• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    What the whole Biden situation boils down to is this: At no point in history has a Presidential candidate ever been replaced as late in the campaign as the 2024 campaign was by the time people started seriously calling for Biden to step aside (i.e. after the debate.) The only close equivalent was in 1968, when Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run much earlier in the campaign, and it still resulted in a victory for Richard Nixon. Still, when confronted with a choice between fascism and not-fascism, many people (including many of the people in this very thread) decided to devote all their effort to throwing stones at the not-fascism side.

    When Biden did finally step aside, surprise surprise, it resulted in a victory for fascism. Congratulations.

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      17 hours ago

      Biden had zero chance of winning even based on the more accurate polling that his campaign had. Polling, by the way, that he ignored for literally months that could have been spent shaping Kamala’s campaign or running a primary. The polling showed over 400 electoral votes to Trump and Biden in his infinite stubbornness only subscribed to people that stroked his ego (Joe Scarborough) and refused to step down until leaders like Nancy Pelosi started threatening him.

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        16 hours ago

        They wouldn’t have done a primary anyway because they knew Kamala (their chosen corporate candidate) would have gotten absolutely wrecked. She didn’t get a single delegate in the 2020 primaries.

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      16 hours ago

      Biden only dropped out because it was no longer feasible for him to win. He was perfectly willing to die in office knowing he was no longer fit for the job.

      If he had made it clear he wouldn’t run at least the year before, we could have likely avoided another Trump term.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      Biden staying in the race would have been 400 EC votes to Trump, a bigger margin than Harris v Trump did.

      And even if Biden won, he has stage 4 prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones, it would be a miracle even with top treatment if he lives to see the end of Trump’s current term.

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        13 hours ago

        There’s actually a somewhat brand new miracle treatment for cancer that uses individual atoms of actinium-225.

        Each cancer cell gets a single atom, and then it dies when that atom decays. And since it’s an alpha decay, the cell gins some high energy helium. That’s it.

        Well, the atomic nucleus of a helium-4 atom. Which then rips some electrons from whatever it collides with.

        And then that happens a few times to produce bismuth-209, which has a halflife of 2x10^19 years. Which means it’s perfectly safe.

        Anyway, this treatment, called targeted alpha therapy is specifically approved for Bone metastasized prostate cancer, and significantly improves survival rates vs placebo.

        It’s not that good against solid tumors