McConnell’s freezes complicate Republican attacks on Biden’s age

Yup, Biden is 3 years older than trump.

I don't see any mental decline... Biden has always been a gaffe machine and he has a stutter he struggles to suppress. He's the same as ever.

My mistake, edited. Ty!

He's also wildly unhealthy, and if his lifestyle is to be believed, he probably should've died years ago. The only thing keeping him going is fake tan, hair dye, and hate.

Biden is too old, but he at least looks somewhat healthy.

You're right, it's never as long as this. I am young, though so I don't know how it would show in an ancient man hahaha.

I don't see the appeal in insisting everything is fine. I would rather see my leaders saying "hey, I don't feel good so I'm going to take some time to get healthy".

Voters being dumb and electing incumbent yet incapable people is not just democracy, but populism. Especially when those in power have been in power for so long that they meddle in education funding to keep said voters dumb

That's the beauty of the "can't hold the position consecutively" rule.

It doesn't matter what age, party, or how long you've been in office.

You can always run for a different office, or wait for the next term to run again.

I don't know either. It feels shortsighted and bigoted to do things like that. The issue is that when votes in Kentucky vote the rest of us have to endure how they vote. Term limits could and should be tried. So even when the voters make a mistake the mistake doesn't linger around.

You'd be surprised at the number of American households that voluntarily put themselves in such a torture chamber

The same people who voluntarily put themselves in that torture chamber then tell me that Fox "has really gone downhill" so they've gotta get their Newsmax. Totally disconnected from the reality of the world.

And that’s the problem. People aren’t well informed because of their sources. Media literacy/ skepticism/ critical thinking should be taught throughout our education. But that would transform the whole system , so it won’t. If you know how to do it, pass it on.

And that would be okay.

Correct. Bernie needs to retire

At this point it is economically unfeasible for anyone under 40, unless you are an affluent trust fund baby, to pay all the money required to run for a presidential campaign.

This is why it's always skewed towards old white men (hint: they can afford losing millions).

Judging from the Republicans presidential candidates debate, the selection is limited to idiots, stupid idiots, and dangerous idiots.

IMHO Bernie is best suited to be an advisor or advocate, if he wants to continue.

He polled terribly in his 2016 run. His popularity improved during Trump's presidency, especially during the impeachment hearings, but the Republicans will hammer him on his relationship with the alleged Chinese spy Christine Fang

Or this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff

Nope, against 2nd Amendment.

I'm 6'2 230 lbs and I look WAY slimmer than Trump. He is lying about all of it.

My guess is if you took away the lift shoes and actually measured the guy he'd be a bit shy of 6 foot and well over 300

If Trump were smart, he would have also said "we have the best scientists, and I only hire the best, you know, my personal friend Dr Fauci agrees with me that all patriots should wear masks to beat the China virus, and we're going to have beautiful vaccines, the very very best vaccines, and we're gonna use so much of them you won't believe how great we are at beating this virus, we're gonna be sick of being healthy." and would probably have handily won reelection.

I hate to break it to everyone, but we're all weird. You just stop trying to hide it at a certain age, or forget to. But yes, Biden weird and Trump weird are two different universes.

Dnc has been entirely fucked since they froze out Bernie. That's why Trump won.

Who are those 2?

This exactly. This is at the heart of so much of the corruption. Someone in public service shouldn't be able to make it a life time appointment and come out 100s of millions in net worth.

Bought and sold by corp interest all along the way. It becomes a lot harder to purchase power when there's a regular rotation of new people every 4-8 years

Hello, I don't think I'm understanding the maxim correctly. Does it mean that the boldness of youth is better than experience or the other way around?

This. He's not nearly as progressive as I'd like, but he accomplished much more in his first 2 years than I thought he could get done in 2 terms. The railroad strike thing was a massive letdown, but I understand that a major focus in that moment was the state of the economy, and it was very much getting back on track and an industry-wide strike would've resulted in more supply chain shit, more inflation, and damning criticisms that he failed to solve economic woes because he's too weak. He was looking at the bigger picture. A decent person would've supported the strikes, but Jimmy Carter proved that a decent person doesn't make for a very good president. Sometimes, you have to make tough decisions that conflict with your personal beliefs for the good of the entire country.

As an armchair quarterback who doesn't really know the nitty gritty details, I think I would've looked into nationalizing the rail industry entirely. If it's so important to national security that the workers are barred from striking and the companies are running the industry so poorly that even with unions they are skeleton crews with shit benefits and pay with an awful safety record, then those companies have lost the privilege of privatization.

Exactly how many Republican votes has Biden got for Democratic legislation? Have you ever watched a Republican primary? Bipartisanship is the easiest way to lose a Republican race.

Only liberals believe bipartisanship works both ways. I get it, I was liberal once. But I stopped reading liberal op-eds and now I don't have this urge to blame everyone else when Biden does things that are unpopular with the majority of voters.

I agree its always Democrats reaching across the aile while Republicans are straight up stripping our rights away and giving all the money to the top 1%.

It one big club and we aren't in it.

He literally accomplished that goal numerous times already.

It's not that hard to believe.

You have to remember that many politicians aren't true believers. From gay men who run on a 'family values' platform, black men or people in interracial relationships who run on a (borderline) racist platform, rich ultra-capitalists who pretend to be men of the people and promote populist crap, ultra conservatives who are privately quite liberal, highly educated people who pretend to be morons, city folks who pretend to be cowboys, those who run on a green platform while privately investing in fracking from the comfort of their private jet, those who promote conspiracy theories they find stupid, those who hate the people who elect them, etc. etc.

Just like someone on QVC selling overpriced watches, it's their job to pretend the product they're selling is the best option for those watching. When the cameras are turned off, even the more extreme ones inevitably drop the act and act more like normal human beings.

It's deeply cynical, it's caused damage to democracy, but it is what it is. It's like pretending to like arseholes if you're a waitress, except you get paid more.

Are we white washing Biden now cause he's a democrat? I thought we agreed not to do that shit.

Read the book "chasing the scream" about the drug war and the police militarization that came with it. Biden used his anecdotal experience about drugs to shove the drug war further down America's throat, no matter who it killed or destroyed. He's a republican in any other free nation, but in the u.s conservatives are Democrats and psychos are Republicans. The lesser of two evils, that's all he is.