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[–] Zier@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Oh yes, let's completely change the candidate 4 MONTHS before the election. That really sounds like a winning strategy. Let's get rid of the candidate that has been a Vice President for 8 years and is the sitting President of 3.5 years. Let's replace the candidate that has done more for the US than any other republican president. Let's make sure we replace Joe Biden so that the psychopathic dictator wanna-be 'donald the con man trump' can be installed as our illiterate king. That's going to solve all the problems we have. Finally Democracy will go away. And Freedom will end. It's about time, how boring and valueless those things are. Women can finally become property again, and all the non-white people will be deported. Everyone will be required to attend church on Sunday and give 10% of their income to the church. No more alcohol, parties, sex. We will finally be a moral land again. The christian version of Sharia will be implemented. Wages will be the lowest in history and we can finally build walls around the nation to keep people out and Americans trapped inside, just like East Germany used to be.

Personally I'm voting for Joe Biden, even if he is in a COMA! I value my Freedom and Biden has been doing a great job for Americans.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If all the Democrats and "liberal" news stations and pundits spent half as much of their time bitching that Biden should drop out on figuring out WHO should replace him this wouldn't be such a problem. If they could just agree on a new nominee maybe Biden would consider dropping out. Because right now Biden has to consider it when there's no alternative.

People suggesting Biden drop out without a plan on how to proceed are doing the Republicans' jobs for them. Or they are Trump supporters.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clooney is a Trump supporter? Not sure 🤔

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

RIght?!?

Ahh man its ssoooooooooooo cathartic to be in this moment after the past 8 months. Nature is healing.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't necessarily disagree with your overall point, but it is kind of insane that we think 4 months is way too late to change candidates, when other countries do their whole election cycle in a month.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

As Jon Stewart and many others have already pointed out -Two of our closest allies just recently managed to announce and host national elections in a matter of weeks. It's nothing short of absurd that we allegedly can't even field a new candidate for a single party in the course of four months.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you going to vote for him if he isn't the nominee?

[–] Zier@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But will you vote for someone else if he isnt?

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dude is just as much in a cult as the Trumpers are in theirs.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Got real quiet didn't it.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Regardless of whether it would have been the more advantageous decision to run Biden before all of this - health and all - it's increasingly clear that our best choice is going to be replacing Biden on the ticket. Not thrilled about it. I don't know that this was worth throwing away a massive incumbent and name recognition advantage, but it's a moot point - too many public figures on Biden's side have came out in opposition. That track is rendered much less friendly by this public discourse. Our best chance now is in Biden stepping down.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As much as I hate to say it, this is likely a choice about which donors still support him vs. his chances of winning, or what any of the mere mortals in the voting bloc want.

If enough donors bail (and it looks like Clooney is a major fundraiser), that will likely seal the deal much more so than looking at Biden's dismal, impossible-to-win numbers or polling Democratic voters about what they want...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Clooney is directly responsible for that "40 million dollar night" Biden had.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, George Clooney played a doctor for years, he knows what he's talking about.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not about whether Biden's health is good or bad. It's about the perception of it.

I still think it's a mistake. But you can't unring a bell. You can rescind an endorsement, but sure as hell not a condemnation. We have to work with the electoral environment we're presented with, and make the best possible decisions based on that information, not on what we hoped, wanted, or expected. With the hostility presented to Biden from within his own party and the public nature of that hostility, him being replaced looks like the most strategic choice at this juncture.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember when George Clooney rescued a boy trapped in a flooding storm drain during a rainstorm which helped him earn back his job at County General that he almost lost because of his repeated disrespect for authority.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember when George Clooney had meetings with Obama on the crisis in the Sudan and is a member of a foreign policy think tank, in addition to co-founding an anti-corruption NGO and being a consistent supporter of the Democratic Party, both verbally and in fundraising.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, his wife is wicked smart and she must have seen something in him besides that ass.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

I mean if George Clooney proposed to you, would you say no?