The people we are up against have no morals at all. That’s why they supported a lying bigot and why they supported the insurrection. Cassidy Hutchinson simply verified what we already knew: most of the major players backing Trump knew that his election claims were a lie, but they valued staying in good graces in Trump world and with Trump voters more than their integrity. They have zero character, zero integrity. The reason we narrowly escaped a coup in the last presidential election is because a handful of republicans overseeing elections in key states stood up to Trump. Federalism actually helped us to some extent. However, they learned from their failures last time. They now have full on Trumpers running for positions overseeing elections who will certify Trump won regardless of whether or not it’s true. They have demonized the Democratic Party to the extent that they can justify it to themselves and they simply care about retaining power. We can’t afford to be attacking our own leadership when we are facing this kind of opposition and the consequence of losing is losing our democracy.
Person behind viral anti-Biden tweet admits it's misinformation — but is keeping it up 'because it's Biden'
As CNN's Daniel Dale reports, the tweet in question used grainy footage of Biden awarding the veteran the Medal of Honor to falsely claim that he placed it on backwards, even though clearer footage shows that the medal was placed correctly.
"The post that generated more than 2.9 million video views was published on Twitter on Wednesday by an obscure account that has sharply criticized Biden and promoted conspiracy theories," notes Dale. "Anti-Biden commentators with six-figure followings then amplified that account's inaccurate tweet, some of them adding their own assertions about how the video supposedly demonstrated that Biden is declining." Dale tracked down the person who made the viral tweet and they acknowledged that "it's the way the medal is and it's not backwards."
The person who pushed this said that it was justified “because it’s Biden and he deserves the scrutiny”.
Henry Cuellar and the Eastern District of Kentucky aren’t going to determine whether choice is the law of the land. It appears that an awful lot of people here somehow believe that choice is going to come down to Henry Cuellar’s vote and the Eastern District of Kentucky. That belief is almost certainly false. President Biden and D leadership should have realized that optics would be more important than reality to an awful lot of people who would say that they are democrats or lean left or are progressives. It was a bad decision.
Until Trump and republicans added these extremists and SCOTUS gave its disastrous decision, we believed that SCOTUS was where abortion rights would be decided. Now, it will be decided by Congress. I backed Cisneros over Cuellar in numerous diaries because the US House of Representatives is close and with redistricting and gerrymandering, and it is possible that codifying Roe might not pass the US House of Representatives by one vote. It has a non-zero probability, and, therefore, it is NOT a risk that leadership should have taken, especially when we saw a leaked copy of the draft. The right of full bodily autonomy and reproductive rights should not be risked at all. I understood the reasons I suspect leadership relied upon to lead them to back Cuellar and I refuted them in my diaries. Cuellar holds a powerful position because of his seniority which is decisive in appropriating funds for important projects or policies and it would be helpful to not have an opponent in this position, but couldn’t he be booted from there if he refused to back important policies? It was a mistake and I don’t doubt that. However, the likelihood that it would be decided upon one vote is tiny and how tiny is based upon what our voters choose to do.
I don’t claim that the deal President Biden backed is a good one. Obviously, the position involved is lifetime and US attorneys have a four year term. Let’s be clear, simply because a woman happens to live in a really backward area should not and must not mean that she doesn’t have full bodily autonomy, full reproductive freedom period. While these deals aren’t uncommon, republicans wouldn’t have made such a deal with choice on the line. However, choice is likely to be decided nationally by Congress if our voters show up. President George W Bush was / is an avid forced birther and nominated similar judges. Caldwell was nominated by President Bush and she is not a great and heroic judge who rules for choice. The different between two anti-choice judges isn’t great. She was born in 1956. Barring an actuarial anomaly, she may live another 16 plus years. She has said that she won’t leave her post until she can get it filled by Chad Meredith. While it is possible that the Democratic Party will hold the White House for the next 16 years, it seems pretty unlikely. At this point, it is certainly much more likely than not that Meredith will replace Caldwell whether it happens now or later. However, later, we won’t get anything for it. Now, we can get something for it. Remember, the way that the composition of the US Senate is determined greatly favors the Republican Party. It is not easy or likely for the Democratic Party to hold the US Senate. If our voters don’t show up in sufficient numbers because we decided to trash the party and its leaders, then the Eastern District of Kentucky will have a voice in deciding choice there. However, if that happens, then we have this problem in many places and we have an even greater issue confronting us.
We can’t absolutely determine what our leaders do. They have agency. Our voters vary. Some are progressive, some are pragmatic progressive and others are more moderate or even conservative. Some will like decisions that others vehemently disagree with. Our leaders are weighing complex policy choices and options with information that we don’t have and with a responsibility that we don’t have. We can decide what we do. We will NOT be completely happy with our leadership. Some people are DETERMINED to be unhappy with our leadership because they believe it keeps the leadership motivated. It is irresponsible to decide to not do everything we can to get as many democrats elected as possible and to not choose the most progressive democrat who is likely to win or who has the best chance of winning. This includes voting.
We self-identify as democrats or progressives or people who generally lean toward the left. If we trash our political party or our party’s leadership, then those who are less political but open to persuasion will think, “if person A who is a democrat doesn’t support or like their party or its leadership, then why should I support and vote for the Democratic Party and its candidates?” They will understand that the members of the Democratic Party choose its leaders and if democrats think these leaders are terrible, then it implies that the members of the Democratic Party are terrible or at a minimum made terrible choices for leaders. Trashing the Democratic Party when it is all that is standing between us and fascism, when it is all that can keep us from losing our democracy is a really bad idea. Promoting a primary for President Biden if he chooses to run for re-election is almost certain to lead to a republican winning the White House. We have already seen the damage that can happen when a republican holds the White House.
Friday, Jul 8, 2022 · 7:02:40 PM +00:00
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It’s hard to understand clap harder when (1) I made criticisms of the choices of leadership [the problem here is that I included context which said that we should elect as many democrats as possible and why and that was a non-starter] (2) we are trying to retain our democracy and stop fascism.
In this context, if “Clap harder” is all you’ve got, you need to rethink your perspective. This is more than simply a war for the soul of America; it’s a war to retain our democracy and stop fascism from taking hold.
Friday, Jul 8, 2022 · 7:20:43 PM +00:00
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MargaretPOA wrote a post that actually took my breath away. There are people like MargaretPOA who can’t afford for the Republican Party to win! We have to win. Our voters must show up this midterm!
Friday, Jul 8, 2022 · 10:18:41 PM +00:00
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I am not going to stop complaining until he does ….
Nobody said to stop criticism. I am saying to criticize rationally and with context and perspective. It means to give him credit for what he is doing, not give overblown the world is ending and Biden is the devil views, understand the consequences of the words you choose, understand the consequences if you discourage people who might vote for us from doing so , understand what is at risk — choice and voting rights legislation should surely be enough but democracy itself is on the line. If we lose democracy, then there is no chance of correcting an anti-choice SCOTUS ruling, or anti-environment ruling, or getting voting rights passed. What do voting rights mean what you have fascism? Are you saying positive things about President Biden? Are you promoting a primary for a president who is a member of the Democratic Party? Because we will lose the White House if that actually happens.
Understand that NOT EVERY DEMOCRAT HAS YOUR VIEW ON POLITICS. Is every single democrat who has any difference of opinion with President Biden supposed to criticize him? Because that would mean pretty much every democrat would criticize him every day and that would overwhelm anything positive anybody says about him. Understand that you are NOT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. There are people like MargaretPOA who are counting on the Democratic Party holding the majority in both chambers.
Friday, Jul 8, 2022 · 11:33:01 PM +00:00
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The majority of diaries by Daily Kos staff which address President Biden and the Democratic Party and its leadership mostly criticize him and the party and its leadership. Much more space and many more words are devoted to criticizing him than express good things about him. It’s why it’s incredibly ironic that those who ask for criticism to be rational, balanced with context and perspective, are told that we are advocating for “Clap louder”. What we read here is NEVER CLAP FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish this website from a republican website in as much as both are dedicated to destroying him. If anybody asks for credit to be given to President Biden, then out come the ‘CLAP LOUDER’ accusations. This website is doing serious damage to the Democratic Party’s likelihood of retaining our majorities in Congress.