co-sign but i will add: i don't know the best path but i do know the worst path, and that's replacing him with anyone other than kamala, via any process whatsoever.
I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
I know the best path: Make Kamala the first woman President of the United States. Now. Joe can do that with the best speech of his career and then ride into the sunset. Make a big show of it. Pomp and circumstance. Then Kamala picks Whitmer as VP and they run as incumbents.
No. A new VP has to go through Senate & Mike Fucking Johnson’s House. They’d use that opportunity to cause a real constitutional crisis. Biden resignation is nightmare scenario, not an interesting option.
Mike Johnson is third in line to the presidency. You might think it’s fun to play around with wild scenarios but given that reality, this SCOTUS, & rising fascism, I don’t.
How is this a “wild scenario”? This is the fucking United States of America. Can our systems not change a president from someone who has mental deficiency? If people want to pretend that Biden is just fine, maybe they should go to the video tape.
If you still think that’s a useful approach to the problem we have (& I don’t agree it’s a “mental deficiency’ btw), have at it. But I’m not going to entertain it.
Is that your diagnosis? On what authority? How many old people do you know? How old are you? Do you have any awareness of what happens in an aging brain?
Those were softball questions to a man who's been a legislator for FIFTY YEARS. He couldn't articulate an answer to the first question.
FFS.
If Biden declines the nom, it will be bc he cannot complete the next term. Neither he nor any D has any interest in saying he’s unfit now bc that only starts a search for when it started & which decisions can be critiqued & on & on. It’d be a feeding frenzy & delegitimize his presidency. And Harris!
Bc then the next question is: when did Biden become unfit & when did you know it, Kamala?
If she is going to have any chance at all, the damage must be limited.
You seem to think Joe can be tossed & Harris stands alone. But she needs to run on *their* record, which is a good one.
Nope.
Age-related cognitive decline is not binary but a spectrum. It's incurable and progressive, but to what degree is unpredictable. Biden can resign per prognosis that his capacity has declined and could worsen. Reagan had full-blown Alzheimer's, but there was never a “frenzy” after the fact.
