*There's* the schmuck I've disliked since 1988.
I don't know what the right thing to do is, but good lord is that now what this is about.
The correct answer is "defeating Donald Trump is a matter of the gravest national importance. I'm the one who has done it and I believe I'm the one...
who can do it again. If I believed that someone else was more certain to do it, I would have stepped aside and endorsed them to take my place.
"How will I feel if Trump takes office anyway? I'm an American. I will feel shame, disgust, and terror, just like everyone else should."
"If I stopped now, I would go down in history as a pretty successful president," Biden said.
🤔And if Trump wins?
😵😩😵😩🤬Biden said that "as long as I gave it my all," he will be OK.
😳🤬😳 WTF!!!!!
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Idk about most people but "speaking in complete sentences in response to something said recently" is not a sufficient bar for verbal acuity in my search for a president of the United States
Just me though
"This is the fight of a generation and I'm all-in to win so we can get back to work and fix the big problems hardworking Americans have like [pick examples] and get away from the dangerous and violent ideas Mr Trump promises to unleash that will hurt Americans and that we are all sick to death of"
Said it before, will keep saying it: Joe hasn't had a good comms person since Jen Psaki left. She would have squashed this crap for the bug it is right after the debate.
Listen, I hear you, but there was a time when I felt like I could expect Baby Boomers to understand that american politics is literally life-or-death for a huge number of people, and that time was sometime prior to the last twenty years.
I just expect them all to be this obtuse, these days.
[shrug] If the Baby Boom wasn't a real generational-cultural thing then generations aren't real generational-cultural things (which is @johnquiggin.bsky.social 's view).
I've known enough people around Biden's age to know that *they* were very aware of not being part of that generation.
The Baby Boom was a real demographic event with important consequences.
But if you buy cultural generations at all, you need to split it around 1954 and extend the bits in both directions by a year or two. Pre-1954 is Vietnam generation (still doesn't include Biden), post-1954 Generation Jones.
I don't think the demographic splits between very-early Baby Boomers and very-late Silent Gens does much to dispel my perception that I've been utterly disappointed in the political passion of the generations older than me for largely my entire adult life.
But still, fair hit.
It's the lukewarm resistance to fascism that I just can't stomach.
At the moment he's literally the only hope the States has, and he's like, "Well I'm gonna give it my best and if I fail, oh well!"
Nah, dude, get the flamethrowers and your favorite sunglasses and burn this mother down!
a) Sanders is older.
b) I 100% believe that Biden pulled out a victory in 2020 that Sanders would not have. I talked about this a lot in 2020: my ex ante faith in Biden was very low but I think there's very solid reason to think he managed what neither my preferred candidates nor yours would have.
By virtue of *having actually won in 2020,* in an exceptionally high turnout election, Biden showed that he was very electable! He did it with a big popular vote margin-- but squeakers in swing states where there's reason to think he was better positioned than most.
That's valid. I suppose what I originally posted was a moot point, since Biden did what he needed to do in early 2021, and should have committed to being a single term president
Biden won because he was moderate enough.
MiddleModerateCenter is acceptable to most. Progressive is acceptable to progressives. Give most of the people what they want.
Independents in swing states, enthusiasm, and turnout should be the focus. Everything else is etched in stone.
Yeah idk why he’s never held to account for not winning primaries. If it’s party elites that decide them (which I question to an extent) then it’s also his responsibility to win them over to his side, esp having run in two consecutive Dem primaries
He was never a Democrat and never significantly helped and Democrats then ran for then nomination and lost twice never realizing it is because he’s not a Democrat and never helped Democratic candidates.
Point taken, but anybody arguing in good faith has to concede that it took a coordinated effort by the DNC and the main stream media to make sure that Bernie did not win in 2020.
It took Bernie never winning enough Democratic voters to win the Democratic nomination.
People who say “the DNC was against Bernie” do not understand what the party can and cannot do.
Years ago, they just would have told Bernie he couldn’t even run for our nomination since he wasn’t a member.
I'd have liked to hear something that at least acknowledged he was thinking about the tens of millions a Trump presidency would negatively impact.
But at least he gave it his all. He's not like Trump, he hides his narcissism better.
