Even some expected to be in Biden’s corner [including] liberal comedian Jon Stewart.
What. The. Fuck.
Jon Stewart is in Biden’s corner, he’s just being honest that age is a concern. If you watch his segment you’d see he dropped a big steaming dump on Trump.
And, as an aside, to avoid having your candidate critiqued for their age just fucking run a different candidate.
People are extremely bad at understanding what Jon said. It fucking sucks. Sorry, Democrats, you’re not going to win over voters by demanding they pretend your stinky candidates don’t stink. That’s not how this works.
And, as an aside, to avoid having your candidate critiqued for their age just fucking run a different candidate.
This is what bugs me the most, their instinct is to get worried not to you know, do something because they are the ones behind the wheel…
Stuff like this convinced me that democrats are not interested to do anything but show that they are following “the correct process”, results be damned.
You’d think in an election where they claim “democracy is on the line,” correct process would include a fully fledged primary election, with debates, campaigning on a strong platform from which to lead, etc.
Stuff like this convinced me DNC is just controlled opposition, and from that perspective results have been spectacular.
They’re confused that Democrats are capable of criticizing their own while still supporting them unlike the right wing cult.
Honestly, good fucking point. I never thought about how infantilizing this bullshit is.
This logic destroys my fucking brain cells.
And trump/republicans would???!? What a fucking joke of an article to push lmao.
A reminder trump is a few years younger than Biden. Not by much.
If Trump drops dead from being old, bully for us. If Biden drops dead but Trump doesn’t we are fucked. That is the issue and risk. That is why we want a younger candidate. Why take the risk when you can avoid i?
Why?
Because Biden is still the person with the best odds to defeat Trump in an election.
That’s really all there is to it.
This is likely true but after the election does it matter? Trump likely won’t survive long enough for the next election anyways. This will finally leave everyone looking for real candidates.
Who knows, by then the Republicans might actually have a platform they can campaign on that doesn’t revolve around MAGA. I’m not holding my breath for that last one though. One can dream.
They’ll probably just keep running an AI Trump. Doesn’t even matter if the stormfront-sourced training set isn’t big enough because even the real Trump can blather on about changing Pennsylvanias name, toilets not flushing hard enough, and somehow injecting UV light into your body to fight viruses. AI fever dreams won’t even register as anything weird.
Covfefe.
It’s funny, when comedians imitate Trump they’re always more coherent. Because you have to make some sense to make a proper joke.
What’s incredible to me is that Seth Meyers’ impersonation of Trump is nothing like Stephen Colbert’s impersonation of Trump and yet you can tell both of them are impersonating Trump without being told.
I’d rather run a younger candidate now and save the incumbent advantage for 2028.
It’s reasonable to think that the 2028 Republican candidate might be more of a threat.
I disagree. There have been LOTS of attempts to reproduce that Trump funk, but they all fall flat. I was far more worried about DeSantis. He’s modeled his whole persona after Trump and had quite a bit of success passing Trump policies in Florida… but he fell flat on the national stage. I can’t tell you why. He doesn’t seem like more or less of a conman. He’s equally sleezy and seems to have the same policy goals. But there’s clearly something the Qult sees in Don that Ron lacks.
It’s looking to me like the Trumpers are ride-or-die until Trump dies. I don’t know what will happen after that, but I don’t think they’ll seemlessly integrate back into any normal political party. Hopefully, they’ll form their own little ultra-right party and split the conservative vote permanently.
This doesn’t make any sense to me. If Biden dies and Trump doesn’t then we will still have the VP. By the time the next election rolls around, assuming Trump loses, Trump will have already faded into obscurity.
They’re saying that if Biden died right now, President Harris would lose to Trump. Which she almost certainly would.
Eh. I don’t think so. She’s not Hillary Clinton she knows how to campaign and I’m pretty sure a dead fish could beat Trump after his last term.
I hope so, but after his rise to power I don’t know what to think, I just know we can’t get complacent. But I have no idea what the fuck the American people want so I have no idea if Harris would be seen as a good candidate by the non trump demographic.
According to polls she’s just outside the margin of error. (Usually about 3 percent). Polls that have her farther out also have Biden losing.
So that seems horrible but politics is weird and the act of swearing her in will actually bump her in the polls. Any competent politician will turn that into a “rally” moment. And this close to the election they can ride that bump straight into November.
I also want this, but it will not fucking happen this year. Both sides don’t play fair, just look at what they did to Bernie Sanders when he was fucking running.
Personally I was a fan of Yang too, but as far as I can tell, this machine seems to only have 2 gears. You can’t expect to try and hot swap one of those out without getting your fingers punched.
Local elections were always more effective, I think everyone could probably agree with that
Except there is a line of succession for president, whereas trump got to pick RBG’S successor.
Which of course, was 100% her fault. Holding on to power into your 90s is really fucking stupid.
Do you not remember Obama trying to pick a justice at the end of his last term? The Republicans put up a fight and the Democrats backed down which is how we got a 6-3 court
While that was fucked up, yes, that’s not why Trump got to pick RGB’s successor.
Republicans have entered the chat and proceed to make up reasons why the line of succession doesn’t apply.
Look, my ONLY goal is to have D’s in leadership because the alternative ushers in a totalitarian fascist hellscape russian client state. If Brandon fucks off to the next life while in office, I don’t care. His replacement won’t be a traitor.
No other consideration carries any weight.
Its an election of Hindenburg vs Hitler. It doesn’t matter. By participation you’re only giving it legitimacy.
BoTh SiDeS!!!1!
Go read up on Hindenburg. He also was the “lesser of two evils”. That’s the comparison I’m making.
False equivalency, fuck off.
Fallacy fallacy reconsider the argument.
No u. Also, fuck off fascist.
seems to me they are teh one who wants to stop fascism
I wouldn’t say it’s entirely apples to apples, but I get where you’re going with the comparison at least.
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Oh, they were in your face with it:
Clyburn calls for Democrats to ‘shut this primary down’ if Biden has big night
How was there not a real primary?
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but it has a tiny, party-over-principles democrat electorate they can dictate the vote of in a way they can’t other early states
Rep. Jim Clyburn helped Biden win young Black voters in 2020. This time, they’re not listening.
Well, so much for that…
I’m not quite following, so the right side of the party consolidated because they didn’t want to split their vote, but wasn’t the left side already consolidated behind Bernie?
There are more conservative and moderate democratic voters in South Carolina than there are Bernie voters. They consolidated that wing by having everyone drop out which made Biden the sole remaining non-social democrat or democratic socialist option
So the idea is that if it weren’t for the momentum from that first state that Bernie would have won?
Good Lord the idea that you think mayor Pete is not a neoliberal. That’s so freaking hilarious.
They are calling him a neolib. They’re just calling him a non Warren neolib.
Which is accurate. Because all neolibs except for Warren are non-Warren neolibs.
The poster was saying that Pete is a neolib of the non-Warren variety. You misread their intent. They were criticizing Pete (and Klob)
All true but I don’t agree that this meant there wasn’t a primary. They just conspired to win the primary.
Also, don’t presume to know the future. Maybe the revolution will start in South Carolina. State politics don’t change overnight but they are also not as static as we often assume.
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Well I think this is not a black and white issue. In Russia, Sanders would be arrested or killed. Here the oligarchs don’t have complete power, and if we assume they do, we cede them more power. Sanders could have won the primary—it was not a foregone conclusion. And I think your assumption that South Carolina is only party loyalists is mistaken. If the left wing speaks to those voters directly, they can be persuaded.
The dnc going to court to have it legally decided that they do what they want and their voters/supporters can go eat a dick says everything you need to know about the dnc.
Democrats are still mid right and faschie light. Hell, they attack leftists harder than they do Republicans. Blame us for losing elections but anytime policy or candidates come up we get told to shove it until an election comes around and we get blamed again.
Let’s also not ignore the fact that the DNC runs the primaries, and the eventually nominee is purely their decision. Effectively, the actual primaries are more for them to gauge the popularity of various candidates.
Let’s also not pretend that they were ever going to let Sanders be their nominee… someone who’s not even a party member.
It would be more surprising if he’d won the primary process and the DNC actually backed him than the alternative of them simply saying no, he’s not a party member, we’ll choose the highest finishing actual Democrat instead.
Let’s also not ignore the fact that the DNC runs the primaries, and the eventually nominee is purely their decision.
…what William Greider said here, basically.
So you admit that the primaries are a facade and that we are not a democracy?
In which case, we should openly admit that and teach our children as such. Otherwise, China will do so for us on TikTok and elsewhere
Oh we definitely remember.
I really wonder how much of this “Biden old” talk is just GOP propaganda.
It might be a “broken clock is right twice a day” situation.
Jon Stewart’s glorious return to The Daily Show covered this very topic.
Liberals have the right to question our leadership. It’s okay for us to wonder if the president has the ability to make good decisions.
The problem is that conservatives won’t hear the same questions for their candidate.
Liberals have the right to question our leadership.
And those of us to the left of liberals have the right to question the leadership liberals have stuck us with.
Is it propaganda if it’s true? 80 is old as fuck.
Name one other industry or company who would hire an 80 year old. Not saying he can’t do the job, just saying 80 is fucking old to still be working and it’s a valid concern.
Is it propaganda if it’s true?
Yes. Propaganda is just promoting a certain ideology over another. That classification has nothing to do with truthfulness or even the virtues of the ideology it is used to promote.
I had literally never seen this dumbass RBG comparison until a day or so ago. Suddenly, in the past few days, I’ve seen multiple people use RBG as an argument against Biden.
This is absolutely astroturfing.
I’ve been thinking it since he started hinting that he’d run again, as have most of my left-to-left-leaning friends
You and most of your left leaning friends have been making a specific comparison between Biden and RBG for weeks? Can you articulate why?
Yes, but it isn’t necessarily complicated. We don’t want people wielding power longer than they should. RBG, whom I admire immensely, was a fool to not step down. Biden represents a political return to form that inadequately services vast swaths of Americans. They aren’t specifically related, true. But I think Biden, while certainly effective at certain objectives, is incapable of navigating the pulse of many younger Americans.
I’m not sure what “mistake” Biden could be repeating here. If he dies in office, Harris becomes President.
If they want to argue that if he dies before the election that leaves the Democrats with no clear candidate which would lead to a Trump win they need to be more clear about that.
Harris, undoubtably, would see herself as the candidate as the sitting President, which makes sense, see Johnson - 1964, but her unpopularity even among her own staff would make her unelectable.
But that’s not a Biden problem and that’s not the same mistake Ginsberg made.
My only real concern is if he dies after getting on the ballot, but before January 20th. We need him in a plastic bubble those months.
There’s a fantastic novel on the topic called “The People’s Choice” by Jeff Greenfield of all people.
Here’s the scenario:
Election happens, winner dies, but he dies before the electoral certification.
VP thinks he’s the candidate, but he isn’t.
The 2nd place finisher argues he should be President as the next largest vote getter.
Faithless electors then decide who becomes President.
In reality, electors are generally party loyalists. They would vote along party lines, probably for the VP.
I’m not sure I understand your comment, if him and Harris win the election then she would still become president if he dies in The intervening time between then and January 20th. They would have voted for her on the ballot that’s how the election works.
I guess I’m less certain that is correct. Maybe after the house certifies the election it’s fine. But you know Republicans will stink about it, and SCOTUS may side with them,
Well I mean they can make a stink about it and and the Supreme Court is certainly an illegitimate body at this point. But democratically speaking if Harris was on the ballot and won the election she is the elected president at that point. I mean weather other bodies try to illegally subvert the election is irrelevant to that. The votes were cast for her.
Manufactured outrage. It’s not like he could legally do another term after he’s elected in ‘24.
He’s extremely competent, ethical, and experienced.
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Genocide Joe is the most ethical president the US had in a while.
Edit: to all the people trying to paint him as being in the “hot seat” (wtf lol), he wanted and worked towards this for a long time now
Genocide is an american problem, not a presidential one lmao.
It’s baked into the very soul of the nation.
Decades of presidents on both sides of the aisle have supported and sent arms to Israel.
It’s unfortunate (for everyone, especially the poor Palestinians) that Netenyahu is such a fucking creep and sleazeball that he manufactured this whole thing to distract from his deep shittiness. Biden happened to be the guy in the hot seat.
What do you mean he “happened to be the guy in the hot seat”? He gleefully sent more bombs during an ongoing genocide, no one really forced his hand did they?
It’s not quite as simple as that. But I agree that it ain’t a good look.
It kind of is though, his stance has been well known for a while now
What Israel is doing is horrible. Don’t get me wrong.
Biden inherited a long-standing strategic alliance which was not ideal.
Biden helped to create that alliance lol.
Biden helped build that alliance for over 37 years now, thats how old that clip is. And he explicitly says that they would have to “invent an israel if it didn’t exist”. This man is not in some moral quandary, this is what he wants, what he wanted for a long time.
Simple rules for rulers. You don’t become president of the US if you don’t commit genocide for all the rest of the people who want it; they ultimately elect you afterall. But remember if you aren’t president of the US, you can’t enfore any change at all, you have no power.
The most benevolent presidents will still continue to feed the war machine because they wish to be president and enact good. Biden just happened to be in the hotseat in this case, and if it has been Trump there would be war all over europe, nato disbanded and Russia getting Military funds instead.
Biden was not reluctant in his aid to genocide, he was gleeful. This wasn’t some lesser of two evils shit for him, this is what he wanted what he worked towards for decades.
NATO disbanded
the one good thing Trump threatened to do (he won’t actually do it).
Lmao “gleeful”. I think you misunderstand how your government works. Congress allocates the money, the president executes the spending.
The president sold weapons for Netanyahu’s genocide and didn’t have to go through congress to do it.
You’re pulling the “you don’t know how government works” Standard Centrist Gaslighting because you can’t defend Biden’s support for genocide.
Wrong again
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/biden-congress-israel-military-aid/index.html
Just because I keep having to spell this out preemptively:
150million USD in equipment - 106 million USD as price = 44 million USD in military aid to an ongoing genocide without requiring approval from congress. Gleeful.
The sad part is that’s probably true. Before that was Trump, Dronebama, and Bush - all four of them continued to support Israel so that’s a moot point when comparing them.
“That’s the way we’ve always done it” is a really shitty justification for supporting genocide.
The same on the concentration camps on the border, the same on the policies in the middle east, the same on women and minority rights, they just all look the same don’t they.
Did I say they’re the same, or did I say Biden was the best/least worse of the most recent 4?
Im saying they’re the same. Or close enough to not matter.
Well I’m not, there’s a clear difference on them when it comes to minority/women’s rights.
Roe v wade got ganked on Biden’s watch. You heard him say anything about it since?
Good job, soldier. 🫡
Not in terms of policies enacted. The concentration camps on the border were built by Obama and continued and expanded by both Trump and Biden, there is no discernible difference between them on immigration. Roe v Wade was never codified, Trans rights aren’t codified, nothing is getting done. The Iran deal just died and that’s it, Biden made no effort to reverse the stuff Trump did. At best some lip service “commitments” like the Paris Agreement. There was more covid relief under Trump than under Biden. Like what harm has the “harm reduction” candidate reduced?
Funny how they never seem to mention trumps age even though they are almost the same age…
Because they’re both unfit for office.
Similar to how a bonfire and the Sun are both hot.
How does that even make sense in this context? It’s not like one of them are in their 50s. They’re both pushing 80.
Regarding the term “unfit,” one is worse than the other. One is old and not doing enough; the other is old, actively dragging the country backwards, and did an insurrection.
One being exceptionally bad doesn’t automatically make the other one good though.
Okay?
Yea, I guess that’s true. Do you want to be standing in the middle of either?
That’s not how the presidency works? If he dies, the Senate can’t hold the presidency open until they place a Republican in there. Kamala Harris just steps into the position.
But then again, this is Business Insider.
oh fuck off
this is uncivil
No u
No, this is Patrick!
So we’d get president Harris. What’s the issue?
Normally I would not like that outcome, but considering that the alternative is a man who thinks “indictment” starts with the letter N, I can stomach it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Even some expected to be in Biden’s corner — from liberal comedian Jon Stewart to progressive journalist Ezra Klein — have publicly worried the incumbent president will be unable to maintain the energy needed to face off against Donald Trump in this year’s election.
Instead, Ginsburg, who had a long history of health problems, including multiple bouts with cancer, died in 2020, allowing Trump to nominate a third justice — Amy Coney Barrett — which solidified the conservative court majority and led to the rollback of abortion and voting rights across the country.
On the campaign trail, Clinton indicated she’d fill Supreme Court vacancies with justices who supported women’s rights, as well as LGBTQ+ issues, and would defend Roe v. Wade, CNBC reported at the time.
Gavin Newsom — have other hurdles to overcome: Harris is widely regarded as “unlikeable” (a criticism often levied against female politicians, The Washington Post noted years ago).
“The only time that an incumbent president stepped down rather than running for reelection in the modern era was Lyndon Johnson and there is no evidence that that helped Hubert Humphrey, who eventually lost to Richard Nixon anyway,” Buchler said.
“It’s worth noting that Trump is roughly the same age as Biden, and his verbal missteps more egregious,” Peter Loge, the founding director of the Project on Ethics in Political Communication, told BI.
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No, I don’t ever remember that. I remember Bernie calling “conspiracy” when Warren dropped out, because he knew he would never defeat Biden in a fair 1:1 fight. He needed Warren to split the vote. This is also the reason Harris dropped out. Harris and Biden were going to take the same votes.
Biden and Harris are better politicians, because they actually know how to play.
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Typical lying BernieBro. I didn’t mention Super Tuesday, you did.
OK so when did it happen then?
I remember Bernie calling “conspiracy” when Warren dropped out
Got a source for that?
Yes, the actual election results where Bernie lost by more the second time than he did the first. He knew he couldn’t win a 1 on 1, he knows half the party hates him.
So you lied about him calling “conspiracy.”
No, it may have just been supporters, but I remember the faux outrage that she would drop out. I know my lived experience. You all know he can’t win a fair primary, and he’d fair even worse in the general.
The outrage was in.the opposite direction of what you’re saying here. Bernie supporters were mad she didnt drop out, because her voters leaned more left than most of the field in the primary. The accusation was that she was splitting the vote to hurt Bernie, not to hurt Biden
I don’t think that’s accurate, I think most polls show that Warren support tended to come from people between Biden and Bernie.
Not how I remember it, but I think they were all reaching for straws to explain another failed attempt. So, I wouldn’t be surprised to find done arguing both sides of the coin. Bernie’s only hope was splitting the the rest of the vote. He simply never had a good coalition of Democrats, and his constant insults to the party didn’t help him any.
No, it may have just been supporters,
So your assertion that Bernie said it was a conspiracy was a lie. Full stop.
No, I believe I remember such statements coming from his campaign, and his campaign speaks for him.
You mean the conspiracies that she was staying in to split the left vote and help Biden? What are you on about, this is the opposite of what happened. Do you not remember the snakes thing to try and get her to drop so Bernie could pick up her supporters?
lol, Well she dropped out. How’d that go?
Fuck RBG. Her legacy is pure dog shit to me. Fucking selfish bitch.
