The Biden Presidency
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If there is one area where a primary would make sense, it would be for the VP position. Since Kamala Harris has not found a way to make a stronger impression so far as VP, it's time for some action to take place on that front. The person who wins the VP primary would most likely become the next POTUS right after Joe Biden as well. Biden still holds firm now while what matters more is about preparing the man or woman following him.
For the record, the delegates at the DNC were allowed to freely vote for the running mate in 1944. That was how Harry Truman replaced Henry Wallace as VP to FDR and eventually became President in 1945.
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Biden could just as easily not select Harris to be his running mate since VPs aren't elected. He of course won't do that because he needs the Clyburn posse to turn out if he wants any chance of reelection.
Guess what fecker, you can’t be about “elections have consequences” and then go “nah, we’re going to let an entire branch of government in which you have no representation overrule your elected representatives.”
Looks like Biden wants to get in on the DeSantis fascism train.
Not getting that tweet. Someone explain it to me like I am five. Or link up an article.
City council passed legislation on police reform and I believe overrode the mayor's veto. As DC is a federal enclave of millions of disenfranchised voters, congress can override the city council. The house already did so and I believe Biden is saying that, should the Senate pass it, because he does not agree with the city council he is not going to veto the bill.
What was the police reform that was passed? How drastic?
doesn't matter even .01% in my opinion so not even going to comment on it.
This was back in December:
D.C. Council Approves Series Of Significant Criminal Justice Reforms
I will let you do the reading, but the thing that struck me the most was the notion of making police disciplinary records publicly available.
I haven't researched the potential candidates, I must admit.
My opinion is based on the previous election, during which he was kept well clear of the media, and any negative news was kept relatively quiet. Now he seems to be a lot more exposed to things, and from people on the same side of the fence. I think it'll be brutal for him this time and thought the Democrats might be shuffling him out of the door in preparation. Could/will be a horrible election methinks.
Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...als-tells-democrats-get-tough-crime-rcna73286
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Biden joining GOP in fascism?
Yep, overriding the will of the voters because you don’t like their choices is all the rage now.
That sounds...really bad?
That's one of the two major exposed fronts the admin needs to shore up.
This, combined with the DC issue, suggests that the Dems will be prioritizing "tough on crime" talk over actual principals (if they had any) for the purposes of winning 24. It's all a game to them and regular people are just pawns.
Politicians with actual principles are about as common as a Fox News primetime show saying something accurate or Marjorie Taylor-Greene saying something you agree with!
Well if they didn't follow that approach they would lose in 24 and you would have Trump in the White House.. I'm sure that would be the prefered approach right?
The US isn't ready for change. I live here, like you, and see it every day.
Lesser evil and shit..
Also these parties will do anything to win. Tbf to them, what can they do anyway if they don't win.
Exactly, if Democrats don't do Republican policies, then Republicans will win the White House and start doing Republican policies. It's too much of risk to change things at the moment imo.
Absolutist reasons like this is why the Republicans win elections. I want utopia and I want it now! Let's ignore the 200 years of history that got the people of the country where they are (rightly or wrongly, mostly wrongly).. I hate US politics
you don't get it at all.
when the republicans announce a plan to kill 20 million people, and biden angrily says his plan to kill 10 miilion people is better planned and doesn't increase the budget deficit, you are making a grave moral sin if you don't praise, vote, campaign for biden. you are personally signing the death warrants of 10 million people.
And in the UK it's why the Tories win most elections
Being able to vocalize and fight for the status quo (because we are going backwards in so many areas), let alone progress is a necessity. I will still plug my nose and vote for the least bad option, because that is the only thing that I can do on election day, but to just go with the flow and say/do nothing the other days of the year is a suicidal frame of mind to have.
The Chapo bit about both sides accepting cages for immigrates and really the politics is arguing over to feel about it(Democrats = we need cages but lets feel bad about it vs Republican = immigrates deserver to be put in cages, so don't feel bad about it)is depressingly true.
Thank God that it is not the case in Canada. Every single time that the Tories are in power, they always leave a far bigger mess than when they came in. No wonder why the Tories have had the short end of the stick since Wilfrid Laurier was first elected PM in 1896.
He’s a centrist Dem, which isn’t left. It doesn’t matter if random non politically savvy observers see it that way. Only Republicans and those who sympathize with them see Biden as a lefty.
If you look at the 20 countries with the highest standards of living, the US would be the most economically right-leaning out of all of them by a comfortable margin. To be considered left-leaning in the US means very little on a global scale.
Left of republicans does not mean left wing.
Left of Biden doesn't mean left wing either!
Most of the top 20 are categorically left wing!
Not according to political theory.
But compared to the US? Sure. England, Switzerland and Japan would be the only exceptions, I guess.
Economically speaking, obviously.
Who do you consider "politcally savvy" observers? Described as center left: "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/politics/biden-sanders-trump-election.html". He himself also has described himself as such and the majority of his voters think so as well.
We're talking about the US though. Universal definitions crumble when talking about political ideologies.
Random folks who don’t follow politics and get whatever little news they watch from biased sources are not a particularly reliable group to use. No sane person thinks Biden is a leftist. The only exception would be right wingers. Are you a right winger by chance ?
Beyond the fact that Biden isn’t a left winger by US standards, you’re attempting to make this argument among mostly non Americans on a non American site.