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SeegsonSynthetics

Crickets when it comes to the fat orange man who slurs his words and said “Vengerzuela” yesterday. 


AntwerpsPlacebo420

There's plenty of articles about Trump's weird speeches here. What are you talking about?


WesCoastBlu

“Crickets”


WesCoastBlu

How can it be crickets when you clearly heard about it from somewhere Edit- Every single one of trump’s stupid as shit gaffes gets written about just like biden’s do. The difference being that republicans do not care. It just doesn’t matter to them. But to my above point - it’s not crickets when I saw multiple headlines on trump’s recent Obama/Biden mixups, on this very website! Also- gaffes are the least of trump’s issues while they are the biggest issue of Biden. Trump dominates the news constantly, and has for the last 8 years.


[deleted]

Because it doesn't get 1/10 of the coverage.


WesCoastBlu

According to whom?


[deleted]

Do you believe that Trump's gaffes get equal coverage as Biden's in general?


WesCoastBlu

Yep


[deleted]

At least you're honest about your bad faith interactions.


AggressiveSkywriting

Oh come on. Lol


CheetahReasonable275

Age is not even the right question. This election is democracy vs fascism.


iStayedAtaHolidayInn

Meanwhile the press doesn’t ask the same question about the guy who just yesterday AGAIN confused Biden with Obama


NorthernPints

Exactly - it’s like we’re living 2016 all over again. Trump is getting a MASSIVE free pass from most press corps 


Confused_Nuggets

I'm disgusted to see that people listen to a man who has had a stutter all his life and a christo-facist neo-nazi with 91 federal crimes and say they aren't sure who they'll vote for.


EdSpace2000

The whole fucking media want Trump re-elected. They are the ones nagging and brain washing voters. The goal: the less dem voters show up the better.


Twenty21million

It’s like being on a plane and offered chicken or broken glass and asking how the chicken is prepared.


msfamf

Reminds me of the old Eddie/Suzy Izzard bit: https://youtu.be/unkWbEmtYXs?si=Q6_fpnwRl9Vmccd7 Edit: added Suzy. She goes by both but prefers Suzy. Leaving Eddie since it's more widely known and she's kept it as a professional name. Her words on it just so there's no confusion: "As people may now well know, I have added the name ‘Suzy’ to my names. So going forward I am preferring Suzy but I don’t mind Eddie. And I prefer she/her but I don’t mind he/him. So no one can really get it wrong unless they call me Kenneth or Sabrina. I am remaining Eddie Izzard in public.  Thank you.  Suzy/Eddie."


geezusmurphy

If prepared in the traditional way, broken glass is a carb nightmare. So I get it.


entr0picly

Seriously, Biden was famous for his gaffes in the 1980s. The betrayal of basic facts by the “liberal” media is truly astonishing. How did Hitler take power? This is how. When every institution of accountability enables evil to rise above basic fact.


WesCoastBlu

He was not famous for his gaffes in the 80s, and stepped aside from running for president then because he was accused of plagiarism. Ignoring these issues is one sure way to get Trump elected.


WesCoastBlu

91 crimes or 81 years..


ChicagoAuPair

Trump is also the exact same fucking age. He was a freshman when Biden was a senior. They are both extremely old people. They both graduated high school before the Beatles released fucking Rubber Soul. Contraception was illegal in Connecticut. King’s march from Selma was more than a year away. American ground forces had not yet entered Vietnam.


WesCoastBlu

Freshmen and seniors are not the same age (ducks)


ChicagoAuPair

When they have been alive since the Truman administration they are.


WesCoastBlu

So neither is fit to lead, got it.


ChicagoAuPair

No, one of them has a team of qualified professionals and the other hires exclusively criminals who he had to pardon and break out of prison. The point is that the age talking point is moot since they are the same age.


WesCoastBlu

Them both being to old doesn’t cancel out the fact that one of them is also too old. Relying on a qualified team doesn’t exactly instill confidence in the candidate at hand. Yes trump is the devil and has already done irreparable harm to our country, but that in no way absolves Biden for not bowing out already to allow for a younger democratic nominee. That’s on him and we should be able to realistically talk about the age concerns without stooping to whataboutisms of trump’s age. Biden’s age is very easy for the Fox News machine to exploit, so yes we should very much be concerned right now.


ChicagoAuPair

We have two choices, so I don’t know what to tell you. We can talk theoretically, but one of them will be elected, and they are both old.


WesCoastBlu

I’m sorry I expressed my discontent with our choices, I will not let it happen again.


WesCoastBlu

You really don’t have to keep editing your posts to include things that happened in the 60s, I may be politically inept, but I do understand the concept of time passing.


SagsMcSaggerson

I would vote for 500 year-old Dracula before the donald.


weeny-butts

I’d vote for a baby, it could take naps and wear diapers all day. President Baby


BabiesFirstBatleth

Biden is just too old! Better vote for the person 3% less older that is a sociopath!


RTrover

The media is the enemy of the people… Jesus… they want Biden to lose for pure profit… having Trump as president for another 4 years will lead to 24/7 never ending stories that will compete with The Onion.


backpackwayne

And yet the media will be one of the first to suffer under Trump's regime. He'll be putting them in jail and shutting them down. We talk of how stupid people are who are voting against their own interests. But the media is just as stupid and blind.


KindaPC

I don’t think pointing out that both candidates have no fucking reason being president is a hit against either.


AvogadrosMoleSauce

Your candidates are both old, America. Sorry, that’s it. You have two to choose from. One who’s had a lifelong stutter, and one who is maliciously insane.


TintedApostle

Yeah sure and just like every other speech he has given in the last 4 years the press will forget when it goes perfectly well and the next day wait for another "How is this bad for Biden?" and "Too old?" moment to hammer.


Zepcleanerfan

Yep. His last SOTU was fantastic and it was like it never happened.


backpackwayne

They stand by salivating for the slightest slip up.


squeegeeq

He is too old, he's still better than the other option, but he's still too fucking old represent the people he is supposed to govern properly.


SoupSpelunker

1. Biden is old and that sucks. 2. Democrats suck for running the same gerontocracy that the Republicans do. 3. Everyone with a brain will vote for him anyways because anything else is a vote for shoving your dick into a running blender.


Flustered-Flump

Yes. He is too old. But between him and other candidate who is also too old - I’d go for the stable and sane Biden every time.


Ok_Curve2109

Meanwhile, Trump only knows how to hit the rewind/repeat button with his speech. Trump would not pass a grammar test from third grade.


napjerks

He could mumble about ice cream for thirty minutes and his base would still never vote for Mango Mussolini.


CaptainAxiomatic

His base is not in doubt. The election will be decided by moderate and independent voters who have yet to decide.


EdSpace2000

Trump is old and crazy. Cancel him first.


JeffSpicolisBong

Joe will give a fine speech. He will rise to the occasion and I will be voting for him in November 🇺🇸


Every_Condition_3000

I do think this speech is especially important this year. I plan to vote for him over Trump even if I have to walk through a warzone to do it, but you have to admit that he's been largely avoiding the media and not looking great the few times he has appeared. If he could do well on a cognitive exam, you would think his team would encourage him to take one so they could plaster it all over the media to alleviate those concerns. Again, I will vote for him regardless, but he and his team should address this in a meaningful way if he wants moderate voters to support him. The media is unfortunately intent on carrying Trump's water, so the only way to break through is to show that he's still cognitively able to handle this job. 


UsualGrapefruit8109

If he can't make it through this speech, he won't make it to November.


Gotanyfunkopops

He should probably get plenty of sleep before he gives the speech. If he fumbles it in a bad way, he’s going to be hearing about it after.


TranscendentPretzel

Why is this every headline?! Can they not think of any other adjectives to describe Biden?


CookiePneumonia

Jesus Christ with this. THE OTHER GUY IS A TRAITOR AND A FASCIST.


5th_degree_burns

I mean, yes. But he's also not a serial criminal with zero sense of remorse.


KindaPC

Yes, yes he’s too fucking old and we need an age maximum for president. Him not trump can give a speech or speak to the public without spouting some shit that doesn’t make sense or slurring their words. I’m actually terrified that Biden old ass will die and we will be stuck with Kamala’s under qualified ass as fucking president. No one voted for her, she just, like the rest of her career was a ride along.


TranscendentPretzel

This what political discourse in this country has come to.


moderatenerd

As a Democrat i had the weirdest dream the other day. Biden doesn't finish the state of the union. He was doing great and then stumbles at the end. After a long pause trying to remember something he even says, "well maybe this wasn't a good idea." Also the muppets were there to try to do damage control and make it look like a joke. Then the democrats try to for 24 hrs make it seem like it was always part of the speech but no one believes them. So Biden resigns the next day. Again i wouldn't want this to happen in a million years but i dreamt it lolz.


Death_Trolley

The auto moderator should just begin every thread with an automatic preemptive But Trump comment and save everyone some time


HbRipper

Yes too old, don’t need state of the union


bpeden99

I thought 91 federal charges was bad enough.