@RandAlThor It's still hard to believe that Maga is outraged at a one knee but okay with 2 Nazi salutes.

@Cryophilia @crusa187 Harris failed because given the choice <%1% of Democrats would choose her as their candidate in an open, competitive primary. When she ran for the nomination in 2020 she got less than 1k votes nationwide, among female candidates she was 5th, and when Biden announced that he wanted a black woman VP, the logical choice was Stacy Abrams, not Harris.

Harris is a deeply flawed candidate who doesn't appeal to really any single group except maybe cops. And cops always vote Republican.

On top of that, without a primary, she lacked a fresh bench of exciting Democrats to recruit to campaign and join her staff (think of the way Buttigieg was an effective campaigner in the Rust Belt for Biden) and she didn't have a competent campaign staff who knew her as a candidate and had just figured out how to be a national candidate.

The DNC failed this election by not holding primaries for a Candidate that was clearly mentally compromised. And it cost them the election. If you replace Trump with "Generic Republican" it would have been a Reagan '84 level bloodbath.

@g0d0fm15ch13f But why? They finally have a good playoff structure now.

@d00ery @MicroWave Truthfully, I think most of America is unaware of just how expensive these changes are.

@Cryophilia I agree with you, that's why I voted for Harris, even though there are multitudes of major politicians I would support before her. But if elections were just about what was objectively best almost no elected officials would be in office. You have to at least attempt to play the game of politics and the DNC has flatly refused to do so the last three elections (and lost two of them).

This is the time to discuss that. There's a non-zero chance that the DNC tries to anoint someone like Tim Kaine like $insult to the nomination and then they loose to some Diet Trump person. And I really don't think waiting until 2032 to fix what's being broken today is a good plan.

@SatansMaggotyCumFart He was pretty far left for 2008. Support for Gay Rights/Marriage, Universal Health Care, a proto-energy New Deal, lobbyist refore (pre SuperPac Era), military pullout from Iraq were all on the left side of the 2008 Dem party and he ran hard on all those; especially in the primary.

@SatansMaggotyCumFart Harris was also widely unpopular even among Democrats. When she ran for President in 2020 she received less than 1,000 votes nationally. She was on the ballot in California our home state and we couldn't get her over 1,000 votes.

She's just not a good electoral candidate. Had Biden dropped out late 2023 and the Dems held a primary with debates and such; she never would have been chosen as the candidate.

Harris could have had a any stance(s) she wanted, she was doomed to fail from the beginning.

@finitebanjo @melpomenesclevage If Biden had the debate performance in the primary that he had on the General he would have lost to a wet paper bag.

@SatansMaggotyCumFart @pjwestin Obama was considered "far left" when he ran in 2008.

@CatsGoMOW @GreenEngineering3475 Rodgers really is Farve 2.0?

@shellsharks Jury Duty

@jqubed @jeffw Because he's a good backup, 4M/yr 3M/yr guaranteed is a pretty good bargain for a guy who can still sling it. What else were you going to do?

@over_clox Upvote as Star seems to work too. That's pretty chill.

@pete_link There's no way that couldn't be misused.

@superduperpirate @GreenEngineering3475 Assuming it's true, I don't think a kicker can get away with this.

@dhork @cowfodder They used to have that. There was a 3 yard "imaginary halo" and you had to start your slide with at least three yards of separation for a penalty.

It might make sense to bring that back or at least make it a 5yrd vs. 15yrd if the QB slides late.

Same with the sideline. They should draw a second line 3 yards out of bounds and if you're hit in that line late it's a 5yrd penalty, outside of it 15yrds (and maybe an ejection).

@JOMusic It's actually a pretty big concession Trump gave up. Theoretically we're not allowed to restrict the flow of firearms out of the country because of the 2nd Amendment. So it opens up a whole can of worms as to how legally we'll restrict that flow of weapons (or even if we can).

@alexc It's citizens that bring those Guns into Mexico. It's legal to do so until they've crossed into Mexico. So in theory if we see you on the US side of the border heading into Mexico with a nominally legal weapon, we're not suppose to stop you.

Trump essentially promised that this would change. Which is a pretty big deal as that's how a lot of guns come into Mexico for the Cartels.

@alexc To cross the border with a gun?

@GreenEngineering3475 The NFL needs to start treating Achilles injuries as 2 year injuries at best. They are trying to bring people back too soon.