#Drop Out Trump

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[thattheater-kid]

Can we go one fucking weekend without a huge, possibly historic and life altering event occurring

[tanadrin]

Sounds like the DNC fully alienated the pro-Palestinian voting contingent. Combined with RFK jr. endorsing Trump and getting the right-wing crazies all on the same page, I imagine that's the election in the bag for him.

anon are you high

[thepurplebones]

[reasonandempathy]

BIDEN'S OUT

Look man, Biden was good on a lot of things, and horrible on a lot of things. I've been rather straightforward with all of that, and with how I'd still have voted for him to prevent a Fascist Republican takeover.

But Joe Biden was polling double digits beneath local democrats. He endorsed Kamala Harris, who is her own bag of problems.

But she was also vocally the most anti-Netanyahu/Pro-Palestine person in the room, has enough verve to mobilize disaffected democrats behind being a Black/Indian Woman for President, and will likely take every opportunity to pillory Trump in any debate that's held.

And have the wherewithal to actually fucking campaign.

I said months ago that I would love to vote for anyone other than Biden who had a chance of winning the election agaisnt Trump. Now I do.

Hell yes.

[ghostboycharm]

now that biden has dropped out, it’s more important than ever to get out and vote BLUE. no matter who the democratic candidate is, trump will be worse and third party is NOT an option right now bc the country is in shambles. vote blue, buy some time, and improve the circumstances for the next election.

remember, the old people are coming out in hordes to vote, while much of the youth is still undecided. and the elderly are WAY more likely to be conservative plus trump already has a cult -following. if you don’t vote blue, you are voting for donald trump and jd vance

and another reminder: single-issue voting is a mark of extreme privilege. you gotta take what you can get right now, and not voting or voting out of spite is NOT the answer. trump on average is worse than the worst dems.

[ignatius-pennyfeather-ix]

gotta say nothing that transpired over the past week was on my 2024 bingo card haha WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON RN

[abstractpenny]

Okay, so I've been thinking about it and I don't think we're actually all that cooked with Joe Biden dropping out.

If you don't know, Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election. He is no longer running. BUT Kamala Harris, the current VP, is taking his place as the Democratic candidate for this election.

Looking at this, you may say something like "Oh no, we're done for. We're doomed." But if you think about it, this is actually an unbelievably intelligent and strategic move. In fact, this gives me a lot of hope that I didn't have before.

Obviously, this move is a last resort. They knew if they kept running with Biden they would lose. It means the Democratic party is pulling out a final weapon. But it's honestly a damn good one.

Before this happened, it seemed hopeless. Our two options were two old rich white men, one of which is an awful public speaker and the other is a literal criminal. And, because of that, you got people choosing not to vote or choosing to vote for Trump. Because which of the two evils is more appealing?

Donald Trump is a wonderful public speaker. He is charismatic and charming. He knows how to get people on his side. He's spent his whole life learning how to be a strong public speaker. That's what makes him scary. That's what made it so he won the 2016 election, so he almost won the 2020 election, and why he's still in the conversation today. He knows how to speak in an appealing way.

Joe Biden is honestly an awful public speaker. He struggles with gathering people to be on his side. Whether it's because he has a stutter/speech impediment or because he's dealing with dementia, he's still not good at public speaking. That makes him weak in things like debates and in politics. We saw that with our own eyes during the last debate.

Kamala Harris, while maybe not as strong of a speaker as Donald Trump, is very knowledgeable and self assured. She knows how to debate, she knows how to be a politician. She knows what she's doing. She's strong and confident. She may be our final hope.

A lot of why people aren't going in to vote is because it felt useless to do so, especially to people on the left. Donald Trump is out of the question for a lot of people, but Joe Biden isn't much better to many. They're both old as fuck, about 80 years old. They're both straight white cis men who have higher incomes. They're not aligned at all with what a lot of people on the left view.

Harris is significantly more relatable to a lot of people. She's a woman of colour. A good percentage of the United States population is one of those, either a person of colour or a woman. She's also younger than both Biden and Trump by almost 20 years. Yes, she's still 60 years old, but that's absolutely nothing compared to our other candidates.

Another thing that brings Biden out of favour with the left is how he handled and backed specific foreign wars (Ukraine and Palestine specifically). The Palestine Israel war is a very strong thing on the left, it's very talked about, and a lot of people view Biden as 'om the wrong side' of it. And, although Harris was the VP of the Biden administration, she's not very tied in to the wars from public view.

Harris is a great candidate other than a few minor minor minor things. She's leagues better than our dropped out ex candidate and our currently running candidate. One of the biggest hurdles for her, though, is going to be racism and sexism. It's always there. Oh, and the fact that her opponent had an assassination attempt on him, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Kamala Harris coming into this race may change things completely. We're not as screwed anymore. There's hope.

You. Whoever may read this. Go vote. It's crucial. Vote if you can. If you can't, get people to vote who can. This is the most important election in a long time.

We can win.

[daenerys-targaryen]

🗣️

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

This is why I hate group projects

[zombzgutzz]

LMAOOO ITS JOEVER

[a-being-of-chaossss]

Can the world just chill the fuck out, too much history has been this week

[lastoneout]

"biden did such a good job of leading us out of the pandemic" BRO HE HAS COVID RIGHT FUCKING NOW WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

[cjbolan]

With Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden to run against Donald Trump, House of the Dragon now feels especially timely here in the U.S..

We got a younger woman replacing an old man, with his approval, to fight for the ultimate seat of power against another man.

[ioletia]

[queerbookworm]