• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Biden had a bad debate: faces calls to withdraw from the race.

    Trump convicted of 34 felonies: record fund raising.

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      Seriously. Can NYT Op-Ed run 100% “Trump should drop out” articles every time he does something far more disqualifying? They’ll never run another opinion again.

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      Biden didn’t have a bad debate. He and his team showed America that he’s had a significant decline in mental capacity and instead gaslit the public and media about it.

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    The DNC and the American people are once again to blame for the rise of fascism in their own country. They knew Biden was too old to run again, they knew he’s senile, they didn’t try and find another candidate, didn’t rally behind one, didn’t bother to vote for anybody younger.

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      Post-debate poll showed that majority of Democrat voters aren’t even voting for Biden. They are voting for “against Trump.” Democrats had four years to find a candidate that people would actually want to vote for, but instead they pulled out the 2020 playbook thinking it would work the same.

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      I don’t think she has as good a chance as he does. Biden’s policy has always been on the moderate side of the democratic spectrum, whereas Harris’s has trended true-left or even far-left. Biden will pull more moderates and centrists, the key group in this election (MAGA folks are already decided and anyone who’s even vaguely left is too).

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        The Overton window has shifted so far right that Biden is considered moderate-left and Harris far left.

        In any sensible country Harris’s ideas are center-right at best.

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        Biden’s policy has always been on the moderate side of the democratic spectrum

        This is the guy who was calling for restricting social welfare programs 25 years ago while wholeheartedly supporting Israeli expansion.

        He has been anything but moderate

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        Biden will pull more moderates and centrists, the key group in this election

        Says fucking who?

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          If you listen to the Biden press conferences, it is like listening to a preacher try to gaslight you that an imaginary being will come down out of the sky. It’s like… “Biden has accomplished more than any President in the last 100 years, you know he has, we all know he has. Just as I said, and you’ve all seen for yourself. It’s true and you can’t deny it.”

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    If they could convince Michelle Obama to run, she would dominate right now.

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      We assume she would cause she has name recognition and the Obama’s we pretty well liked by the Democrat base. However, the issue is she isn’t out participating in unscripted press conferences sharing her political agenda for the future. She could run, but it could also be a disaster. My personal opinion is AOC would be the best choice. She’s proven herself in my opinion, and the right hate her so much that she’d get all the media attention.