The term “court packing” has a very specific meaning. It refers to adding seats to the supreme court to shift the balance.

Bernie would crush Jesus too.

We have to save democracy from Trump, so we can’t afford the luxury of a primary election. /s

The issue wasn’t that people didn’t show up. There was record turnout for a primary race. The issue was concerns about electability. The talking heads kept repeating incessantly that Biden had the better shot at beating Trump. It was complete bullshit based off polls, but people believed it. Beating Trump was the top priority with policy taking a back seat. The position we are in now is the universe’s sense of irony.

The thing that fucks American elections isn’t our abysmal turnout. It’s the complete lack of civic involvement between elections that makes voters easily malleable by expensive ad campaigns.

By the time the Illinois primary came around, it was already over. He still got my vote, for what it was worth.

Why not both?

Once upon a time, search. Those days are long past.

6 decades of third parties have failed to gain momentum but sure, 6 months (or 4) is plenty.

Draft John Stewart.

If actual content were the goal, they would hav gotten more than 2 minutes per answer.

Kamala is the backup the party leadership chose.

Both candidates would get laughed off stage here

There’s a reason there was no audience.

The DNC gets to pick any replacement. To them, that’s far better than rolling the dice on a progressive winning a primary.

It’s come to the point where the risk of changing the candidate has to be weighed against the risk of not changing the candidate.

It’s hardly unthinkable. Half the party has been thinking it, now the other half is waking up.

Trump just said Biden sucks at golf, then Biden gave an incoherent response.

a tepid but smart, compassionate leader.

Is that really what you saw on that stage tonight? I saw a guy who lost his car keys because he was so angry at those kids on his lawn. Whether or not the narrative on Biden is fair, he just totally legitimized it.

I get what you’re saying about debating with Trump, or any Republican really. Debate is a lot easier when you care nothing for the truth. Overcoming that is the Democratic candidate’s job. That’s what Biden signed up to do. That’s what the Democrats picked him to do. A candidate who can’t function in that situation has no business on that stage. There are a great many Democrats who could have wiped the floor with Trump.

I like the part of the election cycle when some good things are allowed to happen.

I don’t even blame Biden for waiting. Americans have such short memories that getting elected means having to hold some things in reserve, and getting reelected or passing the office on are genuinely important factors. It just sucks that people had to wait.

Congrats to everyone helped by this!

Dems also changed their minds one actually supporting the incumbents here.

This has never been a standard they apply to progressives.

With Hillary weighing in on the side of AIPAC to endorse the challenger, I’d say that the establishment is pretty comfortable taking AIPAC’s money.