Joe Biden's gaffe comes as Democrats abandon his campaign.
  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    46·
    6 months ago

    This is honestly the stupidest media frenzy I’ve seen in a long time. They were talking about Putin. He went back to the mic and corrected himself: “He’s fighting to beat Putin, President Zelenskyy!” and Zelenskyy rolled with it.

    This is literally top news on all serious news sites. 🙄There’s no mention of what Zelenskyy said afterward or anything else. It’s even more idiotic than the “Dean Scream”.

    These news outlets are literally just click bait now, and they want anything to be a scandal no matter how small.

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      And the GOP is low-key planning another one right now, openly discussing it… yet, this is all the media can talk about.

  • daryashkoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    6 months ago

    Call me when Biden threatens to withhold military aid unless Zelensky makes up shit about Biden’s political enemies.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    18·
    6 months ago

    Sheesh. You know none of this would be a big deal in isolation, but there is so much pressure on him right now to be perfect after the debate. I don’t really care whether he stays or goes except insofar as it makes it easier or harder to take on Trump, but ordinary human mistakes have taken on a new importance and the more he makes the more the pressure will mount.

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
    17·
    6 months ago

    I have real concerns about Biden’s competency (though don’t get me wrong; I’m voting for whomever the “not Trump” option is), but I have swapped names (or nouns in general) in sentences more times that I care to think about; my mind and mouth aren’t always working at the same speed and it happens sometimes.

  • GreenBottles@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    I care about this about as much as I care about my mother forgetting what day my birthday is (she always gets it a day off) and this has happened since she was in her 30’s… can we focus on things that matter please?

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Sorry to hear that your mother doesn’t respect her own child enough to make an effort to remember their birthday (calendars have existed for a good long while now). And I fail to see how that excuses a political caste disrespecting its voters by offering a geriatric buffoon and a senile grandpa as the only viable candidates in the election for the highest office in the land.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    I found a Livestream…

    They’re playing old speeches and they jumped from the 2008 Palin debate to yesterday’s NATO speech…

    Which I guess is better than running his old stuff right up to the live stuff. But it was just so fucking jarring. I don’t know how people can say age isn’t effecting him.

    He’s just staring down at a podium and reading a piece of paper.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        I get most people don’t remember him at his peak in the 80s, but Obama wasn’t that long ago. Even then, he sounded like a functional adult.

        His press conference was supposed to start at 6:30 I thought, then it said 6:55 at one point…

        It’s 7:07 and he’s still not out.

        I had to switch streams and now it’s just running recent reports on him to kill time, but they’re all bad because there’s no good news…

        I don’t know what’s going on but he needs to get on camera asap.