- Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
- Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
- Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
Incidentally, there’s a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can’t tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore. They’ll tell us not to vote for whoever is going to be his replacement though.
Eh, their new dissent orders seem to be “Biden can’t appoint Harris! I didn’t vote for her!” which, of course, displays a total lack of knowledge about what primaries are and what the DNC is.
They didn’t want Biden to run, and now they mysteriously don’t want the person most of the party supports to run either.
Right? It’s almost as if they’ve never been approaching any of this in good faith.
Almost like they want Trump to win, hmmmmmm
You know what I’m not seeing?
ANY of these accounts that were so relentless in their criticism of Biden and how he needed to step down because otherwise the Democrats would lose, being simply happy about this.
ALL of the tentative happiness about Harris maybe being a stronger candidate than Biden was, is coming from people who were either neutral or defending Biden before. The people who were giving a firehose of criticism to Biden and demanding that it was MANDATORY for him to step down, for the good of the Democrats and the country, have for the most part fallen silent, and a whole new grouping has arisen to give criticism to Harris and say that as good progressives they could never vote for a cop.
You know my history regarding Biden. Go on, check my history since Biden did the right thing and dropped out. I’m still posting and not so much as an unkind word about Harris. Biden did the right thing. The party did the right thing. I’m overjoyed that for the first fucking time in far too goddamned long, Democrats listened instead of digging in their heels and demanding votes, every pore reeking of entitled paternalist condescension.
You were wrong. Your shitty candidate bowed out like you didn’t want him to, and just look. The party has very much gotten in line behind Kamala. The predicted chaos and infighting hasn’t happened. She’s had the best fundraising in US history simply by being the understudy who was present at the time and not being Biden.
The people who were giving a firehose of criticism to Biden and demanding that it was MANDATORY for him to step down, for the good of the Democrats and the country, have for the most part fallen silent
Have you considered that it’s because they’re finally satisfied? At least for now? Harris is a reasonable compromise candidate. Biden wasn’t, and he listened to reason and bowed out. We’re better for it.
a whole new grouping has arisen to give criticism to Harris and say that as good progressives they could never vote for a cop.
Democrats are a big tent. Some of us don’t like genocide. Some of us don’t like cops. Some of us don’t like either. Harris is in a better position to distance herself from past actions than Biden was about ongoing actions.
She ran on full cannabis legalization in 2020 and was a sponsor of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. It ain’t gonna stick.
I’m glad Biden dropped out.
Are you?
Have you considered that most if not all people were supporting Biden because they were doing what they could to save democracy? That maybe they weren’t voting for Biden, but against Trump?
Of course you have. I’ve seen people actually tell you this first-hand- only for you to rewrite their shit and spit it back out as something entirely different. Because that’s what you do.
You see, the rest of us are wiling to do whatever it takes to save those who WILL be hurt by Trump should he get elected. We’re not entitled and arrogant enough to think we have the luxury to not vote.
But that’s because we’re mature adults that understand that merely asking for something isn’t all it takes to get it. We also understand that sometimes, the choices suck, and the lesser of two evils is all you have- and that not doing something isn’t an option when you’re wanting the opposite result of nothing to happen.
Grow up.
Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other
This is really what it boils down to. But with Trump there is nothing to promote. The only way they can win is by ruining the reputation of their opponent to try to make them look worse.
What about hunters laptop? That’s still going to be a huge deal right? Right??
Didn’t you know Kamala let her tamagotchi die 30 years ago? Do you know where that tamagotchi has been buried? You might not know about this, but everyone is talking about this. But they don’t because they are too scared to talk about it. A lot of good people. They talk about it. And the world is laughing at us. The good people talking about this are too scared to talk because the world is laughing.
The best people tell me Hillary Clinton had a tamagotchi just like it. So sad. So sad.
Rumour has it she used it for e-mail.
Have they looked for it on that underground pizza place? All them libruls have secret meetings in there, for realsies!
I said the exact same thing this morning to a coworker. They have no policies, just hate.
Yeah, it’s not a difficult concept
That and attacking the ideas, not the person.
I can’t believe all those stupid anti-biden truck decals etc will be rendered pointless in a matter of months. I better start making anti-Kamala decals if i want to properly capitalize on these next 4 years 🤑
Edit: cry into your fuckin ear-squares ya bunch of sad sacks
Their favorite cheap Chinese manufacturers are already on it, ready to take more of their money.
Those people aren’t going to let go of their anti-Biden identity that easily, we will probably still see those decals for years.
Now their candidate is the old fuck and is a felon who’s fighting against a black woman (!) that used to send felons to jail.
Of course they are pissed! As they should be!
I absolutely can’t WAIT for the next debate.
and Trump can’t chicken out without looking like a Chump…
Nice, I didn’t pay attention this weekend and this is the first I’m hearing Biden stepped down.
Great way to start a Monday at least
Harris is not confirmed, by the way, just a presumptive nominee. The Democratic Party is gathering behind her as it stands.
In the blink of an eye, their surplus of hateful anti-Biden merchandise becomes even more useless. This will surely make them realize how idiotic their cult is /s.
The Democrats should have flip-flopped candidates for months, ruining those people with hateful merchandise.
Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
Curiously, they’re not mad about the multiple tens of millions of their dollars being spent on Trump’s lawyers.
They should be mad. Biden stands down with a perfect 1-0 record of defeating Trump with no chance of rematch.
This would be a good time for republicans to campaign on all the politics they intend to run. Lol. They’ve been unusually silent lately. because they can’t find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.
GOP will implode on itself if Democrats just stay silent for a week or two.
they can’t find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.
Sadly that’s all that’s needed in a first past the post system that has boiled down to two parties. It’s only tribalism at this point.
Fuck. Them.
It’s not enough
Why would you come with a campaign tweaked against a specific opponent and not with a program that is the best for the majority of the citizen? Politics is really stupid especially in 2024!
GOP: “Your candidate is unfit for office.”
Dems: “Okay, we got a new candidate.”
GOP: shocked pikachu
No no not like that! We’re going to sue!
They aren’t going to sue. They are going to start shooting. They’ve outright stated that. It’s crystal clear: they’ve said that the revolution would be “bloodless” only if the left “allowed” it to be. I really wanted to live long enough to build a family,.
You missed what Johnson said this morning. He says it’s “unlawful” in some states. (Which is not true in the slightest and they know it)
How much you want to bet that this only will be “unlawful” in red governmental shithole states
He’s basically giving a dog whistle to maggot judges to hold the line for the fascist party’s interest if these “challenges” come to them.
Edit: fixed for feels being hurt / jimmies rustled
Some of us live in those red shitholes. Send help. Please.
The only nice thing about those red shitholes is that it’s stupidly easy to get a gun. Get one. Join your local chapter of the SRA. Train at the local range at least twice a month so that you are proficient with it. Learn all the local stand your ground laws. Memorize them. When they start shooting, aim center mass.
While a pistol is far more portable, it requires far more training, as the lower mass of the firearm results in a larger than expected kick. Shotguns are really the weapon of choice for urban defense.
I personally have a couple of extremely nice sniper crossbows, that are basically silent. Seriously, the bolt impacting my target makes more noise than the bow. A couple of T-33s, an AA-12, and a 30-06. Lots of ammo too.
Learning how to reload your ammo is also invaluable, should they start shooting. Have a “riot shield,” basically the largest piece of steel you can easily carry that is more than 2" thick. Body armor is also a useful investment.
I find it turns my stomach at the thought of training at a gun range with people who would rather shoot me in the head than tell me the time of day. That’s the kind of gun fetishists who live in the area I’m at.
Not that I’m advocating for training with intent cause there’s far too much gun violence as it is, but if you are in a gun range and training to use a gun, the wack jobs are all going to assume you are one of them. They really believe that liberals are scared of guns and wouldn’t dare to own one. Much less train to use one.
Can we try not to talk like Trump? No state as a whole is a shit hole full of shit hole people, those kinds of statements reek of elitism and it’s not a good look.
I live in Oklahoma. It is a shithole. I live in a shithole state.
They’re going to, probably in every single red state.
They’re going to throw so much shit at the wall due to election ballot timing that unfortunately I think something will stick… it more than likely wont be legitimate, but we have way too many corrupt judges out there :(
If there is any way Mississippi and Arkansas can keep a black woman Democrat off the ballot, they will find it.
The headline was so close to perfection…
If they don’t want to run a campaign against their opponent they can keep it completely at the policy level for the policy they endorse like project 2025.
Calling it now.
They’ll say it’s a conspiracy and Biden is running things behind the scenes as head of the deep state, Kampala is just a puppet
He’s gonna be the forever bogeyman.
I’m saddened for them since they’ll never know what it’s like to lose to Biden twice.
Except they were on track to win against Biden. Now trump gets to lose against a black woman.
Sure they were, dear.
He certainly didn’t step aside because of how great he was doing now did he dear?
