Democratic (Party) Direction

Local races are very susceptible to one's taking personal action to sway the result. I've often phone banked for state and local races and always felt good about it. It is also reasonable to think that state, county and municipal governments have an even greater impact on one's local area than the presidency.

I used to think that

sometimes the roulette ball falls into 0 or 00

To be fair he only needs like 80,000 of them to change the outcome of the election. it doesn’t seem like the easiest way to win votes when there are millions of people who didn’t vote last time

I think the people who run the Convention had the same thought which is presumably why there was 3 minutes of Republicans saying "even Republicans like me can't resist Joe, a decent god-fearing man!" and 15 of Michelle Obama saying "I get why you didn't vote last time and I am asking you to vote this time." I don't know if it'll work, but the potential non-voters are for sure who she was targeting (I would say this about Sanders too)

the open, caring vision of change we need

https://i.imgur.com/gYeOLKv.jpg

i don't understand. shouldn't that info be presented on a squarespace grid for my viewing pleasure?

*massive fart*

the aesthetic directions of the modern political movements are pathetic

the wheel of progress grinds ever onward

August 13, 1996: John Kasich and Susan Molinari address Republican National Convention.

August 17, 2020: John Kasich and Susan Molinari address Democratic National Convention. pic.twitter.com/OC2skT8MDq

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) August 18, 2020

Eighty days and counting into protests against the sanctioned murder of George Floyd, it's good to see that they've had a thrilling influence on the makeup of speakers the DNC chooses to represent itself

https://i.imgur.com/ubgUMrX.jpg

Ok, Laura Ingraham and George Zimmerman speaking at the DNC is a bridge too far. C'mon man!

Can’t watch these outtakes enough times pic.twitter.com/9VmfCPh0Oy

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) August 18, 2020

Michelle's line that Trump's 'in over his head' is a good way to take it in a Facebook convo with a relative imo. it wouldn't provoke the same kind of immediate knee-jerk defensiveness. it's like... yr boy.. he's not up to it.

As ever, laying bare his weakness and incompetence and cowardice instead of painting him as 'evil' is the surest course of action, rhetorically speaking.

very very much agree.

however, it would have a lot more punch if the alternative wasn’t uh Joe Biden

Michelle's line that Trump's 'in over his head' is a good way to take it in a Facebook convo with a relative imo.

counterpoint: nuh uh, she's over her head

President Donald Trump had more to say on Tuesday about former first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention the night before, during which she said Trump was “clearly in over his head.”

“No, she was over her head,” Trump told reporters during a White House event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

Literally "I know you are but what am I." What a rhetorical wizard this guy is (said Chris Cilizza, to no one).

No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet.

some of you may be tempted to observe that the president is clearly a 5-year-old child. beware, as this is one of the first symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome

You're just saying that because you can't handle winning THIS big.

Marianne Williamson otm, but then "policy" is inside baseball For Lifers Only

POC are automatic Lifers, whether they like it or not

Lol I definitely did not mean to imply that an effective strategy for countering Facebook relatives was quoting Michelle Obama with attribution

The electoral college is essentially gerrymandering writ large. It gives Republicans a natural advantage, but it rests upon extremely thin margins, and falls apart in the face of enthusiasm, even negative enthusiasm.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles)

this was exactly why everybody told me hillary clinton would win

Except voters were very unenthusiastic.

But again, we are talking about very low margins that could go one way or another based on small changes to sentiment.

Best I can say is, there's no sure thing, Donald Trump still has a decent statistical chance to win, just like he did in 2016, but at the moment, things look favorable for Biden.

I saw a poll according to which 58% of Biden voters will be voting against Trump rather than for Biden. This is a good thing as far as I can tell – positive support may wane, but seething hatred for orange fuckface is eternal.

I saw a poll according to which 58% of Biden voters will be voting against Trump rather than for Biden. This is a good thing as far as I can tell – positive support may wane, but seething hatred for orange fuckface is eternal.

― pomenitul

according to the latest polling 42% of Biden voters are fucking liars

Biden inspires no passion ANYWHERE. There are no lawn signs or bumper stickers for him because people are, at the absolute best, moderately satisfied with him. This will be his undoing when he loses in November to the syphilitic nightmare that is a Donald J. Trump

A blank slate is not necessarily a bad thing if your sole aim is to defeat Trump.

Biden is at best a political Band-Aid when the wound clearly needs major suturing. He’ll get kneecapped by a Republican House and Senate as well, and eventually get replaced by Trump 2.0 before the world essentially ends in 2050

Not unlikely tbh.

A blank slate is not necessarily a bad thing if your sole aim is to defeat Trump.

― pomenitul

i don't even know what to say anymore to someone who looks at a 77 year old career politician and sees a "blank slate"

Biden is at best a political Band-Aid when the wound clearly needs major suturing.

― beamish13

looks gangrenous to me but what do i know, i'm not a doctor

couldn't believe the 'video roundtable' segment last night that looked like Joe's pilot for a talk show

i guess it was meant to show 'he listens to others'

There is so little that is fundamentally different about Trump and Biden they it horrified me and many other voters. They both get hard-ones from mass deportations, love charter schools, want to limit female reproductive options, want the healthcare industry to bankrupt people, etc.

Biden inspires no passion ANYWHERE. There are no lawn signs or bumper stickers for him because people are, at the absolute best, moderately satisfied with him.

There are Biden signs all over my Cleveland-suburb neighborhood.

i don't even know what to say anymore to someone who looks at a 77 year old career politician and sees a "blank slate"

Optics in the here and now is arguably all that matters. Not saying he is a blank slate (no one is tbf).

there are biden signs in my neighborhood too but people love being moderately satisfied with things and bragging about it

In DOONESBURY, Bill Clinton’s avatar was a waffle signify his inability to take a stand for anything. Biden is essentially the same thing (or maybe a crepe, as he’s stuffed with bullshit)

There are Biden signs all over my Cleveland-suburb neighborhood.

― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.)

there are biden signs in our suburban neighborhood. also somebody on our street put up a giant inflatable depiction of the president wearing only a diaper next to their biden sign. to me this is basically the beginning and the end of mainstream democratic party discourse.

The Trump Baby proudly floated near my brother’s home in Edinburgh

there are also trump signs in our neighborhood. and this week one of our neighbors put up a triptych sign. left panel is "black lives matter", middle panel is "love is love", and right panel is a hand holding up the peace sign, except it's a red hand, and i have no idea what that's even supposed to mean.

the only right any of us have left is the right to call the president a big baby

god help us if anybody tries to take _that_ away from the democrats

It's true; no one but the hardest of hard leftists actually believes in anything. Republicans are 100% creatures of greed, bigotry and spite, and mainstream Democrats have no beliefs at all except a vague idea that everyone should be a little bit nicer, while getting rich off capitalism of course. Only internet leftists have the virtue of genuine belief, which is why they are the best that the human race has to offer (just ask 'em). The other 99.44% of humanity are their inferiors, they just haven't acknowledged it yet, which is why the internet leftists are forced (it's a real burden) to keep screaming at them about it until enlightenment takes hold at last.

Mainstream Democrats also believe in OK’ing war/genocide and saying “mistakes were made”/“we had bad intel” years later

unperson finally coming around

imagine posting that and not having the self-knowledge to realize that you are also being a sanctimonious dick on the internet

beamish13 breaking records for fastest killfiled ever

Biden inspires no passion ANYWHERE.
so little that is fundamentally different about Trump and Biden

Trump now occupies the space of passionate response, both positive and negative, so completely that it would be truly remarkable if any passion regarding Biden could cut through that enough to override the primary pro-Trump or anti-Trump passions among voters. This constitutes one obvious "fundamental difference" between them. Incidentally, it also is a fundamental difference between him and HRC, who was fiercely hated and fiercely loved also.

Whatever happening to diplomatic relations with Cuba? Student loan forgiveness? Out of control homelessness? The DNC will just move with the status quo until the Boomers die?

Billy Porter performance was great.