She has all the delegates she needs. The convention will be just ceremonial, unless some of these delegates take it back. https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-presidential-candidate-election-withdraw-9fbd153493cb3f088994854fe61a73e9 |
The incumbent party has always been late and always gotten a waiver. But it’s been an informal understanding. This year, Dems don’t trust they will get the benefit of that. I wonder why? And yeah. The point of a rah, rah convention is ratings. Going up against prime time Olympics is silly. |
What about Governor Youngkin's "snitch line" against teachers? Was that a "good look"? |
Would you people just admit you have no idea what the Keystone Pipeline was actually for? |
we need to get off our dependency on oil, though. Our dependence on oil is going to kill the future for our descendants. |
After the last four years of D rule, I am just ready for a change.
I have voted D and R in the past and am not a one issue voter. I do know that I will not vote for anyone who I consider a "CALIFORNIA" D. They are just too crazy there in the Peoples Republic of Cali. I will not even do business there. Beautiful state except for all the people there! |
Biden had support post-debate initially, until it waned. |
Sorry, this isn’t the disarray you’re looking for. |
Oh wise one, what was it for? You know everything right ? |
No, I don’t. Moderates, swing voters, independents: you need our votes. For many of us, it isn’t a choice between Democrats and MAGA. It’s a choice between Democrats and staying home. A lot of us haven’t seen the Democrats do enough to preserve what we care about: ending school shootings, protecting gay marriage from a Dobbs-type overturn, national healthcare, and reforms of so many basic social systems that have become rampantly predatory. They lost Roe. They didn’t do enough, they took it for granted, and they lost it, and I have zero faith that it won’t happen again. There is no anti-Project 2025 plan from the Democrats. There is a lot of fundraising against its spectre, but no plan. And we see that if MAGA doesn’t win in 2024, it will only be a stay of execution; we will have Project 2029 instead. Most of the Democrat voters don’t want to have this conversation, though. They want to assume I’m a MAGA follower for questioning what the Democrats are doing. |
True. But that is no later than 8/7, the Ohio ballot deadline. It’s not at the actual convention |
It wasn’t petty jealousy. It was internalized misogyny. Millions of women were told that they were inherently less than men, less intelligent, less capable, just less all around. And that’s just regular, non religious women. For women who were reared in many traditional religions, mostly Christianity, they were told by instruments of God that women were inherently less good, more sinful, the cause of the Fall of Man, incapable of being sacred (unless they birthed the Lord! Mary gets a special pass for birthing the Lord!). Many women have internalized these messages and do not think critically about these messages, ever. Add in decades of personal experiences big and small that remind women that many men see them as lesser beings (and it’s still happening; my friend just switched companies because the guy she worked under really resented women - and this is at a company dominated by women in the C-suite), and you have women shutting down and existing in denial as a way to cope. |
So you admit you don’t know? Great! |
Disarray IS democracy. “ Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” - Plato It’s a strategic misstep to ignore the problems with this ad hoc process. |