NEWS: Moments after President Biden concluded his news conference, House Intel top Democrat JIM HIMES calls on Biden to

[demmiblue]

NEWS: Moments after President Biden concluded his news conference, House Intel top Democrat JIM HIMES calls on Biden to step aside.

He calls Biden a “remarkable leader of unparalleled public service” but he no longer believes that Biden is the strongest candidate to beat Trump.

Link to tweet

Be prepared, because there will likely be several more over the next few days:

Potentially dozens of Democrats expected to call on Biden to step aside after NATO conference

Four Democratic sources with knowledge tell CBS News that they expect dozens of Democratic lawmakers over the next 48 hours to issue statements calling for President Biden to step out of the race.

The planning is coordinated, and some of the statements are pre-written, according to two sources. And it's not clear that anything Mr. Biden says in his high-stakes press conference Thursday night could redirect the expected course of events.

House Democratic leadership has indicated to members that they should speak their minds, multiple sources told CBS News. One of those well-placed sources predicted that the next three to four days will be "brutal," and that it may become untenable by sometime next week for the president to continue in the race.

Congressional leaders aren't expected to publicly speak out themselves or to attempt a forced replacement of Mr. Biden, aiming to avoid a public break with the president out of respect. But there is also a recognition, as two sources put it, that public calls from leadership would trigger stubborn opposition from the president.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/potentially-dozens-of-democrats-expected-to-call-on-biden-to-step-aside-after-nato-conference/

[LW1977]

1. Stop!

[spanone]

2. Don't tell us how great he is as you stick a knife in his back.

[Irish_Dem]

11. That's always such a nice touch.

Praise someone while throwing them overboard.

[MOMFUDSKI]

27. Biden addressed this situation tonight. Said

these people are worried about keeping their jobs in congress. Said he knows how things work. Intimated he ‘s been there . Chill

[spanone]

33. chill?

[MOMFUDSKI]

48. Best we can do is work as hard as we can to

re-elect this fine man. This is a hard time for Dems right now. Getting overwhelmed doesn’t help.

[WhiteTara]

3. Who do they want? I never see a name put out there

just a vague generic democrat who isn't the current president and definitely not the black woman vp. I just checked to make sure my passport is in good order.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I wonder if they have someone in mind.

They have a candidate they want to promote?

[Bev54]

38. I have heard some call for Harris and call me stupid

but I think she is already a candidate on the ticket.

[Irish_Dem]

41. I'm stupid too because I thought she is the back up replacement candidate.

That is what a VP is.

[regnaD kciN]

39. They're looking for the "Shiny New Object"...

…who’ll embody every one of their own positions, but won’t have any track record they can be attacked on, while still having a long CV of achievements. And someone who’ll appeal to women and PoC, but not actually a woman or PoC (sorry, Kamala!), because that might upset the “working class white independents” we need to win.

[Bookreadingliberal53]

46. Someone like Mark Warner nt

[LiberalFighter]

49. Warner does not have what is needed

[JustAnotherGen]

50. He's boring

Meh

[lostnfound]

55. Un-f'ing- believable. Yeah, go get in a back room, Dems, and pick a new candidate -- an AWESOME candidate -- and then...

Figure out how you’re going to build enough support in 4 months and THEN figure out how you’re going to make up for lost votes from black women and black men who are pissed off that you bypassed Kamala Harris and THEN figure out how many Democrats who love Biden will come out and vote for president but NOT vote for the 16 democrats in the House who are now pushing Biden to back out. And when these backstabbers lose their seats over this — and the democrats lose the congress because of it — WTF is their plan THEN??

[no_hypocrisy]

4. OK Jim, which DONOR(S) pledged to withhold money for your re-election

if you didn't call on Joe Biden to "step aside"?

[dem4decades]

16. You don't think Himes district funds many Democrats, including Biden?

I'd think this goes deeper than Himes just thinking about himself.

[FloridaBlues]

44. Ding ding ding not only him.

[msongs]

5. will he get a thank you note from trump? nt

[dchill]

6. YABB.

Yet Another Bubble Boy.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Mr. Himes: Who is the stronger candidate?

Please name some names.

Show me the polling numbers.

[emulatorloo]

8. Read the room bro. Maybe he had it set to go out on an automatic timer.

[Demsrule86]

9. Trashing

Stop .

[onandup]

10. Is it bad I've never heard of him?

?

[dem4decades]

17. Yes.

[oasis]

23. I've seen him on tv a few times as a guest

spokesman on various issues. He’s quite learned and articulate.
However, he laid an egg this time. BIGLY!

[LW1977]

12. What a coward

[PatSeg]

14. What the hell?!?!

What do these people want???

[DemocraticPatriot]

15. Jim WHO ??

Sorry, never heard of him before tonight,
and neither has about 98 percent of the American people...

I no longer believe that Jim Who is the strongest candidate for Democrats in his congressional district.

Perhaps he should consider stepping aside....

[dem4decades]

22. Ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, but what does he know?

[DemocraticPatriot]

24. If this is an example of his intelligence, then *some people* may ask

if he's on the wrong committee...

[dem4decades]

25. Do you know what he knows?

[DemocraticPatriot]

26. No-- I have no idea who his donors are.

[Polybius]

64. Ever think that maybe he knows something that we don't?

He's very well respected, there must be a reason for this.

[DemocraticPatriot]

65. I'm sure there is "a reason" for it,

but I can't think of a GOOD one from where I'm standing....
because I am standing with Joe.

He may have been "very well respected" in the party caucus,
but I suspect he will be a little bit less "well respected" after tonight...

and I still never heard of him before tonight, so my first impression is quite negative.



What would YOU suggest that "he knows" ???

[Polybius]

66. I don't want to suggest anything

Some things are best left unspoken here. Let's just wait it out.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Yeah not a good try there.

[Quiet Em]

19. Well then he gets a big side-eye

Good luck to him explaining his reasoning.

[Freethinker65]

20. So who is this individual that will magically appear and cruise to victory according to Himes?

[LisaL]

31. None of the naysayers appear to have thought that far.

NT

[Tree Lady]

21. This is just going to split our party

and cause Trump to win don't they realize this?

[Lovie777]

28. It is not..................

[Keepthesoulalive]

32. They don't care

[LW1977]

35. They obviously don't This is Carter Kennedy 1980 all over again. :facepalm:

[Diraven]

29. Curious timing

He must have had this prepared in advance assuming Biden would bomb in the presser. I guess he didn't actually watch it.

[BannonsLiver]

37. I think there's some coordination happening.

[FloridaBlues]

53. Yes eye open piece I read on kos that Robert reich wrote

About Dem billionaires withholding $$ because they got shook about Biden. Let me know what you think.

[Lovie777]

30. the trolls are here........................

[ALBliberal]

34. Jim Himes who?

[Kingofalldems]

36. ALL CAPS tells the tale.

[Sympthsical]

40. Sometimes people can become trapped in the momentum of events

And it's beginning to feel like this is one of those times.

I have no frame of reference with which to analyze this. Still trying to get my mind around around the idea that a faction of a party want to risk a political civil war against a sitting president four months before an election.

It's pretty singular and historic if what is reported actually turns out to be the case. And something is clearly up. Pelosi, Jefferies, and Schumer have all been behaving strangely all week long. I think when Congress returned, a lot more was said in those meetings than has leaked publicly.

Tomorrow will be interesting.

[FloridaBlues]

42. What happened dem millionaires donor base cut off the party?

Is that who is running this shit show from behind the scenes? Don’t be surprised if we read about it soon. Maybe that’s why Joe said the he didn’t care about money elites are saying on morning Joe.

[soandso]

56. Do you recall

who started this? I can't remember who the first was to start this shit. On July 4th, though, this was tweeted:

Link to tweet

[FloridaBlues]

60. It was a written article by Robert Reich on daily kos.

Very interesting about Dem donnors withholding $$ due to being shook about Biden performance at debate. Than all this began with congress bolting.
And we think it was up to voters but the no money shook than more.

[demmiblue]

43. NEW: Rep. Scott Peters becomes the 16th House Democrat calling for Biden to withdraw. "The stakes are high, and we are

NEW: Rep. Scott Peters becomes the 16th House Democrat calling for Biden to withdraw.

"The stakes are high, and we are on a losing course. My conscience requires me to speak up," he says.

Prominent figure among the moderate House Democrats.

Link to tweet

people?!

[demmiblue]

59. Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen calls on the president to drop his election bid

Link to tweet

[unblock]

45. My representative. A good guy usually, but I am Not Happy with this statement.

The timing is particularly frustrating. Joe did quite well tonight, so himes releasing this statement now sends the message that his mind is closed and literally nothing Biden can do will change it.

So at this point, he's just sabotaging Biden's campaign to try to close off the solution he, for whatever reason, doesn't like.

This does not sit well with me at all.

[Blue Owl]

47. Shove it, Himes

[Bettie]

51. So, "dozens" of elected Democrats are eager

to lose the election? Neat. I bet that'll be fun for them, but not so much for us ordinary people.

[Bettie]

52. WOW! Another rich, white man

calls for our President to step down.

I bet all of them thiink that THEY would be the best to replace him.

[Blue Dotty]

54. He is already waiting in the MSNBC green room 😡

[GoCubsGo]

57. Jim Himes can go fuck himself.

Scott Peterson, too.

[littlemissmartypants]

58. To quote Ms. Jasmine Crockett...

He got his "five minutes of fame" and I say...to Himes...
Bye Felicia.

Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias,[a] or congeniality bias[2]) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.[3] People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs.

Biased search for information, biased interpretation of this information, and biased memory recall, have been invoked to explain four specific effects:
1. attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence)[4]
2. belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false)[5]
3. the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series)[6]
4. illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).[7]

A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives.[8] Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another proposal is that people show confirmation bias because they are pragmatically assessing the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.

Flawed decisions due to confirmation bias have been found in a wide range of political, organizational, financial and scientific contexts. These biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. For example, confirmation bias produces systematic errors in scientific research based on inductive reasoning (the gradual accumulation of supportive evidence). Similarly, a police detective may identify a suspect early in an investigation, but then may only seek confirming rather than disconfirming evidence. A medical practitioner may prematurely focus on a particular disorder early in a diagnostic session, and then seek only confirming evidence. In social media, confirmation bias is amplified by the use of filter bubbles, or "algorithmic editing", which display to individuals only information they are likely to agree with, while excluding opposing views.
More...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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[krawhitham]

61. They need to stop. He's clearly fit to serve and he won the primary

Only thing that matters is if he is fit to serve

That's it

He won the primary, and is clearly fit to serve. You can't undo the voters will and keep a democracy

Buyer's remorse because you're afraid he might not lose, it DOES NOT MATTER


He will get the needed delegates. So all this is doing is weakening him for the General

[roamer65]

63. Doesn't matter to me.

I’m pulling the straight ticket D lever in November no matter what.

I fucking hate fascists. Death to them all.