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I know that it's popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He's old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting "Christian" Nationalists.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A message to the DNC, if you want the votes, run someone popular. Hillary got us Trump, and they are working to let it happen again. Vote for the best candidate. Don't waste your vote on a crappy short-term candidate, and maybe one day we can get a good one, maybe one day great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you want someone popular; participate in the primaries and spruik for your preferred candidate.

Until the US institutes preferential voting, citizens need to vote tactically in general elections. Vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the one who you oppose most. Abstaining from voting is just a vote for the opposition by proxy.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election

Been hearing this every four years my entire life.

Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP

I agree. Kamala is the worst politician in America. How did we end up in the timeline where we're stuck in the plot of VEEP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The future of the WORLD is [fetchly] dependent on this election

Been hearing this every four years my entire life.

When something increases steadily, it's always at its most. Democracy in America has been at growing risk, just like your birthday candles are always at their highest number every year.

That's how arithmetic progression works

Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP

I agree. Kamala is the worst politician in America.

This world has convicted felon trump, two bushes and Nixon. What bullshit criteria are you using to evaluate someone intentionally kept out of the post-9/11 public eye against those people?

How did we end up in the timeline where we're stuck in the plot of VEEP?

If you're a conservative, you must remember when Johnson took over. Personally. Or is the memory going?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like Biden is likely to resign this weekend. I guess the entirety of the Democratic party is russian bots, right?

You might want to think through the thought process that lead you to be so wrong about what was happening, and why you ended up being a follower while the people you were following were deciding to go in the opposite direction.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The future of the WORLD

Overblown. Other countries will be affected and that pisses me off, but you take our country to be a bit more important than it really is. Lots of other countries see the writing on the wall: we're in massive decline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food

No. It's more like firing the head chef who's putting dish soap in every course and yelling at anyone who points it out that he's just as capable as he ever was.

The junior chef slated as a temporary replacement might not be very well-liked, and not even a very good cook, but at least she won't poison the guests while alienating the staff.

Plus, due to arcane restaurant edicts the kitchen is required to either hire from their own ranks or hire a chef who shits directly into the mouth of every patron, threatens all the LGBTQ+ workers and tries to physically prevent people of color from entering the restaurant.

And for some unfathomable reason, most of the guests would rather eat shit than dish soap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Let's put it this way, as long as Trump doesn't win, I'm fine with the result. But given that the only viable candidate right now is Biden, or possibly Kamala Harris, who is already on the ticket anyway, I'll be voting Biden simply to insure that Trump doesn't win.

And if you think there isn't that much difference between the two, read some summaries of what Trump plans to do via Project 2025.

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