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“Party drama must end” says the man only really staying in because of his massive ego.

(Ya’ll still need to vote)

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dude beat trump the first time

Barely. He won the popular vote by a smaller margin than Hillary did in 2016 and the few swing states that decided the outcome by a smaller margin than Trump did that year. This while being mostly known as the VP of a popular president.

has been an excellent president

No. Nowhere near as bad as the Mango Mussolini, of course, but he’s been the low end of mediocre at best. And the electorate remembers how disappointing the current president has been better than how awful the previous one was. It’s stupid and unfair, but that’s how it is.

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You’re talking about Biden’s ‘massive ego’ in a race with Trump as a candidate? 🤣

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DNC ego is why we got Trump in 2016.

Also Trump voters don’t care about their candidate being shitty. It’s a feature not a bug. Biden has people with standards and morals to motivate. Relying on the shittiness of trump is a losing move. Biden was inoffensive in 2020, that no longer the case this time round. This all is how we end up with trump again

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I don’t disagree about the DNC’s ego, but the stakes are very different from 2016.

Biden has people with standards and morals to motivate.

Are you suggesting those people with morals and standards will just abandon those morals and standards to vote Trump because Biden didn’t look as good as they wanted? Or just not vote because Biden didn’t live up to those standards, despite the Supreme Court and Trump making it very clear that democracy is on the ballot.

This isn’t going to be a race decided by undecided voters, no one is sitting on the fence despite what the media might be saying. The only people saying they are undecided simply don’t want to admit their politics out in the public.

And like you said, Trump voters see his shittiness to others as a feature, not a bug. But democrats don’t. They see it for what it is, shittiness. So Why, in your mind, would Dem leaning voters look at all of the things Trump has done and decide “you know what, that Biden guy and the Democrats better align to my morals and standards, but Biden looked awfully old… I better vote for the guy trying to destroy democracy, he’s only 78 after all.”

No one is seriously considering that. It’s just not a real option. The only thing I could see being a possibility is people being discouraged against voting entirely because Biden didn’t exactly fit into their perfect mold of a candidate. So as a protest, they abstained from voting, and in turn allowed fascism to win through their collective inaction. I can’t see anybody even remotely leaning Democrat doing that though. If they’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention, they’ve probably already decided to protest vote against Trump.

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All of donnie’s faults are a given, but there is no reason we should excuse Biden’s hubris if we are heading for the fascist iceberg…

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