Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23130161
Y'all. You run an incumbent if you have one. I don't know in what world you think getting someone new is a better shot than keeping a standing president in office, but it isn't this one.
If the DNC had run Biden in 2016 we probably never would have had Trump.
I don't see Biden stepping aside. This is somewhat of a milquetoast piece that ignores the absurd amount of legwork that would need to be done. It's not just a vote at the DNC; it's turning a battleship around in terms of communications against a guy who would paint it in a particularly vile way as weakness. Which is to say, fucked either way.
The only way this conceivably happens is Biden dies before the election, which I'm sure there are contingency plans for, but that is the ultimate in-case-of-emergency-break-glass situation.
These thinkpieces about how Biden turned in a poor showing (he did) that also ignore that Trump was abysmal ... I don't know what to make of that. Biden was low energy and a bit rambly, but he at least allowed the truth to come out of his mouth once. That should not be the bar, but with the candidates we have, it has to be.
I cannot understand how anyone watches Trump and thinks "this guy gets me." He's not the second coming of Christ, he's the second coming of P.T. Barnum.
To serve his country, Trump should leave the race
the Earth
FTFY
The solar system, just to be safe
Oh look another questionable opinion piece in The New York Times, I'm shocked
Step 1: get reelected
Step 2: resign
Step 3: First female president
So your idea is basically just lie to the American people some more until Biden wins and then put someone else in charge? Sounds about right
I think all the "Biden should step aside" calls are due to concerns about Step 1.
If he cared about the country, he would've already stepped aside, but I don't see it happening. They're already trying to excuse his performance saying it was a cold, then saying it was the cold medicine. They're kinda stuck with him now, but it's their fault. They've been lying and covering for him the last 3 years so they might as well keep it goin.
Sanders/AOC
It could've been Sanders back in '16, maybe '20, but he's too old now. Don't switch one senile old fuck out with another.
I'd be very pleased with AOC, but she isn't too popular with a lot of people.
Don't switch one senile old fuck out with another.
to be fair, Bernie has not lost a single step but, as a pragmatist, I think he would say his most effective position moving forward is in the senate.
And look at that, AOC turns 35 in October (minimum age for presidency)! If only half of this country wouldn’t see her rise to such a stage as some affront to their white misogynistic identity, we could actually see real progress take shape.
But yeah, Biden should not have ran and should have let someone younger and more cognitively astute in-the-moment take the stage. He’s probably a good person and probably a good family patriarch, but he is past the point of needing to step down.