President BidenāsĀ reelection campaign is pouncing on former President Trumpās fundraising numbers, dubbing its political rival āBroke Donā on Thursday.
āNot a Winning Campaign: Broke Don Hides in Basement,ā the campaign wrote in an email. āTrump canāt raise money, isnāt campaigning, and is letting convicts and conspiracy theorists run his campaign.ā
Election filings made public Wednesday showed Trumpās 2024 campaignĀ brought in $10.9 millionĀ last month, while his joint fundraising committee raised nearly $11 million. It has about $42 million in cash on hand.
Meanwhile, Bidenās campaign operationĀ raised roughly $53 millionĀ in February, which gave it $155 million in cash on hand entering March.
both Trump and Biden should do the right thing and step aside
Biden is using the fall of Roe v. Wade to raise funds and he signed some executive order on womenās health research or something that amounts to very little when he could have used the same amount of energy and paper restoring womenās rights
Trump did nothing to advance the country forward and is fund raising on extreme far right comments such as christian ideologies
not allowed to vote but if was allowed to definitely would not vote for either corporate owned party
Biden is far from perfect and the people of the USA do deserve better choicesā¦ But to pretend Biden is anywhere near the vicinity of bad as Donal Trump is simply veiled simping for Trump
GOP speaking when they are ahead. āWeāre ahead because we are smarter and more moral than the idiot Leftists.ā
GOP speaking when they are behind. āBoth sides are the same.ā
Maybe Taylor Swift can explain it better: We are never ever ever getting different nominees.
These are the candidates. The end. And I would vote for a moldy cumsock if the alternative is Trump. But Biden has done surprisingly well given the hand (Congress and the supreme court) he was dealt. We could do so much worse.
Hmm. Iām interested in getting more info on this Moldy Cumsock candidate. What are their positions on abortion as healthcare, housing reform, and immigration reform? Who is their running mate? (I hope itās Skidmarked Underwear, Iāve heard good things about them)
Big proponent of debt discharge. Also their infrastructure plan involves large erections. Theyāve voted several times for beautifing the landscape. Their health plan encourages lots of pushups. Overall, itās a platform many people would fall to their knees for.
Ya know? I thought your previous comment would have beeny favorite one for today, but then you went ahead and whipped out this beautiful piece!
iām still workshopping it but i think itās a worthwhile endeavor. iām open to more re-writes or suggestions.
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Saying that Trump did nothing to help the country and that he should not run again is being a sycophant?
I wish you were correct, but you arenāt. The left is famous for its identity politics, which is precisely an in-group/out-group game. Also, the left is just as bad as the right when it comes to lacking nuance and brigading people who express ideas that the hive mind doesnāt like.
I would say that a very vocal, but hopefully tiny, minority on the left are very much caught up in that. Not all of us are. Unfortunately, in some venues/platforms they have utterly captured the mods, and in some cases, have completely destroyed any reasonable discussion (an example Iāve mentioned before is Boing Boingās comment section - itās reached cartoonish levels, and Iāve mostly stopped reading Boing Boing in recent years as a result. Itās almost a self-parody, not even joking.). I think the impression is that there are many more of these types of leftists than there really are.
Youāre getting hate but youāre absolutely right
I love the left and I donāt want Trump to put us all in concentration camps more than anyone else does. But even that being the case, Iāve been yelled at much more by people on the left for having an āincorrectā opinion than I have from the right.
Thanks, you summed it up nicely. Iām very committed, both personally and professionally, to the left in terms of social policy, but I recognize our tendency towards tribalism, doctrinaire language policing, and groupthink.
Also, you nailed it when you said that one of main differences between left and right is their degree of earnestness. Anyone who has watched the development of identity politics since the 1990s can recognize that the right is now just doing a bad imitation of the leftās rhetorical tactics. Thatās why they seem disingenuous: because most of them are acting out their impression of the so-called āradical leftā, but from the other side.
Whether you agreed with them or not, the right used to pride themselves on being the sober, fiscally conservative, āresponsibleā, establishment people, while the left were the loud, obnoxious ones screaming about identity and shaming normal people for their supposed āprivilegeā.
The rise of the Tea Party marks the beginning of the right-wing adoption of these left-wing identity politics tactics. The right has now become a radical reactionary movement rather than the small-c fiscal conservatives of the past. Watching the nuttiness on the right makes me think that the transformation happened largely because many middle- and working-class whites now see themselves as victims of the same race-based persecution that the left correctly complained about for decades, so theyāve just leaned into it.
All of this reminds me of Foucaultās assertion that ideologies are not about right and wrong, but rather about power. Thatās why we are in the middle of a culture war. Of course, we canāt let the oligarchs, the fascists, or the Christian Nationalists win, but the left is not entirely innocent either in the sense that we have demonized and alienated a very large segment of Western society. I donāt absolve myself, either. I have railed against the right, especially the religious right, in the past just as hard as anyone.
actually not on either corporate partyās side
bipartisan politics took my vote away so do not support either of those two parties
Did you know that Bidenās corporate tax reforms at the beginning of 2023, meant that Amazon went from getting a $1.2 billion tax credit to again paying a billion dollars per quarter? And that itās now up to $3 billion per quarter, comfortably more than theyāve ever had to pay before? And that heās using those corporate tax increases to fund his big-ticket priorities like student loan forgiveness?
Me neither. I didnāt know that shit at all, until a few days ago, when I was arguing with someone like you who was saying how much Biden loves the corporations.
Abortion rights canāt be changed by order of the president. It takes an act of Congress or The Supreme Court. Biden did what he could by allowing abortion pills to be sold by mail across state lines.
Can you explain exactly how Biden could have used āexactly the same amount of energy and paper restoring womenās rightsā? Be explicit and specific, please.
They absolutely cannot.
crickets
instead putting effort into this
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/18/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-and-announces-new-actions-to-advance-womens-health-research-and-innovation/
he could have just restored what the Supreme Court took away instead of signing executive orders for āmore research on the matterā
go to playbook for democrats - research this problem but never find solutions
would it not have been the same amount of work and paper signing? or does he just need something to run on and fundraise for?
It doesnāt work that way. The President cannot override a SCOTUS ruling - only Congress passing a law, or the Supreme Court reversing one of their own rulings, can do that.
Restored it how. Give specific, explicit steps. Donāt state a goal and then assume that he can set the goal and it happens. There are specific actions he would take to do this. What are they?
I remember when I was 14, too. Things arenāt as simple as you want them to be, champ.
Yeah, but they wonāt and the primaries are effectively over, so making this argument at this point is basically fascist propaganda.
You arenāt fooling anyone.
Now thatās not fairā¦ there are some conservatives here that might fall for his propaganda.
Whatever chief. Both sides are not the same.
The president is not a kingā¦
Thereās no reason for a sitting President to step aside and not run for a second term. Johnson did it in 1968 because, I think, a) he had already served part of JFKs term + his own term and b) he was tired of Vietnam.
Neither of which is applicable in Bidenās case.
Second, Biden canāt do anything to restore abortion rights, that is not in his power.
The Supreme Court struck down the ruling of a previous court, now itās on the House and Senate to either pass a new law or a new Constitutional Amendment. Neither of which Biden has anything to do with.
I would say being eighty years old is a fantastic reason to step aside lmao.