Submitted 4 months ago by Chainweasel@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I get it, Biden is old and that’s a problem, but why doesn’t anyone seem to have a problem with the fact that Trump is almost the same age, has 34 felonies, raped at least 2 women, went to Epstein’s Island 11 times, sexualized his own daughter, stole classified documents, aligned himself with Xi and Putin, and can’t remember common names?
Is all of that really better than being 2½ years older than he is right now?
On Lemmy you’ll find a lot of blind (and some not so blind) hatred for all things US.
Accelerationists want the worst case scenario for their worst imagined enemy, and voila.
Because he’s winning.
The people calling for Biden to drop out are doing it because they fear Biden won’t win.
It has nothing to do with how moral Biden or Trump are or are not.
Trump's specific faults are irrelevant to the calculation insofar as they are profound, and they are legion. Anyone who doesn't understand that he should never hold the reigns of power is damn near irredeemably ignorant/hopelessly deluded. Ideally he would keel over and land in a trash compactor.
The 2 year age gap between the two is hardly the point. If that's what you think those calling for Biden to step aside are focusing on you're not understanding what the issue actually is.
I can only speak for myself. The reason I think Biden should drop out is because I. DON'T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. If we need to discuss whether Biden's downfall is fair, unfounded because of x, y, or z, the product of unscrupulous conjecture, etc., etc., ok. Ultimately it hardly matters if in the end the remaining conclusion is still that I. DON'T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. Biden is infinitely more desirable than Trump, but if he can't pull off a victory it's more important to remedy that than barrel forward into calamity because "I thought it was clear he was going to be the nominee".
Genuinely, I don't know that I could take another Trump term, let alone the prospect of this looming fascism taking root. I would rather roll the dice than play a hand that I absolutely believe will lose.
We can disagree on this. This is a complex situation, and the stakes are high. I'm not going to pretend that I can see into the future. Whatever happens I'm hoping for the best.
because what democrats consider bug, republicans consider feature.
stop with this whataboutism. trump being piece of shit doesn’t make biden good.
Because
It’s really quite simple.
If you are actually wondering; because most of the things you listed are exaggerations, false or not proven. They like trump because he is funny and actually goes against the people they dont like.
The main reason the common man should like him is because most of the people in power hate him and will do anything to stop him from getting elected. Unless you are super aligned with the elites agenda.
Damn, trumpoids made it to lemmy? How? Shouldn’t you be spending time with your grandchildren or getting your brain melted by AI slop on facebook or something 💀
Or its totally true and you guys just are believing the lies. Remember how they were telling us that Biden was perfectly fine and had no real health issues?
Trump doesn’t care about you just as much as biden doesn’t care about us.
Thats fair, but I dont really care about how much they care.
Holy brain washing, Batman!
You cannot be serious.
If an NPC in a game you were playing insulted you, how would you fee?l
First of all, thanks for being on Lemmy. I get nothing out of it when the lefty hivemind argues against a strawman. At least you give us the real thing. Fuck gh0stcassette.
Second of all, Trump only campaigned on a populist platform in 2016. He railed against CEOs, various special interests, and other “swamp creatures” under the premise that he was going to fund his own campaign and didn’t need their money. It was honestly kind of refreshing, even if he was ultimately full of shit and failed to deliver. But I haven’t heard Trump’s 2016 rhetoric in a long time. Not regarding the ruling class. Maybe he still says “drain the swamp” now and then, but many of those who opposed Trump in 2016, e.g. Wall Street, now largely support him, and Trump openly panders to them for their donations. It’s not that people in power hate him; it’s just the people you don’t like in power who hate him.
Vote third party if you hate the elites.
Yeah, lemmy kind of sucks if you dont just repeat the lines you are supposed to. I am not a trump voter, the closest thing would be libertarian, but I dont like their candidate either. I dont think trump was particularly good president, but all the rest have been so bad its not a high bar to be better than Biden and Bush. I just mainly get annoyed that 80% of the things that get said are just lies or misleading, and if you point that out people freak the fuck out.
Because it’s the 2024 “but her emails”
Because lemmy is predominantly far left and the far left has a hate boner for Biden and Biden alone. They seem to be consoled fine knowing that if Biden doesn’t win, Trump will do FAR worse.
It’s completely fine by them.
Why? You’ll have to ask them, but be careful, if you do it in the wrong community- you’ll get banned.
Because being a fringe lunatic insurrectionist fascist is forgivable. Left or right, everyone either assumes Trump is so bad or so good that he is beyond criticism.
Same as it ever was. No one, left or right, expects the Republicans to change or get better.
Because not a single Republican has been held accountable for their actions since Nixon. Prove me wrong.
Because nobody expected him to do anything but lie through his teeth and shit his pants.
Check and check.
Mainly cuz no one cares this is all internet shit flinging. No one talking about anything will do anything besides smell their own fart
Those are virtues to his voting base, if he can get away without accountability for all that, think of how much he can fuck over the people he claims to not like (ignore that your face is just as edible to the Chester Cheato)
It’d be wasted breath, really. Trump will never step down, because he’s trying to remain out of prison. If he loses, then there goes any chance he had at pardoning himself for his numerous crimes. So he’s not only the far and away favorite Republican candidate, but he’s also highly motivated to stay in the race for personal reasons. No appeal to his sense of patriotism will work to get him to step down because he has no patriotism. He’s in it for himself and himself only.
Biden, on the other hand, is just the default Democrat guy because he’s the incumbent, and the party figured that’d be enough to win, and so haven’t been trying very hard. And that has everybody terrified, because if he loses, then we get another 4 years of Trump, and probably never get to vote again. Basically, people are calling for Biden to step down because the stakes are way too high to fuck around.
In addition to the other people who replied, the answer is simple:
Fear.
Look at Kinzinger.
Look at Cheny.
You’re labeled a rhino. Your career in politics is over. And then maybe Trump retweets that there should be a military tribunal to try you for treason.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImT5pYdKw5g
It’s worth noting that treason is one of the few crimes enumerated in the constitution.
Why?
The founding fathers were all guilty of treason to the crown. And virtually anything could be charged as treason under King George.
You have to TRY to commit treason in the US.
Trump at one point asked for a list of our spies in the field. A few weeks later they started turning up dead. Trump had met with Putin between those two events. Trump refused that any records be kept from those meetings. Draw whatever conclusion you want from that knowledge, but I personally find that disqualifying. Let alone whatever he was wanting to accomplish by keeping national secrets in his bathroom in his country club.
He also happily hosted LIV’s golf tournament at Maralago. Who owns that organization? The same folks who paid Jared Kushner 2 billion dollars to “invest”. The Kingdom of Saud.
Sycophants gonna sycophant.
I mean, both trump and biden are genocidal lunatics so they should both be in prison, along with anyone who excuses them.
What good would it do? His “fanbase” would drown out all such requests
Because Trump is very deeply popular with a huge voter block. Going against him means he’ll just point those people at you and say “this guy’s bad, also probably a pedophile or some shit idk” and then your career is over.
And he knows what a pedo is, having lived it for much of his adult life
Because you keep making salacious claims that can’t be properly sourced instead of focusing on provable arguments.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has. The thing is that Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care what the editorial boards of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, or the Washington Post have to say about him.
Bidens a crooked pedo, accused of rape repeatedly, with severe dementia and a crooked family n past also, so…?
Because there’s no way he’ll do so
1 is narcissism/cult-of-personality,
the other is cult-of-institution/inertia.
They are not identical, and not even functionally-equivalent.
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Because he’s sadly going to win.
Because you have to beat trump since the democrats are cowards and can’t even lock up someone for inciting a rebellion.
I am actually surprised that USA can’t find any better candidates. Unless it have anything to do with money/power… IMO the candidates should not matter, just follow the party line, but president have more power than that.
They are always projecting, covering, and making you look away. Most of us are saying trumpet should drop out, but his cult followers are being told what to believe by their “news” stations. Really, both should have dropped out before 2016, but here we are, with two geriatrics hoping for the best.
FrostKing@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How do I blacklist the word Trump so that I don’t see posts like this in my feed?