Like, why even bother with the election at all? Biden can just not participate in it, and stay in power as long as he does it as an official act. The Supreme Court just ruled that he’s allowed to do that.
Then tie up any opposition in the court system for as many years as you need
I hope this was a joke. If not, you grossly misunderstand the situation.
If it’s an official act, he could keep power. That’s the ruling by the corrupt court.
And official acts have guidelines. It is very clear that not everything a president does is an official act.
Damn, the selfishness and out of touch arrogance is crazy. They really think they’re entitled to power, even at the cost of our democracy.
So…. Let’s get this straight:
He’s being selfish for trying to stop a tyrant from turning America into a dictatorship run by a rapist/convicted felon…
But people who are not voting, are…. Hero patriots protecting democracy? Do I have that right?
He’s being selfish for trying to stop a tyrant from turning America into a dictatorship run by a rapist/convicted felon…
He’s being selfish because he’s giving that fascist rapist the best chance he’s got at winning the white house, all because his ego won’t allow him to admit he’s failed and people don’t want him in the whitehouse.
He was elected because he let the implication that he’d be a one-term care taker president. He knew from the beginning that he didn’t have what it would take to carry a second election, but he’s just too addicted to trying to salvage his legacy.
What he’ll be remebered for funding a genocide, clinging arrigantly to power and handing our democracy over to the far right.
he’s giving that fascist rapist the best chance he’s got at winning the white house
Naaah… people like you are doing that.
NYT is reporting on a hastily arranged call of the DNC finance committee today with some big donors. I don’t see a non-paywalled source about it, but I assume it is happening.
That is a hugely important meeting because if Biden’s donors say they will not support the campaign financially anymore, that will be one of the dominoes that would need to fall to get Biden to back out. Campaigns are expensive, and Trump’s fundraising is focused on his campaign as third priority, after paying his legal bills and Trump himself.
I’m not really sure whether Biden can pull this off or not, but his chances are zero if his big donors stop giving.
Campaigns are expensive,
Moderate Dem campaigns are expensive in that they need big money donors to convince voters to hold their noses.
Progressive Dem campaigns are essentially free because the voters themselves are donating the bulk of the money.
The same efforts spent to get voters, naturally gets donors.
I don’t think people realize how much time and effort Biden and the DNC put into getting these big fundraisers with George Clooney when it’s a completely unnecessary step.
It shouldn’t take 2 billion dollars to get more votes than trump, but that’s what its been projected to cost to get Biden back in the White House. And that was before America saw him at the debate…
If the DNC is doing things behind the scenes, it’s probably to re-route the big incoming dark money push to make sure it’ll still land on a party favorite.
Last election it was 64 million in a single donation that no one knows where it came from…
Yet in the summer of 2020, when a blandly named entity called the Impetus Fund received a $64 million donation from a single anonymous source, it touched off a guessing game with broad political implications.
That single anonymous donation, routed through a series of accounts, eventually would be used to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Critics say it has come to illustrate an increasingly opaque system of funding elections that in 2024 could reach a scale that dwarfs all previous election cycles.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/
We can’t just blindly keep supporting anyone that’s not a Republican. We’ve been doing it for a long time and it’s not fucking working.
That’s is NOT the year to fuck around. If Trump wins, the chance that he will declare himself president for life is WAY too high and apparently perfectly legal now.
You can do it Joe!
Biden’s campaign and his family are the only ones defending him, and now his family is turning on the campaign…
Among the most vocal: Jill Biden and son Hunter, whom the president has long gone to for counsel and advice. Both believe the president shouldn’t bow out when he’s down, and believe that he can come back from what they see as one subpar performance. The family questioned how he was prepared for the debate by staff and wondered if they could have done something better, the people said.
Like, why the fuck is Hunter Biden involved in these decisions?
This is the one time voters actually want the party to put their fingers on the scales, and they just fucking won’t.
They’d rather risk trump then turn on Biden, because he appointed the current DNC leadership.
And if a Dem doesn’t win the general, they get to vote to maintain the current leadership.
Who are obviously incredibly incompetent. If Biden wins, he’s keeping them all for their loyalty.
The party top concern isn’t stopping trump, it’s maintaining their personal power over one of the only two political parties in America, that’s supposed to raise 2 billion just for Biden’s campaign this cycle.
They’re in it for the money, not to save America.
We can’t keep putting our future in their hands.
No, there’s a lot of us that don’t want to surrender the incumbent advantage for the very common backlash-against-the-last-party phenomenon we’ve seen many times in the past decades.
We’re just not as loud as everyone else, and our position makes terrible clickbait.
I don’t know, did you see the same debate i saw? But it’s ok, it will be fine. Kamala Harris will just take over when the time comes.
I did. I saw a tired old man and a used car salesman. More importantly though, is I don’t think almost everyone gives two shits about debates or polls. They know these two guys, know them well. What they offer is clear.
Additionally, I don’t think a President has to be spry. They just need to be good at delegation, that is by far the most important skill. If you think about monarchy, the king did not need to run everything. Simply assign the tasks to people who did know all the details. Generals run the army. Finance ministers run economy. Diplomats run diplomacy. Etc.
