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  • She’s fried toast. She’s been trying to raise her profile but she doesn’t poll well at all. If they went with her suddenly, it would be worse than staying with Biden. Newsom is probably the highest profile person who could feasibly replace Biden now. Unfortunately at this point parties don’t tend to take extra risk so it would be a straight white man with just the right amount of gray in his hair and in their political prime.

    The real problem they face, if they want to switch Biden out, is convincing the governor of California to resign to run. He has 3 years left on his term. But he’s also term limited so he could go for it.




  • I don’t know, I do know when you compare gross wealth something ridiculous like half the USA is in the top 10 percent. That of course takes nothing like Purchasing Power Parity or Required Goods, (like a functioning car) into account. You’ve got to be very careful with these kinds of statistics.

    One thing we know for sure though, you can take 99% of a Billionaire’s wealth and they’d still never need to work another day in their life. And it’s not even like they’d need a strict budget to make that happen. (A lot of “financially independent” people got enough dividend stocks to bring in 100K a year and retired, they need a strict budget to keep not working.)


  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTime to move
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    6 days ago

    Unless you’re Russia, running away with a bunch of secret documents doesn’t qualify you for asylum. And I’m not sure anyone is looking to get out of a dangerous country and into the war in Ukraine. At that point I think they’d just go volunteer with Ukraine.