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Jon Stewart: Excuses for Biden’s ‘shocking display of cognitive difficulty’ are ‘bulls‑‑‑’ (thehill.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

He also played a clip from Biden’s interview with ABC News, when the president was asked how he would feel if Trump won the election.

"I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” Biden said in the interview last week.

Stewart raised his voice and pushed back on that comment.

"That’s not what this is about! There are no participation trophies in endgame democracy. Oh yeah, I remember FDR saying, ‘Well, if the Nazis take over Europe, at least both teams had fun,’” he added.

Full clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LZXheHddI

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yup! That quote from Biden is absolutely fucking unacceptable. If you are unable to guarantee a success then get the fuck out of the way and lets find someone (not Harris) that can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if it is Harris?

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

We may not like it, but Harris has a better chance of winning against Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I, for one, like it. I think she would do a better job than Lemmy thinks she will. I would love to see her debate Trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Think you're right, she'd do well against him. I just don't like her. Some of her news bits had me thinking: Trump for Democrats

Her whole career has been Fighting Against the People. If she'd fight billionaires and corporations like she took down stoners, I might think differently about her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If she wins - good for her - if she loses, let it end her political career forever because she contributed to ending democracy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It sort of has to be Harris because the moneys on her, literally. The Biden Harris campaign currently holds hundreds of millions in campaign donations, if Harris becomes the nominee she can use that money pretty easily, but if someone else takes over transferring that money becomes way more complex if it's even possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The only solution I've heard to that problem is refunding them all with instructions to donate to the new person. That seems like it will produce some dollars for the new candidate, but way less than what is refunded.

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

Correction, Biden legit said “goodest job”, and if my soul was still functional I would have fell out of my chair when I heard it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I definitely hear "goodest" and had no idea what "godd as" was, but was just leaving quotes as is.

On Colbert's monologue he said that Biden's campaign insisted on the Times changing it to "good as" for some reason

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

This is what I’ve been fuckin’ saying since the interview!! Jesus, it’s nice to finally hear a public figure precisely articulate a serious concern I have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It reminds me of political posturing on other issues, like everyone says they believe the climate scientists but they sure as fuck ain't acting like it.

Here too it really seems like those sounding the alarm aren't alarmists at all. Trump is a fascist. But everyone's still pretending like it's completely fine to lose to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So both candidates have hijacked their own parties, as they can literally destroy them if they are forced out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In what way did Biden hijack the party? At best it's a Weekend at Bernie's type situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A Weekend at Sanders' isn't going to fix Biden's optics problems. Does anyone know if he needs glasses?

/j I'm making jokes so that I'm not attempting assassinations at this point.

Edit: ummm.... Well this is awkward...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Always been that way. Shit sandwich vs Turd Burger

First Past the Post requires it.

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

Fuck that and fuck this, stop putting Biden on the same level as Trump. You can talk shit on him all you want, but he is infinitely better than Trump and it's not even a discussion.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reagan's first term was infinitely better and worse than Trump. Second term Reagan is what we are looking at. Second term Reagan had me, a six year old in July of 1987, asking my parents why the most important man in the universe/ world was unable to complete a sentence, and why would we allow someone that clearly wasn't in touch with reality to have access to the nuclear launch codes.

Biden is showing all of the mentally unstable issues Reagan did in 1984....

All that said, Live Biden > Dead Biden > Dead Trump > A Literal Steaming Pile of Cow Dung > Live Trump

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nooooo no no it hasn't. Clinton vs the other guy was a BJ vs the other guy, Pre-wikileaks Bush vs Kerry was fool me cant be fooled again vs flip flops. McCain vs Obama was genuinely a war hero vs the first black prez. I'm not looking each election up and spitting from loose memory but the point is no fucking way has it ever been a rapist felon vs someone who was asked a question about abortion and was so fucking senile he answers with a fucking babbling story about a fuckin immigrant woman murdering I dont even know what the fuck he said it was so fuckin incoherent. There is no fuckin way you are old enough to vote if you are that short sighted that this is your stat quo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hmm, Jon Stewart has a lot of influence, like it or not. If he can get behind a movement to get Joe Biden to....

Stewart also noted he was not calling on Biden to step out of the race, but asked if Democrats could “open up” a larger conversation about their candidate.

Well, shit. We're stuck with Joe, aren't we?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's saying the bare minimum is an honest discussion and evaluation of Biden.

We're not even getting that, were getting "buckle up buckaroos"

And being gaslight about valid doubts about an 81 year who just set the record for oldest US president ever is fit to go back to back...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but it's only 4 months away! this is who the people chose!

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

No they didn't. There were no primaries and no Democrat dared challenge Biden lest they face the party's wrath.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

If they watched the video, that was sarcasm. If they didn't, it's depressingly unclear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I didn't think there was ever a realistic chance of replacing him, honestly. We are indeed stuck with Joe.

But I appreciate that Stewart acknowledges these concerns rather than trying to gaslight us about it.

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

I don't think anyone seriously is claiming Biden is without issue. Only that now is too late to call for replacing him.

They are basically the "blue no matter who" people. I'll probably be one this election too, considering the alternative.

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

I'm not 'blue no matter who' I'm 'third parties mathematically cannot win the electoral college so I will vote strategically for whoever has an actual possibility of beating Trump, then down the ballot I am more free to vote with my conscience.

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

Are there any Republicans left who are not in the Trump cult?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Dick Cheney just called him out the other day. Dick frickin Cheney.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

But I appreciate that Stewart acknowledges these concerns rather than trying to gaslight us about it.

Has literally anyone ever said that Biden is awesome and will be amazing and there are no issues? Nobody is gaslighting anyone, we just don't want Trump to ruin the country in completely irreversible ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We were stuck with him a year ago. Unless you can turn back time and install ranked choice voting before primaries.

Thinking otherwise is delulu.

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

Jon nailed it. I don't know why the Biden team is insisting he stays.

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

You guys are not voting only for the president. It's everything that comes with that. Like the supreme Court and all other justices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We won't have the Presidency or likely the House or Senate if we stick with Biden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm voting for Biden if he's the one in the general, but I fear you may be right. Far too many normies have no idea what is at stake.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stewart's episode is basically calling for a primary, which we already had, which was known for years ahead of time would happen, which literally anybody could run in, and yet nobody significant seemed interested in running. I voted in the primary, there was more than one person to vote for, Biden even lost his primary in American Samoa. To say there was "no primary" is a lie, and suggesting a party swap out a candidate who already won a primary, and by doing so throw out the votes of millions of Americans who participated in that primary process, is anti-democatic. Do you want people to switch parties and vote in the republican primary? Because that's how you do it. Did the DNC learn nothing from getting caught trying to crush Bernie's primary chances?

You lose voters you disenfranchise, period. I don't care how good the DNC's legislative aims are, if my primary vote literally does not matter, why would I ever vote in their primary again?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There was effectively no primary, quit dissembling. What happened to the 18 month primary circuses of 2015?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Jon Stewart would be a pretty good candidate. I mean, totally horrible as a president in objective terms, but would work as a pretty great counterpoint to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I don't know why you think he wouldn't be a good President. A presidents job is largely rhetorical and Stewart is good at that. He also showed his mettle in his support and advocacy for 9/11 first responders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That berating he gave them was amazing. Also gave me my favorite pic of McConnell

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

This is one of my favorite pic's of all time and it also shows precisely how to navigate things like the house and senate from the outside.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I mean I don't disagree with you completely, but Stewart being the president would be like Trump (or, say, Reagan) in the way that none of them are politicians or have seriously studied the subject. Those people are some kind of entertainers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. Stewart has never served as an elected official, but he has 'seriously studied' politics his whole life. That's more relevant than Trump or Reagan.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also he strikes me as the person to listen to experts. Not experts (1)

(1) paid for by corporate interests

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, Zelenskyy?

Guy was basically an entertainer, not too dissimilar from Stewart even in style and content.