For sure, though I said the same thing in 2020 and was disappointed at how close it was. Really a terrible reflection on the country.

I hope they are crushed, learn nothing and double down on it by running with Trump again, this time fully campaigning from prison.

Let the Tories in the UK be a terrible warning for them.

They haven't been reasonable since Nixon

I think the party would destroy itself long before they become introspective enough to straighten their shit out.

This isn't just a political party we're talking about, it's essentially a cult. Maybe not every Trump voter is in that deep, but enough are to cause a serious schism in the party.

I just hope that this time, the allegedly anti-Trump Republicans have the balls (or lady-nuts) to actually say/do something rather than falling in line and kissing the ring.

Unless we're still talking Russian kompromat... If that's the case, whatever they have on these people must be truly horrific.

What left?

Looks at Clinton.... Looks at JFK.... Looks at Jimmy Carter...

What the fuck are you even talking about? I can think of a lot of small mistakes that could have ruined any of the examples I provided but they are all LEFT heroes.

I took one for the team and went to the article, so no-one else had to.

This just rewards both of them, because the embedded Twitter elements are still there

How quickly people forget the Dark Brandon clapbacks

He comes from the era when politicians were civil to each other even if they vehemently disagreed. Well before Newt Gingrich started characterizing Democrats as evil.

If Trump were a Palestinian child he'd be all over it though.

Joe Biden is "civil" in the most meaningless, useless sense of the war. I don't know why people are being precious about his legacy.

It's so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.

But the Democrats have to play by the current rules. Taking the moral high ground on the campaign trail was not going to get them elected. One can argue that the moral obligation is not to let Trump and his cronies win so that more reasonable policies can be put in place.

Only if she gets lots of news coverage calling him out for running away.

Historically if Americans vote, Republicans lose. That's why they work so hard to get people to not vote.

It's like 40% of people vote, or some other ridiculously low number.

It may be comforting to think that, but I reckon it genuinely took them by surprise just how unable he was to perform under pressure. He may be able to hold a normal conversation in a small room with a couple of people, but get the lights on him, him own voice being amplified around and a live broadcast, and the man just wasn't able to compete. He looked weak and old.

While Trump lives for that. He's a fucking gameshow host. His ideal dinner date would be himself, but louder. What he actually says is incoherent nonsense, but he's loud and aggressive and the MAGA hats lap that shit up.

Don't think that was pre planned. But I think waiting for Trump to officially accept the nomination as republican candidate was a deliberate move. The timing was almost too on the nose, and it seems some people already knew Biden was going to drop out before that.

Maybe this shit was all stewing in Kamalas head for years and she's just unloading off her chest lmao. But in truth I hope thus is the result of a competent team, cause I want this to keep coming. Fucking tired of being nice to Trump supporters after they acted like absolute pieces of shit for years.

I don't think it was pre-planned until the terrible debate performance.

Having said that, I definitely think they timed his dropping out to be after the GOP convention, and even after the Sunday political shows. That timing was just too perfect to be a coincidence. The GOP spent the entire convention focusing on the wrong target. Then the Sunday politics shows happened. Then immediately after that came the announcement he was dropping out, and almost at the same time he was endorsing Kamala.

I suspect he knew he was dropping out weeks before he announced it, mainly because the way everybody endorsed Kamala has been so seamless. The democrats are famous for looking disorganized, and having their fights in public. I strongly suspect they went to many key democrats and did whatever wheeling and dealing was needed for them to endorse Kamala when Biden dropped out, while making sure to keep it quiet.

Because it's hard to keep secrets, it was probably a relatively small group of people who knew. But, I'd guess that at least 10 key democrats were informed early and brought on board.

I just had that thought yesterday because it surprised me how well this played out. Glad I am not the only one :)

she probably has been, but it doesn't get coverage because no one ever cares about VPs.

except for Cheney probably but that's another story.

Lol, my neighbor across the way put one of those up in 2020, we chit chat so while watering the garden I said "man I wasn't going to vote, but because of your sign yeah, go Biden". I mean I was... But anyway he took down the sign lol.

"Back the blue, no matter who?" I mean, I'm not going to put it on a Punisher sticker or anything, but...

Clever

Back shots for the blue

Bazinga!

Image is everything. Charisma bolsters and protects image. The shitty thing is that Biden has done a TON. Yet so many people aren't aware he has done much at all. This isn't some humblebrag situation, he needed to speak out loudly about those accomplishments.

Meme reads both ways. Also making fun of us men with "every woman has bigger balls than men do"

A little louder for the people in the back:

Let's not be tolerant to intolerance.

I agree that you may need a violent revolution but it is on a case by case basis.

I'm referring more to being Machiavellian politically. Franklin Roosevelt is the one I think more, who is able to make significant and lasting changes while operating along the system. In fact, he reshaped the system!

It’s worth it

It's a video

Because twitter. But really we need to stop using it and look away from it while we hold its head underwater until the bubbles stop.

People here are weird, man. Huffpost is known to be one of the most heavily ad cluttered mess of a website in existence. There was an auto-playing video at the top, that paused itself after a few seconds for an auto-playing ad. Then I had to scroll past 4 other ads and a tweet that was not the tweet in question. I eventually got to the actual tweet after more scrolling.

And again, it's a tweet in the article. From Twitter.

But people are acting like since I posted directly to the tweet to save them all that, that I am somehow doing them a disservice while personally blowing Elon Musk and cupping his balls. The Fediverse is a weird place sometimes.

The article literally has the video in it.