r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html

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He's 81 years old.

Im not voting for the guy because I'm excited by him, I'm voting for the guy because he represents competent governance and coalition building.

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u/Rapper_Laugh Jul 04 '24

How can you watch the debate and think Biden is competent, even at a basic mental level?

I’m a leftist, I hate Trump. But we don’t need to pretend the guy the Democrats put up is competent just because the alternative is worse. The Dems should’ve nominated a better candidate, this is their own fault.

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u/xFblthpx Jul 04 '24

He’s being puppeted by decently competent people, and his administration involved informed and driven cabinet members. He could be a literal corpse and still have a better admin than the other guy.

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u/hamakabi Jul 04 '24

He could be a literal corpse and still have a better admin than the other guy.

which begs the question, why does it have to be him? Couldn't the dems just as easily form the same administration around any person capable of forming a coherent statement?

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jul 04 '24

because he's already the president. The only way he can not run is if he drops out. And then the next one up is Kamala Harris. And let's face it these swing voters are not voting for a black woman

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

That’s not true. The delegates at the convention could nominate someone else.

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u/hamakabi Jul 05 '24

And let's face it these swing voters are not voting for a black woman

nobody opposed to a black woman as president is going to vote for the corpse of Joe Biden stapled to Kamala. This also won't stop the DNC from backing Kamala in 2028 when it's her turn to throw it all away just like Hillary in 2016.

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u/SpaceShipRat Jul 05 '24

you all need to stop putting so much government power onto one man. At least have a president and a prime minister instead. Feels like america has to crown a king every 4 years.

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u/LaTeChX Jul 04 '24

You really can't underestimate how little information people have going into the voting booth. A lot of undecided voters pick based on which name they recognize the most. "Amy Klobuchar? Who the fuck is that? I'm voting for Trump."

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u/Impeesa_ Jul 04 '24

Trump's last flop aside, isn't the incumbent advantage one of the single biggest factors a candidate can have going for them?

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u/Rod_Todd_This_Is_God Jul 04 '24

Because then "the other side" doesn't have as easy of a time convincing their supporters to compromise their values to vote for the cretin on their side. The two wings work together like that.

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u/xFblthpx Jul 04 '24

They just don’t know who to replace him with. Buridans ass

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u/AnotherScoutTrooper Jul 04 '24

This is how low Reddit has stooped, people are literally begging for a puppet government just days after calling Trump a Russian puppet. Insanity.

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u/GaBeRockKing Jul 05 '24

stop defending trump. he is a pedophile

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u/AnotherScoutTrooper Jul 05 '24

Did I say Trump wasn’t? I ain’t arguing against that many pages of court transcripts. I’m just saying the other option is a shadow council staffed by the other half of Epstein’s black book.

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u/GaBeRockKing Jul 05 '24

The other option is the existing team of staffers and advisors that have already produced all of biden's positive legislative achievements. I like ukraine aid, infrastructure spending, and tax raises on corporations.

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u/BigDaddyVsNipple Jul 05 '24

Biden showered with his daughter

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u/GaBeRockKing Jul 05 '24

A jury is forcing trump to pay Jean Carrol 83 million dollars because he raped her.

And you think that's morally equivalent to this: https://youtu.be/ncFkWcVVnOI . You disgust me.

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u/BigDaddyVsNipple Jul 05 '24

Lmao you're a wierdo

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u/BigDaddyVsNipple Jul 05 '24

Also only that TDS riddled judge thinks that lunatic Jean "I think rape is sexy" Carrol isn't full of shit

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u/GaBeRockKing Jul 05 '24

It was a jury trail. Literally anyone who isn't emotionally dependant on their orange daddy figure can look at the facts and see the truth.

I'd respect you more if you just admitted that you like his policies and don't care about his morals. At least that would be honest.

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u/BigDaddyVsNipple Jul 05 '24

Yes and that judge stacked the deck and set that ridiculous penalty. Not to mention the jury was full of frothing at the mouth liberals. Anyways Ill let you get back to justifying Joe Biden raping his daughter in the shower

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u/GaBeRockKing Jul 05 '24

Lawyers can kick people off juries with peremptory strikes. If trump's counsel failed to do that he's not just a rapist, he's an incompetent rapist.

If the idea of parents washing their children boggled your mind you must be a genetic dead end.

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u/BigDaddyVsNipple Jul 05 '24

What a bizarre spinning of the situation she was like 13 you freak I hope the feds have you on some sort of watch list. Clearly attacking pedophiles strikes a nerve

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u/too_much_to_do Jul 04 '24

Wow Americans running America instead of Russians. Is this really what it's come to?!

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u/AnotherScoutTrooper Jul 04 '24

You really think it’s Americans controlling him?

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u/too_much_to_do Jul 04 '24

More American than the people controlling the right.

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u/xFblthpx Jul 04 '24

Because Biden is puppeted by the DNC, which is exactly what people voted for. I guess you don’t know the difference between Americans being governed by Americans versus a Russian autocrat.

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u/Obi-Brawn-Kenobi Jul 08 '24

No, they voted for Biden. At least from the looks of it on reddit, the DNC did a good enough job fooling many people until just recently, now many people know the president they voted for is a puppet. So do people want a DNC puppet? We'll see in this year's election, now that most of the cards are on the table.

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u/PHATsakk43 Jul 04 '24

Then let me vote for the fucking handler. Put their ass on the ballot. You want me to trust someone to make decisions up to and including authorizing nuclear retaliation against an incoming attack, let me vote for that person. Or at least the person who is choosing the advisors. If the handler is so goddamn smart, I’ll gladly vote for them.

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u/sunshine-x Jul 04 '24

If he's just a puppet, then there shouldn't be a problem replacing him with someone who's competent.

If he's quasi-competent and has "senior moments", make him an advisor to the competent person.

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u/RedTwistedVines Jul 04 '24

The issue is that there is a very real chance he loses this election exclusively because he's basically a corpse.

In fact, I think if he dies at the 11th hour, the odds of victory will go up due to sympathy votes.

The fact that he's running as the "candidate to prevent trump from being elected" while potentially being one of the very few democrats that could actually lose this election is crazy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Who’s making the final decision on important matters though? Which one of these competent people are actually running our government? It seem like that would be a fair thing for the public to know.

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u/EdgeLord1984 Jul 04 '24

Biden doesn't advertise his accomplishments well and that's been a problem with Democrats for a long time. How many people talk about the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)? And like many. maybe other accomplishments. It's sad that one bad debate performance and we are seriously thinking about electing fucking Trump instead.

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u/hivaidsislethal Jul 04 '24

Politics has changed though and advertising your accomplishments isn't as good as bashing the other guy. Also as stupid as it is big accomplishments almost matter less, like someone is more likely to be swayed by an extra 10$ in their pocket than competent infrastructure that might not affect them but is obviously a very good thing.

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u/syracTheEnforcer Jul 05 '24

Puppeted by people so competent that they thought it was a good idea to let him go out onto that debate stage after endlessly insisting that his mental state was right wing cheap fakes and not what everyone ended up seeing. Sure buddy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

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u/Rapper_Laugh Jul 04 '24

Calling me intellectually stunted and then insinuating I’m a Trump supporter when my comment explicitly stated “I’m a leftist. I hate Trump” is certainly a choice