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Cornel West

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by tampajack1, Jun 5, 2023.

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  1. Jun 5, 2023 #1
    tampajack1

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    Cornel West has announced that he is running for president as a 3rd-party candidate. It seems to me that he is likely to take millions of votes away from Biden and none from the Republican candidate. So, the odds are that we will end up with Trump or DeSantis as president along with a Republican controlled Senate. Hopefully, the Democrats can retake the House, but it doesn’t look good for our country.
     
  2. Jun 5, 2023 #2
    Sohogator

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    Millions? LOL. This feels like a concern troll.
     
  3. Jun 5, 2023 #3
    mrhansduck

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    Would be interesting to run the math on the percent of votes for third party would have been needed in 2020 to make the difference in swing states.
     
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  4. Jun 5, 2023 #4
    gator_lawyer

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    Odds are he drops out before anybody votes.
     
  5. Jun 5, 2023 #5
    ajoseph

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    Who is he?
     
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    Another narcissistic (brilliant) nut. Age changes folks according to my mirror
     
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    tampajack1

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    Thanks for the moronic post. This guy will get a ton of votes if he is serious about the race, which I am sure he is. You might want to do your homework before you shoot your mouth off.
     
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    tampajack1

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    Sohogator

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    I’m exceptionally informed, I know who he is he’s not getting millions of votes. If you want to worry about someone worry about RFK Jr.
     
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  10. Jun 5, 2023 #10
    VAg8r1

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    Scary. Cornel West could end up as an African American version of Jill Stein or Ralph Nader although I think that Trump and DeSantis as well are so scary to the left that even voters on the far left of the political spectrum who do not particularly like Biden will hold their noses and end up voting for Old Joe rather than risking the election of either of the two most racist candidates nominated by a major political party in over a century.
     
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    l_boy

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    OklahomaGator

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    You mean RFK Jr? And I agree with you. And I fixed it for you.
     
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    slocala

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    Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. Maggots have to win all three. Is West helping sweep all three?
     
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    wgbgator

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    Nader 2004 vibes.
     
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    OklahomaGator

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    Third party candidates can siphon enough votes off to change the winners in selective states. Ross Perot and Ralph Nader are two recent cases.
     
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    I don't think he's brilliant or anything close to brilliant. Karl Friston is "brilliant." Noam Chomsky "brilliant." What work has Cornell West produced other than his personality that anyone takes seriously?
     
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    mrhansduck

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    That was my first thought as well, but I forgot he endorsed Jill Stein.
     
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    wgbgator

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    He's an academic like Chomsky, a guy who also writes books for a general audience. Race Matters is a classic, I think. I think he's an interesting synthesis of black radicalism and Christianity. I think Chomsky, Zinn are on the same level as him. That being said, he's guilty of some questionable judgement in hitching his name to the People's Party, which is not a serious operation (and involves some other professional-left grifters like Jimmy Dore), IMO.
     
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  19. Jun 6, 2023 #19
    jjgator55

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    Not a serious candidate who probably not appear on many ballots.
     
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    Safe bet he won't peel away any votes from maga world.
     
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