Counterpoint: The important thing is that he tries his best.

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In all seriousness - even though I know his brainpan is porridge - I can’t believe he actually said that.

C’mon my guy, I mean what the fuck? You’re deliberately obfuscating his great accomplishments? I mean this is the man who has been lauded throughout the nation as the most progressive president since FDR! Remember, I think it was about a year after he crushed that rail workers strike, when he stood in that UAW picket line and said some platitudes? That was the single greatest victory for American Labor since the five-day work week. Remember when he made some appointments to the NLRB that were actually on the side of (business) unions rather than being there just for the execs? Another win. Remember when he curbed inflation? Sure it’s in a way that seems to be entirely invisible to working people on the ground but the news and some economists say he did so it must be true. I was going to make fun of the 2021 infrastructure bill that was passed, but it seems like that might legitimately be a success? Or at least I was able to find this quote from the Brookings Institute “pumping $306 billion into state coffers and direct investment projects [in the first two years since the bill was passed].” I don’t know enough about anything to know if that’s good or not. Maybe all that money goes to, like, graft and corrupt construction executives and state officials? Even if literally all that money goes to repairing bridges I guess having a bill that gives money to states so that they will build infrastructure as basically your only actual domestic accomplishment as President isn’t super inspiring, is it? Wait, excuse me, that’s not Biden’s only domestic policy win. Remember when he flanked the far right to the right by doing an even more draconian border action than they wanted? And remember how that was a flailing bid to deny Trump a talking point on the stump? And how that didn’t even work because Trump just talks as if that didn’t happen and Biden’s actually weak on the border, so many thousands of people are suffering and it wasn’t even for anything? But anyway, Biden secured our border, another Biden win.

And let’s not forget, Joe Biden protected Ukraine from Russia, and he protected our ally Israel (no need to go into who or how he protected Israel. Just remember that America stands with its allies). Remember, Putin is a crazy madman who will definitely, 100%, willingly trigger global nuclear holocaust by invading a NATO country. He’s just that kind of guy. And if you don’t vote or vote for someone besides Biden or Trump that’s still the same thing as voting for Trump, and a vote for Trump is a vote for Putin.

If the convention was a week or two away - Biden could easily ignore the reps asking him to resign and weather the storm. The problem is the convention is - I dunno - ~6 weeks away. The stats could be really bad by then. And the he has so many other problems. The majority of his supporters want him to step down, etc. If he can avoid “bad days” until the convention is over - he could easily survive but look like a shit candidate because all the trend lines continue to look horrible if not nightmarish for him. If he gets the nomination - even a single bad day so close to the election could make even his diehard cheerleading supporters see he’s doomed.

Honestly I think he could weather this if that’s all that happens. We were supposed to see nearly 50 public calls for him to stop running by the end of tomorrow. I was pretty sure more would materialize today.

If they slow roll it they’re just letting him reassure himself and not spooking the flighty ones into publicly criticizing him. I can imagine them running out of momentum over the weekend if they don’t have something else planned. And then what?

It will be fascinating to see who blinks first- what is the red line for the rebels to cut their losses before they make things even worse, if it becomes clear the oatmeal brained man will not clear the way?