this is the thing, all of this “we need confirmation!” is entirely subjective. we have, on one hand, anonymous sources with vague “close to the campaign” or “close to lawmakers” descriptions from political hacks, and then we have actual fucking politicians saying everything’s fun, calm the fuck down
gotta love the "hot takes" that Biden MUST prove himself to the media to remain the Democratic nominee if they want to have the spigot of shitty press stop. Meanwhile the other candidate is babbling about sharks and batteries and all of that other baggage and is strangely unscathed...
weird huh?
I’ve been in-and-out the last week and it’s been nuts to follow sporadically. “We have dozens of people talking about how Biden must step down because he’s too old. But only because of a new knee-jerk op-ed, not any news; Biden’s just kept doing his normal campaign activities, which we’re ignoring”
I think my own crisis of confidence is less about Biden and more about a lot of Dem-adjacent bloggers and pundits.
Lost a lot of respect for quite a few that I formerly used as guideposts.
columnists can lay out the conditions under which they would be satisfied, but i didn’t vote for a fucking columnist and i do not look to them for leadership
he has done rallies, he’s done radio call-ins, he’s done sit down meetings and he is still doing his job as president with a major hurricane in the carribean and a major fire in california
Columnists wanted to make the Pelosi interview into something it's not, which is funny because for all her talent as a legislator she's an appallingly bad messenger
They want him to do a Willy Wonka walk out onto stage. Look old and feeble, using a cain, then fall down, tuck into a roll, and spring to his feet full of life. It was all an act! Haha! Ha... ha...
I've seen on this very website people confidently calling on Biden to bow out because he hasn't done "X", then when people point out he has done "X" these individuals fall back on saying he hasn't done "Y".
Most then go back to saying he hasn't done X.