Axelrod suggests Biden drop out of 2024 presidential race

I don’t want Trump to drop out. I want him to be barred from the ballot

I'd rather see Dems win with a more coherent and less partisan option. Having trump drop and get replaced with desantis would continue the primary issues of trump with a less divisive and objectionable face...

Trump votes are mainly confrontational IMHO. People who vote trump have a lot of "stick it to the libs" going on. I feel like desantis would be voted on as being more of a normal type candidate, and might kinda normalize the alt-rightness that trump brought to the table (and desantis has as much as trump does, he's just not in your face about it).

Which is all to say that both trump and Biden are problematic, but the only problems that can pragmatically be addressed are the ones with biden, as he's just old and out of it. The trump crazyness will continue if you replace him.

Honestly I don't understand why anybody would vote GOP.

There is no platform. There is no ideas. They've literally done nothing except bitch and moan, in-fighting, and then hold bills hostage.

Where Dems have a huge list of accomplishments in the past three years, all the GOP has done was show pictures of Hunter Biden's dick.

I'm working three part time jobs and still don't have health insurance. This country fucking blows.

Biden doesn't set the interest rate. That's the Fed. The Fed Chair was appointed by Trump. He printed a shitload of money during Covid (which imo should have never happened) and now the chickens have come home to roost. The interest rate hikes are to combat inflation. They are trying to decrease the money supply to unfuck everything and get us back to normal. They are there to make you, in your situation say, this is a bad financial decision paying the same price as 2 years ago with a substantially higher rate maybe I don't need this, or I'll wait for prices to come down since the payment is not affordable. People then consume less and it decreases demand for goods and services, and prices should in theory stop going up or even go down a bit. Your example is proof that what they want to happen is happening. I was trying to buy a house, and gave up after being outbid numerous times during the pandemic. At these rates, I've pretty much decided to shelve the idea of homeownership at least for now.

It absolutely sucks ass, but if we'd let the low rates continue, inflation would have spiralled out of control by now. And while we are certainly in a short term period of pain, I have to hope that it will work out in the end and we can get back some semblance of affordability and pop the everything bubble we created. The low rates were as bad if not worse for the economy. Every home in my area was going $300k over asking with multiple offers sight unseen, and asking price would be 20% higher yoy . New and used cars went crazy in price, groceries practically doubled and everything was getting really bad. This shit sucks, but it's because of our fiscal policies of covid under Trump. Yes, you can say that helicopter money didn't help with inflation, but it was kinda a drop in the bucket compared to what Powell did.

I personally don't think the Fed has done enough, and needs to go full Volcker on us and jack the rates even more. The Fed aims for getting inflation back to 2%, but imo we need to aim for a brief period of deflation to make up for the inflation we've suffered the last 3 years. It sucks to say, but we need a full blown recession to get us back to normal, otherwise it will stay shitty and the rich will get richer while the poor get poorer. We need to force investors out of the housing market and bring them pain. Unfortunately, that only happens when people lose jobs and don't pay rent. Then owning property to rent is less desirable, and property owners sell and put their profits into HYSA's and other safe investments. More inventory gets put on the market, supply goes up, demand goes down, price goes down and we can celebrate actually being able to afford stuff again. If we don't go full recession, you will own nothing and be happy and corporate landlords will continue to jack rent and sit on property for an eternity. Enjoy serf life. There's no way to fix this without pain unfortunately. It's a shitty situation all around.

Even with 12k down? That's crazy, I just got 4% in the same situation about a year ago. My credit is decent, but I'm not financially savvy in the slightest, so idk.

My biggest problem with the whole situation was the state I'm in requires you to pay registration and taxes in full when you buy a car. So through no fault of my own, I lost $5k. I also was one day late getting my insurance swapped over, so my insurance went from $100 to $450 monthly. Never been at fault for an accident and my only ticket was like 7 years ago. Yet now I spend more on insurance than some people I know dealing with DUI charges on a SR71.

Also had no choices at the time because used car market was in shambles at the time, so I settled on a car I don't love. The car I did love, I made my final payment on the week before I got hit.

where i live you could get a used toyota for 2K

Get an ebike, a decent one is 2k.

This far out, polls are not guesses about election results, but rather estimates of sentiments. That’s how they’re read.

The position being taken here is that the national sentiment is against Joe Biden. You can think he could still power through. You can think that the undecided will break his way. You could think that people realize losing Roe will be the least of their concerns if Trump gets in.

But these are legitimate measures of public sentiment. Biden has a national poll-of-polls approval rating of 39%. That’s Carter and Bush I territory.

I will always vote Democrat but I had hoped he would be one and done. This is feeling like 2016 all over again.

True, that said, I would also let Bernie stay.

Only Bernie.

It'll be Gavin Newsom

I have a fantasy where an independent candidate wins after thoroughly clowning both of them and pointing out terrible they both are. It brings on a wave of change and we end up with a strong third party.

I'm tired of every little thing being black or white, red vs blue, good and evil, heads or tails. Are you Republican or Democrat? Do you support Palestine or Israel? Are you anti-gun/vax/abortion/gay or pro?

Seems like everything is framed like this to put us into buckets and turn the buckets against eachother while the propaganda machine starts churning.