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I thought Biden was sick, or was it tired? Now it’s tongue tied? The DNC is literally handing Trump the WH by refusing to acknowledge they are propping up a vegetable

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7 points

TIL you can only be one at a time.

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-6 points

Not when the story keeps changing

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7 points

Orrrrr yes tired and a cold, that’s not a ludicrous combination lol. And he’s always had a stutter, which yes can come out in many ways.

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While I could see the wisdom in not propping up a vegetable, I’m not sure acknowledging that they are propping up a vegetable is any more of a “winning strategy”.

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They need to count their losses while they still have time.

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I’m so tired of pundits pretending the media is being unfair to Biden. He literally said he was the first black woman to be vice president today, and most outlets chose not to cover it. The media has been going exceptionally easy on Biden, which is why so many Americans were shocked to hear how incoherent and rambling he’d become, even compared to Trump. The media isn’t covering this because they suddenly want to destroy Biden; they’re covering it because the floodgates have opened and they have no choice but to acknowledge it.

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That video was stupid. Confused himself with the VP or just misspoke? Silly.

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Yeah, and if he wasn’t on a press blitz because he went on TV and looked like a confused grandpa during a national debate, it’d be a silly flub, not another example of his cognitive decline.

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4 points

In an interview with questions his team fed to the interviewer no less.

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Listening to this for the first time, and I don’t hear him say he’s the black woman. He starts saying something, then changes mid sentence and says, “like I said, the first black woman vice president, served with a black president, first black woman chief justice”. Are you saying he says he’s also the first black woman chief justice? There’s legitimately many concerning things he has said due to his mental issues, but this is just nitpicking.

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Except that’s not what he said. His exact words were:

I’m proud to be, as I said, the first Vice President…the first black woman, to serve with a Black President.

Now, do I think that means he was so confused he thought he was the country’s first Vice President, and also a black woman who served with the first black President? No, obviously he meant that he was the Vice President to the first black President, and was President with the first black woman to be Vice President.

But do I think this is another example of him being unable to follow a train of thought long enough to complete a coherent sentence? Absolutely, yes.

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1 point

Biden lied about israel accepting a ceasefire and Hamas rejecting it.

Why has no Democrat ever mentioned this?

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Lied continually. Like multiple times.

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And Trump has said that Israel should “just finish the job”.

What makes you think that he will lift a finger to help the Palestinian people?

And what about your Congress and Senate? Aren’t they the ones who send the money and arms to Israel?

Shouldn’t you be on their collective ass?

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This dilemma would be a lot easier if Trump was the one complicit in Genocide right now and we just had to vote him out. You wouldn’t believe the rallies we would see against Trump if he was the one in the driver seat today

Not sure if cosplaying as a Republican was the play for Biden.

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Because their “ceasefire” proposal is the same as Russia’s was : lay down and give us complete control of your territory, and we reserve the right to continue killing you afterwards.

That’s not a treaty, that’s imperialism backed by murder.

With all due respect, of which I feel very little is actually due, fuck that.

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69 points

Because literally nobody is suprised by trump as this point. We all know what he is at this point. Biden popped the fascade that has been carefully crafted to keep us all thinking he was doing alright despite being old as fuck.

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27 points

100%. People want to act like it was a “bad debate performance” but it was absolutely eye opening to the american people. Its not about who won or lost a debate.

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How many people who previously hadn’t been paying attention to the race tuned in and saw the same deterioration they’ve watched in their own parents and grandparents?

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And it’s not like it’s the first of those incidents. He fell off his bike, tripped getting on air force one, had a bunch of press conferences where he did the trailing off in the middle of his answer thing, etc.

And this isn’t the only person democrats did this with either. They enabled Dianne Feinstein to run for reelection despite her being at deaths door, there’s the RBG debacle, etc.

Democrats need to get better at refreshing the old guard. The only one that did it kind of right is Nancy Pelosi: groom a successor and step aside when the time is right.

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I love the argument about the bike, have you seen trump on a bike? There’s a 99% chance that you don’t ride a bike yourself.

BTW: he tripped, because he had to stop to talk with reporters and the predators had straps. It even happened to me and I’m much much younger than him.

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Democrats are so ego driven that they think death itself cannot claim them at a moment’s notice. I think this is part of the facade of the Democrats people are, unfortunately, going to respond to this election: Democrats, as a party, like to present themselves as being all about compromise and caring. Getting things done for the #AmericanPeople. But when it’s time to step down and let others shine in the limelight because you’ve had your time and the physical realities of age are something you have to acknowledge, or when there might be a better candidate for an election and you have to make the difficult choice of not getting what you want for the good of the country, that fucking sentiment disappears like a fart in the wind.

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Well the facade was bound to pop eventually, it was just easy to keep when you have done 100 less press events than literally any president in the last 4 decades.

He’s been really really just hidden away and relying on good press to do all the talking for him and that’s now gone for sure.

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Cool… cool. We’re just gonna ignore the sitting President has dementia. What’s for dinner?

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You should look up what dementia actually entails. It’s not a joke to be thrown at people who are just simply old and can’t articulate the way they used to. Which was the case with Biden.

It’s an insult to those who suffer from the disease and belittles their struggles.

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Can’t articulate the way they used to? The man lost his thought and then switched topics to say we beat medicare. He devolved into a golf pissing contest on national TV. He gave Trump unneeded openings on things like The Afghanistan Withdrawal.

He might not have dementia but don’t try and tell us he was all there, just unable to articulate properly.

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They’re also not a President who won’t submit to a cognitive test, so spare me your outrage. Do you know that the 82 year old doesn’t have dementia?

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My point is that dementia is a very specific disease that is debilitating and if Biden came within a golf shot of having it he never would have mounted that stage.

Honestly, Trump displays more things symptomatic of dementia than Biden does. Biden is just displaying old age. And yeah, he’s fucking old. But then, Trump is only 2 years younger than his old ass.

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Ok boomer

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Ok beta

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Sure but Trump seems to have soiled himself during the debate. There are videos discussing this going around.

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I don’t care if Presidents poop, I do require the “leader of the free world “ to be able to process thoughts.

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2 points

Well Trump can certainly process foods

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Because you’re the one pushing them. And they’re shit videos.

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Lol, look how much people comes out of the shell when you start playing their same game. The video seemed authentic to me, and Trump has a history of shitting himself according to people that worked with him.

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