Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are panicking over Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 race.
J.D. Vance has joined the chorus of conservatives who have begun claiming that President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race constitutes a so-called “coup” in the Democratic Party.
In an interview filmed on Saturday with Fox News’s Jesse Watters, a clip of which aired on Fox & Friends Monday morning, Watters asked former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Vance, the new question plaguing Republicans: “Is it a coup against Joe Biden?” Both of them fumbled their answers.
“Uh, sort of,” Trump said unsure, looking over to Vance for explanation.
You saw how big “Hawk Tuah” girl got. Dumb people elevate dumb shit. Thankfully she seems to be pretty level headed. But at that moment I knew us Americans like really, really dumb shit and will put those kinds on a pedestal.
No, no, it’s supposed to happen by violent insurrection during the certification of the election and by violently hanging the vice president in front of the Capitol building!
He's not saying it to rally up his base, he's saying it so when the DNC appoints her at the convention the democratic voters get all pissed off because they never cast a vote with her at the top of the ticket. Hopefully, the democrats aren't as dumb as his party and don't fall for it. His motivations are not because it's a coup against them, he's pretending it's a coup for the democratic nomination so we get all mad at each other.
They’re going to run with this the whole way through and if they lose they’ll keep saying this until trump fucks off. It will be the new stop the steal. Pathetic
Everyone knows a coup is when a candidate steps down and endorses their VP. Biden is still POTUS, with the immense powers of a President, but he has of course been overthrown.
I mean, according to SCOTUS last month,* he could send the Marines into the EEOB to put down any "coup" without any legal ramifications, so I feel like he's not really being mistreated.
*THIS MONTH. It was THIS MONTH. The writers for this season really need to slow down.
Biden running against Trump and winning legitimately in 2020 they called a coup too, and they said Jan 6th wasn't one. At some point they just show they don't understand the meaning of the word.
Deal with it, bitches. The fact that every right winger is repeating the coup talking point tells you everything you need to know. They are in absolute panic mode.
Well, at least THIS time we can call in some fucking muscle to put that shit right down. I hope to god they lose and try something dumb and this time we are ready for them - even arrest/disrupt them prior, ideally. Get more of them in the prison industrial complex and keep them out of politics.
I also hope they lose so that the J6 insurrectionists don't get pardoned by that asshat donnie.
Is it bad of me for kinda wanting to see the military drop napalm on them if they try that shit again. Like as someone who knows about Blai Mountain I know its a bad thing, but also fuckem the welps would support far worse that a bit of napalm and ad hoc skin liquefaction.
I don't remember that one, but he did call him "J.P.", then tried course correcting only to careen off road in the other direction with "J.D. Mandel" at a rally once
I wonder if tRump chose Vance because it kinda sounds like Pence. Easier to remember.
I was joking just a few days ago that all those folks still flying "Trump - Pence" signs from 2020 or the really faded ones from 2016 just need to change the "PE" to "VA" and they're good for another 4 years of sun bleaching.
I think he chose both of them because their names have 5 letters and the simple symmetry of them matching his name in length is soothing for a moron like Trump.
They don't have anything they can use against her right now. They want to get her in office for a few months so they can attack every single choice she makes.
If Biden died, and the Dems still ran him, I'd vote for his corpse because he's not Trump. If Harris ends up the nominee, I'll vote for her for the same reason. But I'm not excited about it.
Biden's decision to step down isn't in any way an acknowledgement that he is unfit to serve it is more so a decision right or wrong that he would lose whether it be for his poor performance at the debate, gaffes, or age. With the Democrats pushing in the same direction this could have become a self fulfilling prophesy.
There is no reason to believe he can't both stay in office AND step down in favor of Harris. It has always been acknowledged that parties have a broad latitude to select their candidate and ultimately the people will decide.
He's mad because he knows how to run against Biden. With Kamala, all his attention is going to be focused on not calling her a "n****r whore" out loud.
Personally, I don't think he can hold it in until the election.
Hey Republicans, just so we’re clear: you can lose your mind about something the Democratic Party is doing, but we’re not obliged to give a single shit about your reaction.
If you want me to be perfectly honest I’m not thrilled that essentially my vote for Biden in the primaries isn’t going to count - that does rub me the wrong way. But fuck it, idgaf let’s go Kamala! Rebpublicans can take their fake outrage at gtfo.
Yeah, but with Biden's and Pelosi's endorsement, and with her already being on the ticket before this, and with no other major candidates being on the field (and practically nobody at all with the name recognition, unless Michelle Obama wants to toss her hat in the ring), there's really nobody else that's likely to be considered. They want the convention to go smoothly and be a show of unity, so they're going to have all their ducks in a row long in advance. It'll be Harris, unless something super awful happens this month.