Tell that to our centrists. They hate our left more than our right.

To this point: for those who think that, do they think anyone else realistically could, at this point, other than Biden?

Literally anyone born after 1975.

Look, 45% of people are going to vote for the name on the D line no matter who it is. 45% of people are going to vote for the name on the R line no matter what. That last 10% is who you want to win over. And like, they’re tired of both of them. But Biden is the dude in office right now, so they’re gonna vote for the other one.

All Biden has to do is say “after some reflection, you’re right. I cannot serve at my best capacity. I’m going to step aside for the good of party and country,” and then they nominate literally anyone under 50. Hardcore democrats are going to vote for whoever is on that line, and middle America is going to see that and be like “that’s the honorable thing to do. I respect that. And I may not know who this new person is, but they’re not Trump” so democrats still have that tired platform without any of the baggage. They would cruise to retaining the presidency.

This is why Iive where the air hurts my face.

As if Schumer wouldn’t be wringing his hands about the whole thing and talking about institutions this and that.

Democratic senators are so lawful neutral it’s disgusting.

Pretty sure “but the democratic party still fuckin sucks” covers all that.

Eh, I’m of two minds about the strike. On the one hand, he got the rail workers their sick days after the fact. On the other, he really pissed me off and threw labor under the bus by making it illegal (again) for them to strike. You can’t be a pro labor president and take away labors most powerful tool.

I don’t know anything about the BBB.

100% with you on Gaza.

Then I’m saying “at least he’s not openly fascist but the democratic party still fuckin sucks.”

Stop confusing democrats/liberals with leftists.

Democrats will probably almost universally agree that he’s been a good president. Tribalism is a hell of a drug.

It’s the leftists that won’t. And speaking as a leftist, he’s done a lot better than I thought he was going to. He ended up pushing for more progressive ideas than I thought he would. Good for him. He’s been stymied by the courts and his own party on some of them. And that why I, as a leftist, think the democratic party is still (less) trash. They had a majority for two years. Did some stuff. Could have done more. You can be all “but but Manchin/Sinema” all you want, but I’ll bet all the money in my pocket against all the money in your pocket, than if Manchin and Sinema were to announce that yes, they’d vote to abolish the filibuster, there would be two other democratic senators who would come out and say no. And that’s fine as it relates to their world view. They’re liberals. They’re not leftists.

Base 12 crew represent.

10 isn’t the best base and I’m sick of pretending it is.

Those guards are class traitors 🤷‍♂️

Dude, Medicaid and Medicare are awesome. Why do you think seniors protect Medicare so fiercely? And Medicaid, for its faults with a lower number of providers, is still great coverage. I’d trade my high deductible plan for it tomorrow if i could.

I once dropped a table in a production database.

I never should have had write permissions on that database. You can bet they changed that when clinicians had to redo four days of work because the hosting company or whatever only had weekly backups, not daily.

So, I feel your pain.

I’m not terribly hopeful. I’m an older millennial. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve watched my friends grow up, get jobs, have kids, move to the suburbs, etc. They got a little bit of what’s theirs (obviously not enough, but still) and they want to protect it. They vote to protect their investment in their house and to keep their school district good. They’re nowhere near fascist like the current crop of republican politicians, but they’re scared and that leads them to voting more small c conservatively. You and I both know that republican policies are trash and that the values espoused in theory by the democratic party are better for them. But they finally made it. They’re prizing stability or better, because change is scary.

Will the super racist republican party base die out? Maybe. Probably. But they’re just going to be replaced by center right democrats. Sure, that’s better, but not so much better that it’ll fix all the problems we have. Maybe the gen-Zers can do something about it, but I’m afraid their political power will be dwarfed by the sheer size of the Millennial generation.

I’ve left a dozen or so jobs over my entire life. One because the job was eliminated, five or six because school was starting/ending, one because the manager was a prick, and the rest exclusively because I was offered more money.