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(DIR) Post #AcvJMXappE1H5Akkb2 by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-18T04:58:03Z
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Cornel West predicts Biden will drop out as LBJ did in 1968. Hopefully he will drop out but a key difference is that in 1968 LBJ was embarrassed in the New Hampshire primary. Democrats changed the primary rules to keep that from happening to Biden.https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/15/cornel-west-biden-election-00131944
(DIR) Post #AcvMM1f2qcUBuRAUl6 by jeremy_list@hachyderm.io
2023-12-18T05:31:35Z
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@rchusid I think the chance of another Trump presidency would drop significantly in the event that someone other than Biden got the democrats' nomination, but I'd be surprised if that actually happened.
(DIR) Post #Acw8aQzAHfzEJ1W1Hk by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-18T14:32:01Z
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@jeremy_list Unlikely to happen but the polls show most want another candidate. Biden runs 13 points behind a generic Democrat against Trump.
(DIR) Post #AcwPsxkqt0tKN3F2Zc by truthaddictvt@masto.ai
2023-12-18T17:45:51Z
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@rchusid My bet is the party sews up the nomination for Biden and then he steps aside for nonspecific "health reasons" or something and he gets replaced with someone handpicked
(DIR) Post #AcwXFlZ54bucu7YYIy by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-18T19:08:25Z
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@truthaddictvt That is possible. If he waits long enough the party can hand pick the nominee (as they attempt to always do) without having to pretend to have a real primary system.
(DIR) Post #Ad0SMEeB5yiVKCaYZU by pkw@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-20T16:32:23Z
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@rchusid It's my opinion that the DNC or capital-D Democrats would prefer to lose than have a candidate that they can't completely control.
(DIR) Post #Ad0TkU2VcOGzy45zLU by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-20T16:47:59Z
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@pkw They definitely preferred to lose with Clinton when they could have won with Sanders. They definitely don't want someone who might actually reform the corrupt party.
(DIR) Post #Ad0WWRTOf9MPohfUsC by pkw@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-20T17:19:03Z
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@rchusid His take on Trump bad domestically and Biden bad in a foreign/war sense is how I also think.When choosing Biden as the harm reduction candidate, I weigh NET harm reduction.Trump advances our already well advanced and maybe it's already here march to fascism.Biden also advances that just less so, and maybe we start WW3.So idk. I live in a Blue state so I can vote for whoever I want w/o worry. (why waste it on Biden)But if i lived in a mixed state, I would be very torn.
(DIR) Post #Ad2W5J8Zw3wmSeubLM by waysideollie@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-21T16:23:30Z
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@rchusid @jeremy_list I think there needs to be a discussion about the sheer number of excellent people #Biden has put in as advisors. Yes, a younger candidate would be appealing but Biden's #experience and #understanding is undervalued. Who he knows is just as important. I'd love to have an ad of all the things his appointees have accomplished in comparison to Trump's.
(DIR) Post #Ad2WGR8mWI5yT6JVSK by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T16:25:33Z
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@waysideollie @jeremy_list Biden's appointees were much better earlier in his term. He has leaned more to the right since the midterms.
(DIR) Post #Ad2Wuh5ucisbX0ASW0 by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T16:32:53Z
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@waysideollie @jeremy_list The change in chief of staff makes a huge difference. And now there are appointees like Elliott Abrams re human rights and Neera Tanden on domestic policy.
(DIR) Post #Ad2X8u9arkIc5XfL4C by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
2023-12-21T16:34:13Z
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@waysideollie @rchusid @jeremy_listHe needs to understand that genocide is wrong.Otherwise I don't trust him with a damn thing.
(DIR) Post #Ad2X8uzhjzz0hA2xI8 by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T16:35:26Z
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@violetmadder @waysideollie @jeremy_list Yes, expecting Biden to oppose genocide is a very low bar. Even before Gaza he was a disaster, but Gaza clinches it.
(DIR) Post #Ad2XGXAgCLDT7soNvc by waysideollie@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-21T16:36:46Z
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@rchusid @jeremy_list still better than Kelly, Mulvaney, Meadows... then Mnuchin, Pompeo, DeVos, the list goes on and on; deeper and deeper.
(DIR) Post #Ad2XaoqICsOFiwwro0 by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
2023-12-21T16:40:30Z
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@rchusid @truthaddictvtMy money is on, they'll shove him down our throats no matter what and whatever happens next will be very, very bad.
(DIR) Post #Ad2Xe9JUYK9G5AC5uy by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T16:41:06Z
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@waysideollie @jeremy_list The problem is that Biden winds up doing the same as the Republicans on so many issues. Plus Biden has little chance of winning. To stop Trump's people from returning we need to get rid of Biden
(DIR) Post #Ad2dhwtDHla2Qx66oC by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T17:49:01Z
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@violetmadder @truthaddictvt Yes, the Democrats will shove him down our throats, as they did with Biden in 2020 and Clinton in 2016. Still I think our only chance is to try to prevent this. Even if not successful, organizing to attempt to fight the party leadership might still pay off in the future.
(DIR) Post #Ad2eqH648gUrNOdwA4 by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
2023-12-21T18:01:42Z
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@rchusid @truthaddictvtAgreed!People need to stand up and call out this anti-democratic mess and demand better. Yes, even if grinds the entire 2024 process to a halt-- which will terrify everyone and result in some very disturbing chaos, which if course the Republicans will exploit to horrifying, violent effect (with establishment help and amplification of course). But at least the true face of our situation would be laid bare and the need for real change made clear.If people had spent more energy movement-building than they spent voteshaming, since 2000 or even just since 2016, we might have a solid organized foundation to stand on-- but the propaganda, the divide-and-conquer shit, successfully manipulated so many cowards into just screaming VBNMW instead of building real resistance to the oligarchy, we're pretty fragmented right now. Liberals keep sneering, "Well you don't have a plan" but goddammit the plan has been the same for generations, they're just too lazy and scared to put their shoulders to the wheel anywhere radical enough to actually make it TURN in earnest. They keep insisting on futzing around with half-assed reformist dead ends and blaming others.
(DIR) Post #Ad2fVpxJRJhfMVMpnM by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T18:09:15Z
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@violetmadder @truthaddictvt Especially this year. Vote Blue No Matter Who is increasingly looking like it means bringing back Trump. Plus Biden has been so bad, that scaring people with Trump no longer sounds as bad. In some ways Trump is definitely worse than Biden, but on the other hand Trump's evil is out in the open, making it easier to resist.
(DIR) Post #Ad2hTm0DMm2oQkrtuS by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
2023-12-21T18:31:13Z
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@rchusid @truthaddictvtThe reckless sadism of it all... They WANT Trump and the crazed fascists so strong they're on the verge of taking over. The DNC wants to hold us dangling over this precipice of nightmares, because it's the ONLY WAY they can possibly keep their ancient, war profiteering corporate toadies in office.
(DIR) Post #Ad2hhpfSXHZLqtrdce by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T18:33:49Z
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@violetmadder @truthaddictvt The Democratic leaders know there is little difference between the parties. They care about preserving their personal power. If they are out of power, it doesn't matter to them if progressive Democrats or if Republicans win.
(DIR) Post #Ad2iUvIKP5l3UeS9BI by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
2023-12-21T18:42:40Z
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@rchusid @truthaddictvtI keep thinking about the state in which we've left almost all the places our military has meddled... Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Guatemala, a dozen other banana republics, etc etc how many countries? No help for the new constitution they could've had in Egypt with the Arab Spring. No help for the Occupy movement in Turkey. Torn up, no stable secular democracy, just dictators and cartels and religious wackos, miserable chaos and oppression. They know how to exploit and control those conditions, picking and choosing which insurrections succeed and which are squelched, which warlords to do business with, which dissenters to vanish. They'll do it to us too, when we get too uppity and try to shake them off. They'll do it HERE.
(DIR) Post #Ad2kBtwlOH2fifQKkC by rchusid@med-mastodon.com
2023-12-21T19:01:38Z
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@violetmadder @truthaddictvt Democrats definitely cannot call themselves the defenders of democracy against Trump when they support dictatorships around the world along with undermining democracy at home. Here, instead of declaring a dictatorship, they just limit choices so that we have the appearance of democracy, but can only vote for chosen candidates with a limited viewpoint.