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tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

So close to being joever

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So close to being joever

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tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race
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One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.
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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t think they can let him drop out now.

    They’re stuck with Biden now because it would empower the rank-and-file to replace him. If he drops out it’ll prove that pressure from the voter base matters and that we can influence the Party. That’s poison to Democrats, they can’t have us questioning them!

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      I get what you’re saying, but I will continue to hold that he’s cooked.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        Inshallah 🙏

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          inshallah

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s all about the donors I think, all the initial articles wouldn’t shut up about the donors

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        Yes, but why are the donors so concerned? imo it’s because they see how voters are reacting and, in turn, reacting to them.

        Donors don’t care if Biden is old. They don’t care if he dies after he’s elected. They just care if he can win.

    • FungiDebord [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Nah, they push him out and get to handpick his successor /avoid a primary. It’s elegant and it’s joever.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I think the real reason he could stay in is that nobody wants to run against a guy who survived an assassination. Everybody believes it means he has to win for some reason

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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      Its not like there’s a downside to being a permanent minority party. Letting us unwashed masses think we’ve got a say in what the Democratic party does every now and then shouldn’t be a problem.

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    It’s not like anyone is actually voting for him. No one is Biden or bust. People are just voting against Trump, same as last time. Nothing is actually gained by keeping the 81 year dementia patient on the ballot.

    • regul [any]@hexbear.net
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      inb4 the Washington Post finds the one person who is Biden or bust and gives them a column.

      • edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        It’s Hunter Biden.

        • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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          Pretty sure he’s banking on daddy to bail him out once he gets reelected.

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            Can you imagine Trump pardons Hunter as a bit

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              As thanks for getting Joe to stay in, guaranteeing Trump’s win.

        • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Hunter is always gonna choose to bust

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Are the two papers feuding?

    • glans [it/its]@hexbear.net
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      he’s not a patient unless someone is taking care of him

    • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      Only my boy Joe can save democracy

      agony-deep

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    tankies and bernie bros are to blame

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      You’re welcome

  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.net
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    wait is “joever” like “jOVER”?

    I was always reading it “joe-ever” like “forever”

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      your internet career is officially joever, you will never live down this blunder. there will be people over to correct the situation shortly cruelty-handler

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      biden-harbinger

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      Joever Robinnever Bidone

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      Joe-over

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      It’s joever fo ever

    • imikoy [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      it’s “over” but you replace the “o” with “Joe” (which sounds like “Jo”, so the o is actually still there, but only in the quantity of one)l

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      Best friends joever

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    What are the odds Obama hid behind a curtain and pretended to be God asking him to drop out?

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      angel-biblical angel-biblical obama-prism angel-biblical angel-biblical

      Uhh…Joe! It’s uhh, me, uhh…God. Uhh, I’m here to ask you to drop out. Uhh, let me be clear, you will uhh, lose if you don’t.

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      1000010630

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    tbh, I hope he stays in. Biden is the true physically embodied face of the Democratic party. Don’t let them don a new mask, let the people see the monsters for what they are.

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      Biden is the true physically embodied face of the Democratic party.

      Hey, be nice, it’s not like Democrat policies are set by half-senile warmongering bigoted geriatrics loyal only to Wall Street plutocrats.

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    This is just the Bidenning

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    So he def was so fucked up yesterday they couldn’t even get him on stage and they came up with the covid excuse and now Jill’s telling him its going to have to end

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    Kanye x Biden collab album called “The Electoral College Dropout”

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    Newsom’s time is come

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    “Appears to accept” is such a funny phrasing for a headline about a sitting president

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    At this point it seems like he’s just processing it and waiting to the right time. Is there anyway he actually doesn’t drop out now?

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Idk. But if there’s anything I’ve learned when trying to predict Democrats, it’s that we should never underestimate their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

      • violetv [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        That’s fair, though is it even the jaws of victory here? I’d love to say I trust the general public to do the right thing and not vote Trump back in. I just… don’t trust them to do that at all

        Edit: what I mean is either way I think we’re all screwed

        • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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          Honestly, I think any halfway decent Democrat candidate will win against Trump. Yes, including Harris. I feel like Newsom or Whitmer would have better chances though.

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