@deeceeisme.bsky.social: They didn’t require Biden to debate. They should have invited him and made him decline. By not asking he debate, the put their finger on the scale. More importantly they KNEW this was his mental state and hid it from us until we were stuck with him.

bouie is literally the only person on the NYT board who is behaving and responding to the debate like a professional that has followed and covered a presidential election. i mean that seriously, i'm not being snarky.

if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary

He had freaks melting down in his replies simply from asking “why wouldn’t it be Kamala then?”

Because she polls even worse than Biden. Do you want to win or be politically correct?

Biden steps down. Harris is muscled aside in favor of Andy Beshear. Jim Clyburn and other high ranking blacl Democrats says “wait a sec, why are we elevating Harris?” what happens next?

“buh you just love identity politics” doesn’t get around the fact that parties are coalitions, Harris has a real and influential constituency, and ignoring it could prove a problem.

(also, no real evidence that a non-Harris Democrat would not also be saddled by the unpopularity of the Biden administration)

right, like, the natural question to this hypothetical replacement candidate is "what would you, as president, do differently than the biden administration has done", and i doubt you find anyone willing to discuss that

people want to believe that you can just swap out biden no harm no foul, but there is nothing about this system as constituted that allows that. but rather than grapple with this, the response is basically to scream “nuh uh”

I am livid at the DNC for letting this happen. They’ve been downplaying and apparently bold face lying about Biden’s health. I don’t care what anyone says I’ve been around enough loved ones with cognitive issues that last night breaks my heart.

They took the lesson of RBG to be “we should definitely let the egos of geriatric leaders determine the fate of millions.”

There was a primary and Biden won it handily

Yes who could ever forget his dominating debate victory. That’s the real crime here. The DNC knew this storm was brewing and hid it from us by not allowing a real primary process to unfold 🤬

There was a primary! Millions voted in it!

Without any debates. The DNC made certain that we never saw what we saw last night until it couldn’t be reversed.

What did the DNC do, specifically, to prevent strong challengers from entering the race against Biden?

They didn’t require Biden to debate. They should have invited him and made him decline. By not asking he debate, the put their finger on the scale. More importantly they KNEW this was his mental state and hid it from us until we were stuck with him.

alright, you seem to have a fixation on the DNC as the big bad of american politics so have a nice evening!

This is coming from inside my house.

Invite him to debate who? There were no other candidates that were realistic. Marianne Williamson? That one guy that no one even remembers who he was? Dean something? If there were realistic candidates there would have been a debate.

Did you see his speech in NC today?

Clearly not, because there would be no cause for such outrage if they had.

How exactly could they have made him debate?

You’re kidding right?

No? It’s not like they can dock his allowance if he doesn’t show up.

They control MILLIONS of dollars used for his campaign and legal costs. You honestly don’t think they have a say in this, really?

babe most of us have known about Joe Biden’s mental state for the past five years, where the fuck have you been

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