Mac1958
Diamond Member
We've just never seen anything like this, at least in our history.Agreed, and I think we've seen that, once a person enters that office, they quickly come to understand its importance and complexity. Obviously Biden would. At this moment, we have a person who simply lacks that capacity, but I do believe it's a one-off.Rice is the most qualified, and both she and Biden understand and appreciate the gravity of the position.Unfortunately, it appears to be both. Biden is clearly in some kind of cognitive decline, AND the Left is doing pretty much everything it can to annoy absolutely as many people as possible. For icing on the cake, Biden is now essentially forced to restrict his veep choice -- at this insanely critical moment, and when there's every chance he won't even be in office for four full fucking years -- to only a fraction of the potential candidates. Ya can't have a dick, and your skin color must be acceptable. Holy shit.
You can't make this up. Incredible. If Trump wins, again, the Dems & Left will have been culpable. Again.
Biden picked his VP a long time back...
I think it is Susan Rice.... Serious person for a serious time...
Biden still talks like an adult... Comparing the two candidates speaking leaves a huge gap...
Unlike the current WH occupant.
Mac,
The discussion about Biden seems a bit mute in one way. Biden is going to appoint a top class team and let them run it.
Trump has had trouble filling roles and then is not getting the GOP A listers and when he gets the odd one he undermines them(reason not getting them).
Look have Obama handled Ebola com pared to COVID response. Obama found a Czar (who did know much about Viruses but was a top class admin) and then got out of Fauci and Birx way. Played a bit of golf...
Trump had to inject himself into it. Doesn't know or trust people involved to tackle the problem.
Some of the RW guys here say Obama was some how cheating by not having Press Conferences about it. Obama only did things when he thought it would help beat the virus.
Biden will of course be far closer to Obama but so would a John Kaisch or Paul Ryan, being competent is what these guys share...
Agreed, I hope you are right with it being a one off...
But I am getting more worried... Trump has been incompetent but it has been a good thing in one sense, he did have the skill to undermine the constitution even with almost full GOP support. Imagine is he was competent.
Seriously, a crisis like COVID usually bands US together and gets them to crowd around and support the leadership. Think of 911... Trump even got an initial bump when COVID first struck. Leading America through crisis can be solidifying, great resources and ingenuity meet a great problem(storyline of half the movies in Hollywood).
At the end of the day US democracy is lopsided against urban citizens. At Present
US President lost the popular vote by 2% (3 million votes)
US Senate looks like this:
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Yes, Democrats have 11% gap and they are less seats in the Senate. (Reagan v Mondial to find a Pres. Election that lobsided)
Congress is pretty bang on
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But this shows Democrats even with the idiotic political correctness idiots are still way more popular than GOP. GOP is supressing voting as much as they can because it is toast if everyone votes.
Best thing is realistic thing to happen is for GOP to get creamed and then reevaluate.
The best actual thing to happen is for the election system to change to more proportional voting with single vote transfer. i.e. Preference voting in multiple seat areas...
For what it's worth, I'm not convinced that much of the GOP would actually behave like this if they didn't think they had to. And they only think they have to because re-election is their highest priority, not the country. They go along with Trump, a dangerous, childlike national embarrassment. So until and unless I learn otherwise, this moment is just an ugly stain on our history, a last gasp of an ideology that is doomed.
We have to get past this, in three months or four years. And then I'm afraid we'll have to deal with a Democratic Party that needs to look in the mirror, too. That's the next mountain to climb.