Who?
Everyone complains about Biden’s age, but this guy actually tries to primary him and it gets a collective yawn from everyone.
I wish Biden weren’t super old, but throwing our weight behind anyone but the incumbent just seems like a bad idea to me.
It’s not just his age. I don’t like Biden as a candidate or as a president. I want to vote for someone more progressive, and I wish he were a stronger competitor who guaranteed a victory. He is supremely beatable in November.
But hes the incumbent president, and there’s no other Democrat who would be a better choice. Unless he dies or is otherwise incapacitated, he will be the nominee, and he’s the best chance at keeping Trump, or any conservative, out of office.
This guy in New Hampshire, I’ve already forgotten his name and it’s literally only a short scroll away, he isn’t a serious contender. I don’t care what he does because it is irrelevant.
I don’t like him much, but he’s a better president than I thought he would be. He’s actually moved us down a more progressive path than I expected, especially considering he’s had to fight every step of the way. He just never promotes any of it for some reason. The Inflation Reduction Act was a pretty good start on rebuilding our infrastructure even if the climate change goals were torpedoed by Manchin and even though Biden couldn’t go as far as he wanted with his American Rescue Plan. He’s been filling the federal courts with left-wing judges. He’s done a huge amount to repair our international reputation after Trump threw it in the trash (although we’ll see if that’s still true considering Biden’s Israel stance). He allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which lowered the cost of insulin for millions of Americans. He got a ton of people’s student loans forgiven, although not nearly as many as he wanted.
Do I wish we had an even better president? Absolutely. But he has been better than I expected and he has never had enough of congress on his side to get his agenda passed anywhere near the way he wanted it.
That’s because you fuckers want Biden and aren’t even willing to try and get someone better.
You guys are all so scared of what will happen when you fail that you don’t give yourselves a chance to succeed
The best way to get more left leaning candidates is to move the Overton window left by destroying the repubs at the polls time after time.
I don’t like his position on Israel, but I believe any other position would be political suicide, and with fascist traitors waiting in the wings for a second try, he can’t afford to rock that boat. He’s doing pretty well, considering how divided the country is, and the hand he was dealt.
Something has to give; our democracy is fraying. If not Orange Stalin, we are in serious danger that the next Republican will be someone more clever, but just as amoral. God forbid we see another Nixon.
he’s basically a younger version of biden. keep in mind, most democrats are not complaining about his age, rather… literally everything else. though also his age is a concern in the implications. (He’s been a senator longer than I’ve been alive… he’s literally partly responsible for how we got into this mess.)
Only republicans yell about Biden’s age. Everyone who’s not braindead repube cares more about democracy vs fascism than someone’s age.
I care a lot about bidens age, actually, I just care that he isn’t trump a lot more.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of younger people on the left who have latched onto those Republican talking points.
His girlfriend would’ve been there, but she goes to another school
In Canada, you don’t know her, but he has a pic proving that she is real! :-D
Even more people know who Cenk Uygur is.
It’s a shame that this guy, who isn’t wrong that Biden vs. Trump really shouldn’t be our only option is being portrayed as a joke by the media rather than the story being a sad commentary on how disengaged we are as a citizenry.
Get off Lemmy, Dean.
But seriously this is utter nonsense. His failure to garner any interest isn’t indicative of the citizenry being disengaged. All it tells us is that nobody on the national stage gives a shit about a guy whose only job experience is inheriting the family distillery before serving one term in the house of reps and deciding to launch a long shot presidential primary challenge to get himself some attention.
Maybe, just maybe, this should be a clue that the answer to Trump isn’t a Democratic Trump.
I don’t know this guy from Adam, I have no idea what his merits or weaknesses are as a candidate.
What’s sad is that our options are what they are.
It’s a clear vote for Biden over Trump for anyone rational, but it’s time we wake up as citizens and fucking vote, every time, every election and always for someone who wants to get money out and get better democratic systems like ranked choice voting in.
We shouldn’t be piling on someone who took a shot, pointing and saying “see? only the establishment can mint our candidates.” We need new blood.
That’s all I have to say.
I don’t know this guy from Adam, I have no idea what his merits or weaknesses are as a candidate.
We shouldn’t be piling on someone who took a shot, pointing and saying “see? only the establishment can mint our candidates.” We need new blood.
I am not going to blindly celebrate a candidate simply for existing but you can do so if you like.
I get what you’re saying, but the type of commentary similar to “well the election shouldn’t be this way but here we are” really gives cause to people to be disengaged.
Even if you really don’t like Biden, look to your House and Senate candidates that may be on the ballot. Support in primaries the ones you agree with most. We have Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Cortez, Rep. Sanders who are extremely vocal about issues and that has sway across the whole party and influences the President as well, no matter who. Get new, passionate faces in government and have them make the process accountable to their constituents.
It was literally like the first really cold day after the first decent snow storm this winter in New England, and it’s a weekday. I wouldn’t have gone even if I knew who the hell he is.
The primary candidate has already been chosen for the Democrats. Biden is probably the only candidate that stands a chance against Trump which is pretty fucking sad.
First of all, I love that name and am sad he didn’t finish the third one.
Second of all, Biden only wins if we give up on running someone better.
If the democrats run Biden and lose, we deserve what we get for settling for half measures
Biden only wins if we get off our asses and Vote which is not helped by infighting over a futile attempt to unset the incumbent.
It might sound like conspiracy theory, but the Democratic incumbent is already rigged as the candidate unless something happens to Biden.
I didn’t know there was a third in the works. Source? More interestingly, was there a title?
He’s the only one who stands a chance because he’s effectively demanding the nomination (not an unusual stance from the party’s incumbent). Any prominent Democrat could beat Trump, and probably more reliably than Biden given the polling and his unfavorables, but no one of stature will challenge Biden and risk splitting the party. Biden is not our best chance, but he’s the only chance we’re going to get.
