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Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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Oof. This guy has been the biggest positive surprise of the US presidents in my lifetime. Expectations were low, but he actually turned out to be a good president (from a European perspective). No new wars, no more talk about shifting defense focus to Asia, generally nothing unreasonable. Good support for Ukraine, no doubts about NATO - rather the opposite. Basically, the rich uncle on the other side of the pond has been a good one.

I presume that his attitudes and staff selection carried the day, and maybe could have done so for another term. But his mental capacity was clearly declining, and he is in fact expected to handle some things personally.

Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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Per the HN guidelines the rules for the site are whatever hackers find interesting

Re-read it. It may've changed since you last read, but general politics is off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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(No intend for this to be a controversial statement) I only want to express my opinion that he (and the Democratic party) took a while to make this decision, to their detriment. Interesting to see who their new candidate is going to be.

The rules allow the DNC to have an open convention. They just haven’t had one for more than half a century. the interesting thing is apparently if they do that its available to all candidates. So it’s possible that somebody that is well liked by the public, but not by the DNC becomes the leader ie Bernie sanders. The tough thing though is that money donated to Biden doesn’t transfer to other candidates. The daily wir…

Add to your comment, I believe that Kamala can access the campaign funds, which favors her.

Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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That doesn’t follow at all. There’s a process for removing him if enough people in congress believed that it was an issue, but there’s no reason to do so at this point in the presidency. Even the Republicans aren’t likely to try that.

It does follow. The reason is if the president is cognitively incapable of leading the country. There's a good argument that Biden isn't competent enough to drive a car or work at home Depot. He makes gaffes every time he speaks and is rude and demeaning to people around him according to reports. It's pretty likely that he is effectively not the president right now, that his trusted senior advisers are actually running the country.

I'm not saying all of this is certain or that Biden should be removed, but it is certainly plausible, if not likely.

Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Per the HN guidelines the rules for the site are whatever hackers find interesting

Re-read it. It may've changed since you last read, but general politics is off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This thread would disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967

Re: Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

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This is wild. It seems super late in the game but okay. I'm super interested to see what will become of his chips act etc. The push he has tried to do to remove dependencies on TSMC is very forward thinking. Hopefully the next candidate takes up the momentum. Edit : Typo in TSMC

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