• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Never play chess with a pigeon.

    The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.

    Then shits all over the board.

    Then struts around like it won.”

    If it isn’t obvious, Trump is the pigeon.

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      7 months ago

      Did you read the article?

      By moving the first debate to before the Democratic convention in August, Democrats increase their option value. Here’s what I mean by that. If Biden totally and irrecoverably screws up in the June debate — he’s just obviously no longer ready for prime time — then he can step down and Democrats can pull the Ezra Klein break-glass-in-case-of-emergency plan and hold a contested convention. It’s not ideal — that’s an understatement — but it’s much less bad than going into the final months of the campaign certain to lose.