Jon Stewart: There’s Plenty of Time to Find a Replacement for Biden

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-theres-plenty-of-time-to-find-a-replacement-for-biden

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  1. >“Can’t we stress test this candidacy?” Stewart asked. “Can’t we open up the conversation? Do you understand the opportunity here? Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership, and a release from this choice between a megalomaniac and a suffocating gerontocracy?”

    >Stewart opened *The Daily Show* Monday by criticizing the party’s messaging in the week since[ ](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/joe-biden)Biden’s [much-maligned performance](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-cant-defend-biden-debate-disaster-this-cannot-be-real-life) at last month’s presidential debate. He played some clips of pro-Biden pundits who were telling their concerned electorate to, as Stewart summarized it, “shut the fuck up.”

  4. They wont they will just label everyone who wants him to step down as elitest and Trump supporters.

  5. Can always count on Jon Stewart to cut through the BS, gaslighting, false arguments, and come up with a sensible argument.

    The whole “bad episode” argument is mind-numbingly insulting. FFS Biden was reading side notes from teleprompters. He’s *senile*.

    For all the people supporting him to continue, *what is going to happen when he implodes in the next debate*?

  6. Most countries election campaigns go for 1 to 2 months and there is I would say 6 months is plenty of time.

  7. Most countries election campaigns go for 1 to 2 months and I think 6 months is plenty of time.

  8. Who would have thought Jon was a Russian plant all along?

    (/s)

  10. John nailed it.

    “Get on board or shut the fuck up is not a particularly compelling pro democracy bumper sticker, nor is ‘whatareyagonnado'”

  11. Not plenty of time, but still time. Honestly, Barack Obama should just walk right through Jill and give it to Joetus straight at this point. The numbers aren’t there, and he ain’t getting any younger.

    Pass the torch, Joe. Ya did great, honest! We’re just in the mood for something fresh.

    (That isn’t P2025, mind you.)

  12. Dude had a great show today.

    There are two camps of dems from what I can see.

    1. People who primarily live in blue states and mainly only know democrats and think Biden can win if only people complaining about his cognitive decline would stfu.

    2. Democrats that live in purple states and swing states that know Biden will not win any of those states…which he needs to do to win the election.

    Group # 1 isn’t worried the Biden being to old to be president. They are worried about the impending 2nd Trump term that will come to pass when Biden loses this election.

  13. Unbelievable that America will elect Trump. Embarrassment to the nation and the world will definitely not respect the United States if Trump wins.

  14. Dude has been on a roll since coming back. Love to see it.

  16. Jon should just step up himself. He’s got name recognition, a lot of people like him, and he’s not Trump or 80 years old. Fuck it, throw your hat in the ring Jon.

  17. I guess the issue is that your democracy is trying to keep its head above water.

    Imagine you’ve got 20 people in a life raft, and it just sprung a leak. You can’t have 50% of the occupants wanting to go one way, and the other half wanting to go the other way.

    Everyone needs to come together and solidify a proper plan, otherwise, you’re just going around in circles.

    The last thing anyone needs right now is a political identity crisis, especially when the orange guy has his base locked down.

  18. While Stewart makes some good points, switching to a new candidate is not as easy as he claims and his plan to ignore the primary voters choice and boot him off at the convention might look anti democratic. Granted biden ran against practically no one but the perception will still be there.

    I only saw his opening monologue, did he actually have an expert on to talk about the legal and campaign donation challenges of switching candidates this far in?

    Historically, No candidate running for the incumbent party who is not the sitting president has ever won the election.

  19. Now that the funny news man said it, maybe some of the diehard “LOL this is just Russian propaganda, Biden is fine” crowd will shut the fuck up and open their eyes.

  20. Yea, I’ve done a 180 on this, there absolutely is enough time left. Have an open national convention in august, generate tons of excitement, make sure it’s the center of every national media coverage and divert the attention from anything else, select a candidate, that ya know, is ALIVE, have him debate trump in september and hopefullly undo the damage that’s been done.

  21. Has replacing a candidate at the last minute ever worked before? I bet the answer is no.

  22. Not disagreeing with anyone here, so who do you replace him with?

    That’s the million dollar question. I’ve thought long and hard on this topic, and I’m having a hard time figuring out who could really pull it off. I have a hard time seeing anyone right now who can pull it off. Maybe if they only campaigned in swing states and purple states? What about red states that have been blue in the past, that maybe could be swung dems way?

    Other countries only need 45 days because you can, generally speaking, do events or rallies all over the place in a short time. We don’t need as much time as we use currently, but we need a bit more time than other countries due to the size of the country and our population.

    Looking forward to seeing others’ thoughts on the biggest question: Who?

    Edit: clarification

  23. I think people are vaaastly overhyping the “danger” of a new nominee. I think most people are just gonna say “oh, i can vote for some who isnt biden or trump, sign me up”. We learned this exact lesson in 2016- unpopular dem candidate, turnout is low, trump wins.

  24. All the noise aside, Biden is the candidate until he decides he isn’t. He won the primary and doesn’t appear to intend to step down. So people can either deal with it, or they can endlessly pontificate on how they wish things were instead of how things are, their lack of unity only helping Trump.

    I support the democratic nominee. Today that is Joe Biden, so I fully support him. If he were to step down, I’d fully support his replacement, but that doesn’t appear likely.

  25. No, America can not hold an election better than the French in 4 months. You normally spend 2 years trying and it ends up a shitshow, bastardisation of democracy.

    Both the French and the British had their party leaders selected a long, long time before the election, because trying to do it mid-election would make you look incompetent. Trying to throw out the democratically elected primary candidate because you didn’t like the result makes you look like Trump.

  26. The main thing is that good old boy Biden tried..

    ..as the purges start in the US, women lose more of their rights, LGBTQ people are criminalised for their existence and China is emboldened to roll into Taiwan.

  27. Kamala Harris is already first in line to the presidency so maybe we rally around her?

  28. Sure there’s plenty of time to find a replacement, but is there time to find one who would be certain to galvanize the nation and beat Trump. It’s a huge, huge risk and erases all the advantages of being an incumbent with a greatly functioning economy.

  30. “Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership and a release from this choice of a megalomaniac and a suffocating gerontocracy. It is crushing our fucking spirits.”

    gold

  31. This is starting to feel a lot like the vibe around Hillary (including flames fanned by disenfranchised democrats who wanted a different candidate), and we got Trump as a result. I tell you now, no matter whose name is next to that (D) on the ballot, we all need to vote our asses off for them in November. I don’t care if Biden needs to hand it off to Kamala on Day 1, if he’s on the ballot we need to get him over the finish line. This is existential for America.

  32. My god the infighting… this is how we lose. Not because Biden stays or not, but because we keep fighting each other while Trump’s people rally around him….

  33. They’re doing everything to turn off people, they’re acting and sounding like the red cult… Biden is so selfish that at 81 years old and who knows how long he’ll be with us and fully conscious willing to risk democracy and future generations. It’s true what they say about politicians, they’re in it for themselves and some can’t give up the power, perks and attention.

  34. No matter how many times people here and all over the Internet ” call for ” and ” demand ” younger leadership, profess their love for dream candidates who don’t exist, blah blah blah It’s NOT going to happen this election . There is no other candidate who can unite 70 + million Democrats , centrists , moderates , progressives , and “leftists” to vote for them and keep the vile trash of maga from taking over again . It’s a choice between democracy ( Biden ) and a Christian nationalist bunch of bullshit, that does fuck all for the citizens of this country, with Trump as their puppet . Not really a tough choice at all .

  35. People might know the name Jacinda Adern from New Zealand.

    What you might not know is she was nominated leader of her party 6 weeks before the election after the previous leader and her party were polling very low (on track for a record defeat).

    She was exactly the breath of fresh air needed to energise the country and win the election. In 6 weeks.

    A new candidate will energise the Democrat base, change the narrative and focus on trump being such a bad option. It’s been done before. America can do it this time but Joe needs to step aside to let it happen.

  36. he’s not at his prime. far from it. but the other guy is a convicted felon and the media seems to have moved on. One is 100x worse than Biden not being to communicate well. This is just getting ridiculous. Does his record not matter? He got us back to normal after Covid to name 1 out of 100 legislative successes. While we’re out here discussing this shit, the other guy is planning a fascist dictatorship. FFS what is going on here. You cannot change the candidate with 4 months left. It doesn’t work like that. wake up.

  37. In August 2017, New Zealand was looking like it was going to get a 4th term for the National led Government. The Labour leader at the time was Andrew Little, an effective MP but not exactly Prime Minister material and the polls showed it. Jacinda Ardern took the reins from him seven weeks before the election and the swing voters moved left. With a coalition government made up of a couple of smaller parties, she was the next Prime Minister.

    Four months is a lifetime in politics.

  38. Keep this stupid dialogue up and the replacement will be Trump.

  39. Sorry this why you have primary I for one will not just blindly vote D that’s how get guys like prime minster manchin. Establishment wants to install their guy without people getting to vote I know Joe I’ve known he was old for years just like you all have reading these comments y’all are either interns or just really naive down vote ya mum

  40. Y’all are handing this to Trump. It’s already done. He’s already won. You just didn’t want to admit it yet.

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