President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.
“There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.
Although voting in the 2024 Republican primary doesn’t begin for months, Biden’s focus reflects Trump’s status as the undisputed frontrunner for his party’s nomination despite facing four indictments, two of them related to his attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
can we not have a lost nursing home patient run the country again please
Can we not have ableist shitheads claiming that a man who has had a stutter all his life is neurologically unsound because they’re mad their guy didn’t win the last election
It’s actually kinda hilarious how you think the dipshit criminal is “my guy”. Really shows how little you types really think about politics beyond a capital R or D.
Enough of this virtue signaling bullshit. Joe Biden. Is eighty years old. Eighty. 8, 0. Donald Fuckhead Trump? An absolutely astounding three whole years younger. None of these geriatric fucks have any place in government. No one over twice the national average age represents the citizens of a country. And since you’re evidently such an expert on health and ableism, maybe you should do some research on how neurological degeneration occurs in the elderly and get back to me about that.
Have fun choosing between conservative grandpa #1 and ‘slightly centrist but still a republican disguised as a democrat’ grandpa #2 next year. Let me know how that goes for you.
I didn’t say that, but I know whoever your guy is they didn’t win and it makes you mad.
And?
I don’t think anyone is too young or too old to be in government. Capacity to perform the duties required of the office isn’t reflected in a number.
No one at any age represents the country purely by their age. We are a country of geriatrics, children, young adults, middle aged, and retirees.
Age is a risk factor but centenarians can be perfectly lucid while 55 year olds can get Alzheimer’s. It’s not a linear correlation, despite what you seem to think.
Okay dropping the whole “owning people on lemmy” schtick because I can’t stop myself from laughing at that first point. Genuinely, please dear god - if you weren’t referring to Trump being my guy by saying “can we not have people” while replying to me with a comment ending in “their guy”, then who in the gosh darn h*ck were you talking about? Are they in the room with us now?
I think he was talking more about the primaries. The sad part is even then the left wing alternatives to Biden were also old. Bernie was old, Warren was old, and none of the other candidates were significantly more left than Biden.
Um, what? You think Biden is a “lost nursing home patient”?
Personally, I’ve been loving the return to some semblance of stewardship after the dumpster fire that was donnie’s maladminstration. Even if Biden could not complete his second term for some reason, so what? There is a line of succession.
The US and the world would be in far better shape with Biden’s literal tombstone sitting in the Oval Office versus the writhing mass of a still living Trump.
I would vote for Biden over any of these chuckle fucks even if he were 100 years old and in the hospital for COVID, plague, and multiple snake bites. If is ridiculous that this age thing is even discussed. I chalk it up to all the 24/7 news channels needing something to talk about.
Biden, fuckhead dipshit Trump, Feinstein (rip I guess?), Chuck Grassley, Maxine Waters to name a few. Yes.
I understand what you mean and I do agree, but only ever having the two options of:
gets really tiring. It also really amazes me how so many people here are so deep in the sauce of bipartisanship that they forget that, unless it’s republicans forcing through legislation, barely anything gets done. Biden lied about so many things to get elected. Everyone before him did too, everyone after will as well unless real change happens.
I’m tired of choosing between fascism and diet caffeine free liberalism.
That, ironically enough, is why voter turnout is incredibly shitty these days and why independent counts are growing.
I just wonder how long it’ll be before it’s enough of a shift to matter.