• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    he lost me at this quote - “I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,”

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      4 months ago

      If it’s a good enough attitude for kindergartners’ soccer games, it’s a good enough attitude for fighting fascism.

      • SoJB@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        “You sound like you’re 14” - an actual quote from a MAGA liberal I just read on another thread

        Really weird how everything liberals accuse leftists of is a projection.

        Really weird how the difference between fascists and liberals grows thinner and thinner by the day.

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    4 months ago

    This is not some Lifetime movie where “everyone counts him out, but he believes in himself”! The stakes are too high.

    Joe, please do not run again. You did good things in your presidency, let that be your legacy. Not staying in the race after voters, Dem leadership, donors, etc all asked you to please step aside, and then losing to Donald Trump, who will enact Project 2025.

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      4 months ago

      Its the Dem leadership and donors who are the ones dividing the party. Joe Biden is the most pro-labour president in recent memory and they want him out because he is threatening their profits.

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        4 months ago

        And more full of people who lost miserably against some odds, and lost exactly as expected. Biden’s ego and denial (probably due to some close advisors) is on the verge of pulling an RBG right now, but it’s going to cost much more than Roe this time.

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    4 months ago

    He only got the job because democratic party leadership decided to coalesce around him in 2020.

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        There were lots of good choices in 2020. Sanders was probably the most well-liked and respected, but there was Buttigieg who came out with the very first set of delegates in Indiana. Honestly, I thought Biden was the second worst candidate running for President during the primary, about a million miles ahead of fucking Bloomberg, but just when it looked like it was over for Joe, a miracle saved his entire campaign and rocketed him into the nomination.

        We need another miracle like that. Without it, I don’t see a path to winning again. The fence-sitters are going to plunge us back into a second Trump term and an inevitable fascist dictatorship.

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          4 months ago

          That argument falls flat when he is not the average American considering he has Monaco’s level of health care which would allow him to push all the way to 90.

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            No amount of healthcare can stop mental decline from old age. It happens to all of us eventually and it is very obviously something that has been happening to Joe Biden. I’m grateful for all he has done as President but it’s a good thing that he has decided to step down from running again.

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      4 months ago

      still hoping for change a decade later

      Democrats and Republicans have had long enough to show they can do a good job time to let someone else try

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    4 months ago

    If Biden is the nominee, Trump wins. It’s literally that simple. I’m personally fine with that because I think Joe Biden deserves to be remembered and hated as the selfish narcissist and right-wing enabler he always has been.

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      4 months ago

      PugJesus tries every day to convince me to vote for Trump, and it’s starting to work.

      After all, MAGA is all about voting for harm reduction and I know Reds are winning anyway. I might as well pass the purity test they’re going to require so I don’t get shot.