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Ah, throw a dart and gamble against fascism is a weird hill to die on.

Biden is the gamble, even the party establishment is understanding that at this point, why can't you?

Biden is uniquely equipped to lose this race.

It makes him look even more out of touch with the moment though and incompetent.

If he's still unwilling to back a campaign to court pack and still unwilling to remove the biggest obstacle to a possible Democratic win in November (himself), his words mean very little. It's just more too little too late by Biden.

President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

And the justices kind of looked around quizzically and said "Yeah...no shit, that's the whole idea. Did you just get that?"

You're not paying attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApslJzJNNg

The party itself is talking alternatives. Fucking Nancy Pelosi is voicing doubts about Biden's ability. You're the one arguing in bad faith, there is pressure building within the Democratic party to seriously consider finding a way to get Biden out. And I'm not talking about the electorate, I'm talking about the leadership within the Democratic party.

I'm saying I don't give a flying fuck who they replace him with, just that they find a way to convince him to step aside and seize the chance to rewrite the dogshit narrative Biden has doomed us to.

They're real addresses and cross streets. They're where previous protests were held near justice residences.

No doubt, but watching Americans get gunned down by police at a protest isn't going to make people less radical, it radicalizes more people. Especially if it's happening under someone as despised as Trump. It's not like he has a bunch of good will with the majority of Americans, at most he's depending on their apathy.

I linked you directly to an article discussing the lawsuit.

https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

On August 25, 2017, Federal Judge William Zloch, dismissed the lawsuit after several months of litigation during which DNC attorneys argued that the DNC would be well within their rights to select their own candidate. “In evaluating Plaintiffs’ claims at this stage, the Court assumes their allegations are true—that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her Democratic opponent,” the court order dismissing the lawsuit stated. This assumption of a plaintiff’s allegation is the general legal standard in the motion to dismiss stage of any lawsuit. The allegations contained in the complaint must be taken as true unless they are merely conclusory allegations or are invalid on their face.

I'm blocking you now. Good bye.

Biden hasn't even parsed the news yet most likely, let alone magically grown a spine.

Gas masks too. Look to the Hong Kong umbrella protestors for inspiration on how to prepare and what to expect from a fascist crack down.

And they're going to quickly find out how much that illusion of power is worth when they try to contain or cross whatever right-wing fascist they help empower.

These idiots think their power structure isn't going to be gutted like some kind of Mortal Combat move as soon as it is convenient for the king of the US to do so. They have no enforcement of their own, the other branches barely have to listen to them as it is, and by the time whatever CIA maga thug clubs them to death in their bed it's going to be too late for them to render a judgement on whether it's an official act. They'll be dead and replaced with someone who values their life more.

As long as you say "I declare official act!" before you do it, you're good.

Do you not understand the word anyone? I answered your question, you just don't want to accept it because the only person you'll accept (for god knows why) is Biden. You were never asking in good faith, I gave you an answer and the reasoning behind it, you chose to ignore it, that's on you.

I'm guessing you're trolling. And not very well.

How can I ignore that which you did not provide?

I literally pointed you to the court case where the court said the DNC was rigging the convention against Sanders. I provided you that. That's not my opinion, that's literally what happened in court and Wasserman Schultz resigned over it. Your eyes literally won't allow you to see it because it completely conflicts with the fantasy you want to believe is true (That the DNC isn't deeply corrupt and diametrically opposed to progressive values).

You've got to be a troll. We're done here.

So you ignore the facts you don't like, and take the ones you do. And I'm projecting...

Why the fuck do you think Wasserman Schultz stepped down? What is your explanation if it's not the scandal involving her bias as chair exposed in the emails? Coincidence? What possible benefit to you gain from this denial of established reality?

Literally anyone.

That's your answer. Throw a dart into a crowd of democratic politicians (just make sure to throw it hard) and democrats across the board, and a good number of independents, will vote for whoever it hits because Donald Trump is still deeply unpopular.

The reason this is possible is because Biden has become toxic and has now outed himself as completely doddering, he's lost both the high and low information voters at this point so replacing him will only be a net benefit for Democrats. Wheel Klobachar or Bill de Blasio out there for all I care. People would quite literally vote for a Roomba. Are you understanding this? I'm telling you, explicitly, anyone stands a better chance over Biden.

Ohh, a political "scientist" said it, must be a fact. I take back everything I posted, I will now pretend that Wasserman Schultz didn't actively admit to trying to rig the convention against Sanders and that the court literally said in plain english that's what was happening.

Must've just been a coincidence!

The way you people try to rewrite history is insane.

Yes. This was longer in the making than just one cycle and democrats like Clinton have been the ones enabling the GOP.

He's being selfish for trying to stop a tyrant from turning America into a dictatorship run by a rapist/convicted felon…

He's being selfish because he's giving that fascist rapist the best chance he's got at winning the white house, all because his ego won't allow him to admit he's failed and people don't want him in the whitehouse.

He was elected because he let the implication that he'd be a one-term care taker president. He knew from the beginning that he didn't have what it would take to carry a second election, but he's just too addicted to trying to salvage his legacy.

What he'll be remebered for funding a genocide, clinging arrigantly to power and handing our democracy over to the far right.

Ah, so you can name a better candidate at this time who can swoop in and beat Trump?

Literally anyone (except Clinton, and I guess Harris since she's tainted by Biden).

You're acting like Trump is popular, he's not, Biden is simply as unpopular as a convicted felon. All that's needed to beat Trump would be someone who doesn't stink of dead children. That's literally it. Pick someone who's not associated with Biden and people will rally behimd them. Biden is the very worst we have to offer in this context he's created.

You could put a plank of wood up there and I'd vote for it at this point, as long as it's not old geriatric Genocide Joe Feinstein.