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nauticant · 12/07/2024 12:41

This is relevant about the media handling and how a certain grouping of the media went on the attack when a highly respected US journalist did the wrong thing when some time ago she voiced concerns about Biden:

https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/media/wall-street-journal-editor-in-chief-vindicated-over-biden-story/

nauticant · 12/07/2024 12:56

Here's CNN going after the WSJ for having gone off-message over Biden: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/wall-street-journal-biden-mental-acuity/index.html

Whalewatching · 12/07/2024 13:04

No, I don’t find watching a man in clear decline with Parkinson’s or some form of dementia funny at all.

Something is stopping him stepping down/being forced to step down. Panic in the Democratic Party, complete denial of how it appears to the rest of the world or maybe his own ego?

Whatever it is, I’m not seeing the joke.

Topseyt123 · 12/07/2024 13:11

It's not remotely funny. It is embarrassing and cringe-making. Dangerous too as there is now a very real danger of handing election victory on a plate to Trump. That would be disastrous for NATO etc.

Biden needs to step aside, or be made to, although the American system of candidate selection hardly seems given to flexibility here.

DanielGault · 12/07/2024 13:42

Topseyt123 · 12/07/2024 13:11

It's not remotely funny. It is embarrassing and cringe-making. Dangerous too as there is now a very real danger of handing election victory on a plate to Trump. That would be disastrous for NATO etc.

Biden needs to step aside, or be made to, although the American system of candidate selection hardly seems given to flexibility here.

Is it the system or the party? Genuine question, I don't know enough about it. But he absolutely shouldn't be running.

BrightYellowDaffodil · 12/07/2024 13:44

I don't find it funny either. It's "OMG" but not in an entertaining way.

I can't understand why he won't stand aside - is it arrogance that he genuinely thinks no-one would be a better president than him? Or can he not see the gaffs and understand that the Democrats will lose the election because Democratic supporters will just not vote for him and therefore Trump wins almost by default?

It's all very well being able to make it though last night but it was a tightly controlled event that he would have been carefully prepped for. And he still got major things wrong. What happens if there's a terrorist attack in the middle of the night? How's he going to cope with that and make decisions that could mean whether people live or die when he already says "I gotta pace myself more" and has to go to bed at 8pm?

Given the way that the US system works with regards the president elect/inauguration, he'd still be POTUS in January 2029 if he won this year. How can anyone see the decline in the last few years and think this is feasible?

Cheepcheepcheep · 12/07/2024 13:45

It’s not funny, for the reasons others have listed above.

This is quite funny, though:

Biden introduces Zekensky as Putin at Nato Summit
DanielGault · 12/07/2024 13:46

Cheepcheepcheep · 12/07/2024 13:45

It’s not funny, for the reasons others have listed above.

This is quite funny, though:

Now that IS funny 🤣

ll09sm · 12/07/2024 13:56

Since this is neither news, nor a shock to those in power in the US, it makes you wonder what is the real story behind the dead cat distraction.

DanielGault · 12/07/2024 14:03

ll09sm · 12/07/2024 13:56

Since this is neither news, nor a shock to those in power in the US, it makes you wonder what is the real story behind the dead cat distraction.

Chemtrails?

zoom1982 · 12/07/2024 14:06

ll09sm · 12/07/2024 10:37

Aww bless, it’s cute when grown adults only display enough mental capacity to regurgitate soundbites. Run along now, your limited world view is calling you.

OMG😂👏👏

Topseyt123 · 12/07/2024 14:38

DanielGault · 12/07/2024 13:42

Is it the system or the party? Genuine question, I don't know enough about it. But he absolutely shouldn't be running.

I don't know either, but the whole thing is embarrassing and ridiculous.

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