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President Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii’s governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors and whose family has known the president for years.

And if Biden decides not to run, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press on Saturday that he believes the president will designate Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him on the ticket.

Green, who was a physician on Hawaii’s Big Island before he was elected governor, said everyone has parents or grandparents who have moments that aren’t that great or pauses in their ability to express themselves clearly. But, he added, they aren’t discarded because of their experience, wisdom and their role in the family.

Green was quick to point out that Trump is only three years younger than Biden and both will have bad days going forward. But he argued that temperament is more important than age.

“For God’s sake, these two guys have to hold the nuclear codes,” Green said. “I don’t want someone who tweets in the middle of the night and rages at other countries. That is not good. That’s not the problem we have with President Biden.”

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And if Biden decides not to run, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press on Saturday that he believes the president will designate Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him on the ticket.

If that happens, prepare to see the narrative of certain people switch from "no one should vote for Genocide Joe" to "no one should vote for pro-cop Harris." Anything but tell people to stop the dictator from gaining power.

Edit: Wow, that didn't take long.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago

This effectively changes nothing for me, I’m no fan of Harris or Biden, but they ain’t fascists

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Exactly, but that doesn't seem to be an argument they care about.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

You are not the problem. Some people can't decide between Joe, and the party that wants to end democracy in this country.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Some people are upset that in the face of fascism, this is the best the American ‘left’ can do. They claim the entire country is on the line, but I haven’t seen them act like it. I’ve seen them say we need to vote for Biden, because abortion!! Roe V Wade was undone under his leadership and he has done nothing about it. He adopted extremist conservative border policy. The Supreme Court decision everybody is clamoring about happened while he was in the big chair. So why does he deserve my vote? Why would voting for him change anything when some of the most consequential and damaging legislation of the 2000s has happened under him?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If January 6 wasn't enough to convince you the future of this country is on the line, and if Project 2025 isn't enough, I just don't know what to tell you.

The Democrats stink on ice, sure. They're a bunch of ineffectual morons, and they only show it more and more every time they push the responsibility to fight this threat onto the voters. But that doesn't change the fact that the threat is real, and even if the Democrats won't act like it is, we must. If we want there to be a 2028 election, we must make sure the Republicans lose the 2024 one.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

The Republicans really got just what they wanted out of people like you with what they did in Congress with the border. There is a legit crisis down there now. And there was an agreed-to, bipartisan border bill ready to go, and at the last moment Trump said to tank it because it will reflect well on the Democrats. So they tanked it, leaving Biden’s executive branch with very limited options to do anything. So he is doing one of the crappy few things he can do, and people like you just pin it to Biden, which is just what Trump and the GOP hoped for.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not just in this country.

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