It's racist and sexist.

People should not be appointed to office based on their race and gender.

Identity politics isn’t progress; it’s a reversion to a time when identity mattered more than thoughts, actions, and behavior. It harkens back to the time when the long-discredited notion of race was still in use, used as it was to maintain a sort of mental apartheid or segregation in order to justify real one.

Contrary to the narrative, it was Biden’s DOJ who acted like King, creating out of thin air an office with which to investigate his political opponents, like the kings of old. One can read Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion on the matter to see how this is so.

I thought it was annoying when Harris' critics panned her as a "DEI hire" when they should perhaps focus on her horrible politics. But in trying to discover whether in fact Kamala Harris was chosen for reasons of DEI, one can't help to find that "racial diversity" was a big concern for Biden when selecting a vice president, but only after promising he was going to select a woman.

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, said race had been essential to Mr. Biden’s decision.

“I think he came to the conclusion that he should pick a Black woman,” Mr. Reid said. “They are our most loyal voters and I think that the Black women of America deserved a Black vice-presidential candidate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/biden-harris.html
https://archive.ph/n12XY

The demands to pick a black woman are growing louder, and not just from black voters. Polling from a Politico/Morning Consult survey this week found 46% of Democrats say it's important for Biden to choose a candidate of color as his running mate. That's up from 36% in early April.

Former DNC Chair and 2o04 Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said he's witnessed an evolution in his own thinking in just the past two weeks.

"I haven't lived through a time like this since 1968," he said. Dean said prior to the past few weeks, he thought having a black running mate "would have been nice." Now he thinks it's critical.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875000650/pressure-grows-on-joe-biden-to-pick-a-black-woman-as-his-running-mate

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden committed Sunday to picking a woman for his vice president if he were to win the party’s nomination.

Speaking during a CNN-hosted primary debate with fellow candidate Bernie Sanders, Biden said: “There are a number of women who would be qualified to be president,” and that he would choose a woman as his running mate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/biden-woman-vice-president-131309

She was, in fact, a "DEI hire.

A lot more are calling it a coup than are claiming the earth is flat. What would you call it? The Dems lied for three years to hid Biden's infirmity, then stabbed him in the back. When Nancy Pelosi comes to you and says, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," and a letter is put out that you clearly didn't write, that's a coup.

I wager that this little story is not over. The 25th amendment is invoked by the vice president and the cabinet. The vice president is Kamala Harris. Now she is the candidate for president. That’s a real, third-world coup, and that’s how desperate they are.

Statism is collectivist. Not “collectivism is statist”. At least try to get it right.

I include on that your state collectivism, legal positivism, Keynesianism, activism. Your prevalence for organization is simply the manifestation of the fasces as you engage in politics.

One can’t understate how bizarre this is getting.

I knew it. Power at all costs. That’s the guiding principle. Fascism 101.

He wasn't removed, or threatened with the noose :rage: He was persuaded to retire rather than contest and made a principled decision in the interests of the greater good (although in my view about 6 months too late.)

I think it's utterly hilarous that Mike Johnson is threatening to sue the Democratic Party to force them to bring Biden back. They're upset over the $10million they spent on Biden attack ads and want their money back. Hilarious.

He was threatened with the 25th amendment if he didn’t drop out, according people close to the family. The party bosses and donors were mad he got trounced by Trump in that debate. It had everything to do with pure political power and cold hard cash, not principle, and especially not some concern for any greater good.

I disagree with you as well.

Oh dear. Accusation in a mirror. All you can do is accuse others of that which you are guilty. No case in point because you can neither make a case or point. Sorry, friend.

What we call “democracy” nowadays is dressed-up oligarchy, modelled on the Roman republic. There is a ruling class, not a body of free and sovereign people.

Exactly. Your entire political philosophy.

Better than your fascism. The only standards you have are double standards.

Contesting an election is quite common in the 21st century, but removing a presumptive nominee, forcing him to step aside, and replacing him with someone else isn’t. Do you think the primaries mean nothing? Why bother going to the booth if your vote is null and void?

Repeat Party slogans. “Overturn an election!” Literally overturns an election. “But it’s ok when we (D)o it, because when we take power, one of the biggest polluters on Earth is going to save the environment.”

Top Dems threatened to forcibly remove Biden from office unless he resigned, set him up to fail at Trump debate: Sources

Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened Joe Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he stepped down, sources told The Post.

The well-orchestrated “palace coup” to stop the faltering president seeking re-election has been in place for weeks, but stubborn Biden fought against it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family told The Post Monday.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/22/us-news/top-dems-threatened-to-remove-biden-unless-he-resigned/

Remember these pieces of shits as they deny the will of their voters.

How dare you squash my conspiracy theory.

They are not instantiated until they are written down, or uttered in language. Only then can one point to it and say “that is an idea”. Even then, though, what they are pointing at is words, symbols, and nothing beyond those. Further, no idea exists until those symbols are read, understood, and considered. I’m afraid “ideas” have no ontology.

Notice that the resignation letter isn’t on official Whitehouse letterhead, and he apparently resigned by X post, which has been ran by social media handlers for years. Does anyone really believe he resigned?

Things are falling into place quickly. Biden—at least we think it was Biden—resigned by tweet. Harris has been endorsed by Dem elites. Delegates voice support for her. The apparatchiks are already out praising Biden’s self-sacrifice. All of this within an hour. You can’t help but admire the craven political ruthlessness of that organization.

The coup was a success.

Disgusting.

I’d love to see the range of your moral compass, if it isn’t just a fallacious and bad-faith sponge. Tell me what he did wrong, then.

I’m sorry I cannot really respond because my eyes gloss over as soon as I see your name, for some reason.

You're talking about the procedure.

But the reason given does sound entirely democratic to me. People don't want to vote for him, therefore he shouldn't run.

No, it sounds stupid. If people don’t want to vote for him, they shouldn’t vote for him. But they did. Nullifying people’s votes is anti-democratic.

That’s exactly what you lot said in 2016, and you were wrong. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now. Repeating the lies isn’t going to make them any more real.

He already won the primary election, meaning he has already been chosen to be the candidate. That simply cannot be erased because he is not winning in the general.

Jesus

I suspect they will cheat or assassinate or jail their opponent in Stalinist fashion.

That’s just not the case. They weren’t describing his fitness; they were describing his debate performance. They don’t seem to care that no one is leading the country, that a dementia patient holds the nuclear codes. They want him out because they think he’s going to lose.

Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for. But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is — and we agree with him that the danger is enormous — then his dedication to this country leaves him and his party only one choice.

The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November.

It is the best chance to protect the soul of the nation — the cause that drew Mr. Biden to run for the presidency in 2019 — from the malign warping of Mr. Trump. And it is the best service that Mr. Biden can provide to a country that he has nobly served for so long.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at when you start speaking in questions. The NYT argued Biden should step aside because he might lose to Trump, not for any democratic reason.

It isn’t up to the New York Times who runs, is it?

Trump's going to win, then Vance. Vance will change the presidential term limits and rule for the rest of his life.

Trump isn’t going to win. Biden campaigned from his bunker, drew crowds of max. 50 people at his rallies, was the first virtual candidate, and for some strange reason got the most votes in US history. Never underestimate the corrupt abilities of his party.

What's undemocratic about a candidate dropping out because of health reasons? Shit happens.

His party is telling him to step aside because he’s doing bad in the polls, and for no other reason.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html

Remember this when they utter “our democracy” or “democratic norms”.

Senator Bob Menendez, who accused Trump of being a foreign agent, was just convicted of being foreign agent.

And now writer Max Boot, an anti-Trump propagandist from the Washington Post who made his name accusing Trump of being a foreign agent, his wife has been accused of being a foreign agent. You can’t make this stuff up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqv5qd82pjlo.amp

Accuse others of what you yourself is doing is the modus operandi of these people. It applies to nearly everything.

They even had a mock gallows that could hang pence if only he was 2 feet tall.

That’s right.

One accepted bribes from foreign countries, the other’s accountant wrote “legal fees” in a ledger. One did something wrong, illegal, the other did nothing wrong and was railroaded by a corrupt prosecutor. That’s the difference.