"Trump is easily manipulated, but Biden isn't an insane manchild who will start economic turmoil because he shat his diaper that morning. Who will be better for extending anti-democratic ideology and Chinese imperialism in our 'sphere of influence'?"
Hmm, I just can’t tell the difference between this normal US President and this psychotic shrieking banshee. I guess they’re just bowls of poison. Oh well.
China would rather have Trump because I doubt he would defend Taiwan. He just wants to end trade with China, while simultaneously praising Xi as brilliant. Biden also wouldn’t pose for a dumbass photo-op with Kim Jong-un. China very clearly has a favorite because they know Trump would maximize domestic turmoil
Yep they also bribed him to the tune of millions of dollars while he was in office. He's just way easier to influence and is a lot stupider and surrounded by likewise stupid, conniving people.
The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
With Trump, the CCP knows they can bribe him with personal things (like trademarks) that don't cost them anything to get what they want in foreign policy; as they, the Saudis, Russians, and everyone quickly figured out Trump is more than willing to undermine America's interests for his own gain.
Obama wasn't pro-China. You see, that's the problem - NOT being a frothing-at-the-mouth loon is actually bad for China, because China looks like a pretty unappealing alternative to aligning with the US in South-East Asia right now. If America looks racist, moronic, and on the brink of collapse, China looks more appealing to SEA nations by comparison.
I think you would have been right with this analysis a couple of years ago, before Xi's moronic "wolf warrior diplomacy" really took off. He managed to so thoroughly ruin China's standing with almost every one of its neighbors (and beyond) that even a USA under Trump is considered a far more pleasant alternative right now.
You can see this wolf warrior mentality even in how their online trolls and the loyal part of their diaspora (often indistinguishable from one another) are behaving online.
I hate that that’s what we’re reduced to, but we have one deeply uninspiring and frustratingly out-of-touch candidate, and one completely psychotic narcissistic authoritarian candidate. There is a very obvious “correct” choice here, both as an American voter and as a human.
For decades many voters in Western nations have collectively held their noses and voted for the person who they believed would do the least amount of damage.
This isn't democracy in action. It's simply having nobody to vote for.
This is very much a millennial perspective. Looking at a demographic table, it’s overwhelmingly obvious that most Americans are boomers. And older people vote more often than younger people.
We may see Trump and Biden as weak candidates, but this is literally what they want. It is democracy in action. We just don’t outnumber the older Americans lol. It’s obviously changing. Otherwise Sanders wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in 2016 and 2020.