This whole “12 month election cycle” bullshit is a pretty new phenomenon.

That exactly the point. We’re in the age of the 24 hour news cycle were attentions spans have been grounded into dust. For a campaign to win there needs to be nonstop engagement. Half of lemmy forgot all the actual good stuff Biden has done in his 4 years. Even the stuff they wanted and legitimately benefitted from. The fuck is a new candidate going to do in 3 or 4 months?

They also funded Hilary’s campaign. I didn’t want Biden to begin. Most ppl didn’t want Biden. Now all of the sudden with 4 months to go the high class donors feel they know better now and want him to step down. You had over 2 years to do this. These aren’t the first fundraisers Biden has had.

Trump is going to win because the DNC are a dysfunctional mess that’s more concerned with being the king maker instead of listening to the public. No other candidate is going to get swing voters and 4 months isn’t enough time to counter Republicans who have been campaigning since Biden won.

I fucking hate being stuck with democrats. If there was ANY other viable party that I could vote for beside these two dumbass parties I would

This is unironically one of the best examples character acting I’ve ever seen.

Biden unpopularity is due to uncertainty

Which I don’t understand. I’m certain Biden won’t institute project 2025 so the choice should be obvious.

The DNC should’ve started poll testing alternates immediately after the debate.

They should’ve done that after he got elected! Ppl campaign for president 2 years before the actually election. How is everyone thinking 4 months is enough?!

No it could not. Swing voters are not voting for Kamala Harris. In a country where you start campaigning 2 years out for president 4 months is not enough.

Biden has won the primaries, he’s not stepping down. This is what America wanted. We have to deal with it

Or how about listen to your voter base? Biden was looked at as a stand in after his first win. Ppl were not happy to vote for him twice. The DNC had 4 years to look for a viable replacement. Instead of acting like they can decide for us the DNC should of exercised potential replacements. It’s what got us Hilary even though she was wildly unpopular and clearly democrats learned fuck all since her campaign.

The DNC think they’re king makers in a democracy they claim they want to preserve. And yes I’m voting for anyone over Trump but the DNC should’ve not pushed their pick and let the primaries play out like the democracy its suppose to be

Who is the candidate we should choose then?

Maybe if we talk more about how facist the facist is, ppl won’t vote for the fucking facist…

I rather have a hot glass of bird piss be president than a dictator

Return stolen antiquities.

Ppl arguing they’ll be taken care of better in western museums is nothing but blatant racism. Americans would pop a testicle if we had to fly across the Atlantic to see the bill of rights.

Jesus Christ i hated Vacation Bible School. I know it was just to get us little shits out of the house for five minutes but for fuck sake anything else would’ve been better

If you willingly pay to go to North Korea you’re funding a dictatorship. You’re an asshole and if you end up in jail there you should be on your own

Because of America’s greatest fear, that if we do something that benefits people, we might accidently help the wrong people. People who aren’t even white.

You just explained how unions fell apart, pensions stopped being a thing, schools lost funding, college education went up, and social safety nets disappeared.

I constantly come back to this quote from LBJ

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

The United States of America used to be thought of as an ideal, an aspiration.

For white ppl and select immigrants. For everyone else this country has always been a shithole

Cruelty. That’s the point

Such a badass quote. I salute the ppl of Kenya

How about running on campaign finance reform and actually trying to do something about it within your party until it becomes a major philosophy of your party like they did with gay marriage?

Ron Howard: They won’t

That’s the problem. And I feel calling him out about it is valid considering only a select few on the left try to do anything regarding campaign finance reform

What? If anything I’ve seen right wingers push Joe isn’t doing enough to help Israel.

Also the dude was wagging his finger at Israel for blowing up and starving children. Left wing criticism of it is warranted and you SHOULD be offended.

From my view the thing turning ppl off of Biden is his supporters considering any valid criticism of him as supporting Trump