President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Voted Kasich in the GOP primary (and reluctantly Clinton in the fall.) Let’s not pretend Bernie was going to keep the ship from sinking either.

 

Was it by Bono?

 

It’s infuriating. So SEC states don’t want abortion in their states? Ok. Their SCOTUS klan says they don’t have to have abortion. But how can they forbid citizens— their citizens— from travel? Arkansas does not allow sale of “distilled spirits” in grocery stores, but other states do. Is Arkansas going to forbid its citizens from crossing state lines for that purpose, too? Of course not.

 

Hell, at least people were excited for Bernie. I also think there is an argument that he - like Trump - would have dragged a lot of people who otherwise don't vote to the polls. I also know of at least a couple of people who just didn't vote, because they thought Bernie got knived in the back by his own party. Could he have beaten Trump? Don't know! Would have liked to have seen him get the chance.

 

Beau Biden dying was the biggest factor. If he stays healthy, Biden runs with Obama's endorsement in 2016 and it's over. Biden trounces Hillary in the primaries, just like Obama did. Biden trounces Bernie, just like he did in 2020. And Biden trounces Trump.

 

I honestly believe that one reason people are down on Biden now is that a significant percentage of his 2020 voters thought it'd be like erasing the 2016 election and that what Trump did would fade away like Thanos. Reality doesn't work that way, but that never bothered an American voter.

 

Oh, the machinations needed to keep the GOP relevant to any more than a vocal minority of the population have been slowly but steadily put into place without pushback.

Republicans understand everything runs from the bottom up. They're the ones taking over school boards, elections offices and state legislatures, while Congress plays footsie with itself.

I've said it before. The Constitution was supposed to be a "work in progress," a document amended by the legislative branch of our country as the world evolved. For some unknown reason -- OK, it's because they wanted to protect their phony-baloney jobs -- for more than 150 years, our representatives in Washington failed us in that regard.

A pox on all their houses. But the GOP especially, because this sure looks like a Pyrrhic victory when 70 percent of all Americans oppose what just was overturned. They've sold their souls to kill the republic for which they stand in order to appease Das Evangelistern.

This should never have come down to the whims of nine lawyers.

 

It was the key reason he didn't run, but Obama would have stayed out of the primary and only endorsed when it was obvious. I do think a lot of people who voted Obama would have voted for Hillary before voting for Biden. Remember, Biden's first ever primary win was in South Carolina in '20 - and he'd run for President twice before. He doesn't play well in the early primary states.

 

Bernie would've won Iowa and New Hampshire by more if Hillary and Biden split votes there. Two of Bernie's strongest states. That they come first always made Bernie seem stronger in the party than he really was. After that, who knows? But of course Obama wouldn't have endorsed until after the primaries were over. He didn't endorse Hillary until they were over.

 

The fix was in for Hillary in exchange for her calling off the dogs in 2008.

 

Calling off the dogs? She ran in every primary!