"We're close the end"? Anonymous source leaks to NBC

[senseandsensibility]

If they mean end of democracy, they may be on to something. If they mean the end of Biden's candidacy, then the responsibility for that is on them. No more blaming Biden after that.

By the way, the media is already laying the ground for a Kamala Harris run, and it's not looking like there's going to be a "honeymoon."

So you force him out and then sit back and watch? This is absolute insanity.

[LSue]

1. the end?

I am so over this situation. After 25 reading DU, I am going to have to reply and discuss, or lose my mind.

[Renew Deal]

3. Welcome to DU, sorta!

Your account is old enough to be in middle school.

[senseandsensibility]

6. We welcome your voice

Don't be shy!

[lapucelle]

24. You've been reading for *25* years? Interesting...

[VMA131Marine]

2. Biden would have to resign the Presidency

Allowing Harris to become the incumbent for this to work.

A brokered convention would be a disaster.

If only some faithless democrats would support Biden the way the MAGAts support Trump. They should have circled round Biden in support after the debate, not to create a fucking firing squad.

[yagotme]

8. Yes, it would be.

And, Semper Fi.

[Demsrule86]

12. The GOP has given Kamala the Hillary treatment. And there is not enough time to change that. WE will lose if Biden

is not the nominee. Some Democrats may very well stay home. We had a primary and that should mean something...I still say this is about campaign donations.

[regnaD kciN]

4. I'm guessing all the MSM pushing the "Joe must go" narrative...

…will immediately jump on the narrative highlighting the “weakness” of Harris/Unicorn/whoever, and, by October, the “conventional wisdom” that Democrats blew the election by forcing the incumbent out.

[senseandsensibility]

20. Absolutely

One thing is for sure, the corporate media will not treat Kamala fairly. Actually, two things: they will not do any reflection on their own role in this and will double down on it.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

22. You called it

I agree completely.

I miss integrity, decency, and journalism like Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters. Not this 21st century click bait reality show bullshit.

[Renew Deal]

5. I actually think they might be right.

I think the only reason some people went public is because the outcome was known.

[Emile]

7. Total Insanity

[unblock]

9. We're close to the end one way or another because after the dnc virtual roll call,

It will be pretty much impossible to change the ballots.

Joe just needs to hang on until then.

[Demsrule86]

10. Pleaase Joe hang on so we don't lose our Republic.

[grockri]

11. I call BS on this.

All speculation. The rich have taken over our party. We as voters are no longer relevent!!!

[bigtree]

13. this is peak rumormongering

...and you're catapaulting it here without context or substance.

There's no article here, no link, no attributed quote.

This is the worst.

[Susan Calvin]

14. Chyron on MSNBC. nt

[bigtree]

15. so a media invention

...what did I get wrong?

[Susan Calvin]

25. Of course you got it right.

But it's worth noting they've been running that chyron since I got home, well over an hour.

[BannonsLiver]

16. If we just ignore it it will all go away and Joe will stay in the race and win.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

23. Yes, please. I would LOVE an opportunity to ignore it!!

Instead of having "chyrons" and anonymous "leaks" constantly shoved down my throat and into my brain.

[madibella]

17. This is lunacy. Insanity.

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I’m running out of adjectives.

Treading lightly as I’ve been reported for expressing my displeasure.

I remain with Joe now and going forward.

[senseandsensibility]

18. Like you, I am running out of adjectives

I have enjoyed our party being the "grown-ups" compared to the R's and maybe taken it for granted. That seems to be slipping away and it's scary.

[madibella]

30. I agree completely. When I say that my

feeling of security has been taken away, believe me.

What’s going on is shit that the Republican party would be doing. This is not how my party behaves. It’s absolute madness. Again I am literally at a loss for words. We are flying blind and headed toward the face of a mountain. It would seem.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

19. All of these sources

I've seen have been anonymous: "top Dems," "people close to so and so," "source who spoke on condition of anonymity," "insiders," "aides," etc., etc., etc.

I'm picturing Pinhead Roger Stone and Sewer Rat Bannon giggling like children over the chaos they're creating with Orban, etc.

So very coincidental to be happening right after Felon 45's paper cut "assassination attempt," and simultaneous with the Russian National Convention.

[DET]

21. Good Lord

They’re talking on MSNBC as if Joe is already gone, and they’re debating who Kamala should choose as her VP. Of course, this is Katie Tur and Chuck Todd (who gets more obnoxious by the day), plus some unrecognizable person, so it could just be wishful thinking. So disrespectful of Biden, the viewers, and the electorate.

[PortTack]

37. Turn it off!

[flying_wahini]

26. If we ever doubted that the press was complicit now we know for sure.

Hoping that SOMEBODY in the press will prove there are being told to lie or blow this up.

I want them to speak up,

[Zeitghost]

27. Or maybe

They are reporting on events as they unfold.

[Funtatlaguy]

28. The only poster here with REAL inside info is Brooklynite

Until he says something, I won’t believe any random rumors.

[orange jar]

29. Didn't he get flagged for review?

Unless that's changed, I don't think we'll be hearing from him for a while.

[senseandsensibility]

31. Really?

Regardless, I don't see him as the be all and end all of knowledge on DU. We have many informed and rational posters here, fortunately.

[Funtatlaguy]

32. Why?

[Yorkie Mom]

39. That is sad. He is/was a great contributor here

and I hate that this has happened.

[obamanut2012]

34. Well, he says he has insider knowledge

And he may or may not. But if so, we have no proof what is being said.

[Yorkie Mom]

40. It is a huge loss for our community

if his profile has been flagged for review. I watched how he tried to walk a tight rope in what he said to prevent this.

[beaglelover]

33. That's what the commentator on MSNBC is saying right now. That senior people close to Biden are now saying

'we know it's over, it's just a matter of when'. I think Biden will bow out this weekend. What happens after that, who knows. I hope it's Kamala Harris but I'll vote for whoever the Democratic Party nominates.

[PortTack]

36. President Biden's campaign mgr said just today...HE IS NOT DROPPING OUT! Please stop repeating the

Anonymous source thing!

[PortTack]

35. The narrative will shift yes, the bashing of ANY dem candidate will go right on! It won't skip a beat!

[suegeo]

38. This article is like the bots on the blue bird site before I even knew what a bot was

The troll farms out of some Russian city flooding the field with manure.

Cambridge Analytica sending negative targeted messages to push down the African American vote. And probably other minorities as well.

Cambridge Analytica and the NRA doing good only knows what with the gun nuts.

Maybe someone in the future can give a name to what is going on with this nonsense in the "news".

Doom troll news.

"Anonymous sources say..."
"Aides close to Obama say..." name a fucking name.

It's probably some hostile foreign enemy, say like Russia, trying advance a piece of shit republican. The convicted felon who is awaiting sentencing, twice impeached, adjudicated rapist. Who lies and lies and lies.

Stories like this are bullshit. The GOP colluded with Russia and they still are.

This crap article is adjacent to propaganda. It's gaslighting.

Joe Biden is a fine president and should not step down.
It would be chaos (which is what Putin wants).
They don't have a plan for what comes next. This is no plan that Democrats wouldn't rip themselves apart over.
The GOP would sit back and watch. Even stir the shit like they always do with lawsuits, Russian messaging, use their corrupt courts. Blah blah blah.
FIGHT BACK AGAINST THIS CRAP. go joe.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. I also remember 1992

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