[mschuster91]

So what, at least he doesn't go completely off-prompt with utterly random unrelated bullshit every minute like your average Trump speech.

The doublespeak from the Republican side regarding Biden's capabilities has been, frankly, astonishing.

[jjtheblunt]

You've got to be kidding, I must as a non-partisan say. The observations entertain the republican world, but they're there nonetheless for everyone, or this wouldn't have been forced by the democrats.

[ithkuil]

I agree.

That said, it's infuriating when you have an opponent that can literally say whatever he wants however unintelligible it may be and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said. The double standard is astonishing.

But yeah obviously there certainly are better candidates than Biden to run for president. Why he or she hasn't been found in 2020 eludes me.

[reducesuffering]

> Why he or she hasn't been found in 2020 eludes me

Well we had the 2020 primaries. Bernie and Warren were too left to win a general election. Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, got 2nd in New Hampshire, but only cancelled the campaign after South Carolina, once it dawned that the South has too much of a quiet problem of Buttigieg being gay and preferring Biden simply because he was Obama VP. Without those sad facts, we could've had Buttigieg winning 2020 and 2024.

[mschuster91]

> That said, it's infuriating when you have an opponent that can literally say whatever he wants however unintelligible it may be and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said.

Yeah, just three days ago, praising Hannibal Lecter, or remember "covfefe" from a few years back? Or the QAnon bunch where some people managed to assemble millions of people [1] by essentially doing "tea leaves predictions" on Trump speeches?

There is no equivalent to that level of derangedness on the Democrat side, not even close.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-mil...

[Izkata]

Is this satire? A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.

[gcanyon]

And Trump referred to running against Obama, and confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. It happens.

[mschuster91]

> A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

That one was a response to "and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said", because that is precisely what QAnon was/is: a bunch of people poring over Trump speeches and every tiny utterance of anyone in his circle to find "hidden meanings" like alleged raids on "pedos".

> Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.

He misspeaks and needs to correct himself. Yes. That's completely undeniable.

But hell, listen to a Trump speech and to a Biden speech. Trump is just a plain stream-of-consciousness braindump all the time, Biden at least generally manages to stick to the prompt.

Unfortunately, Trump has what I call the "entertainer instinct": he knows exactly and most especially instinctively how to entertain masses, how to make pictures and quotes. The best example is him getting shot - 99.999% of people would have fled, he raises his fist and yells "fight".

And in a political climate where it's not facts but pure and utter showmanship that wins an election, that's a problem.

[vkou]

It's not that he's incompetent (I certainly consider him dramatically more competent to do literally anything (or when the situation calls for it, nothing) than his opponent), it's that he's perceived by some voters to be incompetent, and that may cost the election, and I'd really rather not be dragged along into that universe because his vanity doesn't let him move over.

[dahfizz]

Marginally better than trump isn’t going to cut it. We need a good president.

[DANmode]

The fact that this needs to be said is indicative of the current day.

[goatlover]

Yes, but enough prominent Democrats and donors didn't want to support someone with Biden's faltering condition. Thus the pressure for him to step down. It doesn't matter what the Republicans are willing to support. Democrats are trying to win an election and put someone competent in power.

[keybored]

A stream of consciousness rant is not a sign of mental decline as long as the sentences are coherent.