• Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris. 
  • Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
  • Biden's withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.

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[–] 293 points 2 years ago (82 children)

Incidentally, there's a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can't tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore. They'll tell us not to vote for whoever is going to be his replacement though.

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  • [–] 129 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Eh, their new dissent orders seem to be "Biden can't appoint Harris! I didn't vote for her!" which, of course, displays a total lack of knowledge about what primaries are and what the DNC is.

    They didn't want Biden to run, and now they mysteriously don't want the person most of the party supports to run either.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (41 children)

    You know what I’m not seeing?

    ANY of these accounts that were so relentless in their criticism of Biden and how he needed to step down because otherwise the Democrats would lose, being simply happy about this.

    ALL of the tentative happiness about Harris maybe being a stronger candidate than Biden was, is coming from people who were either neutral or defending Biden before. The people who were giving a firehose of criticism to Biden and demanding that it was MANDATORY for him to step down, for the good of the Democrats and the country, have for the most part fallen silent, and a whole new grouping has arisen to give criticism to Harris and say that as good progressives they could never vote for a cop.

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    [–] 239 points 2 years ago* (34 children)

    GOP: "Your candidate is unfit for office."

    Dems: "Okay, we got a new candidate."

    GOP: shocked pikachu

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  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago (33 children)

    No no not like that! We're going to sue!

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  • [–] 140 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    This is really what it boils down to. But with Trump there is nothing to promote. The only way they can win is by ruining the reputation of their opponent to try to make them look worse.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What about hunters laptop? That’s still going to be a huge deal right? Right??

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Didn’t you know Kamala let her tamagotchi die 30 years ago? Do you know where that tamagotchi has been buried? You might not know about this, but everyone is talking about this. But they don’t because they are too scared to talk about it. A lot of good people. They talk about it. And the world is laughing at us. The good people talking about this are too scared to talk because the world is laughing.

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

    Trump added that he thought the GOP should be "reimbursed for fraud."

    Trump raises an excellent point: his campaign was forced to waste money against Biden for as long as it did only for the Democrats to pull the rug out from under him by pulling Joe out of the race. This, if anything, is a form of cheating.

    AH HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago

    Ahh, the famous cheat of checks notes changing your mind weeks before announcing a decision.

    Biden was never running against Trump in the 2024 election. The Democrats still have not announced a candidate. If the Republicans wanted to campaign against the presumptive nominee before an official decision was made, that's on them.

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  • [–] 143 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I can't believe all those stupid anti-biden truck decals etc will be rendered pointless in a matter of months. I better start making anti-Kamala decals if i want to properly capitalize on these next 4 years 🤑

    Edit: cry into your fuckin ear-squares ya bunch of sad sacks

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    [–] 126 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Biden is now a man with nothing to lose and a supreme court that said presidents can do any damn thing they please

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  • [–] 124 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Now their candidate is the old fuck and is a felon who's fighting against a black woman (!) that used to send felons to jail.

    Of course they are pissed! As they should be!

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    [–] 105 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Of course they are mad. The Republican strategy up until this point has been to attack the incumbent, but now the incumbent is no longer running for re-election. Trump literally doesn't know how to deal with this situation. His whole shtick is to attack the person currently in charge, but that doesn't do shit for him now.

    A big part of why he lost in 2020, imo, is that he didn't have anybody to blame for all the bad shit happening in the country at the time. He himself was in charge and could only say "things will get worse under Biden", but people were sick of Covid fucking up our lives and the endless scandals that hit the news daily.

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    [–] 103 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Just do publicly funded elections, including things like publicly funded frequent small debates where the candidates had to appear as reasonably competent adults who could defend their ideas, and resurrect some of the regulations like the fairness doctrine and caps on media consolidation

    The dogshit quality of the current election coverage is mostly a problem because it is the only type of coverage that is available. I think if there was a widely available and well funded type of election coverage that wasn’t this cash grab horse race ad supported bullshit, the bullshit would have to compete against it and would lose and improve as a result.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is starting to look like an effective strategy for the Democrats to drain Republican funds: don't announce your actual candidate until August.

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

    The problem with a 2 party system is that it is a lot easier to make the opposition look bad rather than make your candidate look good.

    So all these MAGAs lost a lot of money since their smear campaign of Biden is now worth nothing and they will have to start over.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh no, all of their bots will have to be reprogrammed.

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    You guys realize that Biden waited until after the RNC to announce this right? He's making this as hard as possible for them to pivot. You had hundreds of people in the same city, building strategies for their campaign. He had made sure that Kamala would have the delegates secured to ensure there would be no in-fighting for the next candidate. They did little to stop the media in going down the rabbit hole of the all-consuming news that he should drop out. They used it for their advantage to create a positive whirl wind around Kamala. Truly brilliant.

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So they are basically admitting that their whole campaign argument was "Biden is bad Trump is not Biden" and now that he is gone, the argument is invalid. After all if it was a campaign mostly about Trump's positive qualities (in their perspective) then it should not have really mattered who the opposition is.

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In the blink of an eye, their surplus of hateful anti-Biden merchandise becomes even more useless. This will surely make them realize how idiotic their cult is /s.

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago

    They're upset. So? They're always upset. Make them more upset by voting Democrat in the upcoming election.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sleepy Donald is upset. He should take a nap.

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago

    It is a conspiracy for one side to strategically do a better job and be better.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I'm saddened for them since they'll never know what it's like to lose to Biden twice.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Starting the pool on how long till TFG forgets who he's now running against and starts rantng about Biden at a rally.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago

    And most importantly of all......

    The reason they are this mad...

    Nobody ain't talking about no ears no more.

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Yeah I bet the skeevers are upset, regularless of the new nominee Trump is almost surely going to get destroyed in the next debate. Also now most of Trump's points against Biden apply to himself instead of the other candidate.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.

    Curiously, they're not mad about the multiple tens of millions of their dollars being spent on Trump's lawyers.

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

    They're going to be mad no matter what. When Democrats try to pass Republican legislation they get mad.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    MAGAts can fuck off and die.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This would be a good time for republicans to campaign on all the politics they intend to run. Lol. They've been unusually silent lately. because they can't find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.

    GOP will implode on itself if Democrats just stay silent for a week or two.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    They should be mad. Biden stands down with a perfect 1-0 record of defeating Trump with no chance of rematch.

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