RFK Jr just picked a well-known far-left activist as his running mate. And his famous last name might pull some VERY low info dem-leaning voters. So all in all, I'd say he takes more votes from Biden than Trump.

Consider two types of swing voters:
Type A: left-leaning voters who are pissed off about Biden, don't want to vote for him, but absolutely cannot bring themselves to vote for Trump.
Type B: right-leaning voters who are dissatisfied with Trump, don't want to vote for him, but absolutely cannot bring themselves to vote for Biden.

I'd argue that there are far more voters of Type A than of Type B, and RFK Jr offers them an alternative.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Apr 1 2024 03:29pm

Isn't she a billionaire and massive donater to his campaign?

Yes, she's the ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin and her estimated net worth is around $400m.
So picking her solved any funding issues RFK Jr's campaign might have had, but also missed the opportunity to position himself as a true centrist alternative.

what a fraud

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1783184198477508785

Four more years. Pause.

The New York Times today released a blistering statement blasting Biden for his lack of media access:
https://www.nytco.com/press/a-statement-from-the-new-york-times-on-presidential-news-coverage/



For how much the MSM loves to cry about Trump's alleged "violations of democratic norms" and "attempts at undermining the free press", and considering how much they ran intereference on Biden's behalf to get him into the WH, I find it hilarious how they're now admitting that Biden is guilty of very similar transgressions.

rekt

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4634560-white-house-considers-admitting-some-palestinians-gaza-refugees/

Lmao, it's almost as if Biden and his Democrats are begging for a landslide defeats at the hands of Trump.

Also, isn't it kinda obvious that this whole principle of bringing Palestinian refugees to the US will spiral out of control once the precedent has been established? Sure, they're saying that the program is limited to the rather small number of Palestinians who have made it out of Gaza and who have family in the US, but it's extremely predictable that the pressure from the far left and the media will ramp up to drastically extend this program once it has been established. "What about the people inside of Gaza who have relatives in the US? What about the children? And if we're bringing in children, we have to also bring in their parents and siblings, don't we?" And so on and forth. By now, we really should be aware of the script.


This policy would predictably lead to a redux of the events in Europe in 2015. I still remember when a few thousand Syrian refugees were stranded at the central station of Budapest during the summer of that year, how there was a big tug-of-war in Europe over them. Then, Merkel announced that Germany would take them in as a "limited, one-off" humanitarian gesture. Welp, nine years later, there are some 4+ million "refugees" from all over the Middle East, South Asia and Africa in Germany, with over a quarter million more of them arriving every year, putting a gigantic strain on our housing market, our social security systems, our healthcare system and our schools as well as being vastly overrepresented on all sorts of violent crime, particulary rape, knife attacks and homicide.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 1 2024 04:22am

I think avoiding tough interviews is a little different than Trump embracing the Stalinist "enemy of the people" line against journalistic outlets and calling any critical story "fake news". It's just laughable to equate Biden's behavior to Trump's.



A bad idea practically and politically. His people are trying to thread this needle but the fodder something like this offers to the other side is not worth the votes he would gain in Dearborn Michigan(high Arab-American population here).

Many of the people working for him are overly critical of Israel and overly sympathetic to Palestinians, so I think that's where this comes from. Look at the Pod Save the World podcast bros(who worked for Obama)... they would like Israel to agree to a ceasefire even if Hamas won't accept one that involves releasing hostages. Democrats under 50 simply can't look at this issue rationally.

Different, yes, but both types of behavior are highly corrosive to the separation of powers (by weakening the fourth estate's ability to hold the government accountable).



Agreed. The thing is just that Biden is clearly running a very "presidential" administration in which these out-of-touch aides have outsized influence on the policy and the priorities.
It also signals that Biden and his inner circle are inclined to double down on their pandering to the far left, rather than pivot to the center as we're heading into the general election campaign. (Something that Trump recently did on abortion.)

Speaking of far left lunacy: a federal agency just released a new guidance which says that denying a biological male access to the female bathroom would constitute "workplace harassment":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/29/eeoc-workplace-harassment-guidance/


For a president who has the worst approval ratings of any incumbent at this stage in their term in 70 years, Biden's inclination to double down on the agenda which made him this unpopular is definitely... remarkable.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 2 2024 06:58pm