It was semi serious. Trump is by far the worst option. Whilst Biden has achieved more than his opponents expected him to, can he keep going for another 6 or so years t9 the end of a second term? Is there really no one else the democrats can field? The belief that only Biden can beat trump is surely flawed.
You would hope that anyone else would also stand a decent chance, but it's easy to forget how popular trump was in America, he got votes than anyone else ever has (I think?) obvs apart from Biden. He got more votes than Obama got certainly.
It's no that no one else could beat Trump, it's that there's no one else (well, no one else with multimillion $$$ backing) that the Democrats can agree on. The catastrophic US electoral system does its thing.
I think Buttigieg is serving his apprenticeship and will be the next Dem establishment candidate in 4 years time. Harris and maybe AOC might challenge, but I suspect the Democratic party would rather have a gay candidate than a female one. After all, he's married to a man - that's basically twice as manly!
Aha. I hadn’t considered that would be Sandydragon asking a sincere question. Comparing anything or anybody to Trump is a pretty pointless exercise.
It was semi serious. Trump is by far the worst option. Whilst Biden has achieved more than his opponents expected him to, can he keep going for another 6 or so years t9 the end of a second term? Is there really no one else the democrats can field? The belief that only Biden can beat trump is surely flawed.
You would hope that anyone else would also stand a decent chance, but it's easy to forget how popular trump was in America, he got votes than anyone else ever has (I think?) obvs apart from Biden. He got more votes than Obama got certainly.
It was semi serious. Trump is by far the worst option. Whilst Biden has achieved more than his opponents expected him to, can he keep going for another 6 or so years t9 the end of a second term? Is there really no one else the democrats can field? The belief that only Biden can beat trump is surely flawed.
You would hope that anyone else would also stand a decent chance, but it's easy to forget how popular trump was in America, he got votes than anyone else ever has (I think?) obvs apart from Biden. He got more votes than Obama got certainly.
He lost the popular vote both times he ran.
I know but on votes cast he's the 2nd most popular presidential candidate ever.
It was so much easier to blame Them. It was bleakly depressing to think They were Us. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Tbh that feels like the least worst of these, the deliberate mass killing versus I'm an idiot who trys to shoot someone they have a beef with at a public event
It feels fucked from the outside looking in, I visited a blue state 10 years ago and am pretty sure I couldn't live there
Not too bad, I headed up to the cottage this morning to meet a contractor, still hazy but better than in the city. Scary to think this is only the start of the fire season.
Looks like it's worse south of the border than up here right now, though changes by the hour. Mother nature slaps back. I wonder what the long term health effects will be.
Thanks Sandy, luckily I spent many years hardening my lungs with cigarettes, pretty much bullet proof in that respect, in all seriousness, I worry about the after effects for my kids and their generation. Folks on the front line are doing it tough, communities disappearing. Told to evacuate one day, come back a few weeks later to find everything you've spent your life building is gone. Meanwhile the political elites maneuver for political power by creating culture wars to keep us distracted. All very depressing.
Wow. A couple in Denmark were having an argument and the police noticed. The guy (who was black) started to scream ‘I’m complying I’m complying’ before the officers even got to them. He was terrified.
These officers are asking…how can we reassure our visitors that calling the police while black in Europe is not risking a death sentence? Suggestions are offered in the video and comments.
He also said there needs to be a "new law" to address communists and Marxists who grew up in America. You couldn't make this stuff up. Trump/Taylor Green 2024 - yey god.
If anything, Taylor-Green is worse than Trump. She genuinely seems to believe this shit, I still think a large part of him is taking advantage of the prejudice.
Sandydragon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:49 am
If anything, Taylor-Green is worse than Trump. She genuinely seems to believe this shit, I still think a large part of him is taking advantage of the prejudice.
You’ve obviously not heard him give his honest opinions… the guy is one of the biggest racist, sexist pigs alive.
US Supreme Court has just ruled affirmitive action policies at colleges unconstitutional. This is hugely regressive because the man cannot be relied on to be objective in enrollment assessment. First one to call me "woke" gets a slap. I work in academia and see this shit first hand. I can't believe this culture war shit was upheld.
morepork wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 3:17 pm I can't believe this culture war shit was upheld.
Have you not seen the makeup of the US Supreme Court?
I can easily believe that this culture was shit gets a pat on the back there - "this'll annoy the left" are why at least 3 of them are there in the first place.
The same challenge happened in the 80's under Reagan when some Harvard cracker law students challenged the affront to privilege at Harvard. Since then black enrollment at medical schools started going down. It's going to go down even more. What an impossibly backwards step.
