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The worst part of it for me was listening to Kamala Harris briefly speak about the President. She kind of stays in the shadows for the most part, but every time she emerges to speak, I feel as though she's politically disingenuous and borders on being Lois Griffin saying "NINE ELEVEN" for applause.
She reminds me of an angry wine mom at the PTA.
Awww look at them pretending they aren't pro Trump and failing. "MAGA are bad but liberals are absolute and utter evil!"
i don't think they are pro-trump.
They are definitely not fair and balanced in the coverage.
They want ratings and will create any and all controversies about the president, even if it means reelecting Trump, for those clicks. They had their most profitable years covering the shit President Dementia was saying.
i thought we were talking about op.
which "news" outlet are you talking about: daily show or nbc?
I thought “them” was talking about the journalists.
CNN/NBC/… the fact you put daily show as a news outlet just prove how broken the fourth estate is.
It is possible to think that 1 group is awful, and the group almost as bad as them but not quite is not as bad and therefore should be supported over the worse group.
Or maybe "MAGA are bad, and we are seeing some similarities with our own party. It would be cool if we were less like republicans"
Where's the meltdown because I haven't heard a peep
Oh it's everywhere!
Like in the heads of the journalist.
And let's not forget that one tweet.
And I think I saw someone wrote a sad face in a bathroom stall.
The comments itt would be funny if they weren’t so desperately sad and telling. :-/
Stewart simply spoke the truth. Candidates are supposed to convince people to vote for them. That’s their job. Biden’s communications people hiding behind “He’s not Trump and is competent at the job” is a repeat of Hillary’s 2016 strategy, and the polling numbers actually supported that strategy in 2016. The reality was very different when the votes were counted.
Relying on that strategy in 2024 is playing Russian roulette with American democracy. Biden needs a better communications team. Ideally younger.
The DNC should have also given their own other candidates support as well to give some semblance of a choice (except for the one that isn't even eligible and is basically a Republican). Perhaps it wouldn't have to be A few McCheeseburgers from death narcissist moron trying to stay out of prison vs. Dazed and Confused, replacement hips are now a matter of national security
The DNC has once again failed their voter pool by trying to pre-pick their candidate. Last time, it ended in them disbanding their Super Delegates after causing a "fuck them both, I'm staying home" voter mentality.
I'm agreeing with you and perhaps being a little too overzealous about it but I can't believe that they are doing this again when they lost doing it the last time.
What other candidates? Dean Philips joined too late. Nobody who could have challenged the President actually stepped forward.
There wasn’t any candidate. The two alternatives we got to primary Joe Biden weren’t serious. The serious ones didn’t want to challenge Biden. Period.
Saying the DNC should have run an alternative makes it sound like they should have held Newsom at gun point.
The incumbent president always has more support than another candidate in the same party. They know they can’t risk running someone else when the incumbent president will always have a bias from the voters.
HRC won the vote. EC appointed tfg🤷🏻♀️
She won the vote. She lost the election. It's important to win the election.
Elections don’t win votes, however….
Seems like votes don't necessarily win elections, either.
The fact that this happened should tell everyone that the US political system is completely broken.
I agree that it should be improved to better reflect current population and demographics, but she entered the election Knowing the rules and system. She lost due to bad electioneering, bad strategy, hubris and a decades long negative campaign against her.
It’s Biden or Bust, bud.
Victory or Death.
See, here's an example of someone who thinks Biden is perfect! CULT CULT CULT /s
If Dems ran a viable alternative to Biden then it's likely they would have the nomination. Unfortunately, the DNC set their strategy and have no choice but to see it through to the end at this point.
Best thing Republicans could do is run Nikki Haley. She has a real chance of pulling centrists to the right against Biden and his age.
I don't think this person is saying Biden is perfect. It's just the same situation as the last five elections: most important election of our lifetimes, can't let the other guy win because he's so bad etc
If Dems ran a viable alternative to Biden then it’s likely they would have the nomination.
There's a primary and no one is even close. There are no good alternatives mostly because no one is dumb enough to run against an incumbent. If Biden was not seeking nomination then yeah. But the bias towards incumbents is too strong to take a chance like that on. You'll just end up with an otherwise viable candidate losing by 50-60% and looking terrible. Potentially torpedoing their chances next cycle.
A lot of that has to do with how the DNC is run based on seniority. With the Democrats they will only really let you near power/funding if you've done the time, and have proven that you can be a party player.
The vetting process has its benefits, it cuts down on the cult of personality types that can destabilize the platform. However, it also tends to filter out anyone more progressive than the party leadership, and basically ensures that key leadership roles are filled with people who should have retired in the early 00s.
It’s always good to see some ELI5 to the people here. It’s such a fundamentally obvious fact about how things work, but even on a base level- people just don’t get how that works.
Thanks for spelling it out. Hopefully it helps some people under how things work.
Maybe we're out of time for business as usual lesser of two evils bullshit.
There's where we'd like to be, and there's where we are actually at. I want ranked choice voting, I want third party candidates, I think Biden is decent but not amazing. I'm still going to vote for him out of self interest and preservation.
Fair enough
I don't know a single person who's "blindly loyal" to Biden. Most people I know think he's overall pretty reasonable and certainly disagree with him on some things. I also know quite a few Trump voters, as I do live in Texas, and those people are beyond rationality at this point. Trying to have a conversation about an issue is utterly useless, because all they know how to do is restate whatever line they've been fed by whatever conservative media they watch.
My point is this tweet is absolutely bullshit
It's not so much the blind loyalty as much as it is the "shh, don't talk bad about what we all know." Different, but feels the same.
Feels before reals.
The person you're responding to is describing a conscious, rational thought process, not feelings
I think it's more that people are terrified of Biden being criticized harshly while Trump gets a similar treatment. If news and pundits treat the two the same, it equates them. Which is NOT REALITY. But if outlets treat them as the same, there's a real good chance we get Trump. And there's a not insignificant chance if that happens we won't have another fair election again.
Biden has a lot of problems but they are absolutely nothing compared to Trump on all the same counts and vastly more.
Yes, it's exactly this. It's the idea that you're feeding into the "both sides" bullshit.
I think it goes something like this:
It's the same logic as crypto "investors." Their favorite cryptocurrency only goes up and they only make money off of it if they portray it as perfect. And pretty soon they stop differentiating between what makes line go up and what is actually true entirely. (And they absolutely cannot under any circumstances admit to even the tiniest flaw or valid criticism of the coins they're invested in.)
Who is pretending Biden's perfect?! From where are y'all pulling this stuff?
I'm mostly referring to what this article is saying.
But more centrist Democrats, including those most likely to have appended "Blue Wave" and "Resistance" labels to their social media accounts in the Trump years, were appalled at what they saw as a betrayal by one of their own.
That article is based around four tweets from total randos and the hot takes of a couple famous people. And none of them anywhere state or even imply Biden's perfect
They have a doctor with rubber gloves and a flashlight that helps them figure out what liberals are thinking.