And this is the difference between democrats and republicans. Even after getting his ass impeached twice, inciting insurrection, getting convicted for rape and felonies - voters and his party are firmly behind Trump.
Whereas Biden must step aside because he stuttered during debate. A lot of people - including those demanding peace in Ukraine and Middle East - are in for a solid pikachu face when they help elect literal Nazi because of these fucking purity tests
Yeah. It’s a genuinely pathetic trait for Democratic voters. Republicans think it’s hilarious and weak, and they’re correct. It is. It makes Democratic voters incredibly easy to troll and manipulate with rumor mills such as this thread.
I get ya and im not looking for biden to drop but I likely would not like the democrats as much if they did not resign way easier (franken) and question their members less critically. That being said it can be quite annoying as well.
Questioning and reevaluating is good, but context matters. No choice exists in a place apart from its surrounding context. That means that sometimes you have to recognize when the context is such that perfect becomes the enemy of good.
Not being able to do that is a huge flaw, and it’s a vulnerability that the wealthy are happily helping Republicans exploit right now.
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as “Mamaw” — she replied bluntly: “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
“JD, do you want to suck dicks?” she said, according to the book.
So… 8 year old JD Vance instead wanted to eat pussy?
Also, if eight year old Vance brought this up with his public school teacher and they gave him the same kind of response (minus the “suck dicks” and “fucking idiot” parts), conservatives would absolutely lose their shit over “grooming”
Considering not all straight women want to suck dicks, I don’t think the desire to suck dick is a good determinant of whether you’re gay or not anyway.
Shit, I’m bi, and I don’t really like the idea of giving oral to any gender. The thought of body fluids in my mouth kinda grosses me out, unfortunately. Makes me happy that people love it, though. The world would be a better place if everyone got to experience their ass getting eaten voraciously. It really is an amazing experience.
Something that is not taught in Texas History classes to seventh graders is that white illegal immigrants forced Texas to secede from Mexico because Mexico abolished slavery.
Can’t say I’m surprised. Been using Wiz for a short while and it really fills in a lot of gaps left by teams going to “The Cloud”. It seems like devs working in cloud environments all forgot that security is a thing and so we get an absolute shit-show of misconfigured containers, networks, K8s clusters, etc. Add to that Google, AWS and Azure all seeming to treat security as an afterthought as well, and organizations need a Wiz or something like it to trawl through the cesspool and point out, “hey, maybe you should update that Wordpress plugin with several known RCE CVEs.”
The long and short of the current state of cloud security reminds me an awful lot of the early 2000’s view of on-prem security. People just throw up firewalls (excuse me, VPS configurations) and call it a day. Once the attack gets past the edge (and they always get past the edge) visibility and response actions fall off a cliff. We’re at a point where we need EDR and NDR for the cloud; but, there isn’t much in that space yet. Wiz is one of the options and I can see Google wanting to own a piece of that growing pie.
Bullshit. I haven’t spoken to a single person who wants Biden to withdraw. Everybody I’ve spoken to wishes he could, but everybody acknowledges that he’s our best last hope.
Ain’t no way I’m betting money on the black woman who put away people for weed against the 80 year old white guy who’s forgiving student loan debt right now. Yes, we have to choose between a shit sandwich and a douche. But in this situation, the douche is trying to bring about fascism and the shit sandwich is A little forgetful with names, but has been undeniably killing it with progressive policies.
Man, people don’t give a fuck about past successes and accomplishments. If they did, Trump would never have gained enough swing voters to squeeze out a win in 2016. We have to accept that campaigns are a matter of narratives, and Harris is well-placed as sitting VP to claim credit/association for Biden’s successes while distancing herself from the parts of the narrative that have become disadvantagous.
Ok. If past accomplishments are no measure, then why choose Harris? She has no personality. She’s not charismatic. She’s a dead fish candidate, and has the extra hurdle of being Black and female, which sadly is still a hurdle to overcome.
And if not Harris, then who else has the name recognition at the national scale that could rally the party and undecideds with absolutely zero prior momentum in less than 4 months?
That’s why I don’t support changing course. Stay with Biden, he is our only chance this late in the race. Had he stepped aside from the beginning, we’d have a shot at any of several options had they had enough runway to lay the foundation needed for a fresher face to compete at the national level. But that didn’t happen, so he’s our best chance.
Ok. If past accomplishments are no measure, then why choose Harris?
She’ll retain control of financial assets of the Biden campaign.
She has widespread name recognition.
Nominating her would avoid a lengthy fight over the nomination that could stoke further divisions in the party this late in the election cycle.
She has no personality. She’s not charismatic. She’s a dead fish candidate, and has the extra hurdle of being Black and female, which sadly is still a hurdle to overcome.
The other alternative is Biden, and Biden has lost too much of his party to stay in. If Biden stays in, what do you think the GOP drum will be beating every day from now til election day? “Even his own party don’t believe in him!” And that will sway swing voters.
We have two bad choices, but Harris is the less bad of the two.
I just don’t see it. Harris doesn’t even seem to be popular within the party, or by progressives.
It’s very possible that she has been playing dead fish on purpose to let Biden have the spotlight, as is the role of VP. Maybe she can take the gloves off and rise to the challenge. Maybe.
But I think it’s far more likely she serves as a bland, dry candidate that gets completely steamrolled by theatric behemoth that is the Right’s propaganda entertainment machine. Who, by the way, will have ample ammo on her for being a last second replacement, AND easily reclaim the misogynistic and racist votes that they may have lost who weren’t MAGA zealots.
Oh, no, I remember - it’s just that without swing voters, he wouldn’t have won the votes in the swing states necessary to lose the popular vote but win the presidency.
And thank you! I do my best to try to lend a little historical minutiae to the Fediverse!
Your take on Harris interests me. I, too, worry that the needed swing voters might skip on voting for non-whites, or for a woman, but I figured they’d all be OK with a prosecutor who prosecuted drug offenders while it was against the law. I understand California specifically might be angry about that, but I’d have guess the rest of the country would be OK.
What do you mean conversely? I clearly stated that everybody I’ve spoken to would wish they had somebody better to vote for. Nobody wants to vote for Biden, but they will because it’s their best option. Wanting to vote for Biden and acknowledging that Biden is the best option currently available are not two mutually exclusive things.
A poll is not inherently reliable because it’s a poll. Describe to me why it’s reliable and maybe I’ll give a shit. But right now it’s just my anecdote versus theirs.
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