Biden is literally one thing: Not Trump. He's not inspiring, he doesn't energize people to go out and vote, hes not as good a speaker as Obama, not as funny to laugh at as GW Bush, and not as doom-post bait as Trump. Idk who they were trying to tap into with a Biden movie(book i misread). People literally vocalized that they voted for him because they wanted to stop caring about politics again. You'd still pull more Biden voter views with a movie about Trump and thats half the problem with our political media in general.
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He's not everything I'd like in a president, but he's done better than expected and more than I thought possible given the stagnation and division in congress. I think better of him as a president now than when I voted for him because I simply thought he wasn't trump. Definitely think that's worth acknowledging, and denying it isn't doing his campaign for reelection any favors.
The fundamental job of the president is not to make you feel good or to make you laugh, and people assessing politicians based on vibes rather than actual performance is a huge part of why we're in this mess.
Keep underestimating him. That's worked so well in the past.
Keep underestimating him. That’s worked so well in the past.
Lol what is this referring to? No one's ever underestimated biden, or been surprised by him.
He was chosen as VP for his blandness - he was the stalest pale male they could find to contrast with Obama being young and very much not white. That went as expected.
He won the presidential nomination as expected, due to being the blandest candidate available to soak up anti trump votes without pissing anyone off.
He was widely predicted to narrowly win the presidency, and did. No one expected him to do anything of consequence - positive or negative - and indeed he hasn't.
Sure, keep going.
Bland is it?
Keep underestimating him. That’s worked so well in the past.
What were you referring to with this comment?
As long as he keeps his thumb up his ass about climate than I could care less. I will vote for him again because he's not Trump, but I'm really mostly a single-issue voter at this point. We should treat climate like a war at this point and shift our economy around it.
You get it
I wish moderates would be honest about Biden.
They keep wanting everyone to treat him like some amazing politician, he got his ass handed to him in three primaries and only won his fourth because the party got like 8 people to drop in a week and endorse him. And they did that by all claiming Biden was super progressive.
He's better than trump, so I'll vote for him again. Which seems to be a common sentiment among people who voted for him last time.
It's a sad testament to the American electoral system that "being better than the other candidate" is a selling point, but here we are. Biden was my third choice among the D field but I voted for him with no regrets and in my view he has wildly overachieved. It's like the screaming toddlers on the other side of the aisle can be contained by calm, experienced adults or something, and oh shit it turns out Biden knows his business after all.
I look forward to voting for Biden again against whatever shit-flinging howler monkey the GOP chooses to nominate.
Handling the toddlers on the train while the train’s still headed off a climate cliff is not as impressive as you seem to think.
Biden has experience and a broad view of the Shit That Needs To Be Done.
He’s not in the job to make rallies go crazy. He’s not interested in leading a cult. He just wants to actually serve the American people, not grift the stupid.
the amount of people expecting politicians to be entertaining too damn high!
When people start supporting potential candidates from the ground up there will be quality candidates at the top. Until then we get what we get.
Maybe if it was a fair fight...
Did you forget about when the DNC got taken to court for bias in the primary and their legal defense was:
We're a private organization that can do what it wants, we don't even have to hold a primary or run who wins. And that's 100% legal.
They won the court case, because it's true
Our system is fucked, and I have trouble believing people who pretend it's not.
Instead of buying twitter, musk could have donated that money to the DNC over a couple of years and gotten his cronies into leadership positions because all the DNC cares about is donations.
It would be a completely legal take over of one of the only two political parties in America, and there's still nothing from stopping it
Stop pretending everything is fine until it burns down. Start installing a sprinkler system so we can stop it from burning down .
You sweet summer child. Ground-up grassroots candidates (in the US, at least) are usually crushed before you even know their names. Always have been. We’d have to have a completely different system for them to even be in the running. It’s designed that way.
I like Biden