And Obama hired that Doc while Biden was VP...

He wasn't an upstanding doctor up till Trump took office, then suddenly Pablo Escobar

known speech impediment

He had a childhood speech impediment. Overcoming those requires a concentrated effort, which we become less able to handle as we age.

Here's Biden in 2008

https://youtu.be/eOombKZSsj4?si=hYe3kh-wkM2iemtY&t=1424

Here he is in 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxOldhJ7Sw

In a way what's happening now is a speech impediment, but it's re-emerging as he loses ability in the same parts of the brain that handle critical thinking due to the normal effects of aging.

I'm just tired of so many people writing this stuff off. Like, it took 2 minutes to find those videos and show he hasn't always been like this. He just couldn't win until the only other option was trump. Even tho he was a much better candidate back then.

Quick edit:

Ironically something like the Havana weapon would actually cause this shit, it's incredibly unlikely someone used it on Biden for the debate...

But it's fucking 2024 y'all, who knows what's real anymore I guess.

So Biden's campaign team called her, and a "rival" who's was also planning for 2028 after Biden left

Kind of burying the lede that Biden's campaign team is reaching out to alternatives to gauge interest now that the family is blaming the campaign. I doubt the rival was on the call, so it sounds like the campaign is discussing alternatives with multiple options.

There's no reason to keep propping up Biden. He's a liability and not even his campaign team, family, and closest political allies are united anymore.

It is too risky to keep plowing ahead with him especially if he thinks he's still doing great and has a shot.

Treating an existential threat as existential requires the one thing that the Democratic coalition has increasingly struggled to do: prioritization. It means putting aside personal feelings, individual ambition, and subjective preferences in favor of a single goal: success. Otherwise, it’s just empty rhetoric.

As New York Timescolumnist Ezra Klein, who has been pushing the possibility of an open convention to replace Biden, said on his podcast after Thursday’s debate: “If the fate of American democracy is hinging on this election — as Democrats are always telling me it is and as I think there is a chance that it is — then you should do everything you can to win it.” That a strategy, any strategy, might make people or groups uncomfortable cannot be a reason not to pursue it in the face of an existential threat. Not if you believe what you’re saying.

We should have learned that confidence is the one thing you can't fake. A candidate can be confident for illogical reasons, but that's still more convincing than being right but not being confident. It creates this weird effect where once people get too smart, they become less decisive and people perceive that as less confident.

The stereotypical nerd.

Gore probably would have been a top 10 president. But he couldn't sell himself to voters just a little more. And if memory recalls, he technically didn't even have to concede. Like, if he had waited I believe the recounts were actively happening. He didn't even let it run down to the final vote.

But I think its important to note not a single Dem Senator challenged it either which would have been even better than Gore challenging it

Bernie would have most likely, but he wasn't in yet. Biden could have done it, but he didn't, same with most of the current Dem leadership.

So Gore should have planted his feet, and voters should have gotten behind, probably would have. But the party didn't have Gore's back either. And Gore wasn't confident enough to try it without the party.

It's crazy how shit comes so close and has such widespread consequences. Just one Dem senator back then dragging it out till a final count would have done it.

The employees in the joint suit, half of whom are minors (with one as young as 14)—allege that in addition to not being paid for their work, they were subject to racial slurs and Black employees were called “slaves.” They also claim that the minors were exposed to pornographic material while working on Ye’s new adult-film and pornography venture Yeezy Porn, and that Ye’s team was “directly and personally aware” of said exposure.

The employees state in the suit that Ye's wife Bianca Censori sent an employee a shared file of “hardcore” porn for the Yeezy Porn platform, and that photos from that file were “openly disseminated” in group forums with the underage workers. The employees also claim they were threatened with non-payment if they refused to sign NDAs.

I'm not blaming the kids, but I'm 100% blaming the parents who let their teenagers intern for Kanye West.

That's just insanely irresponsible and they literally aren't fit to have custody. Like it's shady enough for a legit celebrity, but Kanye?

Yeah. But it's provocative, it gets the people going.

That translates to more voters and more small donors.

Two things that are kind of important 4 months before a general election.

Nice.

So we agreed:

Or we can do what we know will motivate them

Which is "performative" stuff like this that won't succeed, but will energize voters leading to more dems in office across the board.

Welcome to America

We can sit around and talk about how the average voter should do better on their own out of a sense of civic duty...

Or we can do what we know will motivate them.

Which do you think is more productive?

Right...

Which will highlight to the country that a Republican House matters right before an election is coming up and donations will make a huge difference in races...

What dem voters want is to know that their votes matter. And this shows them what happens because of the 2022 midterms and will lead to increased turnout in 2024.

It's not "all or nothing". To beat fascism we need to never stop fighting even when the odds are astronomically against suceeding.

It's not even politics at this point, it's basic psychology. We need to give voters what they want, and right now Dem voters want to fight fascism.

If you don't try, you'll never succeed.

There's no such thing as wasted political capital these days, shit like this energizes the base, and this is probably the biggest thing to help Biden (or whoever the candidate is) all year.

trumpers are already jacked up on Mountain Dew, they can't vote any harder then they already are and they're not gonna vote any less. We need the focus on motivating Dem voters.

And win or lose, this does that.

Show voters that with X amount more votes. We can actually fix something. It's a few months before the election, this is literally perfect timing.

We actually don't.

A single progressive president means they get to name the DNC chair and a bunch of voting positions.

It's literally that easy to take over the party.

Obama just didn't do it because he didn't need the party after they turned on him for opposing Hillary.

If he'd have rebuilt it, we'd have a functional progressive party planning decades ahead already. And trump would still just be that guy from the Mac Miller song. The SC would be a progressive majority. The situation and Gaza wouldn't have turned into an open genocide, COVID would have been handled appropriately.

It's not some insurmountable task, but it gets harder and harder every cycle.

By all rights we should have had protests in the streets calling for Biden and the DNC leadership to step down for stealing NH's delagets. But not enough people had crossed their personal lines by then.

If we'd have had the fight then, we'd have had a full primary almost to figure shit out.

But we didn't.

Until we finally do, shit won't change.

Have you seen what they say about Joe Biden?

They'd call trump Joseph Stalin if there was a D by his name.

It literally doesn't matter how progressive a candidate we run, because they'll say the same shit about anyone.

Moderates try to defend and talk about how conservative they really are. Alienating their voters. AOC would fucking own that shit and explain how it helps everyone.

What we're doing isn't working. And Biden himself keeps saying he's powerless as president, so why not fucking try what worked for literal decades and there was no rational reason we ever stopped?

There be the facts, friend. It’s just how it works right now

What?

Literally what's how what works?

Any time you figure out a better system you can get implemented, I’m all ears.

Fair and open primaries, mate.

I've been saying it since NH had their delegates stolen.

Well, this cycle, almost a decade now in total. This ain't exactly a new problem, and it's not like no one can think of a solution.

It's just not easy beating corporate money in primaries until enough Dem voters demand the party sets higher standards. And most people only pay atteyonce every 4 years, then they're too exhausted to care about politics.

Imagine having a candidate that got more popular after speaking in public...

We literally haven't even passed that low of a bar in over a decade. I don't understand what's happened to people.

People as a whole are more politically aware than I've ever seen, but we're just wasting it.

And yet, she’ll never win a presidential election because she’s too polarizing

Imagine saying that after Obama flipped a bunch of red states and brought in a shit ton of down ballot races.

AOC is polarizing, but not as much as Obama and it's easier the second time around.

Hell, no body even really mentioned Biden being Catholic in 1988. You should have seen the shit they said about JFK. And similar time-frames passed between.

And strictly police wise, the country is a lot more open to progressive policy than in 08, and again, everyone said Obama was too "polarizing" right up till election results.

But in 2000, the court enjoyed more robust legitimacy among the public than it does today. As a consequence, Florida officials ceased recounting disputed ballots. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush, specifically accepting the Supreme Court’s pivotal ruling.

No Democratic senator challenged the validity of Florida’s disputed Electoral College votes for Bush. Congress certified the Electoral College’s vote, and Bush was inaugurated.

Al Gore is the perfect example of why we can't ig ore the importance of charisma in a candidate.

Dude would have been a great president, and having him at the helm instead of Bush would have drastically change global politics to this very day.

But he was a wet blanket, didn't have the balls to challenge it, and too progressive for the DNC to defend.

People keep ignoring that presidential elections are basically just statewide popularity contests. At the end of the day nothing matters but the voters opinions.

Crazy how when legislation passes, it's Biden...

But when we want Biden to do something, he can't, because presidents can't do legislation...

Almost like he just takes credit for what progressives fight to accomplish.

The statement:

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

This is what leadership is, what voters want, and what wins elections.

Doesn't matter if it works, it's trying and highlighting that issues can be fixed. We might not succeed the first time, but we'll keep fucking trying till we do.

Put the votes on record and show voters where people stand.

and expecting your partner to kill for you.

Some questions are hypothetical or even rhetorical

And honestly on a deeper level there are reasons for women to suddenly go down these hypothetical scenarios related to safety, on a fairly regular basis.

There's just too much context and subtlies that we can't know for anyone to give a 100% answer on if a reaction like this is warranted.