The Absurdity of the Dump-Biden Uprising
The Absurdity of the Dump-Biden Uprising
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The Absurdity of the Dump-Biden Uprising
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This article is fucking absurd. It holds up the primary as a paragon if the democratic process, even though Biden was the only candidate to have universal ballot access, and ignores the fact that two-thirds of Democratic didn't want him to run. It compares the Drop-Biden advocates to the January 6th protesters, even though they're advocating for a contested convention, which is the same process that was used until 1970. And to top it all off, it's written by Stuart Stevens, AKA Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign strategist. Why should the Democrats be taking advice from a Republican strategist, especially one that's already botched a presidential campaign?
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Primaries are also weird because depending on what state you live in the election is often decided before you even get to vote. Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.
If the general election can be one day maybe so can the primary.
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That's a feature, not a bug. The party leaders like having time to craft a narrative and create momentum behind their preferred candidate. It's how Biden's campaign managed to come back from the dead in 2020. If the primaries were all held on the same day, these pundits wouldn't be telling us to stick with Biden, they'd be telling us Bernie is too old for a second term.
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Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.
After South Carolina has decided for you.
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I voted uncommitted for a lot of reasons, and this is one of them. Getting Biden out and having a brokered convention certainly expresses my democratic will.
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Why should the Democrats be taking advice from a Republican strategist
Consistency?
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So the Democratic Party doesn't actually favor democracy?
Next you'll tell me North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, isn't actually democratic either.
The Dems coronated Biden while screaming at the top of their lungs how much they love democracy.
Goddamn I am tired of being gaslit.
Super tired of bullshit.
Tired of lies. Just because Trump lies 10 times for every 7 words he speaks does not mean I want a party that claims to rep my interests for me to lie to me 4 times for every 7 words. Jesus fucking H Christ. "But we the Dems only raped you a little bit, and the GOP will rape you more." Go fuck yourselves with that logic, Dem scum.
We need a giant country-wide systemic reset and the Dem leadership is thinking what kind of crumb they can still throw at the plebs without upsetting their precious billionaire donors.
The Dems slow-walked us to fascism while blaming the GOP. The Dems take zero personal responsibility.
The Democratic Party cannot fail us, it can only be failed by us.
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The Democratic Party held 57 primaries and caucuses; voters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories had their say
Not a single primary candidate besides Biden appeared on a majority of states ballots, and many states literally only had Biden. Democrats did not have a primary this year.
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Right? I don't remember seeing a debate or anything. It's equivalent to those elections people make fun of in North Korea, where the choices are the leader and nobody.
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His percentages were even higher than Putin in those races
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Did he even watch the debate? Biden played right into the right-wing narrative about him. The only way Biden wins this thing is by getting out there, talking to every reporter, holding every baby, and proving that the debate was a fluke. I don't think he can do it.
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I don't think he can do it.
And if he can, why the hell isn't he?!?!
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Biden should have booked a tough sit down interview for the weekend after the debate to show he has the mental chops and ability to communicate the stakes of this campaign. Instead it's been five days now since the debate and Biden hasn't spoken publicly without a teleprompter. Hell dem governors and members of congress, including party leaders, have not spoken to Biden since the debate. Biden is doing basically nothing to calm people down. Hiding him and only rolling him out with a teleprompter in tow just plays into the republican conspiracy that Biden has had a significant decline. To the point that it's starting to not seem like a conspiracy. If Biden wants to stay in the race, he needs to fix this, like yesterday. Is the reason he hasn't done so yet because he can't do it? If so, wtf is he still in the race??
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It's not like it's a singular action he can take. It's going to take weeks of consistent behavior before people believe any kind of short-term issue like a cold.
Can he do it is one question. Is there enough time is another.
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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.
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It's 4 months before the election.
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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.
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And the national convention hasn't happened yet. He's not officially the candidate until appointed at the convention.
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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.
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I don't think people are downvoting a fact; I think they're downvoting a comment which doesn't meaningfully contribute to the discussion, since by your own admission it's a just a fact and a fact without context or stated implications is virtually meaningless.
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Fuck
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The circlejerk is real on this post. Tons of bad takes and misinformation from the same "genocide Joe" shitposters as usual.
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The Democratic Party held 57 primaries and caucuses; voters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories had their say, as did Democrats abroad. Joe Biden won 87 percent of the total vote.
The fuq? There weren't any challengers except for a guy with a brain worm. We didn't have a primary, and now we are seeing the consequences of not having a primary.
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Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson are very confused about this statement. They both primaried Biden. Phillips got 20% in NH
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There were no challengers, exactly. Someone could have challenged him.
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Listen. I don't like Biden. I didn't get a choice of who should run for the Democratic party in my state.
But at the end of the day, I would pick a literal pile of dog shit that's turned white from being cooked in the sun, over Donald Trump.
The debate isn't changing anyones mind. It sure is generating a lot of panic news though because to the news, appearing tired is just as damaging as appearing unhinged and lying nonstop.
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If the reason to vote for Biden is that he isn't Trump, why shouldn't the dems run a candidate that both isn't Trump and is most likely going to hold onto their mental competence into next year? Either way, they're going to get the "not Trump" vote which by your reasoning should still cover the vast majority of would-be Biden voters.
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If the media can get a presidential candidate to drop out just by repeatedly asking him to then why the fuck aren’t they calling for Trump to step down?
Because they’re full of shit. That’s why.
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The difference is Biden might be able to be convinced to put the fate of the nation over his own position in office. Trump has no such concerns to appeal to.
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If you ask me what’s absurd is clinging on to Biden against all the evidence. He’s clearly super unpopular, and that’s in no small part to his age.
He must step aside and basically any halfway reasonable candidate under 60 would be in with a decent shot of the job. Give the population something to vote for rather than vote against.
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Right. Every “vote blue no matter who” voter will be voting blue no matter who it is. It’s just a vote against Trump. No one is going out specifically to vote for Biden. Could swap him out with any other warm body with a half functional brain and it would only mean extra votes.
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There's no time to step aside. Primaries are over. Trying to squeeze primaries in now would be a disaster.
The time for Biden to step aside was a year ago. And honestly, as much as I have liked his policy (excluding Isreal), and still trust his administration to execute on even if he's incapable of leading it himself, that debate was terrible for his campaign.
There are only two options now. Continue running himself and try to salvage the situation, or hand the reigns to Kamala. Neither is a good choice, campaign wise.
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There wouldn’t be new primaries. Biden’s pledged delegates would be released to do whatever they want. Obviously that has its own share of, small d, democratic concerns, but the better choice if you ask me.
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Long story short is splitting up the Democrats is exactly what conservatives want, to the point I wouldn't be surprised if media moguls are spending millions to protect their billions by giving this movement any traction at all.
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We (read: Dems) can rally around him all we want. The point of the debate was to convince independents, uninformed voters never-Trumpers so that the polls start to look more favorable. Biden failed to do that and has no meaningful opportunity to do so for the rest of the campaign.
The informed Democrats can rally around him as much as they want, but he is still falling short, which is why a pivot seems risky but like the only real shot left
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This is just braindead gaslighting. We all saw his performance. Dedicated Democratic cheerleaders like the Pod Save America guys think it's the worst debate performance ever and needs to be carefully considered whether he can turn things around (and frankly, are leaning toward the "he can't" side). Democratic leaders have been giving guarded answers about how they support Biden's decision on whether to stay in, not that he should of course stay in. This isn't remotely "media moguls" doing. The wagon circling is transparent and stupid and not working.
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This movement wouldn't have any traction if Biden put on even a middling debate performance. We all saw Biden start to answer a question about abortion, then get confused and switch midway into talking about some woman killed by an immigrant. You don't need a grand conspiracy, it's a simple case of grandpa being too full of pride to give up his car keys. Except in this case the car is American democracy.
Biden was a great president. He should have asked in his accomplishments and set up a new generation of dem leaders. Instead, he let his pride get in the way, ignored his own decline, tried to hide it by refusing interviews and non-scripted public events, even the softball traditional pre superbowl interview, and then had that disaster of a debate. Yes, I'll still vote for the corpse of Biden if it means stopping Trump. But will swing voters? What about Trump to Biden voters in purple districts? What about young people and anyone already pissed about the genocide in Gaza? Is the "corpse is better than Trump" argument going to motivate infrequent voters to turn out? Better fucking hope so, cause Biden has us in this fucked position, is refusing to back down, so I guess we'll find out.
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There was an event the next day where he gave a speech to a friendly crowd and by comparison he sounded like a spry well organized guy half his age. Hardly a mention of that out there though. I'm not a big fan of his miliqtost, half steps on a lot of things but it's playing the game with what cards are available and having decades in political office gives you the experience to do it. I'm largely willing to write off the debate as being so flustered with the torrent of bullshit coming from Trump that it put him off balance.
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Yeah, that event was also early in the day and all he had to do was read from a teleprompter. I guess it's good to know he can still read but that certainly doesn't erase the 90+ minutes of him not being able to think on his feet, going off on tangents, kneecapping his own responses, looking like a fucking corpse, and somehow managing to make Trump look eloquent by comparison.
If he was put off balance by the same torrents of bullshit Trump has been spewing for eight years then I'm even more concerned about his mental facilities.
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Biden is splitting Democrats. The center-left is split, and now even the centrists are starting to split among themselves.
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Ditching Biden is the only way to unite two important groups of Democrats: those with some grasp of reality, who recognize that Biden is far too old to run again, and those who still have their head in the sand about the issue, but will rally around anyone who isn't Trump.
If we stick with Biden the election is lost. This will not be the last time Biden has a poor showing in public, revealing just how hard it is for him to speak and think at his advanced age. Every time it happens, more voters pay attention, and his poll numbers will sink more.
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Is the Atlantic going to say the same thing about democracy in 2028 when Trump has all other candidates removed from the ballot?
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Didn't The Atlantic officialy say that Biden should drop out?
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This is so fucking dumb, the entire thing is premised on meaningful primaries occurring all over the country. How many of those "57" were actually competitive? I know my state had literally one candidate on the ballot. Biden extremely strongly implied that he wouldn't run for a second term, then pulled a "lol jk it's me or the literal fascist." Most people didn't want Biden to run again, but here we fucking are. And The Atlantic has the gall to say that this is a vocal minority of crybabies demanding an open and competitive primary be overturned. Fuck off.
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I was supportive of Biden until that debate. It was devastating to watch, and made me sad for our country. I don’t know if Biden should stay or go, but he should definitely stay out of any future debates if not the spotlight until the election is over. Americans have extremely short memories.
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The more I read about it, the more it reeks of a baseless smear campaign. CNN actively tried to make Biden look bad during the debate, and a huge chunk of the corporate media saw it and jumped on it.
It helped when Biden turned right around and had a strong showing at one of his campaign rallies. He had one off night, and everybody tried to make a mountain out of a molehill because they're more concerned with making money than fighting the fascists.
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: “I worked in five presidential campaigns for Republicans and helped elect Republican senators and governors in more than half of the country. For decades, I made ads attacking the Democratic Party. But in all those years, I never saw anything as ridiculous as the push, in the aftermath of last week’s debate, to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.”
“For many in the party, the event raised genuine concerns about the incumbent’s fitness for a new term. But a president’s record makes a better basis for judgment than a 90-minute broadcast does. Biden has a capable vice president, should he truly become unable to serve. The standard for passing over Democratic voters’ preferred nominee should be extraordinarily high—and has not been met.”
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I can't read the article myself due to the paywall. But presumably these quotes are by the same individual? Why would any Democrat campaign take the advice of someone who has spent decades helping to get Republican presidents elected? Why would he offer his advice to them at all? Certainly not in good faith. And why would he be an expert at what makes a good choice regarding nominees? His campaigns have presumably lost as many as they've won and their electorate is motivated by fundamentally different things. And never has there been a situation like this for either party during an election, a former president and convicted felon and current president circling the drain.
I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but given the source I don't give the slightest fuck what his view point is on matters of the Democratic Party.
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Lemmy will shriek for months that progressives want Trump to win, then immediately believe that a Republican strategist isn't encouraging them to stick with a candidate who is going to lose if he stays in the race.
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