Dude when the NYT has effectively a “who has stabbed Caesar so far?!” counter… you’re toast
Even if he still got the nomination it would obviously result in immediate fallout. Yelling, accusations, whatever. But then he has to win… after the media spends months talking about, for the first time, how demented he is and keeps showing evidence everyday. Everyone already kinda knew this, even those coping since 2020, but now EVERYONE knows. There’s no fucking world where this guy gets the nomination and then gets enough votes to win.
Not only is he historically unpopular mostly due to a major drop off FOR DOING A GENOCIDE but now everyone knows he should be sipping pudding from a straw while he waits for the reaper, not trying to negotiate high level deals and wielding the power of the executive to get agenda items done.
Even if you’re a ghoul and don’t care about the genocide, his administration has gotten almost nothing of real substance done for one of (maybe both) two reasons: he doesn’t actually care to do anything even slightly “progressive” or necessary like huge fat infrastructure/green legislation (he didn’t even fight at all. Just caved to two senators WHO HAVE SINCE ANNOUNCED THEIR RETIREMENTS WHAAAAAT THEEEEE FUUUUUUUUUCK what a loser!) or he’s too fucking old/frail to literally go out in person to the podium every day, maybe answer a few questions, and then rant for 10 minutes about how Joe Manchin’s daughter is a criminal and he sure would HATE to send the DoJ to WV to investigate, but what choice does he have?.. unless? He couldn’t do that even if he wanted. And he clearly doesn’t want to.
He spent more time jacking off Bibi and Israel while lying his ass off about Palestinians than he ever did publicly pushing for anything positive. He also spent time constantly talking about PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN! All he fucking cares about during his extremely limited time of lucidity and limited public engagements is hyping up more war. Like come the fuck on man. This country is a joke. Total fucking joke.
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.
He said “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do.”
Lmfao
Then demanded ABC change the transcript to as good as a job or whatever to kinda fix the sentence
But the underlying message of selfishness remains. And total lack of seriousness despite his and DNC’s claims of “democracy ending”
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.
This seems like a very survivable amount of dissent.
Reminds me so much of Crusader Kings when factions form and you have to convince people not to join, until you can assassinate the leader
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.
I feel like the DNC’s naked contempt for people will lead them to disregard what supporters think. But yes that’s true the number has time to grow. I really don’t care for any reason beyond pure but it’s entertaining to watch the Democrat machine try to convince everyone that the emperor is in fact wearing clothes
By next week (if not this weekend) - 10% house democrats will want him to drop out.
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?
I saw a post by a Bluesky shitlib excited by Biden’s Detroit speech. It was such pathetic lib copium. And bringing in people to yell, scream, and cheer is directly out of The Trump PR Playbook. And I’m 100% certain for years the shitlib made endless fun of Trump for doing it.
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Ninja edit
Here is it is. Emphasis his.
The contrast between this crowd overwhelming biden with WE GOT YOUR BACK at the 9 minute mark compared with the last 2 weeks of coverage is something to contemplate for a moment.
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It’s a great speech overall, but i haven’t seen anyone mention that part, and it just stopped me in my tracks, this is just not a man who is going to be pushed out by the newspapers or the party or anyone else. the people bringing the house down with WE GOT YOUR BACK are the party.
https://bsky.app/profile/golikehellmachine.com/post/3kx4r7scrjh2c
I guess the 9 minute mark is a sort of Freudian slip. The “we got your back” is stopping and Biden’s a-mumblin’. The OP surely meant to say ~8:40,
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This is very much like how the british media counts the people who have handed in their no-confidence letters to the conservative party’s 1922 committee.
I reckon they already know it’s coming and we’re just going through the motions of grand build up and hype and media circus now so that it’s all official.
Feels exactly like Liz Truss did. Also Boris Johnson’s revolt too. Also Theresa May I guess. Brits have seen this circus a lot in recent years lmao.