I think you mean “Trump’s VP pick is also a naked authoritarian.”

In the unlikely event the law still applies to Donald Trump and this gets overturned on appeal, does this mean it can go to a new judge?

“A number we are forbidden, by law, from stating” is about as rhetorically effective as anything else they could say.

What you’re seeing right now is how tough it is to get the geriatrics who already have power to leave the door open to someone else.

If we exclude those people we’ll have like 6 Democrats left to work with. And 0 Republicans, which would be nice.

Even if Donald Trump were young, handsome, well spoken, charming, and intelligent, he’d still stand for a repugnant and destructive cause. Meanwhile, the biggest albatross on the Democrats’ relatively positive agenda is its weak leader.

They don’t have or need good arguments, they just need to run out the clock until “It’s too late to change” becomes a legitimate argument.

Because that’s not a thing and never has been? Find me any large scale protests in the history of the US where they were protesting a candidate prior to an election.

There’s not a single liberal or leftist (a few paid shill podcasters notwithstanding) in the whole country saying “Joe Biden’s brain is so soupy that Donald Trump would make a better president.” We’re saying Democrat leadership suppressed the primary to anoint an incumbent who’s going to lose. Democracy is on the line, and we’re running out of time to put our best foot forward. It’d be one thing if we were getting honest and reasonable arguments in response, but instead we’re getting gaslit (Only the elites want Biden to step aside?) and being told "get in line or you’re helping Trump somehow. " Meanwhile, Republicans are preparing to sue to keep Biden on the ballot in the event of a switch, because they know who they want to run against.

I hope I’m wrong and I hope he wins, since we’re probably stuck with him on the ticket. Given that he’s down 12 points from where he was in 2020 against Trump, where the swing states that gave Biden the election were only fractions of a percent in his favor, it’s gonna take some kind of miracle. We don’t have to be in this seemingly hopeless situation, but Biden’s ego and stubbornness seem like they’re gonna keep us here.

Insist all you like, but we’re going to be seeing clips of that debate from now until November.

Textbook thug mentality. “I’m gonna take your shit, if you do anything about it then you’re forcing me to get violent.”

No, let’s. The wealthy have been quietly waging class war on the rest of us for decades. If we do it out in the open I feel much better about our chances.

I’d take him over Trump in a heartbeat, and intend to vote for him if he’s the candidate. That said, there’s nothing that can make these concerns about his mental capability go away, and he’s already behind in the polling. They either need to come up with a plan to turn it around, or he should step aside.

Well, yeah, I am making the case for him to withdraw. I think he’s a very good president and if he remains the Democrat candidate I’ll vote for him. I just don’t think enough people feel the same way for him to win.

His accomplishment are, indeed, boring to the average voter. His agenda was the Democrat agenda. It was the right agenda, in my opinion, but any Democrat president would have been about the same. Willingly stepping aside, on the other hand, would be a noteworthy gesture of humility that we don’t see often.

So in response to my lengthy rant about why Biden needs to step aside, you just happened to notice the date, with no deeper meaning?

You’re arguing in bad faith now.

If Joe Biden sticks around and manages to win, he’ll be remembered as a pretty average president. If he sticks around and loses, he’ll be remembered as a politician whose arrogance hurt the whole country.

If he withdraws without more fuss, he’ll be remembered as an extraordinarily decent and humble man, especially among politicians, regardless of the results of the election.

Edit: Look at this - a classic case of a basic fact being down voted on Lemmy.

Fuck off with that. People aren’t downvoting a basic fact, they’re downvoting the implication that 4 months means we’re stuck with Biden.

And every day he holds off on giving up the nomination is a day his actually viable replacement is deprived of. The latest DNC internal polling shows him even farther behind in swing states and on the verge of losing some reliably blue states.

DNC Leadership: We won’t have a real primary, that’ll weaken the incumbent, who’ll probably win anyway. And remember, if you don’t get behind our anointed candidate, you’re anti-democratic.

The numbers are already coming in, the debate hurt Biden, and badly. Why does “Democracy is on the line” only mean voters are required to show up to vote for whoever DNC Leadership chose for us? Why do they have no obligation to put their best foot forward?

They’re gonna bet democracy on “We don’t really have a plan to turn this around, we’re just gonna keep doing what we’ve been doing and hope things get better.” The man is ancient, his brain is not gonna suddenly start improving. People know how aging works, and know that even if he never flops that badly on camera again, it’s just because he was never on camera at the wrong time.

The notion that a civilian militia could plausibly overcome the US military was outdated over 100 years ago. The only viable path toward a violent revolution in the United States is getting all or most of the military on board.

So in other words, Biden is still losing.