There are "change" elections and there are "please don't fuck my life up" elections and I think 2024 is definitely in the latter category and if Biden really isn't getting hurt by the bad debate performance, that's why.
my pitch to undecided voters: extremely old and weary Joe Brandon seeing the promised land (country where you don't have to hear about Donald Trump every day) even though he won't live long enough to get there himself:
Anyway I think the danger for swapping Harris or someone else in is that (if you are a low info voter) you can observe that Biden is currently President and your life is not getting fucked up, whereas who knows what another Dem you know nothing about would do bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
There are "change" elections and there are "please don't fuck my life up" elections and I think 2024 is definitely in the latter category and if Biden really isn't getting hurt by the bad debate performance, that's why.
There's been a weird backlash where there are a lot of people openly saying positive things about the Biden administration for the first time out of sudden fear that Trump is gonna win! bsky.app/profile/cric...
Maybe I’m biased as a partisan but the more distance from the debate the more i think bidens fine and the reaction was leftover 2016 trauma, everyone’s displacing their trump anxiety onto Biden. Trump took toxic positions on abortion and jan 6. Tiktok is mocking him saying “black jobs”
Like this is genuinely a more positive story about Biden and his campaign than typically gets any attention! Look at them smiling together bsky.app/profile/nyti...
As President Biden sought to address concerns about his age and energy, Jill Biden was by his side at a rally on Friday wearing a navy blue crepe dress plastered with one word over and over again: “Vote.”
They typically don't let the kind of people who support an aggressive NLRB on TV or on op-ed pages. This is one of the reasons they hate Biden's administration to begin with! bsky.app/profile/toms...
Also true for high-info voters tbh; would love to see some polling on how important the new wise-man leaders of the Remove Biden movement think it is for their replacement candidate to support an aggressive NLRB for instance
Remarkable that the Times and Post haven't done any "but in this college town queer bookstore, they still love Joe Biden" stories the same way they'd go interview a bunch of right wing rural diner guys about how they still liked Trump every time he had a bad week bsky.app/profile/teuc...
The contrarian machine is reversing polarity as we speak. Biden is going to start getting support from unlikely quarters now that taking that position pits you against the NYT editorial board.
Rev. Barber comments on controversy over whether Biden should step down due to debate performance:
“We can't get stuck on which candidate performs better on TV … Because in my tradition, Moses stuttered, but he brought down Pharaoh … I have trouble walking, but I know how to walk toward justice.”
Reporters: if you need some juicy quotes about how coastal sickos still counterintuitively and surprisingly enthusiastically love Joe Brandon my DMs are open and I'm happy to provide them bsky.app/profile/numb...
FWIW, I imagine Barber has to be especially sensitive about this type of discourse himself. I’ve definitely heard his own health mentioned as one of the reasons he hasn’t run/been pushed harder to run for Senate (Especially after Warnock won Georgia)
