He’s guaranteed to lose now. I can’t see a universe where the mental gymnastics add up to deciding that this is a good idea. Don’t get me wrong, it’d be funny as hell. But I’m really not looking forward to the idea of more Trump.
The whole “family members as advisors” thing is really making me want to watch the biden admin arrested development spinoff
“Hunter convicted? Thank God he isn’t on the ballot, I’d never vote for him!”
I love it when a snarky neolib gets put in their place lol.
This is what I was holding to for a long time but then watching them all panic this week made me question it
Like, I thought you all knew! I thought you knew he was a vegetable and was going to lose and were just fine with that because you want to lose. But if that was the plan why freak out now?
Iron law of institutions. Joe Biden is merely a vehicle to power. Retiring Biden sidelines all the leeches and lampreys which have become attached to his gooch throughout his 60 year career in law and politics. All those people hold power today, and will not loosen their grasp one bit for the potental of having a more stable grasp on power tomorrow. Especially if their nepotism and personal connections don’t promise a cushy high salary do-nothing job under a new administration.
Joe Biden is merely a vehicle to power. Retiring Biden sidelines all the leeches and lampreys which have become attached to his gooch throughout his 60 year career in law and politics.
Absolutely.
It’s worth pointing out that his junior advisors have only been on board since pre-9/11. His most senior advisors were around for segregation, and thought Apartheid South Africa was cool and good.
This is partly why I suspect that this might be a generational factionalism in the Democratic machinery.
The old(est) guard and the functionally apolitical consultant/finance lanyards who honestly do just as well or better when the dems aren’t in power. With the young(er) generation and B-tier of operatives now realising that the damage being done, to the party and the recent supreme court decision etc, might be too much to simply wait for their turn
In a way, it feels like it mirrors some of the divisions within the capital class itself. There’s the bullish types who basically seem to accept that growth and the climate are fucked, and are now trying to rip the copper wiring out of the walls of the global economy while they can since they likely won’t be around when it tips into collapse. And then there’s the equally self-interested ‘activist’ capital class looking to keep the game going with green tech and new models for economic extraction etc because they want their gilded age too but know the old models won’t last long enought for them to get theirs.
The old(est) guard and the functionally apolitical consultant/finance lanyards who honestly do just as well or better when the dems aren’t in power. With the young(er) generation and B-tier of operatives now realising that the damage being done, to the party and the recent supreme court decision etc, might be too much to simply wait for their turn
This is part of why I think there’s a huge liberal panic about how Trump being president again will destroy all of democracy or whatever. Because part of the Project 2025 stuff involves firing vast leagues of lanyard dorks and replacing them with hogs. Who knows if that would actually happen, but that’s mostly afraid of losing their jobs.
Exactly. It’s not about ‘democracy’. It’s about the right building a fortress within power structure of the country that excludes the bipartisan/democrat lanyard class.
Oh they’re running him. They’re running him and guilting you by claiming that anyone who doesn’t vote for him is a fascist.
It’s wild how codependent these parties are on each other to justify their own existences
Two sides of the same mechanism, working in harmony.
Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!
-Julius Nyerere
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
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It seems like the only people who can get access to him are a clique of his immediate family and long time advisors. There doesn’t seem to be an actual political party in the conventional sense. We’re dealing with weird dynastic politics and power cliques.
So, it sounds like it’s not so much “they”, the dnc, are going to run him again, as that Jill and Hunter are going to run him again, and the rest of us can hang if it means Hunter gets some pardons or whatever it is they believe they’re doing.
It’s all fucked, there’s nothing resembling a democratic process or even an organization behind this.
There doesn’t seem to be an actual political party in the conventional sense.
This seems like it has larger ramifications
I’ve been chewing on it for a while now. I don’t think the Democrats are a political party. The GOP is. As much as they’re weird mutants, they do have rigid party discipline, clear goals, and long-term strategies that have been extremely effective in realizing those goals. The fabled “Demographic shift” that was supposed to save the Democrats seems like fantasy now; The GOP has seized control of critical organs of government, entrenched itself to protect against electoral upsets, and can more or less rule by fiat via the SCOTUS.
Meanwhile the democrats have none of that. They’re a squabbling band of also-rans who couldn’t hack it in the GOP, lead by the coldest, most bloodless monsters on the planet. I think most Democrats are losers who had the narcissistic self-aggrandizement to be politicians, but lacked the courage or gumption to try to make it in the nazi-breeding alchemical furnace of the GOP. The Democrats are where these losers end up, pursuing safer, less taxing madness in the Democratic party. There are a few genuine moralists in there, too, who are misguided or fanatical enough to believe in the propaganda version of liberalism.
But as we can observe - There’s little meaningful difference between the parties. The GOP are just democrats who are honest about what America is and proud of it, while the Democrats lie to the public and possibly to themselves about their goals and desires.
And when you’ve got a “party” of cowards who can’t admit to themselves what they really are, and feel the need to make a superficial play of resistance to the GOP, you don’t have much to align on. So most of them are craven opportunists, you end up with New York and California where all the scum who would be GOP are Dems because that’s how they can access wealth and power. Their leadership are all Nazi liches of untold decrepitude and malice, so the Dems who actually believe in anything have no chance of pushing their agendas through. They’re all absolute slaves to capital. The party is just so shot through with contradictions that it can’t possibly advance any cohesive plan or enforce party discipline. They couldn’t even deal with Joe Manchin, whether he was the designated Judas Goat or not.
You can see it in the leadership - Obama wouldn’t codify Roe, Hilldawg ran with an anti-abortion VP, Pelosi stated there was room in the Dems for anti-abortion freaks, and Biden has been opposed to abortion his whole career and let Roe die without even token resistance. Meanwhile Abortion has been their most unifying propaganda asset for decades. It’s all a sham.
So you’ve got a couple of cliques of warlords - Obama, the Clintons, Pelosi, the Bidens, and whoever else isn’t too senile to function, trying to keep a lid on things while their minions jockey for access and power. Then you’ve got the vast swamp of absolute losers who think Sieg Heiling is tacky. And mixed in there are a couple of dorks who actually believe in something that isn’t just pure, nihilistic evil, even if they are still capitalists.
When are we going to decide on a Gang of Four style name for it, or are we just gonna call it the Biden Clique
