I get that Biden is not an ideal candidate. He wasn't an ideal candidate in 2020 either. He remains the only viable choice for preserving what's left of democracy and buy us time to develop better options for ourselves.

And who would it even be? I'm sure we could all come up with a short list of candidates we'd prefer, but I doubt there's a single candidate who could both satisfy enough Democrats to unify the party *and* get a national campaign up to speed at this late hour (especially without the advantage of incumbency).

Yeah, there's a mechanism for replacing him now, but how is it going to play for the DNC to overturn the express will of Democratic primary voters and choose somebody that none of them voted for and hasn't proven themselves as a viable national candidate through the primary process?

Democrats spent the first part of this year going through the best available process for deciding whether to replace Biden as their nominee. It's called "the primaries". Only three people bothered to run against him, one of whom explicitly ran on Biden's age. None of them polled higher than 15% and Democratic voters in all 50 states overwhelmingly chose Biden to be the nominee.

Instead of using AI to steal jobs and intellectual property from artists, they should use it to design a smoke alarm that can tell the difference between “the house is on fire” and “dad’s heating up tortillas on the stovetop again”