Yeah, I mean, nevermind all the pending criminal charges and evidence of incompetence from Trump’s 4 years in office where we had weekly “infrastructure week” failures, a constant stream of garbage tweets parading as “official Presidential communications”, and egregious power grabs by the Executive branch. Trump said all his same BS in a more convincing-sounding voice during last night’s debate and the guy with a known stuttering issue just didn’t have a strong-sounding voice, that’s all the convincing I needed. Biden is just so old, I literally can’t tell them apart <teeheehee>!
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mhague@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Damn, I guess I’m going to ignore years of evidence that Biden’s admin can function just fine and go with my feelings on this one. I mean would you vote constructively if it meant getting over yourself? Of course not. We’re Americans. We want a leader with a good jaw, not with good character or good ideas.
Nah but seriously though. Biden and Trump make me feel bad so I’m going to vote in a way that harms the country. That’ll show us.
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 week ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ignore years of evidence that Biden’s admin can function
They’re doing a real bang-up job, both at home and abroad.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I wish we went further left, but the reality is that Biden has been a steady hand at the wheel where we’ve come out of economic unknown of the covid shut downs pretty well. We still have a ways to go, but we’re heading in the right direction, and the most glaring problem (namely inflation) was something baked in before he even came into office.
Abroad we actually have the respect of much of the world, and it feels like to our allies that we are actually a partner that can be trusted on. Keep in mind that if you told a republican of the 80s that a US president rally the west against an imperialistic russia invading Europe, without committing a single US or NATO troop, and exposed them for how weak they are, then they would have said he was the second coming of Reagan.
Do I disagree with a lot of what he has done? Yes. But it’s been a steady ride. Compared to Trump’s presidency, which was a bumpy ride throughout, handing off an economy that looked like it could just go completely into the shitter, and threatening our alliances across the world, he looks like straight up looks like one of the best.
mcqtom@lemmy.world 1 week ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t forget how:
“I’m NOT voting for an entire apparatus of executive government with thousands of employees, I’m ONLY voting for a charismatic messiah godking, because I’m still little more than a medieval peasant looking to be mesmerized. While (somehow) fancying myself as enlightened and special and pure.”
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, you’d think the total inability to hide Biden and Trumps’ cognitive dysfunction, caught on camera many, many times over the last few years, and now live and in color, would be enough to get people to stop pretending that there’s a good option here. Hell, Biden’s handlers have been caught on camera making sure he doesn’t wander off, like they had for Feinstein before she died.
But then again, Americansl have watched the gradual, but now inevitable, slide into fascism over the last 40 years and managed to convince themselves that all is well, provided the guy enabling it is wearing their preferred jersey, so I guess we’ll just chill and Biden and Trumps’ unelected handlers rule the country.
It’s too bad you all didn’t vote for Williamson in the primary. It’s been clear neither of these two assholes are fit for a long time, just like it was clear Feinstein wasn’t fit when she was falling asleep in hearings.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The people guiding Biden at least have an interest in keeping the united states functional. The people guiding Trump want to watch it burn.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No they don’t.
They have an interest in keeping themselves rich, consequences be damned.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They’re the same picture
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, no they don’t. Those people jumped ship after Jan 6. The only people left backing Trump are the insane religious cultists and racists that want to turn the country into a theocracy and purge anyone not white, straight and Christian.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
They have an interest in keeping their jobs for the next 4 years, let’s be real here.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 week ago
… for their corporate sponsors, who’s interests slightly align with yours.
JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 1 week ago
And this is the best point to make right here. Well said.
mhague@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What I don’t understand about the handlers thing is that when I watch other famous people walking and talking: I see their handlers steer them, give them signals, whisper names in their ear. And you know what? Celebrities in their prime look awkward all the time. People who have nothing to worry about but their craft and being famous screw up all the time.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, but those people don’t have the power to destroy the entire world when their brain short-circuits.