Joe Biden: ‘I’m Not Leaving’
” I’m in this race to the end, and we’re going to win.”
President Joe Biden declared on an all-hands call with his campaign:
“Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can, as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running,” according to one campaign official on the call.
“No one is pushing me out,” the president added, also saying, “I’m not leaving. I’m in this race to the end, and we’re going to win.”
Biden also pushed for Democrats to show a united front because “when Democrats unite, we will always win. Just as we beat Donald Trump in 2020, w’re going to beat him again in 2024.”
It’s important to note that former President Donald Trump has been mostly quiet during this time, allowing the media and commentators to keep their attention on Biden’s implosion.
You know it’s driving them crazy that Trump is sitting back and watching the show.
Harris also told the staffers: “We will not back down. We will follow our president’s lead. We will fight, and we will win.”
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There will likely be a move at the convention. Especially is SlowJoe continues to look like a propped up corpse. Gavin and Harris can try to steal as many delegates as they can. Hopefully it will be a 3-day popcorn moment.
Harris doesn’t have to steal anything — she’s on the ticket. If, God forbid, Biden wins, 25A would be invoked at some point, guaranteed.
“beat Donald Trump in 2020”, by hook and crook, that crook part is the essence of Dems.
I hope they try. I’d love nothing more than to watch the Democrat Party self-destruct in real time while the various environmental and Antifa wackos and their pet Hamas fans riot in the streets outside and try and disrupt their convention. Chicago’s gonna be *lit*. Maybe literally.
Joe Biden: “I’m not leaving.”
Reporter: “Why is he still saying that?”
Biden handler: “Because we haven’t told him yet.”
Stay in, Joe, stay in.
For the love of Beau, stay in. Remember, that’s what Beau would have wanted. When Beau died leading those Merchant Marines up Pork Chop Hill at Anzio during the Vietnam War wearing his Kilroy Was Here bandana, he yelled out, “Democrats forever.” The thing, Joe, the thing. Don’t forget the thing.
Look out for cannibals!
“I’m not leaving.”
“You’re not leaving until January.”
He’ll fall down before he steps down.
I could see this happening. Fifty-plus years in D.C. and people think he was going to walk away from power.
If that’s the case then I hope he takes the entire Democrat Party down with him.
If the polling numbers are to be believed (and I think in the aggregate they are more right than not) expect a “radical right wing” government here as well as abroad.
I for one am sick of this (bleep) and want my country back. I’m tired of identity politics, tired of woke, tired of progressivism, tired of illegal immigration, tired of gender dysfunction, tired of leaches and parasites and a thousand other things associated with liberalism.
If DJT does to the federal payroll what Elon Musk did to X, I think that would be a good start. I don’t think we’d miss them one bit.
If DJT closed the DOE, EPA, DOE, FBI and (insert your favorite here) and returned those functions to the states, I see that as a huge win for federalism.
If DJT is elected, it opens the door for Thomas & Alito to retire (they richly deserve the rest) and for him to appoint unabashed constitutionalist to the court. And I believe the number of justices leaving the court in the next four years to be more than two.
While I’m on a roll, let’s mount an effort to repeal the 16th Amendment – the progressives biggest lie of them all. The 16th has been weaponized to impoverish us, to rob us of our labor, to pit us against one another – taxpayer vs. parasite. When funding a government *everyone* should pay.
Thank you for listening and FJB.
then I hope he takes the entire Democrat Party down with him.
Even if he doesn’t, I hope the entire party goes down with him. In flames.
“If DJT closed the DOE, EPA, DOE, FBI and (insert your favorite here)”
Mmmm, can we guess which one is your favorite?
“If DJT is elected, it opens the door… for him to appoint unabashed constitutionalist to the court.”
Presuming he can find one who isn’t a backstabber in a rubber conservative mask.
If you’re under the impression that repealing the 16th would get rid of the income tax, you’re mistaken. The 16th was never necessary in order for Congress to tax income from labor. It was only needed in order for it to tax income derived from property, i.e. rents, interest, and dividends, and perhaps capital gains.
The Supreme Court at that time ruled that “direct taxation” means taxing something for merely existing; Congress can only impose direct taxation if it’s apportioned among the states by population, and nobody seems to know what that means, except with regard to a poll tax, which of course is already apportioned by definition. But Congress could always tax activities such as working.
So if the 16th were repealed, at most rents, interest, dividends, etc. would be tax free, but the bulk of the income tax would remain. And I don’t think the current supreme court would agree with the previous decision. I think the current court would say that’s not direct taxation, and allow the tax to continue.
Now if you were to pass an amendment banning any federal income tax, that would be different.
The United States got along without an income tax for 137 years. We would be just fine without it once again. If not having an income tax results in wholesale closures of whole departments and the loss of hundreds of thousands of government jobs, guess what? Too bad. Government is meant to serve its citizens, not the other way around and since the adoption of the progressive amendments to the constitution we have been serfs instead of citizens. That must change and no ridiculous blather typed out by you will change my mind.
First of all, the USA didn’t get along without one for that long. There were income taxes before.
Second, getting rid of the income tax may be a good idea, but your idea that repealing the 16th would do that is just wrong. As I wrote above, the income tax on wages and salaries, which is the vast bulk of that tax that hits almost everyone, was never under any constitutional cloud, and didn’t need an amendment. The 16th was only needed to tax income derived from property. And even that ruling would probably not be made by today’s court.
So to get rid of the income tax you would have to amend the constitution, not by repealing the 16th, but by explicitly saying something like “Congress shall not lay any tax on income, however derived”. I don’t know whether that would be a good amendment, but it’s what you would need to achieve what you seem to want.
Personally I’d rather see something that caps all federal taxes at a certain percentage of GDP. Or cap spending, which eventually comes to the same thing.
“So to get rid of the income tax you would have to amend the constitution…”
Well, income taxes are levied by legislation, so congress could undo those without an amendment. Or the executive could decline to collect, n dare people to object. (Why did that come to mind? Is something like that going on, on another topic?)
The constitution declares scope of authoritah: doesn’t mean that has to be used. To *forbid* income taxes would require an amendment.
Bierce, true, but you ignore the context of this thread. We are discussing Peter Moss’s wish to repeal the 16th, presumably because he wishes to ban income taxes. I pointed out the plain fact that doing so would not achieve that. Achieving his goal does require an amendment, but not the one he thinks. Repealing the 16th would leave most if not all of the income tax intact.
“There were income taxes before.”
And they were all declared unconstitutional before the 16th.
Funny thing about that,
No, they were not. The only tax that was struck down was that on passive income from property. The supreme court at the time said that was the same as taxing the property itself. I doubt the current court would agree. But the regular income tax that most people care about has never even been challenged, let alone struck down, because there was never anything in the constitution that could have been used to challenge it.
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
Break down “from whatever source derived”, Mr. Pedantic. Should be good.
What do you mean “break it down”? It means exactly what it says. Previously the Supreme Court had said that while normal income, derived from people’s activities such as working, could be taxed without any problems, certain kinds of income, i.e. income derived passively from property simply existing, could not be taxed by the federal government without applying a complicated and impractical “apportionment”.
So the 16th removed that restriction. Repealing it would reimpose that restriction, if the current supreme court agreed with the previous ruling; I don’t think it would. But the bulk of the income tax would be unaffected either way.
I need to stock up on my popcorn. As I see it, they have these choices:
1) keep Biden and remove him (dead or 26-him) after the inauguration
2) Amendment 26 Biden leaving them with Harris (see #1)
3) that leaves Harris as the nominee/president. Who has a lower approval rating than Trump or Biden
BUT THEY CANNOT get rid of Harris. She hits all the top intersectional victim boxes except gay/transgender/Muslim. But she is black and a woman, so that beats about everything white or male.
if they try to oust Harris for Newsom or Gretchen or Bernie or Hillary, there will be claims of racism and/or sexism. Only possible exception is Michelle. And as popular as she is as a first lady (not me, blech), I do not think she would win an election. She would lose the young people vote once they were reminded of the school lunch fiasco she oversaw.
There is no winning for them with any other nominee than Biden. And there is no winning with him.
But the infighting will be Colosseum-level entertainment.
25th Amendment.
Joe has to agree to that unless there is a vote of congress. Do you think that congress will be able to do that?
Congress will be able to.
It’s whether or not they want to.
(And my point was that he had the Amendment wrong. 26th is setting the voting age to 18.)
yeah. sorry. I should know the Constitution better than that; my kids certainly do!
It shouldn’t. It takes a 2/3 vote in each house, which means it can’t happen without the Republicans, and if I were the Congressional Republicans I would vote to keep Biden and tell the Democrats “He’s your president, you chose him, you imposed him on us, now you go down with him”.
Doesn’t this tell you everything you need to know about modern American politics?
To punish Republicans, Democrats inpeach their president.
To punish Democrats, Republicans refuse to impeach theirs.
OK, that was fatally ambiguous. Restated:
To punish Republicans, Democrats impeach the Republican president.
To punish Democrats, Republicans refuse to impeach the Democrat president.
Also, Michelle most assuredly does not want to run. It’s too much like work, she seems very happy with money and prestige right where she is, and everyone would assume Barry is running the show behind her – that would hurt her pride.
I can see a couple of options where they could get within the margin of fraud with a replacement. But definitely an uphill battle, no matter what, because of what Joey’s handlers have done to us and the country.
Michelle will never run. She said it’s not in her soul. That’s a poison pill that can’t be walked-back.
Democrats have shown just how cheap fake they are.
There is nothing they say anymore that is believeable.
And their performance art sucks, too.
With Biden at the top of the ticket, Maine, Minnesota & Virginia are now battleground states. NJ, CO and NM, which Biden won by 10-points (or more) are now only’lean’ Dem also heading towards toss-ups. Joe Biden isn’t going to be the nominee because Republicans have never – could never – be that lucky.
There are always ways for the Deep Democratic Party to persuade Joe to exit the race.
What was it that Webb Hubbell said to Hillary*?
Over my dead body…
*”Allegedly”
IMO the d/prog have only two viable options. Neither wins them the ’24 election cycle but either can conceivably keep the d/prog party from imploding.
1. Keep Biden. Double down. Brazen it out. This has been the historical ‘go to’ play in the d/prog playbook. They are very comfortable with this and have great experience with running this play. They lose the election BUT the party probably doesn’t implode into warfare among the various tribes/factions. Delays the infighting and recriminations until after the election.
2. Replace Biden by using the 25th Amendment and replace him on the ticket with Harris. Jim Clyburn and his faction have made very clear they will not accept anyone else as replacement. Again, short term they lose the election BUT it delays recriminations and infighting till after the election AND demonstrates Harris is not the ‘future’ of the party + gives a valid excuse to tell Clyburn and his faction to STFU ‘y’all had your chance and fumbled’.
IMO those are the only two options that keep the d/prog rickety coalition of various tribal factions together and moving in the same direction. It’s always possible they have chaos in Chicago at the August nominating convention (or more accurately in the prelude to that in July where the real decisions will be made) but ….I don’t see it. I suspect they will use taped (and edited) interviews like the one upcoming on Friday as well as putting Biden at the podium w/o any Q/A like they did for him blasting SCOTUS. That’s the ’24 version of the basement campaign. I strongly believe Biden is gonna be the nominee based on history and the real problems they create if they try and change horses. We all find out this fall.
Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has pwned every inch of ad space on LI.
I never thought I’d miss the annoying Doggie Chuckle Ball.
I like the one where they compare seniors to lizards regrowing their tail.
But I don’t see any RFK Jr ads.
Hm, there were a few hours ago. Just images of him, no words, begging to be clicked. I know LI can blackball ads if they take action, maybe they did it today.
You are nuts. I’ve been a follower and financial doner to Legal Insurrection for over a decade.
Quit upvoting yourself.
Whatchu talkin’ about, Willis?
So it’s now the two and a half hour news cycle?
The Biden quitting theme is a media op.
“Jill told me I’m not allowed to.”
Or Hunter. Or both.
Joe Biden: “I’m not leaving.”
Voters: “Oh, yes, you are.”
Biden on drugs today. Yelling away.
“Old man yells at
cloudcrowd”That’s good Joe, fight for every day you got left.
And don’t let them change the Convention date.
So Trump was called out as the guy who wouldnt leave when he was suppose to ( this was BEFORE THE 2020 election)
AND NOW
ONCE AGAIN
ITS THE DEMS
FJB IS PUI
politicking under the influence
he is mentally imparied
NOT DUE TO HIS AGE ( thats the lefty trickery to be used against trump)
but due to his actually inability to function in his capacity that the job requires
SO EVEN BY HIS OWN PARTIES STANDARDS ….HE NEEDS TO LEAVE NOW
they can do it all in their Hollywood Production manner
and hail in Kamala as the SAVIOR ( that is not morgan freeman 🙂
the first but not last black female potus
Pretend
Pretend Joe is functioning properly
pretend men can be pregnant,,have menstrual cycles are women
pretend our scotus leftists cant tell you what a women is
pretend we didnt have a recession under fjb
pretend women are as strong as men and pay them the same w/o the same requirements expected of them
pretend your pilot your doctor your atc that were dei hires can do just as well as others
pretend your children really do want to have their body parts discarded
pretend that baby is just a lump of cells
pretend the government isnt creating more chaos to control the voting processes like they did in 2020
pretend the kungflu virus was really started in europe or by some seal in china
pretend the public schools really teach top level math science at the same levels they did in the 1950s that made america great
pretend hunters computer was another so called right wing conspiracy
pretend hillary and barak and biden and holden and rice and jarrett arent guilty of high crimes
He ain’t leaving, he is just going away…
Should be prison.
Won’t happen.
Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that he would support a “mini primary” at the Democratic National Convention because the frontrunner to replace Joe Biden, Kamala Harris needed a “strong running mate.”
Breitbart.
Done-deal.
I have just the running mate for her. In fact, he’s already a presidential candidate.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Their campaign slogan can be, “Progressive Utopia—Just One More Election To Go!”
Joe: “I’m not leaving.”
Kamala: “Buh bye.”
again,, the dnc might be strategizing how to put the decision onto the scotus so they dont have to take the fall
dnc>scotus
fjb is not in good health and as proven in the Hur report has “decomposed” further since that evaluation
we humbly submit to you that you give us the power to invoke the 25th amendment and declare Kamala the potus