UPDATE: Sunday, Jun 30, 2024 · 1:32:41 PM +00:00
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justmy2
One of the people I called out below has started to speak up. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has begun showing up on Sunday shows to clean up this statement made in the heat of the moment.
Did Hakeem Jeffries Just Open the Door to Replacing Biden?
The House minority leader did not answer directly when asked whether President Biden was the Democratic Party’s best messenger.
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“President Biden is scheduled to speak today around noon, as I understand it, in North Carolina,” Jeffries told AP reporter Farnoush Amiri Friday morning. “I’m looking forward to hearing from President Biden. And until he articulates a way forward in terms of his vision for America at this moment, I’m going to reserve comment about anything relative to where we are at this moment, other than to say I stand behind the ticket.
This Democratic instinct to look at polls and undermining their leader first and the backing away if needed is a huge issue. The idea that any voter would penalize you for standing up for your leader in June of an election year is just plain insane.
Elected Democrats like to say their unity is their strength, but far too many times they let the most extreme centrists drive their decisions. I assume Jeffries was trying to protect his swing district candidates, but he did the exact opposite, and now he is in clean up mode. I hope it is a valuable lesson.
There are an awful lot of pundits, consultants, and editorial boards that have apparently decided they know who should run for President, and the peasants that actually vote don’t know what they are doing.
And the crazy part is some people are actually paying attention to them!
So you may be asking, why is that crazy? Well, let’s just look back at their records. Surely, they have been making bold and accurate recommendations for as far as the eye can see, right?
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/carville-im-worried-077376
James Carville said Wednesday he is “worried” that President Barack Obama’s message about an improving economy could be turning off voters.
“I’m worried that when the White House or the campaign talks about the progress that’s being made, people take that as a signal that they think that things are fine and people don’t feel they ought to believe that,” the Democratic strategist said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
https://news.yahoo.com/news/carville-doubles-down-obama-not-going-win-election-134602999.html
September 16, 2011 - On Thursday, former political adviser and current CNN contributor James Carville dropped a bomb on the Obama administration, saying it was time for panic and that, on his current trajectory, President Barack Obama would not be re-elected.
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16747712/study-media-2016-election-clintons-emails
Study: Hillary Clinton’s emails got as much front-page coverage in 6 days as policy did in 69
A stark finding from an analysis of New York Times coverage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-kristol-knows-his-predictions-have-been-bad-but-hes-going-to-keep-making-them/2016/02/17/3a301680-d4d4-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html
Bill Kristol knows his predictions have been bad but he’s going to keep making them.
Like the time in 2006 when he predicted on Fox News that Barack Obama wouldn't win a single primary against Hillary Clinton. Or when he predicted that Obama would appoint then-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the Supreme Court. Or when he said repeatedly in October that Vice President Biden was about to jump into the 2016 presidential race. Or when he predicted a victory by Marco Rubio in New Hampshire earlier this month.
And don’t forget Mr. 6 More Months Friedman Units…
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/03/friedmans-follies
In 2001, Friedman advised the American citizenry to “keep rootin’ for Putin,” hailing the K.G.B. veteran as “Russia’s first Deng Xiaoping” and a strong force for reform. Three years later, Friedman announced in his most awkward prose that “I have a Tilt Theory of History’,” and called Russia “a huge nation” (this part checks out) “that was tilted in the wrong direction and is now tilted in the right direction” with regards to free speech, the rule of law, and the like. In 2007, Friedman finally noticed that Russia cannot even properly be termed a democracy and promptly wrote a column to this effect.
These folks are all now trying to tell you to that for the good of America, we have to ignore the will of the voters and trust their judgement, not Americans. Trust the judgement of the people that just keep getting things wrong for two decades? How.About….No.
And furthermore, they want to then dictate who will be the next nominee in a smoke filled back room vs the voters is beyond belief to me. Oh they aren’t saying it now, but you can bet there is consulting money, clicks, or some other incentive in it for them. They just need to get past the first step.
Then you have the never Trumpers in a panic. They literally got kicked out of their party because they didn’t know how to beat Donald Trump, and now they want to tell Democrats how to do it?
As some wise people once said, save the drama for your mama. We are trying to win an election over here. Go clutch your pearls somewhere else. We have the time nor the energy to install back braces on all of you.
Now let me end with this. Where are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries? It’s been 48 hours, and their silence is deafening. And at least in the instance of Schumer, it’s just another time where Schumer political instincts are more harmful to the cause than good. We are not talking about one man. We are talking about our rights and our democracy. Get out there and do your jobs. And if you don’t want to lead, resign and let someone lead that wants to do it.
Anyone participating in the charade that trying to replace the ticket (starting with the spineless Senators sending out messages through Claire McCaskill and others) will somehow make Democrats look better in the eyes of swing voters needs to turn off the West Wing. The idea is laughable on its face.
It will make Democrats look like the chaos caucus, that don’t know what they are doing, undermines and overrides their own voters, and are incompetent as an entire party for voting for Biden Harris. And that will convince swing voters that are open to voting for Trump to pull the lever for Democrats? Good luck with that.
Worry less, do more.
To everyone reading this, do not fall for the banana in the tail pipe.
We see through the noise. We know we are voting against Project 2025, and for democracy and our rights, not just one man. It’s time for the people that told us Barack Obama AND Donald Trump couldn’t win to sit this one out.
Grown folks are trying to get some work done, and save our democracy.