should've retired a year in
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The American people want a failed reality host who puts on a Plain Folks act while despising the people who worship him. They want an end to education, Social Security, Medicare, and our national public spaces. They want women, LGBTQ, and nonwhites to be second-class citizens. They want violence and torture, because it's Strong.
This is the new America. You're not part of it, Joe.
The thing is that they don't want an end to those services in reality.
They want an end to the imaginary concept of those services as sold to them by the GOP and corporate media.
And because the voters refuse to see anything other than that fictional version, functionally it's the truth.
You sure did Biden... 50 years ago. Should've never run for reelection
Democrats should have never pulled Biden out of retirement.
The problem, the core problem, was never Biden.
Democrat Party leadership said yes to Biden. That was the problem. That is still the problem. The problem did not go away.
All the not-Republicans need to pick a leader now. Before one is chosen for you. Again. Clock's ticking.
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Biden’s been out of office six months and still r2o can’t move on.
I wish he was still president or that the American people voted in Harris so that they and the world would be in a better place.
Never forget Biden was the reason we are in this mess. He should be shamed for the rest of his life and even after that.
The American voters are the problem for voting in Trump, not a man who tried to make a troubled country better over his lifetime.
Maybe so, but Biden had two opportunities.
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Get rid of Merrick Garland.
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Use the SCOTUS’s ruling of presidential immunity against Trump and them.
He failed when it really mattered. Twice. No sympathy.
It’s like saying, we played a great game against the 49ers but 1 minute left in the 4th quarter, we chose to do a field goal to tie the score instead of going for a Hail Mary and the kick missed.
He also failed to step down when faced with compelling evidence that he would lose to Trump. If we had an honest primary, I don't think we'd be in this mess. Instead, he held on to power up until the last minute and the Democratic constituency yet again got a candidate they didn't want.
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He didn't do the one most important thing he needed to do: hold a felon fascist insurrectionist accountable for his actions.
That's what his legacy will be.
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Voter shaming. Voter blaming. Not the party who didn't even hold a primary after Biden dropped out far too late. Not the party who said "nothing will fundamentally change" and ran on "but Trump"
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It's a politicians job to earn votes. Kamala clearly failed at this. :-(
Mamdani showed us how you actually win. Sanders wasn't a fluke, another progressive like him at the top of the ticket in 2024 would have won.
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