bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.
“We were okay with over-criminalizing the US population when it was mostly poor people and ethnic minorities but now we think it might be time to be more accepting” - every time I think they can’t be more blinkered and servile, they prove they can
TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz
BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops.
NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
i mean, this is true, but in fairness to the dems, it's way, way easier to consolidate a bunch of mindless violent racists under the banner of "white men should rule forever" than get the consensus of basically everyone else
It's wild how the GOP has like a good half dozen guys under the age of 50 ready to step up and become the next king of racism at any moment, but the Democrats, the party that relies on the youth vote, won't even look at you until you've had your AARP card for a decade.
Weird that the first post-debate ad buy from Donald Trump is a digital ad in the seven swing states simply saying that a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris (with no actual explanation for why that's bad).
We've reached a point in American political life where the vast majority of the public and much of the elite agree our political system doesn't work, but we've not yet reached the point where anyone is proposing changing it at the scale of the problem.
I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government."
Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say:
"Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"
The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.
i know biden sounded like the world's oldest man, but it fills me with such dread when to hear analysts say "well trump was literally crazy the entire time but biden came across as old". you lead public opinion! people listen to you! don't act like you have no choice in what you focus on
Biden: this is the problem here ok. Here is the issue, Shadow was tough Sonic-
Trump: disgusting, disgusting creature
Biden: -but Knuckles was already tough Sonic
Trump: Big The Cat that’s what he’s called folks
Biden: now listen up! One tough Sonic is enough
Jake Tapper: moving to the deficit,
This debate isn’t any dumber or worse than all the other ones but there has been an eight-year bipartisan push to distribute the They Live glasses and like most universal programs its been very successful
we're 20 minutes into a debate featuring a guy who was convicted of 30 felony counts a few weeks ago and CNN started off with a question about the national debt and no question yet about the felon who tried to overthrow the government
The most common form this psychopathy takes is drivers clearly thinking "I deserve to be ahead of all these other people" and maneuvering their multi-ton murder weapon accordingly. If anyone acted like that like, in line at a movie theater, everyone would be appalled and they would be kicked out.
I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it
The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones.
Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.
i'm sorry, this is an area where i am just completely unwilling to compromise. i think speeding and reckless driving are profoundly antisocial acts that are DEMONSTRABLY PROVEN to result in TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS every year in car and pedestrian crashes. this seems bad to me.
