Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Ah so you were exaggerating, and including a tip in your claim that your sandwich order at a "fast casual restaurant" which you claimed was a "basic" commodity, was $40 for 2.

Thank you for clarifying you were not being completely honest.

A fast casual restaurant, found primarily in the United States and Canada, does not offer full table service, but advertises higher quality food than fast food restaurants, with fewer frozen or processed ingredients. It is an intermediate concept between fast food and casual dining.

Wouldn't call that "gourmet" you say, yet, they offer a … Wagyu steak sub roll?

😂 (I am LMFAO rn, what can I say)

Or ooh, we have "The Bobbie" (wait you say you ordered) a thanksgiving dinner on a bread roll - at 2300+ calories you could feed a family of 4 off one of them!

I think I found your problem (and it's not Joe Biden)

(Prices from their Rock Hill SC location)

The primaries already came and went, and people knew Biden has been old for years now. I don't think his debate performance really changed as much as people think: there is no close 2nd choice in the wings anywhere or anything, if you want to entertain the parachute approach. This is just noise. Neither Newsom, Obama, Bernie, Hillary, Tom Hanks, The Rock, nobody is going to parachute in for one thing, and, Harris isn't going to step in, because for starters, Biden isn't stepping down or ending his campaign - in spite of much hooplah made about entertaining doing so this weekend, he surely didn't miss it, I think he has ruled it out (that's what the reporting indicates).

I don't have any special insight.

I know what you know, his family are the ones who encouraged him to run in 2019, they're the ones encouraging him to stay in now - and shake things up by getting rid of the advisers who advised the debate strategy. Campaigns (winning campaigns) have a long history of surviving such shakeups.

after todays SCOTUS ruling it seems very out of touch to suggest that inflation etc. is what this election is about now. Now this election is about electing someone who will not abuse immunity and be a “dictator on day one,” not even is it mainly about women’s healthcare rights, or Palestine - and certainly not bacon being up 6.9% YOY

The world and his wife know that both candidates are far too old for the job and new blood is needed.

The question is who?

There seems to be a general consensus that EVEN IF Biden decided not to run again, there’s too little time for the Democrats to win with a new candidate and the logistics of developing a brand new campaign is just a bridge too far- so while we see a number of Democrats and donors reportedly jumping up and down in frustration at Bidens unwillingness to step aside from the race, the alternative is just as depressing from a predicted outcome perspective

I'd be of the same mind that with 5 months to go there just isn't enough space for the Democrats to get another horse into the race. But if they're going to do that, they'll need to do it right now. I just don't know who'd be in the running that can realistically replace Biden. Also, I'm not so sure that there's an "unwillingness" to step aside on behalf of Biden. I don't think he's the blocker here.

didn’t mean to imply that Biden was the “blocker” to stepping down - certainly his wife/family are major influencers here as we know and who knows what “spooks” behind the scenes are influencing the situation too

what’s happening as well is new towns are being targeted as wfh bases with prices then in the area rapidly rising - well paid people are decamping from the big cities to the “pretty” towns away from those cities but doing so in their 100s and 1000s putting great pressure on house prices and resources in those areas

Another person to whom various material facts are explained and instead of considering them, retreats into tired tropes

I am a pro-Joe myself and would go for an old guy who needs a moment to think over someone Bonhoeffer warned the world about in 1941.

It's a choice between running Biden and losing for sure or else someone like Newsom who at least has a bit of relative youth.

Do people not realise what's at stake, here? If America goes as far as Trump and his backers want it to go down the rabbit hole of 'post-constitutionalism', one of the great pillars that holds up western liberal democracy collapses before our eyes, greatly weakening the ability of former allies to assert themselves on the world stage and giving great encouragement to similar actors in said countries.

Trump is a man who proudly posted a picture of himself scowling down a mugshot camera and later posting a word cloud about himself which featured, 'REVENGE' at the centre. He has an organised team behind him, using the ideas of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 as a basis of what is to be done in a second term, with a supreme court increasingly on his side and a plan to concentrate as much power in the office of president as possible.

Michael Whatley, RNC co-chair also had this to say about the election,

Whatley, who embraced the former president's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, said that the RNC "will be focused like a laser on getting out the vote and protecting the ballot," saying that they "hired election integrity directors in battleground states." Those individuals, he said, are "already recruiting and training tens of thousands of volunteers to serve as poll judges workers and observers who will act as real-time monitors whenever votes are being cast and counted."

So, they'll be putting their thumb on the scale in places they can get away with it as well.

If Trump wins, there shouldn't be any hand wringing the day after, because apparently everybody is going into this eyes wide open, plotting a course directly for the iceberg.