Was Joe Biden dropping out of the race a coup?

[coachTanthony]

So many questions here. The letter he supposedly wrote is not on White house stationary. His signature is digital and there are no photos of him signing it or video of him saying out loud that he is dropping out. He just said if they want me out they can challenge him at the convention. Thoughts?

It's a coup

He knows he is out and it's not a coup

[DrPepper12]

The number of conspirasists on this site is insane. Lets try this POV:

Joe Biden remains a master at doing politics. Dark Brandon dark-brandoned the shit out of his passing of the torch. clearly, this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision. Joe had to have worked behind the scenes to shore up this much immediate support for Kamala. he made sure not one word of any this leaked. he timed the announcement of his decision so that Donny and the Republicans spent the entire convention running against the wrong candidate. and the pièce de résistance:

Sending out a press release on Sunday afternoon, after the morning talk shows, totally screwed the media. No video clips, no “breaking news,” no chance for pundits to comment on how he sounded, looked, walked, etc. No chance to schedule guests to pick him apart as he spoke. He totally starved them of clicks and eyeballs, in repayment for them starving his candidacy of positive coverage purely for the sake of clicks and eyeballs.

[dustybiker2]

Conspiracies are fun. Especially when people bite. 😬

[DrPepper12]

@dustybiker2 I like to be biten... Sometimes

[Danny_dan92]

When you look at the series of events… something stinks… I definitely think his own party disowned him and pushed him out the door. Afterall this isn’t the first time the Democratic Party has done this to one of their own

[purplepoppy]

A coup and an attempting assassination just days apart, America is starting to look like some dodgy African Republic now.

[coachTanthony]

Or a good HBO movie from the 80's

[Anonymous]

Even if it was, cool. However he goes away is fine so we can get someone not senile or a convicted criminal in there.

[JHNS98]

The fact that trump has even allowed to run in the first place is just weird to me.

Felons can't vote, but presidential candidates with active court cases are allowed to keep their candidacy. That's just another edge of classism in America

[msc545]

@JHNS98 Now you know what corruption in the US looks like...

[JHNS98]

@msc545 Corruption is a different issue. I think I recently heard someone on YouTube describe U. S. presidential elections as marketing campaigns rather than political campaigns

[msc545]

@JHNS98 There is money behind all the things that you and I dislike in this system. A marketing campaign is a perfect description of our Presidential politics!

[OlderAndWiser]

Do you think we will ever know the truth?

[DryGermanGuy]

Maybe you should stop reading what the Donald is vomiting out into the antisocial networks. It generally improves people’s mental health.

[coachTanthony]

Don't follow him on socials so... not sure what he is saying.

[DryGermanGuy]

So you were just sitting peacefully in your room when all of a sudden the thought popped into your mind that you haven’t seen the president in the last two hours, could this be a coup?
I’ll be doggone. 🙄

[coachTanthony]

I’m a content creator so yes

[Anonymous]

I guess why does everything have to be a conspiracy? He lost. He saw impossible odds against trump and walked off stage. Is not that the ultimate validation of trumps standing? And since when have Americans lost their sportsmanship? Whenever my kids win in a sport, I require they shake hands with the losers so they know being a winner is about collectively bringing people up, not about getting the prize. I don’t care for Biden much, but can someone lose with dignity anymore? Or is everything a conspiracy needing more anger and distrust?

[Anonymous]

I think if Joe Biden was fully on board he would have announced it in person like every other president.
The fact that he instead announced it on twitter only sounds very suspicious suggesting Joe was either unable or unwilling to make such an announcement.

Which suggest those around him have made this choice for him and are keeping him out of sight until such time that he is forced to accept it

[paledreams]

I for one think politics in all countries is always registered lobbyists registered political donors and ultimately two party systems of two major parties so it's like - ain't it all the same lol 😂😆

[paledreams]

So it's like, ain't it all puppetry? Hahaha - whether true or not - it sure sounds more entertaining

[normalice]

Obviously not. The right is just trying to call everything a coup to "flood the zone with shit," as they say, in regards to calling Trump's actual attempted coup a coup.

[coachTanthony]

Does Joe Biden even know he is out of the race? Big time Big adult questions here. leave the rhetoric on your side of the isle.

[normalice]

Obviously he does. And it will be a tiny bit satisfying to see your arsenal of "oldest nominee in history probably has dementia" jabs turned right back at you 😅

[coachTanthony]

what can be, unburdened by what has been... I'll leave that right there

[normalice]

The problem is republicans rely on fakeness for everything. And so if their present/future fake narratives don't have a thick fake link to their past fake narrative it will be too vulnerable to being understood as fake.

The main reason the absosutely absurd narrative coming from the right has any apparent plausibility is because it draws on prior absurd narratives, like a enormous mosaic made entirely of other mosaics, and so on until you get to the smallest component to discover it is bullshit.

[coachTanthony]

Is that a Kamala quote? Almost identical to the one below. Amazing similarities. Great minds!

"We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues…and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together... we will work on this together."

[normalice]

I guess they do share a lot of the same letters? I'm not deep in right wing misinfotainment so I don't know what point you believe you've made 🤷

[coachTanthony]

Point is the left loves their word salads.

[normalice]

Hm. I didn't know the far right believed that. Thanks for sharing.

[Guacamole409]

Of course. Why won't he tell us why he's getting out.

[dustybiker2]

He is away recovering from covid. The stationary might have been overlooked. Who knows.

[dustybiker2]

The man just chose to do something that few people ever would. Turned down one of the most important jobs in the world (that he has aimed for since before first sworn in as a senator at 29 years old) And understanding that his own party thought him too declined to continue.
Give this imperfect guy credit where credit is due. That is huge.

[katiesmuff]

He is simply an old man with the typical problems of anyone up in those years with the memory loss and the slowness walking etc. His mind is still working and he knows exactly what is going on.

[exitseven]

considering Biden had enough delegates to be nominated this probably does qualify as a coup.

[worldscolide]

I bet his wife is pissed. She's the person who has been controlling him.

[dustybiker2]

Without her it could have been really bad.

[Anonymous]

No, it was a master plan all along. Original plan was to have Harris win the 2020 primary then Tulsi happened and they switched to the current plan which was to make Harris VP so Biden let on he was running for reelection then drop out close to election so there was no choice but to give the nomination to his VP allowing her to skip the primary process and go straight to being the nominee.

[onedarkcloud]

We have one idiot in the White House! Now they have a bigger idiot running for president to replace him to try and destroy America.

[Anonymous]

It would be if it wasn't the same party that put him in power asked him to step down.

[FearlessFlame]

Are conspiracy theories your new obsession after alpha male questions? The cringe is unreal

[Anonymous]

Probably not technically, since it doesn't apply to the existing government but to the upcoming election for the next government. It would probably be more accurate to call it a stolen election.

[OtterMan68]

A coup is a violent overthrow of a gov, so no.

[coachTanthony]

Not always sometimes they get poisoned.

[msc545]

It was not a coup - these are commonly accomplished with force, and no force was involved.

[Dongie]

It's a coup to coup their last coup.

[Sasquach]

He's just trying to save face

[Danzigdawson]

What a dumb fucking question.

[msc545]

What did you expect from a Trump shill? Brilliance?