As most of the media — and the country — is laser focused on the president’s poor debate performance, a handful of outspoken analysts have wondered: Where is the same scrutiny of Donald Trump? Kelly Rissman reports
This is not that difficult. Both of these geezers have been president before. We know what teams they put together, what their agendas are, and the consequences of their administration.
There is only one big fucking faux pas on the Biden administration, and that is their continuing support for Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. That is no good, but what is Trump's stance on Gaza? His administration wants to accelerate and intensify support of the genocide.
Both candidates suck as individuals, but only one of the administrations has been competent and generally good for all citizens.
Because literally nobody is suprised by trump as this point. We all know what he is at this point. Biden popped the fascade that has been carefully crafted to keep us all thinking he was doing alright despite being old as fuck.
Because Trump performed exactly how he has in every previous debate, I'm not saying it was good but it was the same shit level of performance that I expected.
Biden performed horrendously compared to expectations, that's why he gets the focus. Trump lying his ass off just isn't news anymore, I'm not justifying it but it would have been stranger if he hadn't.
I know Trump shouldn't get a pass but the reason Biden is getting so much focus and Trump isn't is pretty obvious. Trump did as Trump does and Biden had a horrible performance.
John Stuart said it best - Trump meet everyone's expectations of him. His followers are either deranged or are just exploiting his madness. Biden was the one with something to prove and he ducking blew it.
Democrats tell us democracy is on the line and many people including myself believe it, but then they push a weak candidate likely to lose merely because his team has lined their pockets with corporate donations and pledged allegiance to Israel. Democrats need to decide if democracy is on the line, or if they lie to their voters and don't care if Trump wins.
Because in a televised debate, people only see performance. It's not like anyone fact-checked Trump, either. Biden tried and failed to meaningfully rebut him, and the moderators didn't even try.
Because Biden was the 'electability' candidate, and he's looking pretty fucking un-electable.
The argument against swapping out candidates with 4 months to go is ostensibly because it's not enough time to campaign, but that's the reason Biden needs to be tapped out. Whoever is running needs to be able to clearly prosecute the case against Trump, but Biden can't even deliver a coherent sentence. Even when he's reading off prompter he's flubbing words, missing cues, and can barely remember who's still alive and who's already dead. We can't just hope people will read between the broken sentences; Biden needs to be able to campaign for himself. Turnout will be so fucking low if he doesn't do his fucking job, and that will be nobody's fault but his and the DNC's if they don't fucking do something now.
Quit complaining about how the press is reporting on his flubs; they're not inventing that problem whole-cloth, Biden is clearly not doing well. People should be irate that the white house and the DNC have been ignoring this issue that's been growing steadily for the last 3 and a half years.
Because the right doesn't care that trump lied, and the left does care that Biden can't speak.
And the right wing media wants to do is suppress the left wing voters, and the left wing media knows that people are exhausted after 8 years talking about Trump lying so the Biden thing is better for viewership
Because Trump did nothing unexpected for him - if anything he was more restrained than usual - but Biden is showing greater signs of senility. News reports things that are new, more at 11.
Biden didn't get tongue tied. He couldn't form complete sentences and kept losing his train of thought. Look at his videos from 2019. He was talking just fine, but still was a gaff machine.
And Biden didn't even have the awareness to push back on the lies! He fucking argued with him over fucking Golf!
Because the people surrounding Biden are good at their jobs. Each has a weakness: Trump is a liar and Biden is old and forgetful. Trump's people made no effort to hide Trump's weakness, but Biden's people did a good job of hiding it up to the debate. That people are surprised is a good sign that Biden surrounded himself with competent people - but also this is what debates are suppose to do, reveal the true candidates to the nation.
Because when the nation's facing its greatest threat since at least the Civil War, your chosen defender should be a beacon of hope, not a quivering old man.
I love Joe Biden. He's done great things for this country, and his administration has been excellent overall, despite being very bad at communicating it's successes. But it's time for him to rest on his laurels.
Senility is coming fast, and the Republicans are absolutely murdering him on this point. It's by far the strongest play they have, and by choosing a different candidate that's not in their 9th decade of life we can gut that argument.
RBG refused to retire and as a consequence we have the worst Court in the history of the country. Biden is refusing to retire, and as a consequence we're likely to lose our Democracy entirely in 5 months.
It's not too late to change candidates. It's only in the last few decades that the candidate was known ahead of the convention. We can and should pick someone younger that can turn the narrative of "crazy old man" around on the also-ancient Donald Trump.
Everyone I talk to laments about how terrible both candidates are. How about we swap Joe out for someone who is at least mediocre?
MAGA will vote for Trump no matter what. Democrats would rather vote for a corpse than vote for Trump. Which means we don't need Biden to save democracy: anyone will do.
Trump getting no pushback for lying for 1 hour and not actually any questions is a real issue. Trying to say Biden was tongue-tied is way too generous. His mind was spinning up like old 90 computer hardrives. It took awhile for him to reply to anything. If this debate was taken seriously, Trump wouldn't have gotten to sit up there and do that for all that time.
We already know trump sucks. He shouldn't be running for pres, he should probably be in prison. We're focusing on biden because he's also unfit, and we're afraid he can't beat trump. This isn't rocket surgery.
Because this election isn't going to be decided by hard core Democrats and only one person on that stage looked mentally incompetent. And I understand he's not, but man is that going to be a helluva thing to prove to people who don't watch politics. People who tuned into the debate because they were undecided.
It is so funny they talk about the look and presentation when its so much easier to just spew out whatever is at tip of your brain with no care about veracity.
Trump lies so often that it's no longer newsworthy to point it out. Even if Biden had debated well, the media probably wouldn't have even scratched 5% of Trump's falsehoods in a fact check and just focused on soundbytes of Trump saying dumb shit as usual.
It doesn't fucking help that the right have been repeating a lie about Biden having dementia and, regardless of what the actual cause of his poor performance was on debate night, he put wind in their sails and essentially "proved them right all along" with his hoarse voice and incoherent train of thought. The seed has been planted and now some will start to wonder that if the Republicans were right about that, then what other farfetched nonsense could they also be right about?
It's been 12 days since the debate and people are still talking about how bad it was. I'm pissed that the Biden team is treating this as if it's no big deal when this one event was an absolute torpedo to his campaign that he might not recover from if he can't convince both the Democratic establishment and the Democratic electorate that he is capable of doing another 4 years.
I'm worried about Biden's chances because he won in 2020 while Trump's atrocious term was still fresh in everyone's minds. People apparently have short fucking memories because they all want to go back to Trump mismanaging the country and potentially ending free elections forever just to shave 30 cents off the price of eggs at the supermarket. Biden is still coasting on the policy-agnostic idea that the people will reject Trump more strongly than they will approve of him and I think that's a huge mistake. He needs to be hammering his achievements home and also talking about stats from the Trump era and how they were great when Obama left office, terrible when Biden took office (due to Trump's admin) and now improving thanks to him. That makes the best case for re-election, more than just convincing everybody to not vote for the openly fascist candidate because there's no realistic alternative.
Because everyone knew Trump would lie constantly, that's all he ever does. Biden used to be an eloquent, confident public speaker, but that has changed drastically in the last 4 years. We also know that reporting on Trump's lies doesn't slow or stop them and definitely doesn't change his supporters' minds. If anything, reporting constantly on the lies he tells just gives him more screen-time to spread them. Also, the world really needs Trump to lose, so if the only guy available to do so is seemingly physically unable, it makes sense to talk about options.
News feeds on drama so they have to foment turmoil. Also, every news source of consequence has a trump donor CEO (even the liberal biased ones)...so....
Here’s a summary: Not only did Trump repeatedly lie, but he also delivered nonsensical responses and non-answers lacking any insight into his policy plans.
For example, when moderator Jake Tapper asked what he would do to make child care more affordable, the presumptive GOP nominee initially dodged the question.
Later, when Trump was given an opportunity at the debate to address voter concerns over his mental fitness, the 77-year-old offered two points to alleviate the public’s fears.
Also of concern on the debate stage, Trump didn’t commit to unconditionally accepting the election results and underscored his intentions to seek political retribution.
Commentator Kaivan Shroff remarked that the media has chosen to “ignore Trump being a convicted felon, racist, nutjob, etc” while journalist Sophia Nelson said on CNN that she believed it’s fair to question Biden after his performance, but warned of the “pile-on” against him.
“It’s frankly astonishing that we have no less than eight op-ed pieces calling for Biden to drop out after a bad debate, but we had zero after any one of Trump’s convictions,” journalist Victoria Brownworth wrote.
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The DNC just doesn't have the same manpower, thousands of underpaid people and bad AI and american volunteers, and without all that manpower can't keep up on the "but his stammer" / "both sides" bullshit.
Because Americans value being loud and confident over everything else. That's why Trump has been able to be so successful here despite being a hateful moron.
Tongue tied isn't the same as what happened with Biden on the debate night. It's theoretically possible for Trump to stop lying or at least restrain himself, because it's not a physical ailment that only gets worse as time goes by. Compare 2020 debate Trump vs 2024 debate Trump and you'll see how much better he was this time. Biden on the other hand has no control over what is going on with him, and it doesn't get better with age, only goes the opposite direction. He did good during his 4 years, but he's only tarnishing his legacy by running again. He should quit while he's ahead.
REALLY? THE PAID FOR BY THE ALT RIGHT MASS MEDIA ISN'T GOING AFTER TRUMP, ONLY ATTACKING MINOR SHIT BIDEN DOES AND ACTING LIKE IT'S A HUGE PROBLEM? YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY.
I'm so tired of pundits pretending the media is being unfair to Biden. He literally said he was the first black woman to be vice president today, and most outlets chose not to cover it. The media has been going exceptionally easy on Biden, which is why so many Americans were shocked to hear how incoherent and rambling he'd become, even compared to Trump. The media isn't covering this because they suddenly want to destroy Biden; they're covering it because the floodgates have opened and they have no choice but to acknowledge it.
I thought Biden was sick, or was it tired? Now it's tongue tied? The DNC is literally handing Trump the WH by refusing to acknowledge they are propping up a vegetable
Your loyalty to Joe biden won't get Him reelected, in fact it will do the exact opposite, denial of reality will come smacking hard the day of election, because the election will be sealed by the unaffiliated undecided electors, and Biden's mental acuity won't win them over.