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There might be a much simpler explanation.
Biden's decline is quite strong. Compare footage of him in 2020 to footage in 2024 and the difference is stark. This the kind of decline that's possible after 80, but some people are able to postpone it until 85 or even 90. I think the Democrats might not have anticipated it would go downhill this quickly. Initially they backed him because he was the President, because they had to defend his policy and because he already beat Trump once. Then they wanted to appear loyal and not just cut ties with him the minute something went wrong. That would have been a bad look.
But we're beyond that now. You cannot, in good faith, put forward a candidate whose mental capacities are in question.
Biden's decline is quite strong. Compare footage of him in 2020 to footage in 2024 and the difference is stark. This the kind of decline that's possible after 80, but some people are able to postpone it until 85 or even 90. I think the Democrats might not have anticipated it would go downhill this quickly. Initially they backed him because he was the President, because they had to defend his policy and because he already beat Trump once. Then they wanted to appear loyal and not just cut ties with him the minute something went wrong. That would have been a bad look.
But we're beyond that now. You cannot, in good faith, put forward a candidate whose mental capacities are in question.
Here's where I differ. People making out like Biden has suddenly been afflicted with some horrible neurogenerative disease. The dude is 81. Stuff just isn't as sharp.
Someone visits him to check out possible Parkinson's? That's just called healthcare when you're 81.
Americans have been pushing out their elderly into internment camps for so long, nobody in the public knows what getting old really looks like anymore.
Again, I don't buy the early onset (at 81?) Alzheimer's diagnosis. Americans have no clue what it's like to grow old because they continually lock them up and out of sight.
I know it's bad business given our party conventions have been eliminating any surprises for a deterministic king these days. But Biden should release all his delegates, and the DNC delegates should do the job they historically did at the convention: vote on a candidate.
Poor Biden should not be facing the next (health-declining) four years of his life with this mockery. The dude should be chilling on a beach with a mai tai and enjoying his golden years. But he probably is like Diane Feinstein in that politics keeps him alive as he would otherwise die immediately, not knowing what to do with himself.
Then we have human social failure at work. No matter how you try to prevent it, it's scientifically proven that people in great power ultimately repel the people whom they don't want to hear from, people with bad news or who see things others don't. Instead they attract and surround themselves with "yes men" who say what they want to hear. It's the same reason Putin got beyotch-slapped invading Ukraine. It happens to everybody in leadership and management, it's human behavioral nature, and it's impossible to stop.
Call that the Deep State if you want. I won't. That's pretty much normal for people in power.
Look, I have long derided Kamala Harris here as the worst DA San Francisco had in 30 years. Not because of cluelessness or incompetence, but because she's a ladder-climbing careerist who refuses to do her current job if it requires taking risks that might thwart her next career jump. ("Border Czar", anyone?)
Once you are president, however, there are no jumps left. So I have no idea what she'd do. The Peter Principle ends at U.S. President.
And as far as Trump goes, I think having haters is an asset in American politics these days. Too many try to win over everybody as their respected aisle-crossing leader. I miss those days, but they are gone. So if a swath of Americans find her unelectable, that might be a good thing.
Particularly useful when she stands as much as any other candidate to smoke out all the closet racists and white supremacists who will go open season. Just when Trump needs them to chill dafuq out, they will opportunistically grow emboldened and vocal. And Trump won't lift a finger to discourage it or dissociate from it, as he never has. And it will bite Trump in the ass, turning off neutrals in battleground states.
I never thought she would ever have a viable shot at being president, but today I am less sure about that conviction.
Someone visits him to check out possible Parkinson's? That's just called healthcare when you're 81.
Americans have been pushing out their elderly into internment camps for so long, nobody in the public knows what getting old really looks like anymore.
Again, I don't buy the early onset (at 81?) Alzheimer's diagnosis. Americans have no clue what it's like to grow old because they continually lock them up and out of sight.
I know it's bad business given our party conventions have been eliminating any surprises for a deterministic king these days. But Biden should release all his delegates, and the DNC delegates should do the job they historically did at the convention: vote on a candidate.
Poor Biden should not be facing the next (health-declining) four years of his life with this mockery. The dude should be chilling on a beach with a mai tai and enjoying his golden years. But he probably is like Diane Feinstein in that politics keeps him alive as he would otherwise die immediately, not knowing what to do with himself.
Then we have human social failure at work. No matter how you try to prevent it, it's scientifically proven that people in great power ultimately repel the people whom they don't want to hear from, people with bad news or who see things others don't. Instead they attract and surround themselves with "yes men" who say what they want to hear. It's the same reason Putin got beyotch-slapped invading Ukraine. It happens to everybody in leadership and management, it's human behavioral nature, and it's impossible to stop.
Call that the Deep State if you want. I won't. That's pretty much normal for people in power.
Look, I have long derided Kamala Harris here as the worst DA San Francisco had in 30 years. Not because of cluelessness or incompetence, but because she's a ladder-climbing careerist who refuses to do her current job if it requires taking risks that might thwart her next career jump. ("Border Czar", anyone?)
Once you are president, however, there are no jumps left. So I have no idea what she'd do. The Peter Principle ends at U.S. President.
And as far as Trump goes, I think having haters is an asset in American politics these days. Too many try to win over everybody as their respected aisle-crossing leader. I miss those days, but they are gone. So if a swath of Americans find her unelectable, that might be a good thing.
Particularly useful when she stands as much as any other candidate to smoke out all the closet racists and white supremacists who will go open season. Just when Trump needs them to chill dafuq out, they will opportunistically grow emboldened and vocal. And Trump won't lift a finger to discourage it or dissociate from it, as he never has. And it will bite Trump in the ass, turning off neutrals in battleground states.
I never thought she would ever have a viable shot at being president, but today I am less sure about that conviction.
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As an outsider who’s force fed American politics by the internet, the Democrats don’t seem like they are capable of doing that. You still see comments like “If it’s a race between an elderly, forgetful gentleman vs a fascist, I know who I’m voting for” and how everyone should band together and vote for Biden despite his cognitive decline.
We have seen elections around the world these past few months. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the most powerful country in the world seem to have the worst possible options as their choice of leader regardless of your political beliefs.
We have seen elections around the world these past few months. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the most powerful country in the world seem to have the worst possible options as their choice of leader regardless of your political beliefs.
I think I would go for Jill Stein.
I never really cared for Kamala Harris but I agree with @swag, she can't be worse than Biden.
I may be wrong here but to a large extent, Trump is more of a barking dog (racist trash talk) that does not bite: no new wars, less taxes = I kind of like that!
IMHO, Biden takes the cake for being the 2nd worst POTUS in history. "W" was the worst.
I never really cared for Kamala Harris but I agree with @swag, she can't be worse than Biden.
I may be wrong here but to a large extent, Trump is more of a barking dog (racist trash talk) that does not bite: no new wars, less taxes = I kind of like that!
IMHO, Biden takes the cake for being the 2nd worst POTUS in history. "W" was the worst.
Greens are what vegans eat, bruh. We don't do that in the U.S.
Trump knows how to dog whistle though. He says what's understood without directly saying it. If Biden tried that now, he would be swearing the n-word right now ... but when talking about Macron. And you're right in that he makes a tougher talk to his base than what he technically delivers. Democrats are continually in hysterics over that.
But it's also true that Trump gives cover for a lot of creeps and weirdos who want to string up a brother, and the environment gives them a sense of all clear to start marching in hoods in Nashville.
But let's be clear on wars. Biden is technically directly involved in one fewer wars than Trump was. Even if a lot is now by proxy.
I can't say Biden was a terrible POTUS. Too easy. I saw someone post that Kamala Harris was the worst VP in history. Based on what? Spiro Agnew? She's useless, but what VP wasn't. (Well, ironically other than Pence on Jan 6.)
Even Trump has pivoted from Obama being the worst president ever to Biden, but that's all recency effect, who is his "opponent" (Obama never was and Trump was out to erase his history), and not record.
How the U.S. pulled off a relatively "soft landing" post-COVID without plunging into recession and massive unemployment is still a bit of magic, though certainly not all to his credit. So to call him the second worst suffers from recency effect. I mean... Warren G. Harding, James Buchanon... Come on!!
Trump knows how to dog whistle though. He says what's understood without directly saying it. If Biden tried that now, he would be swearing the n-word right now ... but when talking about Macron. And you're right in that he makes a tougher talk to his base than what he technically delivers. Democrats are continually in hysterics over that.
But it's also true that Trump gives cover for a lot of creeps and weirdos who want to string up a brother, and the environment gives them a sense of all clear to start marching in hoods in Nashville.
But let's be clear on wars. Biden is technically directly involved in one fewer wars than Trump was. Even if a lot is now by proxy.
I can't say Biden was a terrible POTUS. Too easy. I saw someone post that Kamala Harris was the worst VP in history. Based on what? Spiro Agnew? She's useless, but what VP wasn't. (Well, ironically other than Pence on Jan 6.)
Even Trump has pivoted from Obama being the worst president ever to Biden, but that's all recency effect, who is his "opponent" (Obama never was and Trump was out to erase his history), and not record.
How the U.S. pulled off a relatively "soft landing" post-COVID without plunging into recession and massive unemployment is still a bit of magic, though certainly not all to his credit. So to call him the second worst suffers from recency effect. I mean... Warren G. Harding, James Buchanon... Come on!!
Gotta love murica
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Trump added, “He didn’t like that idea too much, but actually, it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had.”
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Trump added, “He didn’t like that idea too much, but actually, it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had.”
