President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

What was it in 2020?

 

I can give hundreds of reasons why people won't vote for Trump.


In a David Letterman Top 10 reasons why this country's "average" voter, especially male voter, will not vote for Harris.

1: She's a woman
2: She's a Black woman
3: She's not the Black woman (Hello Michelle Obama)
4: Not voting for someone whose first name I can't pronounce.
5: She's not popular and can't relate to her (i.e. wouldn't have a drink with her)
6. Forced poor Joe out.
7 through 10: See No. 1

Feel free to add your own.

This country has not changed as much as people think it has. Many voters are still pretty simple and don't look at issues like they should. For some it will be as simple as gender or skin color or both.

 

I’m not going to argue Joe Biden didn’t cause some inflation with government payouts. I’m going to argue we’d have had Hoovervilles and bread lines without them.

I and most Americans can handle three percent inflation for a few more years as a tradeoff. As for the mountain of debt at the core of that inflation long-term? That’s bi-partisan, squandered in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, on tax cuts to the rich, to bank bailouts, to ineffective and haphazard infusions and awful programs in 2008 and 2020 that didn’t get spent on infrastructure — something we all could’ve benefitted from and would’ve been universally applauded.

Manufacturing jobs? Now we’re worried about those after rooting on free trade and union busting for 40 years? Really? Get a time machine back to 1993 and stop NAFTA. We all participated in it. We cheered on cheap Chinese goods and we should all have to sit in the cheap shit we all bought at the expense of a middle class in this country. Instead the rich will pretend they had nothing to do with it and wonder why the underclass is losing its collective mind.

 

I went to a movie this afternoon. Anything in the news?

 

Hopefully!

 

Good lord, you can't take anything away from 2020 statistics. Many things were shut down for months. In most of the world.

And had the nation followed the advice on this board, EVERYTHING would have been shut down, and unemployment would have been 45%.

 

I think Harris will turn the base from dread to excited/hopeful. That’s hugely important. And the focus can be on how unfit trump is.

Moot now, but while I enjoy Aaron Sorkin’s work, the Romney thing was about the dumbest piece of shit I’ve read. JFC.

I admit I was too rough on Romney in 2012. Especially knowing what we know now. And I respect him for bucking the party and standing against trump.

But most of his positions are directly opposite of the Democratic Party. What and incredibly stupid piece.

I don’t know who will win. But it was always going to be close, no matter the Dem candidate. Now it’s a three-month sprint. And trump is still fucking awful. And beatable.

Get it done.

 

You're assuming he's not already been replaced by a Russian bot many years ago.

I may start a website now just so I can preemptively ban you from it.

 

Fortunately, not everybody is a libertarian edgelord.

 

Hey Hoover dramatically lowered the cost of housing by refusing to inject the economy with Federal money.

 

There are better places to get food.

Except breakfast. Mickey D's breakfast is to die for.