President Joe Biden, speaking to the nation from the Oval Office Wednesday evening, framed his decision to step aside from the 2024 presidential race as a matter of saving democracy and passing “the torch to a new generation.”
That’s a really awful take. It’s good that Biden has stepped aside but our lack of a primary absolutely isn’t “a good thing”. Primaries are how we battle test our candidates and Harris has never performed well in one. I hope to hell she wins but I’d have more confidence if she’d been able to secure the nomination through traditional means.
Well, she didn’t do well in her presidential primary, no argument there. But she did do well enough in her primaries for AG and Senator for California to win not only those nominations but those elections, too.
I don’t know where you’ve been but I’ve been bitching about this for the past six months. I absolutely loathe the fact that we don’t have a real primary when we have an incumbent president and I was really disappointed when Biden changed his tune from being a one term president. I also really appreciate what Biden did do in office even though I thought he’d be an awful president during the last election!
Thanks for making so many assumptions about me though, I’ll be sure to mulch my garden with all these strawmen you set up.
Oh and you better fucking vote, don’t even think about sitting out the election - it’s cowardly and immature!
i stand corrected. however, “dems stole your primary” is already a favorite of republicans, not to affect meaningful change, but to make people vote for anything except D. so sorry to say, you’re in for more of that
No worries. I know it’s easy to generalize about other people on the internet and, if you spent much time on Reddit, you’ve been exposed to a lot of bad faith arguments and sadistic (instead of for the lulz) trolling.
It took me a bit when I first came to lemmy to realize that most people here (even ones I often strongly disagree with like anticolonist) are consistent in their view points and usually trying to have a discussion in good(ish) faith.
That’s a really awful take. It’s good that Biden has stepped aside but our lack of a primary absolutely isn’t “a good thing”. Primaries are how we battle test our candidates and Harris has never performed well in one. I hope to hell she wins but I’d have more confidence if she’d been able to secure the nomination through traditional means.
Well, she didn’t do well in her presidential primary, no argument there. But she did do well enough in her primaries for AG and Senator for California to win not only those nominations but those elections, too.
who do you think would have won (or should have won) this hypothetical primary that was “stolen” from us?
I don’t have a fucking clue because we never got to have one.
funny how no one started whining about it until just now.
what might have happened, i wonder, if all the hissy fits were thrown back then, instead of AFTER biden stepped down (thanks to hissy fits)?
don’t answer. that was a rhetorical question. congratulations, you have been successful in your mission to poopooh biden and make me not vote for him.
LOL
I don’t know where you’ve been but I’ve been bitching about this for the past six months. I absolutely loathe the fact that we don’t have a real primary when we have an incumbent president and I was really disappointed when Biden changed his tune from being a one term president. I also really appreciate what Biden did do in office even though I thought he’d be an awful president during the last election!
Thanks for making so many assumptions about me though, I’ll be sure to mulch my garden with all these strawmen you set up.
Oh and you better fucking vote, don’t even think about sitting out the election - it’s cowardly and immature!
i stand corrected. however, “dems stole your primary” is already a favorite of republicans, not to affect meaningful change, but to make people vote for anything except D. so sorry to say, you’re in for more of that
No worries. I know it’s easy to generalize about other people on the internet and, if you spent much time on Reddit, you’ve been exposed to a lot of bad faith arguments and sadistic (instead of for the lulz) trolling.
It took me a bit when I first came to lemmy to realize that most people here (even ones I often strongly disagree with like anticolonist) are consistent in their view points and usually trying to have a discussion in good(ish) faith.
Have a nice day!