Biden added: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
God damn, so politically stupid to not realize that these political attacks works since he’s still defending himself from these same political attacks.
Biden added: “Let me be clear
A few months late on that score…
We should have extensive yearly testing through an impartial third party so this can’t be questioned again.
Let’s start with the current president tomorrow.
Or we can you know put a cap on the president’s age. 35-65 should be a big enough window to become president.
No. For example, Bernie is healthier, sharper, and more in touch with what’s important to his constituents than most federal level politicians from either party 30 years younger than him.
Conversely, Fetterman’s brain doesn’t work properly anymore at age 55 and he was probably never the everyman he pretended to be.
While age is of course a common factor in mental decline and other factors that should disqualify you from public office, it’s not in itself determinative and should be considered a risk factor rather than a syndrome just like doctors do.
That’s ageism! Also, my great grand dad cant be president then, and I’d like him to be so…
There’s already ageist restrictions.
It’s the simplest and cleanest way to do it at the moment.
I’m ok with ageism because age related problems are very real and science tells us they get bad at about 60 or so. This is not about a bias, its about a fact of our existence.
I’m in my mid 50s and I and everyone I know will acknowledge that mid 50s individuals dont have the depth of stamina to draw on that we used to have. Sure we can still occasionally run circles around the better resourced youngins with some finesse and tricks, but only to a point-- we aren’t likely to win as many marathons on average, physically or mentally. Thats just life. And what I am talking about here accelerates right about at 60. Its been well studied.
ughh allright, 35-36, and whatever the current age of NocturnalMornings great grand dad is
Hes 37
is this some back to the future situation? o.O
Yes. NocturnalMorning is in fact his own great great granddad and would like for his son to be president.
I used to say 65, I’m thinking 61 would be better now. You should have to be mentally fit EVERY day of the job, so 4 years after you took the job, you still need to be at your best…
And to anyone who thinks a 61 year old is 100% cognitive, they are not. That’s why air traffic controllers are forced to retire at 56. The government studied cognitive decline and said 56+ was not mentally capable. They think they still are, but they aren’t.
Oh, so you’re not even going to use your cognitive decline as am excuse for doing a genocide?
Send him to The Hague
The US has said specifically if a government official is forced into trial at the Hague the Hague will be invaded and our official taken back.
Rules for thee and such.
I somehow doubt trump would invade the hague to rescue joe biden.
He sure better because he would 100000% be next and he’s a bit less liked globally.
That would require the military to willingly invade The Hauge. I don’t think that would actually happen.
That’s not really the point, the threat is what is relevant and most nations wouldn’t be willing to test that assumption.
Nah, my point is that stupid threats mean nothing
Yeah like trying to arrest some American and out them on trial.
It’s always projection with the right wing. Whatever they’re doing, or issues they have, say the left is doing it and has those issues.
Damn, he still talking about Biden huh. Rent free.
A distraction from what, the pudding cup before naptime? Or his latest speech supporting genocide?
The “spending” bill in the senate has a clause that attempts to illegally rewrite the constitution to give the administrative branch dictatorship levels of control, with no ability for the judicial branch to stop them.
they need to broaden the scope to all former and sitting presidents prioritizing the most recent.
Sounds like something a robot clone would say.
genocide joe
Trump, Champion of Palestine
they litterally both campaigned on who could be worse about genocide.
It’s Joe’s fault for not giving us a better option
You can be worse or better about genocide, it’s unequivocally false to say that all genocides are equal. There was a choice. We could have had less killing or more.
And that’s just from the respective platforms. I don’t think people realize the extent to which Republicans do not listen to or care about their voters. We had an opportunity to put Harris in office and then berate the shit out of her the entire term to be better. That’s not an option anymore. We are very much locked in to whatever braindead idea some billionaire spoons Trump.
Choosing between a genocide and a bit faster genocide
Yeah, this is kinda ridiculous. If electing Harris would have saved a single Palestinian life, it would’ve been the correct choice.
And yet we dont know that she would have saved a single life more.
Might not be perfect, better not try!
Yeah, this is kinda ridiculous. If electing Harris would have saved a single Palestinian life, it would’ve been the correct choice.
Literally nothing was proving that it would be the case literally zero. Israel is refusing to make a cease fire Biden blamed Hamas for it , Harris didn’t criticize that . Now Trump is doing the same.
The west is refusing to do there goddamn job and do Russian level pressure on Israel. Still selling weapons to Israel and have good trade relations
Things have materially deteriorated in Gaza directly because of the election. The Christian Republican org GHF, created in February, is engaged in forced relocations and massacres. Bibi would not have cut off all aid to Gaza in March without Republicans blessing and support. Things would be bad, but there are some policy differences regarding Israel between the parties. These were very very clear if you watched or read about the convention speeches. Harris acknowledged the genocide and said her goal was for Palestinians to have self determination. Trump said a bunch of unhinged shit. But his policy has always been pro genocide.
Like… This defense of Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris approach to the election keeps getting defended. You are arguing that “less bad” should be good enough.
Listen the fuck up: IT ISN’T
We have the fucking data. We ran the fucking experiment.
Less bad LOSES FUCKING ELECTIONS!!
Democrats need to do better and if you are running static interference for their failed approach to electoralism: you are trying to lose the next election.
Your phony, insincere approach to electorism ignores the facts on the ground that for the American Electorate, less bad, it DOESN’T WIN ELECTIONS.
Democrats want to win a certain way where they don’t have to be better for voters.
If you keep apologizing for it or defending it, you are committing to losing future elections.
Like… This defense of Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris approach to the election keeps getting defended. You are arguing that “less bad” should be good enough.
No. We’re acknowledge the reality that once it gets to the general election the winner will be either the Democratic or the Republican nominee, and one of them will be more aligned to my preferences than the other (even if it turned out to be only marginally better on only one topic). So given that I have the ability to help determine the winner, I will take it, even if I don’t find the “better” choice to be my ideal choice.
The general election is not where you pick the best candidate, that’s what the primaries are for. Yes, Biden could have chose to step aside and not run so that other serious candidates could have stepped forward (they still could have even with him running, but they chose not to, and that’s on them individually to have made that choice).
What you describe sure lookss like the big donors for the DNC define your reality for you and you lap it up dutifully. There has to be more than that. If there isnt then we need to create it, or tear this system down.
There has to be more than that. If there isnt then we need to create it
That is exactly what I’m advocating for. When someone says they didn’t vote because the candidates were bad, I’m going to ask if they voted in the primary, and odds are they did not. In 2022 not one state hit >40% turnout for the primaries (only 1 hit 40%), and in 2020 only 5 states were >40% (but none >45%).
https://statesunited.org/resources/voter-turnout-since-2000/
We aren’t creating it, because we aren’t participating in the process to select the nominees. I’m advocating for people to stop waiting to the DNC to and instead rise up and dictate it to them with the power of our vote (something we have not statistically done so far).
It’s not me you have to convince.
It’s the voters. And they find your reasons wanting.
You want things to be different than they are, but they aren’t.
You either meet the voters where they are at or you fail the next election cycle.
It’s not me you have to convince.
If you’re a voter who doesn’t vote in the primaries then you are who I have to convince. If you’re a regular non-voter then you are who I have to convince. If you regularly vote in both, then you’re not who I have to convince.
It’s the voters. And they find your reasons wanting.
I’m not talking to voters. I’m talking to people who don’t vote in the primaries and then say they won’t vote in the general because the candidates suck.
You either meet the voters where they are at or you fail the next election cycle.
The problem is that is actually what the neolib leaders are doing. They see Republicans coming out to vote more consistently than progressives, so they’re going where the voters are, which happens to be on the right. My argument is for more people on the left to actually be a consistent voter (specifically in the primaries), and then there will better candidates trying to meet you, because you are a vote they can try to win.
We are literally watching your accelerationist theory fall apart at this very moment and you still defend it. This is the result you wanted, right? Democrats got their ass handed to them last November so they were forced to admit their mistakes and began pushing their platform further left and taking stronger stances against Republicans and genocide. Right? Surely by now your theory of voting for the worse outcome should have taught them the correct lesson? You aren’t just a useful tool to enable fascism with no upside? Right??
Accelerationsism is saying that the Democrats need to step to the right and be more like Republicans to win elections.
Accelerationism is not saying that Democrats need to focus on their base and speaking to the issues the base finds important, to win elections.
Your claim that what I’m describing is accelerationist shows you both don’t understand the point I’m making, or what accelerationism is.
Apologizing and defending the Democrats continued step to the right is accelerationism. You are arguing that voters just need to catch up to this rightward shift.
Lol yeah voting for Harris was the accelerationist choice. What planet are you on??
Rent free
