Musk’s department of government efficiency arranged the A/V for the event

Maybe just an off day, could be that he just got up on the wrong side of the swastika shaped bed this morning…

Well, the great news is that this guy doesn’t look anything like a god-damned villain…

Fixed.

Yes.

This is good. Do things to break arbitrary school bullshit

HP anything, absolute trash

Anything that accesses Expedia.com

By the standards of the American people, the candidate should be one of those blow up car dealership streamer guys and a Bluetooth speaker playing audio of hero monologues from 80’s “step dad bait” action movies.

The presidency is not one person, it’s an entire administration and general philosophy. We’re fed a lie that these debates always matter, they matter when candidates are unknown and then have a forum to stand out as leaders and educate voters about a vision for the country. That’s NOT the case here, the candidates are wholly known entities and these fucking debates absolutely do not matter.

The people in this country, in their immediate reaction to this debate, demonstrate that they just fundamentally lack the focus, empathv and frankly basic intelligence to process the substance of this or any debate. On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler… Or a dog.

This whole night was so many layers of exhausting, but probably not for the reasons you think… No rational, serious person was expecting Biden to Willy Wonka front somersault into this debate? it was going to be what this was, the only true surprise was probably the volume of his voice (which they chalk up to a cold, okay fine, I guess) and actually how well he did quickly processing and responding to trump’s gish gallop and unchecked stream of consciousness mistruth firehose with little help from the impotent moderators for the majority of the night.

The people in this country, in their immediate reaction to this debate, demonstrate that they just fundamentally lack the focus, empathv and frankly basic intelligence to process the substance of this or any debate. On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler… Or a dog.

Actually frees up some time on the old to-do list!

Look out Saturday, cuz here comes Millhouse!

[Deep breath in…]

Wealthy men that are perpetually insecure in life because their fathers didn’t show them any outward affection when they were children are blindly and joylessly driven to increase a bank balance that they couldn’t meaningfully decrease in a thousand lifetimes in the hope that it will make their fathers ghosts smile and pat them on the head (ghosts who don’t even put out the effort to haunt their children anyways)

I’m dizzy, what just happened?

“If people’s clothes are made of two different materials, you kill them with rocks, kids!”

Democracy assures a regular rotation of bad leaders. Otherwise, we tend to see that “divine right of kings” and lifetime dictatorship thing.

Biden is squarely not a progressive, but he and his administration are technically the most progressive of my lifetime.

It’s not enough to be sure, but the above is (bittersweet) objective fact. Otherwise, for the pursuit of policies I mentioned, they are in the context of a final “nothing to lose” term, when old men fixate on sealing legacy. We elect Biden to retain the form of government that lets us openly disagree with him, fill the streets to demand change and make them uneasy of the optics until they bend.

Glad you’re making an informed, considered vote at the end of the day.

Maybe, but a “nothing to lose” legacy-sealing presidency could mean that he’d get his administration to exhaust all avenues either way. Any meaningful effort from the bully pulpit towards expansion, term limits etc. Would be unprecedented, historic and drive a needed national conversation. Same goes for Medicare for all.

Other poster said it basically, but If Lemmy as a platform isn’t disciplined enough to have a Megathead where a given major topic like this is discussed, then I’ll form my original thought, and copy and paste it across the wallet disjointed conversations to get my point across to the relevant audience.

Uh huh, “receipts” man, you liked the pirates… You TOTALLY got me… truth to power, bud. Maybe just move on with your life next time?

Anything substantive to say about the actual point of the post or did you just need to be heard today?

Last 4 years of many small and large pieces of progress would differ - a President isn’t a single person, it’s an administration and a general philosophy for 4 years.

Glad you’ll vote, because we vote for Biden so that democracy remains in tact and we retain the right to organize in the streets against Joe in his second term if he doesn’t use his second and last term to start approaching the BIG SHIT - Medicare for all, expanding the Supreme Court, immigration court reform, actually punishing people after the inevitable next January 6th, etc.

Because truthfully, one allows you to live to fight them tomorrow and the other starts hanging bodies on the wall next January. Grow up.

Why won’t you do my obvious scam? are you an old?