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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (51 children)

This is insane pressure on Biden to step down. I hope it gets through to him. I dread to think of what happens with such division in the party going into the nomination process.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Depends:

    • Biden on the ballot? We have a chance, albeit slim thanks to all the hand-wringing making people stay home (remember, that's what the cons want)

    • Biden off the ballot? FAILED EVERY OTHER TIME, SO WHAT'RE WE THINKING?!?

    Perfect doesn't exist except in the doubts of Good Enough.

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

    I would not call it “insane” pressure.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 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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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All this talk for Biden to back down from the race but who the fuck are they gonna replace him with

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Good. Biden needs to fuck off into the sunset.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I, for one, am calling on Rep Schiff to withdraw from Congress.

    Shoe's on the other foot, bitch.

    He can fucking quit if he wants to doom democracy by foolishly switching candidates when that's never worked ever.

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

    I can't wait to hear about how Adam Schiff is now a trumpet...

    It seems like the only people left explicitly supporting Biden, are the people Biden has appointed to run the DNC...

    And I'm sure it's a total coincidence that if a Dem besides Biden wins, they'd get to replace the DNC chair and all the other seat Biden got to appoint in 2020...

    But if Biden runs and loses they maintain control of the party again for next election.

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