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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Prominent sitting congressmembers publicly asking for the presumptive nominee and incumbent president to step down is... very outside of the norm. It is an incredible and unprecedented pressure.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The norm sucks. The fucking norm got us into this mess by discouraging people from primarying a sitting president. If we'd had a robust primary we'd either be fully on board with Biden or we'd have dropped him already.

    Fuck norm. He was like the worst character on Cheers.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago*

    sitting congressmembers publicly asking for the presumptive nominee and incumbent president to step down

    Not enough hyperbole dude. I don't have time to do the research, but its not clear to me that a situation where the incumbent president and presumptive nominee is being asked to step down by effectively ALL of the rest of party leadership, with only the fringe block (progressives) maintaining support.

    I think i can recall a vaguely similar situation with maybe Grover Cleveland and the mugwumps? And iirc that was all about currency (gold vs silver vs fiat vs a historical aside: land based currency; worth reading on)..

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Insane pressure to me would be party leaders of House and Senate, former Presidents of the same party, united cabinet members or close family members simultaneously saying it is time to go. ☎️ My call is that Obama will have to be the bad guy on this one though.☎️

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Obama has called. Pelosi has called. Schiff has called. How far you gonna pedal these goal posts?

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