President Biden said he is “not confident at all” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump is defeated.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about 'If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen [election],'” Mr. Biden told CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. The interview will air on “CBS News Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Aug. 11.
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes,” said Mr. Biden. Repeating a familiar maxim about elections and democracy, the president said, “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
A barricade of couches around the white house will stop trump and JD in their tracks… But for different reasons.
See, this is how smart it was Biden not running again.
I completely forgot he existed, and has just been chugging along doing president things.
not to mention he flubbed even this question. he said if he wins first, then corrected himself to say loses. I’m so glad he’s not on the ticket anymore.
Hell, i’m not confident there’d be a peaceful transfer of power if he wins
Chances are high it will not be peaceful for anyone on his stupid enemies list AFTER the transfer of power.
Wait, you mean Diaper Don wants to attempt political prosecution? I always thought he was opposed to that kinda stuff…
Umm what does trump have to do with the transfer of power if he does not win? What’s he gonna do? He has no power.
He has no power?
He has a fucking rabid cult of gun toting neonazis he has been stoking another insurrection to for years. Which is Biden’s point here.
Oh please try with guns. Those people need deleted.
Fake electors, compromised voting officials, and likely another terrorist attack.
Well, yeah. If he had said anything else I would be shaking my head at how out-of-touch he was. They will absolutely try January 6th again, only this time I hope the Capitol and DC police are ready for them. Not to mention Congress, maybe they will put a stop to Republican reps helping rioters plan their insurrection.
I understand Joe Biden here.
If only he had access to the largest police and surveillance apparatus in the history of ever. Maybe he could, y’know, prevent the inevitable bullshit and bloodletting.
Trumps lies about 2020 were such outrageous bullshit anyway, there wasn’t a single solitary shred of a molecule of truth in any of it. ZERO TOLERANCE, ZERO PATIENCE for that fucking guy and his inevitable bullshit parade.
Fool me once . . . shame on . . . shame on you . . fool me twice . . Y- . . Y’can’t get fooled again.
largest police and surveillance apparatus
Who do you think the people who want to use violence to overthrow the election are?
The headline makes it sound like he’s not gonna let Kamala take his place… 🤔
As for his actual words, Joe’s right, Trump’s not going down easy. The good news is that Donnie isn’t in power now, and won’t be in charge of the Federal response to whatever unfolds.
It actually gets really complicated if the damage he does is at the state or local level. A “coup” in the US capital is probably no longer a possibility, but he could cause a lot of chaos if he got a couple dozen scattered enclaves of lawless resistance to lawful voting procedures, and they didn’t back down. Are we gonna send national troops to half a dozen different states to make them obey? Is that even constitutionally feasible?
Anywhere we have the slightest doubt about that, we have to act now–Biden has to act now–to guarantee good-faith election management and fallbacks in case it doesn’t happen.
Right. If dementia donnie’s right-wing chuds want to try some shit, I hope Biden does some Dark Brandoning on their dumb asses. And then Kamala needs to put someone in charge who will not dither one bit when it comes to going after them legally after that.
Maybe if we had an Attorney-General who did things other than try to ensure he gets into nice country clubs we’d do something about this.
Too bad.
Project 2025 wants to slash military/veterans benefits and it seems most of the military knows about it now. I think we’ll be alright so long as Harris wins the election.
I don’t know, I think it’s pretty unreasonable to assume Trump will attempt another coup. What, does he have a coup for one special? /s
I’m glad Biden’s calling this shit out now, and hope they’ve got a plan when a few dozen Arizona counties refuse to certify the results.
What, does he have a coup for one special?
Maybe he has a… coupon…?
What, does he have a coup for one special?
Take a lap.
“Average American president attempts 0.004 coups per year” factoid actually just a statistical error. Average American president attempts 0 coups per year. Traitors Donal, who dyes face orange & attempts over 0.25 coups each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
One saving grace is this time, it ain’t the diaper in Chief calling the shots. Biden won’t hesitate to call the national guard if need be.
That being said, i think the violence is gonna happen at State capitals this time… I hope I’m wrong.
I think you’re right. I honestly think Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc should probably have the national guard in place the night before.
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I think the problem you would have is calling the bot a bot. Calling out bots is uncivil, and the bot that looks for the word bot will let you know that you used the word bot.
I swear to god, I’m going to pistol whip the next guy who says “bot.”
Jesus, could everyone please stop using the B-word?
Hey Farva. What’s that gross type of fly that lays eggs in your skin?
You mean a bot?!
You’re talking about a bot, right?!
Non-human autonomous online programmed agent…
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Just block it, damn
i’m reminded of the old reddit days, where i saw way more people complaining about reposts in every single thread than i saw actual reposts
The real reposts were the people complaining about reposts the whole time.
If I block it, I can’t downvote it.
It’s literally an advertisement for a paid news website. Why is it allowed to spam every news post with ads?
The fact that it also provides some lawyer’s heavily-biased opinion on the bias of news sources is moot. This is 100% an underground advertising campaign for a paid service.
When I saw how they rated Wonkette.com, that was about as much as I needed to know, LOL.
Just out of curiosity (and my own laziness) can you share how they rated Wonkette? (It’s like rating The Onion, I would guess. How& why do they rate that?
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Yeah, I think Wonkette is meant to be satire first, and news second. It’s like the Daily Show. It uses news as a basis for jokes.
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So, yeah, it was invited, not everyone hates it.
How much is Ground News paying lemmy.world for the advertising?
as is anyone who was alive and voting in the last election. You would have to be brain dead to not worry about what that clown may do.
I wonder if someone in power could perhaps do something about that, Joe? Maybe the president or someone like that?
I’m sure he will, this is more to prepare public when they will need to shut them down.
Maybe we should have given harsher punishments to the people who tried doing that the first time around?
I mean, look at Germany. Not punishing the Nazis harder the first time worked out so well [in hindsight]
Luckily we can learn from their mistakes and…
Wait…
Shit.
Why are you trying to make elections political?
