Biden ends bid for presidency

Biden announced he's ending his bid for the presidency via X (formerly twitter).

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Good. So long Genocide Joe.
Edit: To the neoliberals downvoting this, this is what your denial is supporting. Joe Biden is pro-genocide and so is anyone who supports him. There's not even a practical reason to support him at this point, which is very telling to anyone still defending him.
Fuck zionism. And fuck anyone who thinks Biden is a "good guy" or moral by any stretch of the word.
- You're incredibly short sighted. Anyone from both parties is still going to insure Israel is an ally.
  
  Israel is a client of the US, not vice versa. Turkey occupies the same geographic space. The propping up the Israel is an ideological policy by the right-wing, not a meaningful geopolitical one for our nation.
  
  What is your point? Trump is even more gung-ho about supporting Israel than Biden was, and whoever replaces Biden will certainly take his stance on the issue. There is no pro-palestine candidate even in the conversation.
  
  What is your point? Trump is even more gung-ho about supporting Israel than Biden was
  No, I'm rejecting this notion outright. Nothing about what we see in Gaza indicates that Biden is any less "gung ho" about the slaughter. Israel is operating without limits. Basically everyone in the democratic party, whether they are pro-Israel or not, is still to the left of Biden on the issue. Even Harris pretty deliberately distanced herself from Biden on this because even she saw how bad this was going to be.
  Biden is being forced to step down in no small part because his zionism has made him unelectable. The polls in Michigan that just came out were quite literally the straw that broke the camels back here. Whether Dems continue being pro-Israel or not, the lesson from the Biden presidency is still that voters have a hard limit.
  
  Technically true. The clients of Israel are US politicians through AIPAC.
- And possibly hello convicted felon, rapist, racist, Putin/Orban boot licker, veteran hater, who has had everyone remotely competent who's previously worked for him leave and say what a horrible person he is to the presidency elect. Or sorry does that not rhyme as well?
  
  Don’t forget insurrectionist treasonous mutherfucker
  
  All this is true and Biden was still projected to lose to him, which says a lot about who the party leaders are grooming for the office. You should direct your anger at them not the people who're having these terrible candidates foisted upon us. Imagine if they'd actually picked a likeable candidate back in 2016 and relegated Trump to the simple laughing stock that he is.
  
  I was volunteering and telling everyone I knew to vote Bernie in 2016 for the primary but the DNC fucked everyone by just casting him aside. Because of that I didn't vote in 2016 and multiple things in my life got demonstrably worse right in front of my eyes and I'm not making that mistake again.
  
  Biden was going to lose to Trump. So from both a moral and pragmatic perspective, it's good he's gone. You might be pro-bombing Palestinian children, you do you, but if you want a Dem president, this is the only way. It just so happens to also be a referendum on Biden's zionism.
  
  Oh I'm sure you'll be talking about "Genocide Kamala" and telling us not to vote for her soon enough.
  
  She at the every least had the decency to distance herself from Joe's fanaticism when he started giving his full-throated support for the genocide. She's still culpable, but represents a step in the right direction, away from right-wing extremism.
  
  I'm pro cease fire and don't claim to know much on the topic, but neither side is doing the right thing from reports and what I've heard. This one moniker to show how bad Biden is is just so lazy and misinformed since nobody who will get elected on either side is going to do the right thing but please keep posting that on all Biden threads you seem to be an expert we can all learn from.
  
  You're not pro-ceasefire if you think this is a "bothsides" issue. Israel has all the power. You know how you can tell without being an "expert"? Just look at the skeletal, starved, mutilated bodies of the children in Gaza and compare it to what's going on in Tel Aviv. Go look at the images from Gaza and try to tell me with a serious face it's "bothsides".
  No. Joe is a genocide supporter, and so are those who make excuses for him.
  
  Trump is Bibi's bestie. There is absolutely no way on Earth he would do a damn thing to end the genocide. In fact, he'll happily cheerlead it, without even the token hand-wringing we get from Biden.
  Hell, I would say Biden was the better candidate from a pro-Ceasefire stance, since, at the very least, he is vulnerable to pressure from the left to push for a ceasefire. Trump is not.
  
  In what way is Biden vulnerable to pressure from the left? What are they going to impeach him? The party hasn't listened to those of us on the left in decades.
  
  Yes, and now we don't have to choose between genocide hard and genocide light. Harris (or whoever) can come in with a generic pro-peace two-state message rather than defending the decision to send Israel big bombs for months. He's off the ticket, you don't need to argue that he's bad but better than Trump anymore. The new candidate can just be not a genocide supporter.
  
  Trump and Biden are both pro-genocide, yes, though Biden should be held accountable by democrat standards, not republican ones. It's about the party principles in terms of those too, Biden had to pay a price for his fanaticism.
  But I was talking about Israel and Palestine/Gaza.
  
  Ohhhhh that's what you were talking about about... We all missed that...
  
  But I was talking about Israel and Palestine/Gaza.
  Who did you think I was talking about when I said Trump was Bibi's bestie?
  For future reference, Bibi is Benjamin Netanyahu. And if you don't know that, you should probably educate yourself a bit more before talking about Israel and Palestine/Gaza.
  
  I'm not making excuses for him but guess I see no betterment if repugs are in charge again, Ukraine situation will probably get worse as well, and I'm more worried about what more will happen with a project 2025 riddled future and stripping away of regulations and further ignoring of climate change and action. I am well aware of what's going on in Gaza and it needs to stop, but I know which devil will be a major net worse for the future of humanity and I'm going to vote against that future which is a blue vote.
  
  I’m not making excuses for him but guess I see no betterment if repugs are in charge again
  No one wants the republicans in control. But voters committing to the game of chicken that Biden himself started with his own constituency was necessary to get him to step down. Like with a bully, if you never stand up for yourself they just keep abusing you again and again. That's neoliberal democrats to their base -- they're bullies to their own voters.
  The threat to their power needed to be credible, people needed to show that they were ready to just let them take us over the cliff if that's where the Democratic establishment was going to take us, and it worked.
  Biden is not a good human being. He's a narcissist and a child killer. There's no reason to show him any respect or deference now that he's stepped aside. In fact people should continue to loudly proclaim the genocide as his legacy, to make it clear to the party leadership that supporting genocide is an electoral liability, not something you can force down people's throats.
- Lmao wait until Trump gives Netanyahu the green light to erase Palestine. Got what you wanted I guess. Hope you are prepared to do some more protesting, oh wait he will probably throw you lot in jail or deport for protesting unlike Biden. Reap what you sow.
  
  Netanyahu already got the greenlight. Anyone who's been paying attention to what's happening in Gaza would know that.
  There is no difference between Trump and Biden when it comes to their support of genocide. Biden is not more "moderate", he's fully onboard and has provided everything Netanyahu needs to continue his war crimes. The difference is Biden is a democrat, which means that he needs to be held to democrat standards, not republican ones. If he's not then the party is functionally the same as the GOP and pretending there's a difference is pointless.
  
  You have no idea what genocide actually is.
  What you're seeing is the results of a war.
  A few months ago Kamala Harris met with the families of those that are still being held hostage by Hamas. So has Joe Biden. They might understand what's happening a little better than someone that spends their free time looking at photos of mutilated children on the internet.
  There is some hope that now that Biden isn't seeking re-election he can do more to make a deal happen to get the hostages released which will end the current iteration of this conflict. So you'll have to find another place to find photos of mutilated children that you can pretend to be angry about.
- I remember being young and naive and thinking everything in the world was simple, easy and black and white.
  One day you will grow up and see how foolish shortsighted you are being.
  
  And now you're old, condescending and accepting of genocide. Hope I'm never like you.
  
  I'm willing to bet large sums of money that I've put in more effort to fight against this genocide than you have, sat whining about political candidates on niche websites and acting haulier than thou.
- You must realize that just like Reddit, this sub is far left leaning. It's pointless to post anything that goes against the echo chamber.
  
  The left is not in support of Israel. While it's true that there isn't much of a MAGA/nazi element on Lemmy like on Reddit, there is a fairly large neoliberal demographic. As well as a growing contingency of Israeli, Russian, and Chinese bots as those groups realize that Lemmy is growing as reddit continues to wane.

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