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Calling your own voters bed-shitters, bed-wetters, whiners, etc. isn't helping
Neither is calling the president an ineloquent loser without having an alternative. So stop acting like complaining is the answer.
You want to replace Biden? Come up with a viable candidate that can beat Trump or realize that Biden is the best we’re gonna get before November and deal with it.
But enough with the bitching and moaning.
Or how about listen to your voter base? Biden was looked at as a stand in after his first win. Ppl were not happy to vote for him twice. The DNC had 4 years to look for a viable replacement. Instead of acting like they can decide for us the DNC should of exercised potential replacements. It's what got us Hilary even though she was wildly unpopular and clearly democrats learned fuck all since her campaign.
The DNC think they're king makers in a democracy they claim they want to preserve. And yes I'm voting for anyone over Trump but the DNC should've not pushed their pick and let the primaries play out like the democracy its suppose to be
They literally did. In their primary. Which overwhelmingly voted for Biden. Anybody could have run, some people did, none of them held a candle to Biden's numbers.
How many primary debates did the DNC hold this year?
I’ve heard the same shit for years.
I’ll hear it in 4 more years when instead of actually giving us healthcare we are sending billions for Israel to kill Palestinian children and that generic republican president will make a full dictatorship day 1 and the whole country is doomed and blah blah blah.
Get a new script
Specifically every election year since 1992 if not longer
The good news is you won't.
The bad news is that you won't because the DNC will have finally pissed away democracy with their insistence that every election is 1992 and their preferred candidates are all Bill Clinton.
There wasn't one. It was an utter sham and is one of the things people are frustrated about.
No. People are allowed to voice their frustrations with a geriatric who has proven he's as arrogant as trump. Until facism takes over America, it is literally a right for people to bitch about their leaders. And yes. Biden outright proved he's as arrogant as Trump when during an interview he answer the question "If you stay on and don't give the reigns to someone else and you lose the election to Donald Trump, how will you feel?" and Biden said he'd feel great as long as he did his best because that's what counts. Either he's lost his mind or he's an arrogant douchebag. It is not just appropriate but required to talk about how he is unfit for the job.
This is ridiculous.
Edit: I went and grabbed the exact quote I was thinking of that proves Biden is putting himself before the country.
G. Stephanopoulos - If you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?
J. Biden - I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job I know I can do that's what this is about
NO THE FUCK IT ISN'T JOE.
This is about the future of DEMOCRACY. You just watched the Supreme Court appoint you a king and are like "Yeah but I gotta do the goodest job I know I can do" in a quote that sounds Trump-level failure on grasping the English language? Fuck off. Get the hell out of the way and let someone step in who knows what the fuck they're doing and is someone people can rally around.
Yes, the emperor has the finest clothes.
Want a list of names to dismiss?
lol, wtf are you even talking about?
He obviously demonstrably is
Are you calling Joe "there's 50 other Democrats who could beat Trump" Biden a liar? You gotta be, since you're denying that he's ineloquent.
I must have missed that part of the first amendment. Is it next to the part about a constitutional right to redress of grievances?
Yes, please.
Not our job. I bet you're one of those people who tell anyone who doesn't like your favorite music act to "make a better album yourself or shut up".
You think that's a good point, but it's not. In fact, it's every bit as asinine as any argument for voting for the Mango Mussolini.
Since the US democracy isn't very good at listening to the people in general rather than only those with the most money and power, you're probably right for the first time in your impassioned defense of settling for awful.
You say at the end of a rant bitching and moaning about people rightly being wary of having to choose between having a severely impaired president or not having a democracy at all.
Be better. Demand more of the people who are supposed to represent your interests.
Tripping over a few words during the debate isn’t “severely impaired”. And if you have to lie to make your point, you don’t have much of a point.
And also NOWHERE near the extent of it. Did you even watch the clip before declaring your disappointment in the guy trying to warn you that there's trouble ahead?
More inane projection 🙄
I watched the whole debate. And declaring “nuh-uh!” isn’t a counter argument, it’s copium.
You watched the whole debate and your internal alarm wasn't BLARING @EleventhHour?
Are you that disillusioned or dulled from politics that whatever *that* was on stage was okay and acceptable to you?
I will vote for Biden because I don't want to vote for literally Hitler but holy shit.
Congratulations on your bias shielding you from fully comprehending the extent of his sundowning, I guess?
I didn't mean only the debate, though. There's been a LOT of "what is the most powerful human in the world trying to say??" moments both before and after that specific debacle.
Lucky for me that there wasn't an argument to counter, then, just you screeching "YOU LIE!" a propos of nothing.
Again with the projection lol
WE BEAT MEDICARE.
Complaining is the answer. Biden shouldn't have ran in the first place, his Cabinet should have threatened to 25th Amendment him if he decided to run again. He's going through dementia. And most importantly he's loosing in the polls especially so in 6 out of the 7 swing states. And voters considering Biden state that his age and competence is their #1 reservation keeping them from voting for him. RFK has nearly 10% in some places a couple of percentage points from himeams that he'll beat Trump amd what he needs to do is adress his obvious shortcomings.
But unless rank and file Democrats complain, nothing will change. They didn't complain enough before the faux-primary and now they need to complain even more now.
Harris, Butttiget, Booker, Whitmer and one other person whose name I can't recall at this time were polling withing 2 points of Biden's clip last week. According to this poll Harris polling ahead of Biden and beating Trump nationally in polling. While I'm not sold on a Harris Presidency because of her very poor record; I think she's in the best position to take over.
Nah I’m going to go ahead and keep up the bitching and moaning because it is the only halfway decent chance I have at getting a president who actually cares about the things I do
There are many alternatives. He is ineloquent. I don't want to deal with a confused old man at death's door signing up for four more years. He should be replaced.
We are not at the stage where you say 'alternatives', but are instead at the stage where you need to start listing specific names.
The best candidates (the various governors) don't seem to be jumping on board. Kamala looks risky politically but on technicalities she might have access to Bidens donations since she's the running mate.
Is there any other alternative you want to bring up?
Viable candidate? Dude, I could personally beat Donald Trump with the dem nomination, and im nobody. Trying to keep biden in is literally just trying to get trump elected. Hes the only person who could lose, because he might die before the vote.
That strategy worked so well for the DNC in 2016, didn't it?
Care to elaborate? Last I checked, HRC was hardly nobody.
HRC is a nobody now? Tf are you smoking cuz I need that good shit.