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

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.

Sure. He was the same guy a month ago, and the same guy at the debate. It's situational. But it's never great.

Running down the clock to November is not a good strategy

better than the worst televised prez debate performance ever isn't that impressive

I think he sounds as bad tonight as at the debate. A little less raspy.

"Finish...the...job......"

uh oh he's going a little too long...

15 minutes too far!

if there's a problem
yo I'll solve it

I like Bin Laden as the guy “who did the job”

good enough to satisfy internal critics but not good enough to convince any watchers is the worst outcome

"Listen To Him!"

He whispering at this podium like a Ying Yang Twin

— Ira (@iramadisonthree) July 11, 2024

He said he might drop out if his aides tell him there’s no way he can win. But no one is saying that.

Staff, say hello to bus

I’m the Vice President? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. pic.twitter.com/Wkv5Yg5ypg

— Robert Bork III (@BobbyBorkIII) July 12, 2024

oh, cool, Robert Bork III!

Can't decide whether the craziest thing in this thread today is the assertion that bad actors in the Israeli government wouldn't feel emboldened by a Trump presidency, or that George Clooney is only "almost handsome."

Another Congressman just called on Biden to drop out

Can't decide whether the craziest thing in this thread today is the assertion that bad actors in the Israeli government wouldn't feel emboldened by a Trump presidency, or that George Clooney is only "almost handsome."

― Guayaquil (eephus!),

well, you ARE straight :)

Crüt

i don't think it's joever

There is freedom without

There is freedom within

The bad actors are already emboldened. What are they going to do, dig up all the people they've murdered and commit second genocide?

For viewers who think "foreign policy command" signifies beyond speaking in sentences without regard to the policies you support, this is basically how tonight broke with the people in my local groups:

For Biden backers who want him to stay in, there were moments for validation: Strong voice, foreign policy command, detailed answers. For those who want him out, there were moments for worry: Mixing up names, rambling answers. Which all makes it unclear whether anything changes.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 12, 2024

this sounds dicky but I almost wished he had collapsed during the presser, so we could just move on

They could almost make this heroic somehow, like he doggedly rose up to serve the nation one last time because of grave threats to democracy and the American way of life.. but the prizefighter we all know and love has fought his last round, now it's time to pass the torch from Boomers to Gen X

I don't think he was too bad, certainly nothing like the debate horror performance. That might be the worst of all worlds though - possibly good enough to keep him on the ticket, but not good enough to change the narrative. So another win for Trump.

this sounds dicky but I almost wished he had collapsed during the presser, so we could just move on

yep!