Did he do it for the memes?
Im sorry, im just not getting this.
You’re worried about someone who says some dumb things when the other choice is a convicted felon, known sexual abuser, who’s actively fighting the democracy you stand for and first act as non-president was to try overthrow your government.
Trump should be in prison or hung, and you’re comparing him to someone who says dumb things. TRUMP IS A THREAT TO HUMAN RIGHTS, GLOBAL STABILITY AND THE FUTURE OF FUCKING HUMANITY.
And Biden enables genocide, among a lifetime history of right wing views such as fighting for segregation.
Trump and Biden are not good options.
People should be furious the Dems allowed him to be in this position today, not sucking it up and pushing harder for it.
If you insist in framing it that way, know that it comes with the job of being US president https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
and Biden is far from the worst in the war crime enabler list, considering he has to deter the most fascist Israeli government ever…
So…go vote for the least bad option that disempowers you the least.
Instead of voting for war criminals, how about not?
You don’t fill in a hole by taking a lesser amount of dirt out. Likewise you don’t fix the system by voting for the lesser evil.
Do you have a source on the fighting for segregation - first I’ve heard?
I strongly disagree with Biden enabling genocide - America isn’t the global police, the UNSC are impotent, and even if you isolate to just the US you’re looking at 35 odd years of US strategic interests and policy, dependence on foreign fuel (and denial to other superpowers), global trade chokepoints, a military industrial complex that touches every part of the US economy and American wishes to be a beacon of liberty. No 3 year president can fight that and maintain a stable country.
Yup, Bernie sanders would have been a much better choice but he’s not a choice that can be made - you can have either blundering buffoon or egotistical, sexist, racist criminal as the most powerful person in the world.
This has nothing to do with “world police”, Biden and America are literally sending weapons and money to Israel. They’ve routinely shielded them from the UN, and will intervene with force if anyone tries to stop Israel.
To quote Biden himself, “I am a Zionist”. He doesn’t even try to hide how evil he is.
You can either have a shit option or a shit option, you will never have a good option unless you stop supporting the status quo.
The US funds and arms Israel, which they use to enforce their apartheid, a kind of segregation, as well as carry out the genocide of Palestinians. Biden enthusiastically supplies these weapons knowing they are used to kill innocent civilians every single day.
Do you not realize that saying the wrong things is a manifestation of mental processes that aren’t connecting right?
Thanks dude, im an Australian, living in Australia but this whole “the non rapist, non fascist, non criminal guy who has a raspy voice, stutter, forgets a name guy is equal or worst to the Fascist, Rapist Paedophile Destroy the World cunt” is fucking nuts. America, grow the fuck up.
Is it not painfully obvious to everyone including in other nations that we are being uno-reverso’d the classic CIA destabilization plot? Down to supporting right wing movements and fascists? Like our country is under attack. “Grow up” - this is a war being fought online, with weapons we’ve never dealt with before as a society: AI, algorithms, data mining, bot armies
And truly it’s a sophisticated way to attack the US. We can’t be fought economically or with actual arms; we will win those battles most likely. So if we just attack ourselves and take ourselves out, even if we are just wounded from the devastation to our education system or slowed down from implementing technology/infrastructure, it still massively helps other countries catch up and even pass us in some regards.
Is it not painfully obvious to everyone including in other nations that we are being uno-reverso’d the classic CIA destabilization plot?
You misspelt FSB. The CIA has no interest in destabilising the US.
You’re conflating all Americans.
We smart ones get it. The problem is the idiots don’t mind rapists or terrorists. They mind “loser” qualities.
The same reason Reagan was so popular while he gutted the federal government to give to the rich, he was a literal celebrity and actor, and many Americans base their entire judgement of someone on their screen presence
To be fair he only gutted social programs and only gave some of it to the wealthy. The rest went to the military budget. Federal spending ballooned under Reagan!
Which is exactly why it’s really important to have an opponent to Trump who doesn’t say dumb things.
Bullshit. If the media scrutinizes your hypothetical candidate for not having cured cancer, do we need to find someone who cured cancer so we can run them? Fuck those disingenuous bastards, they would talk shit about Christ himself if he ran as a Democrat.
Just recognize reality. Trump has spent his life in media. He’s skilled at crafting a narrative that appeals to the dumbest 51%. His wide variety of horrible characteristics works against that, but you need a candidate who can take advantage of those horrible characteristics. Rather than doing that, Biden has played into Trump’s narratives, despite tons of time to prepare. If we would let ourselves see it, we’d recognize it’s a binary choice. Go with Biden and make Trump president, or go with anyone else and stop him.
Have he said something even close to the stupidity of Trump? Like suggesting bleach against Covid? Why should all Trump opponents be measured with a different scale then Trump. Could you imagine the number of headlines required if Trump would get a headline every time he does anything on this scale?
We can say the media is being unfair to Biden, and it probably is. But it doesn’t matter. Biden is clearly terrible at getting positive coverage - whether that’s his fault or the media’s (and I think we can all recognize it’s at least partly his fault). If the goal is to stop Trump, we need someone who can get better coverage.
It’s not about what people here believe. Lemmy trends HEAVILY left wing. It’s about people already saying both candidates suck and don’t want to vote or centrists who lean left electing not to vote.
Unfortunately, republicans tends heavily toward the elderly who always vote. Any vote not cast is a vote for fascism. People who care are scared. I am scared. We need someone who will get people in boothes.
Oh, both candidates do suck. But I’d rather have the wrong name on my coffee than someone who gives me a wrong order, tells me I clearly ordered a tea, beats up my wife and destroys my kids future then says how great they are.
Fully agree your need more in booths - unfortunately if the threat of Trump isn’t big enough i don’t know what you could bring to the table that is.
And literally nobody in this thread is trying to say we should vote for Trump instead.
Last year or earlier would have been the time to do that, not this close to the election.
If they don’t pivot, they’ll lose. I thought he was too old last year but they’ve been propping him up and hiding it.
The only reason we didn’t notice it before is because they’ve been deliberately hiding it and now the chickens are coming to roost.
This is his fault.
I’m not sure what your point is. Even people voting for Biden because Fuck Trump have reasons to be concerned about the current/next president having pudding brains. Assuming Trump loses, once the election is over that’s still going to be a pressing issue.
All of what you are saying being true, how does it negate the statement of the previous poster?
Their point was clear, even a brain dead, vegetable humonculous is preferable to Trump for the next turn at president. Whether that solves the entire problem or not (it does not) is irrelevant
If Biden wins and we avoid apocalypse for a bit, we can then deal with the issue of a vegetable president and that is a much lesser issue to address
Reagan proved conclusively that an effective government can have a dementia patient as the figurehead. It isn’t ideal, but the people he is surrounded by make a huge difference.
Now, I’m not saying I agree with the policies his presidency promoted, but it was still effective
TRUMP IS A…
Then it’s a good thing he’s decided not to run for President. Oh wait, he is running? Then we’re screwed, if we rely on people voting for their best interests, just like in 2016, rather than just throwing their vote into the ring in order to watch the world burn.
Like it or not, some people aren’t going to vote for Biden. We can acknowledge that now, or acknowledge it later. Btw, I really hope I’m wrong, especially since it looks like we’re going with the latter.:-( I definitely was wrong in 2016, thinking that there was no way that Trump would win against Hillary.
The aged president with a stutter says something wrong in public again.
Whatever
I know and then he carried on with the rest of the press conference pretty damn eloquently when it came to unscripted questions.
Get all the media wants to focus on is a train of thought fuck up.
I do this shit all the goddamn time, does this mean I am old and decrepit? Senile? No it just means that I fuck up words periodically.
Unfortunately American voters only want one thing, red or blue, and that’s drama. Which is asinine.
It sure is. It’s probably gotten worse with age. Stress also triggers stutters. Knowing he’s under intense scrutiny from all sides on every word he speaks in public probably makes it worse. Especially after a lifetime of dealing with pudding brains associating a speech delay with failing mental acuity.
As you say, a stutter makes getting the words out difficult. It doesn’t make you mix up world leaders.
Welp that’s it folks. He can’t win and if he steps down all of the free world’s hopes are on the shoulders of a “tough on crime” one-term senator who couldn’t even make it to Iowa when she ran for the nomination.
Or you could be positive, talk to the people who have doubts about the parties general platform, what Biden stands for, and the initiatives that Kamala has embraced and run while vice president as well as her tempering her views on crime as she grew into the role of vice president.
And just to be sure, ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about how one should properly motivate the people in your life to be more politically active than voting every 4 years.
Don’t worry everyone. We’re in good hands. Biden is Sharp as a Tack.
I remember when Biden was picked as Obama’s VP, and everyone laughed because he’s known to make gaffes like this.
Obviously, there’s a lot of scrutiny on him, but let’s not pretend it’s all because he’s too old. It’s just Biden being Biden, and while he’s probably too old for the job, that’s what happens when you don’t impose upper age limits…
It’s not just “biden being biden” by a longshot. He is 81 and significantly worse.
We are rightly worried he’s going to lose against trump.
His voting base doesn’t care if they’re led by an unfit leader.
Be better than them.
People aren’t going to vote for Trump over Biden, they are just going to sit out. America doesn’t have mandatory voting.
“Um… let me be clear. My former VP pick has always sucked. He’s not old. He’s simply got a head full of busted marbles and wasn’t employable anywhere outside of the US Senate. That’s why I endorsed him to run in 2020. You people disgust me. You deserve what you get.”
So I should be able to look at 2020 debate footage and compare it to 2024 debate footage without a problem right?
Right?!?
This isn’t just gaffes. The man is getting to an age where this stuff get harder every year. There’s a reason the military has a mandatory retirement age of 62, even if you have a desk job.
It’s a concern because Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Kim… They’re all well-spoken. They’re all quick-witted.
What kind of message does that send would-be American allies in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, in South America?
as Jon Stewart also pointed out, but that’s not the issue here. the issue is expected performance. people expect want one of them to be a crazy loon. the other not so much. so when he acts like he’s not all there people are concerned whether he can perform well enough at the election to defeat the fascist. the polls aren’t optimistic.
True, but I feel like people have been talking past each other about this.
On the one hand, you have people saying Biden’s cabinet would do a better job than Trump, which is true. On the other hand, you have people saying Biden is going to lose to trump unless he somehow makes a dramatic turnaround in the next couple months, which is also true according to all available data.
The real question isn’t whether Biden is better than trump, it’s whether Biden would serve the country better by stepping down.
