"Meanwhile, Trump gets two stooges on the House Intelligence Committee who will have access to top national defense secrets."
Not yet he doesn't. Since Jan 6, 2021 he's done little but increasingly trumpet his unfitness for office, by any objective measure. He's done nothing to appeal to the principled middle, or to the sane for that matt…
"Meanwhile, Trump gets two stooges on the House Intelligence Committee who will have access to top national defense secrets."
Not yet he doesn't. Since Jan 6, 2021 he's done little but increasingly trumpet his unfitness for office, by any objective measure. He's done nothing to appeal to the principled middle, or to the sane for that matter. He's proudly unrepentant about his "sacred landslide" BS. He has zero guardrails, and thinks that's a good thing, something he's owed. He's completely unmoored from any sense of duty, comity, accountability, or national loyalty. He's a shameless pathological liar. He's divisiveness on steroids. He said he'd goad adversaries of the U.S. to attack the western alliance.
How is Biden in a tie with this guy.? His team needs to wake reachable voters the F up in swing states.
The young activists who staff the Biden administration and the Biden/Harris campaign have focused on appealing to base voters like themselves instead of the swing voters who will decide this election. There is still lots of time to fix this, but the initiative will have to come from Biden himself, who has shown little stomach for taking charge and laying down the law. His recent initiative on the border might be a step in the right direction - as long as he doesn't backtrack like usual.
Desi you have described our fundamental issue. We look at this election and ask ourselves “how the fuck are we here?!?!” And I don’t have an answer other than we were always going to end up here at some point. I am sorry but there is no looking at what Trump has done over the last 8 years and saying “this is ok.” I guarantee that if you asked Trump voters…almost all of them…how they felt about Trump but you were from the future and could describe what he did they would be where these idiot voters are today. You could tell them one of ten things that he had done and they would say “no way if I knew that I would not vote for that man.” However they did, do and will. That’s what is scary.
We could run anyone and maybe we would be a point or two higher or lower. I don’t know. It’s a counterfactual but we would be saying the SAME THING if Biden wasn’t running and it was warnock or big gretch or whoever. We would be saying what if he/she did this or that maybe the race would break for the pro democracy people because where this country is unfathomable.
If this was a popular vote election and not an ec election this shit would be over. Trump would be going to prison. However we have this crazy situation where somehow republicans can win with between 44-46% of the vote and apparently 44-46% of the voters are stupid
While I never underestimate the power of stupid, my sanity demands that I maintain polling is broken, that Biden and Trump are not tied, that Biden will easily win (even by a landslide). Do I really believe that? I don't know, but I hope, hope, really hope that it's right.
"Meanwhile, Trump gets two stooges on the House Intelligence Committee who will have access to top national defense secrets."
Not yet he doesn't. Since Jan 6, 2021 he's done little but increasingly trumpet his unfitness for office, by any objective measure. He's done nothing to appeal to the principled middle, or to the sane for that matter. He's proudly unrepentant about his "sacred landslide" BS. He has zero guardrails, and thinks that's a good thing, something he's owed. He's completely unmoored from any sense of duty, comity, accountability, or national loyalty. He's a shameless pathological liar. He's divisiveness on steroids. He said he'd goad adversaries of the U.S. to attack the western alliance.
How is Biden in a tie with this guy.? His team needs to wake reachable voters the F up in swing states.
The young activists who staff the Biden administration and the Biden/Harris campaign have focused on appealing to base voters like themselves instead of the swing voters who will decide this election. There is still lots of time to fix this, but the initiative will have to come from Biden himself, who has shown little stomach for taking charge and laying down the law. His recent initiative on the border might be a step in the right direction - as long as he doesn't backtrack like usual.
Desi you have described our fundamental issue. We look at this election and ask ourselves “how the fuck are we here?!?!” And I don’t have an answer other than we were always going to end up here at some point. I am sorry but there is no looking at what Trump has done over the last 8 years and saying “this is ok.” I guarantee that if you asked Trump voters…almost all of them…how they felt about Trump but you were from the future and could describe what he did they would be where these idiot voters are today. You could tell them one of ten things that he had done and they would say “no way if I knew that I would not vote for that man.” However they did, do and will. That’s what is scary.
We could run anyone and maybe we would be a point or two higher or lower. I don’t know. It’s a counterfactual but we would be saying the SAME THING if Biden wasn’t running and it was warnock or big gretch or whoever. We would be saying what if he/she did this or that maybe the race would break for the pro democracy people because where this country is unfathomable.
If this was a popular vote election and not an ec election this shit would be over. Trump would be going to prison. However we have this crazy situation where somehow republicans can win with between 44-46% of the vote and apparently 44-46% of the voters are stupid
While I never underestimate the power of stupid, my sanity demands that I maintain polling is broken, that Biden and Trump are not tied, that Biden will easily win (even by a landslide). Do I really believe that? I don't know, but I hope, hope, really hope that it's right.