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MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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Incidentally, there's a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can't tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore. They'll tell us not to vote for whoever is going to be his replacement though.
Eh, their new dissent orders seem to be "Biden can't appoint Harris! I didn't vote for her!" which, of course, displays a total lack of knowledge about what primaries are and what the DNC is.
They didn't want Biden to run, and now they mysteriously don't want the person most of the party supports to run either.
Right? It’s almost as if they’ve never been approaching any of this in good faith.
Almost like they want Trump to win, hmmmmmm
I'm seeing a lot of "wHat AbOuT A pRimArY" already from the usual bad actors.
Well we are talking about right wingers here, kinda par for the course. :P
I've seen iterations of "the Democrats stabbed Biden in the back!" too many times on here over the past 24 hours for it to be a coincidence
The uptick in those types of accounts makes this site start to feel like 2016 reddit 😂. Lemmy has become large enough to justify investment of bots to brigade and astroturf; we've made it!
Someone should start a Lemmy.ru instance with communities like /c/kremlin or maybe /c/remlin
Get ready to repeat this: "The Biden of today is not the Biden who was voted for in the primaries." Even Biden himself acknowledged that by stepping aside as candidate!
You know what I’m not seeing?
ANY of these accounts that were so relentless in their criticism of Biden and how he needed to step down because otherwise the Democrats would lose, being simply happy about this.
ALL of the tentative happiness about Harris maybe being a stronger candidate than Biden was, is coming from people who were either neutral or defending Biden before. The people who were giving a firehose of criticism to Biden and demanding that it was MANDATORY for him to step down, for the good of the Democrats and the country, have for the most part fallen silent, and a whole new grouping has arisen to give criticism to Harris and say that as good progressives they could never vote for a cop.
I was one of them and now am elated to vote for a non-geriatric piece of shit and a woman.
Same
Yeah, they can't take two seconds to enjoy the victory they wanted. They have to move on to the next thing to bitch and moan about.
They didn’t want Biden to step down. They wanted him running against Trump and losing.
Pretty much. That way when Trump won, they could say "see? We told you so!"
Much more important than them or people they might care about getting marched into camps.
Exactly.
It's quite insidious.
Today I'm suddenly seeing a lot of "vote blue no matter who", which IMO is intended to stifle enthusiasm for Kamala.
If the left could unite behind a candidate we'd destroy the GOP.
That's not true! I danced a jig when we found out. I was voting against Trump but now I am voting for Harris.
Several others are not. Including a person who has been posting anti-Biden articles in this community for months, who has now switched to anti-Harris articles.
They never thought it would happen. They shot themselves in both feet with shotguns. Now they're in panic mode because they're realizing they're really fucked now.
Wasn't rabid before, but I was one of those for Biden stepping down in favor of Kamala. I just wanted a strong voice that was capable of at least countering Trump's endless spew of lies. But I have noticed those that are now bashing Kamala were also telling people not to vote for Biden.
Bots gonna bot
Really? I've seen plenty of posts like that. Stuff like "Donated to the democratic party to show this was necessary", "Finally, we can safely roast Trump for being old and senile", "I don't care who the replacement is, thank god he's out".
There are some shit-stirrers, but they seem to be the minority.
Disclaimer: I am not American, cannot vote or donate, am heavily invested in the election due to the ramifications on Ukraine.
Can you link me to them?
You don’t, like, have to, but I am genuinely curious. I haven’t seen that and I am wondering if there is some segment of Lemmy that I am missing.
Just look around this comment section, and other comment sections in [email protected] and [email protected]
As I said, there's the occasional commenter that is trying to throw shit at the democratic party generally, but by and large the majority of comments are in favour of this, and if you click through to individual users it's not hard to find users that were hoping that Biden would drop out a week ago.
They’re waiting on the next talking points from their Russian overlords. Give it a day or so and they’ll be back with some new, yet all the same, arguments.
Idk how this season is going to end but the writers have definitely been building toward something.
I'm happy AF.
Biden's legacy is secure. He can rest easy as the man who beat back the right-wing fascist autocracy and led the country to elect the first female president. 🤞
Ozma in pieces right now...
You'd think so, but they already have moved on to "don't vote for Harris" posts.
I actually was curious about it, so I looked over his posts, and it's all over the place. Pro-Marianne Williamson, anti-Nancy Pelosi, pro-open convention and by implication anti-"coronation", criticizing Harris for not being LBGTQ friendly enough...
Actually. You know what, it's not really all that all over the place. 🙂 It's just a little bit subtle with the consistent anti-Harris / anti-Democrat message, from different angles, enough so that I didn't really pick up on it until I started typing them out.
Also I notice Marianne Williamson is starting to edge out Cornel West as the nonsensical candidate to support instead of the candidate that might be able to win the election
Why am I not surprised....
Already happening. They're testing the waters to see what's going to stick.
Oh I know.
I just ran into them trying to promote Jill stein in another thread lol
This Jill Stein?
Hmm...
Further reading: https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-ties-vladimir-putin-explained-1842620
RFK has been abandoned.
It's pretty hard to argue in favor of the brain worms guy.
To be fair, though, even with literal brain damage, he's still not the worst candidate on the ballot.
He wormed his own way out.
And her past as a prosecutor, and the fact that she lost the primary 4 years ago, and her laugh. In addition to yours, that's all I've seen so far. They ran "Heels up Harris" into the ground several years ago, but I do think it will make a return at some point. It was a shit insult but so are the others they're trying to use.
Really all they have is a terrible legal gambit to try to keep her off ballots. That one is laughably bad. No deadlines have passed. The idiot at the front of the House said something stupid. I would hammer that until election day. "The Republicans did their best to keep us off the ballot because they hate freedom and democracy. They don't want you to have a choice. And Trump endorsed Harris. Here's the check."
She also said something hard to understand about coconuts. Don't forget that one. That means something or other.
Now they're panicking and can't decide if she's unlikable or if she's the "whacky aunt" entertaining everyone at the barbecue.
I went to the other place to check TFGs meltdown tweets or truths or turds or whatever they call them and I was not disappointed. He is asking for his money back because the attack ads they've purchased were against Joe.
Oh yeah I've been called a fascist already because I said I'd vote for Harris and that while she isn't the best candidate she will be leagues better than Biden imo.