Yeah, especially on how they got into this position by electing a dipshit neolib who pushed pro-business and anti-migrant policies while refusing to push back against the far right until it became a problem for him personally

So if he's not needed and just being a drag on the ticket why doesn't he resign?

Well, we've already had a president assassinate US citizens, so let's rev up those predators and go looking for whatever billionaire's yacht Coney Barret, Kavanuahh, and Roberts are chilling on

"Talking a lot of shit for someone within Official Act distance" - Joe Biden (in my dreams)

"We think this particular minion has reached the end of his usefulness, so here's one satisfying but ultimately very small victory to distract you from the gutting of anti-bribery laws, industry regulations, protections for unhoused people against arbitrary arrests, etc."

The ACLU are savvy litigators and picked a client our Supreme Court might be sympathetic to

Jails and prisons also purchase a ton of goods and services from for profit companies, who are all too happy to upcharge ("you can't put a price on safety!"), and the wardens just sign on the dotted line and hand the bill over to taxpayers

This documentary from about 20 years ago went to one of their tradeshows, and even back then they were talking about how it corrections was a billion dollar industry

e; mirror link for Up the Ridge

with moderate politics

They'll do great for one campaign until they actually have to govern and then it's going to be 1996 and 2012 all over again and we'll barely scrape by (if we're lucky) against extremely beatable candidates. Moderates run good campaigns and terrible administrations because the average American voter has been propagandized into believing they want bipartisanship and small government when what they actually want is some affordable healthcare and housing which moderate politics are not going to deliver to them.

e; and actually the "do great for one campaign" thing might be optimistic or antiquated thinking based on how Biden barely won in 2020

I don't like this proposal, but I would love a bot that automatically comments with a link to this Wikipedia page anytime something from one of these sites gets posted here

And this is precisely why no Republican should ever be allowed to win an election anywhere. Their whole party has been pro-racism and anti-democracy since they ran Goldwater on an anti-civil rights laws platform, and whenever the pressure is on the Adam Kinzingers and Liz Cheney's and Mitt Romney's of the world will always cave to the most heinous people and ideas within their party rather than accept some kind of political or policy defeat.

Well, at least now they know how the rest of us feel about undecided voters

e; But yeah, Biden was not good (and that is not good for democracy in America and the general well being of the rest of the world)