Except this happens every year, during storms, during heat waves, during cold snaps. If it were just a one-off event it might be able to be waved away, but a pattern of failure is emerging.
Whether the storm was projected to hit as hard or not doesn't really matter, tropical storms and hurricanes are not some new event in that area of Texas, yet the state and local governments seem utterly unprepared. It was only a year or two ago that basically the exact same thing happened, and apparently nothing was done about it to shore up their services. It's an inefficiency of the private sector, they're not capable of providing vital services because their primary motivation is not reliability and efficiency, it's profit and cost cutting.
You don't see this happening in other states with the same frequency. I've never had the grid where I am fail, and we get both extreme heat and cold and occasional tropical storms.
I’d recommend you actually read the very article and explicitly try and look for a genuine quote where an individual explicitly is quoted as saying Biden should drop out.
No, you're desperately trying to ignore why they are trying to be delicate; these are people who are close to Biden, and they understand that they need to try to persuade him to step down but also if he chooses not to they need to be able to try and drag his corpse over the line.
If Biden had their full support they wouldn't be qualifying all their endorsements, they wouldn't be phrasing it as "Whoever the candidate is I'll support them." They would be saying the discussion of his age is nonsense, but they're not because they understand this is one thing they can't just pretend isn't a reality. They're positioning themselves for both scenarios because there are closed door meetings about this topic.
And besides, other dems have been more explicit, including Adam Smith and Pat Ryan, both of whom did not soften the blow at all:
These are not fringey left dems, they're right-wing, party establishment.
But yeah, I can see you're not ever going to be honest about this, no matter how much evidence you're shown. You've got some other agenda here besides a democratic win, and I don't really care to know what it is honestly. Good bye.
This is fundamentally the standard “people are saying…” classic propoganda engine that trump literally used for over 4 years straight.
No. It's not. Power player right-wing democrats in his own party are actually asking the question seriously. People who up to this point have been his strongest allies.
It's not hypothetical, it's real people in real positions of influence having the discusdion, regardless of whether Biden refuses to step aside.
Now please never try to make that argument again. You've been given direct evidence that it's false, if you persist you'll be deliberately lying. It's not the same thing at all.
They actually don't even need Israel, Turkey is our NATO ally already and has the same access to the sea. Obviously Erdogan is a authoritarian dickshit, but at least they're not actively committing a genocide.
Israel has no dramatic geopolitical value to the US at this point, they're basically just a client. Though you wouldn't think it by the way Netanyahu yanks Biden around by his testicles. The unquestioning support for Israel is ideological for people like Biden, and for others it's all the money from AIPAC and JStreet
Perhaps look at more recent polling after Biden'sfailure in the debate, not numbers from May.
Recent polls suggest Harris could do better than Biden against Trump, the Republican candidate, although she would face a tight contest.
A CNN poll released on July 2 found voters favor Trump over Biden by six percentage points, or 49% to 43%. Harris also trailed Trump, 47% to 45%, within the margin of error.
It also found independents back Harris 43%-40% over Trump, and moderate voters of both parties prefer her 51-39%.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll after last week's televised debate between Trump and a faltering Biden found Harris and Trump were nearly tied, with 42% supporting her and 43% backing him.
She's more popular with women and independents than Biden, which are two of the main groups Biden has been attempting to court to make up for losing the anti-genocide vote. There are no downsides, Biden's a guarunteed loss, his numbers match up with every losing presidential candidate going back decades.
I won't rule out him stepping down until the convention is over. No one is "spreading" anything, his own party leadership are still talking about him to step down to varying degrees, that's factual. Stopping people talking about it won't change that.
I think you're more uncomfortable with how this national conversation will put make it impossible to argue that Biden isn't responsible for a democratic loss in November.
Obvious propaganda is obvious. The people of Gaza are paying the price of Israel's policy of deliberately targeting civilians with the intent to cause as much death and suffering as possible.
Harris would have access to the funds from their campaign, she'd essentially inherit Biden's war chest. That's part of why she's the logical choice, she can actually use that money to hit the ground running in terms of spreading whatever message they need to get out in the event the candidate changes.
This is exactly what people were warned about with "games as a service" nonsense. No one wanted to listen.
They wouldn't be doing it if there wasn't a plan to get consumers to be paying more in the end.