🧵 1/2 #Biden

“I know I’m not a young man, to the state the obvious. Well, I know I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth..

I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, like millions of Americans, I know, when you get knocked down, you get back up.

2/ “Folks, I give you my word as a Biden, I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul I can do this job. Because, quite frankly, the stakes are too high.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/27/presidential-debate-trump-biden-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance and vows to stay in race: ‘when you get knocked down, you get back up’ – as it happened

Biden acknowledged in campaign speech that he is indeed old, but says he believes he can still beat the Trump in the November election

the Guardian

3/ Let's make this the narrative.

Let's push this so that it smothers the BS doomsday stuff.

Thanks.

4/ Via Stephen Fowler:

The crowd chants “yes you can!”

5/ Via Acyn:

Biden: We learned that Trump will not respect this year’s election outcome. Three times Trump was asked would he respect the election results…

Biden: For all his lies, we learned some important truths about Trump last night. We learned he’s still proud to be the person that killed Roe V Wade…

6/ Via Angry Staffer:

Need more of this Biden going forward.

Obviously, last night wasn’t a great showing, but I’m voting for substance and his record, not a 90 minute debate.

Biden: I don’t know what you did last night but I spent 90 minutes on a stage debating guy who has the moral of an alley cat. My guess is he set a new record for the most lies told in a single debate.

7/ Fowler:

Biden, still with a cough and slight hoarse voice, is a complete 180 in energy and attentiveness from last night’s debate, feeding off the crowd.

8/ Biden: The only convicted criminal on that stage was Trump. When I thought about his 34 convictions, his sexual assault on a woman in a public place, his being fined for business fraud.. I thought to myself Trump is not just convicted felon, he’s a one man crime wave
@GottaLaff no need to convince me who the better man is. But last night Joe proved the rap that he is too old. No EXCUSES. Time to step aside.

@kwheaton @GottaLaff

The weakness shown by stepping aside would hand the election to Trump.

Joe has done more for progressive causes than any president since Kennedy. The doomsaying is a bigger problem than one iffy debate performance. Step off the cliff and take a breath.

But if you were looking for an excuse to vote for Trump, well this is weak sauce but ok, you do you.

@Magooish @kwheaton @GottaLaff , better yet. Just compare cabinets. Trump's cabinet was full of people quitting, getting fired, going to prison, or even if they were depraved enough to stay, denounced him at the end. He won't even be running with his original VP. Trump stewards chaos and dysfunction.
@soundconjurer @Magooish @GottaLaff i am not saying Trump is a decent person. I am saying that the Democrats have been civering for Biden and need to seriously consider making a change not out of disloyalty but out of what is best for the survival of the Democracy. Where everyone is arguing the odds are to great if Joes steps aside that we lose. I see the odds greater that we lose if he doesn't. But hell we are democrats we always shoot ourselves in the foot.

@kwheaton @soundconjurer @GottaLaff

It’s not about Biden at the end of the day. It’s about Trump.

He’s going to focus on a weakness, that’s his Mo. what we are not good at is the kind of manipulation he and his minions excel at no matter who is the nominee.
No one else can beat him. If Biden can’t, no one can.

@Magooish @soundconjurer @GottaLaff i wish I had your confidence. I don't. And I do think there are others who can beat Trump. Many.

@kwheaton I’m muting this convo out of frustration.

The PROCESS and timing of putting up a new candidate would doom us. (in June or later). The possible candidates too! THAT IS THE POINT that is being ignored. Lawrence explained it. LISTEN.

@Magooish @soundconjurer

@GottaLaff @Magooish @soundconjurer i don't necessarily think so. Can you think of anything that would garner more coverage, excitement and enthusiasm than an open convention. I can't. For 4 years news coverage of Biden has been abysmal. I will keep an open mind. But I think the rest of you should as well. Sometimes we need to be bold and operate frim a place of strength. I feel as if people are arguing to drag Joe's half dead body over the finish line. That isn't where we should be.

@kwheaton @GottaLaff @soundconjurer

I’ve said my piece. You have made your position clear. I think we are done here.

@kwheaton @soundconjurer @GottaLaff

It’s ok to have doubts. At the end of the day those doubts may or may not be resolved, but they will need to be set aside.

One team.
One candidate
One vote.

Don’t pick on personalities. Pick on issues. Make that your focus. Because that’s really what’s at stake here and age and a bad debate are not.

Once we win in November if you want to call for him to step aside, that’s the time. For now it’s about hard teamwork.