No, our problem is that our administration is continually denying a problem, denying knowledge, blowing answers out its ass, procrastinating, and not working to keep matters from getting worse. And then there are other issues - there are ALWAYS other issues - which other leaders and administrations have dealt with so effectively that we haven't heard of them.

America will be remembered for a long time for how badly 2020 has been handled - and that will only hamper our ability to re-enter the international community.

All you Hillary haters... how do you think she would have handled this? Milquetoast and mild as many saw her, she wouldn't have fucked up. Sometimes the quality of the candidate is how bad they WON'T make things.

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Complete tangent - isn't this the day Joe Biden will announce his vice-presidential candidate? Any guesses?

And not to be morbid, but it might be the day he announces our next president. The man IS 77 years old, and now's a really hard time to be president. I wish him good health and good tolerance... but it's a hard act to follow.

Complete tangent - isn't this the day Joe Biden will announce his vice-presidential candidate? Any guesses?

And not to be morbid, but it might be the day he announces our next president. The man IS 77 years old, and now's a really hard time to be president. I wish him good health and good tolerance... but it's a hard act to follow.

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If Biden wins in November, he will not complete all 4 years of his term. Health wise, I cannot see it.

I really believe that one of the reasons that Biden is running this time is to knock that smug look off King Minus face. If Joe would have ran in 2016, he would have steamed rolled Minus with no problems.

Of course whoever Biden choice is for VP, SHE will be 100x better than Minus on his good day. The fact that Minus is in office, we as a nation can NEVER use the excuse that a woman cannot be in that position.

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She’s tried to position herself as a criminal justice reform advocate as Senator and tried to describe her past as being a “progressive prosecutor”, but as a DA and state Attorney General, she (or her office) took some “tough on crime” positions or defended the status quo. Harris was my preference during the primary and is my preference for VP, but her record is going to be a point of criticism, especially from progressive activists, in a year where BLM and police reform are front and center. 

Yeah, but I'm far more worried about a nominee who's vulnerable to criticism from the right, since Biden really needs to win independents and disgruntled Republicans (as well as win back Obama/Trump voters) in the swing states.  There doesn't seem to be an obvious "hook" that Trump can tar Harris with.  Rice is a Clinton-loving swamp dweller who covered up Benghazi.  Bass is a Castro-loving socialist and closet Scientologist.  I'm sure some progressives will not be thrilled with Harris, but I get the sense that there is more widespread understanding this year that the most progressive thing that can be done is to defeat Trump.  I don't think appealing to the extreme wing of his party is the thing Biden needs to do at this point, and I think it could backfire in a manner similar to Sarah Palin.