ChiGoose

No problem. I think there's a lot of confusion between "presumptive nominee" and "nominee." Under the laws and party rules, "presumptive nominee" isn't a thing. The media uses it to denote that the candidate is assured to become the nominee once the voting starts. Nobody is the nominee until they get the delegate votes. Something I've found interesting is that Obama has not endorsed Harris yet. Reports are that he will soon, but I get the impression that he was hoping for a more open convention and pushing for another candidate (I'm thinking Mark Kelly). Based on that, I'm guessing that Biden following up his announcement with an endorsement of Harris was not just a move to secure his legacy and support his colleague, but also an FU to Obama since they seem to have had a bit of a falling out since 2016.

It's just a matter of the ideal vs the pratical. Like the majority of Democrats, I did not want Joe Biden to run for re-election. Like the majority of Democrats, I voted for him in the primary because he was (sadly) the best choice. Like the overwhelming majority of Democrats, I wholeheartedly support his decision to end his campaign. Once he steps down, it becomes an open spot. Harris does not automatically get the delegates, they are released from their commitment to Biden. Any of the big names could have announced a challenge. Instead, basically every top Dem, including her potential rivals, endorsed her. The nomination is *not* decided yet. She is just the presumptive nominee, as Biden was before her. There can still be a challenger (I assume that nutjob Marianne Williamson will try to throw her hat in the ring), but it seems that enough people have endorsed her to give her the nomination. We will see when the delegate voting starts, but it looks like she has it. Also, party primaries aren't in the Constitution because for the first ~200 years of America, party nominees were decided in smoked filled back rooms, not by the voters.

They seem pretty happy with how things turned out. If you want to argue that our electoral system is stupid and doesn't deliver the will of the voters, I'll join hands with you on that. If you want to argue that a decision that more than 80% of voters supported was anti-democratic, then it seems like you're arguing that a process that makes almost everybody unhappy is better than a decision that almost everyone agrees with.

Maybe it’s just me, but Dem voters being forced to coronate a guy they were telling pollsters they didn’t want seems like it represents the voice of the voter less than a change that something like 80% of voters wanted…

Biden’s not dead. He was just hiding photos of Ted Cruz’s dad on the grassy knoll

Really makes you wonder…

Great showing by Perry Baker with four tries against Uruguay today in Rugby 7s. USA makes it to the knockout stage

Kind of surprised about the lack of references to Hannibal Lector in Biden’s speech. Doesn’t he know that’s what the people want this election?

Biden may be able to give a speech tonight because he's alive, but he was actually dead for the last few days. He needed to meet with Hugo Chavez to discuss how to steal the 2024 election before coming back alive to give his speech.

His policy answers always struck me as the equivalent of a 6th grader doing a book report on a book they didn't read. Not sure if that's a competency issue or just laziness. He almost definitely has narcissistic personality disorder though.

Both parties have used the "nuclear option" to eliminate the filibuster when it was convenient to them. They don't have to end the filibuster for all legislation, they can limit it to what they want. I have a hard time imagining that, after securing the White House and both houses of Congress in a post-Dobbs environment, the GOP would somehow decide *not* to utilize the nuclear option to pass a nationwide abortion ban that mirrors what we are seeing in states like Texas today. Their primary voters would demand that they do it.

Biden’s not dead. He’s been hate listening to Taylor Swift albums because he’s still mad she broke her contract with the Deep State PsyOps division to endorse him at the Super Bowl.

Biden's not dead. He's just been stuck on an Antifa conference call that's gone well over the original meeting time.

I guess they were able to find a body double for the body double that just died. Biden to address nation for first time since ending candidacy "“Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden posted on the social platform X. The president has been recovering from COVID-19 since last Wednesday and has been isolating at his Rehoboth Beach, Del., home. He has not been seen in public since then, though he did phone in to his campaign headquarters Monday during a visit from Vice President Harris. He is slated to return to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, more than a day before he is expected to make his first public appearance since being in isolation."

Biden's not dead, he's just busy giving awards to the hundreds of FBI agents that assaulted the Capitol on Jan 6

Tommy Eyerolls reciting the same script he always does. Cannot deviate from the narrative.

My bad. Here I was making fun of the idea that Biden is secretly dead and it turns out he’s actually been dead for years. Also RIP to Trump. Apparently he’s been gone for quite some time.

Just heard that Q said that JFK Jr was able to steal Biden’s body from the deep staters who were going to use it in a satanic trans ritual.

Compared to other Western countries, we are doing great. Compared to a fictional ideal in the minds of people who are terminally online, everything is a disaster.

With that kind of attitude, you could even be the GOP VP!

Mrs. Krabappel and President Joe Biden were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.

I was just at the airport and I walked by Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch on the tarmac. They were discussing hollowing out Joe Biden’s corpse so they could fill it with cash to send to NY in order to pay Alvin Bragg for his prosecution of Trump.

Biden’s not dead. He’s just busy trading Obama’s birth certificate (which shows he was born in the country of Africa) for some Ivermectin to help with his COVID.

Just heard that Hillary Clinton met with (((George Soros))) in the basement of Comet Ping Pong to discuss trading Biden’s body for some adrenochrome.