Biden officially announced his campaign

[pixy0stix]

Right, but those issues are something that we all face, as do his peers and colleagues. It's not unique to him. At some point those statistics all even out to any person the Ds nominate are going to have that against them, making the point moot.

[k3am]

I don’t care about the possibility of him getting covid. He’s old as hell. Retirement goals in this country are age 65, realistic or not. Why are we having people so far past that age running for what is arguably the most demanding job in the country?

[notreal]

Three of the last 5 presidents we had were all born in the summer of 1946 so we (the country) really need some change in who we see as presidential.

[mcsangel2]

May 11, 2023 21:29:21 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Right, but those issues are something that we all face, as do his peers and colleagues. It's not unique to him. At some point those statistics all even out to any person the Ds nominate are going to have that against them, making the point moot.

Yeah, this was kinda my point too.

[mpm]

May 12, 2023 9:20:33 GMT -5 notreal said:

Three of the last 5 presidents we had were all born in the summer of 1946 so we (the country) really need some change in who we see as presidential.

I’d be mad about a 55-year old white male nominee too, tbh.

[basilosaurus]

I wish I could be as optimistic as this guy. SOrry for those who are paywalled. This is the biggest takeaway:

"This cycle, that hope is well founded. Republicans are doing everything wrong. They are talking to their voters about Trump’s personal grievances and about boutique culture-war issues that their own base does not much care about, such as the state of Florida’s “war on Disney.” At the same time, Republican leaders are confronting Democratic voters with extremist threats on issues they care intensely about: bans on abortion medication by mail, restrictions on the freedom of young women to travel across state lines, attacks on student voting rights, proposed big cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the GOP debt-ceiling ransom demand. Republicans offer no economic message and no affirming vision, even as they make new moves to police women’s bodies and start a land war in Mexico. They are well on their way to earning a deep, nasty defeat—and the smell of that defeat may be an additional draw to the polls for the Democratic-leaning constituencies that will inflict it."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/

[noodleoo]

May 18, 2023 3:11:30 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I wish I could be as optimistic as this guy. SOrry for those who are paywalled. This is the biggest takeaway:

"This cycle, that hope is well founded. Republicans are doing everything wrong. They are talking to their voters about Trump’s personal grievances and about boutique culture-war issues that their own base does not much care about, such as the state of Florida’s “war on Disney.” At the same time, Republican leaders are confronting Democratic voters with extremist threats on issues they care intensely about: bans on abortion medication by mail, restrictions on the freedom of young women to travel across state lines, attacks on student voting rights, proposed big cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the GOP debt-ceiling ransom demand. Republicans offer no economic message and no affirming vision, even as they make new moves to police women’s bodies and start a land war in Mexico. They are well on their way to earning a deep, nasty defeat—and the smell of that defeat may be an additional draw to the polls for the Democratic-leaning constituencies that will inflict it."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/

Paywalled for me so I can't read it, but what the what to the bolded? Is that something I missed?

[fortnightlily]

May 18, 2023 8:42:22 GMT -5 noodleoo said:

May 18, 2023 3:11:30 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I wish I could be as optimistic as this guy. SOrry for those who are paywalled. This is the biggest takeaway:

"This cycle, that hope is well founded. Republicans are doing everything wrong. They are talking to their voters about Trump’s personal grievances and about boutique culture-war issues that their own base does not much care about, such as the state of Florida’s “war on Disney.” At the same time, Republican leaders are confronting Democratic voters with extremist threats on issues they care intensely about: bans on abortion medication by mail, restrictions on the freedom of young women to travel across state lines, attacks on student voting rights, proposed big cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the GOP debt-ceiling ransom demand. Republicans offer no economic message and no affirming vision, even as they make new moves to police women’s bodies and start a land war in Mexico. They are well on their way to earning a deep, nasty defeat—and the smell of that defeat may be an additional draw to the polls for the Democratic-leaning constituencies that will inflict it."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/

Paywalled for me so I can't read it, but what the what to the bolded? Is that something I missed?

Some state legislatures have tried to introduce laws preventing women from obtaining abortions out of state.

[Bad Dingo]

May 18, 2023 8:42:22 GMT -5 noodleoo said:

May 18, 2023 3:11:30 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I wish I could be as optimistic as this guy. SOrry for those who are paywalled. This is the biggest takeaway:

"This cycle, that hope is well founded. Republicans are doing everything wrong. They are talking to their voters about Trump’s personal grievances and about boutique culture-war issues that their own base does not much care about, such as the state of Florida’s “war on Disney.” At the same time, Republican leaders are confronting Democratic voters with extremist threats on issues they care intensely about: bans on abortion medication by mail, restrictions on the freedom of young women to travel across state lines, attacks on student voting rights, proposed big cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the GOP debt-ceiling ransom demand. Republicans offer no economic message and no affirming vision, even as they make new moves to police women’s bodies and start a land war in Mexico. They are well on their way to earning a deep, nasty defeat—and the smell of that defeat may be an additional draw to the polls for the Democratic-leaning constituencies that will inflict it."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/

Paywalled for me so I can't read it, but what the what to the bolded? Is that something I missed?

www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/idaho-most-extreme-anti-abortion-state-law-restricts-travel-rcna78225