You’ll shoot your eye out!
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1·7 hours agoWhich doesn’t help when the staff and money gets pulled. I swear, it’s like you do not have the first idea how politics works.
Biden was President, you go with what he says or you get cut loose with no time to rebuild on your own.
Her entire campaign was Biden people and Biden money, she towed the line or lost that with no time to build her own support.
Remember: 30 days to the convention. 108 days to the election. Piss off Biden, lose all his people and all his money. Good luck with the election!
If she wanted the candidacy, she had to stick with Biden. Read the article.
There’s a lot of blame to go around, but nobody is going to tell a sitting President they can’t run again. It was Biden’s call and he ultimately made that call too late for any other candidate to have a successful run.
Once Harris was tapped, there’s now evidence Biden hampered her campaign as well:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/
It’s not “the dems” fault, it’s Biden’s fault. First, for not stepping down early enough for a proper primary, 2nd, for having a comatose debate performance, 3rd, for failing to recognize the economic pain the US public was going through, 4th, for claiming credit for policies that had no effect on the public at large, and 5th for insisting Harris not separate herself from his failed policies.
Someone should have sat him down and told him the economy sucks, people are hurting, and the policies you got passed haven’t done anything yet. But he still stood up repeatedly and basically said “What’s the matter, Jack? Economy is great!” while the public was “3% inflation on top of 3% inflation on top of 6% inflation in top of 9% inflation…”
That failure of recognition tanked his campaign and not allowing Harris to differentiate herself tanked hers.
She should have told him “No, your ideas are why you aren’t in the race anymore, I’m doing something different.” Instead she said, on live television, she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently. That’s the point when she lost, nail in the coffin right there.
Because it was created as a place for US politics. !world@lemmy.world was created as the US free zone.
Combining the two creates a US dominated space where world events get buried under US news and politics.
No, there wasn’t. A primary in 50 states takes roughly 6 months to run. They had ONE.
Biden bowed out July 21st.
The convention was scheduled to start August 19th.
30 days. You can’t run a 50 state primary in 30 days. 1.66 primaries per day.
Moving the convention wasn’t an option due to state deadlines for candidates.
By the time Biden dropped out, it was one month to the DNC which would select a candidate. There was no time to run a primary, and they were actively attempting to prevent what happened at the last brokered convention which resulted in utter chaos:
51·18 hours agoYup. My brain was trying to tell me that my spine was actively broken and that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other. Just a ridiculous level of pain.
Wow, the Gazan civilians must have done something really serious to merit being attacked like this, ending the cease fire…
Right? Um… right? /s
So here’s the thing… Fentanyl is a crisis, and the amount it takes to kill someone is MINISCULE.
For example, there was this seizure locally:
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=533621
ELEVEN POUNDS of fentanyl.
To give you some idea, that’s 4,990 grams. A fatal dose can be as little as 2mg (depending on body size, resistance, etc.).
So that comes out to be around 2,495,000 fatal doses in just ONE seizure.
2 pounds:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-area-fentanyl-trafficker-sentenced-federal-prison
6 pounds:
50(!) pounds:
And that’s just locally…
But… and a big but… it’s not coming from Canada. Or even from Mexico. It’s coming THROUGH Mexico, but the sources are largely gangs from Honduras.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/honduran-national-extradited-united-states-fentanyl-trafficking
The reason he picked Vance is because he knew there was no resistance there, he learned from Pence.
Lower Lumbar Spinal Stenosis here. Worst pain I’ve ever experienced. Worse than 2 heart attacks and open heart surgery. So bad that when I found out Dick Cheney had it, my response was “Oh, that poor man.”
I spent a year on vicodin. The pain was always there, but it was like someone pounding on a door 3 doors down. I knew it was there, but I could ignore it.
Only thing that really gave me relief was taking a gallon of really, really cold water and centering the jug on my lower back.
Some stretches helped, this one felt really good:
Do what a Trump official would do, refuse to leave. What are they going to do?
The founders didn’t consider it at all, the 25th wasn’t added until 1967. Pre-Nixon even.
25th Amendment needs to start with the Vice President, so we know that’s not going to happen:
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
That and impeachment doesn’t involve the Supreme Court. It’s an operation of the House and Senate.
Move it down one notch for climate change. :)
The problem is, that the minute you include US politics in the feed, it becomes all Trump/Musk top to bottom and there’s no room for anything else to breathe. :(
My pet interest is Myanmar since my daughter in law is from there, but even that gets drowned out in !world@lemmy.world due to Ukraine and Gaza.
The ones that were SURPRISINGLY good were the Gex games. Looks like they’re getting a remaster too.
https://youtu.be/PXr2cRbo6Go