President Joe Biden addressed concerns over his age while speaking at a rally in North Carolina the day after a shaky debate performance against former Presi...

There is always an incredible amount of fear-mongering and general negativity in the US media. This is especially so for politics.

Here is my unsolicited advice:

  1. Ignore the media including polls.
  2. If you are capable, then please do some canvasing.
  3. Vote and encourage those around you to vote.
  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
    21·
    6 months ago

    Have to say that was a damn refreshing change from the vacant look and feel in the debate. May be far from perfect but I take that over the raving lunatic with an R by them any day.

  • coffeetest@beehaw.org
    49·
    6 months ago

    Biden had a bad debate night. But putting it in context, he’s had plenty of good or excellent speeches, its just that no one notices and media doesn’t care when things go well. Got to get those clicks.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      24·
      6 months ago

      It seemed to me that Biden was just in a state of shock at how much bullshit was coming out of Trump’s mouth

      • sqgl@beehaw.org
        3·
        6 months ago

        That should have been expected from Trump. Biden should have memorized statistics to counter the predictable bullshit.

        Not that memorizing stuff is important for the job but it would have been effective in the debate for viewers who just won’t fact check anything.

      • coffeetest@beehaw.org
        18·
        6 months ago

        I think you are right on that. That was at least part of it. Biden’s mistake was expecting it to be a debate and not whatever that event was.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          3·
          6 months ago

          That’s probably why they chose to go without a live audience. I don’t wanna get conspiratorial, but all this shit seems to coincidental to not be on purpose.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    241·
    6 months ago

    The debate covered important questions of national significance, including whether Trump had intercourse with a porn star, who was better at golf, each of their physical health conditions (including Trump’s height and weight and apparently cognitive ability), and even featured a modern use of the word “malarchy”. They might as well make a short, catchy intro for it, break it up into episodes, and advertise it as a sitcom.

    The debate was completely useless. The only thing I got from it was that Biden’s brain still works but his body doesn’t, and Trump’s body still works but his brain doesn’t. There were some slight mentions of hot topics and each of their positions on the subject, but there was so much jumping around and avoiding questions that it was not very helpful.

    Honestly, I think one of the things Biden said should just be applied to both candidates when determining who to vote for: “Just take a look at what he says he is, and take a look at what he is.” (I believe this was used in context of Trump’s weight… lol) Both of them have served 4 years in office, and both have done stuff outside of the oval office. It’s easy to see how each of them would spend their terms based on what they already have done.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      21·
      6 months ago

      there was so much jumping around and avoiding questions that it was not very helpful.

      Trump did this, but where did Biden do it?

      • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        I felt like neither side really answered the question about how they planned to address addictions in the US. They both talked about the US-Mexico border and trying to catch more imported drugs, but failed to address domestic production, and more importantly, failed to answer how they plan to address addiction in the US (as in current and future addicts).

        Also, the whole question about physical ability diverted so off topic that I lost what they were even talking about. Biden seemed to try to answer it, but then it took a sharp turn towards weight and golfing skills?

        Edit: I should also add that yes, Biden tended to stay on topic more. Trump always seemed to be answering a different/previous question instead.

    • Thevenin@beehaw.org
      5·
      6 months ago

      Biden and Trump are not equivalent.

      To convince us that Democrats and Republicans are equivalent, you must first explain why LGBT+ equality, workers’ rights, freedom of religion, the ability to vote, and the actual existence of science are all insignificant.

        • Doom@ttrpg.network
          2·
          6 months ago

          Oh no Biden the guy who I know what to expect from and will continue my experience for 30 years and not the one trying to get people to overthrow my government.

          You’re just mad you don’t get a vote 💅

            • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Thanks, you were the only one to tell me! 07 fellow leftist.

              And If you don’t mind, I’d like to take a moment to try to start a new tradition:

              Each year on your Fediverse cake day, in response to the first person who wishes you happy cake day, you must tell the story of how you came to be here in the Fediverse. Here is mine:

              This is my first Cake Day as I started a year ago when I joined Lemmy.world and Kbin and Mastodon all at the same time. I left from Reddit after the AMA with u/spez. I knew at that point he wasn’t relenting on the third-party apps and the loss of access for me personally, but mostly for the deaf and blind community, showed me that the CEO had no intention of putting accessibility over profit. I was an Apollo user and I was looking for an alternative while also browsing Reddit - using them as a resource, as I always had - and I was seeing censorship abound. Reddit was blocking mentions of alternative sites, blocking discussion about Spez, and the subs were rising up. I used those last few months of Apollo to help with the protests (John Oliver in /pics) and watched the proletariat attack the bourgeoisie for the rights of the people.

              Then I started going full fediverse, posting Pokémon Cards on Kbin in a lovely group with three people in which I hope to return to some day when life settles. But Lemmy had the quantity and quality I was looking for. I joined .world at first because I didn’t know what was best, but switched to Midwest.social when .world blocked Hexbear. Went from pc to phone when the apps came out. Went from Memmy to Thunder because Thunder supported Hexbears stickers! And here I am, one year later!

              • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
                3·
                6 months ago

                Thats great bro. As much as you moved towards a more fediverse aproach to social media, i wish you can continue on a journey to go even further left. You told me to go to hexbear, im already there and i think they are good, but i do think they have some lib ideas in the community. Im also on Grad, wich is feel is even leftier, but still have steps to walk towards a real proletarian ideology. Funny fact, my application for the Grad got rejected. See you around mate

        • Storksforlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
          13·
          6 months ago

          Any leftist who doesn’t vote against a facist far-right candidate like Trump is pretty shit at being a leftist.

  • Thevenin@beehaw.org
    14·
    6 months ago

    You know, it’s always bothered me that we put so much stock in debates.

    The ability to verbally humiliate your opponents is not a good indicator of the ability to recognize good policy.

  • eveninghere@beehaw.org
    2·
    6 months ago

    I think this is a universal fediversal problem. We are rather informed, but the problem is the rest of the world.

  • averyminya@beehaw.org
    41·
    6 months ago

    It was far less bad than people make it out to be. I was on a stream watching and so many comments were talking about how he looked, and I’m sitting here thinking… y’all realize he’s listening to Trump speak right? Anyone actually listening to what that monster has to say is going to either look befuddled or dismayed. He looked both. He definitely had some weak spots, but compared to Trump who wouldn’t even answer a question and blatantly lying every other second.

    It sucks. People were basically cheering him on online, the most against him comments I saw were “they’re both so old”. Not commenting on the insanity or the racism or the lies, just memeing on old Biden. Which yeah he deserves it but the rhetoric is reminding me of 2016 and it does not inspire hope.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
      16·
      6 months ago

      Yeah. This was the face of an old man having trouble believing what he was hearing.

      He looks like a walking corpse, but he seemed to understand what he was hearing and was just amazed by it.

    • z500@startrek.website
      32·
      6 months ago

      I watched it and it scares me only because of how many people didn’t notice or care that Biden was the only one saying anything of substance up there.

      • realitista@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 months ago

        People who like Tump, by nature, must be easily hypnotized by word salad because there’s no other justification for his existence as a political candidate. I’ve never heard a coherent chain of sentences come out of the man’s mouth.