{"id":15089,"date":"2024-07-10T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15089"},"modified":"2024-07-10T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:53:38","slug":"paging-johnny-unbeatable-dems-in-disarray-but-really-this-time-bradcast-7102024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=15089","title":{"rendered":"Paging &#8216;Johnny Unbeatable&#8217;! Dems in Disarray! (But Really This Time): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/10\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BidenHelicopterStepDown_071024.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Well, this is all going well. Though, somehow, today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> made me feel moderately better about it all for the moment. (<i>See?! He&#8217;s a moderate!<\/i>) Anyway, I&#8217;m hoping you&#8217;ll feel somehow marginally better as well after listening to today&#8217;s program. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this brief summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>We begin with a few noteworthy news items for helpful, or at least interesting, context&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/09\/biden-clinton-harris-democrat-poll-00166937\">new survey<\/a> from a Democratic pollster finds that while <b>Donald Trump<\/b> is currently beating <b>Joe Biden<\/b> nationally by one point in head-to-head polling, <b>Kamala Harris<\/b> is actually <i>ahead<\/i> of Trump by a point in the same poll. A different Dem, who nobody is talking about (for good reason?) also leads Trump in the same survey.<\/li>\n<li>Former House Speaker <b>Nancy Pelosi<\/b> says she stands behind the President, though offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097\">less than full-throated endorsement<\/a> for his continuing candidacy on a cable new interview this morning, though she absolutely did <i>not<\/i> say that Biden should either &#8220;Reconsider Decision to Stay in the Race&#8221; or &#8220;consider dropping out&#8221; as <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emptywheel\/status\/1811038618238042227\/photo\/2\">falsely reported<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/10\/us\/politics\/pelosi-biden-drop-out.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U0.VfVq.aC7ydyEL66ck&#038;smid=url-share\">correcting their headline<\/a>, without explanation, after being <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elliskkim\/status\/1811046928563491036\">called out<\/a> (and after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/newsjennifer\/status\/1809231866869817509?s=10&#038;t=HLiN6axbv_5Esg4Tvm1utg\">more than 200 articles<\/a> focused on Biden&#8217;s performance in the two weeks since the debate.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then we&#8217;re joined for some much-needed common sense &#8212; and a few similarly much-needed belly laughs (between tears) &#8212; by two of our favorite roundtable guests: <b>HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/heather_digby_parton\">Salon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/\">Hullabaloo<\/a>, and <b>&#8216;DRIFTGLASS&#8217;<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/professionalleft.blogspot.com\/\"><i>The Professional Left Podcast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll never guess what we&#8217;re discussing today! But we&#8217;ve got a lot of it to talk about, and both Digby and Drifty are on their game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will fight like hell for whoever is the top of the Democratic ticket come November,&#8221; Driftglass (occasionally known as Bill) tells us. &#8220;The threat from Donald Trump outweighs every other consideration. Thus far, for the last three and a half years, [Biden] has governed the country remarkably well, steered through many crises, and done right by me. I think it&#8217;s time we buckle down and say, &#8216;Look, whoever the Democratic nominee is, is better than Trump.&#8217; Period. Full stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Digby concurs with the sentiment, but notes that, although there is no indication yet he plans to do so &#8212; even with support on Capitol Hill for him to continue being lukewarm at best &#8212; if Biden does decide to drop out: &#8220;I think that I would really, <i>really<\/i> like him to do it on the night that Donald Trump is going to accept the nomination for his party, and just stab him as hard in the back on his way out as he can, because you know that Donald Trump would do the same to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re talking. And there is much more both insight and snark where that came from today, including discussion of&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wildly unhelpful and misleading corporate media coverage.<\/li>\n<li>What we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/07\/08\/a-global-popular-front-against-facism-emerges--but-trumpism-threatens-to-buck-the-trend\/\">should learn<\/a> from the election in <b>France<\/b> on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Whether he can serve four more years or not, can Biden still actually win in November?<\/li>\n<li>Would Harris have a better shot?<\/li>\n<li>The disconnect between elected officials, media &#8220;experts&#8221; and actual Democratic voters on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>If Biden were to step down, is there time and process for a reasonably non-chaotic way to transition to a new candidate?<\/li>\n<li>Would Digby and Driftglass vote for <b>George W. Bush<\/b> or even <b>Dick Cheney<\/b> if one them became the Democratic candidate to take on Donald Trump?<\/li>\n<li>And who is this &#8220;Johnny Unbeatable&#8221; guy? And where should Democrats find him? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that and <i>much<\/i> more on today&#8217;s unbeatable <em>BradCast<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_HeatherDigbyParton-Driftglass-BidenCandidacy_071024.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is all going well. Though, somehow, today&#8217;s BradCast made me feel moderately better about it all for the moment. (See?! He&#8217;s a moderate!) Anyway, I&#8217;m hoping you&#8217;ll feel somehow marginally better as well after listening to today&#8217;s program. 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