Well. Now We Know Who's Trying To Oust Joe Biden.

Well. Now we know who's trying to oust Joe Biden.

It's billionaires pissed that he's not taking their calls. It's really, really rich people who are mad at how progressive Joe Biden is.

So anyway. If you're still on the fence: Joe Biden pisses off the billionaires.

nytimes.com

Megadonors Are Plotting to Change Biden’s Mind With Money. Will It Work?

They’re calling politicians. They’re dangling money to members of Congress. But major Democratic donors who want President Biden to step asi

Not a comic book fan but Bill Maher really is being a fucking shithead here. This is the part that gets me:

I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.   

Yeah, that’s great, Bill. Forget the rising xenophobia, misogyny, fascism, homophobia, fundamentalism and violence that’s festered in this country for generations and just blame all our suffering on how much dumber you think everyone is than you. Classist prick.

If you’re a Leftist, if you support Palestine, it’s absolutely fundemental that you read this. I actually encourage that everyone should read this:

“The Palestinian People have consistently made it crystal clear that our enemy is the colonialist and racist ideology of Zionism, not Jews.”

“I have zero interest in memorising or apologising for centuries old tropes created by Europeans, or giving semantics more heft than they warrant, chiefly when millions of us confront real, tangible oppression[…]”

Words by Mohammed El-Kurd.

Yes yes, I too am very sad and annoyed that Trump is not dead, I got all breathlessly excited and queued up "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" to be ready for a great announcement, and then I didn't even get to play it. It's a huge bummer.

However, step two of this huge bummer is NOT "Oh no and now his fandom will be EVEN MORE ANNOYING, we have basically already lost :((((" That is the devil speaking. Step two is to say "Ah heck, his fandom is going to be even more annoying, better FUCKING VOTE AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE I KNOW ALSO VOTES" Stop your worthless defeatism, stop your stupid pessimism, stop trying to GIVE UP AND SURRENDER just cause one weird thing happened.

GO VOTE, IDIOTS

If Trump wanted to stage a fake assassination attempt, his people would have gone a lot harder to make sure the alleged shooter had - or at least seemed to have - actual leftist ties. A dude who donated to Democrats once and then later on registered as a Republican doesn't exactly paint a clear, unambiguous enemy here.

The simplest explanation here is that Trump's people were incompetent, and the shooter just wasn't that great a shot. We're talking about a college student versus the guy known for being an incompetent clown who surrounds himself with other incompetent clowns. There's no deep mystery here.