I don’t think they matter to Joe, I think Democratic megadonors and powerful elected officials are the people who could get through.

He wasn’t particularly keen on Biden 2020, so I wonder how much influence he really has with him personally. He could rally the troops for an intervention though.

“We” nothing. Biden and the Democratic powerbrokers being unable to see that he was going to be too old made this bed. I wasn’t given any input into it. This is, by design, literally the first time he’s been tested all campaign.

The rumored plan that came out of his campaign in 2020 was right, do a term stabilizing the nation as the oldest president in history, then pass it on to the next generation.

I’m a real person downvoting you because you’re delusional. This is a massively wide concern reflected in polls and being expressed by Democratic cheerleaders like Pod Save America. I have a hard time believing any of you live in a world so insulated that you think this is just trolls and media manipulation.

I don’t think this is really a moderates thing, I think this is a Biden ego thing and the Democrats being paralyzed by their deference to established leaders even when they’re clearly in the wrong. The only Democrat on record saying he should step down is some nobody. And there’s a whole lot of moderates damning him with faint praise of “that’s something Joe Biden will have to decide” rather than “no, of course he should stay in”.

I don’t expect Biden to be replaced by someone not thoroughly bland and plotting a triangulating path through the electorate. Hell, it’s entirely possible Biden’s fits and starts of throwing the left a bone occasionally will be “the good times” for progressives. But what I do know is the Joe is almost certain to lose and we need someone who can win. Sub in Kamala or Buttigieg or (ugh) Newsome, it’ll still let me breath a sigh of relief.

Hopefully someone can stop worrying about Uncle Joe’s feelings and hold an intervention so it only dooms Biden.

Maybe the afterlife sorting is graded on a curve.

I appreciate the positive viewpoint, but we also need to remember that the popular vote doesn’t decide the election. Trump won in 2016 with 46%.

This whole goddamned news cycle is about how we don’t have a binary choice. Or more accurately we could have a different binary choice. Biden isn’t locked in. If the primary argument to vote is “Trump is worse”, then it’s not important that Biden be the candidate on the other side.

Starting collective action has always been the big stumbling block for the left-of-center in America. Europeans would riot for far less. We need more unions and unions willing to be political to help act as a nucleus for mass protests to say they can’t just do whatever they want. People should believe they have power other than just voting or signing a petition.

The Supreme Court made bribery semi-legal, elevated allied presidents to kings, and dismantled the regulations that do most of the heavy lifting to keep our air and water clean. While I concur with many Democrats correct statements about how bad these rulings are, they should be leading people to the streets. Hell, the three dissenting judges should be going before the senate to explain how antithetical to American democracy the most recent ruling is. Stop pretending the system is working when it’s in freefall with no correction in sight.

It’s worth underscoring that many proponents of UBI disagree that it eliminates the desire or need to work.

Or you know you could just reference actual studies instead of countering one dude’s unsupported opinion with an unsupported opinion from “many proponents”. You don’t need to pretend like it’s unknown and the best we can do it jot down opposing opinions from random people.

The fuck is wrong with this guy. I mean, apart from the brain worm. Is this just adult-form affluenza?

He’s got a sort of radical honesty, but the stuff he’s being honest about are all things that should disqualify him from public life. Like, it’s refreshing that you didn’t lie about your brain worm or nonconsensual groping, but you also don’t seem to be at all embarrassed or ashamed of them and you should be.

Luckily Joe Biden doesn’t inspire people enough for them to risk their lives to watch him talk, so this is going to work out as net Democratic votes.

I particularly like that they hinted that some things in the trial were official and some things weren’t, but they’re not going to tell anyone what they are at this time, we have to wait for the appeal to work its way back up. At which point the election will be over and they’ll just say “psyche, it’s all official”.

The President is responsible for the military branch so if he ordered someone assassinated by Seal Team 6 he’s immune with multiple layers given by the supreme court

Seal Team 6 is probably pretty squarely in the absolute immunity realm, at least if he doesn’t the absolute minimum to try to say it’s for national security. That’s the stuff that shouldn’t even be challengeable.

Other way around. It was business funds paying her, but since the payment was for a political purpose it should have been campaign funds and so it was an illegal political contribution that was then covered up (the actual crime in the end).

Other way around, it was business funds used for campaign purposes.

He already wanted the National Guard to shoot BLM protesters. That seems like a pretty immune act in this ruling. Get some 18 year old conservative shithead guardsman pulled in from bumfuck county to the godless city to pull the trigger and start the shooting and he’s all good.

“Don’t freak out, trust the process. Mueller is right now playing 5D chess while Trump is playing checkers. The wheels of justice are slow.”

There are some legal experts (and personally safe liberals) that are really devoted to the idea that the system works. If there is a big change in the legal system that on its surface seems horribly harmful, we need to look on the bright side rather than question tearing the system apart, because their whole identity is built around it just being a benign system bending toward justice if you wait long enough and the worst thing that could happen would be people losing faith in the “rule of law” and disrupting the status quo.

They will after all the conservative justices are assassinated. Turns out you can get a lot done if you can just shoot anyone who opposes you.