Si vis pacem, para baseball bat

(i voted Bernie who is old, but seems healthier than Biden in some ways).

Because Bernie has universal healthcare in his heart

“I’m going to learn French so I can refuse to speak it” is disparaging French people.

Okay.

So you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you.

No, I’m pointing out hypocrisy.

I’d prefer him to stay in if, realistically speaking, he is capable of doing so.

However, I also recognize that, even if he IS capable of doing so, he has not inspired confidence in the electorate in being capable of doing so. That alone may mandate his replacement even if all it was was a bad night.

I don’t think he’s in rapid decline - but if he is, or if he isn’t but feels he cannot convincingly portray himself as well going forward, stepping down might be the right choice.

Harris doesn’t inspire confidence for me, but she may still be the better choice. Regardless, if she’s the Dem candidate, she has my total support for this election, because I would very much like a choice in every election of my life going forward.

Regardless of one’s opinion of the current situation, that he is considering it is a good thing. There are probably no good options, but if the pros and cons are weighed and the conclusion is that Biden endorsing someone else is the better choice, then that’s what should be done.

Regardless, voting this November is about voting against fascism, regardless of who the Dem candidate is.

If you think the stereotype of French haughtiness doesn’t predate 2003, I don’t know what to tell you.

Using the ‘uneducated American’ stereotype doesn’t really help your case. At all.

No.

Biden being replaced is a possibility. Michelle Obama being that replacement is unlikely and, compared to the prospect of having actual current politicians replace a political candidate, undesirable.

Yet all I see is hate, probably a result of gullible people guzzling propaganda from the US after France refused to help in the 2003 Iraq war.

Lord.

That would involve supporting members of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI) if necessary, Macron said,

Good. Macron created this disaster trying to renew his mandate to rule like a Graeco-Roman god; the least he could do is put in the bare minimum to help unfuck it.

Age is no barrier

Braille too

I actually like French as a language. But, like German humor, apparently France is no laughing matter.

“Gee, I wonder why the fascist oligarchy is trying to help Trump win? It must be because both sides are the same”

jk, ‘Bothsides’ types would have immediately denounced the BBC as a mouthpiece of US imperialism.

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares “that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient.”

Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth’s political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

• Mark Twain, “A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court”

lmao, I mean, I don’t think it has any real chance of happening. But what stops it is Biden being Biden. If it were, say, a fascist in the Oval Office, the only question would be “Who do I ask to do this dirty work?”

I hope that’s true, but I have my doubts.

Because I know what our common objective is and I just can’t care about the subtle differences.

Even when those ‘subtle differences’ result in being backstabbed and sold out and the entire cause being lost against a fascist enemy, great. Subtle little differences, like “We need to purge the anarchists and Trots” should be met with “We need complete and total cooperation with the people who want to purge us 😊”

The true meaning of a united front, huh?

You’re on Divide By Zero, you should be fucking familiar with how they fucked the anarchists and the Trots, and that most of their ‘aid’ was purchased, not given.