US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

I would very much like to know if those voters know anything at all about Harris' CA record!

Why, do you think the Haley voters will like it or not like it?

is it crazy to think that even more nevertrumpers will be born after the scotus decision

no

_Fuck Pete Buttigieg and don’t even joke about him being in contention_

🐦[Is it just me or is Buttigieg the best polling Democratic candidate in every swing state except Michigan (where Whitmer is the Governor)? pic.twitter.com/eDBOKnkLfk🕸
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) July 2, 2024🕸]🐦

lol, save us deep state

any port in a storm imo

My antipathy to Buttigieg is the one thing that drives the MSNBC contingent of my circle bonkers; they can't fathom it! They know him as the articulate mouse-faced gay dude who calmly destroys the GOP on FOX.

table and I don't agree on much politically these days, but we're as one re Buttigieg -- though I'd vote for him in the unlikely chance he's the nominee.

I think actual Never Trumpers could find Harris palatable, sure. But I assume they're already voting for Biden anyway. The key voters are more the "hate them all/none of it matters anyway" crowd, which inevitably is going to have its share of people who wouldn't tell you they're racist but have lots of questions about Black women being "qualified" for whatever it is they may be doing (apart from menial labor).

Still. After the past week I think Harris or anyone (or at least anyone who might conceivably end up in the slot) has the potential to change the dynamics and reset the race, and is therefore a better option than what we have.

There is no way I would vote for that warmongering McKinsey fuckface, hope him and his dumb husband actually witness the hellfire that evangelicals want all of us fags to see. They deserve it.

tough but fair

apologies for the long Twitter thread, but this spells out why it absolutely cannot be anyone but Harris, I mean this is the whole reason why you have a VP in the first place

1/ Democrats cannot nominate anyone except Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. It's impossible.

If the Biden candidacy ends, so does the Biden campaign. It's not transferable. Anyone else other than possibly Kamala Harris would have to start from nothing. That's can't be done.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 2, 2024

VP is charged with finishing the current term of unavailable Pres, not automatically becoming the nominee, especially before the convention

I think some of those objections in the tweet thread may not be quite the hurdles he says — and at a glance at his timeline, he has been very Biden defensive — but overall that seems right. That does not mean there shouldn't be serious shakeup at the campaign. This hasn't been a Harris campaign, it would need new leadership. If this actually happened, the people who steered the Biden ship to this point I don't think ought to be the ones calling the shots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/politics/biden-lapses.html

coupla experienced campaign managers chimed into that thread to say it’s nonsense fwiw

There's just gonna be more stories like that NYT one. My (78-yr-old) mother was extremely happy about Lloyd Doggett, for anybody at all to be speaking out. She and my dad — both very lefty — are like personally pissed that Biden's running. They know what getting old actually does, they never thought he should have run again.

xp

Saw a reply in that thread from Dana saying "Show us how, then"

Did they?

pic.twitter.com/qaVBi8GgE7

— Zevia Jane (@JaneZevia63329) July 2, 2024

Still holding out that Trump nominates a complete lunatic as VP that turns off a handful of still-wavering swing voters.

No idea how the people around Biden thought they were going to keep all of this quiet through a campaign season. They should have followed through on the right-wing conspiracies about reintroducing COVID, make Joe wear a mask at all times and dub him with a voice actor.

Trump's old too, he could still die. Keep hope alive.

shouldve rigged him up as immortan' joe imo

one reason I hate tweet threads is that people's expertise tends to be assumed when they write tweet-threads but often times the tweeter is out of their depth with what they're tweeting about.

beginning one by saying "it's possible I'm missing something, but I dont' think so" isn't the most auspicious start

I wish daily for Trump's death. he has heart disease and that was as of 6 years ago!

Is QAnon still a thing? I feel like there should be some conspiracy theories out there about how Trump successfully cut off Biden's adrenochrome supply. So now they have to kidnap some more children.

xpost also relies a lot on suggestion of 'this is how it is' without much in the way of support, like I don't demand a bibliography or anything but y'know pertinent real-life or personal examples or at least references to governing documents that say these things and not just a suggestion that 'this is what it is'.

that said, I think it has to be Kamala.

I don’t think she has a chance

it still pisses me off so much that Trump got a really bad case of Covid and likely would've died a painful death had lifesaving drugs not been invented just in time to save his life

xpost also relies a lot on suggestion of 'this is how it is' without much in the way of support, like I don't demand a bibliography or anything but y'know pertinent real-life or personal examples or at least references to governing documents that say these things and not just a suggestion that 'this is what it is'.

that said, I think it has to be Kamala.

― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 2, 2024 3:15 PM bookmarkflaglink

The support was about 20 odd substantive points.

I looked (not too hard) at the replies in terms of alternate plans and saw references to:

1. unspecified "legal process" (as a lawyer, I lol'ed)
2. refunding campaign donations
3. the RNC possibly filing lawsuits against the DNC for violating some of these laws
4. the idea of campaign lawyers collaborating on the new plan

So, this expertise thing cuts both ways. There could be a plan, and if it is viable, I am sure we will hear more about it.

and yes, keep hope alive, not Trump

Buttigieg literally mocked people who supported Sanders and M4All. He is an absolute piece of shit

Pronounced Booty-gig

I’m just waiting for Biden’s shitshow upcoming sit down with George Stephonopolous

Get a necromancer to bring Pete's dad back, let him run

Put that pres
Out to pasture

Biden already got Jack Black’s endorsement. Does that just automatically transfer to Kamala or someone else or do they have to go through some cumbersome process to get it? These are things people aren’t considering.

I want a refund on all my Dark Brandon merch

Maybe one of these 3 a.m. phone calls people are so worried about will confuse Biden into drone striking Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett. Then people can use up their "Biden did this" stickers.

Dark Brandon must go through death to be reborn as the Antichrist

KEEP HOPE ALIVE

Thanks, Felicity. My mood is super dark right now and that made me lol.

Dark Brandon vs. Darkness Closing In Brandon

Now with added Immunity™

xxxp yes, K Hive

They polled Michelle

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/graphic%201%20jpeg_5.jpg

Gavin Newsom is slime but he's politically astute, he's gonna stay out of this mess and bide his time

Harris / Obama ftw, she could resign after 6 months and go back to her life. who cares. or VP Barack

RFK Jr. looks like a shrunken apple head

No idea how the people around Biden thought they were going to keep all of this quiet through a campaign season.

One of the depressing things about last week was realizing the aviator shades were a pretty good way of keeping us seeing what we wanted to see. Not that Trump doesn't have a dozen layers of disguise.

xxp Barack is ineligible to be VP, he has to be able to assume the Presidency