They lucked out this time. That's a lousy basis on which to judge building codes. Every building that burned down and killed dozens in the process spent many days not burning down first.
I can guarantee you that the DNC will not be siding with me on my stance on labor, work from home, etc, they’ll be siding with this muppet.
How can you guarantee me that? Is there something in their platform about this, a clear pattern of other Democratic politicians taking this position, or is this just a feeling you've got?
My point is that this isn't some kind of broad-based Democratic party platform on display here. He's just an idiot politician saying something dumb who happens to be a Democrat. He's not holding this position because he's a Democrat.
So what's the winning strategy? Let Trump win instead?
The world isn't perfect. Holding out for a perfect candidate means never voting, at which point you have nothing to bargain with either.
Go ahead and vote your conscience in the primaries, sure. It's not such a big deal if you hold out for perfect in those. But in the American election system the actual vote for president is going to be between Trump and Biden. It sucks but you get just those two options there.
There's a big difference between sleeping in a place overnight and just standing around "congregating" there, from a fire safety standpoint.
This is not a one-off issue. The place has been repeatedly failing fire inspections. If the guy wants to use it as a homeless shelter then he needs to fix those issues.
If you tip things far enough in the work direction the whole balance falls off of the fulcrum and lands on the floor, where it becomes completely stable. You can then pile as much work on as you want without budging it further.
The comment I was responding to at the root of this said:
It would take a constitutional convention to change
And my response was to point out that no, it wouldn't. It doesn't. It's still difficult, sure, but it doesn't require a constitutional convention to change.
Also, if you actually look it up, there are enough states that have already enacted the compact or are "pending" to get it done. So it's closer to being done than you are implying.
It's the point I'm trying to make. The place wasn't shut down arbitrarily for no reason, it was shut down (or rather prevented from becoming an impromptu homeless shelter) because it wasn't safe.
If this had been allowed to carry on without fuss and then there was a fire that killed dozens of homeless people the headlines would have been blaring about how the city was responsible for those deaths. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Maybe it's a bad strategy, but it may still be the best strategy.
The main point of my post is that even if you don't like Biden, you should at least be truthful in your complaints about him. If you paint him as worse than he actually is then instead of people holding their nose and voting for him they may just not vote at all, or worse.
The point of things like the fire code is to ensure that if, for example, you've got 20 people sleeping in a building the building is set up to be able to get those people out easily if it catches on fire. So it's not a problem until you've got 20 people sleeping in the building. If the building's only safe for 4 people sleeping in it then there's no fire code problem if 4 people are sleeping in it. It only becomes a problem when you cram 20 people in there.
There is one interesting workaround I've heard about from time to time, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It's a state-level agreement where all the participating member states commit to allocating their electoral college votes to whomever won the popular vote nationally. No need for a constitutional convention since the allocation of electoral college votes is in the hands of state governments, they can decide to do this under the existing constitution.
They lucked out this time. That's a lousy basis on which to judge building codes. Every building that burned down and killed dozens in the process spent many days not burning down first.