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Remember when Biden was too old to be president?
And he was too. It was a huge contributing factor to how the Dem's threw the election.
The big factor is that he is a blue dog democrat.
The entire reason Obama selected him as VP was an olive branch to the corporate sellout branch of the Democratic Party who were worried that he was "too progressive".
You seen to be suggesting that Obama was not himself a corporate sellout...
Ahh, but we didn't realize it yet.
Dude campaigned on "change". We didn't know until his victory speech was the standard US exceptionalism and imperialism.
Really? Cause I remember Clinton pulling the exact same playbook out on us...
Which is weird, since Obama was arguably more regressive.
Yes, the campaign was very different from how he governed. Which is part of why we're here
I would have been just fine with the Democrats running him, TBH. If something were to happen to him, there is a line of succession and he's not surrounded by total buffoons and Nazis, unlike Donvict.
Well yes most anyone here knows he's 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn't change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party's obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.
Whoosh
Rules like that only apply to everyone else, not Republicans, who are special people.
If they amendment 25 him or if he keels over whatever, we all get to look forward to this asshole, I guess...I'd be curious if he carries on with extremely idiotic and unpopular things like tarrifs and golden ballrooms and bombing fishermen and talking about annexing Canada/Greenland or Panama, too. Same with all the stupid vendettas and childishness like putting up a picture of an autopen instead of Biden's picture or trying to charge Biden with "fraud" (LOL) for the autopen.
BTW, all of their stupid rhetoric about the autopen is even dumber than their stupid fixation with teleprompters, except autopens have been used without fanfare for even longer than the teleprompter.
But when Democrats use technology that has been in use for decade upon decade, idiotic right wing mouth-breathers can be trained to think it's bad.
Taco has a meltdown about a teleprompter, accusing everyone of some kind of plot at the UN over it, but when Obama used a teleprompter it was like the end of Western civilization itself, because it was a Blah guy running as a Democrat.
These people don't even have any internal consistency. They are reprogrammable meatbags. If Taco uses an autopen and even talks about how he uses it, they won't bat a fucking eye.
No way he gets anything done. He'd be a lame duck until the next election, and then he'd be history.
Let's hope so. The guy is way too cozy with the likes of Thiel and Musk and all that freakishness combined with way too much money that they represent.
I mean, I'm not looking for more Curtis Yarvin or lame-brained insanity like The Sovereign Individual injected into my life or American institutions....but a "JD" "Vance" presidency just might bring it about.
Taco can bully the Republicans with the power of the purse and threatening the funding of primaries against them if they don't go along. Sure the base firebombing their families is a factor, too. But Musk and Thiel obviously have very deep pockets and could do similar bullying. Musk in particular also has his share of crazy stans and incels that could also probably be whipped up into threats of violence against non-compliant pubbies.
They said the same about Bernie too and honestly I think he would have won.
Bernie is so clearly still with it
Biden had a reasonable sound mind, whereas the orange felon/rapist/liar has dementia, visions of grandeur and lacks a soul.
But he didn't.
These fossils are all too old.
His mind runs circles around Trump's though and that's the comparison being made