Biden has been THOROUGHLY vetted. And came out remarkably clean

The demons in the GOP announced that they wanted to impeach him WAY before they even had any idea what for. And then proceeded to investigate all of their fever dreams and came up with exactly ZERO.

Biden is, remarkably, especially for a national politician at his level, quite free of personal corruption.

That is a HUGE advantage which the Democratic Party should not throw away lightly. All of their accusations that they come up with (and come up with them they will) against ANY Democratic candidate will take time to adjudicate in the court of public opinion EXCEPT for those against Biden, because we already know he is quite clean.

I'm not sure what will make me hate Trump more . . .

when he talks about this attempt on his life, if he

1) suddenly acts like he doesn't think political violence is a good idea, after fanning the flames of violent rhetoric and aiming it at his political enemies and the most vulnerable people in our society - but now advocates against it because his dumb ass just realized that his moronic followers could hurt HIM

or

2) if he doubles down and calls for political violence in revenge for what happened.

what if . . and I know this is crazy but hear me out . . what if corporations are controlling more and more

of our lives (including more and more of the government) and making things better and better for corporations and worse and worse for people?

What should people do about this? Because as far as I can see, the levers of power are all being removed/placed in corporate hands.

Giving the President total immunity would destroy any power the Supreme Court has

as they would now be under a dictatorship. So why does the Orange Halfwit think they are going to do it?

Today is the start of my 23rd year here on DU

I had lurked for a while here in 2001. It was a place for me to help retain my sanity as I watched W steal the presidency. Along with Bartcop, Media Whores Online, and Atrios, it gave me vital information that often ran counter to the prevailing media narrative.

The day after 9/11, I made an account and started to contribute. I met and have read so many fantastic posters here. I have been through 5 election cycles, and all of the in-fighting that goes with Democratic primaries. DU has seen me through four job changes, a house fire, and cancer.

Just wanted to shout out to the founders, the mods, the contributors here. All of the news gatherers and posters that make this such a vital place. Looking forward to many more years ahead.

It's nice to know that so many people actively support the party of human values, kindness, care, and equity.

did this latest SC decision kill the movement to make the Electoral College obsolete?

I support the movement to create a popular vote for president via having states representing the required number of EC votes pledge their electors to the winner of the national popular vote.

However, the mechanism - having states assign their electors not based on how their vote tallies come out but rather on some other basis - sounds very much like the schemes that were voted down this week. Where Republican-run states could just assign their electors arbitrarily.

Does this effectively kill the plan to end (the relevance of) the Electoral College?

It Is Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

“Quentin” is a 14-year-old assigned female at birth who now identifies as male against the wishes of his parents. His transition was supported by one of his unmarried teachers, who is not a virgin. He stole his parents’ car and drove to the hospital, where a doctor immediately began performing top surgery on him. Afterward, driving home drunk from the hospital, Quentin became suicidally depressed, and he wonders now, homeless and ridden with gonorrhea, if transitioning was a mistake.

We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage. Frankly, if our work isn’t putting trans people further at risk of trauma and violence, we consider it a failure.

We stand behind our recent obsessed-seeming torrent of articles and essays on trans people, which we believe faithfully depicts their lived experiences as weird and gross. We remain dedicated to finding the angles that best frame the basic rights of the gender-nonconforming as up for debate, and we will use these same angles over and over again in hopes that this repetition makes them suffer. As journalists, it is our obligation to entertain any and all pseudoscience that gives bigotry an intellectual veneer. We must be diligent in laundering our vitriol through the posture of journalistic inquiry, and we must be allowed to fixate on the genitals.

Trump just declared war on trans people

fuck that seditious, criminal asshole.

edit: link to his horrible speech.