If it were June of 2023? This would go to the primaries.
It is June of 2024. There is no time for a vote. So all having shouting matches and screaming about how Biden is unelectable on camera does is fuck the party as a whole. See: 2016
If it were June of 2023? This would go to the primaries.
It is June of 2024. There is no time for a vote. So all having shouting matches and screaming about how Biden is unelectable on camera does is fuck the party as a whole. See: 2016
Looks at instance Yup, that explains it
If your only goal is accelerationism with the misguided view that you'll benefit from the violent revolution: Go back to playing Call of Duty and let the adults discuss politics.
I have absolutely zero issues with lefties. Hell, I am one.
I do have an issue with the tankie dumbfucks who will STILL talk about "Genocide Joe" when we have video evidence of trump saying he outright wants the Palestinians eradicated and thinks Biden is too soft on them.
But also: The average person didn't watch that debate. Or they ducked out in horror when Biden came out sounding like death. They are going to be listening to what influencers say. Some of those influencers are people with incredibly smart teams behind them who focus on the issues and social justice (e.g. John Oliver). Others literally go to the bathroom while playing the work of others and then shit on said work while claiming to be a leftist.
And others still are "that friend who is really political" who is mostly parroting what other influencers have said.
I guess...
Biden fucked up. But I don't think this really changes anything.
Nobody is voting for Biden because we like him. We are voting for him because we give a shit about human rights and democracy. And democrats generally are good at actually listening to what is being said because... we want things.
republicans hate biden and are just happy they heard that brown people are killing and raping everyone. Nothing changed there
What Biden needed to do was win over the dumbass moderate/"undecided" voters. Which... is not talking points or policy. It is strongman bullshit. And that... is going to almost be entirely up to The Internet. Do we focus on Biden stuttering and having aphasia that he has had for decades? Or do we focus on trump blatantly lying and still talking about asking Nancy Pelosi to lead an insurrection for him?
John Oliver and the rest of the late night hosts are going to be working overtime to remind the country that having a deranged fascist in charge is bad. The Hasans of the world are going to keep talking about "Genocide Joe" because they are useful idiots, at best. But... I don't know beyond that.'
That said, I do think about the questionably accurate story that nixon (ugh) won his debate against kennedy (lesser ugh) among radio versus television listeners.
Biden mostly won in terms of text. He lost in terms of audio. But... people live on twitter and social media. How many people are going to be watching clips versus reading excerpts and tweets?
Trump is not memorizing answers. He is just ignoring questions and giving rally speeches.
Also, Biden has had a stutter for decades. It doesn't actually matter from a leadership standpoint. Just from a standing next to a school yard bully one
Oh shit. The height and weight comment was amazing.
His message is blatant lies and ignoring the prompt.
Biden is debating. trump is giving an unhinged speech.
Republicans threw a shitfit and it got cancelled.
It is about not forcing Biden to spend half of each response regarding to blatant lies like... Biden being pro Palestine.
Good news. Biden might be getting angry enough to go super Saiyan. Won't be good for the talking points but those are out the window with the endless lies anyway.
Time for every police union in the country to side with the cowards who enabled the murder of children.
I mean... for anything but the primaries (so basically candidate selection), there is zero benefit to publicizing that. NOBODY will benefit from "Yes, I agree that UBI and climate change are essential to focus on but we need to get this bill through before all of our airports collapse. We'll focus on that later" being a public discussion.
Also... if people ARE interested in those discussions? Work with your local party. You would be shocked at how many fairly low level organizers end up getting on the various calls related to defining a platform.
Like, the internet loves to paint the DNC as this evil shadow organization (mostly for reasons dating back to 2015/16...). And there is definitely a lot of politicking between the politicians (gasp!). But if you put in the time you would be shocked how much of a voice "community organizers" have if they have even basic social skills.