Quote (Goomshill @ 5 Jul 2024 05:37)
And again, I feel like I'm one of the only people to watch Biden in the debate and say... meh. This is all just dogpiling from the media right now. Joe Biden's performance wasn't catastrophic, it wasn't horrible. He clearly lost and was clearly not on point, but it was more like having mayor quimby on extra drowsy capsules and less like having abe simpson on stage. For a guy with a long history of garden path sentences and verbal flubs, he only trailed off incoherently once, for a few seconds. He was losing on substance as he let Trump walk over points like abortion where Biden should have capitalized, but nobody cares because he lost on optics just by rasping and swaying.
Everyone who hasn't purposefully closed their eyes to it has seen that Biden is showing his age and looking geriatric for years now, and the best thing the Biden campaign did in 2020 was use the pandemic as an excuse to not have him show his face in public more than once or twice in the whole election cycle. Trump is nearly as old but I guess a lifetime of teetotalling and banging porn stars and walking golf courses keeps you agile. There's no denying that Biden looks and talks like he's much frailer than my 94 year old Grandpa ever was, but Trump does not. And this debate wasn't a revelation, just pushing what everyone already knew out in public where its undeniable. And considering that, he didn't really collapse on stage. And I mean that in a literal sense, because that's what a catastrophic performance would be for someone that doddery, he didn't shit his pants, he didn't ask to sit down, he wasn't wearing a catheter (at least that we could see). He was able to go back and forth with Trump for 99% of the debate and keep talking mostly coherently.
this was just one straw on the camel's back that made the media collectively flip the switch from denying that something is occurring to admitting it and leaning into it and piling onto it. Even if Biden's performance wasn't really that bad, it nudged the boulder over the hill just enough to roll down the other side. And everyone is acting like its doomsday. Same outlets that a few weeks ago were unironically printing articles about how everyone who meets with Biden remarks on his {DNC will fill in this line with characteristics praising Biden's physical fortitude}, and this week he's going to have his hands and legs nailed to a walker.
Imho, the damage of the debate to Biden comes down to more than just optics. The way Trump could roll over him with Biden just not having it in him anymore to fight back adequately signaled a weakness which stretches far beyond physical frailty. Biden's debate performance was proof that he's no longer fit to run an administration or lead the country in the here and now, let alone for another 4.5 years.
Even Dem-friendly pundits on CNN were bluntly saying after the debate that "a vote for Biden is a vote for president Kamala Harris". His candidacy is a sham, everybody who saw him last Thursday knows that he won't make it through another term and that his reelection would lead to Kamala as president sooner rather than later. So then why is he still running, why doesn't he pass the baton to her? And why didn't he decide to not run for reelection a lot earlier, so that his party could have a proper primary and allow its base to democratically select their nominee? Why did the complicit media tell such glaring lies about his condition?
Biden's debate performance was so disastrous not just based on its own merits, but because it exposed once and for all that the emperor has no clothes.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 5 2024 07:07am
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