The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the presidentā€™s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whetherĀ Joe BidenĀ was going to endorseĀ Kamala HarrisĀ or not. And the question didnā€™t revolve around whetherĀ heĀ wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh startĀ going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

  • lemonmelon@lemmy.world
    2Ā·
    5 months ago

    Cal comes to mindā€¦ and thatā€™s the only one that I can immediately think of.

    Edit: looked it up: LBJ, Harry S Truman, Cal, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Buchanan, and James K. Polk. So yeah, really short list.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      2Ā·
      5 months ago

      Everytime someone mentions Harry Truman, I have Linda from Bobā€™s Burgers song that she apparently sings while braiding her daughterā€™s hair come to mind:

      Here goes the hair and / There goes the hair and / Where is Harry Truman? / Heā€™s dead in the ground. / Heā€™s dead in the ground. / Heā€™s dead, dead, dead!