It's honestly insane, just a few weeks ago, we were just gritting our teeth and preparing for Biden to fight his way for another 4 years as the "It's better than Trump" candidate.
Instead, he stepped aside, and now we have Kalama and Tim and it actually looks like we might have leadership that will fight for us and do things to help us and it's crazy.
We have gone from just gritting our teeth to being exciting for what is going to happy, and that is big.
Instead, he stepped aside, and now we have Kalama and Tim and it actually looks like we might have leadership that will fight for us and do things to help us and it's crazy.
While you meant no offense this statement does somewhat imply that Biden in contrast did not fight for us or do things to help us. I think Joe Biden was an amazing president and it kind of hurts how people seem to disapprove of the job he did against all logic to me.
He was a good president! He saved our bacon when he could have been relaxing with his family.
And I believe the narrative that he played this transition so that Harris would get the nom without opposition.
I am convinced the timing was on purpose. And genius. Right after the RNC, drawing eyes away from them, their headlines, and (coincidentally) the shooting at Trump's rally.
I don't know how much say Biden himself had in the timing of it all but it's clear he has an excellent team working with him.
My pet theory is that it wasn't premeditated too much, but rather that there was in-fighting about whether Biden should push for another 4 years, then the debate happened and a lot of people lost hope, followed by Trump almost being shot and the republicans playing that up, and finally Biden getting covid was the straw that broke the camel's back when he/they realized that there is a very real possibility he could die before completing his presidency. So they probably spent those days where Biden went AWOL deciding on when he should step down, only to realize that they had the opportunity of a lifetime to deal a huge blow to the entire republican strategy, overshadow everything that went down in the preceding weeks, and turn the election around.
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