It IS absolutely necessary to eject Democrats down ballot. But it won’t matter much if Trump is elected. Just as Democrats have not Ben able to make much progress without majorities in the house and senate.
Watch. Trump don’t need no steenkin’ downballot majority.
I'm not the only one who disagrees with you on that. I started to reply with a long post a couple of hours ago and then thought, what's the point, so I'll leave it at that. In fact, I wouldn't even consider forgiving school loans as necessarily progressive, although it was something that mostly younger progressives with school loans wanted. Most of my friends don't have college degrees and while they will vote blue no matter who because they are smart and realistic, they resent that people who they perceive as more privileged compared to themselves might getting loan forgiveness. I support loan forgiveness for those in need, but I'd prefer to see most paid off by working in a much needed area or by doing some type of public service. That builds character. I will leave it at that since I promised myself not to get into a long discussion about this issue. We just see things very differently.
Heh. Thinking about Emily’s “Biden could do that too” thing, I think the first place Sleepy Joe should send Seal Team 6, is to visit Thomas, Alito and maybe Gorsuch (since his seat was stolen).
As they should.
Of course someone living in a bubble like Santa Monica doesn’t want to pay one thin dime to raise the education level of the average ‘Murkin. Why should they? Their interactions with the masses are already well under control. It’s not like they’d be getting anything they need or want out of it; in fact it might hurt them even worse. It could raise the cost of gardeners, maids and dishwashers.
He supported a lot of their spending priorities even if Manchin and Sinema heroically prevented the worst of them from being enacted.
Of course he won't. He will be waiting for a call from Hakeem Jeffries.
I make a lot of typos that I do not notice until after it is too late to edit.
The problem with these analyses is that their sample size is inevitably small. There have only been 46 different presidents, and about 60 presidential elections, going back to the 18th century. Any election before maybe 1948 or so (and probably even later) has a country that is way too different for that data to be useful in drawing any conclusions about 2024.
These keys do not consider the risk of incumbency, because we have never had an 81 year old incumbent. The fact that Biden is so old and so clearly shows his age diminishes the value of that key almost entirely I think.
No he won’t.
I am not certain I understand to what portion of my post you are disagreeing. Do you mean that you object to loan forgiveness? I did not advocate for it. I think college should be free for citizens, "loan forgiveness" (which under Biden has been mostly smoke and mirrors in any case) is chasing the bus, buying off the public with bribes so they do not question the wider system of institutionalized debt that drives the continued bifurcation of American wealth to ever more absurd extremes. But, it is a matter of fact that the Progressive Caucus in the legislature has advocated for loan forgiveness. If you yourself do not believe that loan forgiveness is a progressive cause, I'm confused as to why you offered it as an example of how President Biden "supported their progressive goals".
Which ones?
Is KBJ supposed to be an abbreviation for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? If so, I approve of her appointment, but it has done little to change the situation of the Court. That said, kudos for thinking of a concrete example of Biden using his presidential prerogatives to support a progressive candidate, something the liberals in this thread have been struggling to do.
Another DEI appointment.
He also basically decriminalized marijuana at the federal level.
Of course appointing any black person or a woman is racist and sexist to racists and misogynists.
I’ll believe it when I hear it from the shooter and they recover the slug and the gun.
