The great 2020 election thread....

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Well at least one of us is willing to walk away from an argument he will never win.

Yeah but he implied it's your fault, so you might wanna think a bit more about your wickedly radical ways.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1269421118940643334

[Darth Wedgius]

I wonder how long it'll be before someone asks Biden if he is willing to defund the police departments.

[Makeshift Python]

Question: How many here believe we'd be better off with a second term with Trump than one with Biden?

[ProfessorDetective]

I wonder how long it'll be before someone asks Biden if he is willing to defund the police departments.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1270063181801459712

Anti-defunding, pro-reform, apparently.

[ProfessorDetective]

Question: How many here believe we'd be better off with a second term with Trump than one with Biden?

Not me.

[Darth Wedgius]

I wonder how long it'll be before someone asks Biden if he is willing to defund the police departments.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1270063181801459712

Anti-defunding, pro-reform, apparently.

Thanks! I should have searched for this.

I feel stupid now. Which is something a few people who don't usually agree with me just might.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

In my opinion, I think Bernie Sanders is pretty rad.

[Makeshift Python]

Cue the folks that will accuse you of wanting to turn the USA into the USSR lol

[GreyICE]

Good old car mechanic Biden. Wants to fix your car so it's exactly like it was five minutes before everything fell apart.

I wonder if he's realized that we've been reforming the police for 70 years now. Given his stances during the civil rights movement? Probably not.

Fortunately policing is in the hands of cities and states, not the President, and he ultimately has very little he can do to change it, for good or for ill. Yes, other social programs would be nice - a huge part of the problem is that we've slowly dismantled everything until the police are our mental health treatment, or community outreach, the stopgap for our failing schools, and the barricade to insulate middle class America from the effects of our crumbling infrastructure and constant funneling of wealth into the hands of the few. And getting some of those back might be something that car mechanic Biden might fight for, in his spineless, middle-of-the-road way. Although it won't do anything like it was in the 60s. But maybe we could get marginal tax rates on the rich to at least 40%, if not the full 91%, and use that money for some damn good.