I know they’re going to win the election. The rigging and cheating has already begun. Not a single person has voted for Harris and she’s already the nominee.

KKKamala gets anointed in brilliant fashion.

Media is all in.

They’re starting to capitalize the Party! Truly Orwellian times.

I was kind of hoping Biden would take a stand from the Oval Office and let his voters and constituents know that he is not just some weak, husk of a human being, and push back against The Party. But no; as his last act of cowardice and corruption and lies, he reminds everyone who he has always been, and submits to the will of his party elites and donors. Now we have to pretend he is running the country for the next six months.

A sign of things to come in Biden’s little presser tonight. Biden didn’t step down for health reasons.

No answer, then?

The evasion is only a sign that you do not want to answer, but I suspect it is to hide a contradiction. The dissonance you feel occurs when two contradictory values are colliding, and I suspect these values are your love of power and party versus your sense of justice. In order to rid yourself of that dissonance you need to align them, either by ridding yourself of one of them, or to continue lying to yourself. The change will occur, but I hope it benefits your sense of justice more than your love of power and party. You only really need one of them.

I didn’t say they should. I’ve never imposed any rules. Why do you think it is ok to give someone power based on their race and gender?

I am outraged that people are given power based on race and gender, yes. You’re not?

I have a conscience. What does yours say about giving people power on the basis of their race and gender?

You don’t care about a race and gender-based selection process in politics?

Someone remarked about the similarities between the upcoming DNC convention and the 1968 one.

Back then Johnson backed out of the race, supposedly due to his poor showing in the primaries. The assassination of potential candidate RFK had left supporters disillusioned with the prospects. Given the recent statement of BLM’s opposition to the way Harris was coronated, against their democratic principles, can we expect to see some fireworks at the convention like they had in 1968?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention

https://blacklivesmatter.com/black-lives-matter-statement-on-kamala-harris-securing-enough-delegates-to-become-democratic-nominee/

For epistemology, sure, the knowledge of a thing requires process and relation. But being does not require our knowledge of it, and metaphysics is not epistemology.

Who says Christian family values aren't identity politics?

I'm not sure. But we don't champion people because of their race and gender, and for the same reason we don't disparage them on the same grounds.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor is bi-partisan and independent.

Unlike kings, the president cannot create an office. Offices are "established by law", or "Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers". (US Constituion Art. II, §2, cl. 2.)

It's racist and sexist.

People should not be appointed to office based on their race and gender.

Identity politics isn’t progress; it’s a reversion to a time when identity mattered more than thoughts, actions, and behavior. It harkens back to the time when the long-discredited notion of race was still in use, used as it was to maintain a sort of mental apartheid or segregation in order to justify real one.

Contrary to the narrative, it was Biden’s DOJ who acted like King, creating out of thin air an office with which to investigate his political opponents, like the kings of old. One can read Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion on the matter to see how this is so.

I thought it was annoying when Harris' critics panned her as a "DEI hire" when they should perhaps focus on her horrible politics. But in trying to discover whether in fact Kamala Harris was chosen for reasons of DEI, one can't help to find that "racial diversity" was a big concern for Biden when selecting a vice president, but only after promising he was going to select a woman.

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, said race had been essential to Mr. Biden’s decision.

“I think he came to the conclusion that he should pick a Black woman,” Mr. Reid said. “They are our most loyal voters and I think that the Black women of America deserved a Black vice-presidential candidate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/biden-harris.html
https://archive.ph/n12XY

The demands to pick a black woman are growing louder, and not just from black voters. Polling from a Politico/Morning Consult survey this week found 46% of Democrats say it's important for Biden to choose a candidate of color as his running mate. That's up from 36% in early April.

Former DNC Chair and 2o04 Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said he's witnessed an evolution in his own thinking in just the past two weeks.

"I haven't lived through a time like this since 1968," he said. Dean said prior to the past few weeks, he thought having a black running mate "would have been nice." Now he thinks it's critical.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875000650/pressure-grows-on-joe-biden-to-pick-a-black-woman-as-his-running-mate

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden committed Sunday to picking a woman for his vice president if he were to win the party’s nomination.

Speaking during a CNN-hosted primary debate with fellow candidate Bernie Sanders, Biden said: “There are a number of women who would be qualified to be president,” and that he would choose a woman as his running mate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/biden-woman-vice-president-131309

She was, in fact, a "DEI hire.

A lot more are calling it a coup than are claiming the earth is flat. What would you call it? The Dems lied for three years to hid Biden's infirmity, then stabbed him in the back. When Nancy Pelosi comes to you and says, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," and a letter is put out that you clearly didn't write, that's a coup.

I wager that this little story is not over. The 25th amendment is invoked by the vice president and the cabinet. The vice president is Kamala Harris. Now she is the candidate for president. That’s a real, third-world coup, and that’s how desperate they are.

Statism is collectivist. Not “collectivism is statist”. At least try to get it right.

I include on that your state collectivism, legal positivism, Keynesianism, activism. Your prevalence for organization is simply the manifestation of the fasces as you engage in politics.

One can’t understate how bizarre this is getting.

I knew it. Power at all costs. That’s the guiding principle. Fascism 101.

He wasn't removed, or threatened with the noose :rage: He was persuaded to retire rather than contest and made a principled decision in the interests of the greater good (although in my view about 6 months too late.)

I think it's utterly hilarous that Mike Johnson is threatening to sue the Democratic Party to force them to bring Biden back. They're upset over the $10million they spent on Biden attack ads and want their money back. Hilarious.

He was threatened with the 25th amendment if he didn’t drop out, according people close to the family. The party bosses and donors were mad he got trounced by Trump in that debate. It had everything to do with pure political power and cold hard cash, not principle, and especially not some concern for any greater good.

I disagree with you as well.

Oh dear. Accusation in a mirror. All you can do is accuse others of that which you are guilty. No case in point because you can neither make a case or point. Sorry, friend.

What we call “democracy” nowadays is dressed-up oligarchy, modelled on the Roman republic. There is a ruling class, not a body of free and sovereign people.

Exactly. Your entire political philosophy.

Better than your fascism. The only standards you have are double standards.

Contesting an election is quite common in the 21st century, but removing a presumptive nominee, forcing him to step aside, and replacing him with someone else isn’t. Do you think the primaries mean nothing? Why bother going to the booth if your vote is null and void?

Repeat Party slogans. “Overturn an election!” Literally overturns an election. “But it’s ok when we (D)o it, because when we take power, one of the biggest polluters on Earth is going to save the environment.”

Top Dems threatened to forcibly remove Biden from office unless he resigned, set him up to fail at Trump debate: Sources

Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened Joe Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he stepped down, sources told The Post.

The well-orchestrated “palace coup” to stop the faltering president seeking re-election has been in place for weeks, but stubborn Biden fought against it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family told The Post Monday.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/22/us-news/top-dems-threatened-to-remove-biden-unless-he-resigned/

Remember these pieces of shits as they deny the will of their voters.

How dare you squash my conspiracy theory.

They are not instantiated until they are written down, or uttered in language. Only then can one point to it and say “that is an idea”. Even then, though, what they are pointing at is words, symbols, and nothing beyond those. Further, no idea exists until those symbols are read, understood, and considered. I’m afraid “ideas” have no ontology.

Notice that the resignation letter isn’t on official Whitehouse letterhead, and he apparently resigned by X post, which has been ran by social media handlers for years. Does anyone really believe he resigned?

Things are falling into place quickly. Biden—at least we think it was Biden—resigned by tweet. Harris has been endorsed by Dem elites. Delegates voice support for her. The apparatchiks are already out praising Biden’s self-sacrifice. All of this within an hour. You can’t help but admire the craven political ruthlessness of that organization.

The coup was a success.

Disgusting.

I’d love to see the range of your moral compass, if it isn’t just a fallacious and bad-faith sponge. Tell me what he did wrong, then.

I’m sorry I cannot really respond because my eyes gloss over as soon as I see your name, for some reason.

You're talking about the procedure.

But the reason given does sound entirely democratic to me. People don't want to vote for him, therefore he shouldn't run.

No, it sounds stupid. If people don’t want to vote for him, they shouldn’t vote for him. But they did. Nullifying people’s votes is anti-democratic.

That’s exactly what you lot said in 2016, and you were wrong. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now. Repeating the lies isn’t going to make them any more real.