Rule of Israel: all decisions and situations end with the outcome that keeps Bibi in power.

It makes them really easy to predict.

• Because it sells/trends.

• Because they’re all glued to Twitter.

• Because the Trump crowd is kinda right, they suffer from group think.

• And because they’re salty that the White House all but hoodwinked them, insisting that Biden was fine, which they clearly should have been more skeptical of.

I don’t really buy the theories that the media conglomerate leadership is pushing for it. And I’m not calling them incompetent or anything, but clearly they weren’t clear eyed with this issue when a large swathe of the public was.

And I’m not talking about Republicans. My mother would literally vote for a Hitler/Stalin ticket before Donald Trump, she despises him so much it’s hilarious, but even she thought Biden was way too old to run. Even before the debate.

You are right lol.

edit:

Still, they are hyper focusing one flub instead of the meat of the speech.

This would be so much better if the Biden campaign didn’t act like they were in denial.

If he’s so hell bent on being president… OK. But he needs to come out with Kamala Harris, and emphatically say “I’m old. I know it. And I’ll lean on my cabinet and my vice president, heavily, and do what we’ve been doing.” Not act like everything’s hunky dory when everyone knows it’s not.

Act like Harris is an equal! Put her front and center! They can have their cake and eat it if he just puts his pride aside.

And here come the sound bites.

This is the problem. I don’t want to excuse Biden, but even if 95% of the speech is fine, the 5% is all 99% of readers will ever see.

I’ve learned that whenever there’s an inflection point in Israel, the outcome is “whatever helps Bibi.”

So… I wouldn’t bet on that, as the consensus seems to be that a prolonged war helps him stay in power. I don’t know how, but somehow the ceasefire will not work out.

This must be so weird for NATO officials in the room. The future of NATO hinges in him… and it really has nothing to do with the message he conveys, but how he says it.

Is it better for NATO if he flubs it, and gets another candidate in? Worse? shrug

I wouldn’t bet against it.

Is anyone on the apnews link without adblock?

I’m trying to give them revenue, but…

But practically, he could split the party.

Trump basically made the same threat back when he was an “undesired” candidate. They couldn’t get rid of him, because he’d just trash the party.

I am voting, but in the presidential race, it literally doesn’t matter in the two states I’ve lived in, just as it never has.

And donald trump.

This is how he’s winning. He’s the “rebel” candidate (and yes I know that is tremendously ironic for so many reasons).

This is a fair post though.

Biden and his admin basically decieved the mainstream press about the severity of his aging. As one outlet put it, “hell hath no fury like a press corps decieved”

It worked before. Right?

I feel like a lot of people still don’t know who Harris is.

Every average joe off the street knows Clinton.

That’s exactly what it is:

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/biden-house-democrats-withdraw-nominee

Ultimately Biden has to agree to step down, and if he can’t be convinced, there is nothing anyone can do.

So both candidates have hijacked their own parties, as they can literally destroy them if they are forced out.

I think a lot of people are overthinking this. She’s supporting Biden because as of today the battle is “over”

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/biden-house-democrats-withdraw-nominee

No use falling on swords anymore, apparently.

This is going to be awful though, as Biden is going to get demolished in another debate, and it’ll look terrible if he refuses.

Some seem to think Harris would be the presumptive nominee:

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/04/kamala-harris-replace-biden-2024-election

A reminder that Trumpy candidates to run against is what some Democrats wanted:

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/28/democrats-colorado-primary-ron-hanks-joe-odea