At the time of the Republican Convention, Trump felt sure he was on his way to a landslide victory. He had centered his campaign on the theme that Biden was senile. The attack ads were ready to roll. But only days after the lights were turned off in Milwaukee, Biden announced that he was stepping aside, and he endorsed his Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Trump was furious. How dare Biden decide not to run! Trump began to claim that what the Democrats had done was “unconstitutional” and that it was a “coup.”
Biden was pressured by party leaders to withdraw because, after his awful performance in the June debate, they feared that not only would he lose but he would hurt the chances of Democrats running for other offices. The switch at the top was unprecedented but was certainly not unconstitutional. The nation’s political parties are not even mentioned in the Constitution. They make their own rules. But facts never get in Trump’s way.
Trump continues to insist that there was a “coup,” and some in the media believe he’s setting up the basis for another violent attempt to restore him to power. His most rabid followers believe whatever he says, and this article by Colby Itkowitz and Hannah Allan in the Washington Post shows that they now believe that Harris’s substitution for Biden was illegitimate, intended to cheat Trump of the Presidency yet again.
The article reminds us that Trump predicted that the election in 2016 was rigged, that the election in 2020 was rigged, and now he’s back to the same bogus claim. The only election results he accepts as valid are his own wins.
They write:
From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at the Republican convention in July, Trump is now casting the upcoming election as “rigged” against him and baselessly labeling any hurdle in his path as election interference.
“This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.”
Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used in the 2020 campaign and indicate how he could again seek to delegitimize the results if he loses, setting the stage for another combustible fight over the presidency, election and national security experts said.
“This is Donald Trump’s playbook: ‘There’s a deep state, they’re all out to get me,’” said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security official during the Trump administration and is now among his conservative critics. “Even here — as he’s going to have to face a stronger, harder candidate to defeat — his default is, ‘Well, this couldn’t possibly be legal. This is a coup. This is wrong,’ even though there are no facts to back that up.”
While some of this is “just for show,” Neumann said, Trump and his allies are also setting up the “next version of ‘Stop the Steal.’”
Trump has long insisted that his political failures are the result of some malevolent force trying to keep him out of power, and he has weakened faith in the U.S. election system despite widespread evidence that the results can be trusted. When asked to comment for this article, Trump’s campaign responded with a statement attacking Harris and again characterizing her nomination as part of a “coup.”
“President Trump and our campaign have never been more confident that we are going to win this election,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.
When Trump first ran for president in 2016, he falsely claimed that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) stole the Iowa caucuses, and he told his supporters that the general election was “absolutely being rigged” against him. After winning, he falsely said his loss in the popular vote was due to “millions of people who voted illegally.” In 2020, he baselessly claimed the influx of mail-in ballots amid the global pandemic led to widespread fraud that cost him the election, and as Congress gathered to certify the results, Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol and tried to halt the process.
Trump refuses to say whether he will accept the results of the 2024 election, even as he tells his fans that the Democrats are cheating.
In an Aug. 6 post on Truth Social, Trump presented a fantastical story that envisioned Biden, “whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him,” crashing this week’s Democratic National Convention to take back the nomination.
“They forced him out. It was a coup. We had a coup,” Trump said of Biden at an Aug. 9 rally in Bozeman, Mont. “That was the first coup of the history of our country, and it was very successful.”
This post-election time will be different from January 6, 2021. If Trump calls up his Proud Boys and his other militias, D.C. will be prepared. And Trump will not be in charge.
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In 1968 President Lyndon Johndon made thr decision not to run for re-election. He continued to govern until the inauguration of his successor, Richard Nixon.
That is the precedent for Biden. Yes, Biden faced pressure from his party to step back, but there was no “coup”.
Donald Trump is a venal,vengeful man who cannot bear to be thwarted.
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Agree with it or not, replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee was 100% within the rights of the party; it was an internal matter. That Trump believes that it was “unconstitutional” shows once again how uninformed he is about the most basic features of the U.S. Constitution.
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I think we can all agree now that the idea that Trump wanted Biden to step aside was just plain wrong.
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I do agree that Biden stepping aside turned out to be one of the best things to happen to the Dems in a long time. No argument there.
However, I think the jury is still out as to whether Trump wanted Biden out. It is quite likely that Trump and the Republicans expected that Biden stepping aside would lead to Democrats doing what Barack Obama, the folks at the NYT and many others presented as the correct and necessary solution — an open convention or a “short primary season”.
I read someone online pointing out that there would very likely still be no nominee if the Dems had done what Obama and the NYT and even some folks here wanted – had an open convention! There wouldn’t be a VP pick! There would not be the weeks of Kamala and Walz going around the country garnering excitement. Instead it would be Dems fighting and tearing down one another.
The last 3 weeks were unexpected because Joe Biden was wise enough to know that Kamala needed to be the nominee and I don’t think it is mere coincidence that every single possible rival for the nomination endorsed Kamala within 24 hours, shutting down all the media speculation because there were no other candidates to speculate about. The Dems got their ducks in a row while the Republicans held their convention. The Dems came out fighting and were in “array” instead of disarray.
I think most of us are happily surprised that happened. And the Republicans are furiously surprised that happened. If Obama and other Dems had their wish with their open convention, Trump’s plan to get rid of Biden would have been viewed as a winning plan. If that is what Trump wanted.
Biden’s speech last night demonstrated that he still has much appeal. He is old, but so is Trump. And aside from his age, smears against Biden didn’t work. We shall see if smears against Kamala and Walz do work. I have no doubt that the NYT will be on the case to amplify any misstep and work to make them both untrustworthy candidates, while they present Trump as maybe trustworthy, maybe not, no one knows, but boy those regular folks who are so hard working and admirable that the NYT writes 2 stories a week about sure do love Trump and believe he is so trustworthy and will save this country from all the evil things Biden has done and that Kamala wants to continue.
So, while you were 100% right that Biden stepping down turned out to be a very good thing, I don’t think it was guaranteed to be a very good thing. Trump and the Republicans likely thought Biden and Harris would follow the NYT/Obama directive — open convention and if Josh Shapiro does not come out as the nominee, he MUST be the VP and that’s that. Thank you Biden and Kamala for ignoring them.
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Nothing in life is guaranteed but there is nothing surprising about the fact that Biden stepping aside has been a good thing for the party. In my view, of course.
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I supported the idea of a “mini-primary” because it wasn’t (and still isn’t) clear to me that Harris was the best possible candidate—that’s the thing that primaries are supposed to determine. I always knew it was a risky path given the short timeframe (all paths have risk), but I thought the reward was worth the risk. But I’m good with Harris at this point and I have no real complaints with how she’s handled the campaign so far.
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I had a history professor 40 years ago who declared himself to be “for the yellow dog.” He observed once that the necessary expense of running for office was detrimental to some people having the opportunity to do so. The populist reforms we were discussing, he claimed, likely made it harder for the little guy. “Sometimes,” he intoned with a voice that could put a banshee to sleep, “I wish we could go back to the smoke-filled room.”
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However, I think the jury is still out as to whether Trump wanted Biden out. It is quite likely that Trump and the Republicans expected that Biden stepping aside would lead to Democrats doing what Barack Obama, the folks at the NYT and many others presented as the correct and necessary solution — an open convention or a “short primary season”.
No, the jury is not “out” on that. Clearly, Trump wanted to run against Biden.
And the notion that there would be an open convention was never anything more than extremely, extremely, extremely unlikely. What was likely to happen was what happened, FOR REASONS THAT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS.
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Yeah I think that has always been totally obvious. And it’s why he’s been so flummoxed since Biden stepped aside.
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Bob,
There were lots of “very important” self-appointed arbiters of what is right who were absolutely certain that an open convention was the right thing — and they had a lot of powerful Dems like Obama behind them.
The first articles that were obviously pre-written and appeared within minutes of Biden stepping down were assuming that an open convention was the only way to pick a LEGITIMATE candidate.
All it would have taken would be one or two people like Josh Shapiro, Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer to simply be “considering” tossing their hat in the ring for even a few days to change good news into bad. The cognitively impaired president tries to do a siderun against democracy to make sure the VP who “covered up” his unfitness to be president gets the nomination? It would have been a disaster.
Bob, how exactly do you think it would have played out if there was even one legitimate challenger to the nomination? Kamala couldn’t pick a VP. The news would be all about the horse race, dem versus dem. Right up until the convention.
Kamala’s legitimacy is because of the speed in which everyone in the Democratic party – and I mean everyone – endorsed her as the replacement within 24 hours. She may have been the obvious and only choice for you, but clearly flerp!’s feelings that an open convention or mini-primary would have resulted in a stronger candidate was shared by many powerful Democrats like Obama. Biden did a brilliant end run to shut that down. Biden threw the absolutely perfect pass to Kamala Harris. Your optimism was correct, but it certainly was not guaranteed that it would play out as it did. flerp! and I aren’t the only ones who didn’t “know” with the 100% certainty that you did that there would not be even one challenger with all Dem pols saying there should be no open convention or mini-primary because it was only Kamala. That gave Kamala a legitimacy she would not have had if there were endless media stories quoting disgruntled Dems. Many people – including the Republicans – were very surprised. That’s why they did such a bad job reacting.
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NYCPSP,
Give Kamala credit. As long as Biden was running, she was loyal to him. No games. But when he said he was not running,she got on the phone and locked up the support she needed.
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It is amusing, NYC PSP, that even after you were proved wrong, you are STILL making the fallacious arguments you made before. As I stated early on, before Biden’s announcement, there was a snowball’s chance in hell that, if Biden withdrew, the nominee would be anyone other than Harris. In such situations, the VP is always the presumptive nominee, and there would have been howling such as has rarely been heard in this country if someone else were chosen by any means–howling about the sexism and racism of passing her over. AND, key Democratic consistutencies–blacks, students, and a lot of women–would have been really alienated. Many in the first two groups would have just stayed home. Another choice simply wasn’t politically feasible.
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Bob says:
“there would have been howling such as has rarely been heard in this country if someone else were chosen by any means–howling about the sexism and racism of passing her over.”
I AGREE! Why do you think I was so worried when folks here who you like were expressing the view of many powerful Democrats and certainly the view of the NYT that having an open convention or mini-primary was the BEST way to go? And suggesting there might be a “better” candidate than Kamala?
“Another choice simply wasn’t politically feasible.”
I AGREE! Why do you think I was so worried that there would be another choice, or that Kamala would have to endure a mini-primary or an open convention where competing Democrats and the media amplified her negatives and unfitness for the last month?
Even if it was Kamala Harris coming out of an open convention this week, she would not be in the position she is today, having 3 weeks to garner excitement and support and LEGITIMACY. Three weeks to pick Walz and start barnstorming.
I am not sure who you are picking a fight with? We are in agreement about what should have happened and I have acknowledged you were right that what should have happened did happen! I was afraid it would not happen because too many times what “should” have happened does not happen.
I wasn’t the only person surprised that every single viable nominee and powerful Democrat endorsed Kamala within 24 hours. I wasn’t the only person surprised that the talk of an open convention was SHUT DOWN instead of debated in hundreds of articles to create a narrative where any candidate – even Harris – would have no legitimacy unless she came out of an open convention or mini-primary.
I have no idea what you want from me, since I have already acknowledged that your optimistic view of what would happen was correct and my less optimistic view was wrong.
But I can’t in good conscience lie and say that the outcome you believed would happen was guaranteed to happen with 100% certainty. There could have been an open convention – or a mess – if every single potential rival for the nomination had not IMMEDIATELY endorsed Kamala and shut down all talk of that. That would certainly be more like the kind of circular firing squads the Democratic party has held in the past.
It seems unseemly for you to keep saying I told you so. I have (happily) acknowledged you were right to be optimistic about the Dems presenting Kamala as the ONLY legitimate candidate so she was able to hit the ground running and the last 3 weeks of wonder and excitement happened.
But it doesn’t seem as if you’ll be satisfied unless I say that I should have known that the entire Democratic political establishment – moderates, progressives, conservatives – would spurn an open convention or mini-primary and would immediately come together in absolutely universal agreement that there was only one choice – Kamala. That was arguably the most likely outcome, but it certainly was not the guaranteed outcome.
Back when Biden was being pressured to step down, there was much discussion in the media about how an open convention would work. The possibility of Kamala being universally endorsed as the nominee within 24 hours was not even alluded to as a possibility. Not all of us had your prescience, Bob, but that doesn’t mean that the negative outcomes we foresaw were highly unlikely.
In my opinion, everyone coming together to endorse Kamala in 24 hours and shutting down all talk of an open convention was the most unlikely scenario of all! But I am extremely glad it happened.
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No one knows for sure what would have happened. I sure didn’t.
It’s a testament to Kamala’s smarts that she got on the phone and locked up the nomination before the nitpicking could begin.
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Note the difference between the two campaigns. Trump is playing golf and has an occasional rally. Kamala and Tim are campaigning every day. Yesterday, in the middle of the Dem convention, during the roll call of states, they were holding a rally in Milwaukee. As Tim says, “We can sleep when we’re dead.”
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This morning I deleted about a dozen comments by Trump trolls. Their comments were hateful, angry, deranged. I suppose they know they are losing.
What strikes me is that the trolls are a reflection of the campaigns. They think that America is failing, declining, horrible–and they pin the blame on Democrats.
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In the normal course of events, barring some extreme occurrence affecting the choice, when the president announces that he or she is not going to seek reelection, the VP becomes the nominee. This is the default. It would require extreme circumstances to change it.
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That’s exactly right.
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None of what happened was at all surprising. It’s just what I said was going to happen, and it happened for the reasons that I delineated. But people piled on, when I was saying this, as though I were looney, and you, NYC PSP, in particular, derided me as imagining that I could predict the future, despite the clear reasons I gave for why she would almost inevitably be the nominee. All this was outrageous and annoying.
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Bob, I am terribly sorry to have doubted that you could predict the future with accuracy when you said there was no doubt at all that Kamala WOULD be the nominee and when you insulted and attacked me endlessly for expressing the least bit of concern about an open convention turning into a sh*tshow because another popular Democrat could also be vying for the nomination and it was very possible that the two (or three, or four) of those potential nominees could be attacking and undermining one another and the convention could be full of angry supporters whose candidate didn’t win.
I, and everyone else who did not expect the outcome we had, should absolutely be insulted and attacked for doubting you when you told us what would happen.
How dare I questioned your certainty that Kamala would of course be the nominee. How dare I thought it was unlikely that the many things that had to come together perfectly WOULD come together as perfectly as they did – with “Dems in array” instead of “Dems in disarray”.
How dare I not agree that it was practically guaranteed that Biden stepping down would play out exactly this way. Bob said it, so my doubting that Biden stepping aside would play out this wonderful way was somehow a personal insult to Bob. At least in Bob’s eyes.
Bob knew this would happen. I WISHED it would happen this way, but I didn’t believe Bob when he presented this happy scenario as if it was guaranteed. I doubted Bob, and Bob was correct. Therefore, I deserve every insulting denunciation by Bob, and as many nasty insults as Bob wants to throw my way. I wasn’t just wrong about what would happen. I made the unforgivable error of questioning Bob’s certainty that a positive outcome was guaranteed. And even now, I am still pinching myself at the fact that within 24 hours, we got Kamala WITH NO CHALLENGERS OR CHAOTIC OPEN CONVENTION WEAKENING HER. Apparently I should be begging Bob’s forgiveness instead, and acknowledging my own idiocy for not believing him.
But the fact that I seem to be the only object of Bob’s rage for questioning the certainty he had that this “Dems in array” convention where everyone was universally behind Kamala was the OBVIOUS outcome tells me his anger is personal.
I posted many times acknowledging that Bob’s prediction was correct and mine was wrong, but that still isn’t enough. I have to be castigated and insulted for not believing Bob when he made that prediction. Bob, you are weird. It’s weird that apparently nothing short of my apologizing for ever doubting your prediction would come true will satisfy you.
Bob, I apologize for ever doubting that your prediction would come true.
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How idiotic of me to bother engaging with you. You post absurdities and falsehoods. You constantly attack and provoke and then deny that that’s what you have done. What passes for argument for you is mere assertion. You utterly misread what people say and launch into long, convoluted, multi-day attacks on what you imagined that they said. When you are proven wrong, you utterly rewrite the past and deny ever saying what you in fact said over and over and over ad nauseam.
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But what it all comes down to is that you are incapable of following a rational argument. You misread. You skim over key warrants. You are so anxious to get to your rebuttal that you do not attend to and then utterly mischaracterize what people say. You personalize everything. You make a continual habit of provoking and blaming and then you go on and on about how you were provoked and blamed. I made three assertions:
that Biden should step down
that Biden would in fact step down
that Kamala would almost certainly be the nominee in his stead
And in each case, I gave careful arguments–actual rationales for the position that I was taking. I was attacked mercilessly on this blog for saying these things. None of the attacks addressed my actual arguments–my actual reasons for taking these positions. It wasn’t just you. And so I would repeat the rationales, and again, no one would actually address those. Instead, there was a lot of engagement in wish fulfillment rather than in argument. Again, it wasn’t just you.
But give have no interest in having further discussion with you, NYC PSP, on any matter whatsoever.
–Weird Bob
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Bob,
You misread. You skim over key warrants. You are so anxious to get to your rebuttal that you do not attend to and then utterly mischaracterize what people say. You personalize everything. You make a continual habit of provoking and blaming and then you go on and on about how you were provoked and blamed.
Bob, you were never attacked for making an intelligent prediction. You were criticized for insulting anyone who dared to question your certainty that your prediction was the ONLY likely outcome of Biden stepping down. The OBVIOUS one, in your words. You were angry at anyone who believed your prediction was just one of a few different possibilities rather than the OBVIOUS outcome that would of course happen. No one except a few folks here were saying that outcome “should not” happen. They agreed with you about the VP being the obvious choice to replace Biden as nominee. They just disagreed with your certainty that it would be the outcome. Or, in my case, I thought it seemed likely that Kamala Harris would be the ultimate choice, but only after a chaotic convention with lots of anger and dissension that left her as a very weak nominee.
I don’t understand why you can’t just take the win and graciously accept the acknowledgement of the many folks like me who have noted that your prediction was spot on. YOU WERE RIGHT!!
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NYC, I was told again and again and again by you and by others that I was wrong, and I was attacked for holding these positions not simply for my “certainty” about them. But you always do this. You go back over things in your head and fashion an entirely fabricated, wish-fulfillment FANTASY about what happened in which you were the sole voice of sanity and reason. My annoyance was and is due to the fact that most people here, you included, did not bother to address my actual arguments but simply dismissed them and attacked me for holding the positions that I held. There were actual REASONS why I believed that these outcomes were almost completely certain. (Not “certain”; I said this again and again, that these were inductive arguments and that their conclusions were “almost certain.”) I held and still hold that my positions and my near certainty about them were highly warranted by facts. And those warrants were not addressed in your criticisms or the criticisms leveled by others. Instead of addressing, as a debater would, the truth or falsity of the warrants that I put forward, you seem to have imagined that my near certainty was simply, I don’t know, arrogance or something. Again, you just did not pay attention to what I actually said and why and rushed to bizarre personalized judgment of me. But this is what you ALWAYS do. It’s your modus operandi.
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I have no idea what any of that means, but whatever.
Bob, you were right and I was wrong. I’m sorry that my questioning the likelihood of your prediction made you so mad. But I am definitely not sorry that it turned out you were right. I am thrilled that your prediction was spot on.
(It almost seems like you were Cassandra except you were predicting GOOD news and no one believed you because they were gearing up and prepared for tragedy!)
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Suggesting that Biden’s decision not to run is a “coup” is a rhetorical way to legitimize trumps own ideas about finding a path to power. If everybody is a crook, you can’t point fingers at Trump when he calls in the cavalry.
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trumpland rules
Democratic Party decides to nominate someone else to campaign for the Presidency = A Coup
January 6th = A vacation with tourists.
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Donald Trump, Moron
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I took a lot of grief on this blog for suggesting that Biden would and should step down and be replaced by Kamala Harris and for suggesting that she was the inevitable choice should that happen. I’m happy to read that many here now think that these events–Biden’s stepping down, Ms. Harris’s replacing him, and her uncontested coronation as a matter of course–were to be expected and were superb developments.
And of course Trump didn’t want Biden to step down. And now he’s apoplectic about losing ground to black woman.
Karma. Sweet, sweet karma.
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She is going to be the greatest president in our history.
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Remember how relieved you were when Trump finally left office? How fervently you hoped never to hear from the traitorous, criminal orange imbecile again? Well, come November, maybe that dream will actually come true. And then, perhaps, at long last, the criminal will go to prison where he actually belongs.
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“You take the lies out of him, and he’ll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he’ll disappear.”
–Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 24, “My Incognito Is Exploded”
Twain says this of a riverboat captain, but was a truer thing ever said of the Bloated, Bloviating Buffoon, Don the Con?
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Karmala!
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love, love, love, love, love this
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beat me to it
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Kommiela.
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“I’m happy to read that many here now think that these events–Biden’s stepping down, Ms. Harris’s replacing him, and her uncontested coronation as a matter of course–were to be expected and were superb developments.”
Two separate things. You were right that Kamala Harris replacing Biden and having an uncontested coronation was a superb development and I think everyone agrees. And you were right that Kamala Harris would have an uncontested coronation as a matter of course.
But I don’t think everyone agrees that Kamala having an uncontested coronation as soon as Biden stepped down was “to be expected”. You correctly saw that coming, and I respect your optimism. Not of all of us had your certainty that Kamala Harris having an uncontested coronation was to be expected. It’s the Dems, for gosh sake! Dems in array is the last thing I would expect!!! Especially when Obama and the NYT were presenting the open convention/mini-primary as the only way for a replacement to be “legitimate.”
I am very, very happy you were right and I was wrong. Maybe I can start being optimistic like you are now, after too many times watching Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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“after too many times watching Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”
Yes, alas. Far too often.
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I will admit that I was wrong. I was worried that if Biden stepped down, there would be a squabble for who would replace him, as there didn’t seem to be a clear favorite.
inam.beyobd thrilled that this has worked out the way it has. I’m SO glad to have been proven wrong.
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Sorry about the misspellings. I HATE that AI tries to think for me.
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Just wait until AI becomes you! 😉
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”False Equivalency” is one of Donnie T’s biggest numbers! He plays it at every show.
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Trump was correct that the election in 2016 was rigged, but not by the Democrats. By the Republicans who succeeded rigging the election through the Electoral College. Traitor Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by the largest number ever.
Trump was also right again that the election in 2020 was rigged, but not by the Democrats. But this time the MAGA cult’s rigging attempts failed, and Traitor Trump lost the popular vote by an even a wider margin than 2016 setting a new historical record, and the traitor also ended up losing the Electoral College. Challenging the election in court, the Traitor lost another 60 times. After endless recounts, the Traitor lost again.
Traitor Trump is running on lunatic anger because his schemes backed by MAGA, succeeded the first time but failed the second time. The 2020 election was supposed to be rigged for Trump, and that scheme failed.
Trump also failed on January 6, 2021, to pull off a third attempt by a violent coup this time, and it also failed.
Trump and his fascist supporters are already at work to rig the 2024 election, while continuing to blame the democrats like they always do. The Democratic Party is not behind any election rigging. That’s all on Traitor Trump and his fanatical fascist MAGA cult.
And if the next rigged scheme fails, the MAGA traitors have another violent coup attempt planned. If Traitor Trump isn’t in prison by then, he’ll be watching it on a screen in real time, probably from his Florida palace, Mar-a-Lago.
If the Orange Toddler ends up behind bars before then, that coup may even fizzle and fail before it gets off the ground.
Traitor Trump may go down in history as the biggest liar and loser ever.
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When are the democrats going to accept that the “popular vote” is meaningless.
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About the time when Repugnicans start accepting that we are supposed to be living in a representative democracy, not in an oligarchy that throws up arbitrary and onerous obstacles to voting (i.e., when the Repugnican Greying Old Party stops disenfranchising legitimate voters).
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Jacqui,
There is too much hate in your heart.
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Jacqui,
If you don’t like Democrats, will you turn down Social Security and Medicare?
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When those were first proposed, Republicans called them “Communist” too. ROFL.
Morons
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I will never count on Social Security or Medicare. I have healthcare through the military and a union pension through the IBEW.
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I’m glad to hear it. I’d hate to think of you relying on programs like Social Security and Medicare.
I have both and am grateful for them, along with many millions of others.
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Diane, all the hate is on the left. All of it. All. Of. It.
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Glad to hear that you won’t be accepting any money from those Communist government programs like Social Security and Medicare, Jacqui!
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That’s not quite right, Jacqui, about the left being hateful. Who introduced political violence in the past few years? Wasn’t Jan 6 an example of hatefulness? Can you defend the attacks on the police officers? Some were almost killed. Some committed suicide.
The right peddles hatred of blacks, hatred of immigrants, hatred of Jews, hatred of gays, hatred of women who choose to have an abortion. When I look at the right today, I don’t see a scintilla of kindness, compassion, or love. Just a will to power, violence and hatred.
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Fascism. Authoritarianism. Anti-intellectualism, political violence, fear of the Other, racism, hate, disinformation, Russophilia, religious zealotry, dehumanization. This is today’s fetid Republican Party Jacqui. Now go and stand in a line to vote for it.
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Callisto, you left out hatred of science.
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