Stewart’s episode is basically calling for a primary, which we already had, which was known for years ahead of time would happen, which literally anybody could run in, and yet nobody significant seemed interested in running. I voted in the primary, there was more than one person to vote for, Biden even lost his primary in American Samoa. To say there was “no primary” is a lie, and suggesting a party swap out a candidate who already won a primary, and by doing so throw out the votes of millions of Americans who participated in that primary process, is anti-democatic. Do you want people to switch parties and vote in the republican primary? Because that’s how you do it. Did the DNC learn nothing from getting caught trying to crush Bernie’s primary chances?
You lose voters you disenfranchise, period. I don’t care how good the DNC’s legislative aims are, if my primary vote literally does not matter, why would I ever vote in their primary again?
“My city election for mayor didn’t have enough choices on the ballot so it effectively wasn’t an election and we should re-do the election”. Democracy is run by those who show up. Sometimes, not many people show up. Sometimes you don’t like the people who show up. Some people aside from Biden ran in the DNC primary, they lost. Anybody could have ran. If you don’t liked the limited field of candidates, in a democracy, your options are: vote for who is available and run. That’s it. Anything else (calling for another election because you don’t like the result) is not democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Nobody showed up because the DNC wanted it that way. It’s standard operating procedure to blindly stand behind the incumbent because statistically incumbent has a higher chance to win.
It’s the safe option, so the DNC put their weight behind Biden.
If DNC actually wanted an open primary with all sorts of people trying to win, we could have done that. But we didn’t.
Now it’s becoming obvious Biden has no chances of winning this election because of his deteriorating mental condition. Not only that, he’s even less likely to be an effective head of state. Why are we choosing to put ul an almost-senile guy to represent the strongest country in the world?
I think another primary is fully justified. The best course of action would have been to have a real primary in the first place. But what else are you going to do at this point?
Biden can’t win and even if he could he shouldn’t win
You guys are not voting only for the president. It’s everything that comes with that. Like the supreme Court and all other justices.
We won’t have the Presidency or likely the House or Senate if we stick with Biden.
I’m voting for Biden if he’s the one in the general, but I fear you may be right. Far too many normies have no idea what is at stake.
Jon nailed it. I don’t know why the Biden team is insisting he stays.
So both candidates have hijacked their own parties, as they can literally destroy them if they are forced out.
Always been that way. Shit sandwich vs Turd Burger
First Past the Post requires it.
Fuck that and fuck this, stop putting Biden on the same level as Trump. You can talk shit on him all you want, but he is infinitely better than Trump and it’s not even a discussion.
Reagan’s first term was infinitely better and worse than Trump. Second term Reagan is what we are looking at. Second term Reagan had me, a six year old in July of 1987, asking my parents why the most important man in the universe/ world was unable to complete a sentence, and why would we allow someone that clearly wasn’t in touch with reality to have access to the nuclear launch codes.
Biden is showing all of the mentally unstable issues Reagan did in 1984…
All that said, Live Biden > Dead Biden > Dead Trump > A Literal Steaming Pile of Cow Dung > Live Trump
I’m talking about the fact we only have two choices. First past the post. We should have ranked choice voting so a candidate cannot hijack their party like both candidates have.
This isn’t Nixon and Kennedy it’s Hitler (Trump) vs Chamberlain (Biden)
Understand the false dichotomy of choice that you’re in. Look at what France was just able to do, or what the UK finally did. The axiom of choice shouldn’t have to be binary.
Nooooo no no it hasn’t. Clinton vs the other guy was a BJ vs the other guy, Pre-wikileaks Bush vs Kerry was fool me cant be fooled again vs flip flops. McCain vs Obama was genuinely a war hero vs the first black prez. I’m not looking each election up and spitting from loose memory but the point is no fucking way has it ever been a rapist felon vs someone who was asked a question about abortion and was so fucking senile he answers with a fucking babbling story about a fuckin immigrant woman murdering I dont even know what the fuck he said it was so fuckin incoherent. There is no fuckin way you are old enough to vote if you are that short sighted that this is your stat quo.
Jon Stewart would be a pretty good candidate. I mean, totally horrible as a president in objective terms, but would work as a pretty great counterpoint to Trump.
I don’t know why you think he wouldn’t be a good President. A presidents job is largely rhetorical and Stewart is good at that. He also showed his mettle in his support and advocacy for 9/11 first responders.
Because he’s always been someone’s useful idiot.
Is he funny? Yes.
Does he have some pretty good takes? I think so.
Do I enjoy his interviews? Sure.
Doesn’t mean that all those people willingly sat down for an interview with him knowing he was going to be asking questions. Hard questions. Questions that they knew people were asking. All of those interviews… he served the purpose of a sock puppet.
He asked hard questions that embarrassed the interviewees, surfaced their hypocrisy/cravenness, etc. and the purpose served was to… support and defend them like a sock puppet? What?
I mean I don’t disagree with you completely, but Stewart being the president would be like Trump (or, say, Reagan) in the way that none of them are politicians or have seriously studied the subject. Those people are some kind of entertainers.
I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison. Stewart has never served as an elected official, but he has ‘seriously studied’ politics his whole life. That’s more relevant than Trump or Reagan.
I mean, Zelenskyy?
Guy was basically an entertainer, not too dissimilar from Stewart even in style and content.
And when the shit hit the fan, this is who he proved to be:
“I need ammunition, not a ride.”
That berating he gave them was amazing. Also gave me my favorite pic of McConnell
