[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

No. The solution is to dump Biden and try to get a candidate that can prevent that.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

It might be more effective if Biden 's brain hadn't melted between the 2020 election and today. Go back and watch his debates from 4 years ago, and you'll see that he had no problem tearing Trump's lies apart.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Ah, the genetic fallacy. How sad it must be to live in a world where you judge ideas solely based on where they came from. I guess we know how you got into this mess to start with!

For all of us that realize Trump is a threat to democracy but aren't completely bought in on DNC propaganda, please try to do better.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Didn't Democrats control the House and Senate for the first few years of his presidency? Looks like they failed to use the time they had very effectively. Why reward lazy behavior with another term?

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 days ago

Biden could nominate three new justices to the court today if he wanted to.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Biden and the DNC knew that if he was forced to actually debate in an open primary, he'd be weakened as a candidate and would eventually lose to Trump. So they rigged the primary, hoped they could sneak a senile old man through without us realizing, and now they got caught.

The people in power are perfectly content to lose the cycle and try again in 2028. Newsom, Whitmer, etc. are all lining up to run against Trump's VP next cycle since he's term limited. And the reason Biden hasn't been thrown overboard yet is that the other potential candidates haven't decided if they want to throw away their carefully laid plans for 2028 to take a gamble here in 2024.

The only people that truly believe Trump winning in 2024 means there won't be an election in 2028 are the most myopic hyper partisan Democrat voters, and they believe that because it's a useful fallacy for the Democratic elite to have them believe. Because fear is the only motivator they have left at this point. But their actions clearly show that they don't believe it themselves.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Pure copium.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

45 minutes outside of Portland, OR in any direction will get you somewhere just as rural as the place you left in SC, only with better weather and sane laws.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 month ago

Veritasium is YouTube propaganda. It's well documented - Derek takes sponsor money and gets people killed in the process. I blocked Derek on all platforms the day Tom put this documentary video out.

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Considering Kamala Harris’s fitness to take over from Joe Biden should the need arise, a top aide to the former California senator’s 2020 campaign said: “This person should not be president of the United States.”

Harris saw heavy staff turnover, with aides describing a toxic climate riven with factionalism and mismanagement. One source who worked for the vice-president declined to go on record or even discuss matters anonymously, due to the heated atmosphere around the office.

“They refused to characterise the experience of working for Harris, apart from offering a three-word assessment. It was, they said: ‘Game of Thrones’.”

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I tried this once. Went to the dog park, chatted up a girl over a period of a month. I finally got the courage to ask her on a date, and she said yes! The date (dinner and a local concert) went great - we ended up back at my place and I can honestly say it was some of the best sex of my life.

Then she ghosted me and we never talked again. That was 2017, and I'm still not over it. Thanks for the advice though.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are only five sentences of text on that page, with the last one explaining that this sort of marriage was not common at all. Where did you get the idea that the textbook is suggesting that this was the norm?

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

Nobody is going to vote for Trump because of this. But it WILL cause enough folks to get dejected and not vote at all, and that's all it'll take for Trump to win. Democrats need a candidate people can be excited about voting for, or they WILL lose.

The "but the other guy is worse!" approach won't work this time.

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