I mean, that's not untrue but it's not really less problematic. You generally pick a president to do a job, not for whichever flunky to do the job. Biden not running stuff and instead his aids or other democrats doing it should be the sort of stuff that results in impeachments and civil wars. Biden is a threat to US democracy and a geopolitical risk, just not for the same reasons as trump.
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Well, that's the thing: I don't vote for people, I vote for policy. That's unique about the Democratic party compared to the Republican (at least the current one) party. I don't think that's gonna change because the president has to delegate the heavy lifting to people around him because presidents have a cabinet of advisors regardless of their age. Trump couldn't be talked down by anyone during his presidency despite him being mentally capable. I don't think Joe is the same kind of character.
Did you watch the debate? If not, can you guess how much time was spent talking about helping Palestinians? Or a genocide?
Sure, there's a policy angle thing but being president is ultimately a job that the person specifically has to do. Not everything can be delegated, some things shouldn't. I am not pushing for a trump vote here nor trying to get a justification for a biden vote. Biden is factually and categorically unfit for office. How long until biden can't even delegate? how long until he needs to be spoon-fed? Biden should have been 25th months or years ago.
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Well, ideally, he'd just win the election so that he can hand appoint someone to take over. There's a precedent for presidents (lol) stepping down. It's happened at least twice. And that's what I'd prefer it's just... I'm risk averse. He was the Democratic presidentical choice because he's the most electable. Whoever replaces him needs to earn America's trust by November. That's not a lot of time. I just wanna secure the presidency. We can worry about actually BEING a president afterwards. It isn't ideal, but when lifes gives you lemons... you make lemonade.
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Yeah. But in his defense, Trump's lived his life in the lap of luxury. He's lived an incredibly sedentary lifestyle and that's probably helped him maintain his mental faculties this long. Or he was just genetically lucky.
What?
I did not. And probably no more than five minutes? Why would they talk about helping Palestinians when they're firmly in Israel's pockets? I'm willing to bet Biden just kept lying and blaming Hamas for everything.
Bet on it, if Biden loses. Unlike Clinton being horrible at campaigning, Biden's loss will actually be because of what he did during his presidency, and what we can expect based on that.
I am not sure of how a campaign made around biden stepping down for the VP to take over works. Even if it was understood he is going to do that it doesn't sound like a winning strategy. Both democrats and republicans have their share of voters that will vote in party lines regardless of context but there's voters in between that can be flipped. I don't see those voting for a potato or a potato that's expected to step down. It's sounds grifty in a trump way tbh.
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There already is a conservative Supreme Court. Trump lucked into Scalia dropping dead to nominate Gorsuch, Anthony Kennedy waited to retire until Trump was elected for some insane reason and Brett Kavanaugh was forced through, and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg refused to step aside when she was dying of cancer so now we have Amy Coney-Barrett.
Two old guys that are about to retire or drop dead, and that means Biden or Trump can appoint two much younger judges to replace them. I think it was Alito and Thomas who were gunning to retire if Trump won? I don't remember the specifics.
In fairness that houseplant would have more brainpower than biden.
Sure, but just want to make sure you're aware that this is first and foremost a fundraising strategy and it won't be going away even if Trump does.
Sure. And I also know, in principal, Blue No Matter Who isn't that respectable of a stance to take, because it engenders complacency in the people, causing us not to hold our political advocates to the standard we should be holding them to.
