I'd love it if her record as a prosecutor weren't so lopsided against truants and nonviolent drug users, but it's objectively better than having two candidates in clear cognitive decline.
Guys, don't give money to political candidates. Every cycle we read about federal legislators loaning their campaigns money at 20% interest (which is legal) and pocketing your hard-earned cash.
Instead, put it in your investments: stocks, bonds, ETF's, whatever.
No matter who we elect they'll fight to keep your investments sound, so at least you get some representation.
I'm fortunate to have my basic needs covered but the cost of living crisis has hit me pretty hard, especially with two eighty-year old parents forced to drive for DoorDash in order to survive. Biden gets to ride off into the sunset with an eight-figure fortune and a presidential pension.
I am glad to see Biden finally going away, but I have no doubt Harris will be just as bad as he was, and to me, that doesn't lessen the blow simply because Trump is worse.
Whenever I see yet another headline like this I'm reminded of how Joe Biden mocked the 'Defund the Police' movement in his first State of the Union address.
I don't know how we ever fix the problem if we can't elect a president that actually sees the problem to begin with.
The real service would be to abdicate fully, especially now that we've seen exceeding and very public displays of his cognitive decline. Only his handlers know just how bad it is in truth, but I've seen enough to know that I do not want that person making the decisions that affect my everyday life in this country.
If we had an actual, bipartisan functioning government I'm not 100% sure Biden could survive the invocation of the 25th.
convince as many of the 40% who never bother showing up as possible to actually show up
That 40% has spent the last eight years having both parties emphasize to them, repeatedly, and daily, that they don't give a f*** about their economic security.
Why would they miss a badly needed day's pay to vote for either of these parties?
I think we're going to have another razor thing 49% election, personally.
The 49% who always vote Republican will always vote for whoever's nominated.
The 49% who vote Democrat will always vote for whoever's nominated.
You're trying to pull the 1-2% who can be swayed here, and they're going to be reading lots of stories about Harris' tough-on-crime record where she ruthlessly pursued nonviolent drug users and people who skipped school.
Clinton had a ton of baggage too.
Pretending people just hate women is silly when you're picking women whose records are eminently hateable, especially so after none of you voted for Marianne Williamson in the primary.
The only thing that would have changed this was an immediate, unwavering, and unambiguous focus on poverty by the Biden Adminstration.
What got Trump elected the first time was the fact that Obama looked at the foreclosure crisis and didn't do anything meaningful to help the people who were victimized by the big banks.
Now, it's inflation and cost-of-living that's victimizing the poor, and precious little's been done to alleviate it by Joe Biden, so I think it's inevitable that Trump will be reelected. People don't care about fascism when the guy in charge has clearly shown he doesn't care if your family starves.
I'd love it if her record as a prosecutor weren't so lopsided against truants and nonviolent drug users, but it's objectively better than having two candidates in clear cognitive decline.