I mean the right won't stop trying, but hopefully people on the left stop falling for it now. If Trump debates Biden and Biden performs like last night then they might drop it, but we shall see.
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Anyone on the left who was hanging on to that isn't going to be convinced by anything Biden does because their media bubble will keep feeding them carefully tailored videos to poison the well.
If they were in acting in good faith. Which most of them aren't, anyway.
"Angry, polarizing, and hate-filled" says Donald fucking Trump. I knows he's like a serial projectionist and I should be used it by now but it still grinds my gears
I really want to see Biden publicly challenge Trump to a debate.
I don't think he'd accept. At least that way it paints Trump as a pathetic coward who isn't up to the task of debating the person he's been arguing is an invalid for the last 4 years.
Big "please stop praying for my grandpa, he's too powerful and now the cops can't stop him" energy
A year ago I would have said that Trump just sees any airtime during a debate as a positive, regardless of the outcome, but I'm pretty certain that there won't be debates this year. I'd actually love to be wrong, because the direct comparison would paint Biden in a positive light…but that's also why I don't think they'll happen.
I saw some analysis that suggested that it was Trump's constant anger that makes him seem more "with it". Biden channeled quite a bit of that anger last night, but Biden also is smart on issues, policies, and the way government works. Anger only covers for stupid so much.
Yeah I am conflicted whether Trump actually debates or not. He could just play the victim about all his court appearances and blame Biden for not debating.
Or maybe he actually wants to. My gut says he won't. After tonight's performance he can't go out there expecting a weak Biden. Not sure he has anything to gain by debating. It is better for Donald Trump to appear as little on camera as possible going forward. Will he avoid the spotlight though?
Or maybe he actually wants to. My gut says he won't. After tonight's performance he can't go out there expecting a weak Biden. Not sure he has anything to gain by debating. It is better for Donald Trump to appear as little on camera as possible going forward. Will he avoid the spotlight though?
Trump will claim he wants a debate and then pull out over some rules issue. It wouldn't matter though. I don't think you get anything out of debating Trump. He'll refuse to answer questions and just rant about what he wants and no one will hold him accountable for it. Biden should just do town halls.
Trump just challenged Biden to debates this week and Doocy hounded KJP about whether Biden is capable of debating.
The only way there won't be debates is if Trump's current lead expands and he is just walloping Biden in the polls by the fall. There's no universe his ego does not make him think he would destroy Biden in a debate.
The only way there won't be debates is if Trump's current lead expands and he is just walloping Biden in the polls by the fall. There's no universe his ego does not make him think he would destroy Biden in a debate.
After last night, and the reactions from Trump and the right, it seems like they know there's no upside to debating Biden.
I can easily see a poison pill like "we agree to a debate, but Hannity has to moderate" or something like that.
Yeah but Trump says a lot of things. Not sure him saying that this early means anything when he knows debates would be far off still.
There were people confident Trump would debate in the primaries as well for the same reasons and he didn't
I agree. Town halls and speeches are the way to go forward this year, painting himself as the obvious choice against Trump. After last night in think it's clear he's got this. Trump will continue to get angrier and angrier that the farce he, and the GOP, has built up over Biden's supposed physical and mental frailty is not actually true. That anger and hate will be a stark contrast to Biden's messaging and style, and independents and on-the-fence-Dems will see that.
Yes, "divisive", says the man who gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to fucking Rush Limbaugh during the 2020 SOTU.
Agreed. Not only are they a waste of time with Trump, I don't think Biden should share a stage with him as equals. The guy is a criminal and a a traitor, and he's still pushing traitor rhetoric (NATO). So long as Biden is seen out and about and seeming to be fine, that's enough.
To anyone that was still concerned that the GOP was going to have a plan to muddy the waters going into this election I would present this. Dey lost in da sauce yo 🤣
Actual tradwife content presented as a SOTU response. The entire party is hopelessly, terminally online.
Let's dispel this notion that Biden doesn't know what he's doing. Joe Biden knows exactly what he's doing.
*fumbles water bottle and slurps on it*
They criticized him for eating ice cream. Par for the course.
We're way, way past the point that the right's criticisms are grounded in reality. If nothing exists, they'll make it up.
My concern has always been how objective observers (few though that there are) were going to see him last night.
And my fears have been allayed for now. If he can keep up that level of vigor and sharpness, he's going to persuade most of the people on the fence that he can be an effective POTUS.
Isnt this the douchebag that yelled at a bunch of students during a capitol tour?
I think so. I thought it was Congressional aids, but he's such an awful person, maybe he's made a habit of it.
I found it, I knew this asshole looked familiar:
https://www.cbs58.com/news/wisconsi...s-at-high-school-students-during-capitol-tour
Divisive and mean, hopped up on performance enhancing drugs, the bOrdEr.
Basically they have nothing.
The positive Biden news is going to make Trump even more rabid. May start a downward spiral for Trump.
I dont think Jacked Up Joe is the negative zing that Fox News thinks it is.
They have to shift to something other than his old age now (at least for some time). I think that's a net positive.
Biden is mean!
Good to see, but it is just WILD that the before numbers looked the way they did. Clearly propaganda was doing the same number on Biden as it did Hillary for those stats to be that low.
Yep, straight up. Haven't felt this hopeful in a while, so I'd say the SOTU was a job well done.
Can't speak for other platforms but TikTok was full of "Senile Joe" clips for the last year where he would make a minor gaffe or mispronounce something. It definitely affected Biden's reputation. It also does not help that corporate media also ran with that.
Almost like the only "sleepy" ones are the general public themselves! It's because it takes a national television event for them to pay any attention to the man himself.
Any other political news they absorb is filtered through multiple layers of propaganda and talking heads.
The Atlantic preemptively wrote an editorial before the SOTU even aired to pivot away from the Biden-is-old criticism into bitch-eating-crackers territory.
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“There might be more to voters’ acrimony toward Biden than just his age,” @MarkLeibovich writes. “In speaking with Democrats about the president’s reelection chances, I often pick up a sharp tone that goes beyond resignation. It sounds more like rage.” https://theatln.tc/1tDKNH5g
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NYT after included a blurb that DT Jr was not impressed on social media:
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It's almost as if they have a stake in this narrative.
RNC going broke soon. They just elected Lara Trump as co-chair.
thehill.com
RNC elects Michael Whatley, Lara Trump as new leaders
The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday officially voted to make Michael Whatley and Lara Trump its new chair and co-chair, respectively, cementing former President Trump’s remaking …
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TLDR on these? I'm not going to click on twitter stuff.
The first one is the hot-mic moment from around the time the ACA was signed where Biden was caught saying it was a "big (bleeping) deal" and then cuts to him at last night's SOTU where Biden says the ACA, Obamacare, is still a big deal.
The second is about how Biden thinks the press isn't talking enough about Trump's dangerous rhetoric and how the reporter notes that Trump's first real big campaign event was in Waco, Texas on the 30th anniversary of the raid that has become a BIG MEME for dangerous right wing anti-government extremists and playing audio of the insurrectionists on January 6th singing the national anthem. Seth is right that this is disturbing shit. (Whether he was high or not, I do not know.)
I've mentioned it before but please stop taking the Dave's and Amy's of the world seriously
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