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[-] franklin@lemmy.world 157 points 5 days ago

Wow, The comments here are an absolute shitshow.

Be as upset as you want with Obama or Biden. But remember, neither of them are on the table for this next election cycle.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago

Fortunately their hand-picked successor is on the ballot!

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 134 points 4 days ago

You Lemmy.ml people asked Biden to step down because he's old. What did you expect? He stepped down because he's old just like you wanted, and even endorsed a candidate who doesn't have any dementia at all. Who did you expect him to endorse, Mao's zombie?

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

His age was a known issue 4 years ago, it would have been extra democratic if he had stepped down before the primaries so we could really vote on a candidate.

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[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You Lemmy.ml people asked Biden to step down because he’s old.

I asked him to step down because for the last 50 years he's been an incredily bad democrat and never did deserve any of our support. His support of the far right murderous fascist zionist splinter group. His consistent racist "gaffes". His lack of support for reproductive rights that he blamed on his catholicism. His stupid lawmaking about the drug wars, 3 strikes, and civil asset forfeiture. His 3 attempts to cut social security. His fascist-light policing viewpoints. His willingness to wade into peoples lives about gay rights when he should have just left everyone the hell alone and shut his piehole. His support and backing of a grifter lobbyist son. His lack of support for ending the filibuster, which just enables the GOP to hold the government hostage every few months. His lack of support for expanding the supreme court. His tired embrace of the worst of the GOP members. His outrageous increasing of police funding in response to Defund&Reallocate. His backstabbing Obama on negotiations he should have kept out of. His consistent lack of support for health care reform and a public option. His utter shafting of Anita Hill in the Clarence Thomas confirmation trials, which should have been a layup for anyone competent, which gave us one of the worst Supreme court justices in our countrys history. In the last 50 years look at every wrong turn this country has taken, and You'll find Bidens ugly mug leading the charge. The man is always wrong about nearly everything, and he never misses a chance to make a bad deal or sell out his party. He's an idiot's idiot and he never deserved any of our support and breaks everything he touches, including our party and now the entire western world order.

"Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to fuck everything up". --Barack Obama

Obama also urged Biden in 2016 and again in 2020 not to run.

Anyone remember this BS from our lord and savior Joe Biden?
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/biden-debt-ceiling-harry-reid-mitch-mcconnell/

This is the guy we're getting all sentimental about? You really think Joe Biden is the best the dems had to offer? That just tells me that many people dont actually read the news, miss their deceased grandpa and will vote for a huckster on personality vibes alone. Biden was about to lose to Donald Trump. Think about that for a minute. How bad do you have to lose the faith and support of your own party's voters to lose to a man like that. Biden could only have possibly competed against someone as bad as Trump, and Trump could only have competed with someone as bad as Biden.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 11 points 4 days ago

Drag didn't care how bad Biden is as long as he's not Trump. Drag is glad Kamala is running instead, because she's better than him. But drag would have been happy to elect Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man as president.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You're alright Drag. :-). And thank you for letting me vent so excessively and not calling me on it. I needed that. I'm a lifelong Dem straight ticket voter who cant stand Biden. Or Harris.

And I hate how we are trapped in both parties fielding bad candidates with no end in site anytime soon. Harris will try to run twice and after that they are queuing up bloody-hands mealy-mouthed Blinken.

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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 days ago

I wanted him to step down primarily because of his support for genocide. Biden was obviously unfit and unacceptable for a ton of reasons, just because his successor doesn't share one of those problems doesn't make her automatically acceptable. Its arguable that it would better if the president is mentally unfit, if they're pursuing an agenda that is fundamentally wrong.

[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

Do you believe there is a candidate for president who will end the genocide in Palestine? And also end the genocide of Ukrainians in Crimea?

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are third party candidates who support ending the Palestinian genocide by stopping arms shipments, but neither major candidate does.

I have no knowledge regarding a genocide in Crimea or how it could be best addressed, and I believe questioning or examining evidence for any claim of genocide is against .world rules, so I suppose I'll have to give you the benefit of the doubt, but said claim doesn't really factor into my calculations.

I don't consider either question all that relevant.

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

Anytime someone claims to be American but mentions third party candidate when voting, I highly doubt their citizenship or whether they are fit to vote at all.

A third party candidate hasn’t won the presidency EVER. A vote for 3rd party is not only a wasted vote, but more often than not it siphons enough votes from the majority candidate to allow the minority candidate to win.

[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

It doesn't "siphon" votes from the "majority" candidate. You're assuming that the 3rd party voters would vote for the Dem candidate if the 3rd party candidate didn't exist but most likely those people just wouldn't vote at all if that was the case.

I am not fit to vote and neither are you but it doesn't matter because there is no voter fitness test and instituting one would be anti-democratic what are you a republican?

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My vote is wasted regardless because I don't live in a swing state. There's a better chance that my vote will help get a third party on the map next time than than that it will affect the outcome. Unless you forsee an outcome where Illinois goes red and that's the pivotal state. That fantasy is far more disconnected from reality than anything I believe or aim to achieve.

You can question my citizenship all you want. I regard the US government with hostility and distrust, and I didn't chose to be born here. I'd rather aim to be a citizen of the world. I watched both parties gleefully participate in the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan while most people didn't give a shit because it was out of sight and out of mind, and it was "ok" because the Democrats were slaughtering people "the right way." I remember when they promised to protect whistleblowers and end mass surveillance and then continued it and they hunted Snowden to the ends of the earth for revealing their crimes. I realized back then that the ideology of lesser evilism was complete bullshit and would keep us trapped with the same policies forever.

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[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 5 points 3 days ago

You're right, the bar was set so low that only James Cameron could find it, but the Dems did clear the bar. And that's why the lesser fascist will be getting my vote this November.

But we also want the party to be better. Real policies that might just make a difference in our lifetimes, not compromising with the party of greater fascism, and a minor token gesture towards not using taxpayer money to fund genocide, as a treat.

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[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean, downvote all you want but they're right. No one picked Harris except for Joe Biden. The primary was half assed at best, and there was no democratic process to select the Democratic party nominee. You're insane if you don't think that Biden's dementia wouldn't have surface during an actual primary process. We could have easily avoided this Trump apocalypse if the Democratic establishment let us have a real primary.

[-] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 73 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They’re not and you’re lying.

The dnc occurred, the reps voted en masse for Kamala.

The reps were nominated by the same process that has happened for over a century. The timeline was different but the process still occurred and you’re lying about it.

The reps that voted for Kamala were nominated in the same fashion as every US election you’ve ever been alive for. It was a televised event where everyone in the party voted and agreed. Stop this bullshit.

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 21 points 4 days ago

(pssst, the downvotes mean the community largely disagrees with you. If we were discussing anything lighter than politics you could just scoff and disagree and claim someone is correct, but that doesn't stand up to the scrutiny of the people you share the world with. Sorry to tell you, you're wrong and your childish political stance and the subsequent tantrum your ilk throws when called out on it isn't helping you gain comrades or appear to be any less lost in the sauce. Get better.)

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[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 days ago

That will definitely not backfire.

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