- Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
- Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
- Biden’s withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
I can’t believe all those stupid anti-biden truck decals etc will be rendered pointless in a matter of months. I better start making anti-Kamala decals if i want to properly capitalize on these next 4 years 🤑
Edit: cry into your fuckin ear-squares ya bunch of sad sacks
In fairness… a lefty could make bank on anti Kamala stickers (that secretly hide they are too her but only people who finished school would notice)
Their favorite cheap Chinese manufacturers are already on it, ready to take more of their money.
You can still cash in. There always needs to be the middle man in that scenario, buy em for $3 each. Sell em for $20 at flea markets and fairs.
I’m not interested in generating fascist, environment-polluting junk though.
Yeah, but it’ll take a few weeks for those to get here on the slow boat from China.
Those people aren’t going to let go of their anti-Biden identity that easily, we will probably still see those decals for years.
I don’t know, I went to r/conservative and they seem quite pleased. From my observations, both dems and reps seem happy with what just happened. I saw no one scared or upset and I spent about 30 minutes reading comments.
It was actually kinda trippy how universally pleased everyone is.
They don’t seem pleased to me. They just seem like now they’re full throated into their fact free attacks on Harris, having pivoted effortlessly to those instead of the fact free attacks on Biden.
Top stories currently on the page:
- Within the first year of taking office, 4 of Kamala Harris’ top aides quit, branding her a ‘bully inflicting ‘constant, soul-destroying criticism’.
- Joe Biden is too frail to run in 2024 but he’s still our president?
- Kamala Harris Will Be Burdened By What Has Been
- Piggyback off what Tulsi said 8 years
- Biden’s statement withdrawing from the 2024 election
- CBS Already Playing The Race Card For Harris, Hails Her As 'Brilliant’
- Kamala Harris ladies and gentleman
- That Was Quick - Hours after Biden drops out of presidential race, Kamala Harris drops merch line
Honestly dude it just looks exhausting. I can see why they are so angry and chaotic whenever you try to talk to them IRL.
It takes nothing to launch a merch line. Just keep a graphic artist on call, then drop ship. They had weeks to prepare for the possibility.
I can see why they are so angry and chaotic whenever you try to talk to them IRL
Because they lack any kind of critical thought? If how they act and speak in real life is based on what they read on Reddit (or Lemmy), then they need to have their heads examined, and they need to go back to school.
r/conservative always gets a glimpse of normalcy when the bots have to get fed with new arguments.
That’s just the bots.
And most importantly of all…
The reason they are this mad…
Nobody ain’t talking about no ears no more.
Fuck. Them.
This feels like postering to me. Trump was recorded while playing golf with Barron that “Biden’s out. It’s gonna be Kamala”. He’s already been considering this for at least a week or more.
Trump isn’t upset about going up against Kamala and he’s already been saying that he will stomp her, which I am so fearful he will that it makes me tear up.
He’s already been considering this for at least a week or more.
He and his team have considered it, but I doubt Trump is capable of preparing for it. His team will try, but – like Biden – he is an old man past his prime. Voters do not want Project 2025, so Trump’s team CAN’T talk about it with anything but denial, and that is the only ‘plan’ they have. The rest is a few insults that Trump repeat over and over, to which Harris can say, “I’ll take the insults if it keeps necessary abortions legal. I’ll take it to keep schools open. To improve them. To make sure [insert message here] is expanded, not abolished.”
Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.
Lets start by putting a cap on how much money can be spent on campaigns and keep it at a very minimal level.
Sounds good. We’ll just need to re-do Citizens United with fewer than 5 fully regressive appointees purchased by billionaires.
That’ll never work, big donors will just hide it or do the advertising themselves unrelated of course
Cap it at like $30. You can run an ad in the student newspaper of your choice.
Start by eliminating superPACs.
If it’s robust enough that it actually limits campaign spending without loopholes, then that alone might do it. Campaigns would have to use their funds more strategically, and the best time to spend is in the weeks before an election, not a year out.
Just do publicly funded elections, including things like publicly funded frequent small debates where the candidates had to appear as reasonably competent adults who could defend their ideas, and resurrect some of the regulations like the fairness doctrine and caps on media consolidation
The dogshit quality of the current election coverage is mostly a problem because it is the only type of coverage that is available. I think if there was a widely available and well funded type of election coverage that wasn’t this cash grab horse race ad supported bullshit, the bullshit would have to compete against it and would lose and improve as a result.
How about publicly funded elections and limits on campaigning more than 90 days before an election?
If you limit when the public funds are dispersed, then there won’t be much campaigning outside that time frame.
That sounds like socialism or something!
That’s like losing a $1,000 bet on the Lakers and trying to sue them or something.
Who cares. Report on democratic candidates, strengths, weaknesses, policies, etc. I’m so fucking sick of the “news”
The fact that they’re so mad about this makes me think that Biden was a much weaker incumbent than I realized, and that the choice to replace him was the right one.
And maybe withdrawing so late might not be as bad after all. Sure, it’s going to be tough for dems to rework their campaign, but it’s going to be tough for reps as well when their campaign revolved around Biden.
I went hard for Biden because I was genuinely worried there would be chaos in finding a new candidate that would make it impossible to sort it out and run an effective campaign in the time left. It looks like I was wrong and I’m so fucking happy about that.
Harris is the right candidate - part of the same administration, so she can run on the same record which is pretty damn solid. I’m excited for the future.
You’re really giving them a lot of undue credit in the realm of knowing anything about civics or people.
Of course they are mad. The Republican strategy up until this point has been to attack the incumbent, but now the incumbent is no longer running for re-election. Trump literally doesn’t know how to deal with this situation. His whole shtick is to attack the person currently in charge, but that doesn’t do shit for him now.
A big part of why he lost in 2020, imo, is that he didn’t have anybody to blame for all the bad shit happening in the country at the time. He himself was in charge and could only say “things will get worse under Biden”, but people were sick of Covid fucking up our lives and the endless scandals that hit the news daily.
He’s gonna tie every biden policy to Hillary Clinton and attack her based on that.
Then hopefully someone will remind him that he’s running against Kamala Harris and not Clinton.
This mad me laugh out loud uncontrollably. Well done!
More likely they will just make up a connection with Hillary and Kamala. Like they are in the same coven and drink adrenochrome together.
Why did my keyboard know autocorrect the spelling of that word?
what the hell… I’ve never heard of this before
Wild huh? Hunter Thompson wrote about it once, and then it was in the movie version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Got warped around to what it is now.
There is a large chunk of the US population that believes this shit or things adjacent to it. 30% or so, I think. I’ve lost many people to it.
Check out Qanon Qausilties on Reddit. It’s a cult, that’s a mental illness, that’s a political movement. Useful for the fascists. Very dangerous. Very sad.
It’s a real substance the body makes, but it can also be synthesized. As such, people have taken it to try it out. Iirc it isn’t even a fun high, so they started making up that children make “better” versions or something.
It’s just blood libel with the label scrapped off. Until you dig deeper into right wing conspiracies, then it’s just regular blood libel.
they’re gonna have to re-edit some of their attack ads ready to go and just add “and SHE was there, vice presidenting all of it” at the end.
the Republican Party had "spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden
Damn, if only they had spent that tens of millions of dollars campaigning for somebody, then this wouldn’t have even mattered.
Or even attack the policies. The problem for the Trump Party is that they are a cult of personality and don’t understand what policy really means.
Let’s hope we can focus more on Trump’s mental acuity (or lack thereof) from here on out.
Dementia Don, the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can’t even complete a coherent sentence. Too old, he needs to step down before he gives himself a McHeartAttack.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
The media won’t. They want him to win for the ratings and clicks
That’s a stupid narrative. The media support Trump because the owner class want him to win.
6 of one…
They’re going to be mad no matter what. When Democrats try to pass Republican legislation they get mad.
Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other
That and attacking the ideas, not the person.
I was thinking this when everyone was saying it’s too late to change candidates. While that might have been true if a campaign consisted of promoting people’s positives, that’s not what it is. It’s all about finding the dirt on the other and switching candidates late just means there has been less shit talked.
This is really what it boils down to. But with Trump there is nothing to promote. The only way they can win is by ruining the reputation of their opponent to try to make them look worse.
But it doesn’t matter if he had nothing to promote. He’s not above lying. This was just a bad decision on their part. Even if biden hadn’t dropped out, there’s no guarantee that a man that age will be here in four months.
He’s not above lying.
Lying is one of the things he has a lot of practice doing.
He’s not very good at it, though, he contradicts his lies with other lies on a regular basis.
In the same sentence even.
What about hunters laptop? That’s still going to be a huge deal right? Right??
Didn’t you know Kamala let her tamagotchi die 30 years ago? Do you know where that tamagotchi has been buried? You might not know about this, but everyone is talking about this. But they don’t because they are too scared to talk about it. A lot of good people. They talk about it. And the world is laughing at us. The good people talking about this are too scared to talk because the world is laughing.
The best people tell me Hillary Clinton had a tamagotchi just like it. So sad. So sad.
Rumour has it she used it for e-mail.
Have they looked for it on that underground pizza place? All them libruls have secret meetings in there, for realsies!
Kalama has stepchildren. They are about to be dragged through the mud.
I said the exact same thing this morning to a coworker. They have no policies, just hate.
Project 2025 tends to disagree
True. Their policies are so bad they have to disavow them…
Except to the right audience they are extremely proud of them. Yes overall their policies are unpopular but they aren’t without support
Sure - but they don’t need to win those folks votes
What’s the point here? I’m trying to point out the very real danger they represent. Are you really going to downplay that danger? This is how we lost roe v wade
It’s that they don’t need to be won over. They are going to vote for Trump regardless.
Whoa…I agree with you. And I’m not sure why what I said upset you. I am just speaking in the context of the discussion of the post which is campaign strategy.
We need to shout about Project 2025 from the rooftops because it’s so toxic the Trump campaign wants it to stay hidden.
That seems like a hatred manifesto more than policy.
Call it what you want. The document is very clearly full of harmful policy goals.
Yeah, it’s not a difficult concept
Policies don’t sell in the current political climate. It has been all about Trump vs not Trump since 2016.
Oh, I understand, but if was still their strategy choice.
Now their candidate is the old fuck and is a felon who’s fighting against a black woman (!) that used to send felons to jail.
Of course they are pissed! As they should be!
Nice, I didn’t pay attention this weekend and this is the first I’m hearing Biden stepped down.
Great way to start a Monday at least
Harris is not confirmed, by the way, just a presumptive nominee. The Democratic Party is gathering behind her as it stands.
In other words: it’s Kamala Harris.
The Democratic National Convention’s rules committee are also set to meet on Wednesday to discuss the process for picking a new candidate.
I imagine they won’t just push her forward, but who knows.
I absolutely can’t WAIT for the next debate.
and Trump can’t chicken out without looking like a Chump…
He will chicken out. He’ll pull some excuse about unfair rules or a biased moderator that will be completely and utterly transparent to everyone except his base.
It’s transparent to his base too. It’s not that they don’t see the lies, it’s that they don’t care.
To Republicans, winning matters more than playing by the rules. This isn’t some gentlemanly game of chess. It’s a knife fight. The future of their country hangs in the balance, and the only thing that matters is being the people who steer the ship. If you have to lie cheat and steal to get there, so be it.
The Dems need to wake the fuck up and start doing the same.
Oh no, all of their bots will have to be reprogrammed.
Bots and trolls in shambles right now
I’m having a blast trolling Trump supporters on Instagram. They’re short fusing right now.
I need this in my life please
Post screenshots as Lemmy content!
Yeah, post them here: [email protected]
It’s why they’re all so quiet now.
