Biden tells Hill Democrats he 'declines' to step aside and says it's time for party drama 'to end'
Biden tells Hill Democrats he 'declines' to step aside and says it's time for party drama 'to end'
President Joe Biden in a letter to congressional Democrats is standing firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy after his dismal debate performance.
Here's the part I like: Biden said "if they’re serious they ought to 'announce for president, challenge me at the convention' or rally behind him against Trump".
He's got a point. I thought the debate was a massive fuck-up, but deciding who to replace him with and then mounting a viable attempt at the replacement with that person makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than just leaning into GOP talking points about how Biden's fuckups, however bad, are definitely worse than Trump's objectively much worse fuckups.
Replace Biden? Sure, let's get fuckin busy, find a good replacement, and if doesn't work, get behind Biden or whoever the nominee is. I still think Jon Stewart is the way to do it, but that is probably a non starter of an idea. Kamala Harris is the highest polling option and realistic. Be aware that everyone who was super panicked about Biden's unsuitability will instantly pivot to panicking with concern-trolling about Kamala's unsuitability, and if you fall for it right away again and start trying to replace her, I will not have a lot of respect for you or your intelligence or pattern recognition abilities.
Keep Biden? Sure, that sounds good too. Let's get fuckin busy, and start rallying people to help him beat the end of the world in November.
Keep running in circles flapping our hands in the air about how something must be done because we're definitely going to lose in November, without offering any good alternate strategy or way to get it done? That is the option that seems unlikely to cause anything good to happen. It is, however, what a lot of the Republican aligned media seems very very committed to encouraging the Democrats to do, and for some mentally challenged reason it seems like it's winning over quite a lot of them.
Lots of politicians are cowards. A few candidates confronted Biden and were completely destroyed in the primary.
It's incredibly selfish to hurt the overall party goals (climate change, healthcare, increasing taxes on the wealthy) just to help your personal career.
As in many things, it is easy to look in from the outside, and lob criticism because of problems or failures you can clearly see. Fun, too! You get to look like a genius and the guy trying to get things done looks like a chump in the harsh illumination of your piercing insight.
It is much more difficult to step into the situation and help achieve success. And yet, the second one is what's needed. The first one is valuable too, sure, but we've got enough of it at this point, I think.
Trump does his fuck ups with enough confidence for his voters not to notice.
Bro. He could rape their kids live on cspan and they’d line up to lick his asshole in gratitude.
That's actually not true. People regularly walk out of Trump rallies early because it's just an incoherent mess and it just keeps going for over an hour. Even the true believers aren't that into it after a while.
This post makes a fairly compelling and fairly chilling argument for why it might be that Trump gets such a free pass in the media for the blatant fuckups he makes and why there's still so much scrutiny of Biden.
Sundowning on live television doesn't seem to have worked, let's try hubris instead!
I realize it was not Biden that called it "drama", but there is a lot more here at stake, and characterizing it as "drama" is wildly irresponsible.
“Party drama must end” says the man only really staying in because of his massive ego.
(Ya’ll still need to vote)
You're talking about Biden's 'massive ego' in a race with Trump as a candidate? 🤣
DNC ego is why we got Trump in 2016.
Also Trump voters don't care about their candidate being shitty. It's a feature not a bug. Biden has people with standards and morals to motivate. Relying on the shittiness of trump is a losing move. Biden was inoffensive in 2020, that no longer the case this time round. This all is how we end up with trump again
All of donnie's faults are a given, but there is no reason we should excuse Biden's hubris if we are heading for the fascist iceberg...
fuck off, dude beat trump the first time, and has been an excellent president
dude beat trump the first time
Barely. He won the popular vote by a smaller margin than Hillary did in 2016 and the few swing states that decided the outcome by a smaller margin than Trump did that year. This while being mostly known as the VP of a popular president.
has been an excellent president
No. Nowhere near as bad as the Mango Mussolini, of course, but he's been the low end of mediocre at best. And the electorate remembers how disappointing the current president has been better than how awful the previous one was. It's stupid and unfair, but that's how it is.
Half his party is concerned that he can’t win. No need to listen to them. After all, he’s the POTUS so he must know what he’s doing.
Le sigh.
Biden is declining!
"I'm not stepping aside. (Every step hurts.)"
Nah bruh fuck off.