Why are some people intent on continuing to rehash the candidacy thing?

[GaYellowDawg]

President Biden won the nomination.

He has said repeatedly he's going to remain the nominee.

It doesn't matter what Adam Schiff or any other Democrat has to say about it. It doesn't matter who on this board would rather have someone else. It is down to President Biden or Donald Trump, and it doesn't fucking matter what you want, that's the choice. Live with it. People have to vote for someone other than their first choice in every single Presidential election. Get the fuck over it, get the fuck in line, and save your completely irrelevant complaints and "concerns" until AFTER THE ELECTION.

Vote for President Biden, give him every bit of your energy, and quit wasting everyone's time and energy with bullshit about wanting someone else. All you're doing is giving legs to something that should have gone away some time ago, and makes the odds better that Trump wins. Which means that you're either not a Democrat, or you're a goddamn stupid one. You're part of the Trump problem either way. At some point, you have to get the fuck over yourself and position behind defeating Trump and MAGA. And that means complete support of the only actual alternative: President Biden.

I submit that posts questioning President Biden's candidacy constitute a harmful criticism of President Biden, harm to the party, and harm to the nation.

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Thank you

I've lost patience with this nonsense.

[GoCubsGo]

3. That makes two of us. nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. I've tried to be respectful of differing views

It's been 3 weeks now and he's said over and over he's staying in the race. Enough is enough.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Henry Wallace is going to be on the ticket, and that's all there is to it.

1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection

The Democratic Party's 1944 nomination for Vice President of the United States was determined at the 1944 Democratic National Convention, on July 21, 1944. U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman from Missouri was nominated to be President Franklin D. Roosevelt's running-mate in his bid to be re-elected for a fourth term.

How the nomination went to Truman, who did not actively seek it, is, in the words of his biographer Robert H. Ferrell, "one of the great political stories of our century". The fundamental issue was that Roosevelt's health was seriously declining, and everyone who saw Roosevelt, including the leaders of the Democratic Party, realized it. If he died during his next term, the vice president would become president, making the vice presidential nomination very important. Truman's predecessor as vice president, the incumbent Henry A. Wallace, was unpopular with some of the leaders of the Democratic Party, who disliked his liberal politics and considered him unreliable and eccentric in general. Wallace was the popular candidate and favored by the Convention delegates.

As the Convention began, Wallace had more than half the votes necessary to secure his re-nomination. By contrast, the Gallup poll said that 2% of those surveyed wanted then-Senator Truman to become the vice president. To overcome this initial deficit, the leaders of the Democratic Party worked to influence the Convention delegates, such that Truman received the nomination.

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[GaYellowDawg]

7. Irrelevant.

You're citing a change in the vice-presidential nominee in nineteen fucking forty-four?

That's pretty desperate. And stupid.

[Emile]

4. K & R

[Butterflylady]

5. Yet they don't get it.

I wonder if they will like the way Putin governs because that's what will happen. Can't wait to be sent to an internment camp.

[Yorkie Mom]

6. I'll give this question a shot.

Maybe they think he isn't capable of serving/finishing another 4 years.

Many of us have watched family members go through this.

Link to tweet

[GaYellowDawg]

8. That's what the office of Vice-President is for.

How do people not get this?

Also: yay, cherry-picked speech. Funny how 538 predicts a Biden victory.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Denial is as dangerous to our cause as panic is. Nt

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Joe might not be a spring chicken, but President

Kamala Harris would be a lot better for the USA than another Donald Trump presidency or JD Vance going from being the next Vice President to the guy in the Oval Office.