US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

he forgot to accidentally blurt out "don't fuck up!"

that's the death blow

no it doesn't it's just bad imo

rough stuff

I do agree that it is important to not do anything that would embarrass Biden while the NATO thing is going on

“This fine man here, Sir Adolph Churchill…”

Eh, that’s the kind of straightforward flub that can be dismissed as a one off flub by the (delusional) campaign. He was otherwise coherent.

This would do the trick though

SCOOP w/ @NoraEckert: United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain tells the union's board he is worried Biden may not beat Trump, sources say. UAW considering next steps.

— Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) July 11, 2024

that 'Putin' slip is just normal aging stuff, not dementia, but being normal doesn't mean it's good. and it draws further attention to the fact that he has an aging brain that has already slowed down noticeably and is bound to slow further.

of course trump's old, too, but his erratic behavior and ceaseless rambling doesn't read as 'old' in the same way Biden does. these distinctions connect with people on a level that they grasp intuitively, as compared to, let's say, the Inflation Reduction Act or the connection between climate change and the price of bread.

What a summer

of course trump's old, too, but his erratic behavior and ceaseless rambling doesn't read as 'old' in the same way Biden does.

No, it reads as fucking insane. But somehow "Donald Trump is insane" is something Our Betters are simply not willing to print in the newspaper.

It’s OK to be a non compos mentis President if you’re Republican.

The last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023. 

One Cabinet secretary tells CNN “they are uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him.” https://t.co/szhS2Bm7rl

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) July 11, 2024

Jill Biden hoping to be the next Edith Wilson.

Wasn't this press conference supposed to start 30 minutes ago?

It’s only early July, this month already feels like a year.

you just haven't earned yet, baby

What a reversal, if Hunter emerges backstage with a vial of the very thing that was bringing down the family, now used to bring it to new heights.

[Biden enters in fishing gear]

"Ladies and gentlemen...the weekend."

Exits

Sounds drunk already

Just called Harris "Vice President Trump"

Oof, that 'Vice-President Trump' thing.

XP!

What a loser.

In his presser, Macron defended Biden saying “slips of the tongue happen, it’s happened to me.” He also said France, Europe & Ukraine were lucky to have the Biden admin. #NATO #F24

— Kethevane Gorjestani (@ketgorjestani) July 11, 2024

Putin (sweating beneath skin-perfect zylensky mask): how the fuck did he know…

— Motivational Pictures With Reality Deep Meaning (@doulbedoink) July 11, 2024

You're kidding about the vice president Trump thing

Just called Harris "Vice President Trump"

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 11 July 2024 bookmarkflaglink

!!!

"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, if she's not qualified to be president." pic.twitter.com/UnLFQy05cj

— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 11, 2024

Can AI sort this out?

Good Trump Golfing zing.

al gore?

the union line was good

Weird AI for prez

Man, this is grim. (It’s all been grim, but you know what I mean.)

Yeah its sad

I dunno, just tuned in for a few minutes and obviously I'm not Team Joe here, but ... this isn't reassuring to me. Like, he's just old! He's very slow. It takes him a while to string thoughts together. He's obviously thinking very carefully to avoid messing up. But boy, it all just seems like so much effort. And it is! It's a super hard job. It's not an accident that we've never had an 81-yr-old doing it before.

The only way this guy makes it to 86 is by stepping aside.

He's actually doing better than I expected in the last few minutes, despite the rasp.

i.e. if he continues at this not-terrible/not bad rate it's gonna make stepping down plans more difficul

*difficult

i don't think it's joever

He seems to kind of fade in and out. Like he’s on top of it for like half a minute and then fuzzes a little, and then snaps back into focus. Relatable! But not reassuring

I wonder how many WH staff who see him daily were hoping for a faceplant that he couldn't walk away from.

It just reinforces to me that there's nothing he can do to counter the basic and widespread perception that he's too old for the job. Because in fact he is. And that makes him a hard sell, and he's not up to doing the selling.

Most people’s experience of this press conference will be clips of him fucking up Zelensky and Harris’ names

He lit up a bit when he started talking about China.

But it was painful listening to him take that question about Kamala.

What has she done as VP that makes her ready to be commander and Chief?

Freedom of women’s bodies. She was a great prosecutor. Pretty good senator too.

Hey dude tell us how you met with all these people who been dead for decades
That’s reassuring

He needs to go schedule another meetup ASAP.

Like, show me this guy and tell me he's going to be president for another year or two, and I'd be like, errrr I hope he has good people around him. Show him to me and tell me that this is the guy who's been in charge of the country during a time when I (as the median American voter) think things have sucked pretty bad, and also that he wants another four years to keep on doing it, and why in the world would I do that.

The bar is by now so low that he's not as bad as I thought he'd be.

I disagree with most of his foreign policy positions, but he's way more coherent about them than anything else.

actually, I think this is exactly the Joe Biden Performance he would've given a month ago at a press conference.