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The Economist Burns Joe Biden With Brutal Cover Showing A Walker
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Reminder that having concerns for Biden's fitness is not an endorsement for Trump. Quite the contrary most of us are afraid of Trump winning and want a truly viable candidate. Biden as the only candidate is a completely contrived and unnecessary risk made by the Democratic party leadership and not the people of the United States...you know those people who will actually decide the election in November.
But what if I told you that it wasn't what you saw? That should really work, amirite guys?
"Don't believe your eyes" is one of the true hallmark phrases of democracy.
“literally 1984” is a little played out by now, but the book spends a substantial amount of time explaining nearly identical methods the ruling party uses to silence dissent
like “you didn’t see what you actually saw, here’s what happened” lmao
Exactly! just got done listening to the audiobook and it’s so goddamn eerily similar to what the Democrats are you doing right now. 2+2 = 5 because it always has been and your wrong if you ever thought it wasn’t. War is peace and Ignorance is strength.
I first read it about a year and a half ago
it completely changed my opinion on Karine Jean-Pierre. She is just as dangerous as any of Trump’s press secretaries.
and remember during Trump’s term when everyone was mad about when he would go stretches without doing a press conference or taking live questions?
Biden got a major pass from effectively every major media source for being even worse at that than Trump ever was. It wasn’t until other Dem party members started speaking out against him after his debate that it became too much for the boosters to protect
They tried to desperately with their “Biden had a cold” spin attempt but he looked fine at Waffle House and was shaking hands and kissing babies after the debate lol
Once that toothpaste is out of the bottle, you cannot put it back in lol
If Biden truly had any concern for the future of the country, he would have announced back in 2023 that he’d accomplished his goal of righting the ship and was now going to devote his energies to helping a new generation of Democrats continue to fight and defeat the agenda of Trump and MAGA nation.
Instead he fell into the exact same goddamned trap of “I’m so self important that only I can stay in power and continue to successfully run things” that we’ve seen politicians who were on their last legs do time and time again.
I’m angry and disappointed as fuck because, despite all the doubts I had, I still hoped that he really understood the stakes and wasn’t just trying to pull a fast one for the sake of his own ego.
He needs to be better than this.
unnecessary risk
I think pretending that replacing him is not also a huge risk is kind of silly.
If we knew for a fact that replacing him would make it more likely to win it would have already happened. But we don't know that.
In every poll I've seen with other dems plugged in, the only one who beats Trump is Michelle Obama.
I get Biden is a liability, but these people who act like replacing Biden with any generic Democrat is some kind of silver bullet against Trump are just blindly demanding change. Show me the candidate who consistently beats Trump before you implode the entire party.
I would understand if Biden has a cult like Trump does but nobody is a big ride-or-die fan of Biden and he's incredibly unpopular. He brings no strengths apart from not being Trump and any other candidate would have that too, along with not being really old or being dragged down by their involvement in the Gaza war. The only reason why Biden is there is because Biden wanted a second term.
He also isn' doing anything to make wins - he isn't using the gop playback, he isn't glvabizjng the party around some "project 2025 esque" plan, it just complaints bout the gop, rhe court, and doubling Don on the status quo.
The guy that won the Democratic primary running for president is entirely contrived guys
This is a pretty disingenuous take and kinda what I'm getting at. Biden obviously had no real challenger by design. If he beat out a field of the top 5 to 10 democratics then so be it. But he didn't and that is purely by design and is anti-democratic. The party can't be upset when in November people don't show out to vote for Biden.
He ran against brainworm man, crystal healer woman, and the mayor of Whoville. I didn't even bother voting in the primary but would have voted for someone viable if offered. Don't lie to people and pretend there was a robust primary.