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Biden Trump debate- they must get rid of Biden now?

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molotovcupcakes · 28/06/2024 07:10

Biden looked so frail and incoherant at times that this must be the end of his Presidency very soon.
How have the Democrats not faced this sooner and selected someone else, I don't understand why they have let this go on for so long.
He had to be helped off the stage by his wife and it seems like elder abuse.

www.politico.com/video/2024/06/28/jill-biden-escorts-joe-biden-off-stage-after-first-presidential-debate-1346575

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Sloejelly · 28/06/2024 11:02

MummaBanana · 28/06/2024 10:58

Um? Have you seen the fact check on Trumps speech? Just because someone speaks louder than someone else and shouts doesn’t mean he is speaking truth. I encourage you to Google fact check on trumps and Bidens speech. Everything trump says is a lie and your country will apparently elect him 🤣

Which is why it is so bad he was up against Biden. You have to be pretty terrible if you come out of a debate making Trump look good.

Tracker1234 · 28/06/2024 11:00

The Democrats have brought this all on themselves.. shame on them. Trump will win after that debate. I know there is another one nearer Nov but does anyone think its going to be any better? No notes, no teleprompter for either of them and Bieden was a sad pitful figure.

YankTank · 28/06/2024 10:58

BrigadierEtienneGerard · 28/06/2024 10:53

Oh come on! This is the Democratic Party. One of the few things you can rely on in politics is that if there's a serious political decision to be made, the Democrats will call it wrong.

As comedian Michelle Wolf said about the Democratic Party, “you guys always find a way to mess it up. You're somehow gonna lose by 12 points to a guy named Jeff Paedophile Nazi-Doctor.”

ConsiderabloiRicherthanYow · 28/06/2024 10:58

leakysqueaky · 28/06/2024 10:26

That isn't what I was saying. I commented in response to a PP who said that Kamala could never get in as 'America wasn't ready for a black female leader'.

My point was that America might be ready for a 'black female leader' if she was the right, experienced leader. I don't think Kamala is that person.

I wasn't saying that Michelle Obama was the only credible alternative to Biden. The context of my post says that.

Lincoln (and slave owning racist tyrants like jefferson, washington and co.) would be spinning in their grave at the thought of a black woman holding a position they did.

Quoting Lincoln, 1858 speech during the Lincoln and Douglas debates:

"I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. I as much as any man am in favor of the superior position assigned to the white race."

MummaBanana · 28/06/2024 10:58

AmusedMaker · 28/06/2024 07:38

It is sad. I feel sorry for him.
Trump seems young next to him.

Um? Have you seen the fact check on Trumps speech? Just because someone speaks louder than someone else and shouts doesn’t mean he is speaking truth. I encourage you to Google fact check on trumps and Bidens speech. Everything trump says is a lie and your country will apparently elect him 🤣

Puzzledandpissedoff · 28/06/2024 10:58

It is very hard to climb the greasy pile of politics without dirty tricks and deals

Indeed, and that's one more reason people with real integrity will go nowhere near it, leaving Americans with the appalling choice they've got

And we thought the choice was bad in the UK Hmm

Tracker1234 · 28/06/2024 10:58

Slightly confused!! He was more than that. He can barely walk and needs helping down TWO steps by his wife!!

He needs to go - maybe not to a care home but to a place where he can relax and take his foot off the accelerator.

There is something in between a care home and being President of the United States!!

MummaBanana · 28/06/2024 10:53

Urgh so a man was slightly confused but still more articulate that his counterpart. But we need to vote for the lying misogynist criminal apparently. Bring on the Handmaids tale ladies, praise be America that’s what your in for. Can’t wait 🙄 Interested to ask trump how you can abort a baby after third term birth 🤣🤣

BrigadierEtienneGerard · 28/06/2024 10:53

Oh come on! This is the Democratic Party. One of the few things you can rely on in politics is that if there's a serious political decision to be made, the Democrats will call it wrong.

Sloejelly · 28/06/2024 10:51

the only person who can counter the existential threat to democracy which is Trump

If anything thinks that, then they are a fool. There are thousands of Americans who could have trounced Trump in the debate. But they don’t hold the money needed to get elected. It just comes down to money.

Cnon · 28/06/2024 10:51

jaundicedoutlook · 28/06/2024 08:23

Jeeesus….

That was Grandpa Simpson vs Mr Burns.

Awful on every level and makes the UK PM debates look positively intellectual by comparison. Any US voters must be feeling pretty glum about their choices and you have to hope that the Democrats can manage to find a way to get Biden off the ticket.

Some Trump supporters, liked his economy and secure US-Mexico border.

Hatfullofwillow · 28/06/2024 10:51

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 28/06/2024 10:13

Trump is already telling Americans that their justice system is out to get them. When you don't trust the justice system you get anarchy.

Indeed. You wouldn't get our politicians undermining the judiciary. Oh, hang on.

leakysqueaky · 28/06/2024 10:48

I hope you are at least smart enough to be paid for such propaganda, but I doubt it.

I'm not a fan of either but some of Biden's dodgy dealings over the decades are not hard to find. It is very hard to climb the greasy pile of politics without dirty tricks and deals.

Not everything we disagree with is 'Russian propaganda or bots'.

Life2Short4Nonsense · 28/06/2024 10:43

wibblywobblywoo · 28/06/2024 10:41

Biden isn't and never has been that noble, or noble at all actually. He's an egotistical fraud as bad if not worse than the Clintons.

He's not there out of a sense of duty, he's there out of a sense of entitlement.

I hope you are at least smart enough to be paid for such propaganda, but I doubt it.

wibblywobblywoo · 28/06/2024 10:41

fliptopbin · 28/06/2024 07:19

It is a sad situation when a man feels like he has to push himself on in the most important position in the world into his eighties because it seems like he is the only person who can counter the existential threat to democracy which is Trump.

Biden isn't and never has been that noble, or noble at all actually. He's an egotistical fraud as bad if not worse than the Clintons.

He's not there out of a sense of duty, he's there out of a sense of entitlement.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 28/06/2024 10:40

luckylavender · 28/06/2024 10:17

I agree with everything about Biden, it's very difficult to watch. But I don't think Trump is great either. Some of his speeches leave a lot to be desired cognitively. We would be notice this more if it weren't for Biden.

Spot on, luckylavender
Only a fool would think Trump some kind of statesman, but he almost looks like one in comparison and that's very dangerous when appearance has come to mean so much

1dayatatime · 28/06/2024 10:37

@leakysqueaky

"That isn't what I was saying. I commented in response to a PP who said that Kamala could never get in as 'America wasn't ready for a black female leader'"

I agree - Kamala would not get elected because she is viewed (rightly or wrongly) by the majority of US voters as not capable and too far to the left. Her skin colour is irrelevant to this.

And to reinforce the point that skin colour is irrelevant, Michelle Obama is viewed by the majority of US voters (rightly or wrongly) as much more credible.

DanielGault · 28/06/2024 10:27

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/06/2024 10:16

DanielGault · Today 07:47
theresnolimits · Today 07:35
Kamala Harris is not popular. If there was a strong VP things might be different.
Why is she so unpopular that they prefer Biden? I have nothing against him but he looked out of it in that debate. If you can't pull off a debate, how can you run a country?

The President doesn’t run the country. An army of officials behind the scenes does. He’s a figurehead. Trump spent much of his time in bed eating burgers and tweeting.

I know that, but it's clearly quite an important position. One that requires the office holder to be compis mentis at least. Or not a felon.

NotDavidTennant · 28/06/2024 10:26

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/06/2024 10:21

NotDavidTennant
It's equivalent to saying that the only way the Conservatives can be saved is by replacing Rishi Sunak with Samantha Cameron.“

It isn’t and that’s doing a huge disservice to Michelle Obama. Their CVs are incomparable.

I agree that they're not equivalent on a personal level, but their political CVs are identical: neither has been elected to anything ever.

leakysqueaky · 28/06/2024 10:26

NotDavidTennant · 28/06/2024 10:19

I do think it shows what a sorry state the Democrats are in that the only alternative to Biden anyone can put forward is Michelle Obama.

It's equivalent to saying that the only way the Conservatives can be saved is by replacing Rishi Sunak with Samantha Cameron.

That isn't what I was saying. I commented in response to a PP who said that Kamala could never get in as 'America wasn't ready for a black female leader'.

My point was that America might be ready for a 'black female leader' if she was the right, experienced leader. I don't think Kamala is that person.

I wasn't saying that Michelle Obama was the only credible alternative to Biden. The context of my post says that.

Sloejelly · 28/06/2024 10:24

I think Biden has been someone’s puppet for some time.

YankTank · 28/06/2024 10:22

Iwasafool · 28/06/2024 09:57

Nixon resigned and the Vice President (Ford) became president.

He resigned though. Due to committing crimes. Biden never said he wouldn’t complete his full term.

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/06/2024 10:21

NotDavidTennant
It's equivalent to saying that the only way the Conservatives can be saved is by replacing Rishi Sunak with Samantha Cameron.“

It isn’t and that’s doing a huge disservice to Michelle Obama. Their CVs are incomparable.

Hedgerow2 · 28/06/2024 10:21

NotDavidTennant · 28/06/2024 10:19

I do think it shows what a sorry state the Democrats are in that the only alternative to Biden anyone can put forward is Michelle Obama.

It's equivalent to saying that the only way the Conservatives can be saved is by replacing Rishi Sunak with Samantha Cameron.

Hardly!

Academic anyway as she has made it very clear she doesn't want to go into politics.

NotDavidTennant · 28/06/2024 10:19

I do think it shows what a sorry state the Democrats are in that the only alternative to Biden anyone can put forward is Michelle Obama.

It's equivalent to saying that the only way the Conservatives can be saved is by replacing Rishi Sunak with Samantha Cameron.

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