2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Kamala Got Her Vibes Back With a Miller High Life

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@commonWealth

Neither of us is dumb enough to believe that so drop the semantics.

Apparently I am. There was a whole vote, other candidates, and etc. The fact that other major candidates evaluated their chances of winning based on Biden’s performance and passed doesn’t make it true that there was no primary.

[Surf]

@goofy

Given two uncertain paths, I think it’s instructive to remember the Robert Hur thing and how Ezra Klein (and others) was losing his mind about it, and it basically completely disappeared from the news cycle until Thursday night. This could too.

I obviously hope this will happen but feels kind of different now. In hallways today overheard like half a dozen jokes about Biden from folks I never hear anything political from. They probably still going to vote for him so we certainly could squeak this thing out but people are shook

[BriansHat]

For frame of reference, would you also describe the 2012 Democratic primary as an open primary?

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Absolutely. Nothing stopped people from running other than their own evaluations of their chances of winning.

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also, lol:

Keith Judd

[BriansHat]

I will grant you, you’re at least being logically consistent then.

[commonWealth]

Biden is speaking tonight, I think in 15 mins, to address the SCOTUS ruling. Quite interested to see if he takes questions.

[commonWealth]

New Hampshire poll, who won the debate?
Trump 54%
Biden 6%
Neither 39%

Meanwhile, Biden running 8 points behind Casey (senate candidate) in Pennsylvania:

https://x.com/umichvoter/status/1807871668477473159

[commonWealth]

You know things are going well when you have to privately screen questions from your top donors.

https://x.com/nick_field90/status/1807914515297980877

[commonWealth]

Biden speaking live now.

[commonWealth]

Biden looking a little orange. Did they spray tan this motherfucker?

[commonWealth]

Lolllllllll they spray tanned him, this is unbelievable. Totally not a desperation move!

[Krayz]

He’s speaking well, but he’s just saying go vote - fucking inept dumbasses

[commonWealth]

No questions, and as he walked away you could see that they didn’t spray tan the back of his bald dome, making it even more obvious.

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@commonWealth

Lolllllllll they spray tanned him, this is unbelievable. Totally not a desperation move!

There were some quotes claiming they had covered up a tan prior to the debate, guess need to see some pics from the day before

[commonWealth]

So the speech was 4 minutes and 26 seconds, if I counted correctly, and he took no questions.

[goofy]

Tom Scocca:

Who Elected the Times Editorial Board?

That crisis has been particularly critical among powerful journalists. Immediately after the debate, New York Times columnists began piling on Biden, demanding he step aside as the Democratic presidential nominee. By Friday the Times editorial board had consolidated the panic into the official position of the newspaper, under the headline “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.”

The tone was serious, and the thinking was vacuous. Leave the race how? The editorial board wrote:

The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November.

The clearest path is…to “create a process.” What process? Involving whom? How would it work? How would it fit into the existing processes and laws that control how a major party puts its candidate on the ballot in all 50 states?

The dream of a substitute candidate is built on a sludgy notion about how to use our existing system—that, as Kristof proposed, Biden could “throw the choice of a successor to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.” People trying to sell this plan point out that party conventions used to actually decide on the nominees all the time, and that such a brokered convention happened as recently as 1968.

Nineteen sixty-eight—a Democratic National Convention in Chicago, no less—was a complete debacle for the party that tried it, the defining moment of an election which may yet turn out to have been the first step in the slow-motion destruction of the republic. But these proposals are worse than merely calls for a repeat of 1968. Back in those old days, the delegates were at least sent to the convention in the name of specific candidates, factions, and interests, to contest among themselves and come to an agreement. The 2024 delegates don’t have even that much of a claim to represent their states’ voters, or anything else. The only commitment they’ve made is the one they’d be abandoning: to vote for Joe Biden.

There is no precedent for a convention like the 2024 Democratic National Convention claiming the power to pick an alternative presidential nominee. No one has agreed to any such thing. Some state laws might bar the surprise choice from the ballot. Even if it managed to be technically legal, it would be wildly irregular and illegitimate—again, from the party that has till now bent over backwards to present itself as the defender of democratic political norms.

[Pwn]

Fine, have it your way, let’s follow the rules. Biden resigns, Kamala duly becomes President and we play it out from there.

[commonWealth]

By the way, the fact that the Dems are considering officially nominating Biden on July 21 virtually is proof positive that if he dropped out, they could hold a delegate vote on July 21, to establish which candidates get into a debate before voting again leading up to the convention.

[Pwn]

The Biden klan has intentionally been trying to make Kamala a poison pill this entire time, most obviously when they gave her the no win assignment of solving immigration.

Fine, give me the arsenic, anything to end this nightmare!