It's the EGO of these geriatric fucks that gets me. Biden, RBG, Feinstein, all of em.
and the entire establishment knows it but no Dem wants to go on the record and say hey, it's time for the Cryptkeeper to retire
Biden does not need to drop out of the race now. He needed to drop out a year ago.
Nobody in the caucus has the courage to speak the very plain truth. They'd rather lose 2024 than to risk the wrath of Blue MAGA and fuck their own career down the road
These laws will eventually be re-framed as "limited re-election" laws. If your first term you're within limits but your potential second isn't, then you'd be barred from even running.
México had a full on civil war cos re-election (plus lots of American involvement pre-CIA)
One re-elected term is fine. 30 years of re-election into your congressional position? Nah. Your interns will get you the good coke to wake you up in the morning at that point.
the property transfer from Boomer to GenX isn't nearly as valuable as people think, and it will be even more concentrated than it already is
As a body of candidates or as a voter block GenX will inherit little power in comparison
Yet another way GenX let themselves get fucked over by Boomers
Oh yah, the transfer of economy across generations will be minimal, most of it is already being captured by corporations (themselves with GenXers and millennials at the helm).
But the _culture_ transfer. GenXers will finally speak up and it'll be a mess.
This is true but I think the noise you see on NYT and MSNBC, etc. Them safely inching towards them wanting to replace Biden. Even Morning Joe broke up with Biden yesterday. But its still up to Biden if he wants to drop out.
Obama was also more focused on his own elections than others. didn't build up the party. it's wild the Biden Stan's refuse to look at any examples of this going wrong
it's really galling for them to say we won't allow any dissension, this is the most important election of
our lifetimes and run back Biden. like just depending upon trump to be a worse candidate has a 50% success rate. I really hate the Dems. out of touch losers
it’s not even the elderly person’s ego. They’re mentally beyond that kind of ego. The problem is everyone around them who props them up and refuses to have any hard conversations.
they will now, and I only hope Joe agrees and becomes the 'bridge' president he claimed to be. He can set the narrative easily by announcing his retirement, admitting that Father Time caught up faster than he expected, name and support a new Dem ticket, and step away.
I hope and believe he will.
Because he said he was a 'bridge' president, and because he's a man of integrity.. and because he just showed the world that time has caught him and from here it only gets worse.
He was incapable of making a case for his highly successful admin. We all saw it. He knows it... but will hubris stop it?
Yes it is, and the only question is can Biden, knowing that the world saw what we all saw, deliver. Until yesterday and for the past 3 years I've expected this to be a gigantic blue wave election. I no longer am at all sure of that.
It's in Biden's hands, he controls the nomination. Time will tell.
The plagiarist geriatric who supports a genocide and was besties with all the segregationist Dems who pushed the crime Bill and said Israelis should kill more women and children during the Lebanon war is a man of integrity?
Can I have whatever hopium you're snorting?
I mean, this should have happened before the primary season. I'm not sure the outcome can be changed at this point, but yes, he should claim he has health issues or something and step down and literally have Kamala be president until the election. Electable or mo, she has a pulse.
