Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report
Obama urged Biden to beef up campaign amid worries about Trump strength in polls: report
🎶you really gonna make me vote for Joe Biden?🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmXGkIr7w0
Just going to drop this here for those that didn't get that reference.
There are so many MAGAtrumpers here with the “gEnOciDE jOe” nonsense that are seemingly unaware that their believed king will do the exact same thing, only with him- they get a side-order of bigotry, racism, oppression, tyranny, and cowardice.
I hope you will all be happy with your lateral move on this single-issue decision. Because YOU will be who gets the blame when Trump wins the throne.
Maga people don't say that. It's the progressives that use "Genocide Joe". Democrats: We will support Israel. Republicans: Gaza will be a parking lot. Progressives: The two main options are the same but worded differently.
Trump has supporters because the nominees he ran against are garbage.
Trump was able to cause Jan 6 because enough people who hate Democrats kept getting Republican nominees pushed in to take over the Judicial and Executive branches. Trump is a symptom and the Democrats are not the solution.
Yup. Trump is polling way too well for anyone to treat this as a typical election where common sense wins the day.
Many voting blocs apparently can no longer see the plain, stupifyingly obvious lies, fascism and narcissism dripping from every speech he has given for the last 8 years. We're slow-walking to the end of American democracy.
This election year will be exhausting for us all, but if there's ever a time to put everything into it, it's now and it's this election.
He's polling well because the only people who still respond to polls are shitheel boomers.
Say it again for the people at the back. When was the last time you answred a phone call from a political surveyor?
Ignore the polls and vote.
I'm voting Biden, but again, we are here because Biden is fucking old. The Democrats should have made an effort to bring in new candidates. The only reason to keep Biden in place is to keep Trump off. But also the wars happening now are all from Biden's generation. So maybe it's fine, he should fix those things.
We had a vigorous primary, many interesting candidates in '19-20 (Bernie leading easily until SC, Warren backstab, pandemic). Before Super Tuesday, Democrat primary voters were told to unite around Biden, and they did. So that was... weird, but maybe I can blame pandemic.
Biden's been more progressive than I would've imagined, and is surrounded by decent people, so I'm not concerned about his ancient brain quite yet. The other option is... religious fascism, destruction of govt, civil war, T**** family dictatorship, etc. Let's go Brandon, I guess.
Yeah, I just hope he lasts the next 4 years. Meanwhile hopefully we do end up with better candidates. Bernie would have been a heck of a president. We need a Bernie that is 30 years old.
Dem primary voters are gigantic cowards and always have been.
Fuck everyone who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries.
Relying on the anti-Trump vote is pretty ineffectual with an anti-Biden vote growing.
I was going to say this, the way Biden is handling the border crisis is turning a lot of NYC, Chicago, and Denver voters off (and more, those are just hit pretty hard lately.) EDIT: Check out the mayor of NYC's polling numbers. They are the lowest since polling began. It is the worst administration in NYC's history because of the migrant crisis handling. I can confirm with links but not sure what good that would do if people have made up their own minds.
Those are all areas in states that are safe Democratic in the Electoral College. It's worse if it turns off Democrats in swing states who may not show up on election day.
What's he doing with the border crisis? I thought abetting the genocide is the bigger factor in his dropping approval rating.
Is this the border crisis coming from Canada that happens every election season? I miss when no one gave a shit.
Really? It seems to me Joe's support of the Palestinian Genocide is hurting him more than any made-up fox news bullshit.
Oh yeah. The border crisis. That's the real kicker.
So many 2020 voters picked Biden for his border commitments.
Maybe fucking lock him behind bars next time. You know, he commited an insurrection or something.
Oh, I forgot, he has rich friends so its impossible. Rule of law my ass.
And put Genocide Joe in the cell next to him for crimes against humanity.
Right alongside every other president that ever served as POTUS.
The two main alternatives to not elect Trump are:
Logically it would be much easier to achieve the objective of Trump not getting elected by the solution of that one, single man to change how he acts as President of The United States Of America, than by the solution of the millions of people turned of by the actions of that man as POTUS to ignore their Principles and vote for that man.
Surelly if the people loudly demanding that others ignore their Principles and vote for Biden so that Trump doesn't win had indeed only "make sure Trump isn't elected" as the purest of motivations and were not at all driven by tribalism, they would be concentrating their pressure not on the millions it takes to convince to win the vote via that solution but on that, one, single man, who persists in acting in a way that turns millions off from voting for him.
For an outsider like me, the persitence on the "lets convince millions" option instead of "lets loudly demonstrate on the streets against Biden until he acts differently" looks like pure mindless tribalism of "The Chief is always right and even if he isn't he's our Chief so we'll stand by him" kind. (Totally valid. Just don't be a hypocrite and claim it's about making sure Trump doesn't win, as that objective can way, WAY, WAY more easilly be achieved by your Chief starting to trully listen to those whose votes he wants).
The kicker is Democrats dont win elections by appealing to the Republicans. The republicans didn't make their mind on logic, they're not gonna vote blue because Biden looks like a Republican, they're far more tribal than that. Democrats win the elections where they energize their base and increase voter turnout.
But instead of energizing the base, they inch rightwards because their political donators just love it when that happens, and more than most of the top enshrined Democrats are from states that would never vote Republican or have guaranteed DNC jobs lined up if they do. When Trump was in office, Democrats were able to raise MORE money because of how scared people are. I really dont think the decision makers in the Democratic party cares if they lose the majority or the presidency because they're still taken care of at the end of the day.
So tldr: Democrats dont win by moving to the right but they make more money when they do, and they make lots of money when they lose.
Obama to Biden: "There's room on the right."
Exactly. People in here keep pretending Democrats "want" to move to the left. They don't. They love being procorporate fascist light pieces of shit.
The Democrats honestly brought this on themselves.
Bernie Sanders was by far the most popular candidate in 2016, but Hillary ultimately won the nomination purely on superdelegates because the system is crooked and apparently the Clinton dynasty had to continue. It's a substantially different world, and the Clintons have heavily fallen out of public favour, which is why Hillary failed to get elected.
Sanders had another chance in 2020, this time the party members threw Bernie under the bus and chose to counter one senile fossil with another.
Yes Bernie Sanders would've been the oldest candidate, but Biden hasn't exactly aged gracefully and seems to be even more forgetful than Trump.
I don't think Biden has a chance of winning this year's election unless by some landmark supreme court miracle, Trump is struck off from the ballot and the Republican Party is forced to hastily select another candidate. Even then I think someone like Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Ron DeSantis or Rick Santorum would thrash Biden in the polls.
And if Trump wins, I fear the Fascist takeover that will follow.
Hillary Clinton won the primaries by popular vote by 55% to 43%. If you want to point at some shitfuckery against Sanders, you first have to look at a mass media that has historically ignored the interests and issues of working class people, promoted people and opinions that would argue against any kind of large change, and given better coverage to non-leftist candidates, because the owners to that media want it to defend their own interests, not serve as neutral vehicles of discussions in a democratic society.
To "Keep Trump out" there are only two realistic options: either one single person, Joe Biden, changes his actions as POTUS (starting with his continued material support for the Genocide in Palestine) or millions of Americans have to go against their principles and vote for him.
It seems to me that if the members of the Democrat-tribe doing the rounds telling people they "should vote for Biden otherwise Trump wins" genuinelly wanted to "Keep Trump out" they would instead be pressing hard for that one, single man to start listenning to voters and act differently, rather than go for the much, much harder option of getting millions of Americans to swallow their principles so that this one single man can keep on acting the same way he does now.
Seems to me that keeping Trump out is secondary to Biden not having to listen to voters and continue to act freely as he feels like, even if that's so against the wishes of millions of Americans that previously voted for him that they even find those actions unprincipled and repugnant.
Running Biden is the best thing democrats can do to guarantee a Trump presidency.
Meta: Is this community for US specific news or just any news?
Lol
Then why did the democrats not impeach him based on the Mueller Report?
Hillary Clinton hired Christopher Steele to do oppo research against Trump, this became known as the Steele Dossier and contained a number of accusations on Trump. After the election the FBI started a serious investigation on if these accusations were true, and after two years the Mueller Report concluded that none of the serious allegations against Trump could be verified. This is why the Democrats (who had a majority in the house at that time) decided not to impeach, there was nothing there.
Russia did try to influence the election, but this does not mean Trump was complicit, and no proof of this was found.
There's little evidence that Russia did anything worse than any other special interest group.
But you don't care when corporations do it.
Defeat #trumpers.
Defeat #hitler.
When the plan is to lose, you gotta make it look credible to maintain the theatre.
Wdym the plan is to lose?
There's two options: either Biden is intentionally trying to lose or too stupid to recognize the people he's depending on to win absolutely hate him
I will vote for Biden if he ends his support for genocide. That's it. That's all I need to vote for him. I just want that one thing, even after he let me down by breaking the rail strike and continuing brutal anti-immigration and doing nothing abiut over policing and expanding American oil and stopping peace negotiations in Ukraine.
Just this one thing.
If that's too much to ask, he won't get my vote.
Unfortunately the alternative is a literal wannabe-dictator. By not voting, you’re basically helping Trump.
By not voting, you’re basically helping Trump.
only a vote for trump helps trump
I voted for Biden to stop fascism and now he's a genocide collaborator! Would Trump be worse? Maybe - it's unclear, because at least Democrats would oppose Trump. Trump saw the largest protest movement in American history, Trump inspires Democrats to actually ask for more, Trump will further isolate America (and Israel) geopolitically, it's hard to predict.
I'm not voting for him, I'm actually voting Democrat down ticket, but if he wins it's not the end of the world. It's an opportunity.
In the meantime? Withholding my vote is literally the only way I can exert pressure on Biden. I have a moral obligation to oppose genocide. I won't vote for it. If he's smart he'll reverse course on Israel to save his campaign and this will all be moot. Why is Biden helping Trump win?
You think Trump will "end the genocide"?
He will go even harder on "USA needs to support Israel defending God's promised land".
Remember he is the one who moved the US embassy to support Netanyahu's agenda.
THIS!!! Omg this! I wish I could agree more!
I am astounded by how polarized the younger generation is. It’s all, or nothing with them and they can’t see how badly that is going to fuck us up.
Hey kids….
LIFE EXISTS WITHIN THE GREY AREA. There’s a thing called NUANCE.
Deciding to not vote for THE ONE PERION CAPABLE OF KEEPING AMERICA FROM BEING A DICTATORSHIP because of a single issue… is flat-out FUCKING STUPID.
Get your heads out of your ass!
Trump did say what he would have done, but given it’s Trump he’d probably not do what he said:
Trump criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lauded Hezbollah militants as “very smart” and sought political gain from the attacks that killed 1,200 people by claiming that if the last election was not “rigged,” he’d be the American president and they’d never have happened.
With Biden, Democrats are mostly falling in line behind the genocide. It's a bipartisan genocide, with even Bernie being unwilling to support a ceasefire. With Trump, on the other hand, Democrats would reverse course and actually support a ceasefire to obstruct Trump.
-but that's all speculation. I don't know, for sure, that it would happen that way. What I do know is I won't vote for genocide, and I will withhold my vote unless Biden changes his policy on Israel. I won't vote for Trump, I'll even vote Dem down ticket, but I won't vote for genocide.
You, on the other hand, are literally voting for genocide if you support Biden. You just want to absolve yourself of that moral responsibility.
Yup. Ending genocide is not on the ballot. Keeping American democracy on life support is on the ballot. And if we lose it because of this childish bullshit, abstainers in 2023 are to blame. You're as useless as the Dem voters we're already desperately trying to activate off the couch. Worst part is you're doing it on purpose. You're voting for Trump. It doesn't matter how you feel. This is a fact. We're hanging on by a thread and you're whining to your own comrades about your feelings and discomfort. Vote far left down ballot. Elect a democratic president. Otherwise fuck yourself, your words mean literally nothing when you're hauled off to camp from your family or put on the wall. Thanks for your opinions.
Beautifully said my friend!
America has never been a democracy. 🙄
Also, I'm not voting for Trump! I'm even voting left down ballot, I'm just not voting for Biden specifically.
If Trump wins and Democrats control both chambers, what the hell can he even do? Bloviate? I guess maybe he'll do some executive orders that the 6-3 Court will uphold, but if Democrats aren't worthless cowards they'll just refuse to enforce his orders and it won't matter anyway.
Vote for this one person to save democracy or go fuck yourself.
Sounds like a really healthy democracy you've got there. 🙄
Anyway, the reason we're in this position is because everyone who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries is a complete asshole who intentionally fucked over progressive and leftist efforts. Now they're mad we won't show up for him in the general? Get fucked.
Look at this closely people.This is the misinformation campaign for the election.
Both sides support this war, this stance that a republican would do anything different is laughable.
This is the rhetoric that will be blasted all around social media creating a bullshit narrative of a rational liberal "taking the high ground" and encouraging others to follow by voting blue for everyone but Joe Biden.
I've been seeing a lot of this lately and I agree, it definitely feels like an astroturf campaign.
Most single issue voters are focused on domestic issues such as abortion or the economy. And you would think that someone who cares so much about Israel would also be worried about other aspects of foreign policy such as Ukraine.
The whole premise is ridiculous. And I think it speaks to Biden's success as a president that this is the best campaign they can come up with.
Look at this closely people.This is the misinformation campaign for the election.
I dunno, is it that crazy to think the venn diagram of liberal voters and people that hate genocide are a near-perfect circle?
Biden doing an end-around Congress to send more weapons, while we can all see how they are being used seems like a misinformation campaign?
Frankly, why would voicing distaste for Biden or ones intention not to vote for him cause people to do the same??
Like are you changing your mind right now? Of course not. A passionate person such as yourself should be even more determined to vote for Biden knowing i will not.
I hate the bullshit shutdown tactic of calling an opinion an astroturf campaign.
Okay, then by that logic, why is Biden helping Trump get elected by playing into this strategy?
Like I said, Biden has betrayed me over and over, but like a beaten dog I will crawl back to him if he just does this one thing. That's all I'm asking for. It would be so easy for Biden to get my vote. It's entirely in his hands. Yet he won't do it. Why? Why is he determined to help Trump win?
Maybe you need to look up how the rail strike ended... its clear you're exceptionally misinformed.
Joe has been a phenomenal President so far
The alternative is Trump. You're either going to abstain or vote for Trump if Biden doesn't pull support for Israel? You know that literally every other POTUS since 1948 has been pro-Israel right?
Ending genocide isn't on the ballot this year, Trump is. Your choices are between probably more genocide if you don't vote for Biden and possibly less genocide if you do vote for Biden. It's really that simple.
Ending genocide isn’t on the ballot this year, Trump is.
Then fuck Joe Biden, fuck the Democrats, fuck this country and fuck this "Democracy". You all can try to win the general on your own.
Ending genocide isn’t on the ballot this year
Look at that comment. Really, really, look at it.
Ending genocide isn’t on the ballot this year,
It would be if you cowards had the guts to tell Biden that he will lose if he continues to support genocide.
You're going to give up checks notes everything because he's continuing the same policy the US has held like forever?
You should listen to your friend Barry, he’s really good at running campaigns
speaking of which...
Edit: Ha ha; I knew those downvotes were coming! :)
Well, Biden won, so maybe Obama was just wrong