The funny thing is if Biden (when he was the Jason Sudeikis Biden) had been the nominee in 2016, he would have clobbered Trump and would now be finishing his second term.
Look, you are taunting the cognitively impaired, which is flagrant display of youngism, humorism, and I-don't-give-a-shit-what-you-thinkism. You should be cognitively-impaired shamed, and FOREBIDDEN to Biden your time until tomorrow's assay.
Some people might think this is in poor taste. But this is more Biden's fault than anyone else's, and we needed a laugh today. Also, I loved the "Taiwan and Formosa" line.
No...it's not. I'm pissed at Biden and you should be too. He should have never run for president again. He knew it, the party knew it, and most of us knew it. It was incredibly selfish of him and now we have Trump as president for another four years.
The fault lies as much and possibly much more so with Kamala amongst other top-level party officials and staffers. It was literally Kamala’s only official job over the past four years to be aware of Biden’s health status and ready to take over the presidency if necessary. Where was the primary challenge? Where was the 25th amendment invocation? Those options show leadership deserving of winning an election.
This is politics, not a kumbaya circle. If she actually thought Biden was unable to campaign or lead, Kamala should have led or facilitated a campaign against him using our political process.
What the fuck were any of them thinking about while they ignored the major initial strategic choices of this campaign season?
I have a hard time blaming Kamala. The VP is the last person who should be campaigning to remove the President; she'd look like she was throwing him under the bus in an effort to take over.
I think more about Gavin Newsom, who basically ran a shadow campaign for the purpose of... I dunno, jumping in and saving the day if/when Biden keeled over? Or, Gretchen Whitmer, or Shapiro, or any other electable Dem who saw the writing on the wall but would not primary Biden. In the end, the only one who came out looking any good was Dean f'in Phillips.
Why do you attribute his motives to selfishness? There were pretty strong indicators that Biden was, in fact, the best candidate for the Dems going in to 2024. He had strengthened NATO, got remarkable legislation passed, and oversaw the strongest economic recovery post-covid in the world. At the beginning of 2024, His approval ratings weren’t good, but nor were approval ratings of any leader in any developed country. (Canadian PM Justin Trudeau (35%), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (26%), French President Emmanuel Macron (23%) Japanese PM Fumio Kishida (15%), according to Axios.
Turns out in hindsight only avail after the fact that almost all incumbents were defeated or slapped at the polls—globally-- regardless of party. Analysts ascribe the nearly universal upheaval to lingering anger and economic anxiety from covid. (Indian Prime Minister Modi, South Africa’s African National Congress, U.K. Prime Minister, incumbents from “South Korea to Senegal” (Axio’s words) were defeated, on all political sides. But we didn’t know that, Biden didn’t know that, and most readers here didn’t know that until recently.
So, given what he’d accomplished, isn’t it possible that Biden’s political instincts told him he had the best chance of defeating Trump? If so, isn’t it possible he thought he had a duty to run again? Whether you or I agree with him is quite different from whether his motives were patriotic or selfish. As I see it, Biden knew his economic recovery and investments from the Inflation Reduction Act would take time to materialize for the average worker. Our stock market has broken over 30 records in the last year, productivity is up, unemployment is down under Biden. He knew it, but Americans didn’t. So isn’t it possible he ran because, knowing what he knew about the economy, he thought he should?
These are fair points. I should have phrased it as "Biden's vanity and the selfishness of those around him". Biden could not accept that he was nominated and elected primarily to be "not Trump". In the primaries, all the other mainstream Dems got in line behind him once it was clear Sanders stood a realistic chance. He was a palatable, electable name with broad enough appeal to dethrone Trump, and seemed to acknowledge why he was nominated when he called himself a bridge candidate. But, he has always had a chip on his shoulder and grand visions for himself. He couldn't accept the modest role that voters thought they were giving him.
The selfishness was on the part of his family and his close advisors. I'm willing to believe that Biden himself didn't realize the extent of his decline, but they sure did. And they apparently talked him into running again anyway. Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but I have a hard time believing that they all thought Biden was "the best person to beat Trump" for a second time. I think they liked living in the White House, and they chose to gamble with our country's future for a chance to stay there another four years.
He was a good president, but being president and running for president are two very different things. It was clear that he would make a poor candidate even before he decided to run again.
I'm not doing it because it's easy or popular -- I'm doing it because it's true. He's an adult, he made a choice, that choice was both terrible and consequential, and now he has to deal with some ribbing from comedians. And he's not "down" because he's the most powerful person in the world and also not the victim here.
I’m sorry I wrote fuck you. I apologize if it hurt your feelings, it wasn’t appropriate. I’ve been cognitively impaired since Tuesday. Not an excuse, just a description of the setting.
Also, I’m an outlier, but I think history will judge Biden as one of our most effective presidents ever. What he did with the covid collapsed economy is close to a miracle, ditto NATO, ditto Inflation Reduction Act and spurring green energy investments.
I also don’t think it would have mattered much who Dems ran for president. Incumbent parties world-wide have been defeated since Covid, across the political spectrum. (Japan, South Africa, Italy, Austria, the UK, France, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands, just for starters). Incumbent parties are losing, often dramatically, across the globe, attributed to covid-related radicalization on both sides of the political aisle.
Anyway. I have deep reverence for Biden despite Gaza and Afghanistan, and I don’t think he was impaired, I think he mainly fails as a communicator, which is why making fun of how he talks stung. But you’re right, he’s fair game. I need to eat a gummy instead of reading and writing substacks for a while.
He can’t be simultaneously so old that he can’t articulate himself and capable of making such a momentous decision. Choose one and don’t instead choose to sit with a fence post up your ass.
I disagree that Biden has it coming. I didn’t want him to run again, or stay in the race as long as he did, we agree there. But we just elected a fascist with plans to round up millions of people. More women will die. Our electorate is misinformed by right wing media with no equivalent on the left. Our high court is ethically compromised, advancing the oligarchs’ agenda. Real people are going to suffer even more. Sorry if I don’t see the humor in all that.
There is a pretty good equivalent on the left. It is called CNN and MSNBC. Trump cannot say the sky is blue on those channels without a challenge. I do not like Trump, but the partisanship there is obvious and was instrumental to the rise of Fox and the right echochambers.
OK -- so, I learned that I totally suck, I have no compassion ... But this is the funniest thing I've read in weeks, the only thing that made me laugh out loud so often in a long time ...
Perfect.
The funny thing is if Biden (when he was the Jason Sudeikis Biden) had been the nominee in 2016, he would have clobbered Trump and would now be finishing his second term.
I think this is probably true. I also like using "Sudeikis Biden" and "Carvey Biden" as markers for his state of mind.
There's also Onion Biden, who was the best Biden.
Didn't spray coffee while reading only because my cup was already empty.
Having Substack’s AI voice read this to me was perfect.
Look, you are taunting the cognitively impaired, which is flagrant display of youngism, humorism, and I-don't-give-a-shit-what-you-thinkism. You should be cognitively-impaired shamed, and FOREBIDDEN to Biden your time until tomorrow's assay.
Good funny comment!
Some people might think this is in poor taste. But this is more Biden's fault than anyone else's, and we needed a laugh today. Also, I loved the "Taiwan and Formosa" line.
Really loved the hat tip to Formosa
We could have beat Medicare again!
making fun of Joe Biden today is in very poor taste. Fuck you.
No...it's not. I'm pissed at Biden and you should be too. He should have never run for president again. He knew it, the party knew it, and most of us knew it. It was incredibly selfish of him and now we have Trump as president for another four years.
The fault lies as much and possibly much more so with Kamala amongst other top-level party officials and staffers. It was literally Kamala’s only official job over the past four years to be aware of Biden’s health status and ready to take over the presidency if necessary. Where was the primary challenge? Where was the 25th amendment invocation? Those options show leadership deserving of winning an election.
This is politics, not a kumbaya circle. If she actually thought Biden was unable to campaign or lead, Kamala should have led or facilitated a campaign against him using our political process.
What the fuck were any of them thinking about while they ignored the major initial strategic choices of this campaign season?
I have a hard time blaming Kamala. The VP is the last person who should be campaigning to remove the President; she'd look like she was throwing him under the bus in an effort to take over.
I think more about Gavin Newsom, who basically ran a shadow campaign for the purpose of... I dunno, jumping in and saving the day if/when Biden keeled over? Or, Gretchen Whitmer, or Shapiro, or any other electable Dem who saw the writing on the wall but would not primary Biden. In the end, the only one who came out looking any good was Dean f'in Phillips.
He's the literal president. It's part of the job. Calm down.
Biden and his family and his "inner circle" deserve every word of it. Their selfishness and vanity helped make yesterday happen.
Why do you attribute his motives to selfishness? There were pretty strong indicators that Biden was, in fact, the best candidate for the Dems going in to 2024. He had strengthened NATO, got remarkable legislation passed, and oversaw the strongest economic recovery post-covid in the world. At the beginning of 2024, His approval ratings weren’t good, but nor were approval ratings of any leader in any developed country. (Canadian PM Justin Trudeau (35%), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (26%), French President Emmanuel Macron (23%) Japanese PM Fumio Kishida (15%), according to Axios.
Turns out in hindsight only avail after the fact that almost all incumbents were defeated or slapped at the polls—globally-- regardless of party. Analysts ascribe the nearly universal upheaval to lingering anger and economic anxiety from covid. (Indian Prime Minister Modi, South Africa’s African National Congress, U.K. Prime Minister, incumbents from “South Korea to Senegal” (Axio’s words) were defeated, on all political sides. But we didn’t know that, Biden didn’t know that, and most readers here didn’t know that until recently.
So, given what he’d accomplished, isn’t it possible that Biden’s political instincts told him he had the best chance of defeating Trump? If so, isn’t it possible he thought he had a duty to run again? Whether you or I agree with him is quite different from whether his motives were patriotic or selfish. As I see it, Biden knew his economic recovery and investments from the Inflation Reduction Act would take time to materialize for the average worker. Our stock market has broken over 30 records in the last year, productivity is up, unemployment is down under Biden. He knew it, but Americans didn’t. So isn’t it possible he ran because, knowing what he knew about the economy, he thought he should?
Uh, yea, he's done well,
but he literally couldn't articulate all that anymore.....
These are fair points. I should have phrased it as "Biden's vanity and the selfishness of those around him". Biden could not accept that he was nominated and elected primarily to be "not Trump". In the primaries, all the other mainstream Dems got in line behind him once it was clear Sanders stood a realistic chance. He was a palatable, electable name with broad enough appeal to dethrone Trump, and seemed to acknowledge why he was nominated when he called himself a bridge candidate. But, he has always had a chip on his shoulder and grand visions for himself. He couldn't accept the modest role that voters thought they were giving him.
The selfishness was on the part of his family and his close advisors. I'm willing to believe that Biden himself didn't realize the extent of his decline, but they sure did. And they apparently talked him into running again anyway. Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but I have a hard time believing that they all thought Biden was "the best person to beat Trump" for a second time. I think they liked living in the White House, and they chose to gamble with our country's future for a chance to stay there another four years.
fair enough.
He was a good president, but being president and running for president are two very different things. It was clear that he would make a poor candidate even before he decided to run again.
I assume saying “fuck you” to someone is exquisite taste
I don’t claim to have exquisite taste. But I don’t jump on the bandwagon or kick someone when they’re down just because it’s easy or popular.
I'm not doing it because it's easy or popular -- I'm doing it because it's true. He's an adult, he made a choice, that choice was both terrible and consequential, and now he has to deal with some ribbing from comedians. And he's not "down" because he's the most powerful person in the world and also not the victim here.
I’m sorry I wrote fuck you. I apologize if it hurt your feelings, it wasn’t appropriate. I’ve been cognitively impaired since Tuesday. Not an excuse, just a description of the setting.
Also, I’m an outlier, but I think history will judge Biden as one of our most effective presidents ever. What he did with the covid collapsed economy is close to a miracle, ditto NATO, ditto Inflation Reduction Act and spurring green energy investments.
I also don’t think it would have mattered much who Dems ran for president. Incumbent parties world-wide have been defeated since Covid, across the political spectrum. (Japan, South Africa, Italy, Austria, the UK, France, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands, just for starters). Incumbent parties are losing, often dramatically, across the globe, attributed to covid-related radicalization on both sides of the political aisle.
Anyway. I have deep reverence for Biden despite Gaza and Afghanistan, and I don’t think he was impaired, I think he mainly fails as a communicator, which is why making fun of how he talks stung. But you’re right, he’s fair game. I need to eat a gummy instead of reading and writing substacks for a while.
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He can’t be simultaneously so old that he can’t articulate himself and capable of making such a momentous decision. Choose one and don’t instead choose to sit with a fence post up your ass.
He's not 'down', and the reason to kick him is because he's an evil demon who did Very Bad Things over the course of his career
Clearly you just have bad taste
Biden had it coming. He's why you're so angry today.
I disagree that Biden has it coming. I didn’t want him to run again, or stay in the race as long as he did, we agree there. But we just elected a fascist with plans to round up millions of people. More women will die. Our electorate is misinformed by right wing media with no equivalent on the left. Our high court is ethically compromised, advancing the oligarchs’ agenda. Real people are going to suffer even more. Sorry if I don’t see the humor in all that.
> Our electorate is misinformed by right wing media
Everyone, take a drink!
There is a pretty good equivalent on the left. It is called CNN and MSNBC. Trump cannot say the sky is blue on those channels without a challenge. I do not like Trump, but the partisanship there is obvious and was instrumental to the rise of Fox and the right echochambers.
Found the Biden relative.....
OK -- so, I learned that I totally suck, I have no compassion ... But this is the funniest thing I've read in weeks, the only thing that made me laugh out loud so often in a long time ...
lol reading this out loud is what makes it perfect!
If I didn't know this was parody I would have believed it.
Mauer, killing it again.
Thank you for making me laugh today.
Not
Funny.
Agree to disagree.
I agree with your agree to disagree!
I disagree with your agree to agree to disagree.
Too sad to laugh, sorry!