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A message to wavering Democrats (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that it's popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He's old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting "Christian" Nationalists.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

if the vice president and either a majority of the executive Cabinet or a review body appointed by Congress declare in writing that the president is unfit for office, then the vice president immediately becomes the acting president.

That wouldn't be enough to LITERALLY remove him, but it would be such a strong signal of disavowal from people who he himself appointed that he'd be effectively dead to the party already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

True. It would still be unethical unless he was actually medically unfit, though. Regardless of debate performance, he's probably not actually senile yet, which they would know better than we would just from working with the guy regularly.