and were biden to withdraw and she were to take the VP position for another term, it would improve her standing in my mind tremendously. selflessness (or at least delayed gratifcation) is an attribute you want to see in a leader.
not disagreeing with you. a primary and delegate vote should asolutely rewrite the ticket. I am suggesting that, if the path of least resistance passes through kamala, I am not going to throw a a hissyfit as long as delegates get a fair vote on the presidential nominee.
I would hope that Harris is more pragmatic and clear-eyed about the situation than Biden has been thus far - specifically, that she understands the goal is literally just to stop the fascists from taking over, and build bulwarks against that. Biden doesn’t seem to get the first one, and has utterly failed to do the second by any meaningful metric.
It’s because Biden and the rest of the octogenarian neo-liberals have been used to hanging out with their political rivals and playing like it’s a game TV wrestling.
I kept thinking Jan 6th almost resulting in their literal lynchings by that insurrectionist mob would have snapped the beltway folks into focusing immediately on what they need to be doing right now, but Biden and the rest still act like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and even Mitch McConnell are the overwhelming majority of Rs in power. I don’t think Biden and many of these other old fucks realize how many Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Lauren Boebert’s and Matt Gates there are in positions of power now.
They will literally end their political enemies’ lives if they get back in full control of all 3 branches this time.
It’d be fucking awesome if the Democratic Party leadership would realize that it’s not poker anymore and that bringing a deck of cards to a gunfight is going to make you lose the gunfight.
Maybe keeping Harris as VP would avoid the issues with either pushing her out or making her the nominee.
Yeah. Thought about that. Just don’t know how she’d take it. Guess it will be up to the Dems to convince her… if any of this even happens.
and were biden to withdraw and she were to take the VP position for another term, it would improve her standing in my mind tremendously. selflessness (or at least delayed gratifcation) is an attribute you want to see in a leader.
Maybe I’m not understanding the procedure here but Biden picked Harris. Wouldn’t a different nominee have the right to name the VP of their choosing?
I guess the best way forward is an open primary. If Harris wants the nomination she should run like any other candidate.
not disagreeing with you. a primary and delegate vote should asolutely rewrite the ticket. I am suggesting that, if the path of least resistance passes through kamala, I am not going to throw a a hissyfit as long as delegates get a fair vote on the presidential nominee.
True.
I would hope that Harris is more pragmatic and clear-eyed about the situation than Biden has been thus far - specifically, that she understands the goal is literally just to stop the fascists from taking over, and build bulwarks against that. Biden doesn’t seem to get the first one, and has utterly failed to do the second by any meaningful metric.
It’s because Biden and the rest of the octogenarian neo-liberals have been used to hanging out with their political rivals and playing like it’s a game TV wrestling.
I kept thinking Jan 6th almost resulting in their literal lynchings by that insurrectionist mob would have snapped the beltway folks into focusing immediately on what they need to be doing right now, but Biden and the rest still act like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and even Mitch McConnell are the overwhelming majority of Rs in power. I don’t think Biden and many of these other old fucks realize how many Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Lauren Boebert’s and Matt Gates there are in positions of power now.
They will literally end their political enemies’ lives if they get back in full control of all 3 branches this time.
It’d be fucking awesome if the Democratic Party leadership would realize that it’s not poker anymore and that bringing a deck of cards to a gunfight is going to make you lose the gunfight.