I don't know about you all, but I'm beyond tired of being carpet bombed with these so-called articles repeating over and over again that (someone) thinks Biden should withdraw. They're not only deafeningly repetitive without offering any valuable information, but often come from questionable sources that we've never heard of before. One of yesterday's examples (now removed) was a tabloid stating an outright lie in the headline.
It's annoying and useless at best, with the common theme of appealing to mob mentality to shape public opinion. It feels exactly like a propaganda campaign aimed at controlling political discourse on social media.
Yep. I've not seen one that mentions the fact the largest advantage possible going onto races historically has been incumbency. Not one.
As we are all seeing, propaganda campaigns being run by Russians, bot orgs run by god-knows-who all over being outed; whether it's them or anyone else looking to disturb democrat chances by sewing discord, there should be a lot more stick poking at sources, posters, etc. on Lemmy.
If you are tired of hearing about any specific topic, I heard that you can blacklist words, so posts with this words does not show in your feed.
All my posts are from very reliable sources.
I don't care about influencing people beliefs, in fact I turned off showing upvotes and downvotes in my client(Jerboa for Android). If you are bothered with people seeing this type of posts, you can share any news article you want as long as the source is reliable.
I know! Remove his opponent who beat him last time."
Foolish.
I agree with AOC and Sanders, Biden is the right candidate.
I hope Biden doesn't bow to these cowards, and if he does, I hope I'm wrong that this is nothing more than a successful conservative scheme handing twermp the oval office.
Conservatives tried the exact same bullshit four years ago before Biden kicked their asses(despite their "polls") and achieved one of the most successfully progressive presidencies in US history.
You don't need to have a replacement ready. You can run this thing called a primary where people vote on who the replacement should be. We can even gather up the democrats and let them discuss the future of the party and officially nominate a new candidate. We can call that a democratic convention. We have plenty of time.
Except you can't just do that now. We dont have plenty of time. Good luck organizing primaries in all the states again before November. And good luck pressuring the law to allow you to do that.
haha no replacement plan? What are you TALKIING about? Have you even beeen paying attention for the past 2 weeks? How much do I need to spell it out for you?
There are MANY plans in place that could ALL easily work and are designed for situations such as this.
Biden steps down, endorses Harris = done. Party united.
Biden steps down, calls for open convention = that's what they're for. 4 days, in out, done. Party United.
What I HAVEN'T seen a plan for is: How those too skittish to jump ship plan to change Biden's trajectory in the polls while he matches Jimmy Carter and continues to sink. Do you have some age-reversal potion I'm not aware of? Have you been door-knocking in battleground states with undecided voters and convincing them otherwise? No? Of course you haven't.
Anything is better than the all-but guaranteed loss of leaving Biden in. Why? BECAUSE THE ELECTORATE TOLD US AS MUCH.
75% of Americans believe Biden is not cognitively fit to run again.
A majority of DEMOCRATS believe he should step down.
Undecided Swing state voters who will decide this election agree and cite age is a chief concern.
Golly, it sure sounds like they're all pointing to something... Hmm... Maybe we run someone a bit younger and not from the Silent Generation?
Speaking of conservatives, they're all praying Biden stays in because they too know he's the weakest candidate.
You're contending that Harris is the galvinizing force of the progressives?
What are you basing that off of?
She's basically a background character with cop connotations that nobody likes much and has no legislative power.
She does not have mass appeal, voting or otherwise.
As for the irrelevant polls?
Biden was trailing in the polls when he beat Twermp last time, and he has an extremely progressively legislated first-term under his belt with more progressive future plans while twermp has been legally found a rapist, and a convict three dozen times over.
Then you make further incorrect assumptions about me before pretendinf that Biden will lose... because he won last term.
What an illogical argument.
The conservstives are pirouetting on tulips because you're parotting exactly what they've told you to say.
TLDR: beware of conservative trolls and fear-mongering or ignorant cowards trying to convince you that removing a progressive candidate who already beat twermp is a good idea.
OP, ignore the trolls. I just had a discussion with one who argued in extreme bad faith absent of any evidence. There is clearly a brigading effort taking place.