I’m not sure any of the democratic candidates really would want the job after the effects of the pandemic. The DNC can select anyone it likes, right? Maybe Elizabeth Warren will end up the surprise pick.
Politics and in-fighting. Which I guess is just politics. Or infighting
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I do wonder what would happen if Joe were to withdraw.
I really do worry they’re handing Trump a win with Joe Biden. Not just because of his mental fitness, but more importantly because of Tara Reade and the many other stories of inappropriateness slowly coming to the light. There will be more of this, I have no doubt.
Trump can weather this kind of thing because his voters don’t give a shit. If it was proven that he’d raped multiple women Weinstein style, it still wouldn’t hurt him politically. But his people will use this with Biden to have the left tear itself apart. Again. It’s going to be terrible.
I hope he picks Warren as VP. Then she can just take over when he falls apart and withdraws.
(Is that what Could happen, theoretically, I wonder?)
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That’d be the perfect suicide ticket. I can almost see them doing it.
But if that happened, I am pretty sure the skies would open up and Obama would descend riding a winged horse, sword in hand, to save us all*.
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*This vision is dedicated to 2010 Jim O’Hara.
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Riding a drone, surely?
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The thing is, the Democrats don’t mind if they lose the election. They get more money from donators, the vested interests they support are supported by the Republicans anyway, and they can make a whole load of talk about hashtag resist to further radicalise their supporters, and material conditions will continue to erode for marginalised people.
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I’m sorry to come across as unnecessarily harsh here but we are just going to have to agree to disagree.
I respect you and the strength in which you hold your political opinion but I think it’s fundamentally misinformed and conveniently vague.
Probably the less I say here the better and in the spirit if maintaining an upbeat mood to the board, let’s just shake hands and walk away.
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Name one thing the Democrats have done to fix the systemic problems in the US then, Tim.
Civil Rights
Health Care Reform
To clarify, I meant recently, but Civil Rights is a good example of how they’ll do the right thing, but only when there’s overwhelming support, and then only reluctantly. It took massive grassroots activism, and the threat of violence on the streets for King to be taken seriously.
And if by healthcare reform, the ACA is a joke. Better than what came before it, but in the way that having your arms broken is better than having your arms and legs broken.
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And if by healthcare reform, the ACA is a joke. Better than what came before it, but in the way that having your arms broken is better than having your arms and legs broken.
What did you expect to happen with that? A perfect system right out of the gate? That’s naïve at best. It was always going to be a victim of compromise with the Republicans and special interests involved in order to get it passed. It was always meant to be a first step. And the Republicans were always going to work to gut it. Millions got insurance that would never have had it.
I expected it to be an utter shitshow because I have no faith in the American political parties to actually do anything for the American people.
There was no need for compromise, the Democrats held both Congress and the Senate at the time. But even leaving that aside getting more Americans health insurance doesn’t fix anything because the reliance on health insurance is the problem in the first place. They’re still gonna get hit with massive bills that lead to bankruptcy, they’re still having to depend on crowdfunding to pay for life-saving procedures. And this is all because no matter which party was in power, they were gonna make sure profits were impacted as little as possible.
Honestly, you all should be rioting in the streets over this.
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Love to have my health tied to how profitable I can be for CEOs
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There was no need for compromise, the Democrats held both Congress and the Senate at the time. But even leaving that aside getting more Americans health insurance doesn’t fix anything because the reliance on health insurance is the problem in the first place. They’re still gonna get hit with massive bills that lead to bankruptcy, they’re still having to depend on crowdfunding to pay for life-saving procedures. And this is all because no matter which party was in power, they were gonna make sure profits were impacted as little as possible.
Yeah, I know a few doctors who often express concern at the number of people who have no medical expertise but who they have to go through to treat their patients. Even calling it “insurance” is incorrect since most health care policies that people use are actually contracts to manage payments rather than provide any payment for health care. Most health insurance companies actually have no monetary risk involved when providing “coverage.”
If we had to go through our car insurance to fix a flat or home insurance to change a light switch or fix the HVAC the way we go through health plans for any medical procedure – even a physical, it would cost twice as much and take twice as long to get anything done.
Again, though, health insurance is not really insurance for the vast majority of work that’s done in the United States. Usually, your work is paying the money for your medical care (or the government if you’re a senior) and the insurance company is really just processing the payment and claiming they can get better deals. However, in nations where insurance and health plans are not normal and the hospitals process the payments themselves, the care is just as good and costs a tenth as much. Even in nations where there is no national medical plan.
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That’s the other thing – US health insurance seems to be designed to obfuscate and deny support as often as possible, and to justify the exorbitant price of medication and procedures in hospital (like hundreds of dollars for an over-the-counter asprin).
By comparison I have private insurance via work, it covers Laura and I to a decent amount for an extra €30 or so per month, which I don’t get taxed on. We don’t use it very often, but Laura needed foot surgery a few years ago. It would have been a couple of grand uninsured or waiting months for a slot with public healthcare as it wasn’t urgent care. With insurance we wound up paying €100 or so for anaesthetic, and €200 up front, which we were able to claim back €100 of just by submitting the receipt to the insurance company. Similarly I had to pay €300 to see a specialist last year, got €200 back from insurance just by submitting the receipt. No questions asked, no fighting back.
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Yes the cost differential is astonishing. The system in Malaysia is they have General Hospital which is heavily subsidised (and I mean heavily, often treatments are like USD2-5, so almost free) but most middle class types will have an insurance policy from work and use private hospitals.
9 years ago Aris and I both had sons born a day or so apart. His cost for the birth was 11 times higher than mine and his wife was on a general ward while we splashed out for a private room that came with free candlelit dinner! (the food was awful but still).
It’s an argument of mine that often fell on deaf ears here when people like to argue between the NHS and private healthcare, I was making a comparison between private and private and while yes the cost of living is cheaper here it is nowhere near 11 times cheaper and yet that’s the cost with a better service.
The US system hoovers up incredible sums of money with no real justification so it’s no surprise the people that are beneficiaries of that have no interest in it changing.
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So, we’re at the point where view new post seems to break, gonna close this thread, and maybe see if I can move the last page or so’s worth of posts to a new one.
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I don’t know if Miqque has heard this but FEMA confiscated(?) 6000 ventilators the Governor of Colorado, a Democrat, purchased with state funds. The next day, a Republican Senator, who is running for Governor, has a press conference where he donates 6000 ventilators to Colorado hospitals. My brother told me this story yesterday while we wishing each other Happy Easter. Yesterday morning, the Governor got on TV to tell everyone what had happened.
IMO, Dirty Politics has broken our government.
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Something for Trump to be proud of though. March 2020 was the first March for 18 years there wasn’t a school shooting in the USA.
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To tie back in to what I was saying about the Democrats being fine with losing an election, this is the UK and Labour, but it’s the same principle.
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<p style=”box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px; font-family: ‘Independent Serif’, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222;”>The unreleased report, which The Independent has seen in full, was drawn up in the last days of Mr Corbyn’s leadership and concerns the conduct of certain officials, including some who were investigating cases of antisemitism in the party. Labour has confirmed the document is a genuine draft, though it is not clear who it was commissioned or written by.</p><p style=”box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px; font-family: ‘Independent Serif’, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #222222;”>The 860-page document claims that “an abnormal intensity of factional opposition to the party leader” had “inhibited the proper functioning of the Labour Party bureaucracy” and contributed to “a litany of mistakes” in dealing with antisemitism, which it admits was a serious problem in the party.</p>
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Something for Trump to be proud of though. March 2020 was the first March for 18 years there wasn’t a school shooting in the USA.
Guns don’t cause school shootings, schools cause school shootings.
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Yes, but they’re OK with that.
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Yeah don’t vote for the Democrats t. Boo democrats they don’t want to win. They just want to make money somehow from not-winning. Only Sanders could have saved us! Grass Roots are two words that mean things apparently!
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Yeah don’t vote for the Democrats t. Boo democrats they don’t want to win. They just want to make money somehow from not-winning. Only Sanders could have saved us! Grass Roots are two words that mean things apparently!
The Democrats have to offer something other than “we’re not Trump” to win. It wasn’t enough 4 years ago and it won’t be enough in November. It’s always easier to get someone to vote for something rather than against it.
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Setting aside the occasional disbelief I find myself in in this thread. Has anyone given some thought to what positions might be offered to some of the former democratic candidates in the White House?
Perhaps their might be some relief found for a subset of voters if Elizabeth Warren was made Secretary of the Treasury, Bernie Sanders was made SecHUD, or SecHAHS, or Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of Labour… there would be a new person put in charge of the EPA of course. It’s entirely possible the narrative could be to present an entire cabinet pick moving into November which could galvanise the voters, particularly because everyone has know endorsed Biden. Of course, I don’t expect the Sanders subset to be happy with him in just a lowly old Cabinet Secretary position, but he could do significant good in virtually any role and more so than already as senator.
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The Democrats have to offer something other than “we’re not Trump” to win. It wasn’t enough 4 years ago and it won’t be enough in November. It’s always easier to get someone to vote for something rather than against it.
I did argue the same logic when it was still an open race. But it’s not anymore. It’s Biden or Trump now.
So the American voters better get their shit together because Trump can cause a lot more damage in four years, and Biden is at the least going to be a competent fucking president.
Sanders knows that, which is why he has endorsed Biden. If voting against Trump really isn’t enough for the average American voter, well, they are going to suffer for it.
That said, I hope Biden is smart enough to pick Warren as VP. That’d make a hell of a difference, I think. But it’s probably going to be Klobuchar.
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The Democrats have to offer something other than “we’re not Trump” to win. It wasn’t enough 4 years ago and it won’t be enough in November. It’s always easier to get someone to vote for something rather than against it.
I did argue the same logic when it was still an open race. But it’s not anymore. It’s Biden or Trump now.
So the American voters better get their shit together because Trump can cause a lot more damage in four years, and Biden is at the least going to be a competent fucking president.
Sanders knows that, which is why he has endorsed Biden. If voting against Trump really isn’t enough for the average American voter, well, they are going to suffer for it.
That said, I hope Biden is smart enough to pick Warren as VP. That’d make a hell of a difference, I think. But it’s probably going to be Klobuchar.
If I was an American, I’d probably be voting for Biden from a principal of harm reduction, but really that’s all it is. I mean, sure the Republicans might make an attempt to overturn Roe Vs Wade in the next 4 years – but Abortion is practically illegal everywhere that would outright ban it already, and the Democrats sure aren’t trying to fix that, so what’s the material difference? If Trump successfully guts the USPS in the next couple of months, is Biden gonna bring it back?
A significant number of Americans don’t see the point of voting – more than in most countries when you look at percentage turnout. It’s a mix of indifference and alienation. You have to get them excited. Telling them to cop on won’t work. Biden’s plan is apparently to appeal to Never Trump Republicans, on the principal that these people will vote for a competent “centrist” president (never mind that Trump has massive approval numbers with Republicans and every outspoken Never Trump type in the Republican party got in line as soon as he was the nominee), and the left will too just to get rid of Trump. But to a huge chunk of the actual American left, Biden is just Trump, but slightly less destructive.
He’s got credible sexual assault allegations, just like Trump – and a load of Biden supporters who were all-in on MeToo and went heavily after Brett Kavanaugh for his sexual assault allegations are quietly scrubbing their social media or just downplaying Tara Reede with the exact same rhetoric Republicans used against Christine Blasey Ford, safe in the knowledge that they won’t get called on it by their fellows. So why should anyone who feels passionate about domestic violence reform and aiding sexual assault victims vote for Biden, or even trust the Democrats ever again?
He’s said that even if a Medicare for all bill was to pass Congress and the Senate, he’d veto it. So why should anyone passionate about healthcare reform vote for him?
He may not have been as excessively anti-immigrant as Trump, but the one Obama program Trump hasn’t gone to town on is his expansion of ICE. In fact, Trump is still lagging behind Obama in total deportations somehow. And those camps on the Mexican border that various human rights organisations have literally called concentration camps? Obama opened most of those, and ICE put kids in cages under his watch too. Under Trump, ICE has become a heavily militarised force that goes into migrant communities at will, rounds people up and imprisons them. Biden’s not going to put that genie back in the bottle, so why should people passionate about migrant’s rights vote for him? Hell, when asked that exact question by a migrant’s rights activist in a town hall meeting, Biden told him to vote for someone else.
Voting in the US is hard as hell for a lot of people, it’s common in districts with a lot of poor, young, migrant or minority inhabitants frequently having lines that take hours, with a strong possibility that you’ll discover you’ve been stricken off the registrar, were never registered in the first place, or otherwise be denied your right to vote. If all you’re being offered is “Biden isn’t as bad as Trump”, why would you put yourself through that? Because he’s not going to work to fix it.
4 years ago, a higher percentage of Sanders supporters voted for Clinton than Clinton supporters did for Obama in 2008, and the reward they got for it was the blame for Trump’s election, they were told they split the party, that they need to compromise and build a coalition. But there’s been no compromise from the centrist/neoliberal side of the party as well. They act entitled to the votes of progressives and leftists because who else are they going to vote for? And the answer is nobody. Or maybe the Green party in an attempt to get them to 5% of the national vote.
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One of my refrains for a while is that we overestimate the single personality in these things. I think Bernie and the Bros have scored significant gains even if he won’t be President. The elected Democrat officials have moved to his side, I don’t believe they will allow or give the votes to Biden to be the man who once voted of being the most right wing Democrat in office.
Similarly in the UK there’s much teeth gnashing that the ‘Trotskyist’ Corbyn has been replaced by ‘Blairite’ Starmer. There’s not a massive amount of substance to that, a fair degree is about the way they present themselves. Corbyn’s policies were never that radical, they were pretty common sense social democracy and Starmer’s, from what we’ve seen so far, aren’t so far much removed. (And Starmer actually has the working class background).
Admittedly that’s not as Stark a difference as Bernie to Biden but a key element is that the direction of play is rarely down to a person and rarely down to an election, it’s a narrative that gets driven over time. It’s why Corbyn’s taxation policies were actually economically to the right of those in place under Margaret Thatcher. Sanders to Eisenhower the same.
We should be careful that cult of personality (and that counts equally on both sides even if the media like to only frame it for the left) doesn’t take precedence over a direction of travel.
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And you continue to fail to provide key pieces of information that refute any facts to begin with, preferring to dismiss or ignore examples and then claim I am not factual.
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This is basically what you just accused me of, because it’s Biden offering bullshit to cover his opinion. M4A as currently proposed has been shown to be cheaper than the current US government spend on healthcare. Further reforms to the ACA is standard politician equivocating. You can claim that yes, he said more than he would veto M4A and be literally correct, but the message is clear.
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Well first of all, if you’re getting offended on behalf of a politcal party, maybe you need to recheck your priorities. Second of all, we’ve literally just seen an expose of factions inside a nominally left-wing party actively sabotaging attempts to get their candidate elected, and while that wasn’t the Democrats the idea that the same thing couldn’t possibly have happened is naive at best. Thirdly, I didn’t say it was a “profit related reason or something”, I said that one aspect of why the Democrats don’t mind losing elections is because they do get more donations when they’re out of power.
I like and respect you, Lorcan, but I will still scrutinise your posts if this is the way you think
If this is the attitude and level of condescension you use in the future you’ll find I rapidly stop caring what you think.
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Is the left/right split as hugely influenced by age demographic as in the UK? I know it is to a degree but it massively stark in the UK.
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Is the left/right split as hugely influenced by age demographic as in the UK? I know it is to a degree but it massively stark in the UK.
It’s incredibly stark, even within the Democratic Primaries younger people voted overwhelmingly for Sanders.
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It’ll be interesting how that plays out then if they insist on postal votes being suspect and no real prospect of the 70+ category being encouraged to go out until a vaccine exists.
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That said, I hope Biden is smart enough to pick Warren as VP. That’d make a hell of a difference, I think. But it’s probably going to be Klobuchar.
Warren would be a HUGE mistake. It boils down to her being too old. Biden is already too old. It’s really bad optics to have two old people running for the “progressive” party. I’m not sure about Klobuchar but Biden definitely needs someone a lot younger than him he n the ticket.
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Obama’s endorsement video though rather emphasises what I wrote earlier today. He said he wouldn’t have run the same campaign today as he did in 2008. We know he wanted single payer healthcare because he said so initially, he felt (rightly or wrongly) it wouldn’t pass so went for national Romneycare instead.
We suspect strongly (but don’t know) he never gave a toss about opposing gay marriage but felt he couldn’t get elected at the time backing it. Which in may ways is cowardice but it happened anyway regardless of what was said.
So this is why I don’t ever think these things are about battles, but the war. Bernie lost the battle, so far seems to be winning the war of his ideas, which is actually more important.
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Just from logistics and likely restrictions in place in November, assuming the election isn’t postponed entirely, I can’t believe that voter turnout will be very high. I have to think that will hurt democrats more than republicans, but Trump’s victory had an unusually high voter turnout in the swing states so maybe it won’t be such a big deal.
the election can’t be posted. It’s literally written into the constitution when it must be held. It was held during three major wars and was deemed unconstitutional when Lincoln tried to postpone it during the civil war. Trump can’t continue his presidency past 1/20/21 if he isn’t re-elected.
He’s also said he was considering a Republican, so you know if he’s not stupid enough to pick Hilary Clinton he will be stupid enough to pick Sarah Palin.
That was him just trying to seem to be a peacemaker and really exemplifies how little some people know about the rules of American politics.
Biden can’t pick a Republican running mate. Period. It’s not allowed. Anyone who remembers the 2004 election knows this because Kerry floated picking McCain as his running mate was told definitively that cross party tickets weren’t allowed.
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the constitution
That’s just a meaningless piece of paper under Trump. It can totally be postponed.
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the election can’t be posted. It’s literally written into the constitution when it must be held. It was held during three major wars and was deemed unconstitutional when Lincoln tried to postpone it during the civil war. Trump can’t continue his presidency past 1/20/21 if he isn’t re-elected.
True, the term runs out irrespective if there is an election. However, if there is not an election, then we lose the President, Vice President, the House and a third of the Senate. So the senior member of the Senate’s majority party becomes president. However, Governors can appoint Senators pending an election so the Democrats would end up with the majority and Patrick Leahy is the senior Dem senator.
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Biden will pick Harris, Sanders will be secretary of Labor and Warren will get the treasury and we can put this whole thing behind us…
Obama said nice things about Warrens eeconomic recovery plan so you can be sure as shit her ideas are still in.the game.
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No
Bet you twenty euros he will. I will deliver them personally if I lose.
I had euros until that floppy-fuck ran us over with his Brexit bus.
I knew Trump had won when he stalked Mrs. But-Her-Emails round the stage.
He’s now trying to treat every press conference like a non-socially distance rally. He’s imploding.
We’re at a turning point.
Sanders tried to do too much at once, so did others like Warren in a more conciliatory way. The hardest thing any political campaign staffer has to learn is it should be all about the policies, but it isn’t.
If you can’t imagine a future where the likes of Capt. Trumps (I’m now thinking of King’s The Stand) loses then he wins. I check and triple-check facts because of my background and even I’m finding it hard to negotiate between all the deliberately created noise.
He’s done. He has to be. There is no plan B.
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We’re at a turning point.
Well yes, but from Democracy to Autocracy.
I misread your post and thought you said “Democracy to Autobots”.
OPTIMUS PRIME FOR PRESIDENT!!!
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Trump saying that he wants to cut US funding to the WHO is a pretty stark demonstration of how dangerous it can be to have someone like him as president.
All politicians are self-serving to some extent, but with him there’s a genuine sense that no price is too high for anything that offers him a perceived benefit.
Hopefully this latest attempt to shift the blame won’t stick and it’ll be quickly forgotten about.
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We’re at a turning point.
Well yes, but from Democracy to Autocracy.
I misread your post and thought you said “Democracy to Autobots”.
OPTIMUS PRIME FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Right now, you need to apply Megatron – aka Benn – principles to Trump: Who gave him power? How do you get rid of him?
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Yeah, I’m totally down with Megatron for president. He’d give some pretty intense speeches, for sure.
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He’s done. He has to be. There is no plan B.
B stands for Biden. Biden has had it pretty easy so far, and Pelosi was able to give him some space inadvertently by forcing Sanders and Warren to sit through the impeachment fiasco during some crucial points in the primary race. Then everyone suddenly capitulates. Sanders also refused to really fight Biden for the nomination or go after the Democratic leadership for their middle of the road bias. The race is going to get very ugly and I don’t think Biden is ready for it. Maybe if he refuses to debate Trump, he’ll have a better chance.
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Biden is somewhat the most generic candidate the DNC could choose
SOMEWHAT? They had the most diverse line-up in the history of american politics, and they stilll went with a 77 year old male white millionaire.
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If they want Trump to look bad, then keep the attention on him and his messy reaction to the emergency.
That kind of stuff has never damaged Trump. He thrives on attention, no matter what kind.
I say the opposite. I say the Democrats need to try and get people excited about their campaign as early as possible.
Excited… about creepy uncle Joe.
Oh dear.
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Apparently whoever the President is has “Total” Authority”. I must have missed that during government studies.
Why does he insist on going on TV every day to make an ass of himself? Thank god pot is legal here!
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If they want Trump to look bad, then keep the attention on him and his messy reaction to the emergency.
That kind of stuff has never damaged Trump. He thrives on attention, no matter what kind.
I say the opposite. I say the Democrats need to try and get people excited about their campaign as early as possible.
Excited… about creepy uncle Joe.
Oh dear.
That’s what I’ve been saying!
Apparently whoever the President is has “Total” Authority”. I must have missed that during government studies.
Why does he insist on going on TV every day to make an ass of himself? Thank god pot is legal here!
The vast majority of Republican voters approve of his behaviour. And the ones that don’t will still vote for him.
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WE HAVE TO GET FUCKING EXCITED NOW, MAN!!!
QUICK! Grab a random female’s hair and smell it! There’s no time to lose!
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That’s what I’ve been saying!
I know! A lot of us were saying that before the dems settled on Biden. But it’s done now!
WE HAVE TO GET FUCKING EXCITED NOW, MAN!!!
This is turning into a mandatory corporate fun event so fast.
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