Gavin Newsom is fine, but not nearly as good as Biden or even his predecessor as Governor of CA. Jerry Brown was a much better governor.

Gavin Newsom will do what voters want, but mainly because it makes him feel powerful. I remember seeing a new statue on Market Street in San Francisco when he was mayor; it had the artist’s name in little tiny letters and “GAVIN NEWSOM” in big letters.

The Constitution can’t be changed that easily. There’s no reason for the State of New York to give up the case, even if it were possible to do. And there’s no way to compel it, considering the issue is NY State law.

That’s not how Federalism works. The President is not a member of any state government, and has no immunity from state crimes. There’s no way to move this case from state court to federal.

Thrush understands the appeal of vouchers for parents who want a leg up for their kid. But, he told me, “we need to be looking at how we’re preparing all students to be successful, not just my student.”

This is a great example of how conservatives think. They are not inherently selfish; they think about how things benefit the larger group.

The difference is, they think of the world as a hierarchy with different groups at different levels. Anyone threatening that hierarchy is bad, so they defend it. When this man says “we’re preparing all students to be successful” he means white Christian students in his particular area. That’s part of his group.

You’re talking about Trump right? Here’s the transcript:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/read-biden-trump-debate-partial-rush-transcript/ar-BB1p2fcX

There’s a reason why most of Trump’s cabinet from his one term don’t endorse him for a second term. He’s nuts.

This is exactly how you do experiments in social sciences. You need one off events like a debate or Supreme Court decision. Gathering people in a room like this ensures they all watch the debate and don’t change the channel or something.

“Cope” is listening to talking heads and ignoring actual experiments like this one. Donald Trump loses among Latinos when people listen to him. That’s what this tells me.

Nope. This just tries to put the US back before the New Deal. Nothing is inevitable.

You know what I ask doomers like this? I ask “what have you done to make your town better to live in?” All politics is local, so if you really care you’ll be already doing something to improve your area. Inevitably doomers think someone else should “do something”. It’s never them that needs to step up.

Fucking vote if you won’t do anything else.

But I was told that all Biden’s answers were completely incoherent? You’re telling me that the media is making a big deal out of a few moments in the debate?! That’s never happened before!

Yeah, it’s called “felons”, “inmates”, “incarcerated individuals”. All those J6 guys who are locked up got little numbers on their shirts.

Exactly. Biden sounded a little confused and disjointed on a few answers, but always made his point. Trump sounds confused and disjointed literally 90% of the time.

They are both old af but Biden has done a good job as president and sounds like a normal dude most of the time. Trump sounded worse every year and ended his time in office by killing millions of Americans through inaction.

He did. He was also known as a gaffe machine. Just because you didn’t notice doesn’t mean everyone else didn’t.

No. Nazis should not have protected liberties because they reject the social contract, therefore they should not be protected by it.

Lol, by who? You, Chungus from the peanut gallery?

Give me a break.

Uh what? Of course he’s declined. He’s old, just like trump. Trump is also clearly not his former self, from 2016 or even 2020. They are old af and that’s not news.

The difference is that Biden did occasionally answer the question, and his answers were pretty good. Trump barely stayed on topic, let alone made sense. After the debate I know more about what Biden wants to do and nothing about trump’s policies.

For an undecided voter, Biden losing his train of thought or mumbling some words is not terrible because he always recovered on the next question. Trump started out ok but definitely ignored important questions (abortion, his criminal conviction, Ukraine, etc.). Biden said what he needed to and has room to improve in the next debate.

It’s already forgotten. No one cares. Biden has had a stutter since childhood. No one cares.

Why are you focusing on Biden? At least he’s answering the questions. Trump can’t answer the correct question.

He’s usually on the previous one. For one response Trump didn’t answer it at all and ended early. The moderator was like “uhh you have 80 seconds left”. That’s dementia. Biden’s hoarse throat is not.

Edit: another one “uhh sir, the question was about addiction. You have 67 seconds left.”

gerrymandered districts

The entire state elects Republicans because they want to. There are no gerrymandered districts. You voted for Donald Trump by 20% in 2020. All your Senators and US Representatives are Republican.

That’s why I think trump will go down in the polls as we get closer to the election. The American public genuinely did want trump to shut up when Biden said that. I hope Biden tells him to shut up again at this debate with the muted mics. It would make him go nuts.

Literally just say “I whooped your ass and I’ll do it again.” Trump would lose his mind. He never encounters people who say that to him. Everyone around him is a sycophant.

No, it’s time to vote. Fucking vote.

Attendance at his rallies is already down. He is already fading.