I would bet a significant amount of money if Tara Reade was given this option she snap appoints Biden over Trump today.
Trying to picture how this bet would get settled
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Given it’s hypothetical it can’t obviously.
This situation is definitely playing to his strengths of “decency”. People like Lindsey Graham, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, HW Bush, Obama etc have all vouched for his personal character when they didn’t have to, which says something if you respect any of them. So it’s going to be tough to paint him as some uniquely awful choice to be president, though many Trumpers will have to try. The Reade stuff would probably have been more believable to the people that knew him if he didn’t have basically the opposite reputation of people like John Boehner or Ted Kennedy when it came to nightlife as well, but apparently the stories about him always leaving DC to tuck his kids in at night are actually true.
It does seem like DECENT JOE is going to be enough to fell Trump.
Would you say anything really changed from Obama to Trump?
And yet is was primarily black primary voters who pushed Biden over the top.
Oh for sure man. Not that the party conspired for an entire year to find a way to nominate anyone but Bernie.
I’m just saying what happened. Black voters saw Biden play second fiddle to Obama for 8 years - that seems to mean a lot to them - at least from what I read.
The party helped sabotage Bernie of course. But as far as whether or not Biden is a racist, I’ll defer to the judgement of black democratic primary voters on that.
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These things don’t seem mutually exclusive.
I’m going to defer to his own words and actions. Your premise is fallacious-- it rests on the assumption black voters won’t vote for a racist. (Maybe they will if TV news is telling them 24 hours a day that Bernie Sanders is doomed and Joe Biden is their only hope to beat Donald Trump, for example.)
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They’re not necessarily, but it also elides the age and income gap (something Democrats purposely created by closing polling stations)-- young black voters, like all young voters (“young” in this case meaning “under 45”), overwhemingly supported Sanders.
Latinos of all ages overwhelmingly supported Sanders. Does their opinion on race in America not matter? Because I’ve been hearing “kids in cages” a lot from the VBNMH types.
Take the Bernie whining to the Bernie whining thread. We have a whole thread dedicated to people who firmly believe he is the only human on earth capable of doing anything good.
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This is incredibly insulting and racist.
You’re just skipping past the facts to insult me. Is this one of the three pre-programmed Hashtag Resistance responses? I’m not even the one who brought up the primary, ding-dong.
It’s racist to think someone with a 50-year track record of saying and doing racist things is racist. Galaxy brain.
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You are literally insinuating in your post that black people just do what they’re told and are programmed by tv. Fuck off.
We are happy to argue with you. I’m simply asking you have the respect not to clutter this thread.
Come here and we can argue all day.
This thread is for protest news.
I’m not saying it isn’t. The post I’m referencing is blatantly and egregiously racist and definitely sounds a lot like other posts I’ve seen in that other thread regarding black people voting for biden.
It’s very, very, thinly veiled and today I’m deciding to say something.
While I realize that black people can vote for a racist and even be racist, if a high enough percentage of black people prefer a candidate, then I’m not going to whitesplain to them how the candidate may be a racist.
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