And we used to be able to find safe spaces for porn and nerd forums in the internet. Now the internet is a major campaign platform you can't escape.
It is pretty amazing, it's about a 2 year process. It's so incredibly dumb but we basically have no way of stopping it due to the 1st amendment.
Generally speaking when a new president is sworn in we have about a 1 year respite from the campaign season. Then, starting early the year after they are sworn in the campaign for the midterms starts and lasts about 10 months. After the midterms we have about a 4 month period and then the campaign for the next presidential election starts. So out of any given 4 year period we have maybe a year and a half at most that's relatively campaign free.
Fucking right? I hate it.I've just realised how long this thing goes on for!
And this is just to choose the democratic candidate, then you get the campaigning to be president and that election.
How do your politicians do anything except campaign?
Welcome to the nightmare of American politics. It's really ramped up in the last 15 years or so.Fucking right? I hate it.
And we used to be able to find safe spaces for porn and nerd forums in the internet. Now the internet is a major campaign platform you can't escape.
So if the Bernie democratic socialists are looking for backing from the actual Democratic party, first thing they could do is stop treating them like the enemy.
Once they stop doing that, then they could actually ask for help.
Not even asking Clyburn for his endorsement guarantees you won't get it.
Telling Mike Bloomberg he's a bad guy who doesn't deserve his money, and he can take his billionaire funded campaign machine and shove it guarantees he will take it elsewhere (and maybe turn it on you.)
The difference is that neither endorsements nor candidates dropping out impacts the value of an individual vote. Mayor Pete/Klob voters were perfectly capable of ignoring the endorsements and voting for Sanders if they wanted. In contrast, the EC has some votes count for more than others, simply by virtue of arbitrarily drawn state lines.
I genuinely hope they try to focus on that because no other candidate will have the luxury of such a comically mild thing for their opponents to focus on.
His kid got a cushy job? Who gives a fuck.
Seriously, think up a scandal for a candidate to have because Republicans will invent one if they don’t have one. Can you even imagine one better for the Democrat than ‘but but YOUR KID GOT A NICE JOB!’ I can’t.
One I can think of that is bad though is ‘you were a big fan of brutal communist dictatorships’. You might say that’s not true, and I agree, but it’s a way easier attack to use.
Exactly, all I would say is ‘your fashion designer daughter and her business failure idiot husband are running the White House’, point and then laugh.
Taking money is not proof of corruption no matter how much you think it is. It's only corruption if taking the money is illegal
Wait is Warren dropping out now a nefarious attempt by the DNC to rig the primary? Just asking because apparently that's what it was when Klobuchar and Buttigeig dropped out.
Slight disagreement - I don't think it's solely a matter of their thinking that he'd be Trump's weakest plausible opponent. (They're perfectly happy to also prop up Tulsi despite her never having had an actual chance.) I think there's a fair amount of their considering dialing up the chaos, internal dissention and general distrust of political institutions here in the States. Win or lose, the worst aspects of Sanders campaign and his worst supporters are great for that.
It doesn't matter what we suspect or think. What matters is what you can prove. If you can't prove it, then you are a douche for insinuating it. His friends from college were on the board. They offered their friend a cushy job. Maybe they were only friends because of his name or maybe he only got into Yale because of his name and that's the only reason he made those friends. Who fucking cares? There is literally not one single shred of evidence that Joe had anything to do with him getting that job or that he only got that job because of his name. Hell, I think I even read somewhere that Joe discouraged some of Hunter's career choices, but what the fuck is any parent supposed to do when their adult children are making choices they don't agree with? Nothing. The answer is you can't do a single damn thing, which is why @Starbuck1975 can go fuck himself for still pretending this reflects badly on Biden. It only looks bad to abject morons that can't think beyond their spoon-fed talking points.And I'm sure the fact he was the son of the former Vice President of the United States had any hand in their decision making.
C'mon, you cannot in good conscious admit that it had nothing to do with it.
Kinky. People smarter than you agree with me.It doesn't matter what we suspect or think. What matters is what you can prove. If you can't prove it, then you are a douche for insinuating it. His friends from college were on the board. They offered their friend a cushy job. Maybe they were only friends because of his name or maybe he only got into Yale because of his name and that's the only reason he made those friends. Who fucking cares? There is literally not one single shred of evidence that Joe had anything to do with him getting that job or that he only got that job because of his name. Hell, I think I even read somewhere that Joe discouraged some of Hunter's career choices, but what the fuck is any parent supposed to do when their adult children are making choices they don't agree with? Nothing. The answer is you can't do a single damn thing, which is why @Starbuck1975 can go fuck himself for still pretending this reflects badly on Biden. It only looks bad to abject morons that can't think beyond their spoon-fed talking points.
Perhaps, but why give him the excuse to say to Biden: "You did the same thing", or one of many variations on the theme? Doesn't even matter how accurate it is, it is a ready-made opportunity for Trump and the republicans to attack. If you dont believe they can do it, and effectively, I would again say, look at what happened in the impeachment hearings.
Kinky. People smarter than you agree with me.
He most certainly is not the best we got. BTW here is a sample of what you can expect to deal with, fresh from the propaganda factory, and I don't see Joe not putting his foot in his mouth quite a few more times before this is over:Jesus Christ himself could run as the D nominee and the attacks would still flow.
I get it, I was really worried about Biden and how weakly he was handling the Ukraine bs.
He ain't perfect, but he's the best we got, and he needs to step up his game. We can't afford for any D to blow it.
yawn.Trump, right wing talking heads & Russian propagandists are smart, no doubt. You echo them perfectly.
Wait wait wait.... Alex Jones? Yea I dont think so.Kinky. People smarter than you agree with me.
Do you really think if his name was Joe Smith, no matter if someone on the board knew him, he would be hired at 50k per month? Seriously????But the evidence suggests he did not get that job because of his name, but because he had friends on the board or whatever.
This shit happens in boardrooms across the world on a daily basis. You think only politicians get seats like that? Seriously????Do you really think if his name was Joe Smith, no matter if someone on the board knew him, he would be hired at 50k per month? Seriously????
Lets assume for a second that his last name did him a favor here... Where is the quid pro quo? Where?? Do you understand how small potatoes 50k/month is??? NOONE in their right mind will listen to this crap from team Ivanka Junior Eric Kushner etc. Its mindbending absurd.. the paradoxes that must be maintained in realtime inside you guys heads is a scientific marvel.Do you really think if his name was Joe Smith, no matter if someone on the board knew him, he would be hired at 50k per month? Seriously????
Just because it happens all across the world on a daily basis doesn't mean it isn't corrupt, just that its common. I mean, compared to Trump its nothing, but I do get tired of having a bar set so low you have to dig to find it.This shit happens in boardrooms across the world on a daily basis. You think only politicians get seats like that? Seriously????
Just because it happens all across the world on a daily basis doesn't mean it isn't corrupt, just that its common. I mean, compared to Trump its nothing, but I do get tired of having a bar set so low you have to dig to find it.
Here's the thing that grinds my gears on this. Hunter Biden was a mid 40's something adult when this went down. His father should not be punished for a son approaching middle age. This is NOTHING like Trump who HIMSELF appointed his kids to their roles. There is no "both sides" here. None.
Joe's son wasn't a stupid 18 year old making bad decisions. He is approaching middle age and should be judged on his own and not draw his dad in as collateral.
And interrupt a good innuendo fest?Has anyone pointed to anything actually criminal yet?
And interrupt a good innuendo fest?
What did you have in mind?
Only by the maroons.Has anyone pointed to anything actually criminal yet?