The backstabbers win (updated)

The oligarchs and their media and political lackeys have forced Biden to abandon his re-election campaign.  I still think the odds favor a big Democratic win in November -- most of the factors I discussed in this post will not be affected by a change of presidential candidate -- and there's even a good chance of keeping the presidency, especially if the party can quickly unify around Harris, put this bullshit behind us, and get the focus back to real issues like abortion rights and Project 2025.

But the risk of a Trump win is now substantially greater due to all the upheaval likely to follow from the change, and all the opportunities it creates for Republican obstructionism and dirty tricks in the states.

It's also a betrayal of a man who, despite my criticisms of some of his policies, has been a worthy and effective president -- a betrayal based on nothing but media lies and distortions.

I'm too disgusted to write any more, so I'll let this poster speak for me.

Update:  Now feeling somewhat better about things after seeing how quickly the party seems to be uniting behind Harris.  We may at least avoid the worst anticipated consequence of Biden dropping out -- a weeks-long, divisive, utterly pointless fight for the nomination among contending egos.

I don't know a lot about Harris, but I've always felt that her family background is a positive -- her mother was a scientist and her father was a professor of economics, which implies a strong mathematics background.  So she presumably grew up in an environment which respected science, logic, and objective reality.

Most Republicans are being their usual shitty selves in the wake of Biden's announcement.  One point there, however, does need to be addressed.  They are calling for Biden to resign the presidency as well, saying that if he is mentally unfit to campaign, he's mentally unfit to run the government.  Never forget that this was and is a lie -- he is not mentally unfit to campaign, and there was never any evidence that he was.  He was hounded out of the race by billionaire scumbags who own the mass media and hold far too much sway over certain politicians.  Period.

But there's a more important reason why Biden should not resign as president.  I recommended that in this post, if he left the race; but I was wrong, because I hadn't considered this other factor.  If Harris became president now, she'd need to choose a vice president, who would then have to be confirmed by both houses of Congress.  But the Republican-majority House would probably block whomever she chose, leaving the vice presidency vacant.  That would leave Mike Johnson next in line to the presidency if anything happened to Harris.  Worse, there would be no vice president to preside over the official confirmation of Harris's victory after the election, giving Republicans the opportunity to create all kinds of mischief.  That issue outweighs the value of giving Harris three months of incumbency before the election.

I'll end with this ad from Harris's 2020 primary campaign, which shows that she knows how to hit Trump hard:

"She prosecuted sex predators.  He is one."  Sounds like a campaign slogan right there.