isn’t some orchestration going on.

Coincidence can be weird. But it's very hard for me to believe this Parkinson’s story breaks only due to the hard work of journalists and that it coincidentally happened after the debate and after Biden made it clear he has zero intention of resigning. Somebody with access leaked this.

The DNC is trying to remain in control of the process no matter what happens. If they can feinstien Biden, they will do it. If he dies, drops out, or is otherwise removed, they will get to hand pick the next candidate. That person will have a hard time winning, but who knows?

I was listening to trillbillies today and they were talking about how he's worth more dead, because they could have kamala come out and give a "win one for the gipper" speech and everyone gets to save face.

my dull explanation is that the debate was just so bad that it was undeniable to everyone watching that there's something horrifically wrong with biden's brain. then stories and speculations about biden's mental decline immediately starting gaining clicks and views, and the media, in their chase for profit, responded in turn

i also think some of the journalist and media people who threw their weight behind the 'biden has to go' camp are now personally miffed that biden is refusing to step down. like it's sorta become an ego/reputational thing for them too

There's no central orchestration: there are journalists trying to guess what their editors will publish, and editors trying to guess what their investors want, and both cribbing their notes from think tanks, and think tanks trying to guess what their investors will want, and investors trying to guess what's in their best interest. Every single step of that is composed of many separate groups of people, who aren't linked to the other layers in a consistent way. Every person involved thinks their group is the most important and most informed, and every one is high on their own ideology, and nobody knows what's going on. And buried in there, there are many conspiracies with motivations from swaying the election, to getting a particular guy promoted, to implementing evangelical conservative rule, and those conspiracies all believe they're important and capable of doing their thing, even though most of them can't, and they're all too high on their own ideology to know what's going on either.

I’ve been asking this question too because I also don’t understand it. Biden has been incoherent for years. He (or his handlers) does/do whatever the bourgeoisie wants. As shitty as he is, whoever replaces him will probably have a worse chance of winning than he has. These people also don’t want trump to win. So why are they suddenly doing this? Yes, the debate was bad, but nine months of genocide is so much worse, and they are totally oblivious to that. If they had wanted to get rid of him earlier, he would have had a serious primary challenger. My only guess is that it’s Palestine. Maybe the bourgeoisie are so concerned with Israel that they want to forget about Ukraine and divert everything they’ve got to Israel. This means letting Trump win and sacrificing Biden the way they sacrifice everyone else.

They're damned either way, since they did a conspiracy of silence on how bad his health was for all these preceding years. Might as well rip the bandaid off to keep the ship stable for their livelihoods.

The previous holding-off-on-killing was 1000% orchestrated, so now that it's fallen through, there's a flood of potential stories they weren't publishing before.

It's amazing, they for sure have mods on the payroll

all the "pro-biden staying in" people are regurgitating the same talking points too

some are straight demanding loyalty, silence, and "getting in line" to "protect democracy"

the irony is delicious i love watching libs implode even if it's probably mostly people on payroll yelling at random dems lol

It's ridiculous how the media will just pick sides like that. In the UK they also collectively decided to overlook Starmer's obvious deficiencies and appointed him the next Prime Minister before the election was even called.

It's so obvious but, so many people don't want to see it.

It is really hard to see libs doing the work that would be required to force Biden out. Team Biden is probably counting on that, just waiting it out.

I agree with this chain of events, but I can't help feel like this is one of those moments that peels a decent amount off. Who knows if they'll go left though. They could just rally behind some libertarian wannabe

Looking good for Biden so far, the Dem meeting where they were supposed to call on him to drop out has been called off - https://www.axios.com/2024/07/07/scoop-dem-senators-biden-huddle-called-off

This is the funniest outcome.

Oh God, I didn't even think of that being a real possibility. The brain trust at the Democratic party would totally go for someone who is only marginally younger, less popular and has a track record of losing to Trump before.

I need a Corri Bush/Liz Cheney "stop the bad orange man" unity ticket that loses by like 1.5% of the popular vote in spite of carrying 17% of registered Republicans who don't know what year it is