President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

The number one predictor of political success in this country is incumbency. The number 2 predictor is “name recognition.”

I do think the drumbeat of “Trump said something stupid! Trump said something dumb! Trump gave fellatio to a microphone! Trump rode in a garbage truck and couldn’t open the damn door!” was heard by a lot of people as “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump” and it lends him credibility he didn’t earn among people who don’t listen (but who do, apparently, now vote.)

 

I disagree. She's clearly stated her general policies.

People just didn't want to hear it. They didn't believe her.

 

Secretary of HHS RFK Jr. Ponder that one. Vaccines rendered not only compromised but illegal. Remember that one when the next Trumpandemic hits.

 

The Democratic Party had four years to script how they would transition away from Biden after one term and kept riding him and hoping no one would notice he was aging before our eyes. I think a lot of people voted Trump because they felt lied to by the democrats about Biden’s mental acuity.

 

And to the extent that immigration is a “problem” (for the record, I do not believe it is), the problem is less the immigrant and more the people willing to pay them. But I don’t hear anything of any crackdown on people willing to pay undocumented immigrants (under the table with no taxes and at rates likely far below minimum or prevailing wages.)

 

Did the Democrats hang on to Biden too long … or not long enough? Could the enthusiasm level for her have benefited with maybe four fewer weeks on the trail?

 

This is a very fair assessment.

 

He won again.

He won AGAIN.

HE won again.

We deserve everything wrought.

I don't care anymore now. Never again will I let myself care this much. What's the point?

Maybe I'll become an asshole now. Fuck everyone else. Me, myself and my own. Half the country - at least - doesn't care. Why should I?

Fuck it.

 

They've sent everybody home from Harris campaign HQ.

 

Phht, how quickly you forget "fight price gouging" as if the problem with inflation was caused by corner filling stations marking their gas up to $12/gallon during a hurricane and not the massive amount of cash we flooded our economy with to keep it solvent during Covid.

"Fighting price gouging" is the perfect example of a paper-thin "seems like it should test well" kind of plan she offered.

Then again, Trump just made his way around the country promising to stop taxing whatever group he needed to win over, be it waitresses, factory workers or seniors and it worked for him, so maybe just spouting out dumb ideas that sound smart before any reflection wasn't her only problem.

 

The thing is, there are just lots of jobs that don't require a ton of legal paperwork. Many years ago a friend of a colleague of mine needed someone to care for his cancer-stricken wife (run errands, clean the house, take her to appointments). They hired my wife. She was legal, but she had not received her "right to work" papers, and it would have been just as easy to hire an illegal anyway. They just needed a dependable body. They paid her a $400 check every week. No taxes taken out. No paper trail of any kind.

 

She didn't do anything wrong.

The country's electorate did.

It's a cult, and it's growing. We learned that tonight.

This is who we are. Full stop.

They told us and told us and told us.

Believe them.

Believe yourself.