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To think how on earth can Biden be President

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Viviennemary · 09/02/2024 22:20

Just been watching the news about Biden's memory. He really needs to step down IMHO.

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FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 11:01

Zanatdy · 10/02/2024 10:32

Someone over 80 shouldn’t be running the country. Both Biden and Trump are in my opinion too old to take on such a role. Surely there’s some better candidates?

Where to even start.

After Trump won, and fucked up every possible thing, while grifting, the US was in chaos.

Biden decided to come out of retirement after seeing Heather Heyer killed at the torch-carrying "Unite The Right" rally in North Carolina, and Trump calling them "good people".

Biden STEPPED UP, because he felt he could make a difference. He saw the threat of Fascism. And HE HAS.

Continually astounded by a board full of people who can't fucking dress themselves without guidance, or feed themselves healthily, or speak up for themselves in any relationship, or face people on a school run, or answer the fucking door, or LTB, or deal with having children and "life admin"🙄, who feel they have a legitimate critique of a seasoned politician, and very decent human, who stepped up when the world needed him.

He's FAR more capable than most of you.

WeaselCheeks · 10/02/2024 10:44

Both Trump and Biden seem to have cognitive issues, although Biden seems to be better at hiding them (and Trump's seem far worse in addition to his abhorrent personality). Really though, if the US Presidency has a minimum age of 35, it really should have a maximum, of maybe 65 or so.

Pumpkinpie1 · 10/02/2024 10:44

I can’t believe anyone could support Trump . He’s ……..
America is a laughing stock because of Trump

32degrees · 10/02/2024 10:42

Zanatdy · 10/02/2024 10:32

Someone over 80 shouldn’t be running the country. Both Biden and Trump are in my opinion too old to take on such a role. Surely there’s some better candidates?

Agreed.

Hard to believe that out of the millions of people in the USA, the system spat these two out as the two most likely to lead.

Biden should step down and campaign for Harris IMO.

Trump should return to the rock he crawled out from. It's fucking terrifying that so many people support him.

CheesecakeandCrackers · 10/02/2024 10:41

I'm really disappointed that Biden hasn't brought forward a succession candidate over the past couple of years. I had understood that was one of the indications he gave when taking up the bid. I'm a fan of Kamala but I can't see great efforts have been made to line her up as the next candidate nor to suggest an alternative. Perhaps that's the reporting I see rather than the reality? Would be interested to know how she is perceived in the US. I'm not a fan of Biden and gutted that we're going to see this rerun at the next election.

tara66 · 10/02/2024 10:40

Has he had test for Alzheimer's? I thought a US President had stringent health checks?

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/02/2024 10:39

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 10:19

No, we corrected with Biden.

How's your leadership going since?

Did you?

Because it feels that Trump is seen now as Biden's correction.

Scary.

Zanatdy · 10/02/2024 10:32

Someone over 80 shouldn’t be running the country. Both Biden and Trump are in my opinion too old to take on such a role. Surely there’s some better candidates?

Blueblell · 10/02/2024 10:25

I wonder how much input his wife has.

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 10:19

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/02/2024 10:14

We might have.

Once.

It's beginning to look like a habit with you.

No, we corrected with Biden.

How's your leadership going since?

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/02/2024 10:14

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 10:05

Remind me again how y'all completely fucked yourselves with Brexit?

MAGA - despite all the press it gets - has been electoral POISON since Trump won. Candidates he backed, 2022 backlash... it's been a loser since 2016.

Fuckers are "the dog that caught the car" on both abortion and the border.

Love to see it. :)

We might have.

Once.

It's beginning to look like a habit with you.

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 10:05

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/02/2024 09:58

It's utter madness.

Trump won because they didn't like Hillary.

Then Biden won because it was anyone but Trump.

And now? Will it be True because he's not Biden?

Remind me again how y'all completely fucked yourselves with Brexit?

MAGA - despite all the press it gets - has been electoral POISON since Trump won. Candidates he backed, 2022 backlash... it's been a loser since 2016.

Fuckers are "the dog that caught the car" on both abortion and the border.

Love to see it. :)

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 09:59

peakygold · 10/02/2024 09:56

Reproductive rights? Like the right to a legal abortion? Don't make me laugh.

We don't tend to see much of the VP on British news, because we are too busy watching youtube vids of Biden falling up steps, forgetting his lines and drooling.

Fucking EXACTLY, yes. :)

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/02/2024 09:58

It's utter madness.

Trump won because they didn't like Hillary.

Then Biden won because it was anyone but Trump.

And now? Will it be True because he's not Biden?

peakygold · 10/02/2024 09:56

FrannieSaid · 09/02/2024 23:15

She's been ALL OVER the US supporting reproductive rights, AND has traveled to many other countries in support of the Administration's policies. Do you legitimately NOT see any of that in the news?

The WH twitter account promotes her constantly, as does the WH you tube channel. The MSN in the US chooses to ignore her - but she's extremely involved - as opposed to that ghost Mike Pence.

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Reproductive rights? Like the right to a legal abortion? Don't make me laugh.

We don't tend to see much of the VP on British news, because we are too busy watching youtube vids of Biden falling up steps, forgetting his lines and drooling.

WhatsTheUseOfWorrying · 10/02/2024 09:56

The Dems will only have themselves to blame if Trump becomes president again. Whether or not the record of Biden’s term is good (I’m happy to believe it is) it’s blindingly obvious that he’s just too doddery to re-elect. That was clear soon after the last presidential election.

What has his party been doing FFS?

If, as some on here have said, able people behind the scenes are running the show, why bother with a leader at all?

If Trump gets in, take comfort from the two-term limit.

AMagottyGrub · 10/02/2024 09:56

Densol57 · 09/02/2024 22:26

Trump for President ! 🎉
I am a Trump supporter

You poor thing

MorningSunshineSparkles · 10/02/2024 09:54

@RafaistheKingofClay I wasn’t trying to accuse her of being a trump supported, she said there was no evidence of their perverted ways though when there’s plenty of that in the public domain. I can’t link to public evidence about Biden, however trumps comments are widely reported.

Reputable (for most) source:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html

All Donald Trump's creepiest comments about his daughter Ivanka

'If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html

matrixxx · 10/02/2024 09:53

FrannieSaid - I'm hardly arguing to do away with democracy. But something has gone badly wrong in the US, if this is what it produces. I think it's the age if social media - people live in echo chambers, self-select their own online discourses and society becomes increasingly fragmented and polarised, paving the way for lunatics such as Trump. Poverty and lack of education are also factors, obviously. There are too many people in the US who don't even have a passport or who have never left their state. This is what Trump can exploit. It's the same here with Brexiteers - Farage knew exactly who he was appealing to.

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 09:44

matrixxx · 10/02/2024 09:31

How could it have come to a situation where an 81 year-old, who is visibly confused and frail, is up against an insane 78 year-old who is the joke of the world? There are so many brilliant, inspiring people in America - how has it come to this? It's like the decline of Western civilisation, playing out before our eyes. America is losing any influence it has in the world stage and just becoming a bizarre spectacle - an utter joke. Scary stuff.

Perhaps you could inspire us with an argument for another system that has been proven better, and been more positive for the people?

I'll wait. :)

youhavenoshameonyourface · 10/02/2024 09:37

MorningSunshineSparkles · 10/02/2024 09:25

@FrannieSaid trump very publicly admitted to oggling his daughters body and said if she hadn’t been his daughter he’d be shagging her… father of the year there 🙄

Fucking hell, did he?!

That is depraved. He needs to fuck off right now. Wanker.

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/02/2024 09:33

MorningSunshineSparkles · 10/02/2024 09:25

@FrannieSaid trump very publicly admitted to oggling his daughters body and said if she hadn’t been his daughter he’d be shagging her… father of the year there 🙄

Have you confused @FrannieSaid with another poster. I don’t think she’s a Trump supporter. Or a Republican for that matter.

matrixxx · 10/02/2024 09:31

How could it have come to a situation where an 81 year-old, who is visibly confused and frail, is up against an insane 78 year-old who is the joke of the world? There are so many brilliant, inspiring people in America - how has it come to this? It's like the decline of Western civilisation, playing out before our eyes. America is losing any influence it has in the world stage and just becoming a bizarre spectacle - an utter joke. Scary stuff.

FrannieSaid · 10/02/2024 09:30

Harvestfestivalknickers · 10/02/2024 09:21

I'd like to know who is making the decisions behind the scenes. Yes, Biden has a good track record but I don't believe he's driving policy. Everytime he makes a speech there's this genuine air of anxiety and look of concern around him. He doesn't speak well and I think we've fallen into a situation where he's desperate to not make a mistake and we're waiting for him to make one. He doesn't walk well either. He obviously isn't capable of 4 more years but has a good team behind him. In these uncertain times I don't think that's enough, you need someone who inspires and leads the nation.
He doesn't.

He does, though.

Republicans out there sucking up the credit for Biden policies they voted against, because they are scared of their dumbass MAGA constituents.

To think how on earth can Biden be President
MorningSunshineSparkles · 10/02/2024 09:25

@FrannieSaid trump very publicly admitted to oggling his daughters body and said if she hadn’t been his daughter he’d be shagging her… father of the year there 🙄