Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 09:30:58 AM

Honestly, my take home from the Clinton — Trump election was that Americans were not yet ready for a female president despite all their mouthed speeches about democracy. They loved Hilary Clinton but couldn't close her up to win the presidency. They had to choose controversial Trump instead.

That is the worst type of liberal identity politics, here weaponized ad hominem to deny the existence of the many of millions of Americans who loved Trump—who found him inspiring! (I thought that they overestimated him. They certainly existed, and some of them called me nasty names.)

Liberals always do this. They don’t want to believe that anybody out there actually disagrees with their goodthinkful opinions. I get liberals trying to rationalize me away quite frequently.

Anyway, I will have you know, there were American right-wingers who voted for Hillary in 2008. They voted for her in the Democrats’ primaries. Indeed, as I recall, there were whole websites devoted to urging American right-wingers to vote for Hillary in the primaries. When she didn’t win the (D) nomination, they turned around and voted for Sarah Palin in the general election—they wanted so much to vote for a woman! They were very disappointed and aggrieved that the country just was not yet ready to elect a woman.

(Nobody gave a hoot about McCain, except for those who are more loyal to the GOP than to anything else. McCain was just another corrupt party political jobber. Like it or not, Palin was wildly popular.)

And in 2016, they inadvertently elected President Ivanka. So there. Stick that in your feminist pipe and smoke it.

Quote from: Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886), #238.

To be mistaken in the fundamental problem of “man and woman,” to deny here the profoundest antagonism and the necessity for an eternally hostile tension, to dream here perhaps of equal rights, equal training, equal claims and obligations: that is a TYPICAL sign of shallow-mindedness...

Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 09:30:58 AM

Even if Clinton had contested again against Trump in 2020, Americans still wouldn't have voted her in.

Because she’s a woman, or because she is another corrupt, uninspiring political jobber?

—By the way, how did you fail to notice that the incoming fraudulently selected Vice President is a woman, whom many people expect will probably replace the frail and demented President due to natural causes? Oh, apropos this thread’s topic:

Quote from: nullius on January 10, 2021, 08:58:01 AM

—Or is that merely a fast-track for President Harris?

Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 09:30:58 AM

On invoking the 25th Amendment, I like how succinctly the Vice President of the US put it. I saw that letter online I thought I should share it. It's spot on:

Indeed, it is—except that it could have been more strongly worded, e.g., “This is an attempted coup under the rubric of Soviet-style pathologization of dissent, based on armchair diagnoses that amount to, ‘I don’t like him; therefore, he is deranged and mentally incapacitated.’”