to be fair, this could change by tomorrow
he doesn't want to say anything definitive tonight
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to be fair, this could change by tomorrow
he doesn't want to say anything definitive tonight
Obama is. His fucking old ass sidekick gets to win mostly based on him, lol.
Eh.
He wants to have one more shot let him have it.
Wouldn't be a bad thing for us to see Biden on the debate stage 1v1.
That's the problem, only concerned with beating Trump. Who cares about climate change, the 500,000 homeless, tens of millions uninsured, 80,000 years dying each year from lack of coverage $1.5 trillion and counting of crushing student debt, tuition rates increasingly becoming completely affordable to working class people, and broken/racist justice system in our country. I'm sure Joe Biden will get right on all that. It's not like his senate record is full of votes making every single one of those problems worse or anything.
Unless a liberal or progressive president has the Senate as well as the House on his side, there's little you can expect in terms of radical change. No matter who is governing.
Effectively, Obama only had full control of the Senate for a short time.
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Genuine question: who's the best president we've had since WW2?
While he wasn't my first (or second or third...) choice, I will do what I can to support Biden this fall. To the Bernie supporters out there, I'm sending you my love. It hurts when your candidate, especially one you believed in so much, doesn't win. While I didn't vote for Bernie, I understand that it's a disillusioning experience that makes you question the system and your place in everything. But I hope that we all unite in the coming months to tackle the true existential threat that exists with 4 more years of Trump, where he has free reign to sow chaos and discord without any consequences. That and the possibility of a generationally lopsided Supreme Court in favor of conservatives. There's too much at stake this fall.
Biden was a Dem rockstar before Obama, it's precisely why he picked him as his VP.
Forgot about Cali, so I accept I was off there. Yeah he got some wins I forgot about, doesn't take away from my point that Americans vote for candidates not ideas, and this is proven election after election. If Americans voted for ideas, Warren would be running away with the nomination.
I ain't here to be your cathartic punching bag. Bad faith trolling gets called out. Deal with it
Go ahead and make the Evil Empire: American Militarism in the Age of Digital Death thread. I'll be there to hash it all out.
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People will pretend that Sanders would have the same body counts as those before him but I sincerely believe he would have been different. He was the only good man I've ever seen run in American politics.
Trump, Obama, Clinton, Bush, Biden, to me are all the same shit
Good luck to the American Bernie Supporters here, must be hell
I mean we didn't talk about that BECAUSE THAT WASN'T WHAT WAS ON THE LINE at the moment. SOON, that will be AND THEN we will also focus on that.
Good he can drop out of the race after that, but not before he shows what people are voting for.
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Sure, but good luck getting people to vote by saying that.
I'm not saying you should think Obama was a great President. I'm saying only someone with an incredible lack of connection to the public wouldn't realize he's popular.
That's admittedly fair. Just bringing it up because sometimes that aspect tends to be forgotten when referencing what Obama did or didn't do.
If neither Biden nor Sanders manage to get 60 (D) votes in the Senate, they'll both be essentially governing with one hand tied behind their back.
Washington really puts other states to shame with their speed of counting votes. Gotta look into voting from home.
They said before the vote that it will probably take until tomorrow for the vote to come in.
It's a real John Podesta we have nothing more to say tonight vibe.
LBJ actually got a lot of shit done domestically despite his horrid foreign policy.
It hasn't been that great since FDR really like you implied.
We have like 3 weeks to send in our ballots, so they can pre-count most of them.
You are out of your mind. What did JFK actually do other than not blow up the planet and start the Peace Corps?
He ratcheted up US involvement in Vietnam, tried to invade Cuba, lowered the top tax rate from 90% to 70%, and had enough covered up sexual scandals to make Bill Clinton blush.
Go on, next.
That is such a difficult question..
Johnson
Clinton
Obama
pick one...
Best R?
Bush Sr.
Eisenhower
Pretty much. Many of them got into politics in 2016 so what they know is what they're favorite leftist youtubers have repeated (neoliberal, war criminal, Wall Street stooge, etc.).
You just compared bragging about sexual assault and not apologizing for it ever with making a mistake when describing an event and then correcting it. Very reasonable. Totally rational.
I don't know, he tried to repeatedly overthrow the Cuban government and assassinate Castro because they had the gall to want their own independent choices and got closer to nuclear warfare than any other president in history.
Yeah, my answer was going to be LBJ. Great Society, Civil Rights Act and all that. The obvious counterpoint to that is Gulf of Tonkin/Vietnam.
Yes other than Vietnam LBJ would definitely be considered the best. But Vietnam is a pretty big fuck up and killed millions.
Good luck America. Don't think Biden can mentally handle a long election, the media and the constant attack ads Trump will throw at him, and I also believe all the attack ads will uncover his skeletons that will make a lot of people apathetic about voting in general.
While Biden isn't my first pick (5th? At best) I'll gladly fill in the bubble by his name without hesitation come November, along with every other D candidate on the ballot.
Progress really comes in leaps and bounds, and sometimes you have to stop moving backwards before you can go forwards again.
I only hope he picks a good VP who can push a stronger climate agenda than he's pitched.
The bit that does annoy me - I feel like he could have won in 2016 given how it came down to so few votes in a few states. Would have taken him or any D then over Clinton if they could have won.
While he has his flakey moments I think he'll debate fine. He pummelled Palin (yeah, a while ago...), Trump basically just rambled on in 2016 and is even worse now, and frankly I'll be shocked if Trump shows up at all rather than having another rally.
Progress really comes in leaps and bounds, and sometimes you have to stop moving backwards before you can go forwards again.
I only hope he picks a good VP who can push a stronger climate agenda than he's pitched.
The bit that does annoy me - I feel like he could have won in 2016 given how it came down to so few votes in a few states. Would have taken him or any D then over Clinton if they could have won.
While he has his flakey moments I think he'll debate fine. He pummelled Palin (yeah, a while ago...), Trump basically just rambled on in 2016 and is even worse now, and frankly I'll be shocked if Trump shows up at all rather than having another rally.
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