Joe Biden, nice guy, but also frustratingly tepid and milquetoast. I place the failure to hold Trump and his terrorist base fully accountable solely on him.
Enh, I guess it's reckless to have someone 78-year old run for President if they also don't have a rightwing media human centipede to cover for them. After all we don't seem to talk about age anymore, now do we?
We do know at least that there's always going to be someone to leave the nominee twisting in the wind.
I'm just waiting to see who the Dems put up as Johnny Unbeatable in 2028 (well, should honestly be 2026) given the appetite the American people have for sadopopulism.
And I'll say it again; the time to worry about Biden's age was 2019-20.
Age wasn't the only issue. I said many times in '19 & '20 that we were on borrowed time with Biden, because we didn't need fucking "healing," we needed accountability for Trump and MAGA.
The quoted remarks in the Axios piece by Alex Thompson from Biden's henchmen is classic white male misogyny. Kamala Harris had a long, effective, successful career in elected offices before serving as VP. To smear her as some sort of ineffective failure is preposterous. It seems we are expected to ignore what we saw with our own eyes. Harris is a brilliant, accomplished, successful politician who spoke with warmth, intelligence, and connected easily with people. She may have lost, by a tiny margin, but Biden would have lost in a massive, terrifying landslide.
Biden has always been an overrated mediocre white guy, who managed to get elected to the Senate from a small, insignificant state known only for creating tax shelters for massive corporations. His legislative record includes his disastrous chairing of the Judiciary committee hearing for Clarence Thomas. His callous treatment of Anita Hill earned him my personal, undying hatred. He also famously championed the bill shielding credit card debt, medical debt, and student loans from bankruptcy. By the time he ushered this bill through, I already hated him. In the 2020 election, like Trump, Biden was just another old, rich, white asshole with nepotism issues. He barely won in 2020 because during the pandemic there were just enough people who would vote for anyone but Trump. Biden's win was so whisker thin in swing states, it took days to declare. Biden's failure to acknowledge his age related incompetence, and instead cling to power despite his terrible polling and widespread unpopularity, led to Trump's win.
Harris is not to blame for this fiasco. Biden is the villain in this story. Biden has also claimed he should have been the nominee in 2016, instead of Hillary Clinton. He has been holding a grudge for years about being passed over. Biden has never gotten over his presumption that white male privilege is the only thing that matters.
It's not Harris' fault that the Biden Admin didn't make her more of a spokesperson for the Admin, or give her more responsibility during his term. It's also not her fault that they didn't push back more effectively against the "sleepy Joe" memes that not just the RW, but the MSM ate up. She's right that letting the country see how prepared she was to be President wasn't a ding to Biden, but it's literally what a VP is for.
Now I want to read her book, but thanks to tr*mp's crappy economy, I won't buy it, but get it from the library.
"You’d think the one upside of nominating a 78-year-old for president is that he wouldn’t make impulsive decisions with a longterm impact for short-term gain"
All politics is at the core, like running for high school student council president. The differences are matters of scale, not of kind. You make promises that you may not be able to keep, or never intend to keep at all. You surround yourself with both true believers and/or ambitious hangers on. You try to project confidence and likability. That's it. That's the whole thing.
If you lose, all concerned will backbite and try to rewrite history. In reality, the whims of the electorate are so inconsistent that no one really knows why one wins and another loses. One narrative wins out over time and another disappears, but this is not an easily quantifiable problem. One candidate wins with a message of hope, while another cannot duplicate that result, or somehow becomes associated with a different message through no fault of their own.
And in the end, we all are stuck with Jimmy or Tracy, who promised better snacks in the cafeteria to get elected.
Joe Biden, nice guy, but also frustratingly tepid and milquetoast. I place the failure to hold Trump and his terrorist base fully accountable solely on him.
And his staff!
Enh, I guess it's reckless to have someone 78-year old run for President if they also don't have a rightwing media human centipede to cover for them. After all we don't seem to talk about age anymore, now do we?
We do know at least that there's always going to be someone to leave the nominee twisting in the wind.
I'm just waiting to see who the Dems put up as Johnny Unbeatable in 2028 (well, should honestly be 2026) given the appetite the American people have for sadopopulism.
And I'll say it again; the time to worry about Biden's age was 2019-20.
Age wasn't the only issue. I said many times in '19 & '20 that we were on borrowed time with Biden, because we didn't need fucking "healing," we needed accountability for Trump and MAGA.
The quoted remarks in the Axios piece by Alex Thompson from Biden's henchmen is classic white male misogyny. Kamala Harris had a long, effective, successful career in elected offices before serving as VP. To smear her as some sort of ineffective failure is preposterous. It seems we are expected to ignore what we saw with our own eyes. Harris is a brilliant, accomplished, successful politician who spoke with warmth, intelligence, and connected easily with people. She may have lost, by a tiny margin, but Biden would have lost in a massive, terrifying landslide.
Biden has always been an overrated mediocre white guy, who managed to get elected to the Senate from a small, insignificant state known only for creating tax shelters for massive corporations. His legislative record includes his disastrous chairing of the Judiciary committee hearing for Clarence Thomas. His callous treatment of Anita Hill earned him my personal, undying hatred. He also famously championed the bill shielding credit card debt, medical debt, and student loans from bankruptcy. By the time he ushered this bill through, I already hated him. In the 2020 election, like Trump, Biden was just another old, rich, white asshole with nepotism issues. He barely won in 2020 because during the pandemic there were just enough people who would vote for anyone but Trump. Biden's win was so whisker thin in swing states, it took days to declare. Biden's failure to acknowledge his age related incompetence, and instead cling to power despite his terrible polling and widespread unpopularity, led to Trump's win.
Harris is not to blame for this fiasco. Biden is the villain in this story. Biden has also claimed he should have been the nominee in 2016, instead of Hillary Clinton. He has been holding a grudge for years about being passed over. Biden has never gotten over his presumption that white male privilege is the only thing that matters.
Agree. Now we have Biden ironically giving us “misogynoire”
It's not Harris' fault that the Biden Admin didn't make her more of a spokesperson for the Admin, or give her more responsibility during his term. It's also not her fault that they didn't push back more effectively against the "sleepy Joe" memes that not just the RW, but the MSM ate up. She's right that letting the country see how prepared she was to be President wasn't a ding to Biden, but it's literally what a VP is for.
Now I want to read her book, but thanks to tr*mp's crappy economy, I won't buy it, but get it from the library.
"You’d think the one upside of nominating a 78-year-old for president is that he wouldn’t make impulsive decisions with a longterm impact for short-term gain"
Like Merrick Garland?
All politics is at the core, like running for high school student council president. The differences are matters of scale, not of kind. You make promises that you may not be able to keep, or never intend to keep at all. You surround yourself with both true believers and/or ambitious hangers on. You try to project confidence and likability. That's it. That's the whole thing.
If you lose, all concerned will backbite and try to rewrite history. In reality, the whims of the electorate are so inconsistent that no one really knows why one wins and another loses. One narrative wins out over time and another disappears, but this is not an easily quantifiable problem. One candidate wins with a message of hope, while another cannot duplicate that result, or somehow becomes associated with a different message through no fault of their own.
And in the end, we all are stuck with Jimmy or Tracy, who promised better snacks in the cafeteria to get elected.
I voted for Pedro, because he said all my wildest dreams would come true.
Great case in point! Great movie!