there is 333 milion people in the us. roughly 1/4 of them is of sufficient age and pro-democracy. one of them has to be able to put together coherent sentence.
Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 months agoWho do you have in mind?
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
rsuri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anybody but Biden. Kamala seems to be the expected replacement, that works. If not her, pretty much anyone else. Trump is a terrible candidate. While he has experience in show business, he’s way past his prime and pretty much any person should be able to beat him in a debate at this point.
I was actually recently thinking through people I’ve known and whether they could’ve done a better job debating Trump than Biden did. Generally any adult with a functioning mind would do better. Adults I’ve known with a HS education could’ve crushed Trump in that debate. I’m actually not sure if a homeless guy I once debated on the street regarding the meaning of pi would do better or worse than Biden, he seemed to be at about Trump’s level of sanity and if Trump won this last debate, well yeah even he’d do better than Biden. I can also think of some older teenage jocks I once knew, and while they were dumb as rocks their teenager swagger would’ve been more convincing than Biden’s rambling failed attempts to remember rote speeches.
If I try to think of who is actually about at Biden’s level, I think of myself at the age of 13, when I had a presentation in front of the class on an issue and for some reason I was struck by that early teenager nervousness, and haltingly tried to give a presentation as the class tried failingly to hide their laughter at how terribly it was going. It was probably the most embarrassing day of my life. That’s Biden’s level right there. So any person in their late teens or older with a full grasp on sanity should be a much better candidate than Biden.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 months ago
I don’t understand how this is supposed to be like some ‘gotcha’ question. Biden wasn’t a strong candidate in 2016 and lost to Hillary, who then lost to Trump. He wasn’t a strong candidate in 2020 which is why he barely squeaked by Trump to victory. He’s an even worse candidate in 2024 which is why Trump again has a shot at the presidency.
None of this is new information and the party has has nearly a decade to find a good candidate, yet they keep foisting some of the most unlikable people upon us election afrer election after election. It almost seems as if they’re doing it on purpose at this point. It’s not our fault that they’ve waited until the 11th hour to listen to the complaints and even acknowledge what we’ve all been saying for years. If Biden loses again maybe stop looking at leftists to blame and start looking at the people in charge of this private organization deciding the fate of us all.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a long way to go to avoid a question, several paragraphs and you can’t even come up with one name.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Fine: Bernie. Happy now that you’ve got a name?
Fucking Internet lefties and demanding someone have all the answers or they’re not worth listening to
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, there it is.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Putin, and the tankie pussies who need a daddy to make them feel safe.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bernie? The only potential candidate even older than the two in contention?
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And yet, instead of answering a simple question, you’ve launched into a ‘if only we could change the past’ screed.
If there was a good answer to the question, people like you would just answer.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 months ago
That isn’t a “if we could only change the past screed,” it’s calling the party leadership out for allowing things to get to this point. Where in a bus barreling toward the edge of a cliff while the driver has been ignoring our pleas to turn literally any other direction. Now we’re feet from the edge and you want to chastise us for not giving an exact direction earlier and happily plummet over the cliff with the driver.