:sunglasses: 24.2 % :pray: 12.1 % :laughing: 30.3 % :cry: 27.3 % :poo: 6.1 %
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By The Weeping Angel
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:33 am Edgelord political commentary here.

The day he wrote this, the House passed a bipartisan bill with lots of poverty relief in it (Republicans got some business tax breaks).

Not that Biden will get any credit if it passes the senate, just like he get little or no credit for all the other progressive things he's done. A good example is drone strikes, I can remember under Obama this was a terrible thing to do it was a war crime (Curiously a lot of these people had little to say when Trump massively increased drone strikes) Biden has largely ended them and massively curtailed their use. Now has he got any thanks for this from these groups? No he has not.
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By Crabcakes
#62312
It’s infuriating. Biden is his own worst enemy. He was stitched up by the report after Garland put a Republican in charge to look non-biased, did fine at the press conference, but then had to go back and answer one more question that he made a mistake on. And boom - that’s now the headlines.

The worst part is, Trump is almost as old but clearly orders of magnitude less fit and well and at times demonstrates a frightening level of cognitive decline. And Mitch McConnell - same age as Biden - has straight-up more or less died mid-speech. But no one makes an issue of them in the same way.

The US media is just rolling over for Trump, when he will absolutely screw 95% of them over if god forbid he gets back in. They are all turkeys voting for thanksgiving.
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By Abernathy
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Yes, it’s bizarre and dispiriting that serious doubts are being propagated about the cognitive abilities of a successful incumbent president, yet the putative challenger, a convicted sex offender, insurrectionist, proven liar, and corrupt racist, sexist, arsehole of more or less the same age and with similar or worse cognitive difficulties is, as crabbers says, apparently being given a clear run at the presidency despite facing multiple trials for egregious crimes and misdemeanours.

Not for the first time, the conclusion that the USA is one fucked up country is difficult to avoid.

I now think that unless serious consideration is urgently given to whether it may be possible to withdraw Biden in favour of a younger candidate, and if the answer is yes then action is urgently taken, then it begins to look like a second term of Trump, with all the attendant disastrous consequences for the whole world. I’d speculate that it would only now be possible if Biden is medically diagnosed with a far more serious neurological condition than is suspected, with which it would be necessary to go public and regretfully announce that Biden would have to withdraw. Surely even Trump couldn’t try to capitalise on that circumstance ?
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By The Weeping Angel
#62327
That isn't the issue. The issues is that American media outlets are deciding to have a narrative about how Biden is senile based on some cherry picked quotes from a report which exonarates him and are running with it and ignoring Trump when he makes similar if not worse

https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/2/8/2 ... ort-memory
Clearly, Biden is not very good at naming in which year things happened. That may be embarrassing, but is it disqualifying for the presidency? To assess that, we’d have to compare him to his opponent. Consider that all of the following has happened in recent months:

Trump has said either that Barack Obama is president or that he had run against Obama for the presidency at least seven times, according to Forbes’s Sara Dorn.
Trump mixed up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, claiming Haley was in charge of security at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
During a deposition, Trump identified a picture of E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, as a picture of his ex-wife Marla Maples.
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By Watchman
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I must admit, I’ve always thought how can Americans have any functioning grasp of what politics and government actually is, when essentially their views are shaped around the contrasting personalities of just 2 candidates, and who are seen as the whole party
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By Abernathy
#62348
Watchman wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:53 pm I must admit, I’ve always thought how can Americans have any functioning grasp of what politics and government actually is, when essentially their views are shaped around the contrasting personalities of just 2 candidates, and who are seen as the whole party

I hesitate to make such a broad generalisation, but it often seems to me that the average American
is as dim as a 15 watt bulb.
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