They’re not misogynist, they’re just preemptively implementing what the misogynists want. For practicality you see. That’s entirely different.

That was effectively the whisper campaign against Warren in 2020. Sure, she’s popular, sure, she’s pulling in plenty of money from small-dollar donors, and sure, she’s literally leading in the primary (for a very short period), but every single newspaper and pundit suddenly wanted to JAQ off about whether a woman could win. The answers started off “of course”, but if you ask people that question enough times, they’ll start to think it’s something they should be asking themselves.

Trump may have gained some votes from the working class, but he didn’t steal anything from Bernie. What in that list of things in his message did Trump adopt?

Deeply ironic post by someone who doesn’t know the civics of the VP’s office.

JFC, don’t posture like this when you’re just guessing about how things work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President…

It’s two separate votes. Presidents and vice-presidents running as a combined ticket is custom, but the vote in the electoral college is separate votes and doesn’t need to conform to the wishes of the president, and both the president and vice president are elected positions.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/15407/can-the-vice-president-of-the-united-states-be-fired

And to respond to your edit, you’ll note how that says “outside of those enumerated in the Constitution”. The VP just does senate stuff and succeeds the president if needed, but the president can give them other tasks to perform, just like they can give any random person in their administration. Those are at the discretion of the president, not the vice president’s position.

The news stories seem to just leave out that the Israeli fans stole and burned a Palestinian flag, assaulted a taxi driver and vandalized a taxi, and marched through Amsterdam chanting racist slogans and celebrating dead children in Gaza. Then during the match they disrupted a moment of silence for Spanish flood victims with chant and firecrackers (because Spain acknowledged the genocide and initiated an arms embargo).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/israeli-football-fans-clash-with-protesters-in-amsterdam

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/11/what-happened-amsterdam-israeli-football-fans

But no, instead of a relatively straightforward escalation (still wrong) stemming from foreign racists staging a provocative march and being violent to citizens of the city, we instead just see the news parrot “it was a pogrom on poor Israelis just trying to enjoy some football”.

You’re getting downvoted because your understanding of the government is just made up. The vice president is an elected position, not an employee of Biden and not under some legal obligation to not contradict him. Until the Twelfth Amendment the vice president was just the person who got the second-most votes, often an actual opponent of the president.

which is still and order from her boss

This is complete nonsense. The vice president isn’t duty bound to never contradict the president, especially when running to succeed him. When a boss orders you to do something that’s wrong, you can say no, particularly when you don’t need the job anymore and are already applying for a better one.

Harris didn’t say more on Gaza because she didn’t want to, whether due to personal beliefs or because she for some reason thought it was a better electoral stance, not because of all-powerful orders from Joe Biden.

The Democrats control the Senate. The Republicans don’t have an option to stall until January. It’s all about whether the DINOs want a 7-2 court.

Yeah, I don’t get why people think they’d just YOLO this and find out how Manchinema would vote on the senate floor. If one of them isn’t locked in, then definitely don’t start it, but maybe Sinema, for all her mercenary ways, might think abortion actually did matter and a 7-2 court is just dumb.

They don’t have a say in the matter in the current senate, it’s all about the DINOs.

The main difference is that Trump was president at the time. Before people didn’t think it could be that bad, and four years after people had forgotten the chaos (2020 election was in the middle of COVID). It was a change election, and Harris was unwilling to try to be a change candidate because it would involve saying Biden did something wrong.

People point to sexism because it’s an easy out. “The people are bad, so all we need to do is nominate a man” means it’s a simple matter of internalizing their misogyny and then we win, when the throughline of three bad elections (Biden’s was bad) is uninspiring politics about slow and steady government being all you need. In one instance we had an immediate example of what a government by an amateur outsider could do so a plea for normalcy produced some benefit, but it still didn’t knock it out of the park when everything should have been in its favor.

Coney Barrett was confirmed in 39 days. If the whole caucus was on board it could definitely be done, but Sinema would probably sell us out.

Biden’s win was NOT a confirmation of his campaign’s correctness. That should have been an easy election but he barely won.

The post notably included the statement:

that’s not the kind of thing that should happen without the community agreeing to it

With no voices in support in the original post and currently the only two voices in support here being the mods themselves.

Democracy is “not for” a lot of people. They’re lazy. They don’t think it impacts their lives. They don’t want to put in the mental effort to follow politics and make a good decision, so they just leave it to other people. You certainly know someone in your extended social circle who is just “not political”.

But that doesn’t change anything. The conservatives find a way to motivate their morons, they don’t complain about non-voters and then just wish it were better. Some of your “not political” friends probably went out to vote for Obama.

Yeah, monarchies are usually inherited.

And football is theoretically the thing he’s good at.

They’ll keep rolling her out for campaigns like do with Bill Clinton. They view reaching high station in the party as being perpetually loved by the rank and file.

WHAT SOCIAL PROGRAM?? The Democrats didn’t run on any of this woke mind virus bullshit you’re complaining about. Trans people were the target of choice for the conservatives despite being basically a miniscule sliver of the population and Democrats just mumbled some generic pablum about privacy and compassion before changing the topic as quickly as possible. In no remote sense was “trans rights” a purity test for the Democrats, as clearly evidenced by all the fucking Republicans involved in the campaign.

This is just divorced from reality, and maybe that’s the real sentiment you two have landed on, but it’s not because the Democrats did anything to foster it.