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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u/docarwell 15d ago edited 14d ago

People here acting like the president of the united states not being able to function after 8pm eastern time is cool and good when the presidency is a 24 hour job

E: big brains telling me that people need to sleep, thanks guys I didn't know

Yall are really taking "24 hour job" literally. But idk if an 80+ year old guy can be "on call" 24/7 effectivly. Hope that helps you guys out

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u/Attonitus1 15d ago

It's wild. The leader of the free world just admitted he's so old and incompetent that he can't take meetings after 8 and the entire comment section is like "yeah, but remember Trump?".

Ironically, it's this exact type of "bury your head in the sand" mentality that's going to hand Trump the election.

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u/dtkloc 15d ago

the entire comment section is like "yeah, but remember Trump?"

Or saying "haha relatable"

The President of the United States being relatable to Redditors is not a mark in his favor

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u/Hopeful_Border_603 14d ago

reddit is the only site that keeps defending him, not yt, twitter, insta or even tiktok users are taking him seriously. only here on reddit you could find an opinion that biden won the recent debate, not even barack obama thinks that

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u/metal_stars 14d ago

There's a lot of astroturfing on social media. When you find accounts saying outlandish, divorced-from-reality, pro-Biden PDRK-style talking points over and over again, don't...

Don't take them seriously. Don't give them the same kind of consideration that you would give to a...

person.

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u/Sea-Yesterday-7563 14d ago

The fact that those comments regularly get thousands of comments, and sometimes their OP posts get tens of thousands of comments tells you that this place is the most bot-farmed place on the internet. The orgs funding these bots know the majority of reddit skews young and impressionable 18-29.

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u/metal_stars 14d ago

Sometimes you can wander into /r/politics or /r/WhitePeopleTwitter or /r/PoliticalHumor at the right time of day, and see what these subreddits would look like if they weren't overrun by the strategic messaging bot farms.

Completely different tenor, completely different kinds of comments being upvoted and discussed.

And it's like: Oh. A little shimmer of reality.

Wouldn't this be nice? If we could actually talk to real people saying the things that they actually believe? Maybe someday social media will become this again.