9th July 2024, 7:41 PM
Thank you for recognizing just how dangerous this situation is, and how whatever their language, the practical reality is a nightmare that places all future presidents until the day this is overturned squarely above the law.
It's just like how there's all this language the republicans are using to say they're "softening" their stance on abortion access by simply attempting to define the legal rights of personhood... which well... I do have a memory. This was literally what they were doing in the 90's. It's the same thing, and redefining personhood for a fetus is, in practical fact, a total abortion ban.
One additional note, much as I want to be smug and say "I told you so" when I see the likes of Bernie still speaking cogent without these slipups and Biden well.... this...
I can't, because that's not the selection we have. Realistically, the only replacement the democrats could even manage legally and in time would be Kamala Harris, and while I would fully support that while acknowledging her policies are very close to Biden's and not my own (and heck maybe sneak an ancient Bernie in there as VP, or just anyone but Bloomberg really), let's face facts. That's not happening unless Biden decides to do it. So, IF Biden's mental faculties actually did slip to a certain degree, we're looking at his cabinet, subject matter experts, being who we're voting for in the WORST case. That's fine, I can't say Biden hasn't picked a good cabinet. It's a pretty damned good one actually. Trump will just pick fascist enablers that lick his heel spurs. Oh, not "just", if Project 25 comes to pass, they're going to replace as many people as possible in every branch. That's the real danger. If THAT happens, it wouldn't matter if the supreme court had ruled he's under MORE scrutiny of the law than the average citizen. He'd have everything he needs to start a methodical takeover. That IS the plan. They even intend to round people up in internment camps. This is a cold reality we need to address.
But as Stewart says above, what we have is a candidate that thinks "doing his best" is what matter. No, that's not what matters at all. I don't care if he "does his best", we need to absolutely make sure Project 25 doesn't get enabled. Biden, if you're going to do this, do it. There is no try.
It's just like how there's all this language the republicans are using to say they're "softening" their stance on abortion access by simply attempting to define the legal rights of personhood... which well... I do have a memory. This was literally what they were doing in the 90's. It's the same thing, and redefining personhood for a fetus is, in practical fact, a total abortion ban.
One additional note, much as I want to be smug and say "I told you so" when I see the likes of Bernie still speaking cogent without these slipups and Biden well.... this...
I can't, because that's not the selection we have. Realistically, the only replacement the democrats could even manage legally and in time would be Kamala Harris, and while I would fully support that while acknowledging her policies are very close to Biden's and not my own (and heck maybe sneak an ancient Bernie in there as VP, or just anyone but Bloomberg really), let's face facts. That's not happening unless Biden decides to do it. So, IF Biden's mental faculties actually did slip to a certain degree, we're looking at his cabinet, subject matter experts, being who we're voting for in the WORST case. That's fine, I can't say Biden hasn't picked a good cabinet. It's a pretty damned good one actually. Trump will just pick fascist enablers that lick his heel spurs. Oh, not "just", if Project 25 comes to pass, they're going to replace as many people as possible in every branch. That's the real danger. If THAT happens, it wouldn't matter if the supreme court had ruled he's under MORE scrutiny of the law than the average citizen. He'd have everything he needs to start a methodical takeover. That IS the plan. They even intend to round people up in internment camps. This is a cold reality we need to address.
But as Stewart says above, what we have is a candidate that thinks "doing his best" is what matter. No, that's not what matters at all. I don't care if he "does his best", we need to absolutely make sure Project 25 doesn't get enabled. Biden, if you're going to do this, do it. There is no try.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)