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Bill Redman's avatar

I think Speaker Johnson needs a refresher course in Civics 101. The president and vice president are the only two offices in our constitutional system that are NOT elected by all the people. If they were, Hillary Clinton would have been elected President in 2016. And he says "No one who is elected to that office is going to be prone to this kind of crazy criminal activity". I guess he was asleep during President Felon's term.

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The Silver Symposium's avatar

It is absolutely amazing to watch Pelosi, who herself railed against notions that she was too old for her job, now pivot to shank one of her biggest defenders.

Nevermind that even if the Dam breaks, there is no one who could replace Biden. Regardless of whether we believe he's actually fit or not, he won every primary. Millions of people cast votes for him. Furthermore, unless the plan is to nominate Harris, who has no constituency, all of the money and organization so far will have been wasted.

Beyond that, we do have polls for other fantasy candidates, and all of them are losing to Trump. So the question is, do you pick one of the ones who polls say does worse than Biden or do you stick with a guy who has managed for four years and has roughly a 50/50 shot of winning?

Baffling to me that Democrats are so bad at politics they'd rather toss the election to candidates doing worse in polls than Biden.

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