yeah, to extend the analogy, it’s like calling for the QB to be benched when the team’s biggest problems are the coach and GM and replacing the QB won’t change either of those regardless.
i've been very down on the idea of swapping out biden, but i agree with almost everything in this piece and it's the most persuasive argument i've read so far. the main problem is that i do not believe any of the dems ready to toss aside biden right now are up for the reckoning this piece prescribes
GOD I JUST KEEP SEEING MORE THINGS!! they're sleeping RAW on the mattress NO sheets, there's a power strip IN the bed and is that a fucking unsecured handgun on the bedframe???
a guy posted a video on the dog advice reddit asking why his dog might be so skittish at night but in the background of the video his wife is sleeping fully face down with her glasses on and every single comment is about that instead
if you'd prompted literally anyone at any point in the last 15 years currently making these suggestions with something akin to "under what circumstances would you try to hold a 2nd primary after the first is already completed" the answer would be "none" or "the nominee is not an incumbent and dead"
JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise:
—Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!)
—Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well.
—No bloc close to majority.
Follow this 🧵 for results and more:
Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!"
The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch*
Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"
The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society
this is consistent with my general sense that many of the justices really, really don't understand both how much they are disliked by an increasingly fervent and expansive segment of population, and the extent to which those people are now paying attention in a way they weren't before
Maybe not Whitmer's intention but an effective way to get a positive economic message (the hook) widely reposted using a superficially relevant participation in the dominant narrative (the bait )to get people to share it
i'm gonna be on my deathbed in 40 years mumbling that clyburn had 6 weeks to come up with a line for when dobbs officially dropped and his day-of answer was "it's a little anticlimactic"
regardless of what happens with the nomination, i will say this generation of dems--biden, pelosi, shumer, durbin, clyburn--have kindled a deep-seated hatred in me for them and their leadership, which is quite a feat given that i'm a lifelong dem who's voted, volunteered, and donated for 24 years
i think it’s just a reminder of how insufficient he is. if you’re on the fence and asking yourself “is this a guy I’m going to go to bat for right now?” and see this shit, it might just break your resolve
watching them fail to even understand, let alone meet, the moment for 8 years and counting has been absolutely infuriating. while condescendingly assuring everyone else that they know best
I have a vivid memory from six months ago of some centrist relatives rolling their eyes when I said Biden was paving the way for Trump to retake power. Now they're calling their representatives and asking them to endorse Harris replacing him. Something different is in the water now
i get why this pisses people off--this pisses me off too!--but it's not a sign of cognitive decline? idgi. are people really just now grasping that joe biden has failed to appreciate the threat of trump/the right/the supreme court?
the trump immunity ruling is the gift that keeps on giving, one thing that absolutely could've changed the story was his sentencing that was supposed to be next week, but instead it's delayed for 2 months for stupid motions with no chance of success
hey man this is what I said in 2019 but we lost that argument. idk what to tell you, the primaries are over and he cruised. the opportunity to replace him passed unless he’s legitimately medically incapable or decides he doesn’t want to 🤷♂️
