To think how on earth can Biden be President

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

Well there are a percentage of idiots in this world and we just found one of them.

We're thinking what we did in 2020 and 2022, when despite polls and dire predictions, we won.

HTH :)

Yeah, I really doubt that the American public see Biden as they did four and two years ago. It’s all steeply downhill.

Still, I suspect Biden doesn’t know what day it is, never mind what year, so to him at least none of this matters.

I am extremely fearful for America. The right have become radicalized beyond belief.

This years’ Conservative Political Action Conference opened with Jack Posobiec pledging to overturn democracy, to rapturous applause:

”Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this, right here. All glory is not to government. All glory to God.”

And they could end democracy in America whether or not they win the next election.

You’d like to think it couldn’t happen in the UK but the likes of Truss and Farage were speakers at that conference.

The purported Republican plan to seize power, even if they lose:

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518

And given that Republicans have moved on to publicly declaring their aim to overthrow democracy, I think there is every reason to be deathly afraid.

Probably not, he's now got a record of MAJOR achievements they can factor in.

Y'all REALLY need to consider what "news" y'all consume. Quoting Putin/GOP talking points makes you look... simple. And complicit. Or both.

P.S. The faux "concern" fools no one. :)

or drinking the kool-aid

He is president because is opponent is a mentally unstable man who once tried to overthrow their country’s system of government.

And because however old and decrepit he may be, he at least has the capacity to take advice and appoint subordinates who are actually fit for positions of responsibility. That’s one thing about extremist governments: they tend to also be incompetent, because qualified people usually won’t work with them.

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Assuming you’re for real - the folksy Yankee act is getting a bit unconvincing, and tiresome - the poll I read was in Newsweek.

“Complicit”? Did you really mean that? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

My concern is that the world’s most powerful nation is led by a competent person. I think you know how the rest of the world is looking on and worrying.

85% of the vote on this thread agrees with the OP that “how on earth can Biden be President”. MN is a left-leaning, liberal forum. Trump supporters will be thin on the ground. And I’m certainly not one.

I’m not a Russian teenager either. Suggesting that people who question Biden’s mental acuity are Putin shills is not a good look.

This is all true. The question, though, is why the Democrats aren’t pushing him aside for a less obviously infirm candidate.

Because that basically doesn’t happen in the US. There’s no tradition of things like motions of no confidence or snap elections, at least not when it comes to presidential elections. No one wants to be the one who challenges a sitting president from their own party and loses.

Of course, it’s questionable whether these traditions are suitable for an era when they’ve suddenly started electing people with childhood memories of World War II. I think Biden should have spared everyone the dilemma by making a one term pledge. But it’s hard to give up the most powerful job on earth when you’ve spent your whole life pursuing it. And the advisers on position to sway him would all lose their jobs if they succeeded.

Thank you. Yes, I suppose it’s Biden’s decision to stand again that is the real issue. But, as you say, giving up another chance at the White House must be the most unlikely choice for a lifetime politician.

No one wants to be the one who challenges a sitting president from their own party and loses

This is perfectly true, but if they end up with Trump as a result perhaps they'll wish they had

And yes it would be hard for Biden to give up, but maybe not as hard as trying to maintain a campaign when he's clearly not capable of keeping it together

"Y'all" is... Yankee? Bless your heart. I thought y'all used "Yank"... assuming you're real. Anyway, just another indicator of how little you know about the US.

I understand why y'all have concerns - we have a long history of saving your asses - but perhaps leave it to the voters who have consistently rejected Trump and Christo-fascists since 2016?

Maybe a trip to the Wonka Experience would take your mind off things?

Pondering how your fellow Great Britains could fall for such obvious AI fucking nonsense might give you an opportunity to reflect on the gullibility of your own countrymen, and what makes the news.

Feel free to extrapolate. :)

Oh Frannie, "Probably not, he's now got a record of MAJOR achievements they can factor in" - you made me laugh and laugh. Glad that you have such a sense of humour. Have you located your twat yet?

Well, not MY twat, but congratulations that yours can type!

Gosh, you are an unpleasant individual, aren't you. Why don't you just push off back to whatever hole you crawled out of.

Gone on, make me laugh again. Please can you list some of his major achievements. Since he took office.

OK I'll give it a lash. Biden pushed through a Covid reconstruction fund of over a trillion dollars. The biggest government spending on public works since FDR's New Deal. Twice as large as that agreed by the EU. GDP growth is good. Unemployment is very low.

Of course the USA is a very unequal society and his foreign policy verges on the criminal. But in this respect there's not much to choose between the pair. He doesn't look 'papabile '. Maybe he is too old. There again Reagan was off his head for most of his 2nd term. W rarely worked past lunch time. And so on. I shall take the sage advice of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Don't Panic.

but the other option is Trump - both options are awful,

But we had the same thing - Boris or Corden. At least both were sentient.

Corden doesn't bear thinking about 😂

It's a pity Barack Obama can't stand again or Kamala Harris become president & Biden step down to Vice President

Perchance, did any of y'all watch SOTU?

Does any president achieve anything these days ?

I mean look at Obama, surely becoming the US's first black president was a major achievement, but other than that relatively little. Something to do with medicare IIRC.

What happens normally is they have the House and Senate aligned until the mid terms then they lose one or the other (I think Biden barely has the Senate and has lost the House, happy to be corrected on that one). Once they lose one or the other they become pretty much a lame duck. So normally they have 2 years after getting elected to do something.