is there a way to prove content manipulation on a website ? Isn’t reddit already super pro democrat… why is this fediverse and others being drowned in this bullshit ? Fuck them both biden and trump and us politicians, they are just puppets. The real masters are the corporations . I thought this website you would see more posts like reviving occupy wall street.
But the corporations they got the money…
Guys, this dude has it all figured out!!
what a straw man argument
lol delete this
did you watch the debate? no one is complaining about bidens voice. people are complaining about his lack of mental faculties, no body gives a shit what he sounds like. really disingenuous to say people are mad about his voice when it’s clearly the least of the issues
Delete this too
no <3
Then you’ll be cursed by the Cucaracha
As an european, what scares me , it is that Biden is the ACTUAL president. If he suffers from dementia, who is really in charge now. Who takes the decisions? Usa are involved in at least two major wars and dictate the policy to the europeans. Who is responsible of that? If biden cannot be a candidate , why it is an actual president?
The cabinet, and the heads of federal agencies who are appointed by the president (everything from the FBI to the EPA), is doing the actual running of the country. In particular Biden just signs off on whatever they tell him to, as an individual, I don’t think he has been making any serious foreign policy decisions himself.
Chief of Staff is Jeff Zients, a former Bain Capital guy
They’re both going senile
If he suffers from dementia
Other than a few examples of stuttering or mis-speaking, something which we all do (yes, even you youngins), can you provide any clinical evidence that Biden has dementia?
Because all I see is the proven effectiveness of GOP marketing and it’s influence even on people who are disinclined to believe it.
You should watch how you talk. We do more than any of you countries. We send more aid and supplies to Ukraine to Israel than any of you fucks and your golden leaders you love so much. We train and run war simulations with allies in hopes of preventing war. Our economy is doing the greatest it has. All that with a ‘dementia riddled’ leader. You should wish you accomplish what that man does.
He almost certainly has a great team doing a lot. Biden isn’t perfect but knows how to delegate. He doesn’t need to be that lucid if he can delegate well. He still may not be reelectable.
25th Amendment. If the President is incapacitated, the VP takes over.
It’s not a great situation, but I’ll take it over the guy promising a dictatorship.
The VP takes charge, we have the position for a reason. One of the better elements of the presidency is that there is a clear line of succession and even a good bit of “we dont fucken know whos alive” backups.
Also Reagan was already president and utterly demented.
Also Reagan was already president and utterly demented
And look how that turned out…
Full senile moment = “raspy voice”
Biden apologists are gonna be the reason Trump gets elected.
I mean if Trump gets elected, it’ll be because people would rather have a felon conman narcissist racist rapist wanna-be-dictator idiot over someone with “senile moments.” Call me an apologist, but the blame should fall with the morons that think the guy who literally tried to illegally have the last election thrown out was the right choice there.
Biden apologists are gonna be the reason Trump gets elected.
How the hell does that make sense to you? Do you have a viable alternative?
Literally what I said.
People sticking their head in the sand and believing every voter is as much of a cultist as them. Did everyone forget 2016?. The Democrats are refusing to run anyone else because of all the cultists that will let them get away with not appealing to anyone and still voting Democrat.
Jill Stein is not just a viable alternative now, it’s the only chance there is to beat Trump.
Jill Stein is not just a viable alternative now, it’s the only chance there is to beat Trump.
I’m registered Green and I have to tell ya. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read on Lemmy since I joined, and that’s saying something.
Surely you’re not implying you believe Biden actually has a chance after seeing his Debate performace. He barely won in 2020 and he’s a walking skeleton now that’s already behind in the polls.
Surely you’re not implying you believe Biden actually has a chance after seeing his Debate performace. He barely won in 2020 and he’s a walking skeleton now that’s already behind in the polls.
I’m not implying it, I’m saying it. And your hyperbole doesn’t strengthen your argument. In fact, it’s downright ridiculous. This shit happens. It always gets blown out of proportion, no matter the candidate. Hell, Obama at one point was counted out because of a poor showing at a rally or debate early on - they said he was a terrible orator. LOL. In this case it happens to tap into a steady stream of GOP BS about Biden that seemingly many otherwise rational people on Lemmy have bought hook, line, and sinker.
Chase Oliver for President 2024!
I have no faith in the future and only pray death is swift and merciful. I will vote Biden in hopes of delaying the inevitable another four years.
I was hoping that the Right’s march into fascism was going to be the call to action that Americans needed to abandon them and push the country into being a proper developed nation…
Instead, people go along with it to own the libs, and the privileged who know better have the resources to stamp their foot and wait for a savior they should know will never come.
RBG, Feinstein, now Biden. Selfish geriatric boomers should learn when to retire.
All three of those are actually not from the Baby Boomer / Me Generation but The Silent Generation. The previous one. RBG and Feinstein were born in 1933, Biden is the youngest of them, born in 1942.
Oh shit, so it’s only going to get worse, isn’t it?
It always has
This demonstrates just how bad the copiate crisis has become among neolibs
We should all be screaming at the top of our lungs for Biden to drop out now. Fast. Throw in Newsom or Whitmer. I’ll vote for either, doesn’t matter.
This is a no brainer, and no loss. Either they do it which would be great, or we’re stuck with biden anyway, who now looks to be much worse off against trump.
Everyone should be telling biden to drop out. Everyone everyone everyone. And loudly.
He needs to withdraw. He has to. The man looks like he’s dying. It’s time to stop playing pretend. This is fucking stupid. He’s literally not physically capable of being president. He doesn’t just have a raspy voice, he rambles incoherently, he can barely seem to register what’s going on at any moment. He nods off in public. He’s ancient. He should be no where near a political office.
If he runs he’s handing Trump the presidency. And I don’t even fully believe he cares. If he cared he would never have run in the first place. He also chose to hammer home on his unending support for Israeli colonialism and crimes against humanity. Just to further aleniate the progressives and moderates who want him to stand up for human rights.
I have no faith in him to drive a car let alone handle the political office of the presidency. He could be a literal corpse and he’d still get my vote over Trump. But you’re asking people to vote for someone who is openly incapable of doing the job he’s campaigning for. He HAS to step down. He CANNOT defeat fascism. He is not capable of it and he is so chronically neoliberal that he cannot even create a strong opposition to fascism.
We’re all freaking the fuck out because this is the worst scenario. The one we ALL SAID WAS COMING. We were all told not to talk about how old he is Trump is old too and all that. And Trump absolutely is old but he’s a fascist for one and fascists vote differently than anyone else does. But much worse he always rambles incoherently so standing next to Joe he looked as he normally does and Biden was the one who had visibly aged.
Enough is enough is enough he has to go. Where is the real political effort to have him withdraw. The clock is ticking until November and he HAS TO GO.
Who’d be the dream choice for american democrats? Hillary Clinton? Michelle Obama (who’s not even a politician) with Barrack as advisor or VP?
I get that this is Lemmy and most people here are communists who’ll say Bernie Sanders, and that’s fine too, but wouldn’t he turn away a bunch of voters?
It is insulting to suggest that this is why people won’t vote for Butcher Biden.
This Biden protection is crazy. we need a candidate who actually stands a chance against Trump. this is insane. It’s 2016 all over again.
raspy voice
The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.
most important thing is that he can still use his arm to sign legislation. that’s all you need him for. the actual deal is the cabinet. that’s what you’re voting for.
too bad most people don’t think about that, and fuck the dnc for putting the country in this situation.
This is a terrible sentiment. You need a team and you need someone to lead that team. Having the leader just be a puppet is terrible.
You’ll get a dysfunctional cabinet this way, you will get grifting, taking advantage of the puppet showing his face to bad ideas and you will get foreign influence prying on the weak puppet president.
And even if the president is not a puppet and “only weak”. We have a government falling apart and in deadlock because of our chancellor being a weak leader in Germany. The only thing holding them together at this point is the fear of them losing power sooner in an early election. All it does is give even further rise to the fascists.
You need a competent leader at the head of the cabinet. And that starts with her or him having their mental capacity.
Biden has been president for almost 4 years and we haven’t seen any of those things. That’s how I know all this FUD is overblown. The things you are describing were rampant under Trump, not Biden.
oh you’re right. voting for biden may give rise to fascists… so we should let the actual fascists win instead. how have i never thought of this before‽
You let the Democrats gaslighting work on you. Since half a year they make us think, that the only two options are Trump and Biden, when in fact they could have allowed for proper primaries. They could have worked to prop up other candidates as viable alternatives. But they wanted the puppet they can control.
It is not too late to acknowledge Biden to be unfit and put up a different candidate. I have been advocating for this here since months. But instead of acknowledging that there is more real options, the DNC propaganda worked and works hard to limit our thinking to “its either one of them, no looking past the fishbowl”.
Biden was never voted because he was Biden. He was voted because he wasn’t Trump. Any halfway decent candidate that does not shares Bidens dogmatic support for genocide in Gaza and abusing immigrants can fill this role a hundred times better. Any such candidate could win the election in a landslide.
Pull the emergency brake on the Biden train. The Biden train is going into the abyss.
…primaries where you get vote among these candidates. There were options.
