• HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Setting aside November for a moment, shouldn’t we be having a discussion about whether Biden is fit to be president right now? It can’t be good for all of the nation’s enemies to know the US of A has an addled president, can it?

    He should be stepping aside and letting Kamala take over.

    Let Democrats see how President Harris fares for a couple months before the Democrat convention has to decide in August whether to run a different candidate or stick with Harris.

    That way, if they do decide to run with Harris, she’ll be entering the election as an incumbent.

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      4 months ago

      The incumbent advantage really doesn’t apply if it’s not who was elected in the first place. The only real advantage would be having a (short) record to run on. Even that assumes that (1) she would have one worth promoting, and (2) that people would care.

      The bigger concern is that Harris really, REALLY is not popular. It would take a long time to convince people otherwise, if it could even be done. Hillary spent decades trying to build her image, including a full election cycle in earnest, and failed so miserably that we ended up with Trump.

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        4 months ago

        Clinton was doomed from the start, fox news and their ilk had spent 20 years making her the face of everything they told their viewers to fear.

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      But he is very obviously fit to be president. One single bad debate and suddenly we just throw in the towel? After everything he’s already accomplished, and the dangers that Trump represents, the complete unwillingness to rally behind the candidate who already beat Trump once is insane. I don’t know what happened in the debate, nobody does really, but his performance afterwards and the day after price pretty clearly that it wasn’t senility. He’s obviously still perfectly coherent, the debate was just really bad.

      Immediately after the debate, when people were dooming out of their fucking minds, there were still undecided voters being interviewed who said Biden won on substance, and that they would vote for him after the debate. Of course maybe fewer than we would like, but people still recognized that Trump was just a bullshit spewing hose of idiotic nonsense and Biden was bringing some receipts.

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        4 months ago

        Biden got confused about the receipts he brought. Trump brought the alley

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          What Trump brought was an overblown ego and a fountain of lies and vitriol that his idiot followers eat up like candy.

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        Turn back before its too late. Biden deserves to be trounced after that performance. Next gaff could be worse. Too late to give him more chances, pivot or lose. We cannot afford to Weekend at Bernies a presidential candidate. Yes. Throw in the towel, that is the only way to face reality.