Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says she is leaving the Democratic Party
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says she is leaving the Democratic Party
Kind of hilarious that she left the party because they convinced Biden to not run. That was the one fucking thing Democrats did right. It just took them a long time to get past his hubris.
If only they did it back in January 2024.
Or January 2020
Oh yeah totally. You can tell they were right to do that on account of how they went on to win the next election.
The right time to do what they did with Harris was the day after she was sworn in, not a couple of months before the election.
That plus a federal prosecutor who declined to do his job damned our country, and here we are.
The timing sucked, you're right about that. But they weren't wrong to pressure Biden to not run again. Biden had zero business running again. The man was 81 years old, and very much in cognitive decline. The only reason he got as far as he did in the process was because of wishful thinking on everybody's part. At that point, it was a bit of a Sophie's choice; they could either throw their weight behind him, hoping beyond hope that he could just nudge that campaign over the finish line, or they could convince him to step aside in favor of someone eminently better fit for it, which meant throwing away the results of the primary.
Convincing him to step down was the right choice. I don't know if you're just misremembering things or what, but the polling was not good for Biden around that point. Trump looked like a shoe-in. While he wasn't guaranteed to lose, he definitely had a worse chance of winning than Harris did. Here's the national polling chart from that time; Biden dropped out July 21st. Do you see how the blue line went up and the red line went down after that?
Trump won, and that really fucking sucks. But saying that the Democrats fucked up and that Biden would have won is just pure fantasy. I get it; I don't want this piece of shit to be president either, and it makes me furious every day that he is. In situations like this, it's natural to want to throw some blame around. But blaming the Democrats for making the right choice just ain't it.
Eh, she is selling a book. She can get up and stand up to what is happening or stay a whining child.
I had been a Democrat since I turned 18.
Last month i registered as an independent.
There's no point being registered with the party if they aren't going to hold primaries.
Even if they do decide to do another primary next time i don't think I'll change back at this point.
They've lost me
C'mon baby...make that post-Biden money before you are forgotten. America! Fuck yeah!
I think we should start an "Independent" party, giving it an identity and allowing people to have a sense of belonging instead of separation.
Lol
It sounds like she’s upset how the Democratic Party treated Biden and I don’t blame her.
I agree, they never should have let a sunsetting cancer patient delude himself into thinking he should go for a second term, and in fact both his and Feinstein's handlers belong in prison for elder abuse.
Biden did as well as could be expected from a liberal but I didn't expect much. He got handed all the tools he needed by the Supreme Court and high roaded this nation into fascism for nothing.
Ok.
Have fun being irrelevant and having zero chance of changing anything.
Independents aren't going to matter until they get their shit together and start winning local/state elections so they can get some kind of presence in Congress.
I'm going to go ahead and assume she's going to do jack shit in regards to helping make that happen.
As opposed to being in the Democratic Party and being irrelevant and having zero chance of changing anything because it’s full of stodgy old liberals who would step over their dead mother to keep progressives out.
Also, independents don’t matter but Bernie has a higher approval rating than any Democrat.
Ugh... More of the "independent" bullshit.
Wait, can you genuinely explain your comment? I mean in a meaningful nuanced way?
Sure.
It's a political bullshit cop out by politicians and honestly the general population too, often to sell something, like a freaking book.
Also,
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/15/facts-about-us-political-independents/
Another gripe is the whole "Independents" are not Independent with the American population, just a whole lot of cowards who don't want to commit to making things better.
Just my two cents on the whole Independent labeling.
Independent doesnt have that much influence. This country is purely Dems vs Rep.
That and fucking RFK Jr ran as an "Independent" during 2024 election. Had us all fooled thinking he might top Trump with all those ads and speeches. Well shit...
Within the two-party system, independents are often progressive and therefore syphon votes away from the Democratic Party, leading to elections won by republicans.
Often, independent candidates are even bankrolled by conservative PACS, for this specific reason.
If the US had a ranked-choice voting system, it wouldn’t be a problem.
99% of the time, running as an independent, is detrimental to progress, and instrumental to regression.
Surely the alternative party won't treat her worse once they're done with her
You might be shocked, but you don't have to be in either party.
I have to be a Democrat to vote in the primaries in my state.
I should sue for mental anguish.
