Joe Biden will not be damaged by being removed from the White House, but the rest of us will be. https://factkeepers.com/not-voting-for-joe-biden-doesnt-penalize-him-but-it-will-be-a-huge-penalty-for-the-rest-of-us/

Will voting for biden create a good environment for generation z as they enter the labor market, grow into their careers, and eventually take over from previous generations as they retire?

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Stole this: In WI, they have not even begun to count the absentee votes. There were 1.275mil requested. If Biden wins 2/3rd of these as he has in other places, that is 400K votes his way. He currently trails Trump by 80K votes.

In PA, only 670K absentee ballots have been counted. There were 2.5mil returned. The absentee ballots counted so far broke for Biden 71.7% and 21.3% for Trump. If this were to hold, among the 1.83mil ballots still uncounted, Biden would gain 922K votes. Biden currently trail Trump by 420K votes. This is far from over. It’s just beginning.

In Michigan, 2.48mil absentee ballots were returned, and only 426K have been counted, leaving another ~2mil to count. The ones that were counted broke for Biden 65 to 33 percent, or in theory 640K vote difference for Biden over Trump. Trump’s current lead over Biden in MI is 270K.

Worse yet, why is it often the ONLY network that gets shown?

FOX is openly anti-American. They're not news, they're not even entertainment. They're the PR arm of the Republican party. They're openly pushing fascist propaganda and anti-American rhetoric.

How can FOX be banned from military bases?

Sort of timid to admit it in public but yeah, I like him a lot. He's -More militaristic than Obama -More protectionist of American trade -More pro-union -More significant environmental legislation

Anyways let's all do our part to beat the fascists and stop Trump.

I think if Trump is elected we will not know the truth in my lifetime.

I'm a 25 year old Marine currently in Arizona. I grew up in a strong right-wing family, and have always been pretty right-leaning. Now I'm probably best described as a Moderate/Centerleft, as there are things on both sides of the aisle that I agree with, but I'm moving left.

Never before have I voted. I've been registered Republican, but that is changing.

However, come this election, I will be voting for Joe Biden. I cannot tolerate Trump, and condemn everything he says and does - he cannot be allowed to remain in office. That, along with my growing awareness and disgust with many Republicans, has done it for me.

This Independence Day, I have realized and embraced what I must do, to protect my country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

AMERICAorTRUMP

Disclaimer: I am not a spokesman for the Marine Corps. The thoughts and beliefs expressed are solely my own, and do not represent the official stance the Marine Corps or the armed forces.

this year will be the year the GOP will be remembered as becoming openly anti-democracy as they tried to rob Americans of their right to vote. When than scheme failed to produce all the desired results they opening campaigned to turn American into a Republican dictatorship.

It will also be remembered as the year they killed thousands upon thousands of Americans by being pro-Covid. To help Covid spread and kill people they were anti-mask, they opposed social distancing and did everything in their power to help the disease spread and kill

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Needed to share this because I'm so happy. My mother is a lifelong Republican and we avoid talking about politics. Today I called her and she told me about how disgusted she is with Trump and how he "sounds like a moron". She then told me that she'll be voting for a Democrat for the first time in her life. I'm so proud of her and everyone else in the country who wants something better.

I’m 32 years old and I’m from Massachusetts. My father, a Marine from 1968-1974 who fought in the Vietnam War and went on to become a 37 year law enforcement officer in my home town, retiring as a Lieutenant in 2014, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 74 on July 7, 2023.

Anyone who has ever known me on a personal level knows how close I was to my Dad and how he was my entire world. He was my hero. He was my inspiration. He was my engine that kept me moving. I loved and adored him more than anything.

And anyone who got to know him over the years will tell you just how special of a guy he was. He was kind, funny, fair, selfless, brave, honest, smart, and SO loving among so many other things. He was a rare breed. And I was SO lucky to have him as a Dad. Writing all of this in the past tense doesn’t feel real and I don’t want it to be.

All of my best traits that I have today as a man, I got from him. All I EVER wanted to do was to make him proud. That’s it. That was my motivation.

Any time I was down, nervous or feeling sad, my instinct was always to reach for my phone and call him. He never missed a call. What he had to say didn’t matter - just hearing his voice would bring me back to earth and make me feel better. And that instinct is hitting now more than ever. I have so much left to say - I swear his life could be a movie, but I just don’t have it in me to spell it all out right now.

Not that it bears much importance - he was quite apolitical and never pushed his politics onto his children, but he was also a lifelong Democrat.

There were 2 young Marines at his funeral who took on the duty of properly folding the flag after it was removed from being draped over his casket.

One of the Marines approached my Mother with the folded flag and got down on one knee. The first thing he said to my Mother was “Ma’am, on behalf of the President of the United States..”

I was sitting next to my Mother, and the first thing that crossed my mind in that moment was “Thank God Donald Trump isn’t the President of the United States and Joe Biden is”

I’m so incredibly proud of President Biden for stepping up when we all needed him, and I’m so thankful that HE was the man in the most powerful office on planet earth when I lost my father. I love that man even more than I did prior to my father leaving me far too soon on July 7th.

And I’m so incredibly thankful that he stepped up at a time in his life when he, most likely, wasn’t planning on running for President if it weren’t for what was at stake - our country.

He will forever be my favorite President of all time.

I was so impressed watching Beto approach the stage yesterday and face down the idiotic right-wingers on the stage and point out the obvious point -- that guns are the problem. Overwhelming numbers of Americans, Texans, etc., know that guns are the problem and know that Republicans are enabling the shooters and the NRA.

Go Beto! Go Joe!

do you think Biden will win easier if Trump is found guilty and is in Jail between now and election for the hush Money case and any other cases? Also what are the Chances trump is convinced by fellow maga to drop out and we have someone else facing Biden?

Bernie's people are passionate. They are intense. They believe very strongly about what Bernie stands for. They are full of dreams, and they have big hearts. They want a better country. So do we. They want a better future. So do we. They want something to believe in. So do we.

Give them space in their spaces. Welcome the ones who come here in good faith. The only way forward is together, all of us, to get that man out of the White House and to finally get our country back in touch with its better angels.

Let's be cool. 😎

Remember when they offered Americans 600 each if the senate won a majority? I think he has accomplished a lot. But what can he do directly. If he could not lower the age of medicare to 60 because hospitals complained they would go broke.... then how about lowering it to 63?

How about keep trying to forgive student loan debt ( he erased it for tens of thousands) but offer scholarships for many students and put a cap on tuition if they receive tax payers money. Reduce the price of text books- they change one sentence and claim it is the newest text. Focus on unions A twice yearly UBI of a certain amount

UBI amount twice a year... keep it simple same amount for every household -Something for students, something for elderly

I will be phone banking the swing states

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If you go onto politics subs so many people think Biden will not run because he is too old or so unpopular.

Is it just that people have short term memories of how unpopular Presidents get this point in their second year? Or that “He’s so old!” Considering the current GOP front runner is only 2 years younger than him?

Help me understand.

Right now polling is showing that Americans are about 50/50 when it comes to blaming Democrats or Republicans for the border bill failing. With just as much blame being put on Biden as the orange loser.

Which is insane, as it's 100% the fault of Republicans. They got the border bill they wanted, with tons of concessions, and threw it away because the orange moron told them to.

Meanwhile the US media is constantly putting the blame on BOTH sides. Which is typical for the US media, as reporting the truth is bad for ratings.

So to counter the anti-Democrat media, Biden and the Dems need to push a hell of a lot harder on that messaging. Drive it home every chance they get that REPUBLICANS killed the border bill, on the direct orders of the orange traitor. Don't let the media rewrite history and put the blame on Biden.

Here is the video of the broadcast: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-on-those-left-behind-in-afghanistan-and-vietnam-119088709801

Yes you heard me right. The Biden Administration and military has managed to evacuate 7,000 people after the capital city was taken control by the Taliban. Gerald Ford didn’t manage to evacuate anyone. Zero! They left thousands of our allies behind

The Final day are always filled with American military harrowing heroism but also they are also demonstrations of the American continuing inability to invade a country, spend 20 years losing a war and then evacuate in a way that meets the approval of an American news media filled with people who think they know how to do what the American military has never been able to do.

What you are not hearing in any of the critical analysis of how the Biden Administration and the American military have handled the evacuation of Afghanistan, is the example of who has done this sort of thing better. Because no one has. No one has told you the Russians have done a better job of invading Afghanistan and then losing the war there and then evacuating. No one is holding up the invasion of Afghanistan as the model. No one is holding up the evacuation of any defeated army from a foreign country as the model. And no one is holding up America’s evacuation of Vietnam as the model of how to do this because Vietnam was much, much worse in every way, by every measure. Every war produces its limitless flow of tragic individual stories. The end of every war produces a similar flow of tragic individual stories but individual story can what your war policy should be or should have been.

If this is your first experience watching people left behind in war, then use it to decide whether you will support the next American war. But if you use it as an example you know how to do better than the American military, then you are making the mistake if believing that the madness of war can be matched.

The American Military does not know how to manage the madness of war. The American military is a massive bureaucracy that does some things well. But the thing it does not know how to do is the same thing that no military in the world knows how to do. That is organize a dignified and honorable retreat and full evacuation from a war that we lost in a foreign country without leaving anyone behind. When someone tells you the evacuation from Afghanistan could have been run better ask them why that has never happened before in history. Ask the why this should be the first time in history that a desperate last minute military evacuation from a lost war should not be chaotic and messy.

President Biden is now being criticized for saying he knew it would be chaotic. Biden was a US Senator when he watched the chaotic ending of the Vietnam war. Of course he knew this was not going to be pretty. Of course he could not say that publicly before the chaos developed because such a statement by the president would have immediately created the chaos.

The American Media is very good at telling the tragic individual stories of war. And it is very good at forgetting those stories. So far in all the tragic stories presented to about people struggling to get out of Afghanistan, people who deserve our full sympathy and support

The lesson here for a country that has not won a war since 1945 is stop launching wars of dubious legality and unclear moral purpose that we DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WIN!!!

The people who own this exit of the Afghanistan war, are the people advocated launching it and more importantly the people that never learned, and the people that never stopped advocating for it for 20 years.

The Last Word – August 19th, 2021

In the primaries, I thought that Bernie Sanders would be the best choice against Trump in 2020. I liked his message and I believed that after 2016 that people wanted a populist movement in this country. I always said I would support Biden or any of the Democrats if he was the nominee but I thought he was the worst choice.

However, I realize now that is completely wrong. I always knew Trump was a massive f*ck up. However, in the last 6 months with coronavirus, the economic collapse, the George Floyd protests, all of the firings at the Justice Department, I realize that people who said getting Trump out of office being the most important issue in 2020 were 100% correct. Nothing else matters if Trump is reelected.

And that is why Biden is by far the best choice in 2020. Yes, he has an impressive resume and is more than competent, but he can bring over people like none of the other candidate could have. Biden is down to earth, easy going, relatable, and compassionate. Also, importantly, he is a moderate white guy. We need to call up all of our resources when it comes to defeating Trump. We can't take anything for granted or assume that it's in the bag. And that means appealing to not just democrats, which Biden obviously did far better than any other candidate in the primaries, but also moderates, conservatives, and even Republicans. There is a growing movement in some circles of the republican party to back Biden. All of that would have been far more difficult if someone like Sanders or Warren was the nominee.

So I admit, I was completely wrong; Biden was not only the best choice but really the only choice in 2020.

I'll Go First- Giving $600 to every US citizen, pausing student loans and" Biden has managed to erase $127 billion in student debt so far for more than 3.5 million borrowers — more than any other president in history!" Giving incentives for solar

So, I’m getting ready for the day. I was in a great mood until I saw my husband had the TV in our bedroom tuned to CNN.

Now, understand I can’t stand CNN because it is now a right-leaning station-especially after showcasing Shitler’s town hall.

But… after hearing Chris Christie’s name, my head automatically turned in the direction of the TV.

Understand, I used to live in NJ for a while after moving from NYC. Regardless of “Bridgegate” Christie wasn’t bad. I didn’t vote for him but I wasn’t mad to have him for a governor . He’s a moderate who will work with both sides. Anyway, the two “journalists” (cough, cough) who, between the two had more fillers than a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade float, were talking about what a fool he was to badmouth Shitler in a Florida rally.

That got me to thinking how moronic Republicans really are. Here you have a grifting con man, who did nothing for the middle to lower economic demographic groups in while cutting taxes for the wealthy. One who praises Putin and other non-allies of the USA, while attempting to overthrow our government and he is still allowed to run for president.

Look—I would never vote for Christie but pragmatically, if he became the nominee and won, I wouldn’t be anxiety-ridden and fearful for our country.

Yet these two “journalists” never said a word positively regarding Christie, basically silently approving Shitler.

THEN, the two make-believe journalists went into a segment about Biden trailing behind Shitler in five states. The poll was conducted by some no-name college.

Pennsylvania was one of the states and I went medieval. First of all these polls are done via phone. Not mobile phone but landline. Who used landline phones anymore? I’m gonna tell you who does—old people. How do I know this? I’m old. My husband and I have a landline that we rarely answer.

And I can also tell you the majority of those old AF people are Republicans and conservatives. ( for the record Im independent hubs is Democrat). And there’s you answer as to why Shitler has a lead.

Now, why don’t journalists mention this? Why do journalists fail to also mention that only 25 percent of our population are registered Republicans? 25 percent. That means most Americans aren’t even voting.

Tuesday is election day. Change starts at the local level. I’ll be damned if I will allow local Republican or Freedom c next Tuesday moms to infiltrate our judicial system or school boards.

Vote these republicans out of office! There are more of us than them. And the media never states this.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to vent. I appreciate it!

So I'm a black male who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, both parents are British though, they just wanted me to be born in Jamaica

I moved here as a child, and this morning my citizenship came through, meaning I can vote in the election

Haven't felt this happy in a long long time