This has all been exhausting as hell to follow, so I put myself on a "media diet" recently. I've been avoiding even lurking in this thread as well for the same reason and it might be something folks should consider doing if all that's been going on has been weighing on them.
That’s a part of this whole problem. I don’t GAF if Joey is president or not. I care about it being a dem. If he was weekend at Bernie’s status why the fukk did yall wait til the 11th hour to start applying pressure? Why are yall not unified with a consensus replacement?
This is the ultimate example of self fulfilling prophecy. If they lose, 50% of the reason is because they made their constituents believe they were going to lose.
So in September if Joey is still HCIC, are they gonna rally around him and try to win or continue bytching? How long are we gonna let this drag on?
I've a lot of questions around replacing Biden, with the most obvious one being "who's going to replace him?". But there's also "how's his replacement going to be determined?" and "will that hypothetical candidate still poll as well when the inevitable GOP mud slinging starts up (and keeping in mind some mud slinging may come from the other potential replacement candidates in this hypothetical replacement scenario)?" The other big one for me is "how do we deal with the inevitable legal challenges involving who's on the ballot?"
Personally, IDGAF if Biden's the nominee or if he gets bushed. If party leadership have good answers to all of the questions around replacing Biden, then cool, roll the dice and bush him. But if they don't have good answers? Or, God forbid, they haven't really been considering these questions that deeply? Then they really need to STFU and either figure out those answers quick or accept that we have to go to war with the army we have, not the one we wish we had, and unify because I think the bolded would play a really big role in a potential Democratic loss in November. Who's going to bother to go vote if everyone's saying Biden or whoever's the nominee is going to lose anyway?