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Let's also not ignore the fact that the DNC runs the primaries, and the eventually nominee is purely their decision. Effectively, the actual primaries are more for them to gauge the popularity of various candidates.

Let's also not pretend that they were ever going to let Sanders be their nominee... someone who's not even a party member.

It would be more surprising if he'd won the primary process and the DNC actually backed him than the alternative of them simply saying no, he's not a party member, we'll choose the highest finishing actual Democrat instead.

Why?

Because Biden is still the person with the best odds to defeat Trump in an election.

That's really all there is to it.

Yeah that was gonna be my question: does Italy not have any legal mechanism in place that would be the functional equivalent of the US's supremacy clause?

Like...not saying shit like this isn't attempted all the time in deeply conservative areas of the US, but in most cases where the far right leadership has even a shred of strategic thinking, they often don't even attempt to pass or enforce laws like this because it'll trigger immediate challenge in the courts, the challenge will be 100% taken up and the decision will come down against them (since even in a conservative court, the only thing they hate more than ruling in favor of "liberal" causes is any ruling that would limit the court's power in the future), and at that point there's a permanent legal precedent in the books, against the repression they'd like to carry out.

This is really the best part of all this.

Every dollar the GOP spends on Trump's legal issues (which in fairness they kinda have to do since they've now molded the entire party around that one person) is a dollar that they're not spending on his campaign, not spending on polling and research, not spending on skilled campaign managers and advisors, and especially not spending on downticket races.

We're still far enough out from November that I haven't bothered to read up on contested house and senate seats, or state government races that are predicted to possibly flip one way or the other, but a cash strapped Republican party will have less money to pump into those races as well.

But even amoral lenders want to be paid back.

Saudi Arabia may prefer trump over Biden, but not to the tune of a $400M gift.

If they aren't sure Trump would pay them back, they won't give it to him.

In a just world, we'd all get to see the iconic news footage of the 20s: Trump being evicted from Mar a Lago as it is being seized.

Well said.

This twerp is essentially saying "Everyone didn't give up what they wanted to give me what I wanted, so it's their fault if Trump wins because I didn't vote for Biden!"

This totally out of touch perspective and entitlement gives a bad look to all progressives.

Like...I totally get the frustration with the DNC but they're keeping their eyes on the prize here. If and when Trump eventually dies, I might be more sympathetic to a discussion about the progressive bloc holding out for a platform shift to the left, but as long as Trump is on the ballot, anyone not supporting him should be willing to put differences aside and unite against an existential threat.

This isn't 2012 where the Romney/Ryan ticket was simply running on a platform of conservatism...Trump is a different breed and has proven his disregard for our republic many times over.

We prosecuted those responsible (in absentia) and they will be arrested once they enter Dutch soil.

Sounds like you did absolutely nothing

Right?

Like... Marge...please... we're all just surprised you can spell PhD correctly.

This is a disturbingly accurate comparison.

I could absolutely see a story breaking in a few years about how he was a paid actor from some political humor show. Like, they wanted to do a segment on just how far in life you could go in America by being a complete fraud.

The further it went, the more out of control it got until their character "George Santos" found himself in an election.

When the studio wanted to pull the plug, a few key players on the show convinced them to let it play out. It wasn't until he fucking won that everyone agreed that the charade was up, and they needed to do their civic duty and leak some of the fakeness to the press.

Incredibly, even after that it took nearly a year for the powers-that-be to step in and do their job, at which point, the showrunners were now a little too scared of the ramifications to own up to it, until the media frenzy had died down.

Grammar*

But your point is nonetheless well taken.

There was zero backpedal, only breaking things down into bite sized pieces for you.

What a warped view of the situation.

No.

First of all, it's not "an admission" it's an observation.

Second, it's not about what I believe, it's an observation.

Third, I'm not going to speculate on what a bloc of MI l millions of voters would "rather" do in your framework.

Biden was the nominee in 2020 not because he was the candidate anyone liked best, but because he was the candidate that everyone disliked least. In 2024 he's still that candidate.

Further, and more to your point, the entire notion of "moderates would rather lose to fascists than compromise with progressives and leftists" is a wild misrepresentation if voting weight at best, and a total disconnect with the reality of the situation in all likelihood.

More accurately: if the left flank of the American left cannot get onboard with a candidate that the majority of the rest of the American left supports...not even when the alternative is a fascist...then it's that left flank of the party who bears responsibility for being uncompromising, and letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I'd love to see a progressive president, but for that to happen, they need the votes. And it's wildly unreasonable to expect the majority of the Democratic party back someone who won't be able to carry moderates in swing states just because the progressives won't back them unless they do.

Like it or not, leftists and progressives are a far more politically expendable bloc than swing state suburban moderates.

To use a recent quote from these comments:

Isn't this an admission on your part that you believe progressives and leftists would rather lose to fascists than compromise with moderates?

It worries me that you assume video games reproduce and raise offspring and develop and receive education at a rate that matches their human analogues.

Serious question: who do you think would be more likely to defeat Trump in November?

Like...there may very well be someone that you personally like more, but from a political strategy perspective, who's out there that you think has better odds at defeating Trump?

Harris? Bernie?

I'm not arguing the implications of any position, but strictly making observations, I feel that, love him or hate him, Biden is the one person with the best odds to beat Trump in a nationwide general election, and I feel that this will still be true in November.

The Linux proselytizing combined with the rabid impractical political hive mind have combined to slowly take my usage of Lemmy from "increasing and replacing Reddit time" to "flattened out, going back to Reddit a bit" and now it's moving solidly into the territory of "definitely using and visiting Lemmy less, spending more time back on Reddit".

This platform has so much potential, but the community sucks. Which is saying something, given that the chief comparison is the reddit community.

I bet you'll sleep easier tonight knowing that your computing decisions are deemed to be acceptable by some rando on the Internet according to their standards.

Tell us you don't understand macroeconomic statistics without telling us you...ah you get the idea.

The crux of the issue here is that "the economy" as Yellen is concerned with it, is not "the economy" as that rando from Michigan is concerned with it.

Not that either is more or less correct, they're just different.

Yellen always sounds tone deaf though and they really shouldn't put her in front of a hot mic as much as they do. She's not wrong in the things she's saying...but without context and careful speech-crafting, it always lands as "Let them eat financial cake."