I have never been so outraged and pissed at the Democratic Party than I am today.

[PatrickforB]

77. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree - what you are saying about Biden's poor debate performance is true, but

you seem to be omitting his utter command of issues in the foreign policy presser when he stood for 90 minutes and answered detailed questions off the top of his head.

Also the interview where he absolutely owned Lester Holt.

And let us not forget his forceful presentation at a number of rallies, and his strong address to the NAACP.

The other thing not to forget here is the utter banality of what is happening. It is all based on fear.

The billionaire greed-lizard donors are scared of higher taxes, because hey, they just don't yet have enough! They need just a little more. So money has changed hands in a tacit quid pro quo - we'll not give Biden any donations, but we will donate to you if...

And have you considered possible motives based on gender and race, Harris being a black woman. Biden promised to put a black woman on his ticket and he did. African Americans overwhelmingly supported him in 2020. Problem is, most of the people calling for him to get out seem to be white males. After all, having a progressive woman of color is quite scary to those who make money off the status quo.

The downticket people like Brown are scared they will lose - Brown is especially vulnerable because JD Vance is also an Ohioan and he is afraid a groundswell of support for the Trump/Vance ticket will cost him Ohio votes.

And the media is all publicly traded, which means the fiduciary responsibility of their executive editors and producers has NOTHING to do with truth in news reporting, and EVERYTHING to do with generating shareholder profits by presenting this whole thing as a horserace.

This whole thing is generating that sick tension of things not going the way we wish they would. I even freaked out the other day about these ridiculous calls for Biden to step down, but we have to let this play out.

This is a billionaire-funded coup ruled by raw greed. No matter how ugly it gets for the rest of us, the 'little' people, they want their tax cuts! Wall Street wants its shareholder profits.

You know, every time you look under the rock at the stinking, squirming maggots underneath, their shape is that of old white male liver-spotted hands grasping after more profits. That is all this is.

Big money is doing everything it can to ensure Dems lose, but guess what? There are WAY more of us than there are of them, and they are scared of us. They are scared of black women. They are scared of unions. They are scared of tax increases (the 2025 project calls for a huge TAX INCREASE for the middle class, did you know? While people 'earning' millions will receive substantial TAX CUTS.

This is an election about taxes. Those poor little freakishly insecure billionaires are really scared of losing even a little of their money.

But what about us? What about healthcare? Childcare? Affordable college? Continued support for NATO? What about recent liberal victories in Great Britain and France? What about abortion access? Climate change? Gun control? These are all widely supported by the American public.

Hubris. And the media is playing that for all its worth, and we're just going to have to watch while it plays out. Most people are very ignorant, made so by decades of right wing propaganda. Many don't 'believe' in data provided by Census and BLS even though this country leaves EVERYONE else in the world in the dust with the scope and depth of our data reporting. The right wing noise machine has worked really hard to make it difficult to recognize truth over lies.

Greed, the distraction of sports - the natural ability of Americans to think critically has been carefully and with big money channeled into sports analysis, but any critical thought around politics, social and economic policy has been carefully and thoroughly discouraged.

Will the American people uphold our republic? Or will they allow us to take the rest of the world down with us into the abyss of an oligarchic theocracy (otherwise known as fascism)? Because if this happens like it always has done in the past, fascism will surely lead to a widespread war, possibly a world war. Following this logic, we have Trump's alarming question to his advisors, "If we have nuclear weapons, why not use them?"

And guess what? If this worst-case scenario unfolds those poor little billionaires will find that they have screwed themselves over, because they will lose everything too. As will the media, the Wall Street greed-lizards and all the rest. But earth will abide, won't it?

So, the idea of calling for Biden to step down three months out from an election where the very survival of the world's liberal democracies is at stake is pretty illogical. But then a publicly traded company will sell you the very rope you're going to use to hang them, will they not? Good for shareholder profits, don't you know!