He made the right call on a whole bunch of foreign policy issues that the Very Experienced Professionals were assuring us they had a handle on. Just because he doesn’t have the relevant real skills, doesn’t mean the establishment candidates have any of it, either.
mozz
joined 2 years ago
Yeah. To me the only options with any level of realistic viability are:
- Biden
- Harris
- Contested convention, someone with a baseball bat in hand talks firmly to the DNC about not fucking everything up with their foot on the scales like they did in 1968 and 2016, and see what shakes out of an actually fair process
Anything else is nonsense. I have no real ironclad feelings about which of those options is best, although I lean towards 1 or 3, but the DUMP BIDEN RIGHT NOW, NOW NOW NOW, DON’T THINK ABOUT IT BOY DON’T ASK QUESTIONS JUST DO IT OR ELSE YOU DOOM AMERICA AND IT’LL ALL BE YOUR FAULT idea doesn’t appear in that list. To me.
Dude I felt bad even posting these two
Because if the whole problem is “RED RED RED RED RED RED” overwhelming anything useful then “RED RED NO IT’S BLUE RED RED BLUE RED NO BLUE NO RED” is not really an improvement
But yes I did feel like both of mine were factually relevant and the minority report should be presented, and I anyway couldn’t produce any real percentagewise increase in the tide if I made it into a full time job and hired assistants
It is extremely notable to me that the "get rid of Biden" is so HUGELY emphasized over "let's figure out who instead"
It makes me look suspiciously at what would initially be the pretty sensible idea of subbing in someone younger
Tell you what
I'll start calling her "Harris" and see how that seems. Like I say, I think you kinda have a point that it has a subtle impact even if the way it got arrived at has nothing to do with misogyny.
Teamsters?
Brb
Edit: It wasn't a major union; it was the Local 3000 chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
I'm tired, boss. I wanted to dig up a story about the massive list of unions that are specifically still supporting Biden, citing as their reason the wide support he has because their members know and care what he did for them even if the media doesn’t, and saying sensible things like, Harris is fine but IDK if she can win the election, but I have not the energy and what’s the point of citing the story anyway. I can already feel the tide of low effort comments that would ensue in response.
Yes
Nobody will say they lost $49 trillion if stock go down next week
They cannot get $49 trillion out of the market by selling all their stocks
It's just a weird misleading framing
This is one of the single most oversimplified political analyses I ever have seen
the same few rotating accounts post every single one of them
🙂
Sometimes there is a reason for that and often better not to spend the time
In my experience, it doesn’t take more than like 1-2 clearly aboveboard and good faith messages for even someone who’s pretty disagreeable to get on the same communication page. If it’s like 10 messages of just discoherent hostility then the usefulness of the conversation may be at its end
Sure. What should I call her?
Sure
So one of Biden’s FIRST actions in office was to fire the piece of shit that Trump put in charge of the NLRB. He literally did it on his first day, short cutting the normal procedure for it, which actually caused a little bit of a fight, and then put in a whole bunch of actually pro-labor people. They’ve been backstopping all these pretty remarkable union gains that have been happening the last few years.
The Teamsters, for whatever stupid/corrupt reason, are pretty much the only union that hasn’t come out swinging hard for Biden in the election, because unlike the media they are aware of how much things have been changing for them in the last few years and want it to continue instead of Trump putting Margaret Thatcher in charge of the NLRB of whatever the fuck he wants to do instead.
Oh, and also he broke a rail strike that would have caused some inflation (which I know the media and the people on Lemmy would have been super understanding of the full context of and wouldn’t have caused any problems), and then once no one was paying attention anymore, his administration kept working the issue and got the workers the sick days they were striking for in the first place. So you I guess you do have a point that he’s horrible. I take it all back.
I actually do think an American president should go further than that -- if the rail workers want to strike, then god bless 'em, and if the economy suffers then it should have treated its workers like humans and can go on suffering until that starts happening. But the idea that Biden is somehow a downward departure from the norm for US presidents or that he didn't go to bat for unions in pretty much every other one of the 99% of things that happened during his term is absurd.