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Democrats worry Biden press conference leaves them in 'purgatory'
(abcnews.go.com)
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There were just too many idiots for too long that were yelling down any discussion of Biden's obvious ineptitude. Any time anyone would bring it up, they would just jam the "BoTh SiDeS" buttons on their keyboards. They completely fell into the trap of trying to crush discussion, and now we are left holding this senile old man as a candidate. It is almost certainly a lost cause at this point. Harris has half the payout of Biden on most sites where you can gamble on the results, and she isn't even running. If we get anything out of this mess, I hope it is that the new generation of democrats coming up can see how toxic and self-sabotaging it is to try and shut down any conversation they dislike. All those people who have been shouting "bOtH sIeDs" so much their keyboards started to bleed should feel like shit right now. Your pathetic attempt to crush discussion hurt you and the rest of us. Discussion = good. Even if it's uncomfortable. Remember it.
Do people really not remember us voting for "uncommitted" against Biden in March?
It's hard to compare apples to apples because of a change in the way things were measured, but by best estimates Biden got a comparable uncommitted vote share to Obama in 2012.
Yeah, some people did, but nearly every discussion on here was full of 95% idiots screaming about how we need to pretend like biden is so incredible because we have to trick the undecided people into living him because trump is going to resurrect Hitler and march everyone to the depths of hell.