(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . You are all missing what actually happened yesterday, this is REALLY bad [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-28 I think a lot of you are missing what is actually happening here. I have been a big Biden fan for a long time, best president of my lifetime. And I’m growing old from the amount of stress and anxiety that I have over a Trump presidency. And I wanted an open primary. But, I thought Biden has been a great president, so when they told me that he was going to run for re-election, I supported him fully. In fact, every day, I’d write up something great that he had done…from the PACT Act to breaking OPAC, Student Debt Relief, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Build Back Better. And, when the New York Times questioned his fitness for office, I raged and said how dare you question Biden, because I’d been told by Biden and his advisors that he was sharp and fresh, and at the top of his game. I cancelled the New York Times because how dare they lie. I spoke up to everyone about voting for Biden because I knew how important this election was. I assured everyone that Biden was fine even though I wondered why his voice was always so raspy, why he seemed so stiff, but I wrote it off the arthritis and colds…I wondered why he always spoke on a teleprompter, and had to believe that it was his stutter, and that he was at the top of his game because that’s what they told me, and I trusted them and I believed them, and I gave them my money and my time. Because they wouldn’t lie to me, because this was about democracy and it was too important for them to deceive me. And then came YESTERDAY. That was not “sick” bad…that was not “stutter” bad…that was not “tired” bad. That was cognitive decline bad. And not a little bit, it was a lot. I had elderly parents, I watched them decline. I know how this works. This Joe Biden could not string a coherent thought together. Every piece of bullshit Trump spewed out of his mouth At first, I was sad. I laid in bed unable to sleep, thinking about what would happen under another Trump presidency. But then, I became furious! Absolutely smoke coming out of my ears filled with rage!! The Biden administration LIED to me, and I trusted them, and I feel like a fool, because I in turn lied to people I know, because I trusted them. How dare he take my money and hide his decline, how dare they give all those excuses and make me hate the NYT instead of letting me see the truth. If this is indeed the most important vote of our lifetime, and we all know it is, then it is completely infuriating that an administration would hide an old man who can not speak off of a teleprompter, and convince me that he was the best one for the job. And don’t you dare tell me that him reading off a teleprompter today solved everything. It didn’t, yesterday mattered, a lot. We have a BRILLIANT vice-president who would have knocked this debate out of the park, we have Newsom, and Wes Moore, and Pete Buttegeig, and Gretchen Whitmer. We could have had an amazing primary, generating genuine interest and enthusiasm, without the baggage that Biden has with the Isreal/Gaza situation, and instead they lied to me, with the most important election ever! I will vote for Biden, if he is still on the ticket in November, because old doesn’t get better, and hiding a candidate in cognitive decline for 5 months is the dumbest damn thing ever, and beyond infuriating with the future of our democracy at stake… Don’t try to convince me to be a team player, I was all in, until I was lied to and betrayed. I already know he’ll lose, and frankly he deserves to lose. I’m heartbroken and furious! We need an open convention, we need to right this ship, and that’s the only way to do it even though there is risk…the “or else” in inconceivable…a slow motion train wreck with world wide implications… [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/28/2249580/-You-are-all-missing-what-actually-happened-yesterday-this-is-REALLY-bad?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/