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At first, I was pissed that he didn’t bow out two months ago.

Now I have nothing but respect for the man. He realized when to step aside and let his partner take the reign, and did so with effective enough timing to throw a massive wrench into the republicans’ plans.

If Kamala wins, history will see him as the kind elder statesman who knew when to step aside for the good of the country.

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John Adams is the first American president to make unpopular decision and did not let ego rule him, despite losing him the election. Americans were baying for blood to go to war against the French in 1799 but Adams refused, knowing that America will lose if he declared war. It cost him his re-election, but he did the right thing.

Edit: wrong year

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John Adams is the first American president to make unpopular decision

Nobody tell this guy about the Whiskey Rebellion.

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Couldn’t agree more and his words on the matter were really touching.

I just hope the party as a whole can keep this up. I have never felt like the party cared more about being in touch with the people than it does now.

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I do agree, but also in 4-8 years I’d like an actual competitive primary. Like the kind Obama won

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If Trump wins, history will remember Biden as “the antichrist, bringer of despair, slow witted grim reaper, sad.”*

*This antiwoke curriculum is approved by the council of Gilead.

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Biden got forced out by his donors and other Democrats (establishment ones surprisingly). He would have kept running if he could.

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honest question, are you guys making any headway outside of hexbear and lemmygrad? i mean i’m sure everyone loves you in your safe space, but you have to know your “vote josevlad marxtalin 2024!!!” stance is pretty laughable out in the world

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You can’t .ml Biden committing Genocide away no matter how hard you try.

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So what? At the end of the day he did what people wanted, it just took a demonstration of how badly we wanted it.

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Why respect a Genocidal maniac for stepping down only when forced to do so?

Just be happy he’s not running anymore nobody’s buying these fairy tales about how great he is.

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