President Biden said he is “not confident at all” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump is defeated.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about 'If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen [election],'” Mr. Biden told CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. The interview will air on “CBS News Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Aug. 11.
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes,” said Mr. Biden. Repeating a familiar maxim about elections and democracy, the president said, “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
See, this is how smart it was Biden not running again.
I completely forgot he existed, and has just been chugging along doing president things.
not to mention he flubbed even this question. he said if he wins first, then corrected himself to say loses. I’m so glad he’s not on the ticket anymore.
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Just block it, damn
If I block it, I can’t downvote it.
It’s literally an advertisement for a paid news website. Why is it allowed to spam every news post with ads?
The fact that it also provides some lawyer’s heavily-biased opinion on the bias of news sources is moot. This is 100% an underground advertising campaign for a paid service.
When I saw how they rated Wonkette.com, that was about as much as I needed to know, LOL.
Just out of curiosity (and my own laziness) can you share how they rated Wonkette? (It’s like rating The Onion, I would guess. How& why do they rate that?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wonkette/
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Yeah, I think Wonkette is meant to be satire first, and news second. It’s like the Daily Show. It uses news as a basis for jokes.
i’m reminded of the old reddit days, where i saw way more people complaining about reposts in every single thread than i saw actual reposts
The real reposts were the people complaining about reposts the whole time.
I think the problem you would have is calling the bot a bot. Calling out bots is uncivil, and the bot that looks for the word bot will let you know that you used the word bot.
I swear to god, I’m going to pistol whip the next guy who says “bot.”
Jesus, could everyone please stop using the B-word?
There once was a bard with a knack,
For writing b-words back-to-back.
His bouncy, bold ballads,
Like Sir Bacon’s word salads,
Had the brutish boors taken aback.
Hey Farva. What’s that gross type of fly that lays eggs in your skin?
You mean a bot?!
You’re talking about a bot, right?!
Non-human autonomous online programmed agent…
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So, yeah, it was invited, not everyone hates it.
How much is Ground News paying lemmy.world for the advertising?
None, it is not a paid advert.
The transfer of power from Biden to Harris should be peaceful because Trump isn’t involved in it.
2021 wasn’t peaceful only because Trump still had power. If he has no power, you shut that shit down and it’s peaceful.
“I want a permit to protest the counting of votes!”
(Checks history) “Yeah, permit denied.”
Idk, Dump has a rabid cult fan base that collects guns
I live in Baltimore. That shit doesn’t scare me. I’d like to see them try.
Trumpers who advertise as such on their vehicles and try starting shit have been known to leave with a couple extra “vent holes” on their vehicles.
I thought those were speed holes.
I have been watching The Wire again so I feel like I also live in Baltimore (I live in Ireland)
Ireland is the Baltimore of Europe, England is the Backersfield, and Scotland is Portland. I will not elaborate.
Well, you’re the boss. Prepare for what you expect, and lock the rioters up.
Umm what does trump have to do with the transfer of power if he does not win? What’s he gonna do? He has no power.
Fake electors, compromised voting officials, and likely another terrorist attack.
He has no power?
He has a fucking rabid cult of gun toting neonazis he has been stoking another insurrection to for years. Which is Biden’s point here.
Oh please try with guns. Those people need deleted.
as is anyone who was alive and voting in the last election. You would have to be brain dead to not worry about what that clown may do.
A barricade of couches around the white house will stop trump and JD in their tracks… But for different reasons.
So another attack on the Capitol, ha. Handle it better at least, Joe
Fortunately, he won’t be in power if he loses, so his expected Joe Six-pack rioters won’t have the federal government backing them up this time.
Maybe we should have given harsher punishments to the people who tried doing that the first time around?
Why are you trying to make elections political?
I mean, look at Germany. Not punishing the Nazis harder the first time worked out so well [in hindsight]
Luckily we can learn from their mistakes and…
Wait…
Shit.
That’s pretty difficult if the fucking supreme court is literally by people who support the MAGA rioters
It doesn’t matter. The vp has the ability to arbitrarily change the election outcome. RIGHT DONNIE?
We all know Trump won’t accept the results. He didn’t in 2020, and in 2016 he claimed it was still rigged against him even when he won.
It’s really weird when you think about it.
This is probably in prep for shutting shit down. If you start warning people now, it’ll be “I told you they were gonna wild out, and we’re handling it” not “release the rabid dogs on the opposing party”.
I understand Joe Biden here.
Maybe if we had an Attorney-General who did things other than try to ensure he gets into nice country clubs we’d do something about this.
Too bad.