I have a simple plan:
1) Joe Biden gives a tearful speech about the need for someone younger to lead.
2) Contested convention.
3) By secret ballot, Dem delegates select the new candidate: Jimmy Carter.
It's time for Dem politicians to take a stand on something, and that something is, "who is the oldest possible candidate we can field?"
That's right: Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter has been reported as "not awake every day" and I'd vote for him over Joe Biden because he sees Palestinians as human beings.
The bar is so damn low and Joe could have made it! Even at 82! But alas! I'm being told to just ignore a whole ass genocide by American weapons and money!
And so you're going to do nothing to stop someone who wants to happily expand that genocide and harm your supposed allies.
Brilliant plan, can't possibly backfire exactly like the last time the exact same thing happened
I'm putting pressure on the *current president of the United States* that if he would like to continue to be so, he needs to listen to his constituents who are asking for our country to stop funding the mass murder of little kids.
I’ve had a stance for basically his entire presidency of “I hope he dies before the election, but if not, I’ll vote for him again,” and it’s really hard to feel like your opinions matter after sitting with that for several years.
Right. There is literally nothing that would be better if Biden lost, and very very very very very much that would be oh so much worse.
And hey,I'm not even gonna argue any more about the brokered convention scenario-wtf do I know. If that happens, cool. If it doesn't, cool. Wish we could focus tho
At some risk of this being more copium than reality, she'd have room as Pres to separate herself from how Biden approached Israel. Whether she'd choose to use that...I have no idea. It's not like she's made her FP preferences known - and she really can't fight the admin on something like this as VP.
Imo, shouldn't the fact that Biden's presidency is the most progressive administration in modern history be a good enough reason to defend its continuation?
A lot of people defending Barack Obama's record in 2012 felt the same way. Drone strikes on civilians, letting finance bros skate after the financial crash, offering to cut Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid in budget talks; there was a lot to be mad about.
Like, is systematically drone-bombing dozens of civilians (& even a few Americans) more or less a moral outrage than providing bombs & other munitions to another country & repeatedly impotently asking them not to use them to kill civilians? Yet we had to choose then, & we have to choose now.
I'm going to skip over arguing any one issue because it's a losing proposition to compare one tragedy/horror to another. I just mean that Obama was disappointing on more issues. Biden's administration keeps surprising me in good ways.
My general experience with Biden/his admin has been stress/worry followed by pleasant surprise it turned out better than expected and sometimes even good.
With the very, very very glaring obvious exception that yes, darkens -everything- else.
I mean, other than the PPACA, Obama really didn’t make much progressive progress. Biden has done IRA, BIF, CHIPS, reinvigorated the labor department, unilaterally canceled massive amounts of student debt, cut oil leasing by 10x… In the face of as much or more pushback as Obama had.
