Harris-Walz / Dems

[Pocket]

Also, young people don't like getting out to vote because for many of them, it's a huge hassle. A huge hassle that 2020 proved has an easy and obvious solution: mandating universal mail-in voting in all states. But when the Democrats got together and tried to pass some kind of voting reform, that option either never came up or died in committee.

 

[NovaSaber]

Seems too early to make an election thread so I guess I'll put this here:

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[DefaultOption]

One of the news pods I listen to was discussing some polling on awareness about Project 2025, and the number of people who don't know about it at all is downright frightening.

They're literally openly making plans to install fascism at all levels of the federal government, and there wasn't a single demographic group in this survey where the number of people who know about it was above 30%.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The side that wants it is the side that controls most of the major media outlets. Of course they're not gonna announce it.

 

[Dekafox]

I brought it up to a few co-workers once and they dismissed it as conspiracy theory fearmongering, that these think tanks come up with crap like this all the time and it never actually happens.

 

[Anonymous X]

I saw that Biden has condemned bans on trans healthcare. That makes him automatically much more progressive on LGBTQ rights issues than any of the leaders of the parties currently contesting the British general election.

 

[Paladin]

Biden signs executive action drastically tightening border

He has faced political pressure as migrants have continued to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.

www.nbcnews.com

so tell me AGAIN how he's not a Republican?

 

[MrBlud]

That’s absolutely disappointing.

Still better than that AND ripping children away from their parents and then losing them.

 

[Dekafox]

So I just heard (from a RPG book publisher who were told this by their distributor) that apparently between some fighting in the Red Sea, and a bunch of US retailers underordering because they were expecting softer sales, shipping containers are at a premium right now and have gone up 300% in price over the past few weeks. That delayed his book shipments several weeks already, and it's going to make anything involving international shipping slower and/or more expensive.

So why am I putting it in this thread? Because you can bet the retailers are gonna be jacking prices to compensate, which'll then be blamed on inflation, which will then be blamed on Biden, even though both of these factors are kind of out of his control. (and I say kind of cause in terms of the fighting it looks like the US already committed ships and may have calmed things down, at least temporarily, but it's not going to undo what's already been done.)

 

[abates]

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-trial-06-11-24/index.html

Hunter Biden's been found guilty on 3 charges.

 

[Ungnome]

As he should have been. Difference is you don't hear the Biden family yelling 'rigged' over the whole thing.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Well, I definitely won't be voting for Hunter Biden this year.

 

[KidTDragon]

I'm surprised Trump isn't bragging about being found guilty on more charges than a Biden.

 

[Axaday]

I think, politically, the best thing for Biden would be not to have a son doing crimes. But having a trial brought by Biden's "own" Justice Department end in a conviction in Biden's home state, a reliable blue state is a big technical point. I'm not sure how much it resounds. Having him exonerated would definitely have resounded with redhats, but I don't know how much this actually moves people either way.

The depressing thing that I have been mulling is that it probably has no impact on Trump himself. I go back and forth on how calculating the man is. He may just be a moron. But if he's thinking about it, I kinda think he might see a fix in this. I think Trump would be fine with one of his sons going to prison if it would get him some political cover. He may be jealous of Biden on this.

 

[KidTDragon]

He would be fine with that even if he wasn't running for president. He's never given a jive about anyone but himself.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I think, politically, the best thing for Biden would be not to have a son doing crimes. But having a trial brought by Biden's "own" Justice Department end in a conviction in Biden's home state, a reliable blue state is a big technical point. I'm not sure how much it resounds. Having him exonerated would definitely have resounded with redhats, but I don't know how much this actually moves people either way.

The depressing thing that I have been mulling is that it probably has no impact on Trump himself. I go back and forth on how calculating the man is. He may just be a moron. But if he's thinking about it, I kinda think he might see a fix in this. I think Trump would be fine with one of his sons going to prison if it would get him some political cover.

Trump would be fine with murdering one of his sons if it gave him political cover. Trump would be fine with murdering everyone if it meant giving him political cover.

 

[Ungnome]

Trump would be fine with murdering one of his sons if it gave him political cover. Trump would be fine with murdering everyone if it meant giving him political cover.

Heck, he'd be fine with murdering someone if it would net him a little extra spending cash. The man is morally bankrupt(and likely financially too, though he's better at covering that up)

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Trump would happily let the entire nation burn for just one more minute in the spotlight. The only things that matter to him are money and attention.

 

[wonko the sane?]

And the longer it goes: the money only matters in so far that it gets him the attention he wants.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1800287995787952234