• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Remember in 2016 when people wondered “How the fuck did we end up with these two candidates?” then again in 2020 and once again this year until Biden finally dropped out?

    Well, turns out great things do happen when you finally listen to the entire country crying out loud to pick someone who is actually suitable. It’s 8 years late, but better late than never.

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      3 months ago

      In all honesty, I think Biden gets the credit.

      2016 was a shit show and both RNC and DNC fucked it up.

      Biden stepped in in 2020 to defeat Trump.

      He chose Harris and hinted that he would do one term.

      He made good on that and here we are.

      That man is a strategist.

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        So his debate was 4D chess, saying none but god almighty would get him to step aside?

        I’m glad he did, and it’s commendable, but I don’t think this was a master plan. It was responsible resignation in the face of an unwinnable fight

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          Look at it this way: if it was the intention all along, how else would you convincingly play it?

          The goal is to get the Republicans locked on Trump and save the Democrats from the infighting that cost them 2016.

          I couldn’t come up with a better plan if I tried.

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        Don’t get me wrong, Biden did an outstanding job and it turned out to be a great choice for the country. But that’s with our 20/20 hindsight.

        I remember back in 2020 people were worried about Biden not being able to do the job. We were all crossing our fingers in the debates that he wouldn’t fall apart from Trump’s attempts to bully him around too.

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        I know that this is how it’s going to be written in history books, so let those of us who had to live through it remember that Biden was seriously attempting to run for re-election until July. He can be remembered as a strategist if Harris gets elected and we avoid losing our democracy, but let the historians do the hero worshipping. He’s a self-serving fool, and it took nearly his entire party forsaking him for him to do the thing he should have done from the beginning. Harris running absolutely was not planned from the start, and his one term comments were lies.