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Joe BidenCongratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
 

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:47 PM Apr 2019

Joe nailed it. Trump is the first President in our history ...

who purposely, and as a perfect extension of everything he stands for, made a conscious decision to not represent all American citizens, and in fact to expressly attempt to ignore, marginalize, and punish all who did not support him.

Mayor Pete is still the closest candidate to my personal wants and beliefs, but if Joe gets the nomination, I can only pray that Dems refrain from a circular firing squad and support anyone who can send Donald Fucking Trump waddling into obscurity.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. Vote Democrat because the future of democracy depends upon it!
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:50 PM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

CurtEastPoint

(18,664 posts)
2. You expressed my exact sentiments! Thank you!
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:51 PM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
3. So true. So true. Trump has actually gone after Democratic citizens as a group.
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 01:52 PM
Apr 2019

Not just Democratic Party politicians. He's actually tried to harm the citizens. The tax cut bill was one of those things...it targeted the big cities with his property taxes, which are Democratic party base citizens.

Dumping illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities...Democratic bastions. Which would harm the citizens, not the politicians.

Name calling. Demonizing. It's disgusting.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

unblock

(52,328 posts)
4. exactly, i've been saying this for ages.
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 02:07 PM
Apr 2019

shrub operated in general contempt for democrats in terms of policy, and really made no allowance for the fact that the majority voted for gore. however, he did give lip service to representing all americans, even if his policies didn't reflect that.

donald fraud, however, has as his core issue, the establishment and promotion of a social hierarchy that puts a majority of americans -- anyone who isn't a rich, straight, white, christian, republican male -- in a disadvantaged position, to be punished and mocked and ridiculed and insulted by those higher up in the pecking order.


the only people he really represents are selfish, amoral people who tick *all* the boxes. but he's a con man, so he dupes people who tick most of the boxes and then are surprised when they get screwed because of the one box they don't tick. a lot of them have all the boxes except the "rich" part, and then they're shocked when they get screwed by a republicans policy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
5. The orange buffoon uses his maga-drones for votes, and rewards the rich with tax breaks.
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 02:31 PM
Apr 2019

For the rest of us, nothing but contempt.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
6. I have always been surprised by some people's willingness to vote against ...
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 02:38 PM
Apr 2019

their own interests, but Trump has taken it to a whole new level.

There are literally millions of people parading around in MAGA hats who Trump wouldn't piss on if they spontaneously combusted in the Oval Office.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. Exactly, notice how little he did when CA had fires
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 02:49 PM
Apr 2019

and PR and the hurricane.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
8. Out of the gate, Biden is giving specific words to a collective national sentiment.
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 02:50 PM
Apr 2019

Above and beyond any policy positions, I think Biden's verbalizing (and thus galvanizing) those nagging doubts so many quiet people have been experiencing for two years, but have been unable to put into words.

Biden's opening narrative is that we're all in this together... that we share the same problems, and that we can share the same solutions as well. And in doing so through stark contrast, he implicitly shines a bright light onto the divisive and tiresome Oppressed Us vs. Hedonistic Them routine Trump relies on so much.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Thekaspervote

(32,794 posts)
9. Yes. .. and that's great!
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 03:08 PM
Apr 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Cha

(297,692 posts)
12. Well put, LW.. Thank You!
Wed May 1, 2019, 03:57 AM
May 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
10. Well put. Always hate
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 05:14 PM
Apr 2019

when he goes on about “my voters..” like sorry, folks, but “my voters” want the wall, “my voters” think White Supremacists are good peeps, “ my voters” like it when I put kids in cages.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
11. Trump is a dictator-wannabe
Wed May 1, 2019, 03:35 AM
May 2019

he is pathetic

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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