Biden could do more to attack Trump, too. Right-wing domestic terrorists are bolder now than ever and he's letting it happen.
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Why not both?
I'd love to see it, but Dems are going to run neither and try to skirt another "at least he's not trump" win. Not excited to see how it plans out, 2020 was entirely too close for comfort.
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Inflation reduction act. No recession so far. Student debt forgiveness. He’s not just sitting on his hands.
Exactly. Anybody paying attention would realize he's delivering on so much shit no Republican in my working memory ever has.
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Noone is paying attention to that. Their strategy should be hammering this over and over and over nonstop. They have had no strategy for a year while focus was on the Republicans, and they still have no agenda other than Trump bad and Biden is not that old.
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What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.
Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.
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I'd love to see her run for President.
I'd vote for her.
I'd also would need to purchase industrial bulk popcorn to watch all the conservatives literally implode if she was nominated.
When she streamed with hbomberguy and said 'trans rights' on the mic I genuinely hoped she would. She is young, she is based, she has charisma most democrats lack. But dems seem to prefer safe bets so they'd nominate Joe until he dies. Even at that time they can vote her in just because she's not a geriatic pos like her opponent.
She may be able to next time. But it all depends on this election. Switching from an already sitting President to her would never happen. That's like firing the person who made your business run somewhat normal after a complete shit show.
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'24 is the first election she's old enough. Give her time.
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If we could stop funding a genocide on Gaza, that'd be a step in the right direction as well.
It's crazy how people are acting like we're the problem for not wanting to vote for either genocidal candidate. Just find someone better and I'll vote for them, DNC. Unless you can't.
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corporate sponsors like "the other guy is bad" more than "here's the plan to get the working class a bigger slice of the pie"
ding ding ding! this is the answer - Biden does exactly what the donors want, which is more of the same from the last 50 years. AOC is scoring some easy political points here by stating the obvious, but an 81 year old fossil isn’t suddenly going to decide to be a leader rather than a fear mongerer from the bunker.
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What she said was "I think we can certainly do more to be advancing our vision, and I believe we have a strong vision that we can run on." She specifically calls out:
- Codifying abortion/reproductive rights [House and Senate races matter!]
- Lowering Medicare age
- Student loan forgiveness
Contrary to OP's title, she actually pushes back on the false narrative that Biden is running as "not Trump".
She does say that it will be important to demonstrate "what we are willing to do with" governing power between now and November.
She's right. People are tired of the status quo which is slowly being dismantled by Republicans in the House, etc. Attacking them only further entrenches people who lean right. Hilary already made this mistake when she thought Trump was an easy win and ignored flyover states. This is how you lose swing state votes, too. Biden and his team have done a lot of good things, but it's all for naught if nobody sees it - his messaging sucks.
I could give a shit about his messaging. His actions suck. Don't block strikes. Don't support genocide.
Biden has to have more to offer than to be the alternative to Trump, and because even bringing up his age causes condemnation, I'm not sure there's actually much else being considered about Biden as a candidate.
Biden would rather lose to fascists than compromise with leftists and progressives.
I'm pretty excited for the Amtrak expansion myself. It paves the way for actual urban transit options.
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American politics is only about slinging as much mud at your opponent as possible and painting the grimmest doomsday picture as possible about everything.
Actually having a vision and a dream doesn't work, unfortunately.
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“Get your MAGA hat” –Fetterman
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