I know that it’s popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He’s old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting “Christian” Nationalists.

    • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Pretty hopeful this is a joke? Please?

      Because if not, getting a scratch on the side of your ear doesn’t change the fact he’s been not only tried but convicted of sexual assault, election tampering and fraud. Juries and judges got to look at the actual evidence (not the lies he spews on a minute-by-minute basis) and found him guilty.

    • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I was going to vote for biden but trump showed real gumption when he got shot so i switched sides

      [This is what Democrats actually believe America would do]

      The fact that Democrats decided that the race was over when he got not-shot shows how unserious they are.

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No it’s like firing the head chef who’s always passed out in the walk-in and hoping one of the sous chefs who actually work the line every night making the food will give you Michelin-quality food. I mean, maybe not Harris in particular, but you get the point.

    • thagoat@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      4 months ago

      OK, but if we hire the Fascists chef to lead the restaurant it will cease to exist. If we rehire the snoozing chef, we can also hire new managers to keep the place running like it always has. If we pick the comic book villain because he’s 3 years younger and hope he was kidding about all the horrendous shit he said he would do then we are the stupidest fucktards on the planet.

      • MinorLaceration@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        No one here is suggesting we should reelect Trump. People are saying that Biden will lose. The only chance we have, however slim, is to ditch the guy who can’t form coherent sentences. People didn’t vote for Biden because he’s Biden. People voted for Biden because he’s not Trump. Whoever takes his place will also have that going for them, with the advantage of being lucid.

      • FireTower@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Maybe we hire a different chef who isn’t an octogenarian. There’s a lot of chefs out there. We don’t have to accept the false dichotomy that there’s only two chefs capable of running a kitchen.

        The hiring process is meant to weed out bad chefs like those that are sleep or hold political beliefs anathema to most. Not to lock them in as the only possible cooks.

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        You still haven’t explained why you want Biden over any other Democratic candidate.

        You know time is linear, right?

        You know the convention hasn’t happened yet, right?

        You know that there is no poll at this point showing Biden wins, right?

        You know that most other polls show that basically any other Democratic candidate wins, right?

        Why are you trying to help Trump win?

        I’m calling Russian bot on this person trying to get Trump elected.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    good-lord Yes, and you say the Democratic Party considers this election the most important of our lifetimes despite the fact that the wavering in the party is obviously top-down

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election.

    Wow sounds like they really should’ve put forward a better candidate than Biden screm-cool

    • frippa@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Trump: evil dictatorial genocide

      Biden: acceptable, respectable genocide

      Obama: What genocide?

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The arrogance of Democratic leadership is fully on display here. I have nothing against Biden, he’s done great but he’s too old and should have known he was going to be a one term president from day one and worked to hand the mantle over to younger candidates years ago.

    Now here we are months from an extremely important election and we have to debate if he is physically fit for the job. It’s obvious bullshit and a complete failure of leadership for the Democratic Party.

    A lot of people are going to just vote for him because the alternative is unacceptable. However there are a lot of people in the center in key swing states who don’t follow politics, don’t understand what is at stake that may not have that same attitude. To them the age issue is front and center in their decision making process.

    This is the second time Dems have put a fundamentally flawed candidate up for the presidency. They need to fix their fucking process.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Only one way to fix flawed dem candidates. Convince more people to vote for better ones. Otherwise you’re basically asking them to suppress moderates that might want to run.

      This is how democracy works, where voters choose candidates. But when progressives are only a fraction of the party, we need to expand the number of progressive voters in order to see results.

  • retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Biden is basically a guarunteed loss, so anyone advocating Biden when there’s the possibility of replacing him with someone who polls better, like Harris, want a dem loss. It’s really that simple.

    There aren’t enough pep talks or backhanded memes that will change Biden’s inability to drive out voters.

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I get it. He’s old. So what?

    No, you don’t get it. It’s not just a matter of age, it’s a matter of severe cognitive impairment due to his age. He’s a few brain cells away from becoming a gibbering vegetable.

    It’s rather alarming that the only qualification to be the Democrat nominee is to have a pulse. Not a brain, not an agenda, not a set of policies and initiatives. Just a pulse and nothing more.

    At that point, who’s actually making the decisions? Who controls the nuclear codes? Who is commanding the military? It’s not Biden, but some anonymous unelected staffers?

    • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This is hilarious. The dude is running the country quite well right at this moment. Stop buying into the BS hype the press is trying to foment for click-bait profits.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      4 months ago

      should I reply to a comment that has “He’s a few brain cells away from becoming a gibbering vegetable.”. I mean common. Is this in good faith. Will everyone get 100% behind a replacement from the party. I doubt that. I see no reason to replace him. He has a young vice president so if he becomes unable to serve she was also voted on by the democratic voters last spring. This is a non issue to me.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      it’s a matter of severe cognitive impairment due to his age.

      The alternative is a moron with a visible personality disorder. Someone who’s still bragging about remembering five objects, because he genuinely does not understand that demonstrating basic functionality is not a flex.

      He’s also a fascist, in case you care.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    All this is just ‘it shoulda been Bernie’ without even specifying a Bernie. It’s letting perfect be the enemy of good, with the limpest hand-wave toward what would be better.

    Meanwhile, the alternative to the lesser evil is outright fascism.

    You should generally stop fascists from taking power.

    If you want to do more than vote, go right the fuck ahead.

    If you want to do less than vote, shut the fuck up.

    This is literally the least you can do. It’s not complicated. Choose less evil.

  • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I believe in AZ it is on the ballot as a petition-based initiative in November. Because the Republican-majority congress wants nothing to do with it.

    • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Oh shit, is this supposed to be a response to me asking about ranked choice voting? Assuming that’s the case:

      That’s cool for Arizona. I hope it passes. But I don’t live in Arizona. Most americans don’t. What should those of us not in Arizona do to bring about ranked choice voting?