Are there tolerable football fans?

It’s completely comprehensible. Since 2000, the impression has been that if you’re not in a swing state, your vote doesn’t matter. This impression, whether factual or not, has been helped along by candidates and the media. Factor in that we have two conservative parties, one that is dashing towards fascism, and the other sometimes wears a rainbow sticker while casually strolling towards fascism, and it’s completely understandable why many on the left don’t vote. It’s not a helpful mentality, but depression rarely is helpful.

Biden can’t be racist, he has a black friend!

Polls are extra meaningless this election. No one is undecided between the Toupee and Biden. If there’s any indecision on either side, it’s between voting for the party’s nominee or not voting in the presidential election.

Which is why it continues to baffle that the Democratic campaign strategy has been mostly if not entirely “I’m not quite as bad as the Other Guy!”

Cool. Can we also be done talking about how you’re not as bad as the Toupee? I’d like to hear why you specifically are the best option, not just the less bad one.

They did say it was a bipartisan bill. When the two parties are regressive and conservative, you can’t expect any progress.

A more conspiratorially minded person could come to the conclusion that Republicans were behind the whole assassination attempt, to make the Toupee appear strong and to turn the media’s attention back to them.

So he’s never been competent. That doesn’t surprise me but it’s still not a reason to vote for him.

The thing is Dems usually pretend to be slightly less bad than Republicans. This “just shut up and vote for our man” is typically a Republican strategy.

I’m a bartender. Half my paycheck is tips (and still isn’t enough to live in the area, but that’s another issue). There shouldn’t be a tipped minimum wage. Period. Tips should be optional, not a way for employers to make customers pay their employees’ wages.

Long gone are the days when you made $7.25 an hour on your paycheck and took home hundreds in cash per night. People are tipping less, eating out less, and carrying less cash. Paying everyone a livable wage and eliminating the need to tip would help everyone, except the owner class.

In many cities, that would mean a 81sqft room in a unit with three roommates in the worst part of town, and having a 45 minute commute to work (each way).

Life’s too short, is what I decided. I could live in almost comfortable conditions and not have any money, or live in miserable conditions and still not have any money.

Bernie is about as extreme as Taco Bell cheese is spicy.

Harris. Easy answer. Already has name recognition, already has been planning to take over as President (if even a single Democratic advisor isn’t brain-dead), and scares the Republicans because she’s a woman and black. Sure, she’s a cop, but there aren’t any good options in the Democratic Party, and she won’t put up with Trump’s shit.

And isn’t past retirement age. Of course she wouldn’t have universal support, but I doubt there’s any Democrat who could have less support than Biden right now.

As for all the things Biden has done, I have heard of a few trivial steps in the right direction his administration has done. That’s great. Why isn’t he focusing on them in his campaign? Ignore the Toupee. Tell us what empty promises his administration is going to make. Nearly every sentient being is a better option than the Toupee, that’s not a compelling reason to vote for Biden, that’s just a reason to vote for anything else.

Want to “win overwhelmingly”? Stop saying you’re not as bad as the Toupee. Duh. There’s at least 300 million people in the US that fit that statement. Don’t tell us to vote against the Other Guy, tell us why we should vote for you, specifically. You had some trivial wins in the past year? Advertise them. You have some plans for working class Americans that you’ll pretend never existed the second the election is over? Promise them!

If you want us to vote for a specific person, tell us why that person is worth voting for. If the strategy remains “I’m not as bad as the Other Guy”, you might as well just put a blank line next to the D on the ballot.

Same thing goes for all you centrist supporters who automatically assume everyone who wants a better candidate than Biden is secretly a Russian troll who will be voting for the Toupee.

It’s definitely the right move for her at this point. If Biden steps aside (or dies) before the election, the Democrats aren’t going to nominate someone who didn’t back Biden. Publicly backing lets her stay on the team, and maybe one day have a shot at the Presidency herself (assuming we get more than four more years before fascism wins).

I think I’ve finally figured out the Democratic Party’s strategy here. The Dems have never held the presidency through two consecutive candidates, save for the VP taking over after the president’s death. They’re pushing Biden so hard knowing he’ll die shortly into his second term, then they’ll have Harris for at least one term, giving them a slight advantage in 2028. And if they can secure a second term for Harris, that gives them eight years to mildly delay fascism, and by that point the earth will be on fire too much for any government system to matter.

I vote for the party and it’s [sic] beliefs, not the man.

Which beliefs? That compromising with fascism is the best way to deal with it? That the best way to move this country forward is to continually offer a “lesser evil”? That occasional lip-service to not being bigots is enough to distract us from the burning planet and infinitely yawning chasm between the owner class and the workers?

Why do you and other Centrists keep saying that as if us on the Left don’t know, and as if that will get us to vote for Biden? Everyone knows Trump is the worst. There’s literally over 100 million people in the US that would be a better choice than Trump. Why should Biden get the vote out of all of them? “Because he’s the nominee” “there’s not enough time for a replacement” “some states are dumb and won’t change the ballot in time” don’t give a fuck. Why should Biden get my vote?

Joke’s on future (or is it present?) you. The only way to be financially ready for retirement is to start saving before you were born.