I wholeheartedly agree!
As do I. Whether or not he can win this November… I remain worried. Very worried.
Summary
I predict that Trumps VP pick will either be Don Jr. or Lara Trump.
In Trump’s head, he doesn’t need a VP and he doesn’t want one. Hes not going to trust any Republican politician, he thinks he got screwed every time he let anyone that wasn’t him advise him on his staff picks.
He’s going to stick with family and he’s not going to be dissuaded.
And I bet his last VP, the God-bothering lickspittle, still harbors the hope that Trump will pick him. Because he’s delusional.
OK, thanks for the input… But I wonder, would your worries be so serious if the Republican opponent were sane? Feels like your concerns are a bit more about Biden’s opponent than Biden.
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Yet again, this thread it for discussion of President Biden, not Trump.
We’re as disgusted as you are, but President Joe Biden went on the Seth Meyers show last night, and he didn’t even break down crying and resign because he’s so senile. In fact, he was wearing sunglasses like some sort of cool guy, and he made jokes like some kind of cool guy, and he said hey, he might be old, but so is the other guy, and at least he can remember his wife’s name, like some kind of cool guy.
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And of course they talked about Dark Brandon, which he said he “resent[s] the hell out of,” right before he put on his shades. They talked about Biden’s longstanding Deep State cahoots with Taylor Swift, or at least Seth tried, but Biden said it was classified.
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And at no point was Joe Biden senile.
But he admitted he was old, so we’re sure the New York Times will have five or 76 front-page stories above the fold about that tomorrow.
Yeah, he’s old. But he has balls. Ditto this:
Classified. Love it! Part of being decent is being able to joke about things.
As I recall, although Washington did deliver the state of the union as a speech, our third president, Thomas Jefferson, hated public speaking, and so submitted it in writing. That began a tradition that wasn’t broken until Woodrow Wilson, who re-started the practice of giving a joint speech to Congress.
I often think of this issue with Jefferson’s public speaking, as nobody would begin to suggest that he wasn’t smart. It reminds me of Biden’s struggles with speaking: I’m firmly convinced his mind is sharp, even as he definitely has a poor public speaking voice.
I said before that Joe is very affable, likable, and down-to-earth. It’s what he’s good at, more so than oration. That clip on Seth Myers is a great example. You can see how a guy like that was good at fostering relationships and getting bipartisan deals done for years.
The NYT article also cites a Detroit News poll that showed that, last month, less than 16% of Michigan young voters (age 18-29) had a favorable view of Biden.
If they’re “an essential part of your coalition,” does that mean they’re voting regularly now? Genuine question.
Re essential part of the coalition, every large group of voters is essential. If you were to lose everyone in any of them, you would lose the election.
31 percent of Biden voters claim, when polled, to support a 16 week nationwide abortion ban. That 31 percent number is just one poll, but even if it really is 21 percent, Joe cannot be elected without a whole lot of their votes, just as he cannot be elected without a whole lot of age 18-29 voters, or a whole lot of high school dropouts, evangelicals, etc., etc.
Everything a candidate does or says will annoy some part of the coalition AKA voters. You want to show that you respect all the parts of your coalition without it looking like pandering.
EDIT: There is a famous candidate who doesn’t agree with my last sentence above, but that oddity does in another thread.
This just in, Biden criticized for … eating ice cream. Plot Twist: It was only one scoop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1b1ouo2/since_when_was_a_grown_man_getting_ice_cream_by/
Was he wearing a tan suit? It might just be a full blown national emergency
Yes! This is why —one of the many reasons why — Biden is the person for the job right now! Not some “young, new blood” who doesn’t have the experience to carry this off.
From the Wonkette article quoted above:
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Before the show aired, right-wing human colostomy bags like Clay Travis tried to make hay of the fact Biden was answering reporters’ questions while eating ice cream. (He likes ice cream, like some sort of cool guy.) So unpresidential!…
Bless his heart. “Do you know grown men who go get ice cream by themselves?” Clay Travis asked, because he’s so irrelevant and passed over by American culture that he didn’t notice that was, um, Seth Meyers standing next to Biden. So that’s sad.
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The shocking thing for me about that article was finding out that Wonkette is still around.
Uh oh! Marianne Williamson has restarted her campaign! Now things might get tricky! /s
I wish she would send back air and soil samples from her planet.