Does it really count as “lucid” if you enunciate your lies, fabrications, misrecollections about… everything?
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Asafum@feddit.nl 5 months ago
We’re so fucked it’s absolutely insane.
I thought Trump had a chance before, but now… My god Biden embarrassed the shit out of himself… Fuck the goddamn DNC for condemning us by REFUSING to have primaries… Yeah it’s the tradition because usually the incumbent has a chance, but 90472828 year old Biden? Ffs…
Yes Trump is old too but it was plain as day how much more lucid trump is than biden…
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No. He was not lucid, just loud.
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Loud and lying every second word != lucid.
Revonult@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For his voters, his lies and fabrications are the truth. They don’t listen to fact checking because they are conditioned to see it as fake and a goverment ploy to fool them.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
True. But they were going to have the same criticism of Biden regardless.
It’s part of the reason I didn’t even watch. Looking over the polling, the debate didn’t really change anyone’s opinions on anything to any significant degree.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No-one is going to switch sides, but this performance may affect turnout.
Asafum@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I don’t think it has been long enough to have gathered enough data on that. Just watching it myself I could clearly see a low information voter seeing Trump as a more fit choice as Biden struggled to even form sentences :(
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.
Asafum@feddit.nl 5 months ago
It was a goddamn travesty that there was no fact checking by the
button pushersmoderators.Everything was allowed to stand as fact. It was disgusting :(
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I see so many people screaming that primaries should have been held, especially today.
Biden would have easily won the primaries.
PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 5 months ago
He did win the primary in states that had them. There’s no if about it.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
He was the only option on my primary lmao
PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The problem with Biden is they gave it to him because “he deserved it”. Life long politician. Vice president. That’s the only real reason the DNC handed the keys to him.
The next election cycle is going to be interesting.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The only reason I agree with this is that I was still living in the Midwest during the 2016 primary. I moved to California during August of that year. Time after time, I got told by Midwestern democrats that Bernie just wasn’t electable. The coasts would have primaried Biden, but flyover country would have messed it up.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Iowa, North Dakota, New York, and Massachusetts are the only ones that really surprise me in that grouping.
Mzpip@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yes Trump is old too but it was plain as day how much more lucid trump is than biden…
And also an unrepentant crook and liar. Who also dreams of being a dictator and getting revenge on his “enemies”.
Asafum@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Preaching to the choir, but I’m worried about the ignorant people that simply don’t know that about him. All they see is an old bumbling feeble man vs a “strong man.” :(
Mzpip@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And unfortunately, the media is not informing people. I can’t believe there was no question last night about Project 2025. Just unbelievable.
Plus no fact checkers. Again, unbelievable.
recapitated@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For sure. It’s a shame that being correct isn’t the strategy for electoral politics.
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, this is not looking good, and I’m not impressed
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This might be a hot take but any leadership selection where candidates are ranked in terms of how lucid they are is a bad time for all involved.
bizzinho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Being lucid is supposed to be a minimum requirement to even apply. But here we are.
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I need to shake the hands of potential presidents before I can make any judgements on who to vote for…
Edge004@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Hank?
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“My God…it’s limp!”
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yessir, I sell propane and propane accessories. Ronald Reagan was the best president we ever had.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I mean we’re like lobsters being slow boiled.
This whole situation is mad, but it feels plausible because it’s been ratcheted up so gradually.
Can you imagine the country’s reaction if they say this 2 decades ago?