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.
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.
Right? It’s almost as if they’ve never been approaching any of this in good faith.
Almost like they want Trump to win, hmmmmmm
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.
I was one of them and now am elated to vote for a non-geriatric piece of shit and a woman.
GOP: "Your candidate is unfit for office."
Dems: "Okay, we got a new candidate."
GOP: shocked pikachu
No no not like that! We're going to sue!
They're going to, probably in every single red state.
They're going to throw so much shit at the wall due to election ballot timing that unfortunately I think something will stick.. it more than likely wont be legitimate, but we have way too many corrupt judges out there :(
Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other
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.
I said the exact same thing this morning to a coworker. They have no policies, just hate.
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
GOP: Fuck your feelings might makes right REAL MEN ARE BACK don’t tread on me THESE COLORS DON’T RUN SON
Also: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Unironically "I object on the grounds that it's devastating to my case"
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.
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
Their favorite cheap Chinese manufacturers are already on it, ready to take more of their money.
Biden is now a man with nothing to lose and a supreme court that said presidents can do any damn thing they please
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.
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.
Lets start by putting a cap on how much money can be spent on campaigns and keep it at a very minimal level.
Start by eliminating superPACs.
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.
He's gonna tie every biden policy to Hillary Clinton and attack her based on that.
Then hopefully someone will remind him that he's running against Kamala Harris and not Clinton.
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.
This is starting to look like an effective strategy for the Democrats to drain Republican funds: don't announce your actual candidate until August.
Oh no, all of their bots will have to be reprogrammed.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.
I'm saddened for them since they'll never know what it's like to lose to Biden twice.
They're upset. So? They're always upset. Make them more upset by voting Democrat in the upcoming election.
It is a conspiracy for one side to strategically do a better job and be better.
Starting the pool on how long till TFG forgets who he's now running against and starts rantng about Biden at a rally.
And most importantly of all......
The reason they are this mad...
Nobody ain't talking about no ears no more.
MAGAts can fuck off and die.
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.
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.
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.
They should be mad. Biden stands down with a perfect 1-0 record of defeating Trump with no chance of rematch.
They're going to be mad no matter what. When Democrats try to pass Republican legislation they get mad.
The fact that they're so mad about this makes me think that Biden was a much weaker incumbent than I realized, and that the choice to replace him was the right one.
Why would you come with a campaign tweaked against a specific opponent and not with a program that is the best for the majority of the citizen? Politics is really stupid especially in 2024!
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