“We have a man who is totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country, who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead, and who is now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war,” Trump said. “Just think of it. We would be in World War II very quickly if we’re going to be relying on this man.”
Obviously, Trump meant to say “World War III.” Insisting that we’re on the brink of another great war, and maybe even nuclear annihilation, has been part of his stump speech for months. But that isn’t the only line he flubbed. At another point in the speech, Trump seemed to mix up Biden and Barack Obama, suggesting he’s currently leading his predecessor in the 2024 polls.
Basically, while you have to be 35 to run for president (and be a natural-born citizen of the US and be a resident of the US for 14 years), there's no age cap on running for president. It's been that way ever since George Washington became president, and changing that would require an amendment to the US Constitution.
I initially read this as him saying world war 3 and then realised he actually said world war 2 and I can't stop sad laughing at just how fucking stupid this.
And to think 70 million Americans said that's my guy and there is still millions that would vote for him without hesitation if the election was tomorrow.
I quit a little over 4 years ago. Since then we've had a pandemic, riots, war in Europe, too many natural disasters to name, and no real improvement on the horizon. I'm starting to wonder if my drinking was holding this world together.
The last time I was drinking often was when my mom was in her last couple years. She passed in 2016. My drinking is occasional (even rare) now. Can't let you take all the blame. We'll split it 50-50 lol
Well, between wars, the rise of the far Right (again), climate change and the utter fucking up of the world economies by the ultra rich, now would be a good time to start.
It's already too late since World War II already happened. Donald Trump tried his best but World War II happened. We could keep warning people about Biden but unfortunately he will enter the time machine anyway and tell young aspiring artist Adolf Hitler that his art isn't that good. He will have tried to tell Adolf in the nicest way possible to ensure that Adolf won't take this wrong. Perhaps he will have tried to encourage Adolf to keep pursuing art as a hobby and maybe try studying art again later. But the fact that World War II happened shows that nothing that Biden will have tried has worked.
Even if donnie did not totally f this up and sound like he's ready for a memory unit, it's not like he is much younger than Biden. Every time he talks about Biden, it only reminds me of how old donnie is.
Every time he says anything about Biden being really old it always makes me think of my grandmothers.
My grandmother on my mother's side died at 80 with dementia. Meanwhile my grandmother on my father's side died at 99 and was basically perfectly normal and aware until about 2 weeks before her death, so age clearly isn't everything.
Also Trump is clearly suffering from some kind of neurological degenerate disease and wasn't exactly an competing in intellectual decathlons to begin with.
In addition, donnie does not seem to be doing anything at all to age well. Netflix has a series about living to 100; donnie seems to violate every single suggestion.
There is an interesting statistic that, if everybody on Earth lived exactly like the average american, we would need 8 planet Earths worth of resources - which is insane.
Take your average latin american individual, and this number drops to 0.9.
I don't think people are all that left. I think conservative has been misused so much it is almost a drop in for fascist or laissez fair capitalist.
E.g. abortion. The conservative mindset is to keep regulations to a minimal and defer to the medical community. Overruling Roe was pretty radical and goes against the recommendations of the medical community. It is also government getting into people's business.
E.g. climate. Wouldn't it be more conservative to err on the side of caution and do things that are a good idea anyway and reduce GHG, like renewables and reducing car dependent design? Replacing street cars, trams, and rails with cars everywhere was a pretty radical move.
I can keep going with examples, but I think that is clear enough.
If you look at policies, people overwhelmingly support policies, initiatives, laws, etc. that progressive groups champion.
If you look at how people rate themselves and people they know, they will simultaneously say that they are all moderates or conservatives.
Politicians further misunderstand the overall lean of their constituents, because the loudest and most consistent voices are regressives screaming that all conservatives are with them.
Add to this that progressive groups tend to be focusing on actually doing the things, while regressives can quickly build a fantasy world and just all agree to repeat it ad nauseum, and you've got a perfect storm for people to not have any good way to actually describe the world they want to live in.
But you are talking about a political conservatives, these aren't it, they even want to throw elections everywhere. In Brazil our copycats say they are "conservative in traditions" but "liberals in economy", you know, "I want a child to born but then it can starve to death".
Both Biden and Trump are borderline senile fossils that shouldn't be trusted with the Western economy and nearly half of the planet's nuclear weapons stockpile. Either candidate poses a very legitimate argument for maximum age limits to be imposed on future presidential candidates.
This isn't out of any dislike towards the elderly. People's mental facilities tend to decline substantially when they get to that age and that proves detrimental when making economic and political decisions. We saw the same thing with Ronald Reagan in the later years of his tenure.
When it's a two-horse race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, society loses.
I absolutely think biden's too old, but in this specific clip it kind of seems like he is making fun of Trump's "I am the least racist person ever" response.
I'm 100% confident that at the time that's how this was interpreted. After the guy talked about how he was the least racist person in the room (lol), calling him Abraham Lincoln doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
By mid 19th Century standards (the Civil Rights movement wouldn't come until roughly a century later), wasn't Lincoln progressive? Not only for leading the US through a civil war brewed partially over slavery, but also abolishing it?
Haha I love how I watched this live and knew conservatives wouldn't have a clue what Biden is saying here.
He's ripping on trump and it totally flew over your heads.
Conservatives really don't have the ability to understand sarcasm unless it matches their confirmation biases.
I've been waiting years for this to manifest.
Thank you for being the idiot who fell on the grenade.
From Joe Biden, the man who said he was going to beat Joe Biden?
I mean, it could definitely be a joke, but I wouldn’t put it past him to do that. He’s definitely senile, the wrong thing about the “speech” in the article is that Trump is in no position to say that when he’s even worse.