What I would give for this to be reality. Obv a pipe dream, but damn do I like it.
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I actually think a lot of it is just the benefits of running in a hyper connected world. The vast majority of these Dems know they have no chance of winning the nomination. Just by running you get news coverage, build name recognition, maybe generate some money for your future campaigns. I’m not sure I see a real downside for most people.
Republicans ran an army in 2016 and although it’s pure speculation by me I would assume in 2024 they will have a bunch of people running as well. I don’t actually think it’s an advantage or disadvantage for Trump (the number of people itself). What will be an advantage/disadvantage is how long the process takes for them to pick a winner and how bloody it gets. Obviously if you’re team Trump you want this going on as long as possible. I actually think the number of people running makes that less likely to happen. Long drawn out primary battles tend to be when it’s really close between two people. Right now I don’t really see Dems drawing defined battle lines on the whole ala Clinton/Obama 2008.
Maybe Biden Sanders gets there eventually. Maybe not.
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They’re all saying to themselves and others “The bar has been set so low by Trump…” not realizing that only 1 of them is going to even have a chance at it, and the vast majority of the herd culling is going to be done by Their Own Party.
Probably the next three will be:
Chuck Schumer
Maxine Waters
Michael Moore
Agree with this. We shall see though, it’s early days yet.
I think this may be a small piece of it but I really think it’s just that the benefits of “running” are so much it makes a ton of sense to do so with our current news cycles. I’d never heard of a lot of these people until they started to run. All press is good press I guess.
"There’s plenty of money in this world. There’s plenty of money in this country. It’s just in the wrong hands. I’m a New Yorker. Little Bill on his capacity for intellectual thought.
More deep thinking:
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.”
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who became the rising star of the 2020 Democratic primary, echoed the far-left calls to rename buildings or events that carry the names of prominent U.S. figures on the grounds that they were owners of slaves.
Over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor … Jefferson is more problematic,” he said.”
“There’s a lot, of course, to admire in his thinking and his philosophy, but then again if you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew slavery was wrong. We are all morally conflicted human beings.”
Maybe this is exactly why we need to keep these things that remind us of them; to show that they were, just as we are, human beings.
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Ok, I am not trying to screw up the purpose of this thread, but, I agree with you. Our history, like any past history is laced with mistakes, brutality, and stupidity. That is why I do not agree with the current trend of attacking our Founding Fathers or for that matter, removing Confederate statues. That is our history, good and bad, and if you don’t acknowledge the mistakes made in the past, then I firmly believe you will make the same ones the future.
Ok, Jefferson owned slaves, so did the Mayas, Aztecs, and Comanches. Deal with it.
Slave owners or not, our Founding Fathers are smarter than the fucks we have running the government now.
My apologies, Mufasa, too much coffee.
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Good think the US is not sliding into a military confrontation in the Middle East at the moment, otherwise the POTUS would be occupied elsewhere…
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1130220542538264576
Well…!
A little jealous that his propaganda machine might have actually decided to cover someone else???
Be careful, Fox…you are bordering on becoming Fake News…!
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This is common suddenly. The victim Olympics continues to grow and those at the helm The stars of the Democratic party are just all too happy to repeat and amplify one another in a race to sound “progressive”.
If you guys think the 1984 theme sticking its head up in your current lives is something, well just you wait - the Left is only getting started. Maybe the best thing about Trump is that his existence in office alone (and maybe his trolling tactics) has brought out the true nature of the Left. They’ve shed their friendly exterior and are an impotent blob of anti West, anti Male, anti White and anti Christian rhetoric.
Precisely!
Or, we can have the future it seems we’re aiming for now, where all discomfort is eliminated, especially discomfort of troubling ideas which don’t match your feelings - a pill for every time of day to suit your “needs” - eliminate all visions of a past that might not comply with the current mode of thinking (the current mode of thinking will of course become outdated and need modification as well) We’ll even create tons of jobs around such information! Just imagine what bliss it could be?
Reality control - we’re already living part of that and if you think I’m being melodramatic then you’re part of the problem. This is evident in the lopsided history our children are taught in school ( I was taught the same however less extreme…)
He who controls the past, controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past.
A proposal to pay every American adult $1,000 per month is an opportunity to “put economic resources directly into” the taxpayers’ hands, Andrew Yang said.
(OK, you work two jobs to make the bills, so, the USG will take a thousand of your taxes and give it to someone who does not work, OK, I see the logic in that you stupid fuck.)
Yang, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, told Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” his plan would also be an incentive for cities to “invest in people who are struggling with substance abuse or homelessness.”
( “Struggling with substance abuse”, the struggle being what? no money to buy your favorite substance)
He claimed his proposal, dubbed the “Freedom Dividend,” would help fix problems faced by people who are struggling.
Really,?how about passing an economic bill to repair the 55 thousand roads and bridges in the country and offering jobs to increase American labor? oh, I forgot, Socialism is better since you don’t have to do any work, because “someone” will do it for you)
“It would create an economic path forward for many people who, right now, are struggling and don’t have access to, let’s say, treatment for substance abuse problems, or mental health issues,” Yang said.
Really? how does that “create an economic path”? What ? the free thousand a month from my taxes is considered a job for someone else?
I am sure Bernie Sanders is like a God to you, so a little chart of stats for your viewing pleasure, Mr. Yang:
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A large chunk of economics and future outlooks look like UBI will probably be a reality in our lifetimes given wages/inflation/low skill job outlook. Automation and AI are taking jobs by the tens of thousands every year, and the tech is really still in infancy.
Wait til we automate truck drivers and mail deliveries.
That doesn’t really make the pill go down much easier, but it’s something
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I’m going to encourage my son to become an attorney specializing in civil litigation because when people start getting their toes stepped on by package delivery robots the lawsuits will be endless.
Well. You can’t really automate lawyers! Good suggestion
I doubt they’d be robots. Probably just different versions of those drones that Amazon pretended like they were going to make mainstream a couple years ago
Fwiw, I think Amazon will be the first to automate deliveries. Probably only applicable in metro areas, buy that’s most of the country at this point
Dude, the lawyers are among the the first to go.
I’m not super fearful of legal AI taking over until such a time it can learn to adjust based on the interpretation style of various judges.
I can totally see it being a tool that downsizes the grunt worker lawyers though.