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Official President Biden Thread

One simple answer is that Trump discouraged people from voting, whilst Biden encouraged people to vote; ie Trump's 'the election's rigged!' rhetoric had the unintended consequence of making some of his supporters decide not to vote at all.

If that's right he didn't win/lose because of ideas, a vision of the future.
 
If that's right he didn't win/lose because of ideas, a vision of the future.

Oh no. Indeed I think in most cases politicians win or lose elections for 'tribal' reasons (the colour of the rosette), or because they're viewed as more or less competent than their opponents.
 
That would be a very unusual step - the last time a Senate parliamentarian was overruled was 45 years ago.

In addition, two D senators would be/are opposed to that for different reasons so even overruling would likely only get the Democrats to 48 votes potentially scuttling the whole rescue package.
In that article I linked to are quotes from both Pelosi and Schumer, claiming they want to see a $15 minimum wage. Biden is 'said' to be in favour of it too, as is Harris, or so she 'says'.

Maybe Harris overruling the parliamentarian would cause minor problems, but that aside; an executive order is still an option. Biden could sign one after his breakfast this morning, but he will not.

The truth of the matter is these people don't care about the American people. They can agree within literally days to find $800-$900B for what's sickeningly called the 'defence' budget though, and can always manage to agree to tax cuts for giant corporations, and Trillions of Dollars for banks in what's basically socialism, for banks.

They are paid servants of the powerful, blue or red, and an obstacle to the changes people need. It's pretty similar in the UK now, and the media - owned by oligarchs - is ready in both countries to cripple anyone who might stand in the way of the oligarch/corporate agendas.

Biden/Harris are just more of the same. No different to Obama, Trump etc.
 
Can I ask a question which may appear very naive, but the more I think about it the less I'm clear.

Why did Trump lose the last election?

or maybe I should say, I don't know

Why did Biden win the last election?

Because Biden successfully avoided ruining it against a terrible candidate. Biden is likeable, has broad appeal and a popular, centrist agenda. The only way he was going to lose was by making one of his terrible gaffs or being caught with a late breaking scandal.
 
Because Biden successfully avoided ruining it against a terrible candidate. Biden is likeable, has broad appeal and a popular, centrist agenda. The only way he was going to lose was by making one of his terrible gaffs or being caught with a late breaking scandal.
Would Biden have won if it weren’t for Covid?
 
Would Biden have won if it weren’t for Covid?

Probably. Although you can also argue that COVID gave Trump a chance to turn things around after 4 disastrous years had dug him into a big hole, so if he had just responded in a vaguely competent manner it might have won the election for him when he would otherwise have lost.

Overall I think it was more meaningful to say Trump helped Biden more than COVID did because he was such an awful candidate.

538 has some analysis here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-did-covid-19-affect-the-2020-election/
 
Would Biden have won if it weren’t for Covid?

I don't think so. Barring a financial crash Trump would have won on the economy, I think (even though the good economy was nothing to do with Trump). This is why I am so worried that a Trump like character could be elected in 2024. The most important thing democrats can do right now is to protect voting rights, since the GOP will double down on voter suppression in 2024.
 
I don't think so. Barring a financial crash Trump would have won on the economy, I think (even though the good economy was nothing to do with Trump). This is why I am so worried that a Trump like character could be elected in 2024. The most important thing democrats can do right now is to protect voting rights, since the GOP will double down on voter suppression in 2024.
They'd better hurry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/republican-voter-suppression.html

How can a country that sees itself as the beacon of democracy want to stop people voting? - unless "democracy" is interpreted in the ancient Athenian sense of only certain classes being allowed to vote.
 
^ certain colo(u)rs not classes.
Many fortunes were founded on over 100 years of cotton slavery but there is a myth that only white people contributed to the wealth of USA.
Same as sugar/tobacco/cotton plantation slavery in the Caribbean founded many English/Scots fortunes.
 
^ certain colo(u)rs not classes.

Mutatis mutandis, naturally.

Many fortunes were founded on over 100 years of cotton slavery but there is a myth that only white people contributed to the wealth of USA.
Same as sugar/tobacco/cotton plantation slavery in the Caribbean founded many English/Scots fortunes.

It's interesting how the Republican and Democratic Parties changed places. The Republican Party was the party of emancipation during the Civil War, and the Southern Democrats ("Dixiecrats") remained solidly against emancipation - until Democrat Lyndon Johnson signed the Equal Rights Act, remarking at the time, "We have lost the South for a generation". He hadn't reckoned on Nixon's "Southern Strategy", which utilised the anti-black feelings in the old Confederacy to win those states for the Republicans. They can no longer be openly anti-black (although some, particularly Trump, have come very close), but they can redistrict advantageously and talk of the widespread (but actually virtually non-existent) voter fraud that gives them the power to disenfranchise million of voters. What the Republicans say to be true of the Democrats is actually true of them - they can only win by cheating. The lovely Mr. Trump even said so - if voting were fair, no Republican would ever again be elected.
 
The USA has always seen itself as a new version of OT Israel, a nation set aside by God to be an example to others - and to be smacked around the ears when it got it wrong (Jerry Falwell Sr. said that 9/11 was divine punishment for the US's national sins, such as acceptance of homosexuality and abortion). Well, another similarity; both now have a golden calf:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...-backlash-of-biblical-proportions-11614360507

Perhaps golden half-wit would be better.
 
Move along, nothing to see here.

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That flag is all wrong. The direction of the pattern in the middle doesn't line up with the big diagonals. Very off putting.
 


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