First Presidential Debate Megapost!
Here we go, the first Presidential debate between Biden and Trump begins at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.
How to watch it:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/how-to-watch-cnn-debate/index.html
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"According to parameters set by CNN in May, all participating debaters had to appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency and receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting.
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Edit And that's it! Thanks for watching everyone!
tl;dw:
Consensus is Trump didn't so much as beat Biden as Biden beat himself.
The real loser is CNN who failed to fact check anyone, and there were obvious fact checks on both sides.
If Biden is going to be replaced it has to be a huge name like AOC or Bernie. It’s too late to campaign anyone newer
The DNC would rather let Trump win than Bernie
Or AOC.
AOC technically won't be old enough until October 13th, which I guess isn't a problem for being sworn in in January. But I don't see people voting for someone who just qualified weeks before the election.
I think technically she's qualified now because she would be old enough when she takes office.
The larger problem is her gender and progressiveness. If Democrats switch horses now they need twice the amount of money and the most solid of supports.
Also, this is why we should have had a real primary. This would have come out months ago and he could have gracefully stepped aside.
Gavin Newsome? He's got name recognition and notoriety.
Plus, he's been moving to the right as quickly as he can for months, so the party should love him by now.
Nope.
Eh progress is a bus ride not an Uber. I'd rather a centrist than a fascist.
Draft Jon Stewart
Wish Bernie were an option, but he's got medical issues that make him ineligible.
Ineligible? Bernie could be on his death bed, he'd still be more "eligible" than Trump or Biden. Honestly, at this point, does the US even have eligibility requirements for POTUS?
Look, I agree with you. But the laws are already in place to require a certain amount of physical stability. In the current context, that's just plain nuts, I'd pick just about any other democrat over Biden. Who knows, maybe he'll reject the nomination (like he probably should). And we'll get AOC or Harris or something.
Gavin
The best we could get from the DNC would be to have Biden resign and Kamala step in... Technically she'd be "the incumbent"... She'd probably still lose though
I personally agree that one of those two being President would be great.
But then I think of the cold hard reality of who I share this country with. All the people out there who, in the face of Trump being Trump, can somehow be undecided or unlikely to vote. They just don’t seem like the type to get off their ass for somebody who will be characterized as extreme.
We here know they aren’t extremists. We know they’re basically centrists within the larger civilized world. But ignorance is a huge part of the problem for the US voters who are indifferent enough towards Trump that they aren’t already lining up to vote for Biden or anybody who takes his place.
Unlikely to vote= because there's no one worth voting for
Undecided= probably mostly non existent
Run a Bernie or AOC and pull far more "unlikely to vote" people off the bench than the handful of fence riders it'll lose
No one who was going to vote for Joe wouldn't vote for Bernie... It's not like anyone is voting FOR Joe, they're just voting against Trump, and if that means Bernie then so be it
Kamala Harris cannot be bypassed, if you do that say goodbye to the Black votes that you will need to win this. What you is a good old boy from the Midwest of the south to be her VP pick.
(almost) no black people care about Kamala.
In your opinion, as a white guy.
Harris doesn't have the support you think she does.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html
AOC? The same AOC that voted to prevent the rail unions from striking?
Ignorance is bliss, comrade
Bro.. AOC???? And I'm not stating this as a fact, but if Bernie became president and hiked up taxes for the wealthy, the wealthy will more than likely move their business to other nations. We need more jobs here and Bernie would cause job losses.
Oh no, the rich will keep doing what they've been doing for 50 years!
Bernie would tax the shit out of the rich and use that to create tons of jobs... Maybe not useless McDonald's jobs though... more like rebuilding the infrastructure jobs
I mean I'd hope so.. but not government jobs right? We don't need more government agencies and more government employees. We need more private sector jobs.
Government contracts to rebuild infrastructure would be won by private industry.
Why?
We need to eliminate/shrink the size of government.
Gotcha... I disagree, I think we need to eliminate corporate control of government
I agree with that too. Get money out of politics.
Well if we could do that, then all that's left is a government that serves the will of the people (assuming we still have a democracy). So in that case, the bigger the government the better.
Although in reality, I don't think we'd need nearly as big a government to fully serve the will of the people if corporations weren't mucking things up.
You are brainwashed if you think they will move their business to other countries. Number 1: they can’t. Number 2: moving to another country means they will lose the number 1 market in the world. Number 3: they still have to pay taxes on any money earned in the US.
They would move to another country to find cheaper labor...
Any company can leave the country.. wat.
Regulations and money are big factors as to why a U.S. company would move its operations to another nation.
Moving operations and moving your business are 2 different things. No one is going to stop doing business here. You are very naive if you think labor costs and taxes will kill businesses. Who exactly is going to sell products here if everyone works in India or China?
We just witnessed businesses killed in California from the minimum wage increase. And if not killed, job losses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-eQdjysM7I
What does that have to do with increased taxes? Again your business knowledge is severely lacking. Yes it’s very easy to scapegoat taxes and wages and claim that’s why your business closed when it was always poor business management. Payroll wages is tax deductible if you didn’t know.
That ice cream shop was established decades ago... many people in the area enjoyed going there. It had nothing to do with poor business management. Stop making excuses for taxing business owners exponentially.
lol poor business management. good grief.