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Except that's not the real question, bc he's already said that God Himself could not cause Biden to step down (I'm being literal here). He's doubling, tripling, and whatever more down, digging his heels in and refusing to even consider that option, regardless of who asks.

At this point he is either removed by force - which won't happen - or it's already over.

And either way, the SCOTUS ruling holds firm.

I wish him luck, but I don't expect good things to come. Even if he wins, heck even if he like rigged the election at this point and gave himself a large majority of numbers in the process, the other side won't believe it and there's a goodly chance of an actual civil war, or something along those lines (bad riots or such). Or maybe I'm full of shit, but it bothers me so much that everything that I say sounds "fatalistic" to my own inner ear - except that word means closing your eyes to the truth and choosing to believe only the worst, whereas this is my attempt to be realistic with eyes wide open!? I am saying that it does not bode well that this seems a realistic possibility rather than hyperbolic exaggeration of words for like comedic effect:-(.

Once again, there's like ~11% of the country who is die-hard Trump red maga, another ~11% Biden blue maga, and the LARGE majority of us in the middle don't matter in the slightest as we get caught between these two extremes (Russian oligarchy encroachment vs. American oligarchy establishment, tbf the latter cares far more about the common folk, but is really bad at showing that).

It is not nearly so binary. This issue is complex and intertwining - think rocket science where to get more thrust you need more fuel, but adding more fuel adds more weight, so you need even more thrust... that's mere child's play compared to politics.

For one thing, replacing Biden now may help Trump win, but it may also help Trump lose, whereas in contrast NOT replacing Biden now may help Trump lose, or it could help Trump win.

And somehow, we're all back to everything Everything, EVERYthing being all about Trump, all the time.:-( Democracy has had cracks in it forever, especially when mixed with capitalism, and he exposes all of those.

So close! 😂

Tastiness changes erryone's minds 😋

A-a-are you sure you want to say that, without checking first whether she's had her coffee today?

She might decide to find coffee in your nebula!? :-P

Death: it ends any illness!:-P

A lot of that is not deserved. Some of it is though. E.g. when handed an assignment, she complains that it's too hard, rather than take advantage of the opportunity. It's like... she ran for the whole job, but then she couldn't handle even just one isolated issue, what gives?

She also reputedly alienates the people working for her, but it's not clear to me how trustworthy that tidbit of information is. Some young rich white boys don't like being told what to do by a woman, perhaps especially a black one, so that very well could not be her fault. Even so, it's yet another strike against her, pointing to lack of leadership skills, even if the severity of it is small.

The bonus is that she could have all of Biden's administration working for her as well. However, will she listen to them, or strongarm them saying that she knows better? Reports say the latter, unfortunately... (and iirc).

Nowhere close to as bad as Trump though, in all of these respects plus so very many more, e.g. the coup attempt, the raping and felony convictions, to name just a few. The problems with Harris are more her electability among voters, not how well she'd do the job, which is possibly not well but again nowhere close to as bad as Trump.

While I am at it, here is a post about what I thought was an astute and fairly comprehensive (more or less) analysis on the topic, from The Atlantic which is almost the last source of news that I would trust from a mainstream media source these days (after they were all bought out by billionaires and now censor information that their owners don't want them talking about). And also here is a short video from Jon Stewart, my hero, saying essentially the same thing - or rather, not that he step down, but that a debate be held so that people are allowed to choose who they want.

But it doesn't matter, we plebes are not offered any choices, beyond whether or which side to vote for. Personally, I expect a lot of people will sit out the election and not vote, identically to what happened with Hillary Clinton in 2016. I can only hope I'm wrong! (But sadly, it's an increasingly likely possiblity, e.g. as Biden calls Zelenskiy, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, as "President Putin" - those gaffes may have been laughed off previously, but especially after that debate performance... these things take on much greater degree of seriousness; especially with big-name & fame consistent Democrat donors like George Clooney jumping on the bandwagon, saying that Biden is not the same man that he was even a few months ago - something has changed, it's obvious to anyone looking). Anyway, it looks like Biden is refusing to step down, so that is that, our opinions don't matter here.

Don't worry, Gowron will remove all your stress...

along with your internal organs:-).

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You may enjoy this: Jon Stewart Debunks GOP’s City Crime Narrative | The Daily Show.

The last sentence ends with:

we are the problem.

The answer to the title question is chasing after short-term profits at the expense of all else - as we all understood perfectly before it was asked - and therefore the true underlying answer is bc clickbait title gets more clicks if it seems to ask a simple question than if it does not.

The article itself seemed mostly fine, if extremely wordy and rambling, but perhaps I was so put out by that "trick" with the title that I did not give it a fair chance - it just bugs me so much when people chase short-term profits to the exclusion of all other considerations, that I find it difficult to look past that effect:-|.