Do you feel better now — with all of your peal clutching and hand wringing and panic? Biden numbers are teetering — and ITS YOUR FAULT — yes you Ms ableist “joe had a bad night so must have Parkinson’s or dementia” and YOU Mr. Ageist “He’s old and has a stutter so he can’t possibly have the ability to run the country any more.” YOU have done all of the work the GOP couldn’t do — agreeing the Joe might be too old despite 3 ½ years of evidence that he is fine — including a fiery speech the day after. How much privilege and security you must have in your social positions that you can afford to undermine Biden and risk another trump presidency. The world will suffer under an fascist and authoritarian US government, and y’all seem perfectly ok with it out here yelling and screaming that Biden is old — so fucking what- trumps old and they ain’t out there yelling about it! Actions have consequences and making Biden look weak will end up giving trump the presidency — so good job!
The GOP knows that all they need to do is get us to eat our own and they will win, because we will give them the win. And we are just too happy to oblige — we have done it before. You know what you don’t see — the GOP having conversations about replacing trump even though he has MAJOR problems including sounding insane when he is talking. Have you heard a single one of trumps campaign speech’s — they are incoherent at best and full of lies. But not a single pundant on their side, not a single elected representatives, not a single supporter is out there saying they should replace him. NOT ONE — you know why — because they know that if they do that, their candidate will lose.
And they are right — we will lose because we are undermining our own candidate.
Here in reality, not a single other candidate has any chance of winning — not one. Not the half Black/ Half Indian women as VP, not the Black former First Lady, not a white women from Massachusetts, not some white dude from California — none of them. They do not have the money, enough name recognition, and they have not been running for 7 months for president. Substituting someone else now makes us weak and panicky and will lead to trump winning and some of us do not have the luxury of risking having project 2025 become a reality because a bunch of people are over here pearl clutching and hand wringing because one had a shitting night. Get over yourselves!
I read many of your diaries talking about how worried you are about a trump presidency and that we need someone who can beat him — we HAVE that person now! He HAS beaten trump — but if you keep up this BS of undermine him he won’t. We need to stand behind him with a strong united front and accept that he has a bad fucking night and move on. No one was out yelling for Obama to step aside when he had a bad first debate. Or we can start sewing our handmaid’s tale costumes and get ahead of the run on red cloth because THAT is our options. It’s Biden or Trump — if you undermine Biden because he had a single bad night despite 3 ½ years of really good stuff — you’re getting trump.
And don’t think for a second trump isn’t taking advantage of what SCOTUS gave him. Don’t think for a second he won’t let Bibi finish off his demolition project in Gaza so Jared can’t get their luxury resort built (they have said that is the plan) and the West Bank too. Don’t think for a second the women in your life don’t get to be broodmares for the cause. Don’t think for a second trans people get to live their realized selves. Don’t think for a second we will do anything to mitigate climate change — the plan is to make it worse for more profits. Do not thing you and yours will get clean air, water or land — YOU GET NOTHING IF TRUMP WINS — or worse — you and yours get dead.
So please, keep going on with undermining Biden — keep calling for an open convention so we can have a split and put up someone who will turn moderates and never trumpers from voting for a Dem (they are not voting for a women — we aw that already). Go for it… fuck us over.