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  Holding firmly on the wheel, while saying, "Icebergs don't come this far south this time of year, nothing to worry about."
context: Biden will be 82 during the campaign.  I get Democrats are scared about looking fractured, but I find it hard to believe such an old guy is the best the Democrats have to offer. 
  I lived in Springfield. IL and met Obama once in the early years of his campaign,  when few people knew him or showed up to his pressers.  I remember his enthusiasm and energy, coming off as a genuinely nice person.  I would like to see more of this,  young people with ideas and vision rather than old people who can be hopelessly out of touch with modern issues.
  Edit:  typo >
  
  If I look at US politics today it’s not necessarily the old people who are out of touch, though. >
  
  The absolute power of the DNC makes me so angry. They get to set up the board and then invite us to sit down after all the piece’s are chosen. screams into void >
  
  It's wild to think that in the next 10-15 years the majority of our current members of congress will be dead. These old fucks really have a difficult time letting go of power. >
  
  I would like a younger president, but I don’t need one to excite me to vote. If the president who’s creating record job growth and cooling inflation and has had so many legislative successes runs for another term, of course I’ll fucking vote for him. >
  
  Someone call Mary Kay, she may have the answers we're looking for. Get this man preserved in a vat of anti-aging cream, STAT! >
  
  Honestly though what other option is there? Push another candidate and the party looks fractured? Tough spot but gotta stay the course. >
  
  Stay the course. Democrats' sacred mantra at this point. >
  
  Holding firmly on the wheel, while saying, "Icebergs don't come this far south this time of year, nothing to worry about." >
  
  People act like they are doing Biden a favor by voting for him but in reality you need him far more than he needs you.
  If republicans ban abortion, slash taxes on the rich or take away lgbt rights none of those things hurt Biden, he is a rich white man. He and his family will continue living a luxury life, he does not need to be president . >
  
  Democrats have a real succession problem. Biden may beat Trump but I think would likely lose to a younger, more popular candidate. Kamala Harris was a bad VP choice from a deep blue state. There are a lot of high up Democratic Party or government admin jobs Kamala would have been good for and I’ll never understand why Biden invited her to be VP, it doesn’t make sense on so many levels. >
  
  He needed a woman, preferably a woman of color. One of the first places most nominees look for VP candidates is in their former primary opponents. Harris ticked the right boxes. >
  
  I get that but he could have looked for a woman of color from Georgia or Florida or a state that would be politically valuable. Or someone that was a good politician and not just a party functionary who successfully navigated a heavily democratic political system with little Republican opposition. >
  
  TL;DR: 
  Dems realize they've screwed themselves by reducing their bench of presidential candidates and we're stuck with one guy who will be readily destroyed if Ron "Human Trafficking Torture Porn Addict" DeSantis gets enough momentum over Donald "Only Criminals Plead the 5th" Trump in the GOP primaries. >
  
  Desantis has the charisma of a wet fart and there's absolutely nothing appealing about him beyond the braindead maga base. >
  
  The dude trounced his opponents in 2022, taking just under 60% of overall votes. He may not have charisma for a lot of us, but he certainly speaks to a particular subset of people. >
  
  In a red state that has gotten drastically redder since 2018 and has only had republican governors since 1999. >
  
  And in my sapphire blue state, I have relatives who are looking forward to voting for the guy.
  I'm just saying underestimate him at your own peril. >
  
  And did those relatives vote for Trump before? DeSantis isn’t flipping any votes that weren’t already going red. >
  
  The Democrats really don't have a response to MAGA other than trying to wait it out and hope it dies naturally (spoiler: it won't). The DOJ is powerless to hold Trump and his ilk accountable to the law and is likewise hoping the dude will just keel over. Meanwhile we have former Speaker Insider Trading declaring she would unreservedly support Senator Dementia were she to run again. There's no leadership. There are no solutions. They're all just letting the GOP make the moves and positioning themselves as the only other option. No wonder the voters are demoralized. >
  
  I will not vote for Biden if he runs again. He’s already senile and so is trump. Can we get some fresh blood >
  
  So when it comes down to a choice of Biden or Trump who you gonna vote for?  Not voting is a vote for Trump. >
  
  That is such a depressing way to choose a leader. >
  
  Welcome to democracy. Sitting out the process doesn’t make it go away, it just ensures the guy you hate has one less vote against them than they would otherwise. >
  
  Oh I have a fuckton of reservations.  I don’t appreciate the Democratic Party holding a gun to my head and forcing me to vote for an 80 year old who should be retired. This is a great way to throw the election to the Republicans. >
  
  We need younger blood. >
  
  If Biden runs, Democrats will lose the presidency to whomever is running against him. What the hell are people thinking?  Might as well hand over the keys now. >
  
  Same shit was said about Biden in 2019. Geez people, the GOP has sucked ass three election cycles in a row, and Trump is getting ready to tear it apart if he’s not the nominee. Biden can handle the campaign - whether he can serve a fully second term is another story. But I’ll take that over angry white fascism any day. >
  
  The decision right now isn’t whether to vote for Biden or whatever republican runs against him! It’s who to nominate to run on the democrat ticket. We don’t just have to accept Biden, and my option is that he isn’t the strongest option and that him not accepting that is putting our country at risk of another 4 years of fascist executive power. >
  
  he sucks like we knew he would and I am not voting for him again >
  
  If they push Biden for 2024, anybody that half pays attention to politics will vote for the younger candidate (aka DeSantis). DNC needs to put a 50-60yo up >
  
  Trump will destroy the GQP if he’s not the nominee. He allowed tens of thousands of Americans to die from Covid b/c it was hitting blue voting areas in swing states first. He sat on his ass in the winter of 2020-21 when Covid was killing 3000+ / day trying to overturn an election he knew he lost.  Anyone who thinks that he or his rabid methhead base will roll over and let de Santis be the nominee hasn’t been paying attention the last 6 years. >
  
  Biden will be 82 during the campaign.  I get Democrats are scared about looking fractured, but I find it hard to believe such an old guy is the best the Democrats have to offer. 
  I lived in Springfield. IL and met Obama once in the early years of his campaign,  when few people knew him or showed up to his pressers.  I remember his enthusiasm and energy, coming off as a genuinely nice person.  I would like to see more of this,  young people with ideas and vision rather than old people who can be hopelessly out of touch with modern issues.
  Edit:  typo >
  
  If I look at US politics today it’s not necessarily the old people who are out of touch, though. >
  
  It's wild to think that in the next 10-15 years the majority of our current members of congress will be dead. These old fucks really have a difficult time letting go of power. >
  
  The absolute power of the DNC makes me so angry. They get to set up the board and then invite us to sit down after all the piece’s are chosen. screams into void >
  
  I would like a younger president, but I don’t need one to excite me to vote. If the president who’s creating record job growth and cooling inflation and has had so many legislative successes runs for another term, of course I’ll fucking vote for him. >
  
  Someone call Mary Kay, she may have the answers we're looking for. Get this man preserved in a vat of anti-aging cream, STAT! >
  
  Honestly though what other option is there? Push another candidate and the party looks fractured? Tough spot but gotta stay the course. >
  
  Stay the course. Democrats' sacred mantra at this point.