Are you insane??? Biden is clearly, obviously, beyond a shadow of a doubt suffering from pretty severe age related cognitive decline. He is INDISPUTABLY incapable of continuing to serve as president. This is INDISPUTABLY a 25th amendment situation. Are you intentionally lying to your subscribers here? What is going on??
to anyone with any medical background or a family member who is on the wane, none of this came as a surprise.
to political hacks with their heads up their ass ... welcome to reality. this is your candidate. anyone who sold the lie that Biden is sharp and fit to be president for a second term - politician and pundit - should be immediately disqualified from offering any further insights into the direction of this party.
Liberal elites continue to pile excrement upon their credibility in the eyes of the American public. They will reap what they sow in November.
I see the articles coming out today, with Obama and Hillary circling the wagons in support of Joe. If anybody, they could have done an intervention. Well, prepare for the return of Emperor Orange Julius. I take the long game that American democracy is strong enough that this too shall pass and the union preserved, but suspect that Vladimir Putin will be overjoyed.
It has been a thing to use "Kamala" for as long as I can recall in SF and California politics. I think of it in the same category as a local sports celebrity that everybody calls "Steph" in casual conversation.
I do this sometimes too, but I wonder if it's just because Kamala is much more distinctive than Harris? I don't think it's sexism. A couple of posts up, there's "Obama", "Hillary", and "Joe" all in the same sentence, for example.
I agree with almost all of this, but "[Biden] should pardon his son" seems like course of action that is both unethical and unwise. Sure, Republicans are harassing Hunter, but it sounds to me like he absolutely made his own bed there, including really sleazy things like implying that he could peddle influence in order to get people to give him large amounts of money (I'm assuming/hoping that that was at least mostly a bluff on his part). Moreover, Biden pardoning his own relatives is almost as norm-eroding as Trump's promises to pardon the January 6th rioters.
It’s a solid take from a principled Matt Yglesias.
But the people who have power - the Warren Wing of the party - would rather have a Trump White House than a Bashear or Whitmer White House.
Centrist compromises are good for the nation, but bad for Progressives, whereas Trump can be used to impugn Republicans.
Meanwhile across the pond, Sir Keir Starmer is showing the left and right wings what does work: mildly right of centre works. The man is about to convincingly thrash everything in his path with a mild, slightly-right-of-centre manifesto.
I said it the last time this came up: it's not crazy for people to think that an 81-year-old is too old to run for office. Most men are dead by 85. I think we could probably do better than Harris, but Harris is obviously better than what we saw last night. I really think that we should go for a convention vote. It'll be exciting of nothing else.
This one from "Gavin Newsom" (and totally not some anonymous staffer) dodged my spam filter. Let the wagon circling commence:
Subject: A message for all Democrats
Folks, Listen.
I was at the debate last night. I watched it. I tried to keep track of Trump’s lies as it went on and I ran out of paper.
On the substance, Joe Biden won the debate last night.
That is what matters to me.
Don’t look at 30 minutes — Look at the last three-and-a-half years under Joe Biden.
It's been a master class: 15.6 million jobs created — 8x more than the last 3 Republican presidents combined; gun safety legislation; lowering the cost of prescription drugs; an infrastructure package to rebuild this country.
Joe Biden has delivered — and we need to deliver for him in this moment — for him, and for Democrats everywhere.
We're talking about the fate and future of our democracy, this country and the world. They all need us right now.
That's what I intend to do, and I hope you'll join me.
I keep going back to the comment of week last Friday.
"Comment of the week goes to Thomas L Hutcheson for introducing me to a fun new saying: As we say in Colombia, “Cria cuervos y te sacan los ojos.” <Raise crows, and they will scratch your eyes out.> Biden should never have tried to be the President of the Warren-Sanders Administration. It has been Hell-bent on electing Trump since 2021!"
Letting Biden go his way could have inevitably led to phrases like, "I won't have illegals take your social security", or other stuff. And more. The point is having him take thread a linguistic fine line at this age isn't going to work. Similarly on inflation, he could go hard on Trump for adding to the debt during his term, but then cannot defend that he called out Manchin when the latter clearly was pivotal in inflation not being higher than it is currently.
Personally, I think the main reason I dismissed concern about Biden's age (in addition to his being the same age as _me_) was that the "concerns" seem to be coming from those who wanted a MORE Warren-Sanders aligned presidency. Ad hominem is a fallacy not proof of error. My bad.
Are you insane??? Biden is clearly, obviously, beyond a shadow of a doubt suffering from pretty severe age related cognitive decline. He is INDISPUTABLY incapable of continuing to serve as president. This is INDISPUTABLY a 25th amendment situation. Are you intentionally lying to your subscribers here? What is going on??
Please not Gavin Newsom. Please not Gavin Newsom. I can accept Harris, just please not Gavin Newsom.
to anyone with any medical background or a family member who is on the wane, none of this came as a surprise.
to political hacks with their heads up their ass ... welcome to reality. this is your candidate. anyone who sold the lie that Biden is sharp and fit to be president for a second term - politician and pundit - should be immediately disqualified from offering any further insights into the direction of this party.
Liberal elites continue to pile excrement upon their credibility in the eyes of the American public. They will reap what they sow in November.
Wait and see is generally the best policy.
I see the articles coming out today, with Obama and Hillary circling the wagons in support of Joe. If anybody, they could have done an intervention. Well, prepare for the return of Emperor Orange Julius. I take the long game that American democracy is strong enough that this too shall pass and the union preserved, but suspect that Vladimir Putin will be overjoyed.
Why is everyone referring to Harris by her 1st name? It seems slightly sexist.
It has been a thing to use "Kamala" for as long as I can recall in SF and California politics. I think of it in the same category as a local sports celebrity that everybody calls "Steph" in casual conversation.
I do this sometimes too, but I wonder if it's just because Kamala is much more distinctive than Harris? I don't think it's sexism. A couple of posts up, there's "Obama", "Hillary", and "Joe" all in the same sentence, for example.
In the ~700 posts here, I see
Kamala Harris: 25 times
Kamala alone: 45 times
Harris alone: 108 times
I agree with almost all of this, but "[Biden] should pardon his son" seems like course of action that is both unethical and unwise. Sure, Republicans are harassing Hunter, but it sounds to me like he absolutely made his own bed there, including really sleazy things like implying that he could peddle influence in order to get people to give him large amounts of money (I'm assuming/hoping that that was at least mostly a bluff on his part). Moreover, Biden pardoning his own relatives is almost as norm-eroding as Trump's promises to pardon the January 6th rioters.
It’s a solid take from a principled Matt Yglesias.
But the people who have power - the Warren Wing of the party - would rather have a Trump White House than a Bashear or Whitmer White House.
Centrist compromises are good for the nation, but bad for Progressives, whereas Trump can be used to impugn Republicans.
Meanwhile across the pond, Sir Keir Starmer is showing the left and right wings what does work: mildly right of centre works. The man is about to convincingly thrash everything in his path with a mild, slightly-right-of-centre manifesto.
I said it the last time this came up: it's not crazy for people to think that an 81-year-old is too old to run for office. Most men are dead by 85. I think we could probably do better than Harris, but Harris is obviously better than what we saw last night. I really think that we should go for a convention vote. It'll be exciting of nothing else.
This one from "Gavin Newsom" (and totally not some anonymous staffer) dodged my spam filter. Let the wagon circling commence:
Subject: A message for all Democrats
Folks, Listen.
I was at the debate last night. I watched it. I tried to keep track of Trump’s lies as it went on and I ran out of paper.
On the substance, Joe Biden won the debate last night.
That is what matters to me.
Don’t look at 30 minutes — Look at the last three-and-a-half years under Joe Biden.
It's been a master class: 15.6 million jobs created — 8x more than the last 3 Republican presidents combined; gun safety legislation; lowering the cost of prescription drugs; an infrastructure package to rebuild this country.
Joe Biden has delivered — and we need to deliver for him in this moment — for him, and for Democrats everywhere.
We're talking about the fate and future of our democracy, this country and the world. They all need us right now.
That's what I intend to do, and I hope you'll join me.
C'mon Matt. Leave the dreamworld.
Harris seems to have really improved lately too. She can push the case on salient issues like abortion https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/23/harris-voice-abortion/
I think this title was a quote from Grand Theft Auto III, actually. One of the Yakuza characters.
Biden may step aside if his former boss urges him to. I doubt he will.
If he does not step aside in the next week, he’s not going to. In that case, it does us no good to cry about it in public.
I keep going back to the comment of week last Friday.
"Comment of the week goes to Thomas L Hutcheson for introducing me to a fun new saying: As we say in Colombia, “Cria cuervos y te sacan los ojos.” <Raise crows, and they will scratch your eyes out.> Biden should never have tried to be the President of the Warren-Sanders Administration. It has been Hell-bent on electing Trump since 2021!"
Letting Biden go his way could have inevitably led to phrases like, "I won't have illegals take your social security", or other stuff. And more. The point is having him take thread a linguistic fine line at this age isn't going to work. Similarly on inflation, he could go hard on Trump for adding to the debt during his term, but then cannot defend that he called out Manchin when the latter clearly was pivotal in inflation not being higher than it is currently.
Personally, I think the main reason I dismissed concern about Biden's age (in addition to his being the same age as _me_) was that the "concerns" seem to be coming from those who wanted a MORE Warren-Sanders aligned presidency. Ad hominem is a fallacy not proof of error. My bad.
Who would be Kamala's VP choice? Shapiro? Gretch? Gov. Goodhair? Rock?