Biden is also a stutterer. People tend to forget that about him. Not to say that's the reason for every gaffe, but it is a constant struggle.
It's increased the chances that the Democrats will win the White House, but made it all the more imperative that there be real change coming. Biden will woefully short of that.
Anyone else think it's only a matter of time before Trump tweets that the Nov election should be postponed and he should remain President? Out of dedication to the country, of course. MAGA!
I certainly expect this. But not postponed, cancelled and he just gets grandfathered in for 4 more years.
Honestly, the pandemic and economic strife that is happening has only illuminated how ill-equipped we are. Trump has undoubtedly made things much worse, but the healthcare system as a whole is unprepared. And 40 years of our culture promoting hyper-individualization and productivity as its tenets has resulted in a populace that cannot and will not grapple with the need to take this thing head on until it's too late.
It's all part of the Q plan. Trust the process....
In all seriousness, they wanted to burn it all down. He's done exactly that.
My hunch is they wanted the fire to only affect liberals and people of color, not their personal savings
The executive branch is so powerful now because of what has transpired since the beginning of the Bush administration that the president can do quite a bit.Enough short of that that it would better giving Trump a second term? You didn't respond to the Supreme Court issue, either. Let's say age isn't an issue for Bernie - let's say he's 60 years old. Let's also say that Biden clearly wins the nomination, but enough people sit out this election because of issues with Biden that Trump wins a second term, and then Bernie is elected President in '24. How much significant structural change could he accomplish, knowing that it would be a 7-2 conservative court deciding the fate of any big proposals?
Based on what? Biden is and always has been sympathetic to big business and corporate interests. His administration would be filled with Democratic lifers who view the ACA/Romneycare/Obamacare as the absolute pinnacle achievement of the last decade.I would be stunned if, should the Democrats take office, universal healthcare doesn't immediately become one of their signature moves in the wake of the current situation. I think this stuff with the Coronavirus is going to further embolden Democrats to push for revitalizing and overhauling our healthcare system, so even if Biden gets into office, we may wind up seeing him be bolder on this issue than many people expect. I guarantee there will be people out there ready and willing to work and push to make sure we never find ourselves in this situation again, and I can easily see Biden working with them.
Like I said before, we can't base our predictions of how somebody will be as president solely off what they say and do on the campaign trail. There's a whole lot of other factors involved that can affect a candidate and cause them to change and shift their platform once they're actually in office.
Additionally, Biden helped pave the way for Brett Kavanaugh with how he handled Clarence Thomas. .
The U.S. Justice Department moved Monday to drop its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company charged with orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The stunning reversal came weeks before the case — a spin off of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe — was to go to trial.
Assistants to U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea of Washington D.C., and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers cited an unspecified “change in the balance of the government’s proof due to a classification determination,” according to a nine-page filing accompanied by facts under seal.
Prosecutors also cited the failure of the company, Concord Management and Consulting, to comply with trial subpoenas and providing a “misleading” affidavit by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a co-defendant and the company’s founder. Prigozhin is a catering magnate and military contractor known as “Putin’s chef” because of his ties to Russian President Vladi*mir Putin.
I also am astounded by how badly the Democrats in Congress are dealing with this. Somehow the Republican proposals are coming across as more humane (though they are obviously coming from a bad place). The obsession with means testing has made it impossible for them to grapple with a crisis and how to get people the things they desperately need.
It is true that testing is the top priority, but that has nothing to do with what I said. I'm talking about how Congress is trying to deal with the economic fallout when it comes to people not being able to pay bills because they are losing jobs or hours at work. The Democrats passed a bill that ignores 80 percent of workers, and then Pelosi had the gall to say "They should be doing that on their own." No shit! But they don't, so you need to make them.Testing, and getting the military involved to assist with hospitals is the most important thing right now. We can do nothing until we know exactly how bad this has spread. Assuming everyone has it does nothing, we need the data.
GOP cares about tax cuts.
it's absolutely idiotic and irresponsible to hold an election of any kind in circumstances like this. i certainly wouldn't go out and stand in line with dozens of strangers to vote today.
The Illinois primary is a disaster, many polling places that remained "open" never actually opened because the staffs never went in. The results need to be disregarded, and they need to go back to the drawing board.
It's amazing that a Republican governor in Ohio is handling this better than the Democrats. Tom Perez is giving them the direction to press forward for what reason?
How does low turnout, or a primary where older voters are more likely to stay away, possibly hurt Bernie Sanders?Probably in the name of quashing Bernie Sanders.
Not in a tin-foil conspiracy way, but he’s probably focused on getting a nominee now (before shit really hits the fan with covid-19) so that the Dems can be poised to go after Trump.
What he doesn’t realize is that this is actually why covid-19 will be worse.
How does low turnout, or a primary where older voters are more likely to stay away, possibly hurt Bernie Sanders?