Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself. Republicans called on him to resign from office, saying that if he could not run for another term, office, then he’s unable to serve as president.
Biden’s announcement came after more than two weeks of Democrats urging him to withdraw from the race. Nearly three dozen lawmakers had publicly called on him to end his reelection bid. Others had voiced concerns privately about what the ramifications would be for down-ballot Democrats if he remained in the race. When the president heeded those concerns, Democrats called it a selfless move.
Do Republicans just want to destabilize the country until it’s destroyed?
The Koch brother’s plan was to invest in state races to win enough legislatures and governors to call a new constitutional convention, and have enough anarcho-capitalist stooges to formally reshape the country as their libertarian oligarchy utopia where the rest of us are just indentured serfs.
It’s been going on for a while, I believe they were big in funding Tea Party candidates, for example. One the two brothers has since died, though. I just did a google search for “koch brothers constitutional convention” and here are some of the links
- https://www.newsweek.com/new-constitutional-convention-would-death-progress-opinion-1818107
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14841457/convention-of-states-campaign-secession/
- https://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/06/13254/koch-convention-rewrite-constitution-roadblocks
- https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7
- https://truthout.org/articles/koch-convention-to-rewrite-constitution-runs-into-roadblocks/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-meckler-article-five-constitutional-convention_n_6086c380e4b09cce6c143b10
- https://billmoyers.com/story/kochs-to-rewrite-constitution/
Conservatives will turn to authoritarianism when democracy doesn’t work for them.
If he had resigned that would have put in Harris as the incumbent and given her a big boost. Do they really want that?
As a leftist, I would prefer this and think it would give her a boost as well. And it would also invalidate the right’s new mission to keep Biden on ballots.
I saw this idea posed here recently and someone pointed out that this would put Mike Johnson as first in line for the presidency behind Harris, which isn’t a good idea especially considering recent events.
Until she nominates a VP. It isn’t like Johnson would become VP, that isn’t how it works.
Who cares what the Republikkkans say?
“That 81 year old is way too old for the job, vote for our 78 year old!” is a bold strategy
His only chance at avoiding prison time for his many, many crimes committed while in office last time necessitate that he become President again, even though it was quite clear in 2016 that he was surprised he actually won and didn’t want to do the job.
If he gets elected, all of those active indictments gets swept away on Day 1 and the SCOTUS has already paved the way for him to be “exonerated”.
A vote for Trump is a vote for justice denied.
I hope biden passes a few ‘Official Acts’ before he heads out.
Unless he resigns, he’s still president until January 20, 2025. So we will see; he’s got nothing to lose, AND presidential immunity.
Usually I’d say someone in his position has absolutely nothing to lose, but being he’s such a … typical guy, he won’t do anything and go down in history as a footnote.
Well if Harris is running couldn’t any unpopular thing that Biden does potentially be tied to her?
