• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Biden said he wouldn’t run again three years ago. We already did that.

    Here’s the thing that pisses me the fuck off: Biden is old - he’ll be critized about that… Jon Stewart is basically the kids gloves warm up round. If pundits and Biden don’t have counter arguments for Stewart then they’ll be fucking worthless when it comes to Trump and Fox News… and those assholes will be a lot less polite and even in their attack.

    I was a voter in 2016, I remember “Thou shalt not validly critize Hillary during the primary”… and Sanders didn’t, he used fucking kids gloves on her and then in the general when she was accused of being a corporate stooge she deer-in-the-headlights and we got Trump.

    Candidates will be critized, it’ll happen regardless of what their party does - Trump’s team has had a big folder of oppo research on Biden since 2018. It’s the candidate’s job to respond to that criticism and it’s our, the candidate’s buddies, job to attack him early to defuse those flaws so they don’t come out two days before the election.

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      9 months ago

      Trump is just as old. Ask a Republican, a conservative pundit or a vaguely conservative voter and Trump is the peak of the human form, strong as an oak and in full posession of superhuman intellectual prowess.

      You want to complain that a candidate is old? That’s the one you are supposed to be focusing on.

      For the record, Sanders didn’t criticise Clinton. His followers did. Ruthlessly. Constantly. With this exact playbook. He tried to stop them and we all realized in horror he couldn’t. The berniebros didn’t lose the 2016 election, because they didn’t really influence much either way, but they sure as hell didn’t help.