Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself. Republicans called on him to resign from office, saying that if he could not run for another term, office, then he’s unable to serve as president.
Biden’s announcement came after more than two weeks of Democrats urging him to withdraw from the race. Nearly three dozen lawmakers had publicly called on him to end his reelection bid. Others had voiced concerns privately about what the ramifications would be for down-ballot Democrats if he remained in the race. When the president heeded those concerns, Democrats called it a selfless move.
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Putting equal emphasis on the opinions of both sides is what got us in this fuckhole to begin with. No matter how niche a voice, your opinion matters equal on any and all topics including reproductive health and climate mechanics.
“That 81 year old is way too old for the job, vote for our 78 year old!” is a bold strategy
What do you mean? That’s 30 years of difference? \s
Well… They set the standards of play.
You think they will play by em now? I mean anybody that doesn’t just want a king would.
Do Republicans just want to destabilize the country until it’s destroyed?
The Koch brother’s plan was to invest in state races to win enough legislatures and governors to call a new constitutional convention, and have enough anarcho-capitalist stooges to formally reshape the country as their libertarian oligarchy utopia where the rest of us are just indentured serfs.
That’s the first time I’m reading of this, have any source?
It’s been going on for a while, I believe they were big in funding Tea Party candidates, for example. One the two brothers has since died, though. I just did a google search for “koch brothers constitutional convention” and here are some of the links
- https://www.newsweek.com/new-constitutional-convention-would-death-progress-opinion-1818107
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14841457/convention-of-states-campaign-secession/
- https://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/06/13254/koch-convention-rewrite-constitution-roadblocks
- https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7
- https://truthout.org/articles/koch-convention-to-rewrite-constitution-runs-into-roadblocks/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-meckler-article-five-constitutional-convention_n_6086c380e4b09cce6c143b10
- https://billmoyers.com/story/kochs-to-rewrite-constitution/
Wow, thanks!
Yeah bro, where you been?
They just want to destabilize it until they can steal power, but if anything gets destroyed along the way they’ll just blame the libs
Since Nixon
Conservatives will turn to authoritarianism when democracy doesn’t work for them.
They did that a long time ago so why are you phrasing this like it’s a future transition?
Yes they do.
A bunch of small to midsized private company owners want to destabilize the federal government so that they only have to deal with state level regulations. These are the types of companies that you have never heard of or didn’t realize they weren’t publicly traded.
Maga people sure do.
The Republicans were calling for President Elect Biden to resign even while their leader was staging a violent coup to end the Republic.
The fascist GOP can get fucked. What they want should be irrelevant and their very presence opposed.
From a foreigner, this is undoubtedly true, unless you goal is secretly to have a king.
Given our Supreme Court ruling that a US president can’t commit crimes, they’re not being very secret about their goal of making the US a dictatorship.
None of it… Is secret… The trump calls. Even to the fucking election investigator in Georgia!? The paperwork.
It’s all there. Any American who supports trump today is either literally special needs level education (and haven’t looked at or understood thr tapes) or publicly admitting they would prefer monarchy with trump.
Pretty sad when non-Americans seem to understand the severity of this threat better than people here.
Most non-americans that finished school do.
I hope biden passes a few ‘Official Acts’ before he heads out.
Unless he resigns, he’s still president until January 20, 2025. So we will see; he’s got nothing to lose, AND presidential immunity.
Usually I’d say someone in his position has absolutely nothing to lose, but being he’s such a … typical guy, he won’t do anything and go down in history as a footnote.
Well if Harris is running couldn’t any unpopular thing that Biden does potentially be tied to her?
Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo
The republicans want Biden to resign so they can immediately attack Harris for simutaneously having no record and attack anything she attempts to accomplish.
If Joe Biden resigned the republicans would say “not enough! You have to commit sepukku on live TV! COWARD!”
So Republicans want to make Harris the first woman president asap? How progressive of them.
Speaker Mike Johnson is not fit to be a speaker, so there who cares ?
If he had resigned that would have put in Harris as the incumbent and given her a big boost. Do they really want that?
They’re flinging bad faith criticisms at the wall and seeing what sticks, they haven’t thought that far ahead
It would give them time to pin a bunch of shit on her and to keep her off the campaign trail.
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As a leftist, I would prefer this and think it would give her a boost as well. And it would also invalidate the right’s new mission to keep Biden on ballots.
Yeah I bet the want him to resign. Untethered by reelection he might actually do something they don’t like.
You can’t satisfy it Republicans so don’t bother trying. Well, unless you use Grindr during the RNC. Then you can probably satisfy Republicans.
If Biden where to step down now, and Harris takes over till elections. Does that count as her first term?
It would allow her to campaign as incumbent. Although not having the office does mean more time.
I believe you can still run for two full terms if you were president for less than two years. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
No. Interm president does not count toward elected presidential terms afaik
Two years is the limit. You can be president for up to 10 years. 2 filing out the previous term and 8 being elected to the office twice.
Well duh, if Kamala Harris takes over now, one of her terms are used up right?
Nope. A term doesn’t count if it’s less than two years, so Biden could resign now and Harris could be still have two full terms on top of the remaining five months of this term.
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Not cool bro, calm yourself.
