Biden drops out of race

[jp1]

When Trump is re-elected, Democrats will be to blame. After the 2020 election every Republican I know simply wanted Trump to go away, to retreat out of political life, but Democrats did everything in their power to keep him on the front pages of local newspapers and the lead story on every news program. While they were creating and supporting novel legal arguments and theories to try to break him financially and have him branded as a felon and hopefully incarcerated, they were actually creating sympathy within millions of everyday Americans who saw their efforts for what they were/are.

Throw on top of that a years long effort by everyday Democrats to label anyone who didn't agree with their efforts as one of the "ist's" (racist, sexist, etc.,) while simultaneously giving them a high profile resistance leader against their division and hate and the natural result is another Trump term. I think that should be a lesson for the ages, but I've lost faith that those who most need to learn that lesson will.

Do tell us what we should be doing differently.

And maybe also whitesplain to us how the inevitable DEI hire comments about Harris aren’t racist. But either way watching that loser have to go up against his least favorite type of person, a strong, black, female prosecutor is going to be amusing. He will inevitably make some incredibly unfortunate comments and then every Republican politician not named Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger will rush to his defense showing us all how ethics and morality free the entire party has become.

Fortunately I don’t think the deplorables are as big of a part of the voting population as you assume they are so I have more optimism that we’ll finally be done with the ugly felon after November. It’s remarkable that they are still sticking with him even now that he’s in full whiny bitch mode due to biden dropping out after months of republicans <checks notes> calling on biden to drop out.

[iris lilies]

Do tell us what we should be doing differently.

And maybe also whitesplain to us how the inevitable DEI hire comments about Harris aren’t racist. But either way watching that loser have to go up against his least favorite type of person, a strong, black, female prosecutor is going to be amusing. He will inevitably make some incredibly unfortunate comments and then every Republican politician not named Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger will rush to his defense showing us all how ethics and morality free the entire party has become.

Fortunately I don’t think the deplorables are as big of a part of the voting population as you assume they are so I have more optimism that we’ll finally be done with the ugly felon after November. It’s remarkable that they are still sticking with him even now that he’s in full whiny bitch mode due to biden dropping out after months of republicans <checks notes> calling on biden to drop out.

JP, you have to understand that for me anyway, the label “racist “has lost all power to shame. Call me racist, I don’t care.

I have these thoughts about those two:

1. Kamala Harris is a DEI hire.
2 Donald Trump’s court case that resulted in 34 convictions for exactly the same single act is politically motivated

That doesn’t mean Kamela is unqualified.

That doesn’t mean I will vote for Donald Trump

[jp1]

JP, you have to understand that for me anyway, the label “racist “has lost all power to shame. Call me racist, I don’t care.

I have these thoughts about those two:

1. Kamala Harris is a DEI hire.
2 Donald Trump’s court case resulted in 34 convictions for exactly the same single act is politically motivated

That doesn’t mean Kamela is unqualified.

That doesn’t mean I will vote for Donald Trump

I applaud your honesty. However misguided it may be. Bravo? Maybe since Alan isn’t likely to whitesplain perhaps you could? Or should the rest of us all just laugh uproariously when trump inevitably does what we all know he’s going to do and goes full on racist?

[Alan]

Maybe since Alan isn’t likely to whitesplain perhaps you could?

I'm not sure what part of this discussion brought you to race but I think you should spend a few years reading the collected works of Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams or perhaps Shelby Steele, they'll do a much better job of explaining whatever point you want me to "whitesplain".

[Rogar]

I'm afraid I'm not following the logic that Trump did not commit crimes and that the news should not have reported on a presidential candidate's criminal trials through the court systems because it promoted the republican agenda.

[catherine]

jp1, I am all for Kamala. I really think she's going to do a great job at salvaging this election cycle.

Please don't turn on me, but I clearly recall Joe Biden saying in 2019, after he won the nomination, that he was specifically going to choose a woman to be a vice-president. I recall that because I thought it was foolish and disingenuous for him to come out and say that. But he did: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/polit...ent/index.html

So, she was a DEI hire, but that doesn't make her unqualified, as IL said.

Here is my favorite commentary on this topic that I've read so far. It's from a Substack writer I follow.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146930220

[iris lilies]

jp1, I am all for Kamala. I really think she's going to do a great job at salvaging this election cycle.

Please don't turn on me, but I clearly recall Joe Biden saying in 2019, after he won the nomination, that he was specifically going to choose a woman to be a vice-president. I recall that because I thought it was foolish and disingenuous for him to come out and say that. But he did: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/polit...ent/index.html

So, she was a DEI hire, but that doesn't make her unqualified, as IL said.

Here is my favorite commentary on this topic that I've read so far. It's from a Substack writer I follow.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146930220

of course he did. Everyone knows Biden limited his VP choice to 7% of the population.

I also recall JP talking about a DEI hire on the Supreme Court. I’m unclear why that wasn’t “racist” according to JP values.

[Rogar]

You don't hear the reference to white privilege as much these days as you used to.

[LDAHL]

There’s a weirdly fawning piece in “Nature” about how great Harris will be for science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02394-6

They seem to be pulling out all the media stops to buff up her image. Although I also see that BLM has issued a statement decrying her “anointing”. Not sure how politically relevant they are anymore.

[iris lilies]

jp1,

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Here is my favorite commentary on this topic that I've read so far. It's from a Substack writer I follow.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146930220

we could have an actual pull-himself-up-by -the -bootstraps VP one heartbeat from the Presidency in JD Vance.

as for the DEI charge about Kamala,, let’s remember that when no one was purposely promoting her due to her sex and race, she got exactly 0 delegates when she ran in the primary years ago. Clearly she needed the boost of DEI to get her where she think she needs to be.