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It sounds like she’s upset how the Democratic Party treated Biden and I don’t blame her.
I agree, they never should have let a sunsetting cancer patient delude himself into thinking he should go for a second term, and in fact both his and Feinstein's handlers belong in prison for elder abuse.
Biden did as well as could be expected from a liberal but I didn't expect much. He got handed all the tools he needed by the Supreme Court and high roaded this nation into fascism for nothing.
He probably could have won the second term though.
He was at a campaign fundraiser, and failed to recognise a close friend of 15 years. Didn’t remember his name or that they were acquainted. That friend was George Clooney. That man had no business being in public office. Hell, he shouldn’t have been outside his home without adult supervision.
I think George Clooney would do well in public office but I don’t think he’s interested.
sigh
Yeah sure why not.
Eh. Fuck it. Let’s just elect Bill Burr. Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president is having a frankly outstanding performance, despite being thrust into quite harrowing circumstances. Also - and I do genuinely mean this - considering where we are now, what’s the worst that could happen?
How about president TayTay?
She could do a campaign tour to all the major cities!
I mean… again, we’re currently in the midst of a far, far worse idea, so sure.
Only people who don’t want the job should be in public office.
While we're doing who shouldn't be president, Trump once mistook a picture of one of his rape victims as one of his ex wives (after, of course, insisting the rape victim "wasn't his type")
Conveniently, one of his ex wives is also one of his rape victims. As was recorded in court documents.
Yup. In general, Americans seem to be the last people who should be choosing their presidents. Woofers every time.
The founding fathers warned about this….
Funny you should mention it, because we're not the ones choosing them.
Bro he was less popular than the lady that lost and cancer is eating his balls, let it go. If he'd won the debate, maybe, but instead he looked like a dying grandpa (because he literally is) that cared more about golf scores than America or not enabling genocide.
It’s funny how Trump says a conspiracy theory and a week later people who call themselves the left are repeating it as gospel.
So you think his incoherent rambling was just senility then? There isn't a win here to be found my guy. He was sick or senile, either way he was unpopular, unethical, and no longer fit.
Read a transcript of the debate and its clear he isnt “senile”. Hes old as fuck and took a while to make his point. Like any 75+ year old person naturally does. Virtually every point he made was perfectly cogent, especially by comparison to the rambling delusions of Mango Unchained
He also has a speech impediment that allowed him down. Supposedly he had a cold too, but that one felt dubious
Remember when he invited Zelensky to the White House and introduced him at the press conference as “Vladimir Putin”? What a fucking liability.
Or when he closed his last State of the Union with an explicit threat to attack Russia, a fellow nuclear armed state, just off the cuff. At least when Trump does it no-one gives it serious credibility.
Wait, Trump is way more incoherent and jumbles things up than Biden ever did, he just does so at high speed because he is amped up on Sudafed
Why are you repeating Trump’s talking points though?
Why are you inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide DONT YOU KNOW TRUMP DOES THAT???
Somewhat inconclusive proof that TDS is real.
I’m waiting for the first one to say that Biden’s a robot clone now.
The thing with trump is he never stops talking. In that waterfall of shit there's bound to be an actual truth or two, and he was right about bidens senility. Making a factual statement isn't "repeating trump talking points", because it's not a talking point it's a fact.
Do you believe they covered up Biden’s cancer too?
I have no idea. I know Biden was senile because I watched the debate. I did not watch his doctor stick a finger up his ass.
Trump can't pronounce unethical without bursting into flames.
Biden was senilee during the 2020 primaries as well.
Actually, no.
Possible, but he did a pretty good job in those debates whereas in 2024 he was sunsetting right in front of us on live tv
There was no way. Not a chance. Have you forgotten how deeply unpopular he was during the campaign, especially after his debate?
Straight up not true.
Biden’s white and male so he would have gotten enough votes to get him over the line.
Incorrect, you assume he would have the same votes as Harris AND the misogynist and racist democrats, i doubt you could count on that even if it were true. But we don’t have to wonder because it was far far worse off for him, besides you are forgetting the ageist democrats too!
More people voted for Biden than any other candidate in US history so he was able to lose a couple.
Oh and i can see that the polls also showed him as a complete failure at that time as well? Let’s see… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
Hahahaha no, like holy shit no. Seems like the polls were right. And so your conclusion is incorrect by all accounts.
It's my opinion which is apparently different than yours but not any less relevant.
Unless of course you have some smoking gun sort of proof of your assertions.
Man if only we had a way to read the temperature of the voting base to see if everyone who voted for Joe Biden still intended to do so. Some way to compare it to the temperature of the room back when he won to help make strategic decisions.
Oh wait! We do! And it’s a poll
You see the error in your thinking is that your opinion holds more weight than mine, based off what i can only assume is copeium. I based mine off his performance and polling data, our opinions do not carry the same weight.
Of course my opinion holds more weight to me just like yours does to you.
You are allowed to feel any which way you like about that or unicorns, but reality has a way of pushing back. If you don’t have any means of backing up your assertion, then none else should take your arguments or your condemnation of progressive voters seriously
I'll take progressive voters and politicians seriously when they take themselves seriously or break 10% of the vote.
Apparently the apathetic vote is large enough to prevent a democratic victory.
You can’t have it both ways either the progressive vote is too small to matter and they didn’t have an influence of Harris losing the election, or they are too massive to ignore and they must be pushed into voting against their interests or else its their fault the dems lost.
Pick a lane.
Do you not believe that every vote matters?
Because I do.
Eh~ some votes are more equal than others. It’s a progressive want to rectify that, with a change to the voting system.
But also, yes, and if democrats want some of these votes, they are going to have to come to the table with something palatable, and it turns out that lies, and threats were not good enough. And you can hang the blame of the loss of the election squarely on the agent responsible, the Democratic Party.
We'll have to agree to disagree because I blame Harris's loss for everyone that voted against her either by voting Trump or third party and those who didn't vote.
That’s a category error. The democrats are not owed anyone’s votes. The terms are set. It is the reality of things. Not sure how blaming progressives is going to get us to change our minds.
That's where that agreeing to disagree comes in.