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Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Race


The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.

President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week.

The president, who the ally emphasized is still deeply in the fight for re-election, understands that his next few appearances heading into the holiday weekend — including an interview scheduled for Friday with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News and campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — must go well.

 

They wanted the early debate, because his popularity was so low and they were hoping they he'd contrast in a debate to an unhinged, felonious Trump, and it would jumpstart his campaign which was already showing no traction. They didn't want him to do that poorly and create a crisis in their party.

 

I know that whatever I post people are going to spin like tops saying "no."

But this is a bit like arguing about the laws of physics. it's not about productivity in and of itself, it's simply about a worker being as good as the income he or she generates. And generally, when someone is more productive they generate more income (as long as their productivity produces a product or service that others demand), which translates to more salary. It's not as complicated as people are now going to try to make it to try to argue otherwise.

As for "replaced by automation" (the post before yours), the world isn't static. Whenever technology has created disruption -- over hundreds of years of humanity -- yes it displaces people whose labor becomes obsolete in the short term and that can be devastating for an individual who feels like they are left behind, but the overall effect is that it frees people up to do jobs that we never would have conceived of before the new technologies advanced our lives. Rather than banging things in one nail at a time with a hammer, a machine can do it more quickly and efficiently and the human labor that was swinging the hammer can do something more advanced that makes people's lives more advanced, etc. etc.