I'm glad you see the same problem with Harris as I do, but I have a much different take on what to do. I want to remove Harris and fix the political divide in Congress by way of an example of novel leadership emerging from the Executive Office. I suggest Biden remove Harris and form a coalition administration. This isn't a novel idea. Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Adams and Lincoln all had coalitions during their administrations. Furthermore, the founders rejected the ideas of political parties (factions) for the reasons we see in Congress today. They polarize. Thus, Biden should replace Kamala Harris with Liz Cheney, or Chris Christie. A coalition administration will re-set the culture in the Executive and indirectly influence behavior in the Legislative branches promoting leadership through the ‘art of compromise’. Bottom line – as with Biden, Liz and Chris will never allow Trump near the Oval Office. This will comfort most Americans and attract their votes. Plus, more Americans are worried about the border and a coalition will address this crisis more expeditiously. If something like illness befalls Biden, then Liz or Chris will be President and Trump will never threaten democracy or the institutions of government again. Also, Liz and/or Chris will move to the center of the political spectrum to attract voters from Trump and reassure democrats that their agenda will still be moved forward, albeit with a moderately conservate influence. BTW: Liz didn't lose her re-election bid in WY because of her conservative voting record. She lost because MAGA outspent her spreading MAGA lies about her because she wouldn't defend the big stolen election lie being promoted by Trump. Conversely, if Biden replaces Harris with another democrat there will be more of the same divisive behavior in Congress thereby weakening the legislature's ability to legislate and more counter impeachments efforts. Regardless, Harris must go.
Thanks for the thoughts, Paul. The premise, though, as I understand it, is a factionless government. I'm not sure how Cheney or Christie will bring factionlessness to the White House. But it's good to think out of the box.
The issue is not "Cackle" Kamala. The issue is the Biden support, diplomatic cover for and funding of and military supply of genocidal war crimes in Gaza. Let's be clear: Joe..Biden...is..a..war...criminal.
Through her cold, cynical silence, on the US-enabled genocide, my dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin is a war criminal. Pretty much every member of congress who has supported the genocide, the entire State Department and all of the War Department are war criminals. By any measure of international law, all those officials are war criminals and our government is a criminal state.
I very reluctantly voted for Biden last time around. I have voted twice for Baldwin. I will vote for neither in '24 because I will no longer vote for war criminals. Of course, with my support of Obama and Bill Clinton in the past I essentially supported war criminals. Something I am ashamed of.
A friend was hectoring me about how we have to stop Trump in '24. I asked him to do a little thought experiment and pretend it was the fall of 2020 and I had just returned from time travel to 2023 and wanted him to know that the winner of the election would be responsible for the following things:
1. Sabotage of a peace agreement that would directly lead to a war we would lose in Central Europe that would result in the death of some 500,000+ young men, millions displaced, whole cities laid waste and threat of a wider war in Europe.
2. The largest single act of eco-terrorism in the world that would result in crippling energy costs throughout Europe and the beginning of deindustrialization of our most important European ally and business partner, Germany.
3. Full-on US participation in funding and arming of a massive religious genocide where two-thirds of the (counted) dead would be women, children and infants with the very real threat of throwing the entire Middle East into war.
I said to my friend, "You would have said, OMG, that's why we need to stop Trump. Go For Joe!!!!"
He reluctantly agreed.
Here's the truth: when it comes to more wealth for corporations, the military industrial complex and war, there is NO difference between the two parties. It's just one big corporate party: The Republocrats. ( You can see my portrait of the critter here: https://mark192.substack.com/p/the-one-party-republocrat )
The one bit of good Biden -- a self-proclaimed Zionist, which means he has religious loyalties outside the US -- has done with the US/Israeli genocide is he has peeled the last grinning mask off the fascist state we are suffering under. We now see the full extent and ugliness to which this corporate fascist state will go to dominate others and -- when the need arises -- ourselves.
The Republicans are speeding into a wall of fascist totalitarianism at 125mph.
Harris simply isn't qualified to be prez. Nothing more can be said.
Don't know enough about Bass. Abrams is possible. Whitmer would be awesome but she is white and that is one strike against her in the modern identity-obsessed Democratic Party. They'd prefer a black female in a wheelchair. Trans/gay would be a plus. Don't care for Mr. Brylcreem AKA Gov Newsome - too nakedly a political animal. Besides, we haven't fared well with California governors. Prtizker, OTOH, is pretty good. True blue.
When you look at climate, global affairs, Trump, our domestic political situation ... it's enough to drive a person to drink (heavily).
Fortunately, we have a clear choice: Vote for Biden and live to fight another day, or vote for Trump and end this noble experiment immediately. Those who choose to vote for a third candidate or not to vote at all - regardless of their reasoning - are effectively voting for Trump. I don't like the choices, but them's they are. One party sort of believes in democracy, the other is authoritarian and nothing more.
The DNC has a death wish. To paraphrase myself: They wish us all to die on a dying planet with our children cursing our names. Is it co-incidental that this sudden interest in the viability of Kamala Harris coincides with Hillary Clinton taking an increased role in Biden's campaign. A Biden-Clinton ticket would join the greatest American Fracker with most prolific Fracking marketer in the world [HRC claimed that Kissinger said she handled the Depart. of State better than anyone since him. High praise indeed from that mass murderer.]
In Praise of Kamala: In a 2020 Debate, Her schoolgirl story of getting an education only because she had access to the bussing and Jungle Schools that Biden opposed. This had the potential, had other candidates come forward to trash everything he ever supported, to derail the Biden train. Of course at that point the public had no hint that the DNC was fueling the Biden train.
I only tried to read one of Abrams' books. She is not a good author. Like most neoliberals she assumes a lot, explains next to nothing. You don't get to watch as locks are picked you only get descriptions of how awesome it is that a thief knows how to pick all these different locks! Her omniscient writing style explains very little but gushes over results. The book I tackled was a lot like Netflix's Lupin, which relies on timing and luck and lots of bafflegab.
Her work in Georgia needs to be audited. Everything about Georgia needs to be audited [watch the videos, Republicans ain't wrong on this one]. She has never won a race higher than state legislature. From there to the Vice Presidency seems just more IDpol Cult of HRC gaslighting, not winning politics.
Biden's presidency is about to be forensically dismantled. Democrats need for the DNC to resign en masse and for write-in votes to be counted (for a change) in the primaries. These losers cannot be allowed to further entrench themselves as party power brokers. The party's leadership should have been purged in 2017, everything since then is a consequence of the neoliberals authoritarian stewardship of the party.
Democrats are insisting I vote for Trump. Luckily for them, I've stopped voting altogether.
In trying to understand how some people get elected to the Senate to represent states that are perceived as affluent and well-informed you have to consider the unholy junction between corrupt party apparatus and the media that covers them.
To add to Mr. Saperstein's background check of Kamela Harris, her formative years spent in Montreal, Canada will hardly rally strong minority support. She is most definitely not of them.
Sadly, I believe that U.S. national elections do pivot on economics chiefly so the Biden administration's foreign policy missteps are not the chief danger to reelection. But V.P. Harris appears tone deaf and incoherent about all matters economic. Yes, she must be removed from the ticket or Biden is toast.
Whom should be Biden's pick I leave to others -- neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will run a candidate I can support.
I'm glad you see the same problem with Harris as I do, but I have a much different take on what to do. I want to remove Harris and fix the political divide in Congress by way of an example of novel leadership emerging from the Executive Office. I suggest Biden remove Harris and form a coalition administration. This isn't a novel idea. Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Adams and Lincoln all had coalitions during their administrations. Furthermore, the founders rejected the ideas of political parties (factions) for the reasons we see in Congress today. They polarize. Thus, Biden should replace Kamala Harris with Liz Cheney, or Chris Christie. A coalition administration will re-set the culture in the Executive and indirectly influence behavior in the Legislative branches promoting leadership through the ‘art of compromise’. Bottom line – as with Biden, Liz and Chris will never allow Trump near the Oval Office. This will comfort most Americans and attract their votes. Plus, more Americans are worried about the border and a coalition will address this crisis more expeditiously. If something like illness befalls Biden, then Liz or Chris will be President and Trump will never threaten democracy or the institutions of government again. Also, Liz and/or Chris will move to the center of the political spectrum to attract voters from Trump and reassure democrats that their agenda will still be moved forward, albeit with a moderately conservate influence. BTW: Liz didn't lose her re-election bid in WY because of her conservative voting record. She lost because MAGA outspent her spreading MAGA lies about her because she wouldn't defend the big stolen election lie being promoted by Trump. Conversely, if Biden replaces Harris with another democrat there will be more of the same divisive behavior in Congress thereby weakening the legislature's ability to legislate and more counter impeachments efforts. Regardless, Harris must go.
Thanks for the thoughts, Paul. The premise, though, as I understand it, is a factionless government. I'm not sure how Cheney or Christie will bring factionlessness to the White House. But it's good to think out of the box.
Thomas
The issue is not "Cackle" Kamala. The issue is the Biden support, diplomatic cover for and funding of and military supply of genocidal war crimes in Gaza. Let's be clear: Joe..Biden...is..a..war...criminal.
Through her cold, cynical silence, on the US-enabled genocide, my dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin is a war criminal. Pretty much every member of congress who has supported the genocide, the entire State Department and all of the War Department are war criminals. By any measure of international law, all those officials are war criminals and our government is a criminal state.
I very reluctantly voted for Biden last time around. I have voted twice for Baldwin. I will vote for neither in '24 because I will no longer vote for war criminals. Of course, with my support of Obama and Bill Clinton in the past I essentially supported war criminals. Something I am ashamed of.
A friend was hectoring me about how we have to stop Trump in '24. I asked him to do a little thought experiment and pretend it was the fall of 2020 and I had just returned from time travel to 2023 and wanted him to know that the winner of the election would be responsible for the following things:
1. Sabotage of a peace agreement that would directly lead to a war we would lose in Central Europe that would result in the death of some 500,000+ young men, millions displaced, whole cities laid waste and threat of a wider war in Europe.
2. The largest single act of eco-terrorism in the world that would result in crippling energy costs throughout Europe and the beginning of deindustrialization of our most important European ally and business partner, Germany.
3. Full-on US participation in funding and arming of a massive religious genocide where two-thirds of the (counted) dead would be women, children and infants with the very real threat of throwing the entire Middle East into war.
I said to my friend, "You would have said, OMG, that's why we need to stop Trump. Go For Joe!!!!"
He reluctantly agreed.
Here's the truth: when it comes to more wealth for corporations, the military industrial complex and war, there is NO difference between the two parties. It's just one big corporate party: The Republocrats. ( You can see my portrait of the critter here: https://mark192.substack.com/p/the-one-party-republocrat )
The one bit of good Biden -- a self-proclaimed Zionist, which means he has religious loyalties outside the US -- has done with the US/Israeli genocide is he has peeled the last grinning mask off the fascist state we are suffering under. We now see the full extent and ugliness to which this corporate fascist state will go to dominate others and -- when the need arises -- ourselves.
The Republicans are speeding into a wall of fascist totalitarianism at 125mph.
The Democrats are doing so at 85mph.
The destination is the same.
Time for people to resist.
But I fear they won't.
"Time for people to resist, but I fear they won't."
Indeed.
Thomas
Many good points here.
Harris simply isn't qualified to be prez. Nothing more can be said.
Don't know enough about Bass. Abrams is possible. Whitmer would be awesome but she is white and that is one strike against her in the modern identity-obsessed Democratic Party. They'd prefer a black female in a wheelchair. Trans/gay would be a plus. Don't care for Mr. Brylcreem AKA Gov Newsome - too nakedly a political animal. Besides, we haven't fared well with California governors. Prtizker, OTOH, is pretty good. True blue.
When you look at climate, global affairs, Trump, our domestic political situation ... it's enough to drive a person to drink (heavily).
Fortunately, we have a clear choice: Vote for Biden and live to fight another day, or vote for Trump and end this noble experiment immediately. Those who choose to vote for a third candidate or not to vote at all - regardless of their reasoning - are effectively voting for Trump. I don't like the choices, but them's they are. One party sort of believes in democracy, the other is authoritarian and nothing more.
Bass should’ve been VP to begin with.
Would have been a better choice for sure, Brook.
Thomas
The DNC has a death wish. To paraphrase myself: They wish us all to die on a dying planet with our children cursing our names. Is it co-incidental that this sudden interest in the viability of Kamala Harris coincides with Hillary Clinton taking an increased role in Biden's campaign. A Biden-Clinton ticket would join the greatest American Fracker with most prolific Fracking marketer in the world [HRC claimed that Kissinger said she handled the Depart. of State better than anyone since him. High praise indeed from that mass murderer.]
In Praise of Kamala: In a 2020 Debate, Her schoolgirl story of getting an education only because she had access to the bussing and Jungle Schools that Biden opposed. This had the potential, had other candidates come forward to trash everything he ever supported, to derail the Biden train. Of course at that point the public had no hint that the DNC was fueling the Biden train.
"They wish us all to die on a dying planet with our children cursing our names."
Certainly true, Tom.
Thomas
I only tried to read one of Abrams' books. She is not a good author. Like most neoliberals she assumes a lot, explains next to nothing. You don't get to watch as locks are picked you only get descriptions of how awesome it is that a thief knows how to pick all these different locks! Her omniscient writing style explains very little but gushes over results. The book I tackled was a lot like Netflix's Lupin, which relies on timing and luck and lots of bafflegab.
Her work in Georgia needs to be audited. Everything about Georgia needs to be audited [watch the videos, Republicans ain't wrong on this one]. She has never won a race higher than state legislature. From there to the Vice Presidency seems just more IDpol Cult of HRC gaslighting, not winning politics.
Biden's presidency is about to be forensically dismantled. Democrats need for the DNC to resign en masse and for write-in votes to be counted (for a change) in the primaries. These losers cannot be allowed to further entrench themselves as party power brokers. The party's leadership should have been purged in 2017, everything since then is a consequence of the neoliberals authoritarian stewardship of the party.
Democrats are insisting I vote for Trump. Luckily for them, I've stopped voting altogether.
In trying to understand how some people get elected to the Senate to represent states that are perceived as affluent and well-informed you have to consider the unholy junction between corrupt party apparatus and the media that covers them.
To add to Mr. Saperstein's background check of Kamela Harris, her formative years spent in Montreal, Canada will hardly rally strong minority support. She is most definitely not of them.
Sadly, I believe that U.S. national elections do pivot on economics chiefly so the Biden administration's foreign policy missteps are not the chief danger to reelection. But V.P. Harris appears tone deaf and incoherent about all matters economic. Yes, she must be removed from the ticket or Biden is toast.
Whom should be Biden's pick I leave to others -- neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will run a candidate I can support.
Yes. He is formidable, experienced and well liked.
Cory Booker.
As a running mate?
Thomas
Mr. Wall Street? Another neoliberal? No.