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slickgoat ,

Well, the Trump team has been panicking in anticipation of this happening. They have already started launching law suits trying to stop it. The biggest scare they had was Biden’s age and that may have just vaporised?

BallsandBayonets ,

If nothing else, this should be a sign that Biden stepping aside was the right move.

kandoh ,

It looks good that the democrat is willing to give up power. People do notice that sort of stuff.

Zaktor ,

“President Biden put his country first and stepped aside. When Donald Trump was told by the voters to get lost, he called on his followers to march on the capitol.”

confusedbytheBasics ,

Source on the lawsuits? I need to broadcast that

slickgoat ,

Damn it, I was only reading about that this morning. Now I shall have to try and find it. Give me a few.

slickgoat ,

seattletimes.com/…/trump-campaign-prepares-attack…

slickgoat ,

www.notus.org/…/biden-heritage-republicans

merc ,

OTOH, Biden countered a lot of their favourite lines of attack.

He was a white, catholic man who was obviously not rich. They couldn’t attack his religious beliefs without inviting comparisons to Trump. They couldn’t attack his race or his sex. They couldn’t make him out to be a threat to American values, when his image was always very friendly and loving.

They’re going to go hard on Kamala being the “DEI” candidate. They’re going to go hard on her not being Christian (whether or not she is, they’re going to imply that she isn’t, just like they claimed that non-white Obama was a muslim). There are tons of lines of attack that are now open to them because they’re not running against Biden anymore.

Nobody knows how this is going to turn out. It all depends on how undecided people vote. And, if you’re undecided at this stage, you’re an absolute moron. Who can predict the vote of the low-information moron voter?

Zaktor ,

And now Trump is the dangerously old one. Hammer it home. He’s incoherent and a hamburger away from death.

ceenote ,

It was like pulling teeth for awhile, but Joe Biden deserves to be recognized for his humility. That’s not common in politicians at that level.

Waldowal ,
@Waldowal@lemmy.world avatar

Now that Biden doesn’t care about reelection, what kind of “Official acts” might he do?

Nerrad ,
@Nerrad@lemmy.world avatar

The best kind

AFaithfulNihilist ,
@AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world avatar

Now they have a new excuse of not doing anything important or interesting so they don’t “taint” Harris.

djsoren19 ,

I’m not gonna pretend that I love Harris, but this does make me energized enough to try and convince others to vote for her.

I think the hard part is going to be getting Trump to agree to debate her, but she should be able to kick his ass and hit him hard on the issues that matter for this election, as opposed to doddling on a stage arguing about golf.

laverabe ,

I just looked up some of her positions and she does seem a bit more progressive than Biden was. She cosponsored Bernie’s medicare for all bill a few years ago and supports marijuana legalization.

I think this whole mess could actually be a net positive for democrats as it reinvigorates enthusiasm (“hope and change”, version 2024)

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

lemmy is the only social media worth anything goddamn

timestatic ,

Bro I went below Bidens twitter post and it was so bad. How can anyone seriously clown on Biden. I highly think of his decision and think that this really is what it means to serve the country. Better late than never!

EnderWiggin ,

Kamala 2024! Let’s go!

verdantbanana ,
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

our country just does not have enough police representation

go Kamala 2024! who wants to be under a prosecutor’s boot? we do!

suction ,

Back to /pol with you

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m surprised you got Daddy Trumps cock out your mouth enough to look at a screen to type this. Or you’re multi-tasking in which case I applaud you.

blazera ,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

I was not turning out for Joe. Even if its Harris im voting now. Id prefer it not be Harris, but a much younger president, starting a first term of hopefully 2, we’re definitely taking back some Court seats.

Cool_Name ,

Yep, I’ll pokemon go to the polls now. Harris would not be my first pick, but it would be dumb for me to demand that biden step down and still not vote when my demand is met.

Democrats have listened to their voters and they deserve to be rewarded for that.

GiddyGap ,

I would have turned out for Joe, no question. Any day. I’ll also turn out for Harris or any of the other Democratic frontrunners. The alternative is Trump.

Wytch ,

Spend some more time with the family, Joe. Thanks for grabbing the wheel, there. We’ll take it from here.

floofloof , (edited )

I kind of expected them to announce another candidate, not just that their only candidate wouldn’t be. Do they have to elect a candidate now? For how long will only one party have a candidate?

Edit: Just read that they’ll choose the candidate in late August. So for a whole month there will be only Republican campaigning in the media, unless the Democrats can make their process interesting enough to catch the media’s attention.

Another edit: Seems they’re moving much quicker than that after all.

dhork ,

Biden has already endorsed Harris, at least on Twitter. I think that part is over. They already have to nominate someone early due to some deadlines, so the actual nomination will happen in the next week or two. It’s Harris. We should all accept it.

harrys_balzac ,

Goddamn this timeline sucks hairy balls (not to be confused with me cuz ain’t nobody sucking me). I didn’t like her as a VP pick and I don’t like the idea of her as President but she’s still 1000 times better than Cheetodick.

I’d love to see them nominate Bernie or AOC for VP. That’s how they’ll get the 18-24 year olds to come out to vote.

bolexforsoup ,

18-24 year olds didn’t show up for Bernie in 2015 or 2019. They aren’t coming this time. Their enthusiasm always get way overestimated.

5redie8 ,

Probably because that’s one of the primary demos of sites like Lemmy and reddit, plus some sub populations of Twitter

bolexforsoup ,

I also think millennials/gen X need to not demand Gen Z bail us out, especially since a substantial portion can’t even vote yet.

MutilationWave ,

Why not? As an elder millennial/xennial I’d be totally happy with Zs coming up to me saying we saved your ass for the rest of my life if they show up to vote.

mosiacmango ,

The media loves conflict, and this is going to be a juicy one. If anyhting, this sucks the wind out of Trump’s campaign.

Its still going to be “dems in disarray” non stop until they pick someone, but it mutes that chucklefuck up.

Sarothazrom ,

Definitely should have happened 6 months ago, but better late than never - something about planting a tree.

This also robs the GOP of the hE’s ToO oLd argument, which is one of their only effective attacks.

Valmond ,

Yeah, who’s the old rambling man now eh!

IchNichtenLichten ,
@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world avatar

The campaign to pressure Harris to step aside starts now.

I’m joking, I think. I can’t tell any more.

tamal3 ,

Can we move the convention forward? I understand that US elections are very high dollar, but would be nice to see the options and have everyone agree that Harris is the most inspiring to all.

Whitmer already said she’s not running. Too bad.

kboy101222 ,

As someone who has worked in the event setup space, if they move up the convention, those workers have my utmost sympathies…

morphballganon ,

Sometimes people eat their words.

AA5B ,

I respect the decision and it means he goes out on top. It must have been a difficult decision, but he was one of the better presidents (I see an historian pol ranking him 14th best) and I believe history will remember him even better. I wish Joe Biden all the best in retirement.

Now comes the hard part. How do we avoid him having to say “I told you so”? How do we avoid repeating the disaster of the worst ranked President in history?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah I think Joe Biden is basically the Clement Attlee of US Presidents.

Who’s Clement Attlee? Some random guy that defeated Winston Churchill in the election just after Germany was defeated in WWII. “A modest man that has a great deal to be modest about.” Such a nobody that his own party wanted to remove him immediately after he was elected.

If you want to see his photo you can enter “best prime minister in uk history” into your preferred search engine.

OldWoodFrame ,

After the Schumer leak, this had to happen.

It has to be Kamala and anyone thinking otherwise is dumb.

And I don’t know if Kamala can win. I don’t know if she could do better than Joe would do. But I know she’ll do better than what would happen if Joe had a second debate like the first debate.

If nothing else, this keeps it close.

kandoh ,

This feels very energizing. I think you’ll see democrats get a lot more excited about the election now. They’ll have a great time watching the talking heads arguing over who should be VP. The contrast between team hold-onto-power-no-matter-what and team democrat will not be missed on low information voters.

merc ,

she’ll do better than what would happen if Joe had a second debate like the first debate.

Or, what would happen if there was no second debate, which I’m sure is what the Republicans were planning for. Why consider a second debate when the only thing it could do is make Biden look better? They would have used every rule and excuse to get out of having a second debate so that the only image voters had of Biden was from the first one.

jumjummy ,

Now watch all the “I’m a leftist” people using Genocide Joe pivot over to some other talking point as soon as Putin gives them marching orders via Fox News.

Ragdoll_X ,
@Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world avatar

IT’S JOEVER

en1gma ,

Byeden

zarathustra0 ,

Baiden

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