Such a stark contrast. For so long Biden’s campaign just didn’t seem to be fighting for anything, they kinda coasted and kept their heads down so as not to cause a stir or trigger any kind of controversy. Now Harris has cranked things up to eleven and is pounding Trump/Vance into the dirt with media blitzes amid seamless coordination with the entire Democratic Party. If she governs the way she’s handled this campaign, then bring it the fuck on.
and is frankly insultingly little after everything that has transpired around those sorts of issues
Due to Republicans.
If you don’t like how angry I am about it, I’m sorry to tell you that telling me not to be angry isn’t going to make me less so.
Nobody told you not to be angry, so not sure why you’re so defensive. Just be angry at the people actually keeping things from happening and the voters who keep sending them to DC, not the politicians drafting laws and trying to negotiate their passage.
I’m far more pissed off now that everyone has woken up to attack me for criticizing the party I was already going to vote for because I had the gall to call it like I saw it than the mild disgruntlement I was experiencing when I made the first comment.
Nobody “woke up” to attack you. This is a public discussion forum. Don’t take everything so personally.
Fucking rise up like this to demand better from Dems, folks!
…and stop voting for Republicans.
I’m not claiming to know what kind of training would help, just that “train them better” isn’t a particularly controversial statement. I’m also not arguing against police reform, which is desperately needed. I’m simply observing that Republicans are to blame for the GFJPA repeatedly not advancing in Congress. Were there a more significant Democratic majority in Congress, their intransigence would be irrelevant and reform would have already been implemented. Voters simply didn’t send that sizeable majority to DC.
And them saying it last month, six months ago, 12 months ago, or 18 months ago would have been different how?
‘Fund them with resources and training’ is controversial to you?
Democrats tried to pass the GFJPA in 2020, then again in 2021, and then Republicans took the House. All three times it was blocked by Republicans.
No Democrats are “sitting on it”. They passed a House bill in 2020 which Senate Republicans killed. They passed another in 2021 which died over disputes about qualified immunity and because Republicans objected to a national police misconduct database. Then Republicans took the House in 2022 and obviously weren’t going to pass it again.
Stop blaming Democrats for Republican intransigence.
There is no candidate until the convention. Biden wasn’t actually the nominee yet, so there’s nothing for them to contest. Johnson put out that threat to scare you.
Another top Biden adviser put it this way: “He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’ But he’s not going to publicly make a one term pledge.”
That source does not say what you’re claiming it says.
We have to go deeper.
Well that’s interesting and encouraging (I think). I’m in NC and my experience is exactly the opposite, but your vote is more important than mine.
Yeah I’ve also started trying to figure out, in the grand scheme of things, if there’s a scenario where replacing an incumbent would be more beneficial. Like, how bad would the polls have to get before the party stepped in and made an unfortunate but necessary decision? Losing all swing states? Losing Dem lean states? Losing solid blue states? Losing by double digits? Or maybe the candidate would have to get worse? What if he has a stroke in October? What if he dies in October? Is that how bad it would have to get?
The only silver lining I’m seeing right now is the 538 model calling for a Biden win (sorta), and it’s predicated on economic fundamentals which I just don’t think hold the line like they used to. I think the game has fundamentally changed, as has political typology, and that’s the reason he’s drowning in swing states.
Where do you live?
Since the debate I haven’t spoken to a single left-leaning person who wants Biden to stay in or thinks he can win. Not one.
Not only that, they don’t even have to target 3/4 of the country. They just need to hammer Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Who cares who burned the Reichstag down? It’s just a building and those things burn down all the time!
cAnCeL CuLtUrE11!!! fReEzE pEaCh!!!@
No. I’m saying the risks of a contested convention turning sour are not what they were in 1968 when this happened.
Yikes. I hadn’t even thought about the possibility of violence. Maybe the fact that they’ve got a slightly better handle on these clandestine operations now than they did in 2016 will help with the Russian ops. I think the risk of right-wing agitators provoking a violent clash is higher, to be perfectly honest. They’ll certainly have to take security very seriously if this is the path they choose.
Jon Stewart had a really good analysis of that on his podcast. Not only that, the show he did right before Biden stepped aside included a guy from CNN who made exactly that argument. “It’s too late. There’s nothing we can do because it’s too complicated.” He looked like an idiot during that show because the other guests obliterated every argument he tried to throw out, and sure enough the day Biden withdrew he was invited back to CNN to do the “this is a good opportunity to move forward” whiplash. I’ll admit I was fully on the “It’s Biden, stop complaining” train originally, but his debate performance took the floor right out from under my feet. Anyone still arguing to keep him in after that performance was participating in a different reality than the one the rest of us live in.