Mannie Bothans: It was literally just a year ago. Many op-eds were written telling her to step down, many excuses were made why she shouldn’t. Concerns began in 2010 but Ds rallied behind her in 2018. This was all discussed a year ago.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Sticking with Biden or running Harris would be *far* less risky than dedicating two of the next four months to Democrat infighting, followed by an unprecedented delegate voting process and dubious chances of even getting on the ballot. Knowing this shit is supposed to be these people's job

If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!

"They can't even pick a nominee who doesn't have dementia! His VP pick was so bad they skipped her and had en entire second primary. And we're supposed to trust these people to run the country?" bsky.app/profile/kami...

And endless "democrats in disarray" articles to follow.

I actually think people are getting a bit over their skis on freaking out over Biden! We're talking about one terrible debate performance, something that can be turned around with a few good TV appearances. And bowing out could hurt Dem polling more than it helps. bsky.app/profile/bikm...

We’re talking about five years of worsening decline that everyone can see.

And it's still pretty fresh in people's minds that the Dems were telling everyone that Feinstein was physically fine and up to the job when we could all see that her face was falling off.

Literally no one connects these two things except you, so let’s maybe use a different definition of “fresh in people’s minds”.

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Plenty of people connecting these two, as well as RBG. Democrats have a "too old" problem that really pisses people off.

I am terminally online and have seen exactly zero people say this about Feinstein. The RBG thing I’ve seen a lot (and agree she should have stepped down and let Obama replace her).

It was literally just a year ago. Many op-eds were written telling her to step down, many excuses were made why she shouldn’t. Concerns began in 2010 but Ds rallied behind her in 2018. This was all discussed a year ago.

Sorry, I meant: I have seen exactly zero people say that Biden is too old, just like Feinstein. I saw people saying that about her, and I see people saying it about Biden (although interestingly never about Trump, who is the same age). I just don’t ever see people say the two things together.

Well ppl should. It’s obvious the party is ok with pushing ppl WELL beyond their expiration date and lying about their health.

I am happy to say that Trump is too old to be president, as is Biden. And all of Feinstein, Sanders, and McConnell too. I just don't think folks over the age of 80 ought to be setting national policy, period -- they won't live long enough to see the effects & don't have sufficient skin in the game.

I’m a firm believer in setting an age cap of like 67 for elected offices and SCOTUS.

Only not in the Constitution because they already had one back then, called: no modern medicine!

I mean, John Jay (the first Chief Justice) lived to 83, but only spent 6 years on SCOTUS before getting bored with the less-than-one-case-a-year workload and fucked off to be NY's governor instead.

The most honest position!

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