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Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Biden is self-destructing his own campaign.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

He didn't 'confuse the Presidents of Egypt and Mexico,' he accidentally referred to Egypt as "Mexico." He was talking about negotiating with Sisi to get the border with Gaza open for humanitarian aid; so he was talking about Egypt's border and he was talking about Egypt's president but he accidentally said "Mexico"; you know, the type of verbal gaff people have been making fun of him about for the last 40+ years.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (18 children)

This is another "Hillary's Emails" smear attempt, except it isn't going to work well when Trump is 3 years younger than Biden and saying much more demented things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Also he tried to kill his own vice president when he didn't do what Trump wanted, committed multiple rapes, and said he is above the law.

I feel like that kind of thing should get mentioned more often whenever someone starts comparing candidates. It's like that Batman comic where they elected The Joker mayor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

But person, woman, man, camera, TV!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People are making this weird fucking arguments like "Biden is so fucking senile he couldn't even immediately drop the years of the Obama presidency" or whatever.

Like what the fuck, I couldn't drop the year of any single thing in my life without thinking about it long and hard, and I'm 30 with no sign of dementia. It's just not how I remember things, and I feel like most people don't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I'm 46. Last year, I was filling out a form, and I had to ask my wife my age. She had to think about it. We're both the same age.

I don't think we both have dementia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I can dig it. He’s been beating the drum about the domestic border “crisis” with the republicans for a good while. When pressed about the Gaza border, he slipped with the name of the country.

Who gives a shit. Plenty of people do it every minute of the day.

A certain orange care home candidate has been doing it a lot recently. Sioux City, Orban, Pelosi…just to name a few gaffes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Which geriatric coffin dodger do you want, America? The fascist or the neo liberal?

The choice is obvious, but, fuck if it ain't depressing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's what I hate about the:

Still better than trump!

Like, I'd rather have both my legs cut off than my head, most people would.

But people ain't going to stand in like 5 hours after work to pick. Because for a lot of us, having both legs cut off is just a slower death

Because America doesn't have basic social systems to care for us, and we'd get bankrupted by the medical bills

That's the choice:

You want a slow death, or a fast one?

Meanwhile neoliberals don't understand why 1/3 of voters don't vote

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

45% of voters didn't vote when it was a 54 year old vs a 52 year old in 2000 Bush v Gore. It's not the age thing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's a bit morbid, but thank goodness for COVID happening when it did as that forced the rapid expansion of early and mail in voting which helps mitigate this issue without addressing it directly.

I don't think there's enough political will to do the sensible thing, make Election Day a federal holiday, because that would promote access to democracy to the lower classes and that is a threat to both parties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All making it a holiday would accomplish is giving bankers the day off while most of everyone else who works for a living would still have work. On a day the buses aren't running because it's a holiday.

But now we have a holiday, so there's no need for early voting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I think that's a very fair point. It seems very unlikely that the US would accommodate a holiday without asking service workers to work through it, or even incentivize it with extra pay.

Do you think compulsory voting, like in Australia, would be more effective, then? Or perhaps another alternative?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'd prefer universal mail ballot like Colorado and Washington have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Lol, this guy thinks the majority of workers get holidays off...

The solution is making it a week. Give people a full ass week to vote, count em up at the end of the week.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Keep trying! Biden is reading all these posts personally and it's really making him bigsad.

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