• WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Think about this fact: Trump wants to debate. Biden demures. If we had a younger president that was capable of standing up to that asshole, they would go mop the floor with him and get on with their week.

    Do not make the mistake of thinking Biden is fully competent. Trump is deranged and broken too, but that’s doesn’t make an 81yo man suddenly not 81.

    Imagine if Buttigieg was president right now. You think he would just decline and demure? No, he would go in there and embarrass 77yo Trump and get on with his work day.

    The fact that we have to sit here and debate the relative cognitive abilities of two people this age is insane. It’s just completely insane.

    Like wtf is happening? Surely most people have great grandparents. Would you really want to be sitting here arguing which great grandpa should control nuclear weapons? This is all just so fucking bizarre and insane, I keep thinking I’m going to wake up at some point.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, not sure I can add anything to that. But the choice of suitable candidates in either party is also pretty shitty. All of them are filtered for being shit. I honestly am starting to believe the only real democracy would be something where representation are just picked at random from the population. I’m convinced statistically it would be a massive improvement.