Fully agree. I’ve seen interviews of Trump in the 80s, and while he had his trademark arrogance and didn’t come across that bright, he was pretty well-spoken and kept on topic. He even went into detail on how he’d never go into public service, that’s for losers, etc.
Fast-forwarding to 2015, he wasn’t nearly as sharp, but he had a lot of energy.
Moving to today, he’s clearly lost a lot of that energy. His speech tends to be slower and painstakingly selected, though he still has trouble recalling facts, including his main political rivals or events from his own life. His speeches often appear as though he’s struggling to remain at the podium throughout. It’s definitely seems to have crossed a point to be declining at an increasing rate.
Well, IMO the 2024 run appears to be more “get me back into the seat of POTUS so I can delay trials hopefully until I die.” But generally agree. And it seems not all the cases have delayed quite long enough. We’re still waiting on the serious prison-bearing charges, but half a billion is a good start (especially insofar as it drains GOP coffers.)
I didn’t like the Trump of the 1980’s either but agree he was a whole lot sharper than than he is today. His spoken sentences now are long, rambling and often incoherent whereas he actually made sense in the 1980’s.
It’s obvious when you go back and compare clips from 2016, but most people can’t recall much beyond the headline of last week, which is noise that is just lost.
I would notice the same things with my dad, where I’d talk to him a couple times a week but wouldn’t see him for months and when I saw him, the decline was striking; my sisters who saw him every day / every week didn’t notice it.
Again, perfect opportunity for Democrats to play “Trump in 2015 vs. Trump in 2024” videos and then ask is this who you want for President? Sure, Republicans can play the same game, but you plant the seed first and run it every chance you can and make that stick with voters.
Perfect analogy, I see the same with my dad. Even seeing him several times a year I’ll return to my hometown and really notice it. But even for the past couple years I probably haven’t gone 3 days without hearing something ludicrous Trump says, and we see enough of his public speech that over time, we’ve accepted that whatever diarrhea dribbles out his mouth is just “how he always is.”
Did you guys see that Biden answered a question about the ME conflict while holding an ice cream cone? May as well strap him to a wheelchair and send him to a home!
Biden went on Late Night with Seth Meyers and during his interview said, “I am a Zionist.”
He surrounded it with language calling for a ceasefire, to work for a two-state solution, to stop killing innocent people in Gaza, etc… But he said, “I am a Zionist.”
I thought I misheard and rewound it, and cringed. That is a bad look, even if all the context around it pretty much contradicted that statement. If he wants to say that, it deserves direct and clear explanation of what he means. Even better, just don’t say that.
Biden is making a similar mistake to Labour in the UK
When you start actively trying to cover an Israeli-Govt led genocide, you basically lose all moral authority. The hipocrisy is simply too much to bear.
Electorally, its a huge vote loser for them now. Its one thing to be pro-Israel when there is a defensive response against the Hamas attack (vast majority of people supported this), but when Israel exterminates 30,000 women and children non-combatants, you basically don’t have a leg to stand on anymore. You become the defacto “bad guy”.
Biden is heading for a defeat in the election. And its going to be because of his blind support of Israel and Bibi.
Massive strategic blunder + own goal really. And we will likely get Trump because of this.
And you can imagine the shit show that another Trump Presidency will create in the global sense. I fully expect many more conflicts and wars.
I don’t think this is that big of an issue in the US - it probably gets a lot more attention internationally. It could keep some voters home, but given Trump is going to be to the right of Biden on the issue, won’t hurt him much.
Its going to hurt Biden in the EC because people will simply stay home or spoil their vote. He is definitely going to lose in Michigan if he keeps this up. He is already trailing Trump (and while there is still time till the election this is very worrisome).
Considering tRump wanted to kick all Muslims out of the country..
If they think Biden is their problem they are more clueless than I believed
tRump will fully support Bibi, Biden will at least tell him what he believes, even if not received
I’m sure the chatter on internet bubbles like leftist Reddit is more extreme than the average voter, but the Israeli offensive is definitely a concern. Rashida Tlaib just lost my respect by proudly voting Uncommitted in the primary. There is a concerning number of Democrats going Uncommitted or Marianne Williamson or another throwaway vote, and I’m concerned that lack of enthusiasm bodes poorly for the election.
I know when I was young and stupid I voted Gary Johnson, thinking I’m a smart libertarian and my protest vote will matter. (Turns out I was just a progressive raised Republican, and my vote did not matter.) I’m wondering how many of these naysayers will fall in line or actually hold to their personal standard of purity by helping Trump.
I think Biden is bound to lose a lot of progressives no matter what. He is openly moderate in a partisan environment. But it worked out fine for him last cycle, because his main pull is Trump haters, which includes a lot of moderates. His weakness is his age.
Bibi’s strategy is to keep the military incursion going until the US elections, given that his only real way of “surviving” his current political predicament is if Trump comes to power. He is slow walking the negotiations and clearly stalling for time.
So effectively, Biden will keep being damaged by this until the US elections unless he directly causes the Israeli Govt to fall (polling indicates they have lost a massive amount of support).
Can he do this? Yes. If they don’t send military supplies, keep sanctioning the extremists in the west bank (they have started to), and they don’t block the UN ceasefire motions the current right-wing Govt in Israel will collapse. New elections will wipe them out of power.
This benefits Biden from an electoral and strategic standpoint because the new Israeli Govt will be a lot more agreeable to compromise. And they would also get the hostages back that Hamas has. Win-win really.
The presence of “uncommitted” on the Michigan D’s primary ballot has led to a discussion of the challenges Biden may have in getting youth to vote for him, and potential headaches that will create in the general election.
Unless a viable third party run is made, this election will come down to which side has the most effective get out the vote operation in the swing states.