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President Biden said in an interview released on Wednesday that he would re-evaluate whether to stay in the presidential race if a doctor told him directly that he had a medical condition that made that necessary.
Mr. Biden has said repeatedly that none of his doctors have told him he has a serious medical condition. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, wrote after the president’s physical in February that Mr. Biden is “a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
But his disastrous performance at a debate with former President Donald J. Trump last month, which prompted a wave of calls by Democratic allies to step aside, raised questions about his health and acuity.
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Being geriatric is a medical condition.
I hate that the choices in the next election mean I have to vote for him.
Did you know there are alternative voting systems in which a spoiler effect doesn’t exist? You should start demanding Ranked Choice voting from your state representatives.
More democracy, Introduce competition into the electoral process, improve the quality of candidates across the political spectrum, and we could have more chances at defeating the Republicans. A complete win for the people.
There need to be age-limits in place so never again
Trump… similar age, convicted felon… carry on… lol
do you think that if a democratic candidate drops out that no one will replace them lmao
Not relevant. Trump voters don’t care about reality, while the rest of us do. If the Democrats want to be the party of sane, responsible voters they’ll need to put up a sane, responsible candidate.
Be better than Republicans.
Low bar
And we aren’t clearing it. The bar is so low it’s in hell and we can’t clear it.
My tummy hurt. Good-bye.
You ever see someone at Biden’s age fall down? A great aunt of mine was the caretaker for her husband who had sever dementia. She bathed him, managed his meds, everything. She falls and breaks her hip, she was dead in a week. This is common with patients that old, anesthesia alone FUCKs them up for days. A slippery sidewalk is a medical emergency for someone Bidens age.
I recall hearing in a podcast that sometimes their bones are so worn out that it’s the other way around, their hips just snap and they fall down
This sounds very much like him setting up a scenario where he can step down without losing face. God, I hope.
please please please (x5) (refrain) please please, yes please, (return to chorus) (bridge) please sir please (return to chorus x2)
With tears in my eyes, please sir
Would be best case scenario would show maturity and unity for the party.
This thread pulling bullshit everywhere else is so fuckin fake
I see this way too
Much better than the earlier requirement of God himself descending from the heavens to tell him to drop out. After which he’d only consider it.
Now the Almighty can work in subtler ways like it usually does.
Honest question: is that like…. actually a good idea? Probably? What if they decide to replace him with Harris that sounds worse idk
Infighting to replace him is a terrible idea.
Him just retiring in favor of Harris or whoever? Better. Still absolutely horseshit considering no one seriously put their hat in the ring for the convention but whatever gets a president that supports universal healthcare and isn’t sunsetting.
It’s probably the less bad option at this point, let’s put it that way. Harris is not great, but she lacks much of the baggage and hasn’t lost the confidence of the party.
I could be pumped for Harris with the right running mate. Who shall it be? Don’t say Bernie.
Don’t know that I could be pumped for Harris unless she pulls off some kind of “Crouching Empty Suit, Hidden Visionary” shit, but I could be pumped for her VP. Unfortunately, I suspect she’ll choose a ‘moderate’ old white Dem guy as her VP to ‘balance out’ that she’s an ethnic minority and a woman.
Harris/Duckworth would be great. Tammy Duckworth is a combat wounded vet and seems to be pretty good as far as centrist dems go.
Harris/Newsom? Harris/Kinzinger(my mancrush)?
I’d love to see a Harris/AOC pairing … if only to watch all the rich old white people in leadership have massive shit fits.
That’s just a dream at this point tho.
Maybe Sen. Mark Kelly from AZ? He is amazing. Very popular here in AZ. His wife is Gabby Giffords.
You can’t have AOC yet, VPs go silent and we need her wit!
Oooh…! But Harris Buttigieg would be fun too.
I have two tracks for pumpedness:
- Political: Someone with progressive ideas in the White House to represent that portion of the party. Probably not going to happen.
- Capability: Someone who feels like a particularly competent messenger with some fight in them. It would be nice to have some Democrats who can competently and accurately tear up this whole fiasco of a political movement. This could happen.
He started with only God Almighty could make him step down…moved to if polls said there was no path to victory…now we are here…it feels like he’s warming up to the idea.
God works in mysterious ways. Well, I guess it’s not that mysterious that an 84 year old man who attends a lot of public events got COVID.
What’s the over under on it turning into long COVID which gives him a graceful out.
Hopefully they can decide swiftly on the democrat convention and Biden can rally the Democrat party united behind one younger more energetic candidate fit to lead the country
democratic convention
Democratic party
FTFY
Party leaders and mega donors seem to have coalesced around Harris. So if it happens it’ll be quick. I sincerely hope he’s actually healthy and this is a managed exit.
Party leaders and mega donors seem to have coalesced around Harris.
“Democracy”
Yeah. But it’s not like Biden was the product of a robust democratic process either.
Ugh. Harris? Really? Why not Dean while we’re at it
I sure hope not. Harris is a sure fire way to a Trump presidency.
How about Mark Kelly?
Mark Kelly isn’t well known outside Arizona. And I dunno about Harris being a loser here. The biggest complaint about Biden is his age. And she solves that.
Come on, Joe. You know what’s right and you will go down in history as a gotdamn hero.
Louis Rossmann taught me that when someone like this uses the word robust it means there is either a bribe or bullshit involved.
I find it odd that Biden is apparently unqualified to be the nominee, and thus president, but he is currently the president. Why are there no calls for him to resign?
Because he’s 81, and soon to be 82 in november. Getting him to january shouldn’t be a big deal. Getting him to January 2029 however, he’ll be 86. Can you name anything that might be not unexpected to happen to someone who is in their 80s? Why do you think a man who will be 86 when he leaves office (assuming he wins again) will still be operating at this same level now? Hell, he couldn’t get through a debate with trump a few weeks ago without clearly being an old person.
The difference is that being the nominee and potentially being elected again would entail 4 more years of being the president. It is possible to believe that Biden is currently capable enough to finish out this term while also believing that he is showing signs which indicate he might not be fit for another 4 years.
Because he gave so few press conferences that people didn’t know what a vegetable he was. The failure of his mental capacity over the last year or two was carefully hidden from the public by his administration.
The calls for him to step down are the calls for him to resign.
Presidenting can be done by cabinet activity with decisions during specified times of day and delegated decision making during other times. Campaigning cannot.
Plus, if Harris becomes president her VP would need to be confirmed, which requires Republicans, and if it wasn’t, we’re one assassination away from President Mike Johnson.
He’ll drop out with a medical condition just like how he’ll announce Israel has crossed his red line.
His physician will also conveniently fail to find anything wrong with him just like the state department failed to find evidence of war crimes in Gaza.
Alien style. From his chest.
Harris/Kinzinger ‘24
Ok!! This works. Take the test, announce the condition, and step down so we can stop stealing time from whoever the actual nominee is. Let’s gooo!
You will vote for bed ridden Joe biden in a oxygen mask, and you will clap. If the clapping is not enthusiastic enough you will be ostracized from society.
More than we’d ever see from someone like Trump who is also showing signs on top of being an anti-democracy fascist. Js
Guess who has the 'rona?
You called it!
Why couldn’t it be Trump? Why do the evil bastards always live beyond a 100?
Happy people live longer, and evil people thrive on this planet of dumbasses. What a delightful life they must live. Like a pig in the biggest pile of shit ever.
Obviously laying the groundwork. Who is going to replace him?
Kamala
Ok. Then who is going to replace HER?!?!?!
My money’s on Newsom.
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Gross.
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That’d be pretty electorally disadvantageous. Both names on the ticket from the same already guaranteed to be blue state.
I don’t know who it would be, but Newsome would be pretty far down on my list of options.
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President and VP can’t be from the same state. More precisely, electors can’t vote for both a president and VP from the same state as themselves.
That goes on to explain in detail why my first sentence makes the second sentence true, especially for democrats and California.
We have to go deeper.
Just going to put this out there and hope … Al Franken.
Think about it.
It’s vice presidents all the way down.
harris but im still hoping for pritzker 🤤
I haven’t really dove into his career but everything I heard about him is shockingly positive. I doubt it’ll happen but that will be the easiest vote of my life unless some shady stuff comes to light
Here’s how Bernie can still win…
A violent revolution
Trump
It is embarrassing that American politics have become such a selfish individual vehicle for well intentioned leaders that end up corrupted the instance they join the upper tiers of our current national government.
It is why neither party can present a better alternative candidate to a government that was built on the hopes of retaining an integrity to prevent the current shit show of a short term power grab happening now.
While Americans are robbed of over half their hard earned income, our leaders don’t even care that we know they are stuffing their pockets to take away another one of our protections or weaken the dollar or screw over the working class to further extend their margins while keeping this well oiled system running uninterrupted with them staying at the top.
Why are we settling for mediocrity, as the greatest economy in the world, in how our government is run? It is a puppet show at this point, our government seems like an archaic joke when measured up to what should be expected from modern humans who will work nearly a third of their life under the current system.
We deserve better than to be treated as uneducated fools while our protections and quality of life slowly diminish at everyones expense except the ruling class. We are the fools thinking voting into an already corrupted system will change what is wrong at its fundamental level.
