If we toss aside issues of ideology to focus just on technical ability to perform, I think you are missing a key factor. Electing a president is also electing the administration, and a president can only be as good as the people they surround themselves with. Biden knows how to assemble a solid team, while Trump doesn't. Trump is also incapable of listening to food advice, even in the rare instance where he allows it to be given to him.

Look at the issue of the newly expanded presidential immunity. The President is sheltered from prosecution for issuing an illegal order, but his staff is not required to follow that order. Which candidate will surround themselves with people who respect the law, and which candidate will surround themselves with lackeys?

Oh, Biden himself does actually believe that, but that's true of pretty much every president. I do think it's a little more extreme in his case than for most.

How would I know? The point is that the best thing he can do with his position in the Senate is to look forward. He's not the type to pursue his individual interests at the expense of the cause.

This is something a lot of my compatriots on the left don't seem to get. Good activists don't make good politicians, and good politicians don't make good activists. We need both. Bernie is a politician, and I'm not.

I actually have moved on in a lot of ways, except that I want us to learn from past mistakes so we don't repeat them. I want every person in America to understand how the establishment (of both parties) manipulates the national conversation so we quit falling for the same bullshit.

You're a clown and I'm treating you like one. I don't actually think the US will abandon Israel, and my actual claim was that support was cracking. We'll keep supporting Israel in a general way, but it won't be the unconditional kowtowing Israel has become used to.

I never said that Israel doesn't provide anything, but tech moves way too fast for any country to be irreplaceable. Israel simply doesn't have enough population to maintain it's edge without US backing. There is nothing that Israel does that can't be done elsewhere.

No country has to exist or has a right to exist. People have a right to exist. Ethno States are a bad idea, and Israel shows exactly why.

I didn't claim you can't prove your claims, I just said your claims are bullshit. The truth is easy to find, so I leave that to those that are interested.

There is nothing worthwhile being done by Israeli companies that can't be done elsewhere. We're the US to abandon Israel, there would be a bit of pain in the transition, but it wouldn't last long. In my long infosec career, I found Israeli tech companies to be far better at marketing than providing solid technology.

So I'm apparently antisemitic now? I guess I should be shocked and hurt by that accusation, except that Zionist apologists have made it into a bad joke. The hilarious thing is that it's the antisemitics in the US backing Israel, and the majority of American Jews are supporting a ceasefire. The Evangelicals need the Jews to take back all of Israel then die in fire so Jesus can come back. That's your base of "support" in the US. That and the politicians bribed by AIPAC.

The IDF sets up humanitarian corridors as a PR move, then spoils it by bombing them. Humanitarian corridors are not exclusive to the IDF, as with every other example you started with "no other army". You also are completely failing to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinians.

Congress has to approve any spending, but they very often give the executive branch some level of discretion to deal with issues that come up in real time. Almost the entire reason for the executive to exist is that some things can't wait for a committee.

Has anyone heard about FISA being expanded?

I said we can push him left. Please keep pushing.

The whole design of the SS system is that current workers pay benefits for current retirees. The trust fund was created later in preparation for retiring boomers.

At worst, it goes back to the original system and benefits get reduced to match what workers are putting in. That might be as high as a worst case 20% reduction, but it's not going to go away entirely. As others have mentioned, even that is completely avoidable.

If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.

As someone who doesn't want another Trump presidency, I have a request. Please stop trying to help. This shit makes even Pelosi seem like a brilliant campaigner.