President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I’m equally frustrated by anyone claiming to know what all of this means and where the democrats should go. We are in new waters. This is unlike any decision a party has had to make because no candidate has gone on a nationally televised debate and sundowned for 90 minutes and been over 80 years old.

I don’t know what should be done.

He might recover from this. Trump might do something Trumpy and steal the dunce cap. Or Biden might get trounced in every upper Midwestern state and make this next four months seem like an exercise in futility because the game was lost way back in June.

Because I believe we are living in a simulation, I predict Biden loses but somehow the Democrats win both the House and Senate. Just because everything is stupid now.

 

Usually the Presidency is the best asset an incumbent has to reelection. They are out there being President, doing things, on the news every night, reassuring the country etc. Biden hasn't used it that way for whatever reasons. My guess is if he could, he would.

 

But the rent is too damn high, so this is fine

 

Alma doesn't agree with Hawley like Trump doesn't agree with Project 2025.

 

Even with Vietnam and the disaster that was Chicago, Humphrey nearly pulled it out. And though a lot of smart people reasonably doubt he would've gotten the nomination, I think Bobby Kennedy would have won the general in a walk.

 

I’ve only seen GOP ads for races here, and, man, they’re eating their own, throwing around the RINO label and each professing to be more Trumpy than the others.

I really think one would fuck a pig on live TV if it meant Trump’s endorsement.

 

An editor once told me the dangers of always being 50-50 on issues. "If half the people say it's raining and half the people say it's not raining, stick your head out of the window and write what's happening. If it's raining, you're under no obligation to quote the idiots who say it's not.

 

There's a state senate race where I live that's the same thing. One is posting photos of him with Trump and saying he's the true Trump supporter. The other guy is saying he's a stalking horse for the Libs, taking dark money from Soros, etc., and "I'm the one who has been standing with [not the] President Trump."

 

There have been enough examples of Trump having cognitive problems. His stump speeches are a mess of stuttering, stammering, unintelligible, mumbling garbage. And when he is coherent, he's still lying his ass off.

 

The people on this board are not the ones who need to be convinced that returning Trump is tantamount to national suicide. And those of us asking for Biden to pass the torch know that he’s done a lot of good things he doesn’t get credit for.

But it isn’t about being fair. It’s about winning an election. And to win, you have to get your share of disengaged people who aren’t going to sit still for a Hillary-style list of bullet points. Sorry if that reality offends you, but it was ever thus.