Medicare For All and give unions seats on the board of corporations and various other lefty stuff. That would be easy for the Senate to block by the corporations just buying off a few senators so Warren couldn't get to fifty or sixty votes. Like the healthcare corporations did with Obamacare so an actual decent healthcare plan couldn't be passed.

If a radical anti big business prez got elected and somehow got sixty votes for stuff the Supreme Court, which has half a dozen corporate lawyers on it now, would just block it. That's how it works.


Biden had poor numbers in New Hampshire and Iowa because they're states not representative of the Democratic base. Once the primaries moved to states where the electorate looked like the national electorate Biden started winning. Not because of big business or anything else. Biden won the primaries because he was genuinely popular with Democratic primary voters and they voted for him.


The government underwrites every loan Fannie and Freddie make but they also underwite the loans of their competitors. Kushner's loan was entirely above board. If it wasn't there would have been massive media coverage of the impropriety. Wherever you got those few lines from is just writing a hysterical clickbait article selling a bullshit narrative to Trump haters.


Corporations are not trying to saddle Americans with massive debt. That's not their aim at all. But you don't have to worry about the debt. Sovereign debt is not the same as personal or business debt. You'll never have to pay it back and neither will your kids. Government debt actually forms the bedrock of the financial system. It means the interest you pay on debt you do have during your lifetime will be much lower than if government debt didn't exist.

It may be in a year or so that we see politics change. Up until now the GOP could cut taxes and not cut the budget and get away with it. In future a GOP prez wanting to cut taxes might face having to wither cut military spending or Medicare/ Social Security to cut those taxes. Cuts to either would create massive problems for the reelection chances of the GOP prez. But if he doesn't make the tax cuts his donors would desert him.

I've missed out loads here but otherwise I'd be writing a book. The issues you've brought up you could write several books about.