The Damned Debates

Pam Ho
Pam Ho
Nov 7 · 8 min read
Is that Hillary Clinton holding on to Elizabeth Warren? Yes. It is. Weird huh?

Here comes another Democratic debate where the same handful of topics will be brought up by the same corporate stooges with the same agenda to promote other corporate stooges on stage. And if the past debates have taught us anything, they have taught us that the corporate choices are Warren and Biden — with Mayor Pete as their great white hope — even though they know he has no chance because the black voters seem to have a problem with him. He has made it a thousand times worse with the recent fiasco of his campaign in South Carolina lying about endorsements:

We can tell that the corporate establishment also put a lot of hope into Corey Booker because of how much time he has been given in the debates even though he has failed to perform in the polls — so it is obvious the establishment money will support anyone but the obvious non-stooge candidates on stage Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, and Bernie Sanders. Even though Warren is a corporate stooge, a lot of people don’t believe that and have been convinced by her charade as a progressive — including many on Wall Street. Some people think the wealthy stating fear of Warren is a con, that they are faking fear to give support to Warren as a true progressive to assist in her con. I don’t think so. They are just like so many others, they buy her act. If you believe Warren is a progressive, ask yourself: Why is corporate media supporting her? Why are corporate stooge moderators giving her more time than anyone else in the debates? Why do they protect her in the debates? Remember this:

Then there are the new candidates “vulture capitalist” and ex-governor Deval Patrick, plus corporate titan and ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg. In 2019 putting forth people like Patrick and Bloomberg is obviously not about their chances of winning. So why are these Wall St. candidates in the race now?

Because of superdelegates.

Voters do not directly vote for candidates in the Democrat primary. Their votes get pledged to delegates who vote. There will be 3,836 pledged delegates in the primary and their votes are determined by the voters. Then there are the superdelegates who also get to vote. They are various party insiders who have the voting power of around 10,000 people each. This was designed for the explicit purpose of giving the DNC the ability to reject popular candidates whom they do not like. Superdelegates literally serve no other purpose but to give more control to the party.

When the DNC was sued after the last election for fraud by people claiming that the DNC did not allow a fair accounting of the will of the people. The DNC argued that as a private corporation they were not bound to the voters choice. And legally that is probably correct according to many — but the lawsuit was thrown out before that was solved because the petitioners didn’t have the standing to sue for fraud because they didn’t donate to the DNC, according to the judge. Donating to a candidate isn’t the same as donating to the party. The Democrat party is not a public organization, it is a private business which relies on the perception of fairness in running their elections to get voter participation. Which is why there was such fierce opposition among the corporate Democrats to getting rid of the superdelegates after millions of people rose up in anger after Bernie Sanders would win a state or district and then the superdelegates would use their lopsided power to take away the will of the people by voting for Hillary.

Their anger scared the DNC whose great fear is a true left-wing political party seducing large numbers of voters away from them. A 3rd party would be the end of the Democrats if it ever gains a lot of support. But they were certainly not going to get rid of their ability to outright discount the voters will — soooo they compromised and outlawed the use of superdelegates unless a second vote was necessary because of no one gaining the required over 50% of delegates in the first vote.

Now…many suspect the DNC is trying to cheat again by flooding the primary with lots of candidates so they can keep the first vote at the convention split, in order to force a second vote where the superdelegates can ignore the voters once again and choose a DNC approved corporate stooge candidate.

Which if they do, they might as well call it a day. Because after the last debacle with superdelegates, the chance of a 3rd party gaining a lot of disgruntled Democrats is guaranteed if there is a perception of cheating once again. But the Democratic party is not controlled by reason, it is controlled by greedy sociopaths who will do whatever they think it takes, to win.

DNC attitude towards left wing voters

People complain about the debates because they give so little time to speak that we end up with sound bites that serve to only give an idea of a candidates goal that the candidate can craft in a sound bite, which serves the interests of deceit over the interests of honesty.

It is much harder to deceive people in an in-depth discussion, but easy to do through sound bites in a debate format. So the debates are specially designed for deceit. They serve the corporate agenda of keeping everyone disinformed because the corporate candidates can promise or lie about what they plan on doing — without having the ability to get into the details to prove them wrong or as liars to any depth.

But the debates do indeed serve at least one good purpose, which is best epitomized with what happened to Kamala Harris when in debate 2 she was taken to the woodshed by Tulsi Gabbard.

Kamala’s poll numbers plummeted after that and never recovered. That was a shock to the Clinton wing of the Democrat establishment since they had put their people, money and resources to work for Kamala as heir apparent to Hillary. I imagine the plan was to run a Kamala/Hillary ticket if she had won. So maybe debates can be useful in that they can weed out weak or compromised candidates who are being foisted on an unsuspecting public by a major propaganda campaign, if a strong candidate is there to take them on.

What else can a debate accomplish? The last debate in October saw Pete Buttigieg go after Tulsi Gabbard ostensibly about Syria. His real purpose was to show himself as a trustworthy corporate stooge. Even though Tulsi is lower in the polls than Pete and the others, the media was treating Tulsi as the one to be feared onstage ever since she took Kamala Harris down for the count. Kamala came away humiliated and became a national object of mockery and derision. Pete obviously had a plan to stand up and be noticed as the other veteran on stage who could counterpunch with the best of them. And he did convince many people that he scored well on points. But to many others in what we can refer to as “the reality based community” it was little more than a laughable failure since his argument made no sense whatsoever. But it did accomplish what he set out to do, which was to show-off his willingness to be a reliable stooge of the corporate foreign policy consensus.

Is there anything else the debates are good for? They have served as a chilling reminder of the weaknesses of the front runner Joe Biden and of the Democrat establishment wing. After the Kamala Harris failure, the other major establishment figure in the debate has shown that he is clearly not ready for prime time. That the largest political party in the most powerful country in the history of the world could put forth a person with such an obvious shaky grasp on reality, says everything you need to know about the Democrat party. The fact that he is still leading in the polls tells us what we need to know about many Democrat voters. So the debates are in fact teaching us these very important lessons:

A) The establishment wing of the Democrat party has such poor leadership that they have put themselves into a position of being forced to support someone, again, who is clearly not up to the task at hand. Remember how Hillary was crushing Trump in the polling till the end?

B) The average Democrat voter is not well informed nor paying attention to the debates or the election. Because if they were, how could anyone support Joe Biden? Clearly his base is “people who do not pay attention but remember him as Obama’s sidekick.”

Joe Biden has a long track record as a very respectable and accomplished politician…if he was a Republican. But he is getting more support than anyone else in the polls because of the ignorance of so many among the Democratic base about what Joe Biden has done in the past. While the right-wing media sing songs daily about the looming communist menace of the “looney left,” the Democrats, in reality, have as their leading candidate someone who is more right-wing than many Republicans. He makes Hillary look like Che Guevera. Does the Democrat base know that? Of course not. They are obviously tuned out. This we know for certain because the debates show a frail old man with a frail grasp of reality — yet still he tops the charts. For that we can thank the corporate stooge media who are too cretinous to see the failure they are once again lining up like lemmings behind.

What else can the debates do besides bore us? They have unexpectedly given us a new hero to root for. While Bernie Sanders continues his years long battle against the corporate dragons who are desperate to take him down— one candidate has stood out in each debate and ended up the most searched for of them all every time — even though she has obviously been ignored by the corporate stooge moderators as much as they could without looking like they are told to keep her from speaking. And I will fight anyone who says they haven’t been told to do just that. Yet even with her limited time, it has been shown that even in such a limiting format as a stooge controlled corporate debate, Tulsi Gabbard has the ability to transcend those limitations and become, well…the belle of the ball. Which has infuriated the corporate stooge media to no end.

Taarna Tulsi…Tulsi Taarna

Every day we, the poor pitiable sane public, are put through an unending barrage of childishly insane behavior from the cretins who pass themselves off as “respectable journalists.” As laughable as their self-deluded conceit is, they do in fact command power over the masses of unwitting propaganda victims — otherwise known as the Democratic base. Which is why that even though only two Democrat candidates stand out as clearly working ONLY for the best interests of the people in general, their combined total of support is less than a quarter of the Democratic vote. Clearly the propagandist media is winning over most of the people. That is the power of owning the realm of mass media propaganda.

But propaganda is not the only power in this world. The next debate will show everyone where the true power truly resides.

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