Should Biden drop out and the Dems have an open convention?

No, I don't. Kamala rambles on with quite the word salads and I don't think she's mentally declining either.


I am pro choice.
Trump: “The big problem was it was caught up in the federal government, but the people will decide, and that’s the way it should be. The people are now deciding. Some states are a little bit more conservative, and some states are much more liberal. Every voter has to go with your heart.”
He believes in abortion in cases of rape and incest or to save the life of the mother.

2 questions from a non-US, confused about a couple of things I often read…..

Why would it be so hard to get someone else’s name on the ballot? Surely if a potential candidate died a few months out from an election, a new candidate could be named, so why not if one of them stood down?

I often see things about Trump nominating his people to the Supreme Court and how it will affect the US for far more than 4 years - but why couldn’t the next president just change them? Or if they are there for life (are they? I don’t know), how would Trump be able to get his people there?

The Heritage Foundation (the Project 2025 creators) have already started trying to block a new candidate from being added in Ohio (I believe), in the event Joe did step down, his replacement would have trouble in certain states being put on the ballot.



The Supreme Court Justices are lifetime terms. They are supposed to be impartial, which is why they are grilled endlessly before being approved. However, our current Justices are up there in age. For instance, Traitors, I mean Justice Thomas is 75 and Justice Alito is 73. With the new President taking office in January 2025, it's reasonable to expect those 2 might step down. Right behind them is Justice Sotomayor at 69 and Chief Justice Roberts at 69 as well. The other way is by expanding the court, but this is the most direct path.

No, they didn't.
That's simply more propaganda.

Well, in the case of Ohio, IMO, it’s because our state government is riddled with spiteful dicks and loons. That’s just my opinion though.

According to The New Republic:

Conservatives may pull all of the stops to stop Democrats if the party tries to replace Joe Biden on the November election ticket, according to a memo from a top right-wing think tank.

“The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project began researching the laws for replacing a president in several battleground states about four months ago, putting together a report in April and releasing it before Thursday’s debate disaster, according to NOTUS.

“If the Biden family decides that President Biden will not run for re-election, the mechanisms for replacing him on ballots vary by state,” the memo states. “There is the potential for pre-election litigation in some states that would make the process difficult and perhaps unsuccessful.”

When NOTUS reached out to the Oversight Project, its executive director, Mike Howell, didn’t mince words, saying that they believe replacing Biden would be “extraordinarily difficult,” and that “we would make it extraordinarily difficult.”

“We’ve zeroed in on a few states that we think are the best case,” Howell said, refusing to elaborate on which ones. “It all depends on when and how they do it. And then what state that we’re looking at now that matches up to be the right one, going in there and working with the right people.”

With calls to replace Biden growing within the Democratic Party, and leading members openly discussing the prospect, the fact that the Heritage Foundation, arguably the GOP’s ideological engine, has already been preparing to thwart any such plans is worrying. According to the memo, the key states of Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia are where legal action to keep Biden on the ballot could pay off.

Democrats might be able to derail such efforts if Biden is replaced quickly, as he still doesn’t officially have the party’s nomination for president. While this would normally be determined at August’s Democratic National Convention, the party was planning to select Biden in a virtual roll call before then to avoid the prospect of certain states with timing laws excluding him from their ballots.

The Trump campaign would back the Heritage Foundation’s efforts to fight a Biden replacement, as they see Biden as a weaker opponent now.

“We definitely want the dementia patient,” a source close to Trump told NOTUS. “They made their bed; they get to sleep in it. But we also love the chaos of their public decision-making process.”

Recent polls show Biden was hurt by the debate, and he is running behind Trump across the country in several key states, and even in states previously thought safe. If Democrats think that Biden needs to be replaced, they need to decide quickly, and at the very least, they need to call upon their legal soldiers to make sure their decision holds up.“

Oh yes, of course.  There is a very well enforced limit to how much can be donated by any single person, group of people, or organisation to a political party or person in New Zealand, so I hadn’t even thought about that; but yes I can see that could cause very real problems.

Gosh I find it so interesting to learn about different political systems, they’re all so different.  Of course, a system for a country with only 5 million people is going to be different than one with more than 330 million!  My mind boggles at the thought of that many people, let alone trying to get any sort of consensus between them…..

If Republicans are not calling for Trump who has been convicted of 34 felonies to step aside, why should Biden step aside for one poor debate performance?

Among many other mentally declining moments Joe Biden is the one that illogically brought up a woman murdered by an illegal immigrant in response to Roe v. Wade, then said, "there's a lot of young women being raped by their sisters..." and that "they are being arrested when they cross state lines" for an abortion.😳

Democrats did the exact same thing with Trump, then cried in their Cheerios when it didn't work.

President Biden himself in a letter to Democrats makes an excellent point that 14 million voters chose him in the primaries.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-9-2024

In this morning’s Talking Points Memo, David Kurtz observed that “much of political journalism is divorced from policy and the substance of politics.” It’s all about a horse race, he wrote, while complex questions, competing public interests, and the history of an issue get distilled to “whether it’s good or bad politically.”

Today, he noted, that horse-race coverage means that “n election about whether the United States will continue its two and half century long experiment in representative democracy, where a convicted felon is running to return to the office he tried to seize through extralegal means, where the specter of a new form of fascism looms on the horizon is suddenly consumed by a political death watch for the only person at present standing between democracy and another Trump term in the White House.”

Yesterday, President Joe Biden tried to quell that political death watch by sending a letter to congressional Democrats stating that “despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.” He noted that 14 million voters in the Democratic primary chose him, rather than a challenger, adding, “It was their decision to make. Not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well intentioned…. How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party?”

In an apparent attempt to get beyond the horse-race politics Kurtz identified and to make clear the substance of this election, Biden explained: “We have an historic record of success to run on.” He cited his administration’s creation of more than 15 million jobs, leading to historic unemployment lows; revitalization of American manufacturing; expansion of affordable health care; rebuilding the country’s infrastructure; lowering the cost of prescription drugs; providing student debt relief; and making a historic investment in combating climate change.

That vision, Biden wrote, “soundly beats” that of Trump and the MAGA Republicans, who are “siding with the wealthy and big corporations,” while the Democrats are “siding with the working people of America.” Trump and his people want another $5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich, he noted, and they plan to cut Social Security and Medicare, as well as end the ability of the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to bring drug prices into line with prices in other countries. “We are the ones lowering costs for families,” he wrote, “from health care to prescription drugs to student debt to housing. We are the ones protecting Social Security and Medicare. Everything they’re proposing raises costs for most Americans—except their tax cuts which will go to the rich.”

He went on to note that the Democrats are “protecting the freedoms of Americans,” while Trump’s people are “taking them away.” He pointed to the right-wing attacks on abortion rights, IVF, contraception, and gay marriage. Biden reiterated that he will sign a law making Roe v. Wade the law of the land if the nation elects a Democratic House and Senate. Finally, he pointed out that Democrats are protecting the rule of law and democracy, while Trump is actively working to destroy both. Trump, he wrote, has proven himself “unfit ever to hold the office of President.” “My fellow Democrats,” Biden wrote, “we have the record, the vision, and the fundamental commitment to America’s freedoms and our Democracy to win.”

"Ladies and Gentlemen... President Putin!!!"

"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump..."
A man cleary having dementia

or

The Orange Cheeto lunatic...

This country is screwed!

I don’t really know anything about morecowbell and her post history. However, I find it rich the queen of reposting tweets is calling out someone for repeating information. I would estimate 90% of your posts are tweets.

I must have dementia too. I call kids by the wrong name just about once a day. It is some sort of glitch in my brain. As a teacher I mostly I call them by their older siblings name since I often had them first.

My mom would yell the cats name before mine when I was little and doing something naughty. All the time. When I was little I thought my full name was "cat name my name".

And Trump calls people by the wrong name as well. And talks about Hannibal Lector like he is a real person. Doesn't that make him suffering from dementia as well? Where are the posts by the Republicans calling that our?

No she is often reposting someone else’s opinion. Just because someone agrees with another opinion doesn’t make that factual.

TBH my takeaway from her posts is that she doesn’t have her own opinions. Maybe she does but it is a narwhal experience when she posts her own thoughts.

Using tweets isn’t easier. The page loads slower and when you hit the new button it doesn’t actually take you to the new post. This only happens on the threads with all the tweet reposts.