He didn’t even need this

He could have expanded the courts as soon as he took office and prevented so much harm.

He just didn’t want to.

Too bad Biden has repeatedly said he won’t use it to his advantage to stop fascism and what he’s telling us would be the end of American democracy…

You can’t half ass the fight against fascism.

Be a use they’ll always do everything they can.

If trump is an existential threat to American democracy, we need to start fucking acting like it.

It’s good to see at least one of the candidates families being realistic about their candidate’s health and well-being.

We’re not gonna see a trump or Biden talking them out of running.

To much money on the table being related to the president

So Biden’s campaign team called her, and a “rival” who’s was also planning for 2028 after Biden left

Kind of burying the lede that Biden’s campaign team is reaching out to alternatives to gauge interest now that the family is blaming the campaign. I doubt the rival was on the call, so it sounds like the campaign is discussing alternatives with multiple options.

There’s no reason to keep propping up Biden. He’s a liability and not even his campaign team, family, and closest political allies are united anymore.

It is too risky to keep plowing ahead with him especially if he thinks he’s still doing great and has a shot.

Treating an existential threat as existential requires the one thing that the Democratic coalition has increasingly struggled to do: prioritization. It means putting aside personal feelings, individual ambition, and subjective preferences in favor of a single goal: success. Otherwise, it’s just empty rhetoric.

As New York Timescolumnist Ezra Klein, who has been pushing the possibility of an open convention to replace Biden, said on his podcast after Thursday’s debate: “If the fate of American democracy is hinging on this election — as Democrats are always telling me it is and as I think there is a chance that it is — then you should do everything you can to win it.” That a strategy, any strategy, might make people or groups uncomfortable cannot be a reason not to pursue it in the face of an existential threat. Not if you believe what you’re saying.

We should have learned that confidence is the one thing you can’t fake. A candidate can be confident for illogical reasons, but that’s still more convincing than being right but not being confident. It creates this weird effect where once people get too smart, they become less decisive and people perceive that as less confident.

The stereotypical nerd.

Gore probably would have been a top 10 president. But he couldn’t sell himself to voters just a little more. And if memory recalls, he technically didn’t even have to concede. Like, if he had waited I believe the recounts were actively happening. He didn’t even let it run down to the final vote.

But I think its important to note not a single Dem Senator challenged it either which would have been even better than Gore challenging it

Bernie would have most likely, but he wasn’t in yet. Biden could have done it, but he didn’t, same with most of the current Dem leadership.

So Gore should have planted his feet, and voters should have gotten behind, probably would have. But the party didn’t have Gore’s back either. And Gore wasn’t confident enough to try it without the party.

It’s crazy how shit comes so close and has such widespread consequences. Just one Dem senator back then dragging it out till a final count would have done it.

Yeah. But it’s provocative, it gets the people going.

That translates to more voters and more small donors.

Two things that are kind of important 4 months before a general election.

Nice.

So we agreed:

Or we can do what we know will motivate them

Which is “performative” stuff like this that won’t succeed, but will energize voters leading to more dems in office across the board.

Welcome to America

We can sit around and talk about how the average voter should do better on their own out of a sense of civic duty…

Or we can do what we know will motivate them.

Which do you think is more productive?

Right…

Which will highlight to the country that a Republican House matters right before an election is coming up and donations will make a huge difference in races…

What dem voters want is to know that their votes matter. And this shows them what happens because of the 2022 midterms and will lead to increased turnout in 2024.

It’s not “all or nothing”. To beat fascism we need to never stop fighting even when the odds are astronomically against suceeding.

It’s not even politics at this point, it’s basic psychology. We need to give voters what they want, and right now Dem voters want to fight fascism.

If you don’t try, you’ll never succeed.

There’s no such thing as wasted political capital these days, shit like this energizes the base, and this is probably the biggest thing to help Biden (or whoever the candidate is) all year.

trumpers are already jacked up on Mountain Dew, they can’t vote any harder then they already are and they’re not gonna vote any less. We need the focus on motivating Dem voters.

And win or lose, this does that.

Show voters that with X amount more votes. We can actually fix something. It’s a few months before the election, this is literally perfect timing.

We actually don’t.

A single progressive president means they get to name the DNC chair and a bunch of voting positions.

It’s literally that easy to take over the party.

Obama just didn’t do it because he didn’t need the party after they turned on him for opposing Hillary.

If he’d have rebuilt it, we’d have a functional progressive party planning decades ahead already. And trump would still just be that guy from the Mac Miller song. The SC would be a progressive majority. The situation and Gaza wouldn’t have turned into an open genocide, COVID would have been handled appropriately.

It’s not some insurmountable task, but it gets harder and harder every cycle.

By all rights we should have had protests in the streets calling for Biden and the DNC leadership to step down for stealing NH’s delagets. But not enough people had crossed their personal lines by then.

If we’d have had the fight then, we’d have had a full primary almost to figure shit out.

But we didn’t.

Until we finally do, shit won’t change.

Have you seen what they say about Joe Biden?

They’d call trump Joseph Stalin if there was a D by his name.

It literally doesn’t matter how progressive a candidate we run, because they’ll say the same shit about anyone.

Moderates try to defend and talk about how conservative they really are. Alienating their voters. AOC would fucking own that shit and explain how it helps everyone.

What we’re doing isn’t working. And Biden himself keeps saying he’s powerless as president, so why not fucking try what worked for literal decades and there was no rational reason we ever stopped?

There be the facts, friend. It’s just how it works right now

What?

Literally what’s how what works?

Any time you figure out a better system you can get implemented, I’m all ears.

Fair and open primaries, mate.

I’ve been saying it since NH had their delegates stolen.

Well, this cycle, almost a decade now in total. This ain’t exactly a new problem, and it’s not like no one can think of a solution.

It’s just not easy beating corporate money in primaries until enough Dem voters demand the party sets higher standards. And most people only pay atteyonce every 4 years, then they’re too exhausted to care about politics.

Imagine having a candidate that got more popular after speaking in public…

We literally haven’t even passed that low of a bar in over a decade. I don’t understand what’s happened to people.

People as a whole are more politically aware than I’ve ever seen, but we’re just wasting it.

And yet, she’ll never win a presidential election because she’s too polarizing

Imagine saying that after Obama flipped a bunch of red states and brought in a shit ton of down ballot races.

AOC is polarizing, but not as much as Obama and it’s easier the second time around.

Hell, no body even really mentioned Biden being Catholic in 1988. You should have seen the shit they said about JFK. And similar time-frames passed between.

And strictly police wise, the country is a lot more open to progressive policy than in 08, and again, everyone said Obama was too “polarizing” right up till election results.

Crazy how when legislation passes, it’s Biden…

But when we want Biden to do something, he can’t, because presidents can’t do legislation…

Almost like he just takes credit for what progressives fight to accomplish.

The statement:

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

This is what leadership is, what voters want, and what wins elections.

Doesn’t matter if it works, it’s trying and highlighting that issues can be fixed. We might not succeed the first time, but we’ll keep fucking trying till we do.

Put the votes on record and show voters where people stand.

Why would they want RCV to happen?

In it’s current state neither party has accountability from their own voters.

They can literally do anything they want, raise billions of dollars and be practically free from any accountability because the parties aren’t officially government agencies.

When corruption happens at the party level, it’s literally “totally legal, and totally cool”.

The people who would rise to power in such a system, will never give it up it willingly. And anyone that isn’t corrupt, faces near impossible odds.

Look at AIPAC just dropping 15 million on a House seat primary. How are voters supposed to compete in a primary like that, and what are they supposed to do in a general?

Not vote Dem so the Republican that also takes AIPAC money wins? They’re not even the only ones doing it, they’re just the ones paying the most openly.

Our system is fucked and we can’t keep waiting “one more election” to openly acknowledge it.

It’s too late for a third party in 2024, but it’s the perfect time to get people talking about 2028.

If we don’t, we’re gonna be right back here in 2028 talking about how it’s too late.

This is when people are paying attention and desperate for any other option.

Planning ahead is the path forward, we can’t just keep reacting every four years then ignoring it again.