MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
792 followers · 21381 posts · Server todon.eu
MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
792 followers · 21376 posts · Server todon.eu
MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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Kent Pitman · @kentpitman
349 followers · 280 posts · Server climatejustice.social

@JaneGray

The reason for Biden not to run isn't that he doesn't have his faculties. It isn't that he isn't doing popular things. It isn't that he has poor skills. It's a more subtle set of things.

First, and most important, he is at an age where he can't guarantee (even probabilistically) 5 more years of life. In an ordinary job, we don't fuss about that because they are not so important. But shifts if the balance of world power demand more than that. Look at what happened when RGB, who was healthy in most ways and quite a fighter, died at an inconvenient time. All the good things she did until the bitter end do not offset the nightmare of having her die at a time when we were in least control.

If Biden died, for example, very shortly before the election, there would be a constitutional crisis. Some would claim he had to simply be scratched from the ballot and that it needed to say only the GOP candidate and no one else. Others would push for the VP to step up and pick another VP, but the battle for VP is not the same as the battle for President. A VP is who the candidate trusts, not always who the public trusts. It would be a mess.

And if Biden died in office, the chain of succession would be a single person thin. The VP would become President, but if that VP were unavailable for surgery, or due to an accident, or due to a rogue action, the Speaker of the House (that's McCarthy now, in case people are not seeing this) would become President just like that and without any intervening question because our founders thought that it was a good idea to have that chain be party-blind. THAT is too horrible a fate.

And even beyond that, changing times need changing circumstances. That Biden has navigated well does not say he will continue to, in part because he is a centrist, and Climate weighs ever more heavily. Some progressives may jump ship and that will sabotage the future if they split the party . We need, if not an AOC, at least someone who is left of Biden on Climate and who will represent the youth of America, who increasingly see we are not adequately tending to a world they will have to live.

Finally, the Republicans are used to arguing about Biden. They are ready with their Hunter stories. There will be balloon stories, and stories of mislaid documents. They need someone they do not have such a well-worked narrative about, someone who will put them off balance having to have actual discussions on actual issues.

So the Dems must grow up and be a party not of saviors but of ideals. They must make their morality plain. They must get better at explaining who they are rather than ceding the narrative to the other side. Because another 4 years of Biden will not do that. It will assume all of those things go without saying and make us even more vulnerable at the end of that time than we already are.

More on this by me:

Unarticulated Democratic Morality
web.archive.org/web/2010101214

Articulating Democratic Morality
web.archive.org/web/2010101606






#politics #democracy #democrats #progressive #centrist #YoungVoters #biden #CultOfPersonality #election2024 #elections #primary #morals #values #spin #platform #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment

Last updated 1 year ago

When will the be selected?

Easy. When the unknowns of the "rebels" see a spike in donations AND those already experienced in selling their soul for the cameras begin to see a decline in their grift intake.

Then its time for another stunt.
Lights. Camera. Action!

Public service? Meh.

     

#DoYourJob #youworkforus #americadeservesbetter #politicalcorruption #CultOfPersonality #GQP #GQPbelligerence #unfitforoffice #Congress #houseofrepresentatives #speakerofthehouse

Last updated 2 years ago

Rocky Carr · @RockyC
144 followers · 819 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Speech by fiat isn’t free. This dude stinks like his last name.

apple.news/AYfWPvF6DQxyQxLLaUU

#censorship #fascism #idolatry #CultOfPersonality

Last updated 2 years ago

Cassie :psyduck: · @CassOfDunshire
290 followers · 952 posts · Server social.stlouist.com

A lot of Elmo's recent moves play into the of control created by @cultexpert.

B - behavior
I - Information (this one ^^)
T - thought
E - emotion

#bitemodel #CultOfPersonality #fascism #authoritarianism #elon #cult

Last updated 2 years ago

Sampath Pāṇini ® ✅ · @paninid
406 followers · 2177 posts · Server mastodon.world
mxtthxw GCSE :verified: · @mxtthxw
536 followers · 4213 posts · Server mxtthxw.art

Great to seee on

An incredible live band if you ever get the opportunity to see them.

invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=W

#LivingColour #TheDailyDoug #CultOfPersonality

Last updated 2 years ago

MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
424 followers · 11574 posts · Server todon.eu
Heurism · @heurism
654 followers · 4540 posts · Server mstdn.social
doctorparadox · @doctorparadox
52 followers · 115 posts · Server indieweb.social

The same people desperately peering into Trump's psyche for evidence of four-dimensional chess-playing are falling all over themselves scouring the landscape for signs of something deeper than bullshit slinging and toxicly masculine "shooting from the hip" Ayn Randian Man of Action reactionary nonsense posing as crackshot decision-making from The Muskrat.

#CultOfPersonality #wealthcult #leadership #narcissism #trump #musk #meritocracy #twitter

Last updated 2 years ago

Tracey Baptiste · @tracey
102 followers · 118 posts · Server zirk.us
Luka /toot.si · @luka
583 followers · 4858 posts · Server toot.si

@drfilomena

The thing about free software seems that it's a double edged sword - it gives freedom for developers to create forks (their own versions of software), but it's also usually run buy so called "benevolent dictator" - main developer - they approve or dissaprove suggested changes by others to the software (called PRs).

So, you are not wrong. It's just ... more complex and complicated.

Also,

#CultOfPersonality

Last updated 2 years ago

MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
356 followers · 11191 posts · Server todon.eu

- (Official Video)

Official Video for "Cult Of Personality" by Living ColourListen to Living Colour: LivingColour.lnk.to/listenYDWa more Living Colour videos: https:...

youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs

#musik #Music #musica #musique #LivingColour #CultOfPersonality

Last updated 2 years ago

vagabond · @Hamishcampbell
871 followers · 5146 posts · Server campaign.openworlds.info

Hero worship on the left is always a problem. Yes it is pushed half by media and half by the individuals themselves. The power you have is that you should not push hero worship

#CultOfPersonality

Last updated 4 years ago

☆joene☆ · @joenepraat
1246 followers · 20296 posts · Server todon.nl

For all the authoritarian lovers, being it (fake) left, right or centrist.

🖕 Fuck that toxic cult of personality of yours!

youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs

#Music #funkrock #livingcolour #authoritarianism #authoritarian #CultOfPersonality

Last updated 5 years ago