What about all those Republicans claiming credit for the positive results of bills that they voted against and publicly vehemently demonized

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting

Second definition

While simultaneously gaslighting Biden for needing a teleprompter.

Better to be Himmler than a political prisoner.

And also hilarious, since he was all too happy to fully enable Trump.

All that power that he cheated our democracy to put in Trumps hands, so that he could use him as a puppet to further his far right agenda, has turned on him. Even after kissing the ring after falling in line again after a very brief “perhaps we’ve gone too far” moment on Jan 6th.

Fuck you, Mitch. You destroyed our democracy. You did this. You raised an idiot to a dictatorship thinking you could control him. Great fucking job.

Whitmer, Shaprio, Walz, Buttigieg all don’t have the nationwide name recognition needed to hit the ground running with so little time before elections.

Newsom only has name recognition because the Right has been demonizing him for years because they recognized him as a threat. We’d just have a repeat of Hillary.

I’m not saying that these wouldn’t make decent candidates in a normal Primary time frame. But it would spell disaster to pivot to any of these candidates this late in the race.

Then name a name.

Who has that kind of charisma and name recognition, with no baggage, that they can storm in like the Koolaid man and take this election?

No? Yeah, I didn’t think so. You have been shitting on Biden every thread, even non-Biden related posts, for this entire election year and have never offered an alternative.

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I thought that the current theory was that his ear was cut by a glass shard from a teleprompter.

Has that been disproven?

I don’t know if the algorithm has been tuned better, but I have totally missed big events until someone has directly mentioned it to me, because of mega threads. I suspect it may because the initial burst of community participation may happen in the first couple threads, and by the time a mod comes in and either uses an existing one as a mega thread, or starts a new thread, the participation has waned, so minor stories rise above.

I heard, by mouth, that Trump had been shot about an hour after it happened. It was no where on my front page, either “Active” or “Top Six Hours”. I had to go to the News community directly to find it.

I personally hate mega threads. It fucks with front page algorithms. Sometimes I’m not even aware of large events because I didn’t know there was a mega thread on a specific community that you might not see if you’re just looking at your front page, depending on how late the mega thread gets to the scene. Or newer articles with additional detail revitalizing the discussion under a new post.

I would rather comb through a couple threads, which tend to have some subtly different angles on the overall discussion.

But I think I’m in the minority.

You can just keep it to yourself dude.

Oh the irony! From the both sides dude that gets downvoted into oblivion every thread.

A pretty predictable outcome of extended drug use.

What slide? He was this incoherent during his presidency. This has been his way of communicating the entire time, and yet people die for him.

She killed her puppy, who she was training to hunt fowl, after it killed a chicken or two at a ranch.

She killed her puppy because she was a shitty owner and lost control of a dog doing what it was taught to do.

If dicking around on social media counts as work, I’m owed a lot of overtime.

Yeah, the best case scenario was Biden not running for 2024 from the beginning so we could have proper primaries, and align behind the winner. That’s how it should have been handled.

But it’s too late. None of the candidates you mentioned are strong enough to rally behind this late in the race. Each state would need to figure out a makeshift primary and then align, or DNC would have to choose, which would make it Harris by default. It would be an absolute disaster.

There wasn’t a “dumb” one in that one. But there was massive hypocrisy from the GOP because Romney is the embodiment of the Elite, while they tirelessly touted Bush Jr as an everydayman (“dumb”) while villifying the Elite.

This was just 4 years later.

It’s an article from salon. Just editorialized drivel.

My point is that there is no good in this scenario. The proposed solutions are literally impossible.

See my other reply in this thread for a better explanation.

We need a solution right now more than we need a perfect plan of execution.

I agree. But IMO, the proposed solutions don’t have a chance in hell of being passed, because of the reality of needing a super majority. Either to impeach a SCOTUS judge, or to reform the SCOTUS rules.

And I think the messaging should focus on the need for a super majority to impeach these corrupt judges, as well as pass reform. The messaging should highlight the republican representatives refusing to cross the aisle to fight this blatant corruption.

And most importantly, highlight what can be done if voters give the Dems a super majority.

Yeah, it’s not going to happen, but instead of AOC and Bernie just floating impossible ideas, we need to focus on how voters can give the Dems the power to actually fix these problems. And without that super majority, there is very little that can be done.

Because the current approach makes the Dems seem ineffective and only serves to disenfranchise voters, when we really need to put a fire under voters to put a fire under the Republican half of our government to either cross the aisle or GTFO.