MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden

Incidentally, there's a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can't tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore. They'll tell us not to vote for whoever is going to be his replacement though.

GOP: "Your candidate is unfit for office."

Dems: "Okay, we got a new candidate."

GOP: shocked pikachu

Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other

Trump added that he thought the GOP should be "reimbursed for fraud."

Trump raises an excellent point: his campaign was forced to waste money against Biden for as long as it did only for the Democrats to pull the rug out from under him by pulling Joe out of the race. This, if anything, is a form of cheating.

AH HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can't believe all those stupid anti-biden truck decals etc will be rendered pointless in a matter of months. I better start making anti-Kamala decals if i want to properly capitalize on these next 4 years 🤑

Edit: cry into your fuckin ear-squares ya bunch of sad sacks

Now their candidate is the old fuck and is a felon who's fighting against a black woman (!) that used to send felons to jail.

Of course they are pissed! As they should be!

Biden is now a man with nothing to lose and a supreme court that said presidents can do any damn thing they please

Of course they are mad. The Republican strategy up until this point has been to attack the incumbent, but now the incumbent is no longer running for re-election. Trump literally doesn't know how to deal with this situation. His whole shtick is to attack the person currently in charge, but that doesn't do shit for him now.

A big part of why he lost in 2020, imo, is that he didn't have anybody to blame for all the bad shit happening in the country at the time. He himself was in charge and could only say "things will get worse under Biden", but people were sick of Covid fucking up our lives and the endless scandals that hit the news daily.

Maybe they will start to realize the persistent election cycle is not a good thing. I would love to see a ban on all election campaigning until 90 days before said election but that wouldn’t get past a 1st amendment challenge.

The problem with a 2 party system is that it is a lot easier to make the opposition look bad rather than make your candidate look good.

So all these MAGAs lost a lot of money since their smear campaign of Biden is now worth nothing and they will have to start over.

This is starting to look like an effective strategy for the Democrats to drain Republican funds: don't announce your actual candidate until August.

Oh no, all of their bots will have to be reprogrammed.

You guys realize that Biden waited until after the RNC to announce this right? He's making this as hard as possible for them to pivot. You had hundreds of people in the same city, building strategies for their campaign. He had made sure that Kamala would have the delegates secured to ensure there would be no in-fighting for the next candidate. They did little to stop the media in going down the rabbit hole of the all-consuming news that he should drop out. They used it for their advantage to create a positive whirl wind around Kamala. Truly brilliant.

So they are basically admitting that their whole campaign argument was "Biden is bad Trump is not Biden" and now that he is gone, the argument is invalid. After all if it was a campaign mostly about Trump's positive qualities (in their perspective) then it should not have really mattered who the opposition is.

In the blink of an eye, their surplus of hateful anti-Biden merchandise becomes even more useless. This will surely make them realize how idiotic their cult is /s.

They're upset. So? They're always upset. Make them more upset by voting Democrat in the upcoming election.

Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.

Sleepy Donald is upset. He should take a nap.

It is a conspiracy for one side to strategically do a better job and be better.

I'm saddened for them since they'll never know what it's like to lose to Biden twice.

Starting the pool on how long till TFG forgets who he's now running against and starts rantng about Biden at a rally.

And most importantly of all......

The reason they are this mad...

Nobody ain't talking about no ears no more.

Fuck. Them.

Yeah I bet the skeevers are upset, regularless of the new nominee Trump is almost surely going to get destroyed in the next debate. Also now most of Trump's points against Biden apply to himself instead of the other candidate.

This would be a good time for republicans to campaign on all the politics they intend to run. Lol. They've been unusually silent lately. because they can't find common ground on anything but being anti-democrat.

GOP will implode on itself if Democrats just stay silent for a week or two.

Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.

Curiously, they're not mad about the multiple tens of millions of their dollars being spent on Trump's lawyers.

MAGAts can fuck off and die.

They're going to be mad no matter what. When Democrats try to pass Republican legislation they get mad.

They should be mad. Biden stands down with a perfect 1-0 record of defeating Trump with no chance of rematch.

Why would you come with a campaign tweaked against a specific opponent and not with a program that is the best for the majority of the citizen? Politics is really stupid especially in 2024!

Do they think the dems didn’t spend a bunch promoting Biden?

The fact that they're so mad about this makes me think that Biden was a much weaker incumbent than I realized, and that the choice to replace him was the right one.

Let's hope we can focus more on Trump's mental acuity (or lack thereof) from here on out.

Calling it now.

They'll say it's a conspiracy and Biden is running things behind the scenes as head of the deep state, Kamala is just a puppet

He's gonna be the forever bogeyman.

If they don't want to run a campaign against their opponent they can keep it completely at the policy level for the policy they endorse like project 2025.

So, what you're telling me is that by finally conceding to giving up on reelection, Biden achieved one hell of a victory against the whiny orange?

🥂

Here's to hoping you 'muricans don't fuck this chance.

Well yeah, they've probably printed enough Geriatric Joe propaganda to last all the way to the election.

This reverse uno card is really funny.

The headline was so close to perfection...

I guess if only they spent more endorsing their own agenda instead of smearing it wouldnt matter right? 🤷‍♂️

I don't know, I went to r/conservative and they seem quite pleased. From my observations, both dems and reps seem happy with what just happened. I saw no one scared or upset and I spent about 30 minutes reading comments.

It was actually kinda trippy how universally pleased everyone is.

I’m in some chats with right wingers. At first they were happy. Which was actually nice for once and we stopped talking about politics every .002 seconds. Then they went down this batshit, bizarre conspiracy hole about Biden not really withdrawing because it wasn’t announced on whitehouse.gov. They’re just making fun of Kamala now. Jimmies are definitely russled.

Oh did your sure thing evaporate now that you're not running against a dementia patient?

That's like losing a $1,000 bet on the Lakers and trying to sue them or something.

The next presidential candidate debate, is going to be fun!

Good. Let them stay angry.

Donald Trump and his supporters have slammed Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris.

................what?

Awww! Well Boo Fucking Hoo for you.

FJB amirite?

MAGAs: Wait, you can do that?

Who cares. Report on democratic candidates, strengths, weaknesses, policies, etc. I'm so fucking sick of the "news"

This feels like postering to me. Trump was recorded while playing golf with Barron that “Biden’s out. It’s gonna be Kamala”. He’s already been considering this for at least a week or more.

Trump isn’t upset about going up against Kamala and he’s already been saying that he will stomp her, which I am so fearful he will that it makes me tear up.