Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

"But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”

“In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.”

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    1910·
    6 months ago

    He’s old, it was his bedtime and instead we asked him to go to a debate. He did just fine, and there was nothing incoherent about it. Even trump was coherent, he just lied and kept saying how everything he did and was involved in was the greatest thing to ever be done ever, which made him look psycho (which he is)

    • DxK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      6 months ago

      He’s old, it was his bedtime and instead we asked him to go to a debate. He did just fine, and there was nothing incoherent about it.

      Seriously. Unlike Trump, who spent his entire Presidency ranting on Twitter all night and golfing all day… Biden probably goes to bed early both because he’s old and because he spends his days actually doing his job. The debate performance was disappointing, I get it. But the media acting like he’s being Weekend at Bernie’s Dianne Feinstein’d around D.C. is ridiculous. It sucks that this is where we’re at as a country… but “old guy” vs. “old guy who wants a fascist dictatorship” should not be a fucking struggle for voters.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        121·
        6 months ago

        I think the struggle for voters is wondering why we don’t just hand the keys to country back to england. I mean seriously…THIS is the best we got??? Lets check in on English politics, shall we?

        reads about Englands July 4th election

        Well fuck…

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        618·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, that’s what we want: A guy who couldn’t handle waking up in an emergency. /s

        Face it libs, he looked like he was ready to croak. And I fucking HATE Donald Trump. But you are pulling another notorious RBG if you think keeping Biden in the race is good for the country. Instead, it’s just becoming easy to see who the neolib shills really are; they’re the only ones desperate enough to defend this.

        For real put in literally anyone else and you can beat Trump. Fucking literally ANYONE.

        • DxK@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 months ago

          As I said:

          It sucks that this is where we’re at as a country… but “old guy” vs. “old guy who wants a fascist dictatorship” should not be a fucking struggle for voters.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      He’s old, it was his bedtime and instead we asked him to go to a debate.

      Holy crap how can you say things like this and think it’s supporting him? The presidency isn’t something that just pauses for bedtime and campaigning involves a lot of being “on” over and over again, sometimes at night.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      He did just fine, and there was nothing incoherent about it

      He really didn’t from what I saw, it was awful.

    • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
      82·
      6 months ago

      There was nothing incoherent about it? Did you watch the debate? I’ll vote for the man but he was horrible in the debate.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        44·
        6 months ago

        I watched the first 30 minutes of it yes. It’s obvious he’s old, but he was coherent. Saying otherwise is disingenuous.

        • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
          62·
          6 months ago

          I would argue saying he was coherent is disingenuous personally. He was struggling to get basic thoughts out of his mouth.