discussion White House says it's not Biden's job to satisfy abortion rights activists

[Daddy]

It's time to put this 2 party system of the USA to bed. Y'all just vote for the same devil every damn voting cycle 

[slik]

59 minutes ago, Daddy said:

It's time to put this 2 party system of the USA to bed. Y'all just vote for the same devil every damn voting cycle 

I wish we had more than 2 major parties but sadly both Republican and Democrat leaders will do anything to make sure a 3rd major party never rises.

[Smarticle]

what is the mainstream? it feels like not much has been done

[Vermillion]

No wonder Kate Bedingfield's leaving.  

 

Looks like she wanted to torch the place on her way out with this death knell statement for an easy K-Street job.

 

This is more than tone-deaf from Kate Bedingfield. This is a Howard Dean scream, Hillary Clinton coal, Pete Buttigieg "all blacks are homophobic", Elizabeth Warren "I'm native" moment. The backlash I'm seeing is fierce and will far outweigh and outlast any kind of delineation and alienation Kate's attempted here. Talk about a seismic moment.

 

How offensive to the Dem activists in the trenches in Georgia fighting to keep it blue. 

 

Side-note: On what planet does DeSantis not turn off moderates? More horseshoe BS. How do you extrapolate from 538 that his high approvals mean indies like him? No, he's shored up an impenetrable base, period. That's borne out by the data.

 

Also, I'm with David Hopkins and Matt Grossmann's theory on asymmetric politics to avoid D's trying to mirror R's shoring of their base. A different strategy has to be needled in an Electoral College system to aim for the base to motivate enough non-voters while also tamping down enough of the backlash to the strategy with the middle. We don't have any other strategy at the moment on the left, really. 

[Communion]

5 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

what is the mainstream?

• 87% of all Dems aka majority support for single-payer M4A and abolishing private insurance
• 85% of all Dems aka majority support for making all public colleges and trade schools tuition-free
• 84% of all Dems aka majority support for cancelling at least $50k in student debt
• 83% of all Dems aka majority support for legalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions
• 80% of all Dems aka majority support for legalizing abortion in nearly most/all cases

These things also hold majority support amongst all Americans but which Biden doesn't support.

 

Guess who the real person out-of-step is

[byzantium]

What coalition do they need to assemble?  There is already a majority coalition who want abortion rights.  Now it is our representative's job to quite literally represent that majority.  

[Sugar-Rush]

I mean they're right. It's not Biden's fault that the SCOTUS is corrupt, and there's nothing he can really do about that. 

[GraceRandolph]

Biden should step down at this point. It’s clear he’s not fit for this moment. 

[BraveNewSeth]

What exactly is his job then? He's done literally nothing since he became president.

[ClashAndBurn]

45 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

Biden should step down at this point. It’s clear he’s not fit for this moment. 

He was elected specifically to do nothing. This is what "mainstream Democratic Party voters" voted for in the primary. A feckless old man who was always going to hide behind institutions as a reason his hands would always be too tied up for him to meet any sort of expectation. They wanted "mellow" Biden who has always openly despised and disparaged grassroots organizers and activists over rambunctious, offensive Trump who embraces his voter base.

[GhostBox]

8 hours ago, Sugar-Rush said:

I mean they're right. It's not Biden's fault that the SCOTUS is corrupt, and there's nothing he can really do about that. 

They don’t care. Again they want him to use his magic wand and make it go away ? a lot of them have no clue how government works. 

[Dula Peep]

On 7/10/2022 at 2:10 AM, Marianah Adkins said:

Piece of **** president. De Santis is really coming

Daddy Gavin Newsom is coming 

[Dula Peep]

15 hours ago, John Slayne said:

it looks like nothing is his job anymore. 

 

the way Democrats have all branches of government but refuse to do anything about any issue speaks volumes. the most useless party. 

we don't really have all branches because of those two losers 

[Cain]

I’m actually close to giving up on politics, it seems to truly not matter who’s voted into power because all the constructions will remain the same making every leader a complacent and corrupt puppet

[GraceRandolph]

37 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

a lot of them have no clue how government works. 

The problem is it’s not working for most people. 

[rihannabiggestfan]

12 hours ago, Communion said:

• 87% of all Dems aka majority support for single-payer M4A and abolishing private insurance
• 85% of all Dems aka majority support for making all public colleges and trade schools tuition-free
• 84% of all Dems aka majority support for cancelling at least $50k in student debt
• 83% of all Dems aka majority support for legalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions
• 80% of all Dems aka majority support for legalizing abortion in nearly most/all cases

These things also hold majority support amongst all Americans but which Biden doesn't support.

 

Guess who the real person out-of-step is

Biden

 

1 hour ago, Dula Peep said:

Daddy Gavin Newsom is coming 

Not more neoliberal mediocrity please (and I say that as a Californian)

[TROPICUM]

6 minutes ago, rihannabiggestfan said:

Biden

 

Not more neoliberal mediocrity please (and I say that as a Californian)

Who u voting for in the upcoming elections?

 

Just curious 

 

[katara]

9 hours ago, BraveNewSeth said:

What exactly is his job then? He's done literally nothing since he became president.

Taking naps and stuttering nonsense?