he lost me at this quote - “I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,”
If it’s a good enough attitude for kindergartners’ soccer games, it’s a good enough attitude for fighting fascism.
“Look, people don’t want him to run for president, but he can win despite that.”
And more full of people who lost miserably against some odds, and lost exactly as expected. Biden’s ego and denial (probably due to some close advisors) is on the verge of pulling an RBG right now, but it’s going to cost much more than Roe this time.
Like… Trump. The guy with no political experience or cohesive message who seemed to do it just cause he could. We kept thinking the next big scandal was what would end his campaign but then he won and somehow had even more scandals in office. No ones arguing unconventional people can’t win. But do you want a leader you want to support or one you don’t. Cause right now the dividing line is we don’t want trump, not we want Biden and that makes him a liability.
Much of that lifetime has been spent losing presidential bids.
This is not some Lifetime movie where “everyone counts him out, but he believes in himself”! The stakes are too high.
Joe, please do not run again. You did good things in your presidency, let that be your legacy. Not staying in the race after voters, Dem leadership, donors, etc all asked you to please step aside, and then losing to Donald Trump, who will enact Project 2025.
Its the Dem leadership and donors who are the ones dividing the party. Joe Biden is the most pro-labour president in recent memory and they want him out because he is threatening their profits.
Again with the conspiracy theories. What does him being Pro-Labour have to do with the cognitive decline we are all witnessing with our own eyes?
No, lawmakers like Nancy Pelosi want him out because he’s dragging down the party. He will lose them the White House and keep them from taking back the House. Plus, y’know… Project 2025 and the possible end of our democracy.
He only got the job because democratic party leadership decided to coalesce around him in 2020.
There were lots of good choices in 2020. Sanders was probably the most well-liked and respected, but there was Buttigieg who came out with the very first set of delegates in Indiana. Honestly, I thought Biden was the second worst candidate running for President during the primary, about a million miles ahead of fucking Bloomberg, but just when it looked like it was over for Joe, a miracle saved his entire campaign and rocketed him into the nomination.
We need another miracle like that. Without it, I don’t see a path to winning again. The fence-sitters are going to plunge us back into a second Trump term and an inevitable fascist dictatorship.
Not miraculous. Almost everyone dropped out and endorsed Biden, at the same time, just before Super Tuesday. It was coordinated to help him, after he just won big in SC. Warren stayed in to “help” divide prog vote. That, and COVID, is how we ended up with Biden.
It is ironic that some of these same people are now working behind the scenes again, only to replace him. I’m surprised and happy that Biden listened to Bernie and progs, and had a decent presidency (almost much more, killed by Manchin and Sinema). But swing state polls have shifted, and Biden seems incapable of effectively communicating necessary info (basic politics). I can’t imagine the consequences in 2028 if he eeks this one out but continues the decline.
