Rev. Magdalen: 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.

Reminder for people who seem to be convinced that a deficit barely outside the margin of error in July is insurmountable

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

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.

It's not just the controlled, teleprompter events since the debates, it's his degrading performance since '20.

You mean the performance where he's presided over the most pro-labor and progressive administration in modern history? Wild.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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*.

And they are incandescent at Biden refusing to engage them. They are also the primary drivers of the "Biden should resign/step aside" discourse.

*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

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?

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

Same.

Enjoy being strung along by a right-wing ratfucking op. bsky.app/profile/drki...

What is your plan to overcome The Heritage Foundation lawyers who are as we speak crafting legal challenges to keep any other DEM beside Biden off the ballot? Spoiler: You have no plan, just vibes. www.foxnews.com/politics/her...

Heritage Foundation working on election legal challenges in case Biden pulled from DNC nominationwww.foxnews.com The Heritage Foundation, a major conservative activist organization, is prepared to start legal battles in multiple swing states if Democrats try to swap Biden out of the party nomination.

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.

"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?

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.

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.

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.

This is why they temporarily transfer power BEFORE they go into surgery if they need it.

He's been repeatedly doing public appearances and interviews daily since the debate.

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.

Tell me, does cognitive decline make it easier or harder to stick to a script? "refuses to disprove" I'm sorry, *what*, how does he disprove that? He could literally take a cognitive test and you'd deny its results.

Cognitive decline means you can still do things like the muscle memory of delivering a speech, something he has done on a regular basis his entire adult life. It doesn't take conscious thought for him to do that. It's very easy to prove that someone can stay alert in the evening. Come on.

The way you prove you're not sundowning is you plan evening events where you prove you can think on your feet. Like town halls, live interviews, debates, etc. He is explicitly refusing. It's over. As for a cognitive test, there's a reason he's not offering to take one.

Delivering a speech isn't muscle memory, nor is reading from a teleprompter, which is actually significantly harder for people in cognitive decline than speaking extemporaneously. You know nothing about how cognitive decline works and it shows. This is disgusting.

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!

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.

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.

You're literally aiding in Republicans' attempt to take over the Executive branch.

Yes, stating the obvious — that Biden can’t do the job but his VP can — is aiding a Republican takeover 🙄 Heritage was preparing for if Biden is formally nominated and drops out AFTER. It’s completely irrelevant to the current discussion, they’ve pivoted into trying to scare libs into keeping Biden

Biden literally has been doing the job, you're saying his job is now debates. The rest of his administration, the rest of his actions and words, are irrelevant. Oh, huh, Heritage is irrelevant to the conversation? You should tell that to your compatriots, who argued that they want to keep Biden.

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 ...

There's no such thing as an "acting VP." You just made that up.

Of course they would actually just be the appointee awaiting confirmation, with no legal powers, if they refuse to confirm, but there's no law saying she can't treat them like a VP. They just wouldn't be able to actually break ties. Big deal, it's six months, nothing was even on the table.

The VP isn't just a tiebreaker role, they play a critical role in foreign policy. You're purposefully sidestepping the issue because you hate Biden that much.

"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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