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Reminder for people who seem to be convinced that a deficit barely outside the margin of error in July is insurmountable
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it’s less the current polling and more the “candidate cannot complete a sentence, let alone make an argument about why to elect him” everyone supporting JB before Thursday despite the polls assumed he would be able to campaign and grow his support the debate showed that’s a not a fair assumption
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Here's a thread with the president's post debate appearances. You're entitled to your own opinion, but it seems rash to say this if you've not at least looked at what's happened since then.
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It's not just the controlled, teleprompter events since the debates, it's his degrading performance since '20.
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You mean the performance where he's presided over the most pro-labor and progressive administration in modern history? Wild.
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This actually undermines your argument. Biden has had a good administration. Voters are rejecting him despite that, and their main reason is his age, not his administration’s policies. Further evidenced by the fact he’s running behind fellow members of his own party as well as the open fascists.
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The reason is because the media is shouting "Biden is old" from the rooftops, probably because their corporate masters are finally being regulated/prosecuted by Biden's DOJ. We're in the middle of a right-wing propaganda spree, and you're trying to pretend like Biden's admin actions don't count.
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1.) “the media” is a meaningless boogeyman. Newspapers are in freefall. Cable News median viewer is 70 years old. No podcast has more than a 5% marketshare. Most of the population completely avoids political media. 2.) *voters* have been shouting “Biden is old” for longer than the media has
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1) yeah, the media is terrified of its own irrelevance and upset that Biden refuses to hand them viewers like Trump did. 2) Voters had several options, including Dean Phillips. Voters instead chose Biden.
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1) pretending “the media” is a coherent monolith with a consistent agenda indicates you have no idea what decade you are living in 2) ask those same voters who they would’ve voted for if they knew JB wouldn’t be able to complete a sentence during a debate that his own campaign orchestrated
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1) they are private companies that are kept alive by ad sales, which require views and clicks. There's no conspiracy needed, Trump is controversy, and while he was in office, media viewership soared. After Biden came into office, it plummeted. Simple as.
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That is only true of like cable news and legacy newspapers. So it just confirms you are pretending to live in a different decade Most people interact with media via tiktok influencers, independent podcasters, subreddits, micro-blogging platforms, discord communities, whatsapp group chats, etc
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The outlets calling for Biden to resign/step aside are literally those who were affected by the readership/viewership drop once Biden was elected lmao what are you talking about? TikTok influencers, notoriously free from right-wing propaganda /s
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Hey buddy idk what to say if you think that legacy newspapers and cable news are going to have a larger effect on the election outcome than tiktok. WaPo has lost *50%* of its unique visitors since 2020. The median MSNBC viewer is *72 years old*.
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And they are incandescent at Biden refusing to engage them. They are also the primary drivers of the "Biden should resign/step aside" discourse.
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*candidate refuses to engage with friendly outlets* (relative to right wing media) would actually be another indication of his declining fitness. But that’s not really the point, any “discourse” driven by CNN or NYT is fundamentally irrelevant, as their plummeting viewership and readership shows
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But you just repeatedly stated that these outlets are irrelevant, now Biden needs to be engaging them? Make up your mind! Meanwhile, the donors themselves are mostly annoyed about...not getting big boy birthday calls? Are these really the people you choose to align yourselves with?
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I align myself with whoever has the best chance of beating the fascists this November Until that debate, I assumed it was JB Now I think Kamala would probably do a better job She looks alive & I doubt she would willingly segue into immigrant murder from a softball Q about abortion It’s a low bar
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There's nothing they can challenge if she is nominated at the convention. It's not a ratfuck, our president just became impaired, and some people are in the denial stage. But you should realize that if the Heritage Foundation would go to court to stop her running...that's because she's better.
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Or there’s more to a plan they’ve been working on for a while and this was always how it was going to start. They’re sewing chaos.
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"There's nothing they can challenge if she is nominated at the convention." I'm glad you're confident about this, because they're confident that they can tear the Democratic Party apart. "became impaired" So you want him to resign right now?
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If the delegates nominate her, it's exactly the same as any other convention vote. Why would the Heritage Foundation be trying to block her from replacing Biden if they thought that she would be easier to beat? You guys don't understand your own link.
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And as for his resigning, yes, I think he should resign and let her run with the incumbent bump. There are only six months left in the term and no major policy agenda to get through, it's a good time to pass the torch. And yes I do think it's unsafe to have any time, at all, a POTUS isn't capable.
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Underneath all the other conflicts and events of the world, there is an underpinning fact called mutually assured destruction that keeps our world from being annihilated in nuclear war. Only POTUS can retaliate on our end, so he can't ever be known to be incapacitated, not for even a minute.
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This is why they temporarily transfer power BEFORE they go into surgery if they need it.
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He's been repeatedly doing public appearances and interviews daily since the debate.
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Only scripted, and only during the day. He has told the DGA that he absolutely refuses to disprove the accusation of hiding his sundowning, and he will never do events after 8pm to prove his fitness. That's the end of his campaign, it's not possible to continue while refusing to do that.
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So what's your plan to get a new VP? The House, controlled by Republicans, will never allow a replacement to be appointed. Biden is perfectly capable, he's presided over the most progressive presidential administration in modern history! He marched with strikers just months ago!
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We'll just get by without a VP until after she wins the election. She can have an acting one. We just have to trust that the Secret Service will keep her safe.
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If the GOP refuse to confirm her VP, we make that an election issue. Look at these anti-democratic crooks refusing to give America a VP.
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Dems in disarray plays badly with voters. Lincoln Project had a video about how this is distraction and harms Biden. Remember that they want Biden to win so that eventually they can start voting for Republicans again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6eL...
Democrats: Stop Panickingwww.youtube.com Lincoln Project isn't giving up almost 250 years of democracy because of 90 minutes last week and you shouldn’t either. 1 bad night won’t derail us from our ...
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There's no such thing as an "acting VP." You just made that up.
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"get by without a VP" ah, good, putting House Republicans a single heartbeat away from controlling the executive branch. "an acting one" would still require House approval, remember?
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It's not exactly the same, it's literally taking votes entirely out of the equation and bypassing the democratic process. Why would you purposefully align yourself with the billionaire donor class and NYT's editorial board? Do you genuinely think they have your best interests in mind?
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The voters DID choose her to replace him if anything were to happen. That's why our system allows her to immediately access the war chest.
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How do you know the electors are going to vote for Harris in an open convention?
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They might not, they're free to choose not to. But if the outgoing president asked them to respect his choice of successor they almost certainly would.
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The best thing we can do right now is create a strategy to regain control of the House and increase the majority in the Senate. Otherwise we will all go expat. I bought a house a few months ago, then the market dropped here. We focus on down ballot candidates inc state house and school boards.
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The heritage foundation is aligning itself with a Joe-Biden-no-matter-what agenda, even vowing to fight a Kamala nomination in the courts why would you purposefully align yourself with them?
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"The heritage foundation is aligning itself with a Joe-Biden-no-matter-what agenda" Yeah, because people like you are hopping on board their propaganda campaign against him and doing their work for them.
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The obvious answers are: 1. Joe Biden is easier to beat by Trump. 2. Kamala Harris is a loon, and not predictable. Until January 2025, unless both Biden and Harris are removed somehow, one of them will be President.
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Oooooo Harris is "a loon", that's weird, how'd you come to that conclusion?