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I would hope that the DNC learned their fuckin lesson in 1968 and 2016, and would be okay with the will of the people and putting up the most popular person, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that that is still too much to ask. 😕

I fuckin hope so man.

The imagination of Trump in the debate with Harris with her experience as a prosecutor and him getting extra salty and unhinged about it because it's a woman making him look stupid is definitely at least a little bit appealing.

Yeah, you might be right. There is a front page article that talks about how exactly that used to be the way that we did it. And I do very much like the idea of having a genuine marketplace of candidates. We already paid the heavy heavy fuckin price of taking the incumbent away, we might as well do everything possible to make sure the replacement is going to be the definitely strongest candidate. But you may have a point.

Harris is fine. She's a functional adult and doesn't want to destroy the world, and she's apparently sharp on her feet. So three points in her favor. I'm slightly worried about "fine" being the only real metric, but sure... I mean I won't say you are certainly wrong about your way of looking at it.

Also, dead link, use this

Let's have a contested convention

Let's have a leader with a mandate

Please let's not just have the DNC pick Harris and declare that she's the answer

Fuckin hell man I hate having the future of my country in the hands of the goddamned DNC

Of course even typing it out, I pretty much know what the resolution is going to be

I am aware. And yes

It’s starting

, I really can't remember the last time I actually expected any meaningful change from it

I can personally guarantee there will be meaningful change if Trump wins the election

Best advice I've heard is to form close ties and mutual aid agreements with your neighbors and friends. A small network of people can be far, far, far more resilient in defending protecting themselves than individuals or families can.

I read an interview with someone from the war in Bosnia, and he talked about surviving the war. He said big families, in one house, they had an easier war. When shit gets real is when “friends” start to evaporate or turn their back, a lot more than you would think. The single people, or little families off on their own, they mostly didn’t make it.

Oh, sure. If they were putting on a new mask when entering those rooms, and then discarding it and replacing it with a fresh one when they exited and dealt with everyone else, that would make perfect sense.

I'm just saying that the system of "let's use literally the most minimal precautions only with the patients that are known to be potentially deadly, and with everyone else just walk around breathing potentially literally anything on literally everyone, like a big squad of Typhoid Marys in scrubs" is potentially in need of some constructive criticism and revision.

You are 100% correct but even this understates the impact of what Biden did by a certain amount.

He spent roughly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS on climate change. Experts have estimated that the impact of the climate bill, all other things being equal (har har), will be to put us at a 40% reduction from our peak emissions by the year 2030.

The last big expenditure on climate change was $80 billion, and that was in 2009.

Is 40% enough? Fuck no, and it's coming way too late. But I still have NO idea how he got the current crop of idiots and crooks in Washington, who are almost unanimously on team "let's fuck up the climate even more, we're in a position to REALLY squeeze some dollars now that prices are going up, let's see what this bad boy can do", to agree to that. It honestly is a little mind boggling.

Even if he does literally nothing with a second term, he's already more than 5 times better than any other US president on climate change. Even if Trump wasn't explicitly planning to reverse all of that and do his best to set new records for how much worse it can get, and he were running against some normal non apocalypse opponent, it would still be a good idea to give him a second term and see if he can do more with it.

The fact that people understand what a crisis the climate is, but still don't see a reason to support Biden because after all he is a known old person, is a testament to the absolutely cataclysmic (literally) level of failure by the media to do their fucking jobs.

I’ll let you know