Trump is literally what happens if you take almost every horrific trait that can be seen in a human being and combine it into one concotion.
Trump is incredibly narcissistic. He said one Thanksgiving that he was “thankful for himself”, and took credit for the vaccine rollout. There was also the time where his cabinet meeting turned into a really strange event of members basically praising him (to which Trump was very happy about).
Trump wants to be a dictator, is openly racist, and loves violence, as long as it’s done to the right people. Just look at all of the times he’s insulted Mexico! He has referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries”. He’s also said there are “fine people on both sides” during Charlottesville protests; most of the people on the other side were right-wing white supremacists. He’s also claimed he’ll “be a dictator for a day”, and commented during the 2020 George Floyd riots that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. Oh, and he’s a big fan of the January 6 terrorists.
Trump has a total lack of empathy, understanding and compassion. He said that “Hurricane Maria wasn’t truly a disaster like Katrina was” despite the fact that over 3,000 people died. He also basically bragged about having the tallest building in NYC after 9/11. He called war veterans “losers and suckers” and said that “he only likes people that weren’t captured”, and also mocked a disabled reporter. Oh, and he doesn’t own any pets, because he has no kindness in his heart.
Trump is an idiot and a liar. He suggested nuking hurricanes once, and called the death toll of Hurricane Maria a “hoax that the Democrats made up”. His COVID-19 response was atrocious, saying that “it’ll just go away” and “we have it under control” when it clearly wasn’t.
Outside of being old and unappealing Biden has actually done an excellent job of repairing most of the damage caused by Trump. Unfortunately the right wing propaganda machine has done a better job of lying to ignorant voters.
It shouldn’t even be this close…
who thought there was an alternative? 🤔
This is delusional. The idea that there is not a better, younger candidate that can easily beat Trump is just willful ignorance.
I mean. That’s sad. The dude is too old. He’s done an alright job, good even. But Jon Stewart really hit the nail on the head (as usual). Like… we dont have anyone better? Really?
Trump running is Biden‘s best chance at reelection. On the flipside Biden running for reelection is Trump‘s best chance for reelection.
Hes absolutely NOT our best bet. Hes just the only option we are being given
3rd straight potus election of ‘vote blue no matter who’ / ‘lesser of two evils’.
Without ranked choice voting, the time to have built up a different anti cult candidate would have been last year.
For me its not so much Biden but the people he has put in charge that are all working together to do great things for the country. Unlike Trump who brings in the uneducated, the unqualified and even worse, family members to help run the country.
It’s fine. It’s totally fine. GUYS ITS FINE!!!!
All of the other notable Democrats need to keep their seats. You’d be a total dumbass to try and run against Biden rn due to the circumstances of losing seats and the Presidency.
Biden has proven himself to be a far better POTUS than I expected, passing major, progressive and affirmative, legislation, holding true to democratic norms and repairing the international damage done by the Putinistas in the GOP, while avoiding the obvious traps that would lead to WW3. He has created one of the most, if not the most, diverse Cabinets in American history and seems to try and listen to, and adapt his stance, to the saner progressive winds from the adversarial left.
He should have the vast majority of American support, but this country is messed up and unaware.
Biden and his cabinet have been incredibly productive. 5.5 million new businesses in 2023, paired with the single largest expansion of real household income since the 50s.
Old man, sure, but I have no qualms casting my vote, what so ever.
The fact that anyone questions a vote for a capable, stalwart, and, yes, aging leader, compared to a criminal charlatan, fraud, rapist and outright authoritarian is well beyond me.
“Here’s why this is bad news for Biden”
Incumbent advantage is too large to throw away.
He is at this point because it’s too late to change. But if you look at what Dems have won with in the past, they almost always win when they pick a young (for the job) candidate who has a hopeful outlook. JFK, Clinton, Obama, even Carter in 76.
So who is that now? I’d contend they’d win with Whitmer. But it’s too late to change.
IMO a paper plate with “not Trump” scribbled on it would win the general
Let me tell you how awful this is. I have voted in every election since 18-year-olds were given the vote. So my first presidential election was in 1972. Yeah, do the math…I’m a boomer. The choice was Nixon or McGovern. I worked on McGovern’s campaign. We knew he didn’t have a chance in hell (borne out by the results), but I voted for him.
Since that time, there have been times when I seriously asked myself, “Why can’t I have a legitimate 3rd party candidate?” So I worked for and voted for John Anderson against Ronald Reagan.
All these years later, I am given the choice of a psychopath, or a really nice guy who, a least, has foreign policy experience, and would have a fairly consistent cabinet so we don’t get annexed by Russia. (I kid.) Imagine my discomfort in voting for another aging white man who has some chops, or throwing my vote away on a 3rd party candidate.
For God’s sake, give me a choice I can live with!
Alright, but after this we’ve got to be done with the fuckin old people, ok?
Biden is the first pro labor president I’ve experienced. And I’ve been around since Carter. Its a long time coming.
He’s the only bet.
People are always disappointed they didn’t get their candidate through the primary.
This time, they’re up against an incumbent and can’t even articulate who the alternative candidate is.
So, um, just be happy that this particular event in your life presents you with no difficult choices.
You guys had 4 years to come up with something new and yet here we are again
This is drivel. You can’t compare the polling numbers of relatively unknowns to Trump. Newsom, Whitimer, really anyone other than Biden or Harris would destroy Trump in a general election. They just need the party machine behind them. Biden has had the party machine behind him for years and has come up short. I’m so disgusted by this horrible uninspiring party. No fight, no ideas, no spine. We are sleepwalking into another Trump term.
This thread is literally nothing but straw man arguments. Glad to see r/politics has a super diverse following.
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Trump is literally what happens if you take almost every horrific trait that can be seen in a human being and combine it into one concotion.
Trump is incredibly narcissistic. He said one Thanksgiving that he was “thankful for himself”, and took credit for the vaccine rollout. There was also the time where his cabinet meeting turned into a really strange event of members basically praising him (to which Trump was very happy about).
Trump wants to be a dictator, is openly racist, and loves violence, as long as it’s done to the right people. Just look at all of the times he’s insulted Mexico! He has referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries”. He’s also said there are “fine people on both sides” during Charlottesville protests; most of the people on the other side were right-wing white supremacists. He’s also claimed he’ll “be a dictator for a day”, and commented during the 2020 George Floyd riots that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. Oh, and he’s a big fan of the January 6 terrorists.
Trump has a total lack of empathy, understanding and compassion. He said that “Hurricane Maria wasn’t truly a disaster like Katrina was” despite the fact that over 3,000 people died. He also basically bragged about having the tallest building in NYC after 9/11. He called war veterans “losers and suckers” and said that “he only likes people that weren’t captured”, and also mocked a disabled reporter. Oh, and he doesn’t own any pets, because he has no kindness in his heart.
Trump is an idiot and a liar. He suggested nuking hurricanes once, and called the death toll of Hurricane Maria a “hoax that the Democrats made up”. His COVID-19 response was atrocious, saying that “it’ll just go away” and “we have it under control” when it clearly wasn’t.
This creature has [an extensive rap sheet of atrocities](https://d3thpuk46eyjbu.cloudfront.net/uploads/production/4932/1611176076/original/LEST_WE_FORGET_THE_HORRORS_%288%29.pdf?1611176076) and god knows how many more. He is a sociopath, he is a disgrace, he is a bigot, he is a selfish, sadistic and heartless monster and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Outside of being old and unappealing Biden has actually done an excellent job of repairing most of the damage caused by Trump. Unfortunately the right wing propaganda machine has done a better job of lying to ignorant voters.
It shouldn’t even be this close…
who thought there was an alternative? 🤔
This is delusional. The idea that there is not a better, younger candidate that can easily beat Trump is just willful ignorance.
I mean. That’s sad. The dude is too old. He’s done an alright job, good even. But Jon Stewart really hit the nail on the head (as usual). Like… we dont have anyone better? Really?
Trump running is Biden‘s best chance at reelection. On the flipside Biden running for reelection is Trump‘s best chance for reelection.
Hes absolutely NOT our best bet. Hes just the only option we are being given
3rd straight potus election of ‘vote blue no matter who’ / ‘lesser of two evils’.
Without ranked choice voting, the time to have built up a different anti cult candidate would have been last year.
For me its not so much Biden but the people he has put in charge that are all working together to do great things for the country. Unlike Trump who brings in the uneducated, the unqualified and even worse, family members to help run the country.
It’s fine. It’s totally fine. GUYS ITS FINE!!!!
All of the other notable Democrats need to keep their seats. You’d be a total dumbass to try and run against Biden rn due to the circumstances of losing seats and the Presidency.
Biden has proven himself to be a far better POTUS than I expected, passing major, progressive and affirmative, legislation, holding true to democratic norms and repairing the international damage done by the Putinistas in the GOP, while avoiding the obvious traps that would lead to WW3. He has created one of the most, if not the most, diverse Cabinets in American history and seems to try and listen to, and adapt his stance, to the saner progressive winds from the adversarial left.
He should have the vast majority of American support, but this country is messed up and unaware.
Biden and his cabinet have been incredibly productive. 5.5 million new businesses in 2023, paired with the single largest expansion of real household income since the 50s.
Old man, sure, but I have no qualms casting my vote, what so ever.
The fact that anyone questions a vote for a capable, stalwart, and, yes, aging leader, compared to a criminal charlatan, fraud, rapist and outright authoritarian is well beyond me.
“Here’s why this is bad news for Biden”
Incumbent advantage is too large to throw away.
He is at this point because it’s too late to change. But if you look at what Dems have won with in the past, they almost always win when they pick a young (for the job) candidate who has a hopeful outlook. JFK, Clinton, Obama, even Carter in 76.
So who is that now? I’d contend they’d win with Whitmer. But it’s too late to change.
IMO a paper plate with “not Trump” scribbled on it would win the general
Let me tell you how awful this is. I have voted in every election since 18-year-olds were given the vote. So my first presidential election was in 1972. Yeah, do the math…I’m a boomer. The choice was Nixon or McGovern. I worked on McGovern’s campaign. We knew he didn’t have a chance in hell (borne out by the results), but I voted for him.
Since that time, there have been times when I seriously asked myself, “Why can’t I have a legitimate 3rd party candidate?” So I worked for and voted for John Anderson against Ronald Reagan.
All these years later, I am given the choice of a psychopath, or a really nice guy who, a least, has foreign policy experience, and would have a fairly consistent cabinet so we don’t get annexed by Russia. (I kid.) Imagine my discomfort in voting for another aging white man who has some chops, or throwing my vote away on a 3rd party candidate.
For God’s sake, give me a choice I can live with!
Alright, but after this we’ve got to be done with the fuckin old people, ok?
Biden is the first pro labor president I’ve experienced. And I’ve been around since Carter. Its a long time coming.
He’s the only bet.
People are always disappointed they didn’t get their candidate through the primary.
This time, they’re up against an incumbent and can’t even articulate who the alternative candidate is.
So, um, just be happy that this particular event in your life presents you with no difficult choices.
You guys had 4 years to come up with something new and yet here we are again
This is drivel. You can’t compare the polling numbers of relatively unknowns to Trump. Newsom, Whitimer, really anyone other than Biden or Harris would destroy Trump in a general election. They just need the party machine behind them. Biden has had the party machine behind him for years and has come up short. I’m so disgusted by this horrible uninspiring party. No fight, no ideas, no spine. We are sleepwalking into another Trump term.
This thread is literally nothing but straw man arguments. Glad to see r/politics has a super diverse following.