Good for him. Secretly, he loves Trump and he almost said Make America Great Again. He watched Trump raised his fist and said” Fight Fight Fight” and he has a thrill running down his hairy leg. Fight on Joe!
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. The beast stops for a.couple of Big Mac's as he slouches towards Bethelhem.
not sure if you ever caught my Ode to Ryan Anderson in the GARM https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/release-the-kraken.290410/page-3#post-11745693
Biden is unfit for office, and he is going to step down. So something has to be done, and an open convention is the best they can do on short notice. Also nominations on both sides have never been democratic. Winner take all states, super delegates, etc. Lets not kid ourselves that America is a democracy. It never has been and is not mentioned in the Constitution. We are some kind of thing that resembles democracy at a distance.
I recommend taking some basic grade school government classes or at least wath a few youtube videos. We are a representative democracy governed by a constitutional Republic. The rules for selecting a candidate are left up to the state. A political party shouldn't change the rules mid game.
pretty sure Biden's got bigger problems than soda bottles Biden wants government to stop buying soda bottles, other single-use plastics https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/07/19/single-use-plastic-pollution-biden/
3/5 of a person women suffrage 15th amendment The Senate The electoral college poll taxes Jim Crow gerrymandering voter roll purging and caging polling place closures corporations are people money is speech etc. https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...age-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
We are a democratic republic. The Constitution does call for the direct election of Representatives and was amended for Senators. The parties aren’t part of the Constitution so their nomination process is their own. Also while states cans conduct Primary elections those aren’t actually a direct vote for President but for delegates who are pledged to a candidate. The main point though is that no one is forced to be president. So while under DNC current rules he can’t be forced out of the nomination he can choose not to run and release his delegates.
Secluded in Rehoboth, Biden Stews at Allies’ Pressure to Drop Out of the Race As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/biden-drop-out-2024-election.html excerpt: Sick with Covid and abandoned by allies, President Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the race and bitter toward some of those he once considered close, including his onetime running mate Barack Obama. Mr. Biden has been around politics long enough to assume that the leaks appearing in the media in recent days are being coordinated to raise the pressure on him to step aside, according to people close to him. He considers Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, the main instigator, but is irritated at Mr. Obama as well, seeing him as a puppet master behind the scenes. The friction between the sitting president and leaders of his own party so close to an election is unlike anything seen in Washington in generations — especially because the Democrats now working to ease him out were some of the allies most critical to his success over the last dozen years. It was Mr. Obama who elevated Mr. Biden from a presidential also-ran to the vice presidency, setting him up to win the White House in 2020, and it was Ms. Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, who pushed through his landmark legislative achievements. But several people close to Mr. Biden, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters, described an under-the-weather president coughing and hacking hundreds of miles from the corridors of power as his presidency meets its most perilous moment. He has watched with rising exasperation as a succession of news stories appeared, one after the other, reporting that Mr. Schumer, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Obama and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader, all had warned of a devastating defeat for the party in November. And he certainly noticed that Mr. Obama has not done anything to help him in recent days even as his own former aides publicly have led the way in calling on Mr. Biden to withdraw in what was interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as a message from the former president’s camp. The unseen but clearly felt presence of Mr. Obama in particular has brought a Shakespearean quality to the drama now playing out, given their eight-year partnership. While Mr. Biden and his team publicly insist that he is staying in the race, privately people close to him have said that he is increasingly accepting that he may not be able to, and some have begun discussing dates and venues for a possible announcement that he is stepping aside. One factor that may stretch out a decision: Advisers believe that Mr. Biden would not want to do it before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visits Washington on Wednesday at the initiative of Republicans to address Congress, unwilling to give the premier the satisfaction given their strained relations lately over the Gaza war. more at the link
Thoughts and prayers, Mr. President. I stood strongly behind you in 2020 and I will vote for you again. I PROMISE! Dont give up
Althouse watched the speech so that you don't have to @KingCheetah Trump's convention speech had 2 phases, both brilliant, but very different. https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/07/trumps-convention-speech-had-2-phases.html
@KingCheetah Althouse: "Tell me who enlarged NATO. Tell me who did the Pacific basin. Tell me who did something that you never done with your Bronze Star — and your — like my son — and, you know — proud of your leadership. But guess what? Well, what’s happening? We got Korea and Japan working together." by noreply@blogger.com (Ann Althouse) That's what "Biden snapped over Zoom at Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a decorated, retired Army Ranger, according to a recording of the virtual meeting with House Democrats," reported in "Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party/Many Democrats described the first three weeks of July as a kind of nightmare — too extraordinary to be real, too unexpected to be believed" (WaPo). "Lost control" is right. Lost control of the Washington Post too — whatever control he had. Selecting that quote — it's in the third paragraph of the article — shows vicious hostility. To get hung up by Crow's Bronze Star! Is there any coherence to "who did something that you never done with your Bronze Star — and your — like my son"? He's saying he did something as President that Crow hasn't done, even though Crow won a Bronze Star, and he's distracted onto the topic of his deceased son, perhaps because the son is always on his mind but probably because that son also won a Bronze Star. I wondered why Beau Biden won a Bronze Star and found some discussion here. I believe it had to do with service in a combat zone and not for a particular act of heroism. But Crow's Bronze Star has the "V" device for combat valor or heroism during the battle. He was the platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division in the Battle of Samawah in 2003. To get up in Crow's face over the Bronze Star is just insane. Joe Biden seems bereft of the ordinary tools of human interchange. His son died. Go home and grieve constantly if that's what you really need to do, but don't use your dead son randomly as a weapon when you run short of things to say. Quite aside from how the Democrats are going to extricate themselves from the idiotic jam they've gotten themselves into, the entire world is put at risk when the President of the United States has lost his mind. Posted by Ann Althouse at 8:17 AM July 20, 2024
