Harris-Walz / Dems

[DefaultOption]

Democrats had decades to codify Roe as law & guarantee right to choice.

No, they didn't. At no point in the fifty years since Roe have there been sixty pro-choice votes in the Senate. Even the brief Dem supermajority in 2009 that got the ACA passed included several Blue Dogs who would not have supported an abortion rights bill.

 

[Paladin]

Funny how Democrats seem to need a supermajority to accomplish anything while Republicans can apparently get everything they want every term regardless of how many seats they hold.

 

[Pale Rider]

It's like, why even have an election?

 

[Spin-Out]

Because if there's a chance to non-violently keep those MAGANazi ************s from taking power so they won't get the opportunity to murder most of my friends, I'll ******* take it. I know I'm constantly baying for GQP blood, but I don't want to kill anyone unless I have no other choice.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Funny how Democrats seem to need a supermajority to accomplish anything while Republicans can apparently get everything they want every term regardless of how many seats they hold.

Because the bar for preventing stuff from happening is significantly lower and easier to achieve than the bar that requires changing the fundamental documents of your democracy. Shocking, I know.

 

[Paladin]

How do you explain to a student who just watched, say, the NYPD throw their friends down a flight of stairs for participating in a nonviolent protest — acts committed without so a peep of condemnation from the president — that a vote for him is a vote against fascism?

Antifascism and anti-Trumpism aren't always the same thing

Things are looking bad for Biden’s chances in November, and his handling of both the Gaza crisis and the campus protest movement are playing a major role.

theracket.news

 

[NovaSaber]

Biden's mind can actually be changed. His position on the very issue these protests are about has shifted in the direction the protestors want; not by enough, but it has shifted.

That's the difference between him and Von Shitzinpantz that would still apply even if their current positions were exactly the same.
Which they aren't. Again, they aren't different enough, but there is literally no area I can think of in which Biden isn't at least somewhat less bad than the alternative.

 

[Pocket]

The problem isn't that we need convincing. It's that our future is in the hands of a lot of people who do.

 

[Thylacine 2000]

How do you explain to a student who just watched, say, the NYPD throw their friends down a flight of stairs for participating in a nonviolent protest — acts committed without so a peep of condemnation from the president — that a vote for him is a vote against fascism?

"Nonviolent" (*) (sic)

Beyond that, you must ask if this person is worth explaining anything to.

What Americans think about recent pro-Palestinian campus protests | YouGov

Few support demonstrators' calls for divestment, and one in three believe college administrators have not responded harshly enough to the protesters.

today.yougov.com

Even among current college students, Palestine ranks 15th in significance out of the 16 issues polled. This is a fringe issue among fringe people. I've spent my whole life watching politicians lose after they swore the youth vote would turn out for them and then it didn't turn out at all.

 

[Ungnome]

A vote for Biden might not be a strong vote against fascism, but a vote for Trump is a pretty strong vote FOR fascism. Hopefully by November people realize that. If you think Biden is bad for the Palestinians, wait till you get a load of Trump. As horrible as it feels, this election is about minimizing harm, not improving things. Once the cult is diminished we can work on the later.

 

[Paladin]

well Biden's mind IS changing.

To mush.

White House Insists Biden Meant ‘Recession’ When He Said ‘Pandemic’

“When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,” the president said.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Maybe he was talking about swine flu.

 

[Paladin]

A strategist interview that refuses accept the possibility that their internal polls are wrong is probably a sign the campaign is not going to go well.

Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?

Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Spin-Out]

every election since 2020 has overestimated republicans' chances and underestimated democrats' chances. no matter how much the polls claim they're "more accurate than ever," i'm skeptical of them at best; most people don't answer numbers they don't know these days (especially Gen X, Y, Z and Alpha), and pollsters never call cell phones (when more and more people under 50 don't even bother with landlines).

plus, it is an established fact republicans will hire "pollsters" to deliberately inflate the numbers for their candidates, in an attempt to get democratic voters to just say "why bother" and not vote. it's part of their voter suppression strategy.

i'm done with doomism. my philosophy now is "hope for the best and do what you can to make that happen, and if the worst happens, wake the hug up, samurai. we got some MAGAzis to burn."

 

[CoffeeHorse]

That's not that part of that interview that stood out to me. This strategist thinks voters just haven't heard enough about Trump's flaws, but if the campaign hammers that message enough, then people will know.

 

[wonko the sane?]

If they want voters to be aware of trumps flaws: mainstream media needs to stop being complicit in normalizing his criminal acts. There is no way around that.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

For that to work, we'd need mainstream media that isn't owned by right-wing shills.

 

[Rhinox]

For that to work, we'd need mainstream media that isn't owned by right-wing shills.

Or super excited at the thought of a horse race.

 

[DefaultOption]

But if there's no horserace narrative, how will they inflate their engagement numbers‽

 

[Pocket]

Or super excited at the thought of a horse race.

There need be no "or". CNN, USA Today, and MSNBC are owned by right-wing shills too, just subtler ones who don't want to murder gay people. It's the nature of being a big business.