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Mr.Biden could be heard mumbling to himself “I’m not dogmatic, only I can save America!” While standing in a corner facing a mannequin trying to shake its hand.

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You are part of the problem.

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By acknowledging that Biden has absolutely no chance and needs to get the fuck over himself? If he actually cared about the country then he wouldn’t be so dogmatic. It is not solid fact that he can win or that it needs to be him. There are other people who can do the job.

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Nope, Biden is the problem. Full stop.

Uncomfortable maybe for people who’ve spent a lot of energy defending him, but he is the failure point.

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By acknowledging that he’s not fit to run the country? The problem lies with voters and their party turning a blind eye to the issues.

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The toddler gates they keep around him now would prevent wandering off

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No he didn’t.

“No, no he didnt… but you can imagine what it’d be like if he did!”

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It was a joke about his mental state. Of course he didn’t actually do that lol

We can joke about these things. It won’t be the downfall of society. They’re doing that for us.

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Wow. Blue maga is real, and just as militant culty as Red maga. It’s gross. I almost wish I could unsee. Almost.

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Blue maga?

Why are so many self claimed leftists on here using a Steve Bannon coined term?

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It was a dumb epithet. Until Biden supporters started attacking the fake news media, pushing misinformation, and attacking true blue Democrats for speaking out against the dear leader. Then it became uncomfortably descriptive. When you’re attacking Pod Save America for not being good Democrats you’ve lost the plot completely.

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In a nation where 50% of voters are democrats and maybe 200,000 people listen to Pod Save America, the majority of them probably themselves in the media, how many people does the term blue maga apply to here?

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Because many self described “leftists” aren’t actually leftist and are just shit posting to drive down voter motivation.

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Broken clock phenomenon.

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Blue maga seems like such a hard sell. Like, I get regular maga, Trump is an asshole, but he’s got personality, he’s entertaining, he’s got all the things you’d need to be a cult leader effectively. Whereas Biden is basically the opposite of Trump personality wise.

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You’ve got me, there.

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In this thread: people who don’t know how poorly this went every other time they switched.

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do they know we automatically lose Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin if we lose Biden/Harris?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531

I can’t fathom the circular firing squad mentality at work here.

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Removed, civility.

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Correlation isn’t causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorly

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One time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated.

One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out)

One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that’s not a joke.

And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it.

In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.

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There go the Democrats, shooting themselves in the foot again.

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No the Republicans shot themselves in the foot, and the Democrats took it as a challenge, and shot themselves in the head.

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It’s only fair since the Republicans got to shoot themselves in the ear

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Crooks on crooks crimes have always been the Republican way.

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