• Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
  • Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
  • Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
  • apocalypticat@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In the blink of an eye, their surplus of hateful anti-Biden merchandise becomes even more useless. This will surely make them realize how idiotic their cult is /s.

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    The fact that they’re so mad about this makes me think that Biden was a much weaker incumbent than I realized, and that the choice to replace him was the right one.

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      And maybe withdrawing so late might not be as bad after all. Sure, it’s going to be tough for dems to rework their campaign, but it’s going to be tough for reps as well when their campaign revolved around Biden.

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        I went hard for Biden because I was genuinely worried there would be chaos in finding a new candidate that would make it impossible to sort it out and run an effective campaign in the time left. It looks like I was wrong and I’m so fucking happy about that.

        Harris is the right candidate - part of the same administration, so she can run on the same record which is pretty damn solid. I’m excited for the future.

  • citizen4509@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why would you come with a campaign tweaked against a specific opponent and not with a program that is the best for the majority of the citizen? Politics is really stupid especially in 2024!

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    Of course they are mad. The Republican strategy up until this point has been to attack the incumbent, but now the incumbent is no longer running for re-election. Trump literally doesn’t know how to deal with this situation. His whole shtick is to attack the person currently in charge, but that doesn’t do shit for him now.

    A big part of why he lost in 2020, imo, is that he didn’t have anybody to blame for all the bad shit happening in the country at the time. He himself was in charge and could only say “things will get worse under Biden”, but people were sick of Covid fucking up our lives and the endless scandals that hit the news daily.

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      the Republican Party had "spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden

      Damn, if only they had spent that tens of millions of dollars campaigning for somebody, then this wouldn’t have even mattered.

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      He’s gonna tie every biden policy to Hillary Clinton and attack her based on that.

      Then hopefully someone will remind him that he’s running against Kamala Harris and not Clinton.

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        More likely they will just make up a connection with Hillary and Kamala. Like they are in the same coven and drink adrenochrome together.

        Why did my keyboard know autocorrect the spelling of that word?

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            It’s a real substance the body makes, but it can also be synthesized. As such, people have taken it to try it out. Iirc it isn’t even a fun high, so they started making up that children make “better” versions or something.

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              It’s just blood libel with the label scrapped off. Until you dig deeper into right wing conspiracies, then it’s just regular blood libel.

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    4 months ago

    GOP: “Your candidate is unfit for office.”

    Dems: “Okay, we got a new candidate.”

    GOP: shocked pikachu

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        They’re going to, probably in every single red state.

        They’re going to throw so much shit at the wall due to election ballot timing that unfortunately I think something will stick… it more than likely wont be legitimate, but we have way too many corrupt judges out there :(

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        They aren’t going to sue. They are going to start shooting. They’ve outright stated that. It’s crystal clear: they’ve said that the revolution would be “bloodless” only if the left “allowed” it to be. I really wanted to live long enough to build a family,.

        • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          You missed what Johnson said this morning. He says it’s “unlawful” in some states. (Which is not true in the slightest and they know it)

          How much you want to bet that this only will be “unlawful” in red governmental shithole states

          He’s basically giving a dog whistle to maggot judges to hold the line for the fascist party’s interest if these “challenges” come to them.

          Edit: fixed for feels being hurt / jimmies rustled

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              The only nice thing about those red shitholes is that it’s stupidly easy to get a gun. Get one. Join your local chapter of the SRA. Train at the local range at least twice a month so that you are proficient with it. Learn all the local stand your ground laws. Memorize them. When they start shooting, aim center mass.

              While a pistol is far more portable, it requires far more training, as the lower mass of the firearm results in a larger than expected kick. Shotguns are really the weapon of choice for urban defense.

              I personally have a couple of extremely nice sniper crossbows, that are basically silent. Seriously, the bolt impacting my target makes more noise than the bow. A couple of T-33s, an AA-12, and a 30-06. Lots of ammo too.

              Learning how to reload your ammo is also invaluable, should they start shooting. Have a “riot shield,” basically the largest piece of steel you can easily carry that is more than 2" thick. Body armor is also a useful investment.

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            Can we try not to talk like Trump? No state as a whole is a shit hole full of shit hole people, those kinds of statements reek of elitism and it’s not a good look.

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    So they are basically admitting that their whole campaign argument was “Biden is bad Trump is not Biden” and now that he is gone, the argument is invalid. After all if it was a campaign mostly about Trump’s positive qualities (in their perspective) then it should not have really mattered who the opposition is.

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      Dementia Don, the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can’t even complete a coherent sentence. Too old, he needs to step down before he gives himself a McHeartAttack.

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    They’re upset. So? They’re always upset. Make them more upset by voting Democrat in the upcoming election.

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    Biden is now a man with nothing to lose and a supreme court that said presidents can do any damn thing they please

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      I would love him to do such extreme things they have no choice but to retract the rulings and put in further protections.

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        Like fire the few unqualified corrupt shitheads that were appointed by a felon rapist traitor? Judges appointed by traitors that follow Putin’s will should no longer be judges. It’s a matter of national security.

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        They don’t have to retract the ruling, they specifically said the supreme court can still revoke what the president does. So only trump is allowed whatever he wants.

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    4 months ago

    Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other

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      This is really what it boils down to. But with Trump there is nothing to promote. The only way they can win is by ruining the reputation of their opponent to try to make them look worse.

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          Didn’t you know Kamala let her tamagotchi die 30 years ago? Do you know where that tamagotchi has been buried? You might not know about this, but everyone is talking about this. But they don’t because they are too scared to talk about it. A lot of good people. They talk about it. And the world is laughing at us. The good people talking about this are too scared to talk because the world is laughing.

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    The problem with a 2 party system is that it is a lot easier to make the opposition look bad rather than make your candidate look good.

    So all these MAGAs lost a lot of money since their smear campaign of Biden is now worth nothing and they will have to start over.

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      The smear campaign for Harris is already ramping up into full fashion.

      Anything and everything is being thrown at the wall to see if it sticks. It’s absolutely disgusting behavior.