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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
I haven’t watched the bit yet, tomorrow I’ll have time, but from the headline I have 0 surprise.
Trump built his entire campaign around Biden, and without it he literally cannot create an argument. Everything is failing against Kamala because she’s legitimately a better candidate in most every way compared to him, and I think he knows it. He was a one issue candidate - not Biden. He doesn’t know what to do.
I also wonder (and maybe Jon goes into this), if it’s a mental thing now for him. He couldn’t stand that Biden won, beat him. So he wanted a rematch. By stepping down gracefully Biden had the last laugh. He can never lose to trump. Trump has only lost to him. Since I doubt he’s in therapy and knows how to manage these emotions, it is no surprise that he can’t stop fixating on him
Everything is failing against Kamala because she’s legitimately a better candidate in most every way compared to him
So was Biden.
He was a one issue candidate - not Biden
Interesting, since “not Trump” has been the main argument for the Democrats for 8 years now.
Eh, I’m pretty not trump, but even without trump I disagree with about 90% of their BS culture war platform. It’s funny, they always say that as you age you become more conservative. That very well could have been true if this was the 90s and I was where they were then, but man has that party gone out of their way to make sure I have no interest in voting for them.
I don’t think people actually get more conservative as they get older, I think they just like the way things were, or don’t agree with new changes to society. Progressive progresses, that’s what it does. So eventually the ideals from a progressive movement you supported as a young person becomes something you want to conserve, but the movement has gone off into left field, to a place where you don’t agree. Congratulations, now you’re labeled a conservative!
and there you go, that’s my point of view too. Maybe I would have been a conservative by your definition - but they’re so far beyond that. It’s not driven by conserving, it’s driven by greed and hate, and I just can’t get behind it. Plus their idea of conserving is the 50s and 60s, a very different time from when I would want to conserve.
I think that’s what’s so interesting about something like Roe being repealed. To them, their generation, they went back to something. For my generation, Millennials, (and Gen X, and now Gen Z), they didn’t go back to something. They had something ripped away from them. Roe was something that was a given, it was a right they had, one that they no longer have. So yeah, for conservatives they’ve been focusing for so long on holding onto an America that’s long gone, by doing that they’ve been removing rights from younger people.
And I think younger people are pissed the fuck off by it. Vote younger folks! We already outnumber them by a large margin, just VOTE
5C5C5C@programming.dev 4 months ago
Trump keeps insisting that he defeated Biden too fast this time: beat him before the votes were even cast by winning so hard in the first debate.
So yes, it’s exactly what you said: Trump knows that he never gets to legitimately claim victory over Biden, so he’s delusionally claiming it anyway with any rationale he can come up with.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
and may he keep doing that while we all vote for Kamala
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
and anyway, Trump didn’t beat Biden; old age did.