In honor of Joe Biden and his prime time speech Monday instead of Thursday.

Donald could have done this same thing if he'd stayed the fuck out of politics. Biggest self-own ever.

Yup, exactly how I know of it...

Idk what kind of state my mental health would be in this election season if he'd not come back... he is a international treasure

I honestly think the same. Dudes old as shit, has money and a family. He doesn't need the stress and obligations that come with the presidency. Maybe he gets a kick out of being in power, but from everything I saw about him I'd wager he would much rather just retire and live the easy life.

I don’t agree with all his choices

Well, I still haven't been personally thanked for saving democracy after saying Biden's brain is mostly 2-week old potato salad at this point

Nah, i had people call me a Russian bot for saying it'd be a good thing if Biden dropped out. There's just a lot of stupid people about.

Though while i was expecting a Biden dropout to be successful, i certainly was not expecting it to be this successful.

You were a Russian agent for implying that you wouldn’t still vote Dem in the event that he didn’t quit.

You sound brainwashed. Are you aware that the US government spend more money than russia in propaganda? Do you realize that you are calling russian agents people not willing to vote for a genocide supporter?

It’s the tired song and dance, capital will propagandize all the same. So many little froggies that simply sat under Daddies’ Fox News broadcast while playing with their toys. No one really cares what reason anyone has — if you make Republican arguments, you’re a Republican. Wrap yourselves up in “genociiiiiide” all you want, you trash bags. Literal inhuman. Republicans at least vote consistently to destroy themselves. These fake leftists are disgusting, only exist to destroy the cause they say they support. MAGA is just plainly treasonous. Gaza-leftists are insidiously so.

We do bash on older people in politics, and they shouldn't be there past a point. Though like...they remember when things were better. Distanced as they are, the good ones likely see the differences, though from a different perspective to us. How they care is different from what we need and some politicians are becoming aware of that, AOC the modern example.

Stepping aside for Harris was scary for us and probably terrifying for Biden. He stepped up because of Trump, DNC bs aside, it was still his choice. So of course he would struggle to step down. Could you imagine giving a treasonous moron the boot and for the entirety of your time in any big chair you're just watching them gain a larger and larger following, all the while half of the people you're supposed to work with are backing that person blindly? Man, I'd be so fucking anxious and frustrated. Like it or not, that's Biden imho.

I don't think the man ever wanted the job. Despite the naysayers, rabble-rousers, and people whose entire argument centers on hiding behind and screaming about one specific thing over and over, Biden HAS been a good President. Possibly even great in so many ways. I'm not a particular fan of him, the only leader that ever got my full attention has been Bernie, Biden though? He's done good.

Right now though? We need someone strong and clever enough to push past bipartismanship and play hardball. We also need unity. I'm not sure Harris has the natural charisma to pull the Nation together. However, she seems smart and willing to build a powerful team. There is leadership in that wisdom.

IIRC he stepped aside immediately after the republican convention that had had been aimed entirely at him leaving them scrambling, and endorsed Harris who was immediately read to run. The timing was impeccable!

I have no doubt that he was presented the near certain possibility of being humiliated (some more) and handing over the remains of American democracy to a group of literal Nazis, just to safeguard his own ego.

I would have voted for his administration no matter what (I was relatively pleased with it), but I have no fantasies about who Joe is and why he really stepped down. Once Obama started campaigning for him stepping down, it was all over.

He quit to save his own ego and his "legacy".

It's not just a matter of if, but also when.

Biden waited until damn near the last possible minute, and probably wouldn't have stepped down if it wasn't for the Trump shooting.

Fuck genocide Joe. Dudes selfish as fuck and only backed out when he realized he was gonna lose.

Money rules is a shallow and incomplete view of power, and I’m saying that as an anarchocommunist

If the party holds the Presidency, the President leads the party in every way that matters.

There are many leaders in each American political party, the leader of their representatives in the house, the leader of their senators, the leader of the party committee, the leader of the governor's association, etc. But when a party controls the White House, the president is generally considered the head honcho. Part of that is respect for the office, part of it is practicality (the president has the biggest ability of any one person to message a party's platform), and part of it is mechanics (every four years at the national convention, the party adopts the platform of their presidential candidate, essentially signing up to work for that person if and when they become president to support enacting that platform. Chuck Schumer is the Majority leader of the Democratic Senate caucus, which makes him very high ranking in the party, but Biden would still "outrank" him, so to speak. Jaime Harrison is the DNC chair, which is largely a fundraising and campaign strategy position vs. a position of power.

He had what you might call MAGA energy back then. Constantly fear mongering about crime.

Here, I'll take some of your downvotes - if being "tough on crime" gives you MAGA energy (and I agree, it does), then what energy does that mean ex-prosecutor, "top cop" Harris has?

The answer is, it doesn't matter, she is a liberal icon - a Black girl boss (so that's racism and sexism solved! /s)(E: representation is really important, but if she doesn't represent the interests of those like her, is it really a good representation?), a democrat (making her the antifasciest of antifascists, don't you know), and maintainer of the status quo (all libs really care about, they find comfort in the system and want it to continue as it is).

Sure, She's-Not-Trump™, but that doesn't make her (or anyone the right leaning democratic party would put up) actually good for you, it just means that those in charge get one of their own in, whoever wins.

And that is the point of the two party system. Shame people are so desperate for a feeling of belonging and community (a feature, not a bug) that they substitute that with uncritical support of team red or team blue, when in reality they should be for "team citizen", which neither party is.

... I remember Biden from the 90’s. He was…not a good guy. He had what you might call MAGA energy back then. ...

that's the biden i know and i wish i could see him like op does; but it's clear biden hasn't changed his his ways when you take into account all of the lip service he's paid for things like green energy and progressive justice while simultaneously permitting drilling to the highest levels ever in recorded history; using the inflation act to create tariffs to block truly affordable green energy products; and giving nearly unfettered access to weaponry to bomb a defenseless group of people into non-existence.

he's done this so many times before like when he said that gays deserve compassion and then supported dont ask dont tell and voted for doma; also when he suggested that young people need help and then created the student loan act of 2005 that is currently fucking a lot of us over and for life; plus many MANY more examples.

i get that it's election season and we want to be nice; but this guy doesn't deserve it for doing the bare minimum.

It actually does sound like you agree with me? If we can both say that it's not found in enough people and that's dissapointing then it is a standard we hold just one not enough meet. Humility isn't common, but since it is such a low bar of understanding yourself it doesn't deserve praise.