"Biden/Cheney 2024" A Reading of a Thomas Friedman Masterpiece

Plus, a "Stoned Moment" with Mr. Biden

Matt Taibbi

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Katie Halper

Jan 25, 2022

In the latest push to move the (big D) Democratic Party to the center, neolib (or neocon? we’re not sure) Thomas Friedman has an idea so crazy, it just might work. Nominate a Joe Biden–Liz Cheney ticket in 2024.

And where did he get this spicy new idea? You guessed it: Israel!

So does it matter that the Democratic electorate is clearly further to the left than either of these candidates? Or that Cheney is the daughter of a man who hurt democracy far more than Trump ever could? Nope. Not to Friedman.

This is the best way to beat Trump, he argues. But is that his only motive? Is he also trying, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama before him, to use an excuse to move the party right? Listen and share your thoughts.

Plus, stoned moment or lying Biden? Joe talks how he marched and was arrested like all his favorite Black leaders. Hmmmm…

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6 Comments

Moe

Writes Moe’s Substack

Last night my wife and I watched Thomas Frank 2017 lecture at the Kansas City Public library. My wife is also a Chicago grad and loves America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYlE72OzZA

I am autistic but I am not crazy.

The USA, Russia and China are not our friends. The most successful countries on this planet are Canada and Finland and what they have in common is a need to get along with their power insane and raucous neighbour.

America does not work I doubt it can ever work but here in Quebec,Canada does work and works very well. Our most right wing and our most left wing provinces work well inside our 21st century constitution. There is no way that Texas, California, Oklahoma or New York could be granted the constitutional powers of Ontario, Quebec , Alberta and British Columbia that would see America survive.

America is about a constant struggle for power and the people always lose. The history Thomas Frank tells me is the same history I learned at school but the one thing Chicago teaches well is giving reasoned argument even if the premise belongs in another universe.

While Thomas Frank and my wife try to figure out how to fix America I must wonder about how to make America disappear without too much damage.