Read Biden’s Letter to Congressional Democrats

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/08/us/president-biden-letter-to-congressional-democrats-78.html

28 comments

  1. Democratic congress leaders better not capitulate because bidens staffers wrote up a letter. Like Jesus. I have supported biden since he got the nomination in 2020 but my god he needs to go.

  2. I feel like I got told off by my great grandpa after suggesting we take his keys… very condescending

  3. Looking forward to the sequel later this week where he drops out.

  4. You know what he could do to alleviate congressional Democrats concerns? Go to the WH briefing room and stand there for 30 minutes answering press questions without any written script. You know why he won’t do that and his team won’t push him to do it? Because if he did he’d inevitably have a couple screw ups which would make the calls louder. He’s holding the party hostage due to his delusions that he’s the only one that can win.

  5. “I won the primary!”

    …before you proved on live TV to 50 million horrified people that you belonged in a nursing home.

  6. >We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have nearly 3,900 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin.

    >This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me.
    One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party.

    >Do we now just say this process didn’t matter? That the voters don’t have a say?

    The fucking balls.

  8. The one valid argument against Biden is that he is too old to lead this country. A strongly worded letter does nothing to counter his opponents argument. Since I can’t see him speak off the cuff and answer even basic questions, that tells me he can’t. Fuck Trump and his corrupt advisors. But Fuck Biden and those around him for letting this go on. Should have stepped aside the Sunday after the debate. Edit: Should have stepped aside before the debate, but no later than the weekend after it. What a cluster fuck.

  9. His Trumpian arrogance that he alone can fix it is genuinely disturbing. His supporters mobbing anyone who criticizes him will turn off voters just as much as Trump and his maga cult.

    This how you alienate voters and depress enthusiasm. This is how you lose a winnable election.

    I’m seriously in tears this morning. There is almost no hope left.

  10. Nothing about his age, or the worrisome signs he showed at the debate. Just completely brushed over it like that isn’t the biggest reason he’s losing a lot of support. Does this guy not realize it’s not the policies or what he’s doing for the country that have people worried, but his literal deteriorating while he’s been in office?

  11. This man is turning into Trump.

    I’m the best.

    I have big crowds.

    Nobody knows more than me.

    Those polls aren’t real.

    God damn you, Joe.

  12. Biden claiming the voters selected him in the primaries is such a bad faith argument.

    Even without the age issues, from the way him and his team have conducted themselves these past few days, I don’t want him to be the nominee.

  13. He’s on morning Joe right now and is dismissing everyone who has concerns and sounds extremely arrogant and dismissive. I really dislike this guy now

  14. Well, fuck.

    Is anyone even picturing Biden sitting down and writing something like this anymore? Or are we all assuming he’ll sign anything his team puts in front of him?

    Can’t express how condescending the messaging about the primary is–totally ignoring how most competitive candidates (and voters) won’t participate when there’s an incumbent. Totally ignoring the signals his campaign sent in 2020 that he’d be ready to pass the torch in 2024.

    I think he’s missing that this is the final straw for a lot of us who’ve watched what happened with RBG and Feinstein–hell, with Trump and McConnell. Even with Hillary. A final straw for those of us who have spent our lives being kept down economically and socially by a generation that should be golfing and helping with grandkids rather than clinging to power.

    The camel’s back is breaking. Telling us to accept a president who can’t stay awake and focused for a full work day because we need to eat our vegetables yet again–telling us to trust the people around him when we were horrified when Trump’s cabinet said the same thing…

    It doesn’t have to be like this.

  16. “The voters alone decide the nominee”

    Okay. Agree. Now. Let’s have a Primary. Include Biden. Let him prove his claim that he’s the choice for Democrats. Or if they want someone better. It’s not that fucking hard.

  18. I find it quite disingenuous that his staffers (who wrote the letter I’m sure) claim there was an “open primary”. Like hell there was. The WH and campaign staff literally fanned out to every possible challenger and told them they’d be blackballed by the party if they challenged Biden. There was no open primary. Biden was coronated as the nominee. I don’t buy it for a moment that the Dems are not into installing Kings. They are the epitome of installing Kings, the masters of “it’s his/her turn”.

  20. “We had a democratic nomination process”

    Really? I guess I missed all the debates between Biden and all the other nominees.

    We are fucked

  21. Nice letter likely written by a staff member that highlights what his admin has and will accomplish but it’s not like another candidate in his own party can’t appropriate that like he did with student loans in 2020 (which was Elizabeth Warren’s thing, if I remember correctly).

  22. Anyone reading in here, keep in mind, Right wing propaganda is also about pretending to be left and trying to instill doubt into on the fence voters.

    The alternative to Biden losing, is Trump winning. I’ll vote a 3 year dead body to office because I vote for Trump.

  23. The fact he is using a primary we never even legitimately had as his reason for staying in is salt in the gaping gangrenous wound

  24. Someone posted, “I’ll vote for you if you can turn this into a PDF,” and it sent me.

  25. So the US will have Donald Trump as president again. Europeans should start to prepare for that and americans too, I guess.

  26. What’s the alternative and how would that alternative get on all the ballots by November? Enough of this.
    We’re voting for policies not a person. Vote blue.

  27. idk what dems dont get that its the general public they have to convince not each other. its hilary all over again.

  28. I’m going to vote Biden because I don’t want to be in a MAGA concentration camp in Greenland after Trump buys greenland.

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