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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] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Biden is likely to resign this weekend. I guess the entirety of the Democratic party is russian bots, right?

You might want to think through the thought process that lead you to be so wrong about what was happening, and why you ended up being a follower while the people you were following were deciding to go in the opposite direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dems are the easiest to sway. Start them hand-wringing and like a room full of metronomes they'll soon all be wringing their hands.

Russia knows this. Russia's red-state tools know this. Easiest coup ever.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A message to the DNC, if you want the votes, run someone popular. Hillary got us Trump, and they are working to let it happen again. Vote for the best candidate. Don't waste your vote on a crappy short-term candidate, and maybe one day we can get a good one, maybe one day great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

If you want someone popular; participate in the primaries and spruik for your preferred candidate.

Until the US institutes preferential voting, citizens need to vote tactically in general elections. Vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the one who you oppose most. Abstaining from voting is just a vote for the opposition by proxy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Biden is basically a guarunteed loss, so anyone advocating Biden when there's the possibility of replacing him with someone who polls better, like Harris, want a dem loss. It's really that simple.

There aren't enough pep talks or backhanded memes that will change Biden's inability to drive out voters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

All the people in here complaining they don't like their choices. Holy fuck, those are the choices. You don't get to change them in under half a year from the election, lol. We've already had the primaries. We have two old candidates. One is old and has been running the country successfully for nearing 4 years. One is a convicted felon with convictions ranging from fraud to sexual assault. Both have age-related health issues, but only one is promising to try and bring about the end of democracy in this country via Project 2025 if elected.

If you want to change your choices next time, support some form of ranked voting in your state next time so that you can vote for the wild progressive candidate, but also rank the one you think is likely to win under that.

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

The Democratic Convention is in a month. The Republican convention ended today, and the only meme I've seen about it is the usual Grindr joke. Nobody seems to know - or care - that it happened.

When Biden steps down due to medical issues, the convention is going to turn into a media frenzy.

Couple more weeks of the bastard so old he makes Trump look young, and we've got ourselves a brand new ball game.

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