President Biden shoots down imaginary scenario about House Republicans being able to steal 2024 from him
Just yesterday, the doomsday pundits in the media were telling us that we were doomed because there wasn’t going to be a Speaker. Today these same folks are telling us that we’re doomed because there is going to be a Speaker. At some point you realize these kinds of narratives are all about emotionally manipulating you into staying tuned in, and are not based in reality.
Yet the doomsday hysteria narratives persist. In fact a reporter asked President Biden today if he’s worried about the scenario where he wins reelection in 2024 but then House Republicans simply decide to magically take it away from him by not certifying the results.
In response, Biden said he’s not worried about it because it’s not even a real scenario. This is the correct answer. It’s not a real scenario, things don’t even work that way, and it’s all just empty doomsday hype aimed at driving ratings. Biden is correct to swat this nonsense away.
As I’ve said before, it’s really dangerous when the worry warts on our side start hyping these kinds of cartoonishly hyperbolic, laughably simplistic, imaginary doomsday scenarios as if they were real things that could actually happen. When the media sees people on our side melting down over this kind of imaginary scenario, the media takes that as a sign to start hyping that scenario even more loudly. That in turn gives leverage to House Republicans, who can then make the empty threat of magically non-certifying the election, in order to get their way on other things.
Worst of all, when folks on our side start hyping imaginary scenarios where we’re going to win the election but have it stolen from us anyway, all that does is tell everyone else on our side not to bother putting in the work required to win. No one wants to go out and fight if they’re being told they’re going to lose anyway.
There is nothing – NOTHING – more toxic to our side’s chances of winning than these imaginary doomsday scenarios about Republicans just magic wanding their way to getting whatever they want. We have to be vigilant about not letting the doomsday hysteria types on our side sabotage us with their “we’re gonna lose no matter what” messaging. President Biden is absolutely correct to laugh in the face of the media’s imaginary doomsday scenarios. His supporters all need to do the same.
