Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself. Republicans called on him to resign from office, saying that if he could not run for another term, office, then he’s unable to serve as president.
Biden’s announcement came after more than two weeks of Democrats urging him to withdraw from the race. Nearly three dozen lawmakers had publicly called on him to end his reelection bid. Others had voiced concerns privately about what the ramifications would be for down-ballot Democrats if he remained in the race. When the president heeded those concerns, Democrats called it a selfless move.
Who cares what the Republikkkans say?
Putting equal emphasis on the opinions of both sides is what got us in this fuckhole to begin with. No matter how niche a voice, your opinion matters equal on any and all topics including reproductive health and climate mechanics.
“That 81 year old is way too old for the job, vote for our 78 year old!” is a bold strategy
Especially when he’ll be older in 2028 than Biden is now.
Although I’ll wager the job is harder on Biden than it is on Trump, on the grounds that Trump doesn’t actually bother to do it. He just played golf and signed shit for other people without looking at it.
What do you mean? That’s 30 years of difference? \s
Well… They set the standards of play.
You think they will play by em now? I mean anybody that doesn’t just want a king would.
The Republicans were calling for President Elect Biden to resign even while their leader was staging a violent coup to end the Republic.
The fascist GOP can get fucked. What they want should be irrelevant and their very presence opposed.
From a foreigner, this is undoubtedly true, unless you goal is secretly to have a king.
Given our Supreme Court ruling that a US president can’t commit crimes, they’re not being very secret about their goal of making the US a dictatorship.
None of it… Is secret… The trump calls. Even to the fucking election investigator in Georgia!? The paperwork.
It’s all there. Any American who supports trump today is either literally special needs level education (and haven’t looked at or understood thr tapes) or publicly admitting they would prefer monarchy with trump.
Pretty sad when non-Americans seem to understand the severity of this threat better than people here.
Most non-americans that finished school do.
I hope biden passes a few ‘Official Acts’ before he heads out.
Unless he resigns, he’s still president until January 20, 2025. So we will see; he’s got nothing to lose, AND presidential immunity.
Usually I’d say someone in his position has absolutely nothing to lose, but being he’s such a … typical guy, he won’t do anything and go down in history as a footnote.
Well if Harris is running couldn’t any unpopular thing that Biden does potentially be tied to her?
After election day, does it matter?
Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo
The republicans want Biden to resign so they can immediately attack Harris for simutaneously having no record and attack anything she attempts to accomplish.
If Joe Biden resigned the republicans would say “not enough! You have to commit sepukku on live TV! COWARD!”
If he had resigned that would have put in Harris as the incumbent and given her a big boost. Do they really want that?
They’re flinging bad faith criticisms at the wall and seeing what sticks, they haven’t thought that far ahead
They are currently in the position to force through their pick of a VP.
As a leftist, I would prefer this and think it would give her a boost as well. And it would also invalidate the right’s new mission to keep Biden on ballots.
I saw this idea posed here recently and someone pointed out that this would put Mike Johnson as first in line for the presidency behind Harris, which isn’t a good idea especially considering recent events.
Until she nominates a VP. It isn’t like Johnson would become VP, that isn’t how it works.
And that nominee is going to be approved by the Republican controlled House a few months before the election? Do you not remember what happened when Obama tried to appoint a Supreme Court justice an entire year before he left office?
So you’d rather have them fuck with who’s on ballots. Ok.
Who, Republicans? They have no power over the DNC’s nominee nor are either party even required to have a primary. The DNC convention to choose a nominee isn’t even until next month so who’s fucking with the ballots?
I just looked it up. Normally the DNC can pick any VP candidate and run them. IF, however, there is a vacancy in the Whitehouse (if Biden steps down, Kamala does not have an elected VP) THEN Congress does have to approve the VP nominee. So yeah, do NOT let Biden resign the presidency. That would be a disaster.
It would give them time to pin a bunch of shit on her and to keep her off the campaign trail.
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So Republicans want to make Harris the first woman president asap? How progressive of them.
If she takes over now, and them beats Trump, would that count as her first term or second? Does it have to be a whole term to count?
If Biden were to resign (which he won’t), then she would assume the presidency as kind of zero-ith term; she could run for reelection twice. Two full terms.
Speaker Mike Johnson is not fit to be a speaker, so there who cares ?
Yeah I bet the want him to resign. Untethered by reelection he might actually do something they don’t like.
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Not cool bro, calm yourself.
Well duh, if Kamala Harris takes over now, one of her terms are used up right?
Nope. A term doesn’t count if it’s less than two years, so Biden could resign now and Harris could be still have two full terms on top of the remaining five months of this term.
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Give her the time to campaign and not deal with any presidential duties
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