Joe Biden suddenly cancels speech
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Biden was supposed to speak at UnidosUS annual conference but suddenly cancelled because of a positive COVID test.
  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    1461·
    4 months ago

    Waiting for all the Maga folks to fall over each other in their rush to wish Biden well…

      • awake01@lemmy.world
        23·
        4 months ago

        They can wish that I guess, but a state funeral “trumps” a failed assassination like 9 times out of 10. Kicking it in office of natural causes is some FDR shit.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Isn’t that the truth. These people have such a double standard. Especially when it comes to their Dear Leader that almost no one else respects at all, but they think everyone should be forced to worship.

          I swear that if donnie published on his stupid troof sohshul that Dear Leader does not actually poop and that he gets at least one hole in one per game of golf, that his supporters would all defend this new “truth”.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        Yup. I saw a magabrain shortly after the shooting, and he was deathly serious like he just heard about the death of a relative: “did you hear about the shooting?”

        Meanwhile, this same guy thought the hammering of Pelosi’s husband was HILARIOUS.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      201·
      4 months ago

      You should hold your breath, it probably won’t be too long.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1919·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, that timeline is a little sus…

      But even if this is some kind of excuse, it would help his replacement more if he said he was stepping aside for a candidate with the best shot of beating trump.

      But that includes putting country over ego.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeEnglish
      221·
      4 months ago

      Biden, as an official act, declares it illegal for felons to be president. Biden then drops out of the next election.

      Turning America off and back on again.

      • raef@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        You know the SC would decide that Trump’s convictions aren’t final since they’re under appeal

        Edit: convictions

        • Audacious@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          4 months ago

          This is why I consider trump still effectively ruling like a king, as someone above the law, controlling one of the three major branches of the government.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      That may actually be the case, at this point I’m thinking about it in terms of Harris Vs. Vance

      A black woman vs. a guy who openly admits to being a racist who hates Mexicans in his own fucking campaign ad - https://vxtwitter.com/JDVance1/status/1511311385543815180

      I think my favorite part is this sob story about how his mother nearly died on the “poison Mexicans are bringing into this country!”

      If you do a fact check, his mother was a nurse who raided the controlled substances locker to get high.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      4 months ago

      Man I thought they were already dead, one being paraded around as a string puppet, and the other with the innards replaced with a chuck e cheeze type animatronic with chatgpt or something controlling it.

  • demizerone@lemmy.world
    633·
    4 months ago

    I wish Him well, but man he need to be home with his family resting, like for the rest of his life.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      156·
      4 months ago

      I think the fact that he’s the incumbent is a bigger advantage than anyone aside from him can muster, but if he steps down as soon as the election is over that’d be good.

      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
        173·
        4 months ago

        A bait and switch like that would clobber any trust the Democratic party has built up and cost them for at least a decade

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        4 months ago

        A lot less of an advantage when polling this badly in approval.

        There’s never been a president with this approval that won reelection.

        • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          51·
          4 months ago

          I haven’t been paying attention to the approval rating because I don’t think it’s relevant. People didn’t like Biden last time either, and I’ve spoken to registered Republicans who said they’d vote for Biden even if he was a corpse. Lots of people really don’t like Trump. Iirc, a president has only been re-elected after losing a single time in history as well, but I don’t recall the circumstances.

          • Addv4@lemmy.world
            31·
            4 months ago

            Yeah, but last time Biden didn’t have as many verbal gaffs and was generally viewed in a positive manner due to his connection with Obama. His presidency has been relatively stable (given how much interference from the Republicans during it), but in the last year his popularity has gone down due to his actions over Gaza (he could have loudly and publicly stated he did not agree with the Republicans in congress and boosted his approval ratings easily) and his increasingly worrying speech patterns. I don’t actually think he has dementia (more that he’s in his 80s), but calling one of our allies the name of their enemy could definitely cause a political issue. I do suspect that a lot of the previous voters will probably still vote Biden, but they would probably vote for any halfway decent politician that opposed Trump. The problem is that some less convinced voters have been berated when asking questions about his fitness for the next 4 years, which does raise the bs alarm. And yes, I know Republicans have definitely been stoking that fire, but if the default response is to deflect then you are going to make those potential voters anxious.

              • Addv4@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                Per unit time. He’s been having some mistakes and they have become more frequent. For example, when he basically planned a press conference to dispute/explain the verbal mistakes he made at the debate with Trump, and proceeded to have the massive one of calling Zylinski “Mr. Putin” about an hour before, causing them to cancel it. Again, he’s in his 80s, but it is still pretty depressing to those that aren’t supporting him completely due to his opposition to Trump.

                • Krono@lemmy.today
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  causing them to cancel it.

                  They didn’t cancel his NATO press conference. This is the press conference where Biden referred to his Vice President as “Vice President Trump”.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            Grover Cleveland. Only non consecutive presidency, so far. That happened in the late 1800s, so neither radio nor TV had been invented yet, and TV definitely changes the campaign.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        Fox news is going to run with this so hard if it happens. God curved a bullet (straight into a retired firefighter) to save trump and killed Biden with a cough (because COVID doesn’t exist for them). I can’t wait for the rhetoric.

        • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          Well to be fair, if this were a movie then a character who said

          If the Lord Almighty came down and said, “Joe, get out of the race,” I’d get out of the race. The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.

          would definitely die. The Lord Almighty doesn’t come down to you, you come up to him.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    514·
    4 months ago

    Biden just said it would take a medical emergency to get him to drop. If this isn’t a sign from <deity of your choice> that he needs to get out of the race, I don’t know what is.

    • anon@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      maybe it’s an act of god or maybe they got someone sick to cough on his glass, but the thing from god is also possible

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        4 months ago

        Wow, did the stars align? Next you’re gonna tell me a charismatic potential candidate has been waiting in the shadows.

          • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
            28·
            4 months ago

            I fucking love Bernie, I donated, canvassed, made calls, drove hundreds of miles to go to rallies, have Bernie sticker on my vehicles in a violently republican town, but Bernies window has closed. He is too old now and he would say that himself.

            I wouldn’t argue too hard because he still seems to have his witts about him, and even a half sentient Bernie is exactly what this corrupt country needs, But this age trend needs to go the other way.

            How about AOC…

            • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
              171·
              4 months ago

              AOC, but how do we court the mythical moderate republican that’s just waiting in the wings to elect a neo-lib once the opportunity arrives?

              Edit: this is probably the reason the neolibs won’t give up power. They are afraid to admit no one, and I mean no one, actually wants them around. Once they let the party change hands everyone will see the absolute juggernaut they are holding back.

                • USNWoodwork@lemmy.world
                  6·
                  4 months ago

                  Gavin newsome: NOOOOOOOO!!!

                  He said years ago that the homeless issue was his number one problem, and its gotten worse and worse in CA. It’s up like 70% in Sacramento, which is his backyard. We can do better than that, I know we can.

        • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          4 months ago

          We do have a candidate waiting in the shadows in case Biden croaks. She’s capable, but hardly charismatic.

  • essell@lemmy.world
    364·
    4 months ago

    I hope he’s not planning to one-up Trump’s “brush with death” and steal back sympathy by actually dying.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      361·
      4 months ago

      I’m watching NBC News live right now and they asked people on the floor of the RNC for their reaction about Biden having COVID. They all said they are praying for him and hope for a speedy recovery. I was waiting for just one “COVID ain’t real! Fauci is a liar!” crazy person but there were none. Damn.

      https://www.youtube.com/live/h0OIShWin3k

      • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
        17·
        4 months ago

        They know the media is on them and they have to behave and say “politically correct” things.

        Make no mistake, the RNC and DNC are carefully managed events. RNC tries to show as racially diverse a crowd as possible for the cameras and DNC tries to be a welcoming big tent, both to encourage undecided voters to come join the bandwagon.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          123·
          4 months ago

          and DNC tries to be a welcoming big tent,

          As long as you agree 100% with the DNC…

          They have a poor record with people protesting how rightwing the DNC has been moving for decades…

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    191·
    4 months ago

    They had people out here supporting a mask ban and acting COVID doesn’t exist because Corporate America said so.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      136·
      4 months ago

      No he’s not…the D’s will run his fucking corpse at this point rather than picking a viable candidate.

      At least his corpse can’t fuck up softball questions.