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First nail down what's afoot. Joe Biden is capable of being President, and running a campaign, but his age has been a problem, so he gives up the more stressful thing, the campaign. He has run the government better than Crabgrass expected, preferring Bernie, but he's been far better than the fading oaf who he ousted.
Trump's latest show of inability is giving Castro-length speeches, meandering doing it, and using memorized buzz words in and out of diverging. Biden is sharper and more fit than Trump, disagree if you'd like.
But Biden has been pushed by the media and others into giving up the campaign part of things, where he's never been gaffe free, to concentrate his powers where his decades of experience in getting things done in DC running the government, bipartisan or by his party alone, where he excels, can be most helpful.
Biden thus staying in the White House where he won that right from voters to finish his successful governing term makes sense. He does so while freeing Harris from the dual weight of governing and campaigning so that she is fully free to go to the hustings and show how inadequate the Trump-Vance-Project 2025 ticket and world view are.
Dividing governing and campaigning establishes a win-win situation to build recognition for Harris as a woman more fit than needed to be President when women's rights and freedom are under attack by a Catholic dominated toxic SCOTUS and facing a Catholic VP candidate-convert thinking it best if women are barefoot and pregnant baby factories and not equal careerists to himself.
That said, this bald ass awful tweet from one whose education suggests he knows far better makes sense only if you remember his taking a position to be Trumplike in being Trump's butler.
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Work it out. Were Biden to resign, Harris would have to pick cabinet officials and a VP where, under the 25th Amendment, Section 2, the chosen VP Harris would want would have to be approved by majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Republicans holding the House majority could stymie a new VP appointment, with the vacancy putting Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, in direct succession, were Harris to meet foul play. Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson a heartbeat away from the Presidency should scare the living shit out of any non-Christian Nationalist.
Rather than face such a risk filled scenario, don't do a Biden resignation with a President Harris finishing a term with Johnson positioned next. It would be stupid to do that. Instead, as is being done, Biden does what he does best by continuing to run the government and occupy the White House, taking any heat for doing it without worry over how it might affect polling, while Harris builds trust and respect among voters as better than MAGA might ever be.
Vance says, "Give up a win-win situation because I'd like that." Well, fuck you JD.
Who'd ever want that Christian Nationalist Johnson anywhere near the White House, besides another Christian Nationalist?
So, bullshit from a Yale educated lawyer knowing better, that is the substance of JD's tweet. How dumb does he think we all are? It is demeaning his telling us this crap. The son-of-a-bitch knows it will not happen his way; never; he is only politicking for the hell of it because he sells short the ability of the people to smell what he's producing.
His mind, his intent, we can only speculate. But he's up to no good in selling us short.
Yes, honked off by the stupidity he presumes of us, the people of the nation, as if a bunch of dumb lazy-assed, drug crazed, dispirited hillbillies he grew up with; who he can jive and lie to, disdain, whatever.
We are not that. We know what's best. The result of the 2020 election proved it.
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So, who could sincerely be more motivated to suggest Biden resigning than Vance? To bring forth the situation of a Christian Nationalist being a heartbeat away from a President Harris, were Biden to resign.
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The whole pond is full of croaking in tune as the bullfrog croaks. We need to have the energetic young snapping turtle enter into that pond, to silence the croaking.
Abandoning the metaphor, the contest is between Harris and Vance. Trump is too old and feeble and mentally damaged to be considered capable of a full four year term if elected, (as unlikely as that is). It will be Vance or Harris carrying on, respectively, for MAGA or sanity free of hate and bias. Vance is trying his best to be a Trump, rather than trying to be credible on his own. Bad choice. But his choice to make. There might be something there. But he's not showing it.
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In addition, more to figure. Harris bumps to P. when P. Biden resigns, were he to. What then?
What is the effect on nose count, and the hammer when there's a tie Senate vote, if Harris cannot get a VP choice through the House until term end next January?
Stalemate.