https://twitter.com/garygrumbach/status/1248320650265190402?s=21
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Iâll ask here because it doesnât really belong in the grocery thread. @CanadaMatt3004
Why should anyone in lock-blue or lock-red states vote for Biden?
If you want to signal that both Biden and Trump are unacceptable, then you shouldnât vote for Biden.
If you want this election to be perceived as a referendum on Trump where Trump is soundly rejected, then you should vote for Biden to run up the score and maximize how much Trump loses by.
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While CA and OK are on the far end of the lock states, after 2016 I donât believe in lock states anymore. Texas is quickly hurtling towards a purple state. Michigan and Pennsylvania has a strong 20+ year Blue voting history.
I just donât believe in the concept and I think each vote has more significance to it than a lot of people. I think running up the score against a monster and showing just how widely he is disliked is a good thing.
Lastly, I think the âIâm not voting for anybody because I hate them both Foot Stampâ is childish and self important bullshit when we live in a world of a binary presidential system. Make your choice and pull the lever.
Eh, sorry, not really convinced here.
Lock states are absolutely a thing. You bring up Texas. If Texas is even close, itâs game over because of results in other states.
There is literally zero chance that Vermont (or California or Oklahoma or about three dozen other states) will be the tipping point. And if a message is to be sent, one that says that Biden sucks, but Trump sucks worse (which is effectively what a write-in for Bernie is) is more important to me than ârunning up the scoreâ.
Iâll very clearly state that this is not the case for people in several states. If I lived in Wisconsin or North Carolina or Arizona, I have to act like my vote may literally decide the election and act accordingly.
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I donât think a write in vote for Bernie helps anyone. It pisses off the Party Loyalists and thatâs not going to push them away from their Party Loyalty. Not that that can be stopped, but if I had my druthers Iâd have people do just about anything other than vote Bernie as a protest. Write in vote for the Revolutionary Communist Party or something and make them wish you voted for Bernie.
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https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1248284537165152266?s=2
But when it comes to insulin or chemotherapy, fuck you!
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The fuck kind of world do we live in where that needs to be not just clarified but presented as an opinion?
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Let me be clear: No one should have smoldering embers jammed into their eye sockets.
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And Fox to actually get this shit stated plainly:
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hahah yeah, never let your spouse cut your hair at home
oof is right
Is there a Biden v Trump thread yet?
Man I donât know how Trump doesnât already have ads running on loop of Joe Biden saying he has âno empathy, give me a break.â
âThereâs an old expression my philosophy professor would always use from Plato,â said Biden.
âThe penalty people face for not being involved in politics is being governed by people worse than themselves.â
Well he was right about that at least.
Why Sanders failed
Cliffs: Itâs an identity based world and weâre just living in it
Less reliant voters didnât activate in large enough numbers
Rural, poor, whites think more in identity than class so werenât interested in Sanderâs policy
The core constituents of the Democratic base are less ideological than they are partisan. They like the Democratic Party as an institution and Sanderâs âoutsidernessâ turned them off