Maybe Jon Stewart, age 61 years, should consider what that position might mean for his future career.
If the only objection is his age, and not anything material, then that is literally what it is. The whole reason why “ageism” is even a term is because sometimes people object to a person’s age even when it’s not interfering with their job. It’s the definition of it.
Stewart shows many examples leading up to him saying that.
Then your summary was misleading. The only thing you mentioned was age multiple times.
Stewart makes note of his age in the video and makes fun of himself as well.
I do not think so. Watch the video. Age is its main thrust…by far.
And this is why Jon Stewart is an asshole.
But yeah Biden got hit too much.
In that case, I think Stewart is being dumb. He knows that Biden is the guy who will run against Trump, and he doesn’t support Trump. So while discussing downsides of Biden makes sense, pushing the idea that he’s bad because of his age only helps Trump.
That lack of political strategic thinking would be bad for a political candidate. Heck, I don’t get it when most people do it. There’s a reason you don’t see me framing issues with Biden like that, even though few people are listening to me. If I had a bigger audience, I’d be even more careful to keep the intraparty stuff on the level of “flaws that can be overcome” rather than “playing along with Republican talking point.”
I don’t watch TV and can be dismissed for that if desired. But . . .
Just about everyone who is remotely, slightly, thinking of not voting for Joe Biden is utterly convinced his age is a concern. A political satirist who doesn’t go after Biden for that would have no credibility with anyone persuadable. (The first rule in persuasion, and I’m of course violating it, is to agree.)
Back when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a political satirist, he had similar dilemmas. It’s a problem not going after all the major politicians even if some are much, much worse.
Exactly. Stewart was helping trump here.
Most of them like trump is if about the same age and showing more signs.
It is not like the choice is between a young vigorous 35 yo and a old dude.
The choice is between old fascist trump- who will end democracy as we know it
Or
Old cool guy great president Joe Biden.
There is no choice C.
Putting it another way, Biden is old, but he is old within normal parameters.
Yes, and Jon Stewart just gave the trump campaign a huge boost. Look, both Biden and trump are old. But to the hardcore MAGA it doesnt matter, trump could be 92 and drooling into a bucket and they’d still vote for him.
But the independent undecided voter? Jon here just told them to stay home and not vote. Which is the trump plan to win, just like he did in 2016. They attacked Clinton so long and so hard that the Berni-bros and the Independents stayed home, and gave trump the win.
Jon Stewart is a trump loving MAGA hat wearing asshole.
This is so very provably wrong that I wonder if you are in Bizarro World.
DrDeth has been suspended for a day and his status will be discussed in the modloop.
He just posted rants like this in at least 3 threads, one in the Cafe.
Please don’t reply to the hijacking poster.
I woke up kinda groggy and thought I mighta got modded for this, but I see you took it in the proper spirit of the intent. I’m a boogan!
Good Onya, Mate! We are a People separated by a common language. You guys got the best slang!
My octogenarian father is considering not voting for him because of his support of Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks. I’m sure he’ll come around by November, though.
Man, this paragraph really gets to me. Are you a doctor? A neurologist? Have you examined Biden? He’s a very good president, who is in possession of his faculties just fine, thank you. Look at the record. Don’t listen to the media, who focus on microphone gaffes.
First, read this attached link from a neuroscientist:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/neuroscientist-on-biden-age-memory.html
Second, look at Biden’s record since in office:
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Covid: Great job distributing the covid vaccines to guide us out of the pandemic. Put together the ARP, to help boost the economy through the depths of the pandemic, to limit economic damage.
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Economy: Turned our economy around, as the US is growing faster than most of the rest of the world after the pandemic, and we’ve defeated inflation, too, without job losses. Strong GDP growth. Record low unemployment, wages growing faster than inflation, jobs being added at twice the clip of the Trump pre-pandemic era, the working & middle classes are seeing real gains.
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Foreign Policy: Rallied our allies to assist Ukraine, and grind Putin down in a long war that surprised the dictator. We might not be able to continue that support if the MAGAts have their way, but Biden is likely to get more legislation passed soon to continue supporting them. He’s done all this, and strengthened our relationship with our NATO allies.
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Health Care: Passed legislation to allow Medicare to bargain with the pharmacy industry to lower prices. Passed legislation to plus holes in the ACA, to make it a better deal for the working class & middle class. This has resulted in a surge of enrollments in the exchange plans, and to put our uninsured rate at the lowest it’s ever been in our history.
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Climate Change: IRA act was passed with hundreds of billions of dollars of tax credits for green energy, spurring a great investment in manufacturing, and a surge of green energy in the US. We’re seeing a surge in solar, wind, batteries, and EV’s.
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Infrastructure: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed, to put a trillion dollars into roads, bridges, damns, ports, broadband internet, etc etc.
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Energy Independence: We’re producing more oil & gas than any country ever. I know this is not exactly something to celebrate, as we need to move off of fossil fuels. But it just goes to show that business is booming under Biden.
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Trade: Passed the CHIPS Act, to attack Chinese chip industry, and on-shore chip manufacturing back in the US. Investment in manufacturing that is paying off.
Joe Biden is a damn good president. He’s much more effective at dealing with Congress than Obama.
And he gets stuff done. How can anyone look at his record and think he has dementia? Our media needs to do a better job of reporting on what is happening, and not fall for these right-wing talking points in their quest to be “fair” to MAGA-world.
Is there any chance you could give us a gift link to this?