Biden resigns, Kamala picks a VP, the VP runs for President with her as VP. Because "he" is the sitting VP to Harris he inherits the campaign war chest.
Seriously? This is the Democrats plan? Put VP Harris up against Trump? Unbelievable.
That is not a plan.
I thought the Democrats had a problem with advancing a younger generation of leaders, mostly because their policies at the state level were horrible and the impact on national socioeconomic conditions was equally horrible.
But if the Democrats are truly run by the DEI office, they are doomed.
That would matter, were the election held today. It won't be.
Instead, the American people will have three months to see things like the utter and complete lack of class with which Trump greeted Biden's withdrawal from the race, to focus on Trump's incessant lying instead of Biden's age, and to think about whether they want a President who periodically has to check in with his probation officer.
Trump conspicuously failed to go anywhere near the abortion issue in his acceptance speech for a reason. Harris' candidacy will put it front and center while energizing both women (the largest single constituency in the electorate) and young people. Democrats like me, who knew Biden is too old, will be reenergized as you see the party enthusiastically come together behind her.
Man, watching Joe trying to navigate AF1 steps and struggle to get in his ride yesterday, I wonder if he'll make it through the weekend. Then the fun really begins as the Dems have to choose between running Harris or bypassing their DEI pick and risk alienating their minority voters.
I don't like DEI. But I also understand how blacks working through slavery, jim crow and then segregation had a tough time assimilating into the American Dream. By the time they had a chance, the industrial age was mostly matured (1960s) and the opportunities to generate intergenerational wealth via manufacturing and the trades had waned. But to survive Jim Crow and Segregation, they needed the US federal government to step in and provide a socioeconomic path out of the Old agrarian-king-cotton South. The first public housing in the US was Techwood in Atlanta built in the 1930s. By then, many blacks had moved from republicanism to liberalism and the democrat party. This built into the 1960s and the civil rights movement to empower the Federal Government to end segregation and racism via the Great Society programs.
Well, the old South does not exist, and Blacks must rebuild the family structure they relied on into the 1960s. Can the Federal government help? How should the Federal government adapt to the information age? We just need to shrink its regulatory state. For instance, I say scrap all the green regulations and focus on affordable regulations. Tell Automakers that they should build a simple affordable car that is safe to operate, maintain, and inexpensive. I don't care about its "emissions" per se since auto emissions and climate change are not tightly linked.
I could go on. But the Great Society gave us minority preferences which has morphed into DEI and intersectionality where a black woman can never be racist or discriminatory because she has no "power". Thus, VP Harris represents the apex of liberal progressive ideology, and the country has moved past that concept and recognizes that competency is more important than identity.
Just compare JD Vance's life versus VP Harris? JD Vance grew up as "poor white trash" while VP Harris grew up in Berkley with parents that were PHD Professors at Standford (or something like that). VP Harris had every privilege in life that JD Vance never had. Who would you want to lead the country? Help you improve your life? A grifter like VP Harris or a marine like JD Vance?
Their goal and only real hope will become: Biden will stick around to get voted in and then “retire” for health reasons, allowing the President to pass the mantle to Harris for the duration of his term. While his odds are looking a struggle (but not necessarily impossible) against Trump, Biden, if he can pass muster this election, will keep power for the Dems and then broker his position for the benefit of the Left by stepping aside on some technicality.
Still thinking on this, but this is where my brain is dialogizing with itself.
Oh, and I LOVE that you responded and are willing to posit in a friendly forum a counter to my own thoughts. You help me refine my own ideas! Thank you.
But it wouldn’t matter if after the election if Biden relinquishes his position. Dems might say that Biden at least, while looking frail, can garner some of that humanity necessary for votes. Harris cannot.
Should Biden step away after the January, votes no longer matter for another 4 years.
Just a plot that Dems may consider, though I’m reading in the news that many are starting to think that this weekend may see a reverse in Biden’s determination to see this election through.
My guess> IF JRB remains the democrat candidate and DJT is NOT assassinated, THEN the democrat machine will unleash maximum effort to finagle the election in JRB's favor and then KDH will ascend to the Presidency in early 2025 as JRB continues to deteriorate. Impossible? i don't think so. But i prefer that DJT survives and is elected. The frequency of plot changes is accelerating. Interesting (end?) times, eh?
There is always the 25 amendment but that would ba a nasty affair also but it’s interesting watching the Rats on the Democrat ship squirm sure glad they are all neutral on these conventions
While this is a problem solely of their making, one has to wonder if Kamala really wants to be the sacrificial lamb, so to speak, and forever doom her chances on occupying the Oval. They’d be using her just like they’ve used Joe-and see how that’s working out.
Further, ousting Biden will create lots of hard feelings, only to be exacerbated by the essential platitudes and honors that will be accorded him on his way out…whenever that might be.
They keep missing the most important factor which is not the election per se but rather the good the country. Are these two the best they have to offer the country? Are they so worried about down ballot races that, in the meantime, the welfare of country is lost in the shuffle?
There are real national security, military and foreign issues confronting the Nation. The Dems continue to give them short shrift…to country’s great peril and their own.
This cynic suggests that "short shrift" is a key elrmrnt of the Fundamental Transformation Playbook, which has been in action since The Lightbringer launched it on January 20, 2009.
Does this work?
Biden resigns, Kamala picks a VP, the VP runs for President with her as VP. Because "he" is the sitting VP to Harris he inherits the campaign war chest.
Seriously? This is the Democrats plan? Put VP Harris up against Trump? Unbelievable.
That is not a plan.
I thought the Democrats had a problem with advancing a younger generation of leaders, mostly because their policies at the state level were horrible and the impact on national socioeconomic conditions was equally horrible.
But if the Democrats are truly run by the DEI office, they are doomed.
Harris will beat Trump by 4 or 5 percentage points in the popular vote.
I think you underestimate just how unpopular she is. She has a lower approval rating than Biden.
That would matter, were the election held today. It won't be.
Instead, the American people will have three months to see things like the utter and complete lack of class with which Trump greeted Biden's withdrawal from the race, to focus on Trump's incessant lying instead of Biden's age, and to think about whether they want a President who periodically has to check in with his probation officer.
Trump conspicuously failed to go anywhere near the abortion issue in his acceptance speech for a reason. Harris' candidacy will put it front and center while energizing both women (the largest single constituency in the electorate) and young people. Democrats like me, who knew Biden is too old, will be reenergized as you see the party enthusiastically come together behind her.
Harris by 4 or 5 points . . . if not more.
"imagine what will be, unburdened by what was" is reason enough for companies to drop their dei program.
Man, watching Joe trying to navigate AF1 steps and struggle to get in his ride yesterday, I wonder if he'll make it through the weekend. Then the fun really begins as the Dems have to choose between running Harris or bypassing their DEI pick and risk alienating their minority voters.
I don't like DEI. But I also understand how blacks working through slavery, jim crow and then segregation had a tough time assimilating into the American Dream. By the time they had a chance, the industrial age was mostly matured (1960s) and the opportunities to generate intergenerational wealth via manufacturing and the trades had waned. But to survive Jim Crow and Segregation, they needed the US federal government to step in and provide a socioeconomic path out of the Old agrarian-king-cotton South. The first public housing in the US was Techwood in Atlanta built in the 1930s. By then, many blacks had moved from republicanism to liberalism and the democrat party. This built into the 1960s and the civil rights movement to empower the Federal Government to end segregation and racism via the Great Society programs.
Well, the old South does not exist, and Blacks must rebuild the family structure they relied on into the 1960s. Can the Federal government help? How should the Federal government adapt to the information age? We just need to shrink its regulatory state. For instance, I say scrap all the green regulations and focus on affordable regulations. Tell Automakers that they should build a simple affordable car that is safe to operate, maintain, and inexpensive. I don't care about its "emissions" per se since auto emissions and climate change are not tightly linked.
I could go on. But the Great Society gave us minority preferences which has morphed into DEI and intersectionality where a black woman can never be racist or discriminatory because she has no "power". Thus, VP Harris represents the apex of liberal progressive ideology, and the country has moved past that concept and recognizes that competency is more important than identity.
Just compare JD Vance's life versus VP Harris? JD Vance grew up as "poor white trash" while VP Harris grew up in Berkley with parents that were PHD Professors at Standford (or something like that). VP Harris had every privilege in life that JD Vance never had. Who would you want to lead the country? Help you improve your life? A grifter like VP Harris or a marine like JD Vance?
Well said.
Their goal and only real hope will become: Biden will stick around to get voted in and then “retire” for health reasons, allowing the President to pass the mantle to Harris for the duration of his term. While his odds are looking a struggle (but not necessarily impossible) against Trump, Biden, if he can pass muster this election, will keep power for the Dems and then broker his position for the benefit of the Left by stepping aside on some technicality.
Still thinking on this, but this is where my brain is dialogizing with itself.
Problem for them is No One wants Kamala except Kamala, and maybe her husband.
Oh, and I LOVE that you responded and are willing to posit in a friendly forum a counter to my own thoughts. You help me refine my own ideas! Thank you.
But it wouldn’t matter if after the election if Biden relinquishes his position. Dems might say that Biden at least, while looking frail, can garner some of that humanity necessary for votes. Harris cannot.
Should Biden step away after the January, votes no longer matter for another 4 years.
Just a plot that Dems may consider, though I’m reading in the news that many are starting to think that this weekend may see a reverse in Biden’s determination to see this election through.
My guess> IF JRB remains the democrat candidate and DJT is NOT assassinated, THEN the democrat machine will unleash maximum effort to finagle the election in JRB's favor and then KDH will ascend to the Presidency in early 2025 as JRB continues to deteriorate. Impossible? i don't think so. But i prefer that DJT survives and is elected. The frequency of plot changes is accelerating. Interesting (end?) times, eh?
So Democrats have a problem? Cry me a river.
Bwahahahahaha ..... !!!
It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of Socialists.
There is always the 25 amendment but that would ba a nasty affair also but it’s interesting watching the Rats on the Democrat ship squirm sure glad they are all neutral on these conventions
Talk about a threat to Democracy….I thought Joe won all the primary delegates because he won the primaries ?😊
So the Dem leaders don’t like the people’s choice?
While this is a problem solely of their making, one has to wonder if Kamala really wants to be the sacrificial lamb, so to speak, and forever doom her chances on occupying the Oval. They’d be using her just like they’ve used Joe-and see how that’s working out.
Further, ousting Biden will create lots of hard feelings, only to be exacerbated by the essential platitudes and honors that will be accorded him on his way out…whenever that might be.
They keep missing the most important factor which is not the election per se but rather the good the country. Are these two the best they have to offer the country? Are they so worried about down ballot races that, in the meantime, the welfare of country is lost in the shuffle?
There are real national security, military and foreign issues confronting the Nation. The Dems continue to give them short shrift…to country’s great peril and their own.
This cynic suggests that "short shrift" is a key elrmrnt of the Fundamental Transformation Playbook, which has been in action since The Lightbringer launched it on January 20, 2009.