Vote Biden because... okay, where were we?
Now, usually Breaking Points videos have too little information and spend too much time trying to entertain you with it. But this one seemed reasonable, only because they actually have a clip within the clip with a candidate offering you some:
Now, I guess there are some polls which show Biden ahead of one reactionary Republican or another, depending of course on how the poll questions are phrased. But I rather suspect that America is going to feel -- desperately -- that Joe needs to go when November 2024 rolls around.
So maybe we should all register Republican, so we'll stand a fighting chance of being able to choose who sits in the White House in 2025. Joe is a one term Prez, and here's why:
1) Joe is too old to do anything but the bare minimum of public appearances.
2) they're campaigning on nothing but the censorship of alternatives (see above) and the cowardice of whatever array of DC politicians think Joe is invulnerable. They're certainly not running on Joe's rather unspectacular record.
3) 70% don't want Joe to run again, but I guess we're going to get an announcement soon.
4) No debates means no Democratic Party publicity.
5) Ukraine.
6) Nord Stream.
7) As Marianne Williamson pointed out above (and as Bernie Sanders pointed out previously), the economy.
9) Who else are the Establishment pols going to get to run? Kamala Harris? Pete Buttigieg?
The Republicans will have a year and a half to prepare a plan against the great onslaught of nothing that will be coming at the American people. It should be enough time for them to craft a winning facade regardless of how ugly they really are -- and, last I checked, they were pretty damned ugly.
So, yeah, it's time for the nice Dems reading this post, each and every one of you, to admit, forthrightly and frankly, that your party will lose the White House in 2024.
(Marianne Williamson supporters and RFK Jr. supporters get a free pass here.)
Okay, now prove me wrong.
Comments
I have only one little disagreement
I am more tolerant of Krystal and Saagar than you. So cancel me. (snark)
On to Biden since 1973
I'm okay with them as people with opinions.
Krystal and Saagar are clearly not "bad folk." But they're trying to sell their news service over the Internet, which might compel them to stretch out their product a bit. They are nonetheless usually worth watching. General rule: capitalism diminishes the quality of everything it touches. Karl Marx knew this: it's the reason why he begged Engels for money rather than earn more of it for himself as a journalist. If you want to see capitalism bring something to ruin quickly, there's always what Disney is doing to Star Wars.
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
It’s a small
universe, after all…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
LOL
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Confused - Biden wants to run for President again?
wow.
ie erase the rest of this comment, it is too impolite for me to say stuff like that. It reflected just my frustration. Sorry.
Maybe this'll help explain what's going on...
...maybe.
It's as true today as it was 3 years ago (except maybe replace 'a couple of young hipsters' with 'a legion of banksters and Military-Industrial butchers').
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Well, Blue Republic
is Blue Republic due to this 2011 Huff Post (go figure) article by Robin Koerner:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blue-republican_b_886650
So this:
"So maybe we should all register Republican, so we'll stand a fighting chance of being able to choose who sits in the White House in 2025. "
is not completely far-fetched. Looking down-ticket a bit, if there is any prospect of primarying a deserving DINO or RINO Deep State/Corporate sycophant warmonger - you know, a Lindsay Graham, an Eric Swalwell, Wasserman-Schultz... then however you could contribute to that would seem a positive way to go.
Oregon Greens or Dems have given me no incentive to switch back from R, but depending on what's going on on that side of things primary-wise, switching to D temporarily to support Kennedy or Williamson is a tempting prospect.
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell
Krystal is very
favorably inclined towards Williamson. She and her partner Kyle had her on their show for a friendly chat in March. Krystal's twitter feed has a lot of re-tweets of Marianne tweets. And, speaking of blackouts, there's not a mention anywhere of RFK Jr's entry in the race. Probably bc Kennedy's entry would appear to take a lot of support away from Marianne.
MW had a chance to make a bigger splash this time, but on two major issues -- Covid and Ukraine -- she's been rather soft as she straddled both sides. And iirc at the outset of Ukr a year ago, she supported the US major military support effort. Currently she supports negotiations, one year into the war, but mostly on the basis that Putin make most of the concessions. On the covid vaccine mandates, she was not a strong opponent or advocate that I can determine, stating she didn't feel strongly about them one way or the other but understood the concerns of opponents.
Thanks for the clarity and bold leadership. Otherwise, she holds some nice positions on various issues, but isn't strongly connected to any one of them in the public mind. Nice person, not a terrible candidate, but doesn't bring enough to the table to rouse my interest. And nice will never beat a Republican in the general.
Perhaps it would be good if another Democrat entered the race.
They are all, as are their commentators, flawed human beings, who may have some virtues but who are liable to stumbling now and then. We can use the contrast. For me, the main point of arguing for "the more the merrier" is -- as I suggested previously -- that an actual democracy wouldn't have "campaigns" like the one Biden is about to attempt.
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
Hard to think
of any strong Dem out there with a courageous stance on war, Pentagon spending, vaccine mandates, healthcare reform, or environment, who could enter the race and make it more interesting. RFK Jr is going to occupy most of the progressive space with additional across-the-spectrum appeal, with MW a small amount of the rest of the left, while Biden's candidacy means we will be spared seeing the 15 or so dull centrists and mod-libs who would enter, as in 2020.
For purposes of forcing debates, a large field would be welcome, but with an incumbent running again, even just a semi-popular one, the field will be small. And Biden's team, along with the complicit MSM, will constantly remind that there is only one sane, viable Dem running for president -- as they largely ignore Kennedy when they are not smearing him and as they laugh at New Age Marianne's candidacy -- and so all the more reason not to hold unnecessary debates.
Yay! Learned a new word today... jeremiad
Of course I followed it into some definitions. Looks to be quite a useful term in these turbulent times.
Some background... Stumbled upon it when I was reading on the WOTB about Brandon's quiet submission of a war powers resolution for Ethiopia and Sudan.
Yep... while some are so enthralled with the Fox-Carlson drama or dazzled by the McKinsey video (supposedly in Brandon's real words) announcing the next couple years...
we get to reenact the Somalia debacle.
From a commenter:
My, what interesting times.
(added) I really cannot handle Sagar. I believe he really jumped the shark when he decided to suck up to the ISW people to get his "inside" take on geopolitical dealings. I think there's some prostitution of principles involved. What I usually do is turn on captioning and turn off the audio and then head for the comments.
Meh.
Extra credit:
Note Democracy Now doing Biden's dirty work in announcing his re-election run:
"But by all means don't think about whether or not the candidates opposing Biden might have some virtues of their own we would want to explore."
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
Just don't mention to Biden that an election is coming.
He - and we - can then forget all about a Biden campaign.