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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Why does nobody ever talk about how Trump is too old to run?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because that doesn't help Trump get elected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The people who helped Trump are the ones who made sure the candidate was an unpopular geriatric, not the people who pointed out that was a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Being an unpopular geriatric doesn't seem to be hurting Trump with his voters. You're doing the very thing I called out in my comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the difference is the GOP held a primary, and his voters chose a geriatric. The DNC didn't hold a primary, and ignored polling that showed their voters didn't want a geriatric. And since you've already admitted you haven't seen the debate, I don't actually care about what you've, "called out," in your comment, since you literally don't know what everyone else here is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've heard Trump speak. I've seen the shit he posts. I didn't need to see yet another example of him acting like a cracked-out dementia patient to know that's what he is. I have yet to hear a single criticism of Biden that doesn't fit Trump to a T.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome to bury your head in the sand if you want, but then you don't get to talk down to the people who aren't choosing willful ignorance. Either watch the debate to find out why people are questioning Biden's fitness or stop talking.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Biden could be a literal corpse and I still wouldn't understand why anyone thinks Trump is better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No one here is saying that, they're saying that Biden did much worse than Trump in the debate, which is once again making people concerned about his age. And again, you'd understand where they were coming from if you'd actually seen the debate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Trump could be the youngest presidential candidate in history and he would still be essentially just as bad. Possibly even worse. If Biden didn't have these excruciating moments where he seems super senior and gets incoherent he would be pretty good. Unless you happen to be a Palestinian obvs.

Anyway, people have higher standards for Biden and THEY SHOULD.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People would start talking about it if Biden stepped down and the Dems put up someone under 70. But since we're comparing him to Joe those sort of critiques don't hold as much weight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for illustrating my point by spewing anti-Biden bullshit while giving Trump a free pass for bent a dottering old moron.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I tried convincing trump voters hes shit long ago, but every conservative community immediately bans me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He is too old to run, but he was able to form coherent sentences last night, and Biden couldn't. Biden lost that debate. HARD. I wish he hadn't, but he did, and pretending that he didn't isn't helping anybody.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that people are judging who "won" the debate by how confident the candidate sounded rather than, you know, how batshit crazy their positions are (Trump) versus how relatively normal their positions are (Biden).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Winning a debate isn't about who's position you agree with, it's about who can create a better argument for their position. I 100% support Biden's position on abortion over Trump's, but I have no idea what Biden was trying to say about the 3 times of Roe v. Wade, while Trump's position (that it should be decided by state law) was completely clear. He also threw in a bunch of lies about how it was an unpopular Supreme Court decision (it was actually a pretty uncontroversial decision I'm 1973), but I understood what he was saying.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I still don't how you could say Trump presented better arguments for anything. He lives and dies by the non-sequitur. He does, however, project 100% confidence in anything he says. He is a man of confidence. A confidence man.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is not what I'm saying, this is by far the overwhelming consensus. If you think they did equally bad, fine, but the majority of people did not see it that way. This isn't just leftists or MAGA shitting on Biden, here's centrist Democrat Claire McCaskill on Rachel Maddow openly questioning whether or not Biden will be forced off the ticket after this performance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't see the debate, but calling Trump coherent under any circumstances is very generous. He just spews word salad and bullshit with no regard to the topic he's supposed to be addressing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You should go ahead and watch the debate and then get back to us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
  1. They do, but it's always coupled with a mention of Biden as part of a "both sides" argument
  2. Biden's age is the most problematic thing about his candidacy. For Trump, it's the least because it's overshadowed by so. many. other. problems that are so much worse (being a treasonous fascist, for example).
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Because it's far down on the list of reasons he shouldn't be president.