Some people just can’t focus on two things, even if you can.
Like, people keep pretending Biden is some climate activist…
He blew straight past Trump’s record fossil fuels production records and set his own.
And sure, less domestic use sounds good, but it would actually be better than shipping coal across the globe using fossil fuels before burning the coal.
I don’t know if it’s long term effects of COVID or what, but these last few years I’m constantly overestimating people.
Everyone should at least watch some of this.
Here’s a good part where Biden says if he’s elected president he’ll codify Roe v Wade
https://youtu.be/Fz45sMb4js8?si=s3MRoazjKtng01Td&t=3241
Like Stern, I’m not sure why Biden thinks he can do that as President, or if he can why he hasn’t done it yet.
I just wish Biden would do real interviews with journalists who would make him give real answers and not puff pieces with people desperate to seem legitimate by having the president on.
I gotta admit tho, I didn’t think Biden would even do something like this.
Moderates are not on on the same side as Dem voters.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said the legislation was intended to “score political points, not help Israel.”
“President Biden will take a back seat to no one on his support for Israel and will ensure that Israel has everything it needs to defeat Hamas,” she said. “President Biden is also strongly on the record for the protection of innocent civilians. Most Americans agree on both these points, Israel has a right and obligation to protect themselves, but they must do so while avoiding civilian casualties.”
Americans are mostly for the protection of innocents, that’s why we keep protesting for him to stop enabling a genocide…
It’s a mindfuck that Rudy is 2 years younger than the president.
90% of Biden’s donors give less than $200.
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And the vast majority of his money comes through BVF which can take up to a million a year from each person…
Like I already blocked you before replying this time because it’s been three days and you won’t stop , but you have such a massive misunderstanding of how numbers work if you think what you just said is in any way relevant I had to say it:
Most of his money coming from whales and most of his donors not giving much are not mutually exclusive
Like, this isn’t even about politics, that’s basic story word problems you should have been doing before Algebra even got taught.
Youre missing fundamental understanding of math and it’s likely effecting your life.
It’s never to late to start learning, but if you act like this someone is going to charge you a lot of money to put up with you
But just in general, if you’re throwing out percentages like that, you should be linking the source or everyone is going to believe the “90%” number is something you pulled out of your ass.
It’s just that whether or not that was true. Doesn’t fucking change anything we’re talking about.
People acted all surprised they agreed to debates…
But I don’t know how people think they’ll manage to actually agree to the terms. Especially when there’s no neutral third party organizing it. That’s one thing they did both agree on, kicking them out of the equation.
Oh wow
I didn’t know a DNC spokesperson said it was OK the DNC is paying Biden’s legal bills…
Like, did you even notice the “no grass roots” part?
The Biden Victory Fund can take a million a year from a person. biden has practically zero “grassroots donors”.
The only people giving him money are the wealthiest, they’re the only ones getting anything back for their money
Well thinks for making the decision to block easy I guess.
Because out of 5 hours of tapes, I’d expect some good things…
But hey, I’m an optimist, maybe everyone else is right and Biden just sounds like a senile old fool for 5 hours straight…
I just can’t rationalize how that’s true and it’s bullshit the reason he wasn’t charged was he’s old and confused.
Gotta be one or the other.
If we don’t care what republicans think then why do we care about meeting their demands to release the tape?
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Because if it shows a capable well thought Biden it might convince voters who aren’t voting for him because he’s 82 years old…
How do people not understand?
Because anybody with even a basic awareness of how Republicans operate knows that people won’t hear the good bits.
Who cares?
We aren’t going to flip Republican voters, he’s not gaining any he doesn’t already have.
Elections are won and lost on dem turnout, and if the audio makes Biden seem capable, that makes the “old and confused” reason for not charging him bullshit.
And that might be enough for them to also write off the reasoning for not charging him, and maybe even the fact that the report found him guilty
They call Biden a fucking communist, no matter what happens, republicans will always tell their voters it’s the worst thing ever.
So who cares what they’re going to say?
If this gets more voters to the polls, it’s a win for Biden.
It’s written that the Senate may vote to confirm, not that they have to.
If republicans refused to hold the vote because they didn’t have the votes to stop it, Obama should have just sat his pick (not the bullshit “compromise”) to the SC.
Republicans would have challenged it, and it would have went to the SC.
Would it have been guaranteed to work? No, it wouldn’t.
But it would have been better than a year out from the election just fucking giving up.
Can you explain any downside to trying anything more than accepting it?
Source:
Scores of scholars — law professors, historians and political scientists — urged the Senate to at least have a process for Garland as a duly appointed nominee with impeccable qualifications. But some lawyers and academics pointed out that the Constitution empowered the Senate to “advise and consent” but did not require it do so. (Some adding that they thought the Senate still ought to do so.)
Rather than do it and fight the battle that they were able to do it, we ran out the clock talking about if we could.
That’s the main difference between the parties.
Republicans do shit then we try to undo what they managed to get thru.
Dems have the fight before doing anything, and keep running out of time.
The entire premise of moderate politics doesn’t work anymore. We spend all our time trying to undo what republicans do, but they do so much bullshit there’s not enough time for everything, let alone anything’s ng we want to do.
How do people not see that if you’ve been paying attention to politics since at least 2016?
It’s incredibly obvious what’s happening…
Between the insults, you said I don’t know what happened, then said what happened was the same thing I said?
Is it just because I pointed out Dems didn’t fight or try anything to get Obama his pick?
Or that the reason they didn’t was in an attempt to motivate voters to turn out for someone they don’t like?
I just don’t see anywhere else we disagree, but if you keep the insults up I’m probably just going to block you and be done with this.
If you want a political group ok with juvenile insults, republicans are on the other side of the aisle.
“The Economy” is doing well, because price gouging is out of control.
Regular Americans being broke and hungry helps the economy because it means we have to spend money as soon as we get it.
The price gouging helps even more, because it’s pure profit, there’s no reason prices went up besides people will pay it when there’s no other options.
If just fast food went up, people would eat out less, but when groceries, restaurants, and every other option for food sees price increases…
People still got to eat
538 and other forecasters had her at a 70-80% chance of winning.
Oh, Nate Silver?
The guy who was good at polls but then started letting his neoliberal opinions influence his analysis?
Like, you realize that’s what you’re talking about about right?
The polls didn’t say Hillary had a 70% chance of winning.
Nate Silver analysis of polls said she had a 70% chance of winning.
That doesn’t mean you ignore polls you don’t like, it means you stop listening to Nate Silver’s opinion.
Like, if I jumped off a roof and broke my leg, I shouldn’t blame gravity, gravity did what it would always do.
The issue was my analysis of gravity and the effect it would have on me from that distance.
It doesn’t mean gravity is fake news and if enough people clap Tinkerbell will fly me to Never Never land.
I’m sorry I can’t explain this in a way you can understand though, but if that didn’t work I honestly don’t know how to put it.
. Fuck that. We tried that and ended up with a conservative majority on SCOTUS
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Refusing to fight for Obama’s SC pick so that it could be used to get people to vote for a candidate disliked by most people from either party is not “having standards”.
It’s wild to here someone even suggest that’s what happened…
There are a lot of podcasts that break it down if you’re not interested in looking at the transcripts yourself.
Literally just posted it and I’ve read it…
Most people aren’t politically active to be on a sub about it, they’re not going to read it.
Like, I run into this all the time, Biden supporters just don’t seem to understand how disengaged people are with Biden as president.
If the I tervirw makes him look good like you claim, what’s wrong with releasing it so people can hear the good bits?
Why care if Republicans are going to talk shit if they’re already talking shit and won’t stop for any reason?
The optics of Biden hiding it are worse
It is, and it’s a god damn world salad…
At one point he talks about how NASA can cure cancer with protons…
Americans don’t like to read, I’m not sure how an American hasn’t noticed that.
But all the shit we (rightfully) give trump shit about with his speaking ability and making up random shit is stuff Biden does too.
A clip of him talking about how NASA has a cure for cancer is going to hurt him.
And it does make sense he wouldn’t want that released.
But be better than republicans. Hold your “team” to higher standards than just the letter by someone’s name.
Republicans are going to say stupid shit anyways…
They’re already saying it.
The only reason to hide the tapes, is they make Biden look bad. If he had his shit together, they’d be trying to release them to show people the report was biased.
Candidate:
This would exonate me!
Everyone else:
Can we see/hear it?
Candidate:
Objection! If people saw/heard this, it would make me look bad!
This is a bad thing regardless of the letter next to a candidates name.
I wish the moderates gave a shit about protest when they’re in office.
When it’s a Republican being protested they always cheer from the sidelines and say they would be there…
But they never mention why they’re not actually there.
And when they’re in office and have a chance to actually work with protesters to address concerns, they start rambling about how it’s somehow antidemocratic and we have to shut the fuck up because protesting draws attention to the unpopular shit they’re doing.
Like, that’s the entire point of protests to draw attention to the unpopular shit our government is doing.
The moderates just forgot that what protestors are trying to do is enact change and not just hurt the poll numbers if whoever is in office currently.
All Biden has to do is listen