Biden supporters: Make your voices heard.

I am sure Mr, Trump would heartily approve of this effort to prop up his prefered opponent. 

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Look, I understand you disagree with me. That’s fine. You are a voter. But I’m trying to be proactive and not give into despair. I’m doing this because doing SOMETHING feels better than doing NOTHING. Does that make sense? 

It does.

Good on ya, MattZ.

I can’t stop people from writing in for Biden to drop out either. But if they do that, it IS them taking matters into their own hands and their power back. That’s how it should be. But those same people can’t stop the MANY of us who support Joe Biden to just stop on Adam Schiff’s say-so. That’s up to US, not them, and not Schiff. 

Besides if Shifty Schiff pushes Biden aside, we’ll just simply write in Biden.  All y’all who want to dump Joe Biden will be to blame if Schiff runs and loses to Trump because Biden voters kept their promises to Biden.

We’re the ones who are playing by the rules.  Just get back.

To be clear, I will vote for the Democratic nominee over Trump, no matter who it is. But I believe we can only win with Biden. 

Now here’s your second comment I’ve seen, using the Trump-generated slur against Rep. Adam Schiff, who led the first and successful impeachment against the former president (the corrupt Republican leader of the Senate ensured he would not get convicted). Please confirm or deny that you are an operative from the Trump campaign.

Thanks for noting the abusive term used by this commenter before me. I wouldn’t have written mine if i read yours before.

In my letter, I did say “Fuck Clooney! Fuck Schiff!” I can’t believe how quickly buckled.  Why should their opinion override my vote? Let’s move forward with hope, not backward with fear.   

You used a term that Trump and MAGA haters came up with to describe Congressman Adam Schiff when he was on the forefront of Trump impeachment. Critique him all you want but please don’t use MAGA terms here.

It does.

But we all feel the need to act to prevent another Trump Error. 

If you need to email the White House to suggest Biden drop out I am powerless to stop you. But I will admire you for taking the power into your own hands anyways. 

I have already sent the Biden WH a couple of E-mails. 

Lefty you do that by propping up your incumbent.  You ditch the advantage of incumbency and you surrender a huge advantage.  So many folks are committing political malpractice.

Honestly, they are entitled to their opinion. I don’t want a pie fight in the comments. I want people to work, not fight. 

I don’t want pie either.  I’m counseling folks of the historical folly of being divided going into the convention and the general election.  We’re doomed if we don’t nip this in the bud or have a graceful exist that leaves all factions satisfied and eager to win.

Bud nipping is my preference. 

That is mine too.  I was fine with the old imperfect Joe.  Weekend at Bernies Joe could beat Trump as a matter of fact.

If we ignore the ignorance of encouraging an intraparty fight because a small percentage bought the lies of the right wing media and ran with them then we deserve the dictatorship that results.  I’m not going to let the lies go unchallenged.

akeitz is entitled to their opinion too.

President Biden ditched  the advantage of incumbency in the debate, IMHO.

Nope he did not.  You do not understand the fundamentals of how our Constitutional system works.  It’s a binary election with advantage to incumbent.  Bad debates blow over in days.  Every incumbent in the modern TV era has flubbed their 1st debate in some way and the elections did not hinge on any of those debates.

I guess I missed the part where he resigned.

Who is “we all”? Do you know those others so intimately?

All this guy does is dump on Biden.

Period...

Give us the whole interview, not selected snippets.

I’m beginning to wonder about you.

That’s today? A bit of a relief. 

All day every day now it seems.

THANKS! I had already emailed my Senators, and called to chew out Schiff, but didn’t think about WH — done and dusted now. DON’T GO, JOE! This is a tough time, but he will win if Dems stop tearing at him.

I think if he doesn’t drop out, he wins. But making sure he doesn’t drop out is the key. 

Boy lately it sure does not feel like a democracy. It’s looking more like a Third World country. What congressional Democrats are doing is not the Democratic way. They’ll do anything for their owners.

Just sent!

Thank you so much!

I’m a “stay in the race, Joe” vote!

Wrote a diary for the first time in forever too, supporting that same position.

Great letter you wrote. I have emailed Biden and have called the WH comment line pleading for him not to drop out (several times after the debate, once again today).

Also called Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and Schiff and left angry messages. They need to unite or this thing gets thrown to Trump.

I feel like the world has turned upside down. The people who normally make sense seem brainwashed and are trying to get rid of their BEST chance to beat Trump (WTF?!) and MSNBC and the rest of the media is stoking the narrative with a fervor that is beyond me and using Schiff’s and others comments as further fuel.

If Schiff and company would shut up and get behind their chose candidate---Biden---the media would eventually stop. It’s a horrible feedback loop. I really thought it was all quieting down until Schiff reared his ugly head. What a traitor.  So angry at him---and Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, etc.

Now we know who they really are, sadly.

Yes, very sad to see their true colors. Still hoping they get in line and back Biden.

I stated this before, but the delegates at the democratic convention will be doing the nominating and voting for who the democratic nominee will be.  I hope it's Biden, but I will support whoever the democratic nominee will be.  Until then, I am assuming it will be Biden.  I believe that just like in 2018, 2020, and 2022, democrats will over perform, as long as we work as hard as we can, however we can, for them, up and down the ballot

Absolutely, terrier3479. Thanks for writing this.

I called my Democratic Rep and Senator. Great idea. I told them to support our president who won the primaries and not let him be replaced by the media and self-appointed “party bosses”.

I donate to Biden regularly.
I emailed the White House.
I called the White House urging him not to drop out.
I Called SChiff’s office, and VM was full.
I called Schumer’s and Jeffries’ offices and gave them a piece of my mind.

Ty MattZ

Email for Schiff’s campaign: contact@adamschiff.com

Matt Z,

Thank you for posting this story, the link, and the text of your email to President Biden.  I have followed by sending a modified version of your email to the President, as well as to Vice President Harris.  

Message sent. I want President Biden to stay in. 

A few days ago, I urged my Rep to support him but got back a form letter saying she is not permitted to communicate anything political to her constituents or something like that.

Write back and tell her to pound sand. 

Yeah, that response doesn’t REMOTELY make sense. It sounds like bullshit. Her JOB is politics. Constituents having opinions about that is not remotely out of bounds. 

Then why is she in office? I think she owes it to her constituents to let them know what she’s up to and why.

Email her campaign website instead and then follow up with her office to say you support President Biden and are asking her to do the same. That way you are not asking for her as an elected official to weigh in on a campaign-related issue.

You hit the nail on the head. I found her message again and it read:

The Congresswoman’s office is unable to discuss any campaign matters, per House Ethics Committee rules. Please reach out to the Congresswoman’s campaign team if you would like to discuss anything related to the 2024 election . . .

I would hope my message still got to her, even if she is unable to respond as an elected official.

This doesn’t make sense.

To me either.

Already done.

Thanks, Matt. Great work! 

I donated again. 

Yay!

I emailed several days ago and have no problem doing it again - done!

I agree that messages of support to the WH are crucial at this moment.   Thanks for the reminder.

I was feeling powerless and felt the need to DO something. Another commenter in a different diary suggested doing this and it got the ball rolling. 

I hope you feel more powerful now — I do!

Not yet. But I feel less shitty. That’s something. 

Taking positive action, however small it may seem, is empowering.   God knows we can all use a bit of that.  

I appreciate your diary, the links, etc.   Look at how many of us took action, too.  

It matters!   I thank you again.   :)

Thank you for helping!

Actually did it all this morning.

Awesome!

Time for Joe to exit stage left.

Why?  Probably be more convincing if you explained your thoughts.

Never explain.

President Obama on that list is a disappointment.  

It’s all just (printed) rumors so far. But I think people feel they need to make sure.

Done. Emailed the White House with full support. I would like to propose a massive boycott of the media. The only thing they care about are eyeballs. They do not care about our Democracy. That does not mean not following favs like the DailyKos or your favorite bloggers. CNN and MSNBC viewership is already down. I have not watched MSNBC for two weeks, except for Lawrence.

Thank you.

MSNBC might be better than CNN. Can't watch the later any longer after the debate. Fuck Tapper and Bash.

Democrats don't want to win elections or implement democracy. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, et al., have decided to back Trump because they think their stocks will do better in a Nazi economy. 

I can’t get over how cruel and cold politics is. They know the real reason why they want to get rid of Biden. Not polling,not how he appears in public, it is because they want the donor money. So they stab him in the back in order to get the donor money. Wow 

Another of your scenarios that are about as convincing and scary as a Haunted House in Disneyland, with (malfunctioning) animatronic robots.

Your allegories continue to be poor. Maybe you were not meant for comedy. 

No-one, myself included, is laughing, and commenter phx libby cooks up and serves a conspiracy theory which you seem ok with. Not good.

I wrote my letter, first letter I have ever sent to an elected official (at least that I can remember).  Will probably be the most important letter I will ever write.  I want him to be my president, I want him to fight for me.

Thank you so much!

So did I.

I just emailed him a letter of support a few minutes ago. I remain amazed that many of the naysayers do not offer an alternate.

Regardless, I plan to  vote a straight Democrat ticket in November. And BTW, not all hillbillies, rednecks and ridge runners are Republicans.

Thank you, brandon, good job.
Do you have a Democratic congressperson or Senator? 
If so write, call and/or email them to state your opinion.
When inundated , they feel it.

That’s not an iceberg, and we didn’t hit it. It was just a love tap.

No, the forward cargo holds are not filling with seawater. And yes, the watertight doors are all properly closed — of course we’re prepared. And yes, they go up high enough — they go low, we go high, ha ha!

The engines are off because the stokers are doing a shift change. The Captain told us so.

No, the ship isn’t tilting, and the lights aren’t flickering — you’re just being gaslighted (literally!) by the media and the Debbie Downers and the bed-wetters, ha ha.

No, that isn’t icy seawater pouring up the corridor, you are just seeing things. And take off that damn life jacket, what are you, mad?

Listen to the Captain, he knows better than the crew, no matter what they tell him, and will soon announce we are back on our way.

Captain! Captain!

More accurate metaphor: The Iceberg is Trump. And the crew are trying to set the ship on fire instead of manning their posts to avoid it while the Captain has zero help whatsoever. Then they blame the Captain when the ship goes up in flames, hits the iceberg, and sinks. 

With all due respect, no your version is much less accurate. In my version, a new captain steps up, and everyone is magically transported to a much newer, much younger ship, that hasn’t struck an iceberg and isn’t going to sink in two hours with two thirds of its passengers — and the voyage continues.

Sadly, President Biden is not ever going to become younger, more vigorous, more collected, or more coherent. It’s not going to happen. And now virtually every major Democratic leader is stepping forward and saying, very carefully, very gradually, very respectfully — because President Biden is a very nice guy with a terrific legacy as President, and is still a very powerful if quite elderly and fragile man —  that, Joe, time is running out.

Your version is relying on magic? Do I even need to argue further against it? 

I have a better idea — let’s switch to ostriches with their heads in the sand. No magic involved.

And yet, it’s nonsensical. Quit while you’re behind. 

I say let’s revisit this in a week or so and see who’s more accurate about what is actually happening.

And I am giving up — just one more comment. We all know the old saw about how you don’t want to know how the sausages are made in the sausage factory. Well, everyone should just shut up and eat their sausage, because that’s politics, and we absolutely must defeat Don the Con and his gang of thugs this November.

I’m not making fun of your accuracy of how the thing with Biden will play out. I have no idea myself. I’m making fun of your metaphors. They are terrible. 

Oh Captain, my Captain.

Goddess between us and evil, though..

Is this AI?     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is what AI?

We need change! Independents, younger voters, and undecided are more likely to vote for Kamala. If Biden and his campaign work with her and her new running mate to help form a Team, it could be formidable. And Kamala will be tougher on trump and the January 6 criminals and the corrupt republican Supreme Court!

I think we will pay the price for changing horses in midstream no matter how qualified Harris is. And don’t forget there’s still a little thing called racism and misogyny that’s been going around sometimes that people don’t want to admit.

Thank you for this!
Please put up yard signs.
Affix bumper stickers.
Show some courage.
Get out in front.

I know that many here live in places where it feels unsafe to say loud and proud:
 Vote Dem! 
Biden/Harris
Stop Project 2025
We Won’t Go Back
Overturn Dobbs.

But most of us live in Blue states and swing states, and cities of reason within Red states.

And I think most of us can draw a little courage from Gandhi, suffragettes, MLK, Rosa Parks,   John Lewis, and the rank and file union coal miners facing gunfire.

And more recently, the BLM protesters, and the suburban dads who came out with their lawnblowers to protect them from tear gas.

My own pretty little white  daughter in a sundress was one of thousands of girls who stood between the militarily armed cops and the black men and women in DC.
As a human shield.
Because her pal from high school asked her to.
And was charged by horses and  gassed.
But wasn’t injured and is proud that she showed up.

We can brave embarrassment and put up signs, can’t we?

Those signs raise consciousness and tell wobbly people that they are not on their own.

They also raise morale , and discourage the fascists.
So much better to do it now while it’s legal
than regret we didn’t try after 2025 is implemented.

This is your time to make a difference in history.
You risk little by doing what I suggest.

But if we do not GOTV, everything rational on earth is at risk.

 

This is beautiful!

Oh thank you, MattZ. 
I’m just trying to say what I think directly  from my experience.

We will win with Biden. We need to make sure we have his back so he doesn’t drop out.