Trump could never be accused of bromide politics: That was his feature most desirable.
Trump certainly had the Chinese jumping to his tune.

It’s unimaginable “Biden the Pathetic” , stumping up to take Trumps place on the world stage. This will be a sad four years to come for the West.

Dan

That Biden is not Trump is probably the man's only qualification. So obsessed were the Trump-haters, they chose a complete klutz and the oldest presidential candidate ever.

Well, the yanks have to lie on the bed they made, and we Australians have to get back to scrutinising our own politicians, particularly our Prime Minister and his Australian-decisions-will-be-made-in-Australia 'assurance' - which could turn out to be mere rhetoric.

The most interesting thing about the US election has been the fact that the loudest and most 'concerned' posters here have been the ones who are always telling anyone who will listen that we should be moving away from the US.

Bit premature to write off Biden before he even starts.

I don't think he would need to do much to prove better than Trump

IMO, a pretty ordinary piece

Too true Chris Lewis

Binoy is floundering.

Knocking down straw men of his creation.

Unable to handle the new.

Aiding the Trumpists since he's dropped his ideological compass.

Its sad.

It does appear that Biden did not win at the ballot box, but at a late night printing press orgy.

I agree, a Joe Biden presidency definitely promises to be a return, and not a progression.
Biden's voting history clearly demonstrates his corporatist and war-mongering leanings. He will remain every bit as much in thrall to the wealthy elite as was Trump ... the ruling oligarchs donated $1.51 billion to the Biden campaign and $1.57 billion to the Trump campaign ... they knew they had their man, whichever way the result fell.
There will be no universal healthcare under Biden, no Green New Deal, no rapprochement with Russia or China and no hope for America's homeless and working poor. The DNC made sure the progressive candidates who might have delivered on the real change America needs were kept right out of the running.
Biden does at least sound presidential, but will the reality match the hype of his rhetoric? And for how long will he sustain the energy and pace he's managed to project in the last few weeks?
I'm with Binoy on this ... I hold out little hope for real change.

Dear Hasbeen,

You keep that dream alive mate.

Yup, but only if the Senate is an obstructionist republican senate! Which could change with the outcome of a couple of run-off elections for Senate seats and the vice President having and tie-break vote! Which would be good enough for the next two years!

If a republican controled Senate acts to stymie the President's clear mandate? They will pay at the next Senate/Congressional elections!

And that is not the only price they could pay, with the power of a Presidential veto/executive orders in play?

Gridlock should also apply to their salaries and (frozen) bank accounts etc? And for twice as long as the attempted gridlock!

As long as they are quarantined from the consequences of their decisions, this sort of economic blackmail will prevail and persist! And not their role!
Alan B.

Trump is trumped.......
There is a god.........

Hasbeen. If you or anyone has any verifiable evidence of vote-rigging etc. then there is are legal remedies immediately available! Put up or shut up!

Trump has made several unfounded allegations that simply don't stack up.

And dare one suggest, he is trying to delay the inevitable, due to his own enormous debt burden (billions?) and outstanding unpaid tax liability.

His fair-weather friends are deserting at a rate of knots. And none of his financiers are going to throw good money after bad and go down with him?

In my view, his behaviour and links to alleged Putin/Russian meddling, witness/evidence blocking? Should not allow, I believe, a Presidential pardon to be considered. It's beyond the pale!

If it were you or I? We'd surely do time!
Alan B.

Al Gore paraded as "President-elect" for A MONTH before the Supreme Court punctured his unlawful delusions of entitlement.

The author is obviously under the misunderstanding that the Constitution says the press gets to decide who is president, and that massive electoral fraud is irrelevant.

In these circumstances, for Biden or the author to pretend that they are about "democracy" is appalling dishonesty. YOU DON'T AGREE WITH DEMOCRACY, remember? You stand for THE OPPOSITE, remember? That's why they're committing and you're supporting, covering for and ignoring the biggest most flagrant electoral FRAUD on an unprecedented scale.

In any event, the word 'democracy' does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence, nor the Constitution. This is because the Constitution does not, and was not intended to, set up a demoracy.

The Constiuttion sets up a federation of states in a constitutional republic. The USA is not an elective dictatorship voting as one electorate; this fact disposes of the left's entire stupid argument.

The Constitution authorises the state legislatures to appoint electors equal in number to the congress-critters of that state, and it is THEIR votes, not the votes of the people, who determine who is president. There is no requirement for the electors to condition their votes by reference to the votes of people.

http://constitutionallawreporter.com/article-02-section-01/

This is one of the famous checks and balances - to stop mobs of brainwashed indoctrinated hateful demented totalitarian barking mad lunatics from burning cities to the ground while not knowing whether they are Arthur or Martha - and on that basis aspiring to totalitarian power over the productive class! Sound familiar?

According to the Democrats of course, the Constitution is invalid, because it's racist, sexist, transphobic, patriarchal, insensitive to murderous fanatical jihadis, contemplates national borderes, is attainted with whiteness, and all the rest of their usual gobshite. However that means that, by their own premises, the Democratic party itself is invalid, but as usual, these lunatic control-freaks don't care about their endless self-contradictions.

Hang in there Hassy

At least there are quality Trumpists like you around

with a heart and a brain

unlike the inferior ones...

Inferior Trumpists I mean.

Boo hoo, my man got beaten.
David

Fear not Trumpists.

We the citizens of Biden's Brave New World [1]. We are hereby called Bidets [2]. Are now divided into five castes. Study the Cast List well [3].

You Trumpist rightwingers who can read, are Deltas.

You Trumpist rightwingers who can only repeat American slogans, are Epsilons, the lowest caste.

You can only ascend to the three Upper Castes of Bidets, by renouncing your misguided, rightwing, Trumpist, lives.

NOTES

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet

[3] http://bnw07.weebly.com/our-caste-system.html

Yours Majestically

Pete
(Alpha++ and Lord High Bidet)

"Then came Biden, wishing to look more alive than not by running to the podium. Had he received a jab or two, a handy stimulant? Certainly, the commander-in-chief to be would have to dispel notions of lethargy and sleepiness. In animated, forced fashion, he claimed that a "clear victory" had been achieved. He spoke of an "outpouring" of joy across the globe."

How have we managed to create an entire world that runs on pure bullshite?

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Dear Binoy,

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From my perspective, Donald Trump’s presidency has not been entirely negative. He put the boot into the anthill and stirred-up some sleeping giants, not just in the US but, perhaps even more importantly, among all the major nations and international institutions. I see that as positive.

He has no equal as a brash, streetwise, wheeler-dealer and populist demagogue. That explains his constant popularity and outstanding results economically and politically during the first three years of his presidency.

But his ruthless, authoritarian method of governance, coupled with his obvious personality disorders of severe narcissism and pathological cheating and lying, render him inapt to properly assume the role of president of the world’s most powerful democratic nation. His autocratic style of governance even prompted a number of commentators to express serious concern for the sustainability of American democracy if he were re-elected.

His refusal to acknowledge defeat following the election of Joe Biden, and his brutal “termination” of Mark Esper as Secretary of Defence for having refused to deploy military forces against the civil population for protesting against the police assassination of George Floyd (“I can’t breathe”) does nothing to allay these fears.

It is not surprising that some observers see American democracy poised on a slippery slope dangerously tilted towards autocracy and tyranny.

You conclude : “What this election victory for Biden promises is a eunuch presidency, one weak and emasculated before it begins”. I think it would be more appropriate to quote the old Spanish proverb : “rectificar es de sabios” [“to rectify is for the wise”].

It could be that “sleepy old Joe” may well be just the right man in the right place at the right time. The “old sage” may have just what is needed to “rectify” the hate and division fuelled by the cynic and impetuous Donald Trump.

Time will tell, and it will probably be not too long before we find out, but, if “sleepy old Joe” succeeds in doing that, we can all breathe freely again.

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Well said Banjo.

ateday you wrote:

Trump is trumped.......
There is a god.........

I think not.

1) POTUS may win the vote in PA when the matter goes to SCOTUS, after all, PA broke its own laws in accepting mail-in votes after 3 Nov if they were postmarked before 3 Nov when its own law requires mail-in votes to be RECEIVED by 3 Nov.

2) Up until late 2019 HRC kept telling the handful who'd listen, via the lamestream media that Biden should not concede the 2016 result under ANY circumstances. That is nearly 4 years after DJT won, the ratbags are still crying foul. And now they seek to inhibit DJT's right to go to court?

3) Even if DJT loses in court, the GOP will keep the Senate and won seats in the House. Hardly a repudiation of Trumpism;

4) If DJT loses in court, he will present himself as a candidate to run for 2024 and there is nobody in the GOP who has his appeal to a wide array of voters;

5) Of course if the establishment within the GOP push for their candidate (in the mould of a "traditional" conservative) and succeed in that push, DJT could easily scuttle a GOP win by running as an Independent.

So, no ateday, Trumpism is here to stay and the Don is not out the door, he's just out for a round of golf. He'll be back.

Hey Banjo Patterson and plantagenet

"It could be that 'sleepy old Joe' may well be just the right man in the right place at the right time. The 'old sage' may have just what is needed to 'rectify' the hate and division fuelled by the cynic and impetuous Donald Trump."

I don't necessarily see things the same way.
When you say 'rectify the hate and division' - that's not how I see it.

The Democractic Party themselves sow the hate and division by deliberately standing on the identity politics platform of Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality.

They deliberately play up these divisions for the power they can take for themselves, and really they are the party of the elites, big business and the bankers, not necessarily the the minorities they claim to represent.

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Dear Armchair Critic,

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I wrote : « It could be that “sleepy old Joe” may well be just the right man in the right place at the right time. The “old sage” may have just what is needed to “rectify” the hate and division fuelled by the cynic and impetuous Donald Trump. »

And you replied : « The Democratic Party themselves sow the hate and division by deliberately standing on the identity politics platform of Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality. »
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You could be right, Armchair Critic. By that token, if you are looking for scapegoats, there are plenty around to choose from. Why not the Republican Party as well for example ? They seem to have the ear of the President. Then there’s the Ku Klux Klan, the White Supremacists, the Black Lives Matter, the Evangelicals, the Extreme Right, the Extreme Left and a whole lot of others, including the Proud Boys and the mysterious QAnon movement …

Many of these organisations and movements look to Donald Trump as their political guru and supreme leader and, apparently, he does nothing to disown or discourage them in any way. He even seems to inspire some of them and play into their hands – so long as they are heading in the direction he wants them to, of course (“Stand back and stand by” Trump said when asked to condemn white supremacy during the debate with “sleepy old Joe” : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Z9Kqhrh5c – go to 1:04:00).

Personally, I think it is criminal for these pullulating subcultures to take advantage of the narcissistic megalomaniac disorder of the President to authenticate and promote their pernicious, obscurantist ideas :

http://www.inquisitr.com/498628/being-a-narcissistic-megalomaniac-with-sociopathic-tendencies-may-mean-you-have-an-advantage-in-business-according-to-psychologist-oliver-james

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