1y ago

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

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1y ago

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

www.nytimes.com /2024/06/28/opinion/biden-election-debate-trump.html

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1y ago

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

www.nytimes.com /2024/06/28/opinion/biden-election-debate-trump.html

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1y ago

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race

www.nytimes.com /2024/06/28/opinion/biden-election-debate-trump.html

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Don't switch horses mid-race
Deal with this after we've secured democracy
You may not BE a Russian spammer working to elect the orange degenerate puppet by sowing discord and making people not vote, but that just means you aren't getting paid for it.
- I think running Biden gives Trump a better chance of winning. It's obvious Biden isnt fit for the job. I'd vote for a wet sandwich over Trump, but I'm not someone the Democrats have to convince. The Dems need a dramatically different candidate to have a fighting chance this November.
- Just because our side isn't as popular as you'd like doesn't mean we don't have democracy. Now what we do have is a flawed system with lots of mechanisms for a minority party to grind the gears to a halt, and incredibly low voter turnout especially among the far left.
  The only way out is to vote in a supermajority of reps who want to fix the system. So vote blue this year, and start building an electable coalition for next cycle. Don't just stand there, do something
To serve his country, Trump should leave the race
- the Earth
  FTFY
  
  The solar system, just to be safe
Oh look another questionable opinion piece in The New York Times, I'm shocked
I don't see Biden stepping aside. This is somewhat of a milquetoast piece that ignores the absurd amount of legwork that would need to be done. It's not just a vote at the DNC; it's turning a battleship around in terms of communications against a guy who would paint it in a particularly vile way as weakness. Which is to say, fucked either way.
The only way this conceivably happens is Biden dies before the election, which I'm sure there are contingency plans for, but that is the ultimate in-case-of-emergency-break-glass situation.
These thinkpieces about how Biden turned in a poor showing (he did) that also ignore that Trump was abysmal ... I don't know what to make of that. Biden was low energy and a bit rambly, but he at least allowed the truth to come out of his mouth once. That should not be the bar, but with the candidates we have, it has to be.
I cannot understand how anyone watches Trump and thinks "this guy gets me." He's not the second coming of Christ, he's the second coming of P.T. Barnum.
Step 1: get reelected
Step 2: resign
Step 3: First female president
- I think all the "Biden should step aside" calls are due to concerns about Step 1.
- So your idea is basically just lie to the American people some more until Biden wins and then put someone else in charge? Sounds about right
If he cared about the country, he would've already stepped aside, but I don't see it happening. They're already trying to excuse his performance saying it was a cold, then saying it was the cold medicine. They're kinda stuck with him now, but it's their fault. They've been lying and covering for him the last 3 years so they might as well keep it goin.
- If he cared about the country, he would've
  ... worked to ensure WE HAVE A DEMOCRACY by not switching horses mid-race, and schedule every next step after DEMOCRACY IS SECURED .
  Sorry to shout, but it's hard to be heard over the bleating of the Russian bots.
  
  Please don't assume that it's all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night's "debate" performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people's worst fears, my own included. I just don't know how he wins after that, and if he can't win, then I'm sorry but it's time for an open convention.
Sanders/AOC
- As a huge Sanders fan, he's too old as well now. AOC for sure, but sadly in this shithole country that's a pipe dream.
  
  AOC wants to be Speaker, not President.
- It could've been Sanders back in '16, maybe '20, but he's too old now. Don't switch one senile old fuck out with another.
  I'd be very pleased with AOC, but she isn't too popular with a lot of people.
  
  Don't switch one senile old fuck out with another.
  to be fair, Bernie has not lost a single step but, as a pragmatist, I think he would say his most effective position moving forward is in the senate.
- And look at that, AOC turns 35 in October (minimum age for presidency)! If only half of this country wouldn’t see her rise to such a stage as some affront to their white misogynistic identity, we could actually see real progress take shape.
  But yeah, Biden should not have ran and should have let someone younger and more cognitively astute in-the-moment take the stage. He’s probably a good person and probably a good family patriarch, but he is past the point of needing to step down.
  
  AoC needs to be VP for like 4 terms before being prez. Hammer home some decency and yeeeears of success so the fat old white guys can't ignore her like they do with VP Harris. Also, AoC as a VP for almost a generation as the nation's conscience kinda makes me happy.
Y'all. You run an incumbent if you have one. I don't know in what world you think getting someone new is a better shot than keeping a standing president in office, but it isn't this one.
If the DNC had run Biden in 2016 we probably never would have had Trump.

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