Nah:
https://lemmy.world/post/17391979?scrollToComments=true
That’s what Stewart is saying in this article, Biden’s mental difficulties wasn’t a surprise, we all knew about it.
The problem is the people ghost riding his presidency, mainstream media, and the old DNC all just chose to close ranks, deny reality, and insist Biden was as healthy as a man half his age despite all the evidence to the contrary.
But I remember last year
But not a single peep about massive corruption by Trump, dismissal of laws and actual criminal shit like sexual assault of women.
What?
You seriously have heard anything about that? That’s absolutely unbelievable, even rightwing news sources talk about it to deny it.
Where are you getting your news from that you haven’t heard any of that stuff?
I really hope that the Dems leadership actually listens for once
They had power because the DNC was behind them, and due to the “victory fund” the DNC controlled the purse strings of a lot of state parties.
The voting members of the DNC listened, and elected a nonbiased DNC chair for the first time in decades.
So now the senior elected Dems don’t have anyone behind them. Seniority only mattered as tradition, they can all lose their leadership positions now if they lose the next round of leadership votes.
Could we please get another party that actually represents people???
We basically did already. The Chair has ultimate control of the party, and we got a drastic change in chair.
Jokes aside, Stewart acknowledged: “How fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should have told you was news a year ago, for free.”
“I understand the excitement over an insidious Democratic cover-up about Joe Biden’s mental decline,” he added. “The thing is though, it was a terrible cover-up, because we all fucking knew.”
“There was no cover-up – poll after poll showed vast majorities of the public thought Biden was too old and too out of it to run again,” he continued. “Dean Phillips mounted an entire primary campaign because of it.”
“He along with most of the public knew it was a bad idea for Biden to run. We knew it,” Stewart concluded. “And that’s what’s so hilarious about politicians. The cover-up doesn’t work when everyone knows you’re lying.”
Literally the only reason some people think Biden was a good president, is he’s sandwiched between trump.
So much shit that Biden did would have been completely unacceptable pre-2016.
Like Stewart said, it wasn’t even a good coverup. Everyone could tell Biden was cooked, the admin and party just refused to admit reality exactly like trump is now.
They pulled a weekends at Bernie’s and when called out their only defense was obvious lies.
So vegan he advocated for killing infants…
aybe they can make it into a new AF1
Much of the reason it’s expensive is the interior, which would need to be completely stripped to retrofit with what AF1 needs, and why would you reinstall the old stuff instead of new?
It’s a terrible decision for so many reasons but trump has talked it up so much and no one can explain the downsides to him, so he’s just going to keep barreling thru it.
Nothing he’s spending is his money, he doesn’t give a fuck.
And now there’s a seat and a chair that needs replaced…
She can take the seat, then get the chair.
Like, I get what you’re saying, it just doesn’t matter.
We need a competent energetic person who understands today’s media in this position. It’s an incredibly important one. We can play another round of musical chairs, it’s not even much of a hassle.
Back in December…
That happened because Pelosi had the backing of the DNC and elected Dems knew the neoliberals wouldn’t hesitate to torpedo an incumbent that went against them even if it meant a Republican got the seat.
She doesn’t have that anymore, and all her threats are toothless. For her whole career she’s never been effective at convincing people to see a different viewpoint to change a vote, she’s just threatened her own party members.
With the “victory fund” they had financial control over a lot of states too, they could shut the tap off to your whole state, or making funds dependent on your state hanging you specifically out to dry.
Like, I think people dont appreciate how much got fixed in the last couple months, because they don’t understand how bad shit really was
Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered
Which is why we need to start being honest even if it’s not polite
Fuck Gerry Connelly. He spent his last years working against his own party and causing harm to the American people.
If he’d have spent the last decade in retirement, sure, we can limit it formalities. But up until the day he died he obstructed justice by taking an important political seat so that he could block someone else from doing the job.
Mike Donnelly would have gotten more done than Gerry did.
A lot has changed since December…
I think if AOC still wants it, she’s got it now.
Pelosi and the rest of the senior elected politicians don’t have the DNC behind them anymore. She was never good at convincing people to see her side, she wielded the DNC like a cudgel and had zero qualms turning it on incumbents who went against her.
Why would anyone do that?
You don’t start rebuilding the neighbors burnt down house while yours is actively burning down.
That just results in none of us having a house…
Disclaimer:
The only ethical way to be an optimist is to have a backup plan for worst case scenario.
An FDR style president out of the 2028 election is predicated on there being an election in 2028.
half of a private tutor?
That teaches everything. You think every one room schoolhouse was staffed by someone who knew every topic well enough to teach others?
If something wasn’t in the handful of textbooks, there was no way to get that information.
I don’t think he ever made it to algebra, definitely nothing like chemistry or physics. Biology would have been a joke, and astronomy likely limited to memorizing the order of planets.
It was not a good education.
On the other hand, people don’t realize how far we’ve come especially for rural areas.
I got an uncle still alive and kicking whose school had to combine grades because there were so few kids.
So for the bulk of his public education it was just him and another girl like 2 years younger than him. That was the whole class, and it was literally a one room school. Not “one classroom” it was a one room log cabin with an outhouse. One single teacher “teaching” literally everything to 1st graders and the rare person who stayed till 12th at the same time.
Oregon Trail generation really looks more like the exception than the rule every year. It seemed like a terrible education at the time, but we’re sandwiched between complete farces of an education system.
They got a top down structure
Up to a few months ago both parties had for decades…
It’s not new, but at least we finally got a DNC chair who understands you can’t build a pyramid upside down.
The base is the important part, and Martin has a long history of giving the base what they want, because he sees running a party as working for the base.
Like, it’s felt like bizzaro world defending the DNC the last couple months, but most people seem completely unaware of the huge accomplishment we just made.
Even with trump in office on a decade plus timeline this is the most optimistic I’ve ever been about America’s political future.
This is the closest we’ve been to getting an FDR style president since JFK. People forget the DNC faced a rebellion over Carter because the Dem voting base of the time considered Jimmy fucking Carter too rightwing.
The Dem party has been off the path for 50 years, and we just took the first step back on it.
Hanlon’s razer went out the wazoo a long time ago
When she testified to Congress and just flat out ignored questions about the ms13 “tattoo”. Wouldn’t say it was clearly fake. But also wouldn’t say that it was real, she’d just ramble about something else.
What they say doesn’t matter, what they do does.
but our education system is not good either.
No Child Left Behind has fucked us for over 20 years…
People are blaming these college kids, but their entire k-12 was under No Child, they were never taught critical thinking, what the fuck are they supposed to do? No one ever taught these kids to think for themselves.
We failed an entire generation, and it’s too late to fix it for them now, the best we can do is fix it for the kids that will start public education in a few years.
But we’ll be paying the price for decades
It’s not that, it’s that they don’t care if they lie.
She knows what it means, she just said what Trump wants her to say. If he wanted to say the sky is green and the grass is blue, that’s what she’d say.
It’s 100% serious and thinking she legitimately doesn’t know what habeus corpus means is just falling for their bullshit.
Don’t just write them off as incompetent idiots, they’re doing a shit ton of damage and just pretending it’s due to incompetence
the Dems
If you’re lumping AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, and Bernie all in one group…
You could say “the Dems” are doing damn near anything at any given moment…
It’s all to grift investors and CEOs who surrounded themselves with yes men get the same news as investors.
We literally can’t get it with silicon chips, because silicon is a solid.
I was literally just watching some videos with a panel of the world leading physicists in this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzXbIW9kxY
None of these tech bros understand what consciousness is, they’re operating on way out of date oversimplified explanations and assuming there’s nothing deeper.