Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself. Republicans called on him to resign from office, saying that if he could not run for another term, office, then he’s unable to serve as president.

Biden’s announcement came after more than two weeks of Democrats urging him to withdraw from the race. Nearly three dozen lawmakers had publicly called on him to end his reelection bid. Others had voiced concerns privately about what the ramifications would be for down-ballot Democrats if he remained in the race. When the president heeded those concerns, Democrats called it a selfless move.

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    The Republicans were calling for President Elect Biden to resign even while their leader was staging a violent coup to end the Republic.

    The fascist GOP can get fucked. What they want should be irrelevant and their very presence opposed.

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        Given our Supreme Court ruling that a US president can’t commit crimes, they’re not being very secret about their goal of making the US a dictatorship.

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          None of it… Is secret… The trump calls. Even to the fucking election investigator in Georgia!? The paperwork.

          It’s all there. Any American who supports trump today is either literally special needs level education (and haven’t looked at or understood thr tapes) or publicly admitting they would prefer monarchy with trump.