I personally think there won’t be any problem with Biden making it to November, but your list of possible backups left out one important entry: Kamala Harris. Having been Vice President by then almost four years, she would be more qualified than either Newsom or Shapiro (I think talk of Shapiro is way premature). In addition, she would turn out women, especially black women, and maybe black men, like never before — or at least not since 2008.🤔😉😊
Gotta disagree. Seems to me she’s been all over the place, giving speeches here and overseas. Certainly Justin knows this. But it’s interesting that you seem to feel that way. She hasn’t gotten the media coverage that even Newsom has gotten.🤔😉😊
Newsom dipped his toes in a little while back and was immediately hit with all the problems here in California especially the number of homeless. I see personally when I’m on the highway and traffic slows the countless number of tents, some even somehow clinging to hilly areas as long as it’s under the shelter of an overpass, bridge and he’s just now proposing real legislation to handle it permanently not just by trying to hide them away as that become impossible to do. The citizens of Sacramento are during their city because they can’t take their families to any outdoor venues due to the rise in crime caused by desperate homeless many who are mentally ill, addicted, alcoholics and it’s these serious problems that must be addressed before the homeless crises gets under control.
Newsom would be attacked also for the sky high cost of gas, rent and groceries here. It’s like no other I’ve ever seen. It’s shocking.
Someone took their eye off the ball but it doesn’t look good for Newsom, to be even closer scrutinized would be political suicide. Once he tackles the problems in his own state then maybe but that’s down the road.
I live in the Bay Area and I completely understand. I see a lot of RVs in my neighborhood that look like they haven’t been moved in quite some time. The homelessness problem, in particular, is ridiculously complex. (And likely contributing to the current wave of street theft — although I don’t hear as much about murders as I used to.) There are just too goddam many people in the area. I have to cop to some responsibility for that. I used to say that I was one of the people who so fell in love with California that I moved out here and helped ruin it. I moved here just in time to see all the farms and groves become industrial parks.
This was quite awhile ago, and my memory of the numbers is fuzzy, but I recall an article that said there were twice as many jobs available in Santa Clara County than there were housing units; that seems an obvious problem. Add in the NIMBY effect hindering the building of multi-unit developments — just now being overcome — and it becomes easier to understand the “why”. What to do about it, on the other hand, is complex — and expensive.
I myself became in need of “affordable” (i.e., subsidized) housing starting about two or three years ago; I found something only last Summer. I was maybe weeks away of being on the street myself. I was terrified. 🤔😉😊
So sorry. But you know they had to have seen this coming and while they didn’t build enough affordable housing they keep building luxury apartments. This just came in:
San Jose, California has been rated as the city possessing the highest number of super-rich people in the world.
I think this is more of what is focused on. If we were anywhere else we would be in the upper middle class but not here. And this:
The Bay Area, which includes the City of San Francisco and Silicon Valley, is home to 285,000 millionaires, as well as 629 centi-millionaires and a high number of billionaires at 63.
There’s no way for anyone of median income to live here. We followed our grandchildren here and had no idea. We’re about to move, I hope, to Sonoma county. A little cheaper but not much.
TFG appears to think that NATO members pay dues to the US. There are no dues. But here is some thing he posted Sunday on Lies Social. I read it so you don’t have to (H/T Digby). So here’s the key part (caps in original):
NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN… WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE MONEY ANYMORE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF A PAYBACK, OR WITHOUT "STRINGS" ATTACHED.
Foreign aid is, to him, just another protection racket. Christopher’s last sentence nails it. By the way, that story was a total lie, as are all of his “sir” stories. 🤔😉😊
We get more with foreign aid than interest payments coming back to us. A concept Trump is incapable of grasping.
We help others because it makes us safer. It’s in our interest to help other weaker countries get to a point where they can stand on their own.
On a smaller scale it’s like providing unemployment payments. You give money to somebody to help them over a rough spot, so that in the future they are able to do things that benefit you.
I remember early in his first term, his last term, he wanted to shut down our bases in Japan, Germany, South Korea, and pull out of NATO. All the worst moves for our safety but knowing what I do now I see he was attempting early on to make it easy for Putin and the axis of evil as it was called. Trump is as anti-America as they come. Everything he proposed would destroy us down the line.
If Trump is returned to the White House, he will begin the process of pulling the US out of NATO on January 21, 2025. Russia will invade the Baltic States shortly thereafter.
To demean and attempt to disgrace Joe Biden in his memory of important things even stooping so low as to bring up the death of his son to deflect from the fact they had not one damn real drop of crime to charge him with.
He defended his own character and his mind with the grace and dignity he’s always carried and will carry to November.
I personally think there won’t be any problem with Biden making it to November, but your list of possible backups left out one important entry: Kamala Harris. Having been Vice President by then almost four years, she would be more qualified than either Newsom or Shapiro (I think talk of Shapiro is way premature). In addition, she would turn out women, especially black women, and maybe black men, like never before — or at least not since 2008.🤔😉😊
I believe she wasn’t brought up because she really hasn’t been present much of the time and we don’t feel we know her well.
Gotta disagree. Seems to me she’s been all over the place, giving speeches here and overseas. Certainly Justin knows this. But it’s interesting that you seem to feel that way. She hasn’t gotten the media coverage that even Newsom has gotten.🤔😉😊
Newsom dipped his toes in a little while back and was immediately hit with all the problems here in California especially the number of homeless. I see personally when I’m on the highway and traffic slows the countless number of tents, some even somehow clinging to hilly areas as long as it’s under the shelter of an overpass, bridge and he’s just now proposing real legislation to handle it permanently not just by trying to hide them away as that become impossible to do. The citizens of Sacramento are during their city because they can’t take their families to any outdoor venues due to the rise in crime caused by desperate homeless many who are mentally ill, addicted, alcoholics and it’s these serious problems that must be addressed before the homeless crises gets under control.
Newsom would be attacked also for the sky high cost of gas, rent and groceries here. It’s like no other I’ve ever seen. It’s shocking.
Someone took their eye off the ball but it doesn’t look good for Newsom, to be even closer scrutinized would be political suicide. Once he tackles the problems in his own state then maybe but that’s down the road.
I live in the Bay Area and I completely understand. I see a lot of RVs in my neighborhood that look like they haven’t been moved in quite some time. The homelessness problem, in particular, is ridiculously complex. (And likely contributing to the current wave of street theft — although I don’t hear as much about murders as I used to.) There are just too goddam many people in the area. I have to cop to some responsibility for that. I used to say that I was one of the people who so fell in love with California that I moved out here and helped ruin it. I moved here just in time to see all the farms and groves become industrial parks.
This was quite awhile ago, and my memory of the numbers is fuzzy, but I recall an article that said there were twice as many jobs available in Santa Clara County than there were housing units; that seems an obvious problem. Add in the NIMBY effect hindering the building of multi-unit developments — just now being overcome — and it becomes easier to understand the “why”. What to do about it, on the other hand, is complex — and expensive.
I myself became in need of “affordable” (i.e., subsidized) housing starting about two or three years ago; I found something only last Summer. I was maybe weeks away of being on the street myself. I was terrified. 🤔😉😊
So sorry. But you know they had to have seen this coming and while they didn’t build enough affordable housing they keep building luxury apartments. This just came in:
San Jose, California has been rated as the city possessing the highest number of super-rich people in the world.
I think this is more of what is focused on. If we were anywhere else we would be in the upper middle class but not here. And this:
The Bay Area, which includes the City of San Francisco and Silicon Valley, is home to 285,000 millionaires, as well as 629 centi-millionaires and a high number of billionaires at 63.
There’s no way for anyone of median income to live here. We followed our grandchildren here and had no idea. We’re about to move, I hope, to Sonoma county. A little cheaper but not much.
I guess because I don’t watch TV news I miss some things. I like here I just feel I don’t know here. Shes not covered enough as she should be.
“ “You gotta pay," Trump said he told the unnamed leader.”
Well, what else would you expect a mob boss like Trump to say? “That’s a nice little country you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.“
TFG appears to think that NATO members pay dues to the US. There are no dues. But here is some thing he posted Sunday on Lies Social. I read it so you don’t have to (H/T Digby). So here’s the key part (caps in original):
NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN… WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE MONEY ANYMORE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF A PAYBACK, OR WITHOUT "STRINGS" ATTACHED.
Foreign aid is, to him, just another protection racket. Christopher’s last sentence nails it. By the way, that story was a total lie, as are all of his “sir” stories. 🤔😉😊
We get more with foreign aid than interest payments coming back to us. A concept Trump is incapable of grasping.
We help others because it makes us safer. It’s in our interest to help other weaker countries get to a point where they can stand on their own.
On a smaller scale it’s like providing unemployment payments. You give money to somebody to help them over a rough spot, so that in the future they are able to do things that benefit you.
I remember early in his first term, his last term, he wanted to shut down our bases in Japan, Germany, South Korea, and pull out of NATO. All the worst moves for our safety but knowing what I do now I see he was attempting early on to make it easy for Putin and the axis of evil as it was called. Trump is as anti-America as they come. Everything he proposed would destroy us down the line.
Exactly and they shouldn’t take the idiot seriously
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48
To me, the obvious fallback candidate is Kamala Harris. In this extraordinary and perilous time, she could be ideal. It's time for a female president.
If Trump is returned to the White House, he will begin the process of pulling the US out of NATO on January 21, 2025. Russia will invade the Baltic States shortly thereafter.
To demean and attempt to disgrace Joe Biden in his memory of important things even stooping so low as to bring up the death of his son to deflect from the fact they had not one damn real drop of crime to charge him with.
He defended his own character and his mind with the grace and dignity he’s always carried and will carry to November.
Swiftboating 2.0 bought and paid for by RW think tanks and megadonors.