July 21, 2024 By: Half Empty Category: Uncategorized
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I hope we can move on now. I hope it doesn’t backfire or create a huge legal argument.
1Given that he was not yet officially nominated, hopefully even the most Federalist of Trump-Minion federal judges won’t try any national injunctions.
I’ll vote for the Democratic nominee – I just hope this works out the way the Democratic Party’s power structure thinks that it will.
Whoever wins must show no indecision – and we all need to fully support the nominee. Otherwise, we’ll be worse off than we would had Biden stayed in.
2No doubt repugnanticans already have lawsuits and their supremes keyed up to block a different Democrat from some state ballots.
3Also, will the media be all cocked and loaded to shoot down the new Democratic candidate and continue to ignore the ranting, crazy, demented, dangerous convicted felon as a candidate? Of course they will.
“…And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Well said, Mr. President.
4Respect!
p.s. Half Empty, I absolutely love your post (especially the fridge part:) – short and to the point!
5Holy ****.
6If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.
I’d vote for the literal floating dumpster fire over the figurative one, any day. I don’t need the icemaker.
7Need Kamala to get out there now and show her stuff in a very strong, forceful way. There’s plenty of negative things to talk about from the other side and the very positive things the Biden-Harris administration accomplished. Hope the Democratic “elites” quit tearing the party apart. That said, I’m pretty sure there will be negative Kamala rhetoric from many Dem politicians (and even here at the Salon).
8Dear G-d, now what? We can hope the Democrats get behind Harris or we are truly f***ed as a country.
9Talking heads on MSNBC already saying if Harris isn’t nominated then the entire black community will turn its back on Dems.
10@AlanInAustin: You got that right–unless Jim Clyburn steps in yet again to save the day. I simply don’t see the rationale for anybody but Harris. The biggest problem is that voting doesn’t start in November, it starts in SEPTEMBER when early voting for overseas military ballots are sent out. Ohio has that stupid law (which has been overturned but, perhaps, not in time) which requires nominees to be named by August 7.
I just don’t see how anybody has a vote in this except the delegates pledged to Biden. Or, perhaps, the DNC state committee members.
11I wish this hadn’t happened–but since it did, Democrats are left with only one choice: since our primary didn’t count, somebody besides “we, the people” will choose the nominee. It has become a matter of “VOTE BLUE, NO MATTER WHO.”
12I don’t know how this will turn out. I think it was a mistake. But I agree with Joy Reid: if it isn’t Harris — and full-throated backing for her — the Democrats lose.
I think it would be extremely clever if we Americans quit letting the craziest Muslims choose our chief executive.
13Nick’s comment is my sentiments as well. However in the meantime Biden has 6 months in office and has presidential immunity granted to him by the Supreme Court. Since he has nothing to lose, I hope that he uses the immunity with gusto.
14Harry, for those of us as ignorant as myself, please clarify who you are referring to as the craziest Muslims choosing our chief executive? I missed that.
15I have to say one thing though – I would have preferred Oval Office statement instead of announcement on social media. But it’s just me, being old fashioned.
16FrauFree Hatch Act???
17The sick feeling I’ve had ever since the debate is gone! I’m ready to vote for what I hope will be a Harris/Kelly ticket. Because I live in Alabama, it won’t help, but I have faith that voters in the rest of the country will save democracy.
18I’m with you Katherine@18 – the sick feeling is gone.
Crone@17 – darn it, I forgot about Hatch Act. I guess you are right.
19And I’m still pissed off that I didn’t get to vote for Shirley Chisholm back in the day!
20@Steve From Beaverton:
From Marc Elias at Democracy Docket:
Before the media gets rolling, let me be clear: The Democratic nominee for president will be on all 50 state ballots. There is no basis for any legal challenge. Period.
21I see the ever popular ( in his own mind) Joe Manshit (sp?) is considering re registering as a democrat and challenging Kamala Harris. Who knows, maybe JFK jr will do the same.
22I wish that I enjoyed everyone else’s belief that the trumpsters won’t mount some kind of “legal” road block to money or ballots or whatever in this election. They don’t have to win – they just need to delay anything they can legally, semi-legally, or whatever to muck everything up for the Democrats. We are talking about a party that used the Supreme Court to stop Florida’s recount of ballots in Bush Jr and Gore’s election, who derailed Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination because it was an election year and then later rushed in Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination and confirmation days before the 2020 election cycle ended, and stack the Supreme Court with justices who rolled back Roe vs Wade despite the said justices swearing it was the law of the land during their nomination hearings. These justices have since eliminated the Chevron Doctrine and have given the president immunity for “official” acts just to name a few of their other so called “legal” rulings. Also another thing that should be noted: the GOP is no longer the Republican Party. It is the party of Trump. He and his family run it.
23SD @ 23 – I don’t believe anyone is laboring under the illusion that Republicans will do everything to thwart Kamala’s run and everyone else’s. And after the last 10 years of the Trump-Roberts Court I put nothing past them to help TFG. Even this court, though will have a really hard time shutting down Kamala’s candidacy on some Trumped up claim (pun intended). If they do, the election doesn’t matter anyway.
24El Jefe @24 The last sentence in your post is the trumpsters party platform. It just bothers me that with the way the legal system currently operates, we just can’t count on the law to actually operate as it should, especially since the current Supreme Court is the biggest perpetrator of ignoring the law when it comes to Trump and his groupies. I realize higher up party Ds are aware of this but I feel that as voters we should be as well. I never thought that we would have a Jan 6 nor that a militia would try to kidnap a governor (thinking of Whitmer here), but both happened. And on top of that the law never adequately addressed either of these events. Good pun tho’.
25El Jefe @ 24 The last sentence in your post is the trumpsters party platform. It just bothers me that with the way the legal system currently operates, we just can’t count on the law to actually operate as it should even if the situation is glaringly apparent. I realize higher up Ds are aware of this but I feel that as voters we should be as well. I never thought that we would have a Jan 6 nor that a militia would try to kidnap a governor (thinking of Whitmer here), but both happened. And on top of that the law never adequately addressed either of these events. Good pun tho’.
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