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Biden already said He's fine with losing as long as he tried his hardest
Which is the dumbest statement I’ve heard this year.
It’s up to us. It’s a shit situation. But it’s up to us.
We have to demand Biden be replaced with someone who can make people enthusiastic about voting.
who everyone who dmeanded such will demand that his replacement is not good enough.
Someone call an ambulance
No one, and I do mean no one, was enthusiastic about Biden in 2020. I don’t think many, if any, voted for him, they voted against Donald Trump is all. How many Biden signs did you see out and about? Almost none. That lack of enthusiasm is, in part, why some repubs genuinely believed the election was somehow stolen. They sure as hell didn’t see any enthusiasm either.
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My point being, we got it done last time with zero to negative level enthusiasm.
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This is where republicans have the advantage. They March forth and do their toe the line duty for “the cause” whatever it is. We wheedle and argue. With good reason, definitely now, I love Jon Stewart to death for saying all the things I’m feeling about this situation right now. But if wheedling and arguing cripple you and let Christo-authoritarian corporate dominance win, that’s not a good thing, no matter how righteous the argument for change before the election is.
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We did the thing in 2020. We need to do the thing in even greater numbers in 2024 or democracy is dead.
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Kamala will take over at some point before 2028. And Whitmer will be the new Dem candidate for 2028. Unless another Bernie type comes along.
Biden only won in 2020 because Covid happened under Trump. The DNC vehemently rejects Bernie-types (such as when they gave Trump the win in 2016). Kamala is a nothingburger (who still consistently polls 1-4 points above Biden), and I'll be surprised if we have elections in 2028 after Project 2025.
No, we won’t. That is a certainty.
The only way that man will agree to leave to White House a second time, is in a coffin. (As in natural causes.)