Biden’s first 2024 campaign ad highlights threats to US democracy

I remember watching V for Vendetta when Obama was president and I actually can't believe the US went from the Obama era to being on the brink of becoming a christofascist nation.

For as long as Democrats continue to run lukewarm candidates and Republicans populists with actual support, this will continue to be the case.
Do you blame the scorpion or the toad for trusting it? It is entirely the Democrats fault that things are as bad as they are.
- Do you blame the scorpion or the toad for trusting it?
  ... the fucking scorpion. How is that a question?
- Don't forget the republicans gerry mandering districts to keep local and federal control.
  I'd also argue about the republicans having actual support. It's been decades since a republican won the popular vote. They win because of the aforementioned gerry mandering to give them enough of the electoral votes to win. Plus the shit they are pulling locally with their majority where they are passing laws that let them ignore the will of the people even if 90% of people are for something.
  Yes, the dems need to get their shit together but we as a country need to be do and be better. We need to do more of the district lines being drawn by an outside group instead of local interests. We need to get rid of the electoral college and much much more.
- Until young voters vote in primaries at rates approaching the elderly rates, the Deomcratic party will not be able to run progressive candidates.
  Every progressive Democrat candidate who banked on youth turnout has turned out to have misplaced their faith in our ability to translate internet snark to action.
- Any attempt by the Democrats to do anything tends to be blocked by the Republicans. Anything more serious starts threatening their party support.
- The Democrats spent years giving prolonged benefit of the doubt to the Republicans who used that space to instal their own government via judges. They saw it happening but I'd bet you a million bucks their donors told them not to worry, because guess what, fascism is GREAT for buisness if you're the one who already has the business.
- ROFL! Good one! You had me there.

I'm sure they've focus tested this and yes it is the most important issue, I think they have too much faith in the American voter.

I can easily see Independents or frustrated Democrats thinking "we were warned ad nauseum about a fascist takeover by trump last time and it didn't happen and inflation is killing me..."

I think trump's threats to democracy is the most serious issue but I can't see this winning many new voters. Maybe the hope is to increase turnout on our side...

What about climate change lol?
- Donald subverting democracy would be a much more immediate threat and make climate change almost impossible to deal with. One has to be avoided to deal with the other and is thus the higher priority.
They don't have anything else, because the other platforms are related (don't genocide minorities) or anti-disaster-capitalist.
Actual liberal policies could fix some of the problems neoliberalism has created by going back to certain New Deal era policies and regulations but that simply will not happen in post Citizens United world.

I watched the ad and I saw Trump's name a lot more than Biden's. Other than that it feels like a bunch of stock footage trying to make me feel like being an American isn't shameful.

Not a good ad. But what I expected.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Joe Biden’s first campaign ad of the year focuses on threats to US democracy, timed for release on the anniversary of the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.

As footage of political violence and rioting shows on screen, the president notes that “there’s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy”.

Donald Trump is the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination for November’s presidential election, despite his multitude of legal woes, which include charges linked to the Jan 6 attack.

The former president has also struck a notably more extremist tone during his campaign, raising fears he aims to deliberately erode US democratic institutions.

The Biden attack ad will run nationally and in local markets in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as online.

The spot highlights how Trump and his followers are continually working to undermine elections, the Biden-Harris campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said in a news release.“Over the last three years, Maga Republicans haven’t shied away from the Big Lie – they’ve doubled down.

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Everything Trump says and does is a campaign ad for Biden.

Not for his brain-dead loyalists.

If you want to actually do something, help out with volunteer time and, if you can afford it, money.

Get involved with a close house or senate race too.

This a lob ball for republicans who just have to point out democrats are the ones taking opposition off the ballots.

It's so fucking stupid that Jan 6 was a cut-and-dried insurrection, that the 14th amendment should obviously bar Trump from office, and yet it might be better, politically speaking, to let him run anyway. All because there's a giant segment of the population that receives all their news information from sources that scrub it for anything politically detrimental to their party/ point of view.
I fucking hate it here. Fuck Nixon and Reagan, giant pieces of shit, for bringing this horrible reality to us.
- Problem is its not cut and dried without a conviction. And im blaming Bidens DoJ for that taking this long, they didnt even begin charging him until last august, its 2024 and the trial hasnt even started.
How do you mean? The people challenging Trump being on the ballots are Republicans with standing in those jurisdictions.
I am not offering my opinion on these cases, but I think it's important to make sure we understand who the plaintiffs are.
- the two states that have removed Trump from their ballots are Colorado and Maine, Colorado's entirely democrat appointed supreme court, and Maine's democratic secretary of state.

Removed, rules 3 and 6.