President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

My favorite Constitutional flaw factoid is that if a Senate-certified president-elect dies or is otherwise rendered incapable of serving between certification and Inauguration Day, nobody knows what the hell happens.

 

Of course not!

To quote Toby Ziegler on The West Wing: "No, it wouldn't, because this is an area of federal law where you want as much ambiguity as possible."

 

It happens with everyone now. Yes, Fox News. Yes, everyone else, too. On democracy and climate change and moral implications of 12 different conflicts around the globe. How dare you was not uttered by a person on the right.

Recognizing that everyone does it is kind of important. Trump's going to lose soon, in three months, and that'll be that for him, and Democrats have to decide whether the world's gonna be at stake every day, or they can stand down, just a little, and not make everything into the championship match of a debate round.

 

My point is very simple.

The people on the panel at Fox News are oppressive people. Not actors. Certainly not patriots.

Oppressive people. People that live in anger. With their chins out.

 

I take issue with including democracy, since trump tried to illegally hold/take power and has indicated he'll do it again.

Otherwise, I'm absolutely all for news organizations, particularly cable news, chilling the fuck out. I also realize it's never going to happen because news is unfortunately married to profits. Corporate profit driven news is a major flaw in the system.

 

Everybody chill out about the attempted coup d’etat.

Sure, the coral reefs are dying, but you’re being very undude.

 

The MO governor appointed her to the seat, if I recall correctly. And hence how we ended up with John Ashcroft as AG, arguably the worst until Bill Barr.

 

#thecouphasalreadyhappened
(h/t @TigerVols)

 

All the things we were told we were crazy to freak out about in the first Trump administration came to pass. But surely this time the Calm Down Chorus has it right!

 

Mama Weer All Crazee Now.

 

We already all know the Senate sits on a knife's edge, but I've seen some polling numbers come out that are fairly good for the blue side.

I think there's a good chance at a 50-50 Senate, with a VP Walz breaking the tie. A race to watch is in Texas where Colin Allred is running strong against Calgary Rafael (Q-Cancun). RCP rates that one as a "lean GOP."

 

By October, won't voting by mail have started in several states?
I have been trying to find the answer to this question: At what point is it too late to replace a candidate? I would think the answer would have to do with the point at which absentee/mailed ballots are sent out. And I'm sure that differs from state to state because this is not a country; it's a collection of more than 50 individual jurisdictions, all of which accord rights differently.
But I don't really know.