76 points

I have defended this man. If he’s still the nominee in November I’ll still vote for him. But god dammit this is fucking terrible.

I do not have hope for him being replaced but I sure think he should be. Whoever is telling him that he should keep running is guilty of elder abuse.

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23 points

I do not have hope for him being replaced

Congresscritters, even just a few, coming out for him to step down is massive. It might happen.

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15 points

While I disagree, I both respect and envy your optimism. I’m feeling defeatist today. Maybe tomorrow I’ll share your view but today I’m going to drink and brood.

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15 points

If it’s any consolation, Congresscritters coming out against the presumptive nominee WHO IS ALSO THE INCUMBENT sort of thing is fucking unheard of. That this is happening in public is very much indicative of heavy fucking gears moving behind the curtains. Whether that will be enough remains to be seen.

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0 points

If it happens, it’s a guaranteed loss.

Enough DNC hand-wringing, let the stammerer and ponderer safeguard democracy and then you can Bernie him.

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-1 points

The man basically said not even an act of God would convince him to drop out lmao.

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4 points

…said not even an act of God would convince him to…

Good. They need that separation of church and state.

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4 points

Well put.

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You are a literal disgrace to this country especially when Chase Oliver is here to fight thems horrible candidates. You will vote for someone you know is a failure because reasons and you aren’t brainwashed? Vote Chase Oliver, more than enough of us hate Trump and Biden and he stands for real things, check him out before you downvote me https://www.votechaseoliver.com/

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9 points

Spoiler candidate dude, sorry. I really despise Biden and the two party system, but there’s zero choice here, it’s Biden or fascism.

The right won’t have a spoiler candidate siphoning votes in November, every state RNC is going to make damn sure of that.

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So you give power to an unfair system? But its their issue? Or are you unable to do your own thing or say fuck the system? Everyone I know says Fuck Trump and Fuck Biden, literally only voting against someone, and I have to hear this dismissive shit that someone who gives a fuck shouldn’t get airtime because? You are part of the problem and contributing to decline.

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3 points

Looked, downvoted.

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And so who you plan to vote for? the court appointed rapist or genocide joe clearly on decline?

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2 points

If this copypasta has better English and was on-topic, it’d get better reception. I get you have a quota, but be less obvious.

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Why you, on a Canadian Instance at that, think I am not an American expressing my honest views? What makes you think someone with a different view is automatically a shill? What is obvious about me? Please explain cause it makes no sense.

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69 points

Honestly, that this is the headline from the meeting is kind of ridiculous.

I absolutely think Biden should step down and hand the torch to whoever is best able to make the case for their beating trump between now and the convention.

But he was always slipping up with word switches over his career.

He was actually very on top of the policy nuances in this Q&A - 1,000x better than Trump could have dreamed of being.

The one word switch in an hour of nuanced policy discussions as the headline is more a failure of the media than Biden.

Even though he def should be making way as his decline is going to get worse and more info is going to come out.

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34 points

The one word switch in an hour of nuanced policy discussions as the headline is more a failure of the media than Biden.

This a million times over. He did a great job the whole time and had one weird slip up, and all the media cares about is the slip up.

Fuck the media. Focus on the substantive part of the meeting, not the one meaningless gaffe. I say stupid shit all the time by accident, it doesn’t matter. It’s not even a sign of age, people just do this kind of thing because we’re human.

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A great job the whole time? This gaffe aside, he seemed to lose his train of thought a number of times, he didn’t directly answer some questions and, when he was “on”, he just seemed to repeat parts of his speeches. We can do better. While not my first choice, Kalama is better.

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6 points

Let’s talk about a Harris/AOC ticket if we have a democracy after this. Everything else is secondary.

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Focus on the substantive part of the meeting, not the one meaningless gaffe.

Has he had an appearance recently that hasn’t had at least one? Maybe we should ask the leader of Ukraine, President Putin.

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10 points

The media was seething because they can’t just run another word flub every day. Biden turned their repeated questions about minor misstatements into a policy discussion.

They don’t want to run the story “NATO meeting a success” because it doesn’t get as many clicks as “Biden secretly nuts”. They’ve become tabloids.

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He was actually very on top of the policy nuances in this Q&A - 1,000x better than Trump could have dreamed of being.

Well yeah because trump has the mind of a 3rd grader and spews out word salads with no substance to every question because he doesn’t understand any of the questions.

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39 points

This is legitimately scary. Trump does this every second, now Biden is doing it every other conference. 4 years ages anyone, let alone the man in charge of NATO, the biggest economy, and running for re-election.

I am genuinely starting to be at a loss. I understood the life long stutter, I understood people age differently, I understood that soundclips and sneaky edits can make things look bad, but Jesus Christ. Is this the same day as the “President Putin”?

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The whole issue is that leftists have seen this side of Biden for years but we were always told to be silent because we are Republicans or Russians or some such bullshit. The signs have been there for years, Obama had alluded to it several times.

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15 points

I started calling his bullshit out in 2020 when he was an old racist who his now VP said he was an old racist whose policies impacted her. I knew him as the senator who didn’t believe Anita Hill when she said Clarence Thomas raped her. I knew him as the senator who made the 90’s crime bill that made BIPOC even worse off and acted like it helped them. I knew him as a senator who helped write the USA PATRIOT Act, the greatest mass removal of constitutional rights in the name of racist polices anti-terrorism.

And even then I voted for him 2020 because he was “Not Trump.” Didn’t matter, I live in California, but I didn’t want smug NeoLibs saying my vote for the greens in 2016 in California is what single-handedly gave us Trump.

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33 points

This is sad.

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13 points

Brutally awful. I am heartbroken that this is happening; to him and this country.

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He is doing this to himself, and his hubris is dooming the country.

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15 points

He is the newest RBG. Not letting go of any of it to try and save America, when it just delays and makes the problem worse because they didn’t listen to fellow polticans or the public.

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I think that moment where he paused he pooped his pants

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