pjwestin

Obama crushed my generation's hopes. We voted for him to end our foreign wars, crack down on Wall Street, and finally give us universal healthcare. Instead, we got the Heritage Foundation's healthcare policy and...mass surveillance, for some reason. He may have inspired hope in 2008 but he had beaten it out of us by 2014.

Is it worse though? Is nearly a full month of chaos and panic actually worth waiting until the end of the Republican Convention?

Yeah, but none of these benefits are better than ending the uncertainty 2 weeks ago; at that point, the polling was clearly showing Biden was dropping in key swing states, and the party was starting to go into full panic mode, but he still let them twist in the win while he made up his mind. Hell, even if he made the announcement during the convention, he could have stolen some of Trump's publicity this week and forced a whole lot if RNC speakers to rewrite their speeches. Instead, he left the party in chaos for a month, then gave Trump a victory lap convention before finally stepping aside.

Yeah, you don't have to be a political genius to realize that almost four weeks of your own allies coming out and saying you need to step down is, ya know...bad. Like, maybe if your political implosion was creating a period of fear, uncertainty, and chaos, and there was you could do to end all that and restore order, you should do that quickly...like, as quickly as possible...as in, not nearly a month later.

I'm sure this was a really hard decision, but it shows courage and strength that Biden put his own ego aside for the good of the country...

...is what I would have said if he'd done this two weeks ago. Now, I'm just glad he was able to take off his narcissism glasses long enough to see how badly he was going to lose, and I hope his prolonged tantrum hasn't damaged Harris' chances too badly.

Let's ignore the fact that she's even more unpopular than Joe Biden and already lost to Trump once; she's 76 years old. Are they really suggesting we just swap geriatrics? Can we please get a president who will actually have to live with the consequences of their actions?

It's easier to tell them apart visually:

I know it's not a fair comparison; Bruce actually stepped down and gave his title to someone younger.

I'm American, I definitely learned this stuff in 7th or 8th grade. Granted, I didn't use it past high school, and I forgot it before I finished college, but that's definitely when I learned it.

In the original The Dark Knight Returns, Superman gets hit by a nuke and can't reach sunlight to recover. Instead, he absorbs a rainforest's worth of photosynthesis. That's probably not considered cannon, but it kind of backs up the idea that they're both using photosynthesis.

More importantly, >!they just gave up on their relationship because one of them was leaving the country? For what, less than a year? After all that, they just threw it all away because they didn't want to deal with FaceTime for a couple of months? Bet they felt real fucking dumb when the pandemic hit.!<

Actually, I do know. I've spent 30 minutes researching it the other day, so I actually know a ton about it.