Here we go:
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
And in case you are having trouble reading this, we will embiggen it for you.
You might be able to enlarge it further if you need to.
As you can see, Biden is saying he is dropping out of the race because it is best for his party and the country, but he is not resigning from the presidency. He also is not endorsing Kamala Harris for President.
Or at least whoever wrote this is saying those things.
As J.D. Vance pointed out, this is untenable:
If Joe Biden ends his reelection campaign, how can he justify remaining President?
— JD Vance (@JDVance1) July 21, 2024
Not running for reelection would be a clear admission that President Trump was right all along about Biden not being mentally fit enough to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
There is no middle ground.
Obviously, this was written at a time before Joe Biden made it official, but he is right. While Biden hasn’t said why he was resigning, we all know the reason: Because he is not competent to do the job. Or more precisely, he was not competent to do the job and the American people found out at the last debate.
Again, we don’t relish the thought of a Harris presidency, even if it only lasts until next January, but we need a president who is present, to make the decisions in any crisis.
This is breaking news, so we won’t have too many reactions. That will surely come in subsequent posts. But we will share one from our co-worker:
I don’t know whether to think “holy crap” or “meh, that figures” 😂 https://t.co/9IHH8eQ8RI
— Laura W. (@BumpstockBarbie) July 21, 2024
We're going to go with both ...
Anyway, we have no doubt that there will be much, much more coverage of this event as time goes on. Buckle in for another crazy news weekend at Twitchy.
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Update: While the letter didn’t make any endorsement of any particular person, his official Twitter/X account has endorsed Kamala Harris:
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best… pic.twitter.com/x8DnvuImJV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
Also we will note our own analysis of how profoundly undemocratic all of this is:
Or, hear me out, we want to make you guys blêęd politically for the decision
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) July 21, 2024
So we’re highlighting questions that ordinary Americans are asking.
What is the true status of Joe Biden’s health?
How long has he been this bad?
Who knew he was this bad and when did they know… https://t.co/OsZEdOXRK5
The cut off text reads:
How long has he been this bad?
Who knew he was this bad and when did they know it?
Why didn’t those people inform the American people?
Because here’s the thing: What you guys did was profoundly undemocratic. Joe Biden has been profoundly incompetent for years. I documented evidence of this, here: https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/07/08/flashback-we-had-strong-evidence-that-biden-was-unfit-for-the-presidency-in-2020-n2398131
Yet the press, which always goes on about how misinformation and disinformation is a threat to democracy, didn’t tell us about this. The same could be said about numerous politicians and government officials. You all knew his brain was pudding and you didn’t tell the people.
If the MSM and democratic officials were honest, at the very least, the Democrats could’ve had a real primary with a real set of candidates trying to get the nomination this year. Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsom and surely others could have had a real fight and discussion over who should lead their party going forward because Joe Biden can’t do it anymore. That would allow something close to a majority of the Democratic Party to choose their nominee.
But they didn’t do that and so now we might have a process that is not really Democratic in the party that puts Democratic literally in their name. If Joe Biden drops out, you might have an open convention (which will not really represent a true cross-section of the Democratic Party) choose their candidate. That’s the most ‘democratic’ possibility. Or the nominee just might be chosen by the leadership of the DNC. Or it might be Kamala Harris because she can get the money that is earmarked for Biden and Harris and she is vice president and because democrats judge ppl by the color of their skin (and sex) and not the content of their character.
If the Democratic Party was honest with Democratic voters years ago about Joe Biden’s true mental status you could’ve had a truly democratic primary to choose who would be running this year. But because of your disinformation, you’re not gonna have democracy in your democratic primary.
And as a bonus, Democrats are pretending that they can say that Joe Biden is too incapacitated to run a presidential campaign, but not so incapacitated that he has to stop being president under the 25th Amendment. So even after all this, you’re still not being honest with us about how bad Joe Biden is. And that means at this time when so much of the world is in peril, you guys are effectively leaving the presidency vacant.
Oh, also, you guys are screeching like howler monkeys that the Supreme Court is reducing the administrative state at a time where you’re leaving the head of that state effectively vacant. We literally have no idea who is actually in charge of one entire branch of our government, but you’re mad that we’re reducing the power of these truly unaccountable bureaucrats and making America more democratic by returning power to Congress which actually has to win elections to get its power.
We admit we were kind of in a mood when we wrote that but we think it aged well.
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