I mean we’ve been saying they are both too old. That hasn’t changed.
Unless the democrats fuck up and pick someone over 70, it’s a good win for them on this point.
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Much as I like Bernie, but yeah, the same goes for him as for Biden.
I think Bernie is a pretty smart guy. he knows where he can be most effective - no trajectory change needed.
Sure. But he’s getting up there in years too. Eight years ago I really wanted him to win.
Don’t underestimate the DNC’s ability to pick the worst possible option
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I think everyone who had their name pushed and could have a chance at the convention has already endorsed Kamala Harris. They’re pretty obviously trying to avoid a contentious convention.
That seems to be the goal. I think it’s a good idea to not go too hard on Harris until the convention, but the excitement seems there.
Yeah it’s a point they’re allowed to make now, don’t know how well it’s really going to stick though. However so far the best republicans have against Kamala is that she… Laughs? That’s a good sign. Like a lot of the stuff people like me on the left have against Kamala is stuff republicans wouldn’t want to at her for.
I still really want AOC but with Whitmer bowing out I think Buttigiege is probably it.
Harris is a black woman. No way they’re picking a gay man as her running mate. They’re worried she has too much for the (X)phobic crowd on her own. I would be absolutely shocked if whoever they pick as her VP isn’t a straight white man. You can say what you like about it but that’s the reality of where we are as a nation.
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There once was a man from the Kremlin,
A fascist, war-mongering gremlin.
To strengthen his rule,
He empowered a fool,
Now the voters have both of them tremblin’.How about a haiku:
A man-child with nukes,
Firm grip on GOP’s balls,
Fuck out of Ukraine.
no u
Ah okay okay fine.
He is too old, but like, if a 90 year old hitler were running for president i wouldnt be saying im not voting for him because of his age. Trump has been the worst parts of humanity for decades.
Exactly. “Too old” is a concern, but far less than “fascist wanna be dictator.”
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Wait wait, the Democrats, who said Biden was too old and stopped giving $ to Biden’s campaign are being consistent in their message? Well I’ll be damned.
How dare you hold republicans to even the most meager standards!
The Uncommitted movement was about his support of the genocide, not his age.
Yep. And the primaries are a great time to do just that.
But Biden didn’t drop out because of the uncommitted movement.
No, the people with money were afraid he could not win, letting a significantly worse candidate win.
Maybe, but that’s because the rest of us did think he was to old. One doesn’t invalidate the other.
The people who pulled the money felt he was likely to fail because of his age, or rather, the affects of it on his performance. If he had been killing it, he would still be in. However they didn’t pull their money because of him arming a genocidal regime, which is the issue that the comment I was replying to, was saying.
Fair enough.
Let them have fun voting for her then, because she does nothing for us
Preventing the collapse of the country isn’t good enough for you idiots?
In 2020 I knew Biden was a Zionist, a racist, a warmonger and his issues page was anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian. But I was told Trump will be worse, so I begrudgingly voted for him and got a genocide.
The same playbook cannot work again for Kamala Harris and I don’t think I am the only one who feels this way.
You may want to prevent some imagined unicorn scenario that is unrealistic. I want to prevent this actual hell on Earth that Biden is enabling. Watch the doctor’s interview with CBS or just the short segment I just linked to, then tell me again about voting for someone who supports “Israel’s right to defend itself” and doesn’t think there should be conditions on it.
Hallmarks of an internet troll - a user which makes no meaningful contributions, or engages meaningfully with any other topics other than political agitation. In this case we have pages and pages of history revolving around using Gaza as a cudgel against Democrats, and literally nothing else.
Curious that they only moderate a bunch of Arab magazines and a single Huawei mag. That’s completely random and not weirdly specific at all I’m sure.
Ad hominem. If you aren’t going to watch this and develop a better understanding of what the Democratic Party has enabled so be it.
But understand that the people you despise and dehumanize the most can still swing the election, perhaps treating them as humans is a good first step. Instead our anger is demonized too.
In Michigan, for example, Biden won in 2020 by 154,000 votes. Census estimates put the state’s Arab American population around at least 278,000.
Biden won Arizona by 10,500 votes. The Arab American population in the Grand Canyon State is estimated to be 60,000.
Biden took Georgia by 11,800 votes. The Arab American population there is at least 57,000.
You know, I could keep quiet and just not vote for Biden or Harris. I am the idiot who is wasting his time on people who don’t even see us as humans. You do realize this makes it even harder for the Democratic Party in future elections?
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“I don’t like what happened therefore the other option must have been better” is the kind of logic I’d expect from a two year old.
The other option for me was voting third party. I swore off Republicans in 2004 when I voted for Kerry and never looked back.
Getting a viable candidate that will spurn israel is not something that is going to happen any time soon. This will require a major cultural shift in the US, and that isn’t gonna happen easily. This is the sickening state of reality, life is cheap, and most people do not give a fuck.
Honestly, if it’s a choice between me and some people I don’t know half a world away, I’m picking me. That goes twice when the choices are:
- Pick the gal who will piss off the dictator to the point where he complains that he’s not getting enough bombs and missiles quick enough for his bloodthirstiness…like her former boss did.
- Pick the guy who will hand more than enough bombs and missiles to kill every single Palestinian at least once, if not more than once, while grinding American Muslims under the bootheel of Right-Wing Authoritarianism.
I’ll pick the gal every single fucking time.
He confused Biden and Obama, Haley and Pelosi. Bizarre stuff spews from his mouth nearly every time he opens it. Where’s the outrage?
Where’s the outrage?
Gnawing a hole in my gut.
No, that’s just the Indian food you had for lunch
Its an expired Vietnam era M-ration but good guess.
You should make a YouTube channel!
I am not steve. Anyways I was simply making a joke.
He’s been doing it for so long it’s exactly what we are conditioned to expect.
Everyone sane is outraged.
This really demonstrates a difference between democrats and republicans.
Democrats cared about the hypocrisy of pointing out that the opponent candidate was too old, and only started saying this after this was no longer a problem.
Republicans didn’t care that their candidate was also too old.
Damn, that’s a great point
Its not his age it’s that his brain is broken.
His brain is even more broken than before. Watch the footage of MAGAts walking out of his rallies as he keeps repeating the same things and talking gibberish.
Just remembered one video
I hadn’t seen this before, and it was generally really enlightening that these Trump supporters have genuine concerns for the working class, obvious as that should be by now. It just sucks that they’ve been hoodwinked into thinking that Trump is their savior from the corporate oligarchy that is clearly affecting us all. Misplaced reverence to a guy who is a mechanism in the same pro-corporate atmosphere. If only they realized that the Democrat party (flawed as it is) actually works toward their interests with policy (edit: toward improving wages, taxing the ultra rich more fairly, healthcare ideally for all, social programs, etc.), rather than attaching themselves to this “not-a-career-politician” who couldn’t care less about them. Maybe not all hope is lost on trump supporters, but the cult of personality is much too strong and has been for a long time.
I mean I saw nothing impressive there, just showing that people know they’re voting against their own interests and some ARE intelligent enough to know that but decide to not think about it.
Is this a video showing problems about Trump, or just problems with our whole system regardless of the “leadership”
Probably both
And not just normal age related broken. Though age hasn’t really improved the situation.
He abuses Adderall which would explain his cognitive decline.
Neurosyphilis is wild
I mean, he is too old. He’s only 3 years younger than Biden. So if the narrative here is that Biden is too old, then so is Trump.
That three years makes a big difference to Trump voters, that is the difference between “Frowned Upon” and 18 years old.
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He is only the candidate because of DEI. It would be discrimination to disqualify him based on his advanced age. Damn DEI.
We already TRIED electing a president who was a year younger than Trump is right now and even then, it SUCKED! Thank goodness there’s no reason we ever have to make that stupid, bone headed, silly mistake ever again…
Indeed
Jesus Fred Christ what are the photo editors doing?
Every trump article has an ever-more-close-up even-greasier horror picture of his sociopathic rapist fraud face. Man, nobody wants to see that shit!
Exactly what they should be IMO. It’s an article talking about how he is too old and that photo, even from the tiny thumbnail I see, is just perfect for demonstrating that fact.
Ugh. It’s so horrible.
And, counterpoint, they use these pictures for other non-old-related topics too.
Opening the eyes of the blind
It’s clearly ai generated
In what way does this look AI generated?
This fat bitch trying to look like Emperor Palpatine or something in this picture lol
More like angry Oogway turtle.
That’s Moscow Mitch
Trump\McConnell Nutjob Turtles 2028
if you aint fit for working after 65+, you shouldnt be fit to be a fucking president
A single felony conviction prevents you from getting a TON of jobs…
… but apparently 34 doesn’t prevent you from being president
Recruiters are finding jobs for felons with this one simple trick.
It was all the media really cared about before. Should be their number 1 concern now. Right?
They should. Both Biden and Trump belong in a home
Is there a nursing home prison? Because Trump belongs in prison, and maybe his age and poor health will save some taxpayer money.
Specifically, their own homes. Both are rich enough to afford private duty nursing.
Makes sense, If 81 is too old, 78 is probably too old too. After all, Trump would be 81 during his presidency if he wins.
Is it just me, or has Newsweek been putting out a lot of content about how Trump is losing and doing poorly, despite most polls saying otherwise?
Beware this source. It’s one step away from a tabloid.
Reddit and even Lemmy is notorious for this.
Trump this, Trump that. Trump is a pedophile. Trump has 34 felonies. Trump had sex with a pornstar. Trump called veterans losers.
Does that all matter when Trump is still polling among the American working class who felt left out from globalisation and had to compete for underfunded and limited infrastructures and resources with immigrants, who themselves are also trying to get better lives as the American working class?
Not one from these articles mention why Trump still has support: it’s because those from the Rust Belt, whose jobs were outsourced, literally have nothing left to lose. They are pinning their hopes to a conman who says things that disenfranchised salt-of-the-earth wants to hear. But most of the media do not mention this. Instead, they paint these disenfranchised people as racists and ignorant. Sure, some of them are, but people who feel insecure become desperate cling to any lifeline-- even coming from a devil. So the people are tricked to vote against their own interests. But the media never mentions this. Why? Because they themselves are part of the elites who have their own economic stake. They have houses now worth ten times than what they initially bought them for, and they don’t want someone further left to be elected to alleviate the housing crisis. That’s why Bernie Sanders was never given a chance by the liberal Democratic Party.
And imo, and this is a hard to swallow pill, is that even normal middle class is complicit to growing right wing movement for not acknowledging the economic anxiety and disenfranchisement of the working class with constant and endemic NIMBY-ism. “Oh those poor homeless people. I want affordable housing for them but I don’t want them built close to my neighbourhood because it will depreciate the value of my property.” I admit, I am guilty of it. I should join protests and show solidarity with the working class but I haven’t joined any in my life.
Excuse me for the rant but the corporate media is definitely trying to hoodwink the public by not mentioning the actual cause of rise of racism and bigotry, and the public is none the wiser because their only source of information is from the same corporate media who do not tell them that housing and job insecurity is what made Trump and far-right in Europe gaining votes. Here in Europe, the media and politicians acknowledge the issue of immigration and stating it’s important to separate the genuine racists from those with “genuine concerns”. Jeez, what might those be genuine concerns, I wonder? Is it lack of jobs and housing? How come the media and politicians never say what those actual genuine concerns are?
You can call Trump, Le Pen, Sweden Democrats, Orban, PiS, Meloni etc. racists and fascists, but if people don’t have jobs and housing, does the name-calling ever matters? Gee, how come people from Rust Belt, the de-indutrialised Northern France, England and Western Sweden voted for the far-right? And here comes the Principal Skinner meme moment: nah, they’re ignorant and racists. Totally not because of decades long neoliberalism and austerity, despite UN report warning that lack of public investment fuels the far-right.
Turnabout is fair play~
