President Biden sits down with ABC's George Stephangga and says "I was tired" during the debate

[B86]

Seems to be a bullshyt narrative. If you’re complaining about his cognitive issues in the present then we should expect those issues to have shown up in the present as well with regard to his ability to do the job.

Do you REALLY think Biden is running this country? What about politics makes people lose all of their common sense?

 

[The Realist Perspective]

Lobbyist and people with money and power are the ones creating and influencing decisions behind the scenes. Politicians are just the figureheads doing their bidding.

Years ago during COVID, the Democrat and Republican minority and majority leaders helped craft one of those COVID bills without input from their members and literally didn't give them time to read it before signing it. AOC said it and even Ted Cruz said it as well. Who do you think was in that room with them helping to create that bill if their party members didn't? Why else do you think that those bills are chalked full of thousands of pages of fluff that benefit the rich and wealthy?

Gotcha, it’s true that lobbyists and big money have a lot of influence over laws, but that doesn’t mean politicians are just puppets. They actually do a lot of the work in making laws and deciding what goes in them, even though sometimes they rush things or don’t explain well what’s happening. Yes, we need to fix some things so that regular people have more say and everything’s clearer, but politicians aren’t just doing what they’re told. They’re right in the middle of it all, making decisions and sometimes even fighting against those big money influences.

I think of it like deciding where to eat at a big family reunion. You got a couple of uncles who love fancy steak places cuz they can afford it and think it’s best for everyone. But you and your cousins, paying your own way, would rather have something cheaper.

Now, your dad, who’s sorting out the dinner plans, hears everyone out. He’s influenced by your uncles who push hard for the steak place, but he also knows what everyone else can afford. In the end, he suggests a restaurant that’s not as pricey as a steakhouse but nicer than fast food, trying to balance your uncles’ wishes with what’s doable for the cousins.

In this scenario, your dad is like the politicians. He's not just blindly following your uncles (the lobbyists with money), even though they got a lot of sway. He’s actively trying to work out a compromise that considers both the big spenders and the rest of the family. It’s kinda the same in politics, where it’s all about balancing different interests and trying to find a solution that works for as many people as possible.

That's why it's important for a person to actually "be there" in order to make that distinction, be that strong middle-man figure. I don't think that's Biden at all, anymore.

 

[Pressure]

Do you REALLY think Biden is running this country? What about politics makes people lose all of their common sense?

If Biden isn’t running the country then you shouldn’t be worried about his age.

Spoiler

i can troll too!

 

[desjardins]

At least this time black men can't be blamed if the Democrats lose.
The handling of this Biden situation shows how incompetent the DNC is. They are mostly ineffective when in office, they can't consistently manufacture stars in the party, and they lose elections that should be lay ups.
Between his condition, the Gaza situation, and the economy it's looking real bleak for Biden and the Dems

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Gotcha, it’s true that lobbyists and big money have a lot of influence over laws, but that doesn’t mean politicians are just puppets. They actually do a lot of the work in making laws and deciding what goes in them, even though sometimes they rush things or don’t explain well what’s happening. Yes, we need to fix some things so that regular people have more say and everything’s clearer, but politicians aren’t just doing what they’re told. They’re right in the middle of it all, making decisions and sometimes even fighting against those big money influences.

I think of it like deciding where to eat at a big family reunion. You got a couple of uncles who love fancy steak places cuz they can afford it and think it’s best for everyone. But you and your cousins, paying your own way, would rather have something cheaper.

Now, your dad, who’s sorting out the dinner plans, hears everyone out. He’s influenced by your uncles who push hard for the steak place, but he also knows what everyone else can afford. In the end, he suggests a restaurant that’s not as pricey as a steakhouse but nicer than fast food, trying to balance your uncles’ wishes with what’s doable for the cousins.

In this scenario, your dad is like the politicians. He's not just blindly following your uncles (the lobbyists with money), even though they got a lot of sway. He’s actively trying to work out a compromise that considers both the big spenders and the rest of the family. It’s kinda the same in politics, where it’s all about balancing different interests and trying to find a solution that works for as many people as possible.

That's why it's important for a person to actually "be there" in order to make that distinction, be that strong middle-man figure. I don't think that's Biden at all, anymore.

They are puppets because they're going to be more beholden to big business and interest than their own constituents. We see it time and time again on a daily basis. If you aren't willing to get your hands dirty and accept those influences, then your replacement will. Politicians in the highest offices during COVID literally admitted that on their own volition, so you trying to say otherwise doesn't change that.

Yes those bills include aspects that help constituents, but they also include other laws and provisions that benefit the rich and wealthy as well. It's even worse in smaller towns as they don't receive the scrutiny or attention as they should.

That's just the name of the game in politics.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

If Biden isn’t running the country then you shouldn’t be worried about his age.

Spoiler

i can troll too!

People are all over the place man. It’s funny to me.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

People are all over the place man. It’s funny to me.

Voters are the ones that have to be reassured and not people in this thread because they're either going to vote Biden or just not vote at all.

 

[The Realist Perspective]

They are puppets because they're going to be more beholden to big business and interest than their own constituents. We see it time and time again on a daily basis. If you aren't willing to get your hands dirty and accept those influences, then your replacement will. Politicians in the highest offices during COVID literally admitted that on their own volition, so you trying to say otherwise doesn't change that.

Yes those bills include aspects that help constituents, but they also include other laws and provisions that benefit the rich and wealthy as well. It's even worse in smaller towns as they don't receive the scrutiny or attention as they should.

That's just the name of the game in politics.

I agree with you. I tried but I cannot continue a falsehood.

 

[Pressure]

People are all over the place man. It’s funny to me.

A lot of webs being spun .

 

[Adebisi_Said]

Also too tired to acknowledge the black queen

 

[Genos]

Who knows. I’m sure being the president ages you faster than being a Senator from Vermont.

Irrelevant though. Y’all whining when you should have gone out and voted.

He depended on yall to get off the internet and into the booth and you failed him.

Not once, but twice.

Guess he should have took the southern black voter more seriously.

Biden had these problems before the 2020 election. It was commented on for a while before you guys pretended it was just a stutter and ran with it. This outcome was inevitable but being president probably moved the time up.

The problem is you guys lack object permanence and causal thinking and think everyone is as dumb as you. Thinking hiding the president outside of planned events would get people to forget the problems he had before he was president was a lack of object permanace. Thinking an old man who was showing age related issues wasn't going to get dramatically get worse shows the lack causal thinking.

It's kind of funny seeing Dem loyalists experience extreme cognitive dissonance as the reality of Biden being an old demented fool crashes with their belief in him being some old leader who is in control of things.

I voted for and phone banked for Bernie in both primaries. We lost, America wasn't ready for that shyt yet

 

[O.Red]

At least this time black men can't be blamed if the Democrats lose.
The handling of this Biden situation shows how incompetent the DNC is. They are mostly ineffective when in office, they can't consistently manufacture stars in the party, and they lose elections that should be lay ups.
Between his condition, the Gaza situation, and the economy it's looking real bleak for Biden and the Dems

at you thinking that'll stop anyone from blaming black men

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Also too tired to acknowledge the black queen

Meanwhile in an alternative multiverse that wasn't caused by my crashed ship on sector 8820:

If the Bernie bros weren't vein popping fukkheads, we would have had a different reality

 

[TripleAgent]

At least this time black men can't be blamed if the Democrats lose.
The handling of this Biden situation shows how incompetent the DNC is. They are mostly ineffective when in office, they can't consistently manufacture stars in the party, and they lose elections that should be lay ups.
Between his condition, the Gaza situation, and the economy it's looking real bleak for Biden and the Dems

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

If he can’t do a live interview, then that’s a problem now isn’t it?

It was already bad optics that they were hiding Diane Feinstein and people didn’t forget that.

I don't want him either. Most people don't. But they know the alternative is rubbing their hands like birdman to put in more kinds of legislation that will get people killed.

When you vote, you're also. Voting for judges and voting for funding to go to the kind of regulators that will keep people safe. If Republicans win, they'll undo all sorts of shyt that people didn't even know was protecting them.