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> It’s a miracle, folks. Donald told the truth for once. It’s the most important election of our lifetimes. And I will win it. Curiously, his tweet from just 1
by Sajarin 2y ago
> It’s a miracle, folks. Donald told the truth for once. It’s the most important election of our lifetimes. And I will win it.
Curiously, his tweet from just 18 hours ago seemed like he was still in the race. I wonder what changed.
- daseiner1 2y agoThe timing of Joe Manchin declining to endorse this morning certainly correlates.
- jeffbee 2y ago[flagged]
- daseiner1 2y agoThe entirety of West Virginia, evidently. And all Americans should be interested in the views of one of the foremost “swing vote” senators.
- jeffbee 2y agoWest Virginia is not in play for presidential elections.
- daseiner1 2y agoYour original comment was belittling towards the people of West Virginia, which is still a member of the Union as far as I’m aware. The latter half of my comment was obviously more salient in regard to national politics. Not sure why you ignored that.
- Larrikin 2y agoUntil the electoral college is eliminated, or we at least get some kind of system like rank choice voting, there is no point in pretending that the votes of any more than a handful of swing states actually matter.
- RickJWagner 2y agoI do. Manchin is a centrist. In a divided America, that's a very good thing.
- Gibbon1 2y agoI think a lot of Kabuki theater was needed to make it acceptable for Manchin to cast some critical votes is what I think. Remember 90% of politics in public is a mix of Kabuki theater and WWF Wrestling.
- camel_Snake 2y agoI think the Sheldon Brown announcing he should step down was far, far more impactful. Joe Manchin isn't nationally relevant nor a Democrat anymore.
- coffeecloud 2y agoI think it was pretty widely understood that he was going to have to be adamantly in the race until the exact moment he wasn’t in the race. The second he showed any public wavering it would have been over.
- karencarits 2y agoI can understand that perspective too, but a problem with that approach is that he might seem arrogant and out-of-touch - and I would have difficulties trusting a party who is so clear in their communication for so long, and then abruptly change direction completely
- 12_throw_away 2y agogood thing he's not running for anything then
- arp242 2y agoThis is how it works everywhere. Do you go to your boss and say "well, I'm thinking of quitting and taking a different job, but I'm not sure yet and I'm still deciding. I'll let you know when I've decided!"
- pas 2y agoPeople with good job security and good position in the labor market can do this. Lot of people already do shop around and try to get a raise, etc.
- kccoder 2y agoYou behave as though you’re in the race right up to the moment you are not.
- wilg 2y agoIt's bizarre people don't get this. What's he supposed to do, tweet "thinking about not running" and flip everybody out?
- geraldwhen 2y agoPresident Biden does not control his tweets. Even if he wanted to tweet that, his handlers would not let him. The stepping down announcement was probably a layoff notice to his staff. I bet many are/were shocked.
- justinclift 2y agoThat would be such an Elon Musk thing to do. No fucks given. ;)
- dorkwood 2y agoI think he would tweet something like "42.0% of all polls are wrong". Like a clever pun using the weed number (420) :)
- justinclift 2y agoHeh, you're probably right. ;)
- dorkwood 2y agoHe's so funny :)
- mandmandam 2y agoWell, yeah. Then we could have had a better primary process, instead of putting huge amounts of effort into pushing a critically weak candidate. People have been saying this for many months, and were basically told to stop helping Trump win. Turns out those people were right - so why defend the lies?
- jiveturkey 2y agoFriday: "The business is doing great! We are expanding on all fronts!" Monday: layoffs
- polotics 2y ago[flagged]
- wongarsu 2y agoDoes he write his own tweets? He's no Elon Musk or Donald Trump, I would assume some staffer is tasked with writing those tweets. And they obviously wouldn't tell the staffer to do anything different until the decision to drop out was final.
- avar 2y agoThey hadn't told the people running his Twitter account yet? There was already an incident [1] where his press secretary tweeted about running for president on her own account, so she or her people are presumably in charge of it. 1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karine-jean-pierre-twitter-biden-mishap-b2394032.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
- kgwgk 2y agoThey found out on Twitter: https://x.com/politico/status/1815098672113402138 https://x.com/politico/status/1815098672113402138
- avar 2y agoHow is that related to this? Even if Biden had personally authored and posted every one his tweets, that would have nothing to do with whether aides were kept in the loop about major campaign announcements. This thread is discussing an alleged inconsistency (or quick reversal) in his Twitter messaging.
- kgwgk 2y agoHow is what related to what? I agree with what you wrote. The people running Biden's campaign were not told the news 10 hours in advance - nor 10 minutes in advance. I doubt those messages were sent by the same people.
- proc0 2y agoExactly, people are overlooking how much he did not want to quit.
- ipaddr 2y agoThreat that they will use article 25 to get him removed as president if he didn't playball
- colechristensen 2y agoI was waiting for the House to censure him for not stepping aside. It was pretty clear that the flood of leadership democrats and donors insisting he step aside was building.
- kristjansson 2y agoThe _Republican_ controlled House? Censure a __candidate__? For staying in a race?
- semiquaver 2y ago25th amendment requires a 2/3 majority of both houses of congress to remove the president if he objects. Not a credible threat to Biden.