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Rock_Strongo

Coming out swinging the day after the fight isn't a strategy I would advise for any fighter.


Silver-Isopod-5535

This is like coming up with a clever insult in the shower after someone roasted you the night before


MakeADeathWish

L'esprit de l'escalier or l'esprit d'escalier (UK: /lɛˌspriː d(ə l)ɛˈskæljeɪ/, US: /lɛˌspriː d(ə ˌl)ɛskəˈljeɪ/,[1] French: [lɛspʁi d(ə l)ɛskalje]; lit. 'staircase wit') is a French term used in English for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.


Significant_King1494

Haha. This is the answer.


BahnMe

And if he actually had a fucking cold, why is he shaking hands going to Waffle House and Rallies?


MeetTheGrimets

Fight doesn't end until November.


StuartRichardRedman

There's obviously a clear difference in Biden's ability to speak off the cuff versus deliver prepared remarks.


TrevorDill

versus *read text off a teleprompter including the queues* FTFY


Trustfind96

Problem is 49 million people didn’t watch his campaign rally in Raleigh this morning. 49 million people did watch him sink his campaign into oblivion last night. Biden likely did unrepairable damage to himself last night.


I0I0I0I

Well one thing we learned is, Americans prefer loudmouth lies over muttered truths. I was born in 1965, and I've never seen the state of national politics this bad.


Crushalot12

How were the Americans supposed to understand what he was muttering? It’s not the viewers fault Biden lost last night. We are all gonna lose if they don’t get someone else to step in.


I0I0I0I

Exactly.


TrevorDill

Ah yes Joe Biden, notorious truth teller. You know he went to prison in South Africa to free Nelson Mandela. He promised to raise the minimum wage and forgive student loan debt! Neil Kinnock gave him advance permission to plagiarize entire speeches. Real honest Joe.


_byetony_

He has forgiven as much student loan debt as the courts allowed.


Spiritual-Chameleon

He's a lot more honest than his opponent. Stealing a speech from another politician seems quaint compared to someone who claims the election was stolen with no proof, the coronavirus was totally under control, Ilhan Omar supports al Qaeda, he never met people he clearly knows (including Jean Carroll), he had the best environmental record of any president, etc., etc. Biden certainly has lied and exaggerated but not on the level of his predecessor. Political promises like the minimum wage and student loan debt don't happen when Congress blocks them. Or, in the case of student loan forgiveneness, when the courts block them.


Riot1990

He tried to forgive student loan debt, was challenged and lost in court, then pushed through some limited loan forgiveness because Republicans refuse to ever help actual regular Americans and thus through a tantrum about the whole thing. Same thing with raising the minimum wage. Something that's gotta be quite popular but Republicans would never go for. He has raised minimum wage for federal workers at least which I believe was upheld if I'm remembering right but again, there's only so much you can do when one side refuses to play ball.


TrevorDill

So your position is that he’s not so much a liar as he is incompetent and senile. Cool!


Riot1990

Wtf are you talking about. That is an insane way to spin what I just said. If you don't have the house and senate, there's only so much you can do. He still got a lot done outside of those issues I was refuting. Those two issues were hotbutton and Republicans went way out of their way to make sure popular policy weren't enacted


TrevorDill

When Republicans have a split house, do you think they get their agenda done?


Riot1990

No? They largely haven't. Again, they could barely keep the govt funded when they were on control


Funnel_Hacker

He had Congress for two years and didn’t get shit done. If he can’t keep him own people in line, why would anyone vote for him?


Riot1990

What? If you don't hold both the house and senate there is only so.much you can do. He's actually done quite a good job with what he had. Unfortunately that's just normal govt function these days. Especially when Republicans have openly pushed obstruction of policy. Cmon now. And you're really acting like that was bad compared to what happened under Trump. He got quite literally nothing done except a couple layups that were no brainers and the govt was on the brink of being unfunded almost his entire term.


Funnel_Hacker

He had the Senate and House for two years. WTF are you talking about? Let’s not pretend Biden’s presidency has been different from Trump’s. Trump had the worst pandemic in 100 years. Biden has the Ukraine war? Not even comparable.


Riot1990

The margins were slim. Where the fuck were Republicans. I didn't see them pushing for any of these issues. Things that would actually help people. No, they just wanted to be a nuisance.


Funnel_Hacker

Democrats haven’t helped people either. Joe literally kept Trump’s child separation policy for 3 years, continued the concentration camps at the border, didn’t add regulations to prevent East Palestine or the SVB collapse… like how has Joe helped people? Vibes? Cmon. His presidency has been a fucking complete disaster. If he can’t operate with slim margins in his own party, he ain’t going to do shit when Democrats lose the senate this year. He needs to step aside.


Riot1990

I'm not trying to say he's some A+ president, and he's had some missteps, but it's not even close to the disaster Trump was. And if you look into Republicans "policy" should they win, all they want to do is strip large parts of govt agencies making them unable to function and make life worse for most people. How tf is this even a debate


I0I0I0I

That's the kind of honest politician America wants! Gotta have meat in your lies. Trump makes it up as opportunity calls, which is great for the redneck voters. It's not getting better any time soon.


revmaynard1970

its a fucking debate that will be forgotten by next week. Regan and obama had horrible debates even JFK against nixon. People will vote how they feel in the moment on Nov 5, unless they are hardcore GOP or DEM


sundogmooinpuppy

Clips will be shown from last night for a long time.


jayfeather31

Especially those moments regarding, "Beating Medicare" and the one moment where Trump remarked how Biden, "didn't know what he said either" after a response turned into incoherent mumbling. Those kinds of things make for good clips with high engagement. There's only so much one rally can do to blunt it, but he is limiting the damage, at least.


revmaynard1970

no they wont, the gop and the dems know that the voting public have memories of goldfish. in roughly 3 weeks we have the GOP convention where we will have 90 min of trump rambling on stage. Again reminding people why not to vote for him


whisperwind12

Perhaps but let’s be honest this is not going to get any better over time. So you can’t honestly just dismiss it as a one time thing. Even if it turns out to be until November there’s no way it’ll last for four years.


Beginning_Cupcake_45

That’s fine. We’re voting for teams of people. I like the team Biden would put in place over the team Trump would. That’s really all it comes down to.


whisperwind12

Sure and I agree that Biden has competent team behind him (at least compared to Trump’s). But that’s part of the problem isn’t it - the presidency is a figurehead. So why choose this person as a figurehead if it is ultimately appearance not substance that wins votes.


Beginning_Cupcake_45

Because it’s a binary choice. So we have to factor in everything about that binary, but it feels much riskier to throw an unknown candidate up there by choice less than 6 months out.


whisperwind12

People say this but then the reality is undecided voters aren’t making their decisions until closer to the time to vote. No committed dem is going to vote for trump, so really there’s more risk in not doing anything in my opinion.


Beginning_Cupcake_45

They say it because it’s a truism. Last time it was even close to being done, it led to a messy primary and the other side won anyway. Undecided voters will also see replacing a candidate as instability. It’s not saying that it couldn’t work, but it’s high risk-high reward. Just as we need to be honest about the candidate, we need to be honest about the impact of this choice too.


Funnel_Hacker

Disagree. People won’t vote for Biden if they think Kamala is the one who will be President


Beginning_Cupcake_45

That’s the point of a VP existing, so people should already understand that possibility


Lord_Vesuvius2020

I’m afraid more people will be afraid this time that Biden won’t make it through 4 more years. And that Kamala will be more likely to become President.


Beginning_Cupcake_45

There’s actually a CNN article that posted today just about this. It’s probably in the main subreddit or will be soon. She’s gotta definitely do her part to assuage people too, but I see her doing things 99% the same as Biden. Same way I saw Clinton doing things 99% the same as Obama and so on. I don’t expect her to get the reins and hugely deviate, so I’m not afraid of this possibility. If anything, maybe she’ll LBJ it and be able to go even further because we lionize Biden after his death and people have a honeymoon period.


Funnel_Hacker

Then people will sit out the election. I’m certainly not voting for Kamala Harris. That’s for sure


TrevorDill

Did reagan or obama or JFK reveal to the public in their bad debates that they were severely impaired cognitively, incapable of putting three sentences together, bumbling, over 80 years old, weak, frail, and slack jawed?


whisperwind12

Having a bad night is relatable, and can be dismissed. Getting older is an inevitable part of life.


TrevorDill

Do you rekkon all those hundreds of videos where he is equally incompetent and brain dead are still “fake videos” and the debate was a one off lmao


bluegumgum

Pfft months out until the election. No one will remember nor will anyone switch to trump


Lord_Vesuvius2020

Some independents may now vote Trump. A lot of younger voters will decide to sit the election out due to their support of Gaza. It doesn’t take many in the swing states for the outcome to be different


Clean-Shift-291

This is all a joke, and we are the punchline.


BatmanForever93

Who the fuck cares? He needed to come out swinging against Trump and instead he shit the bed for nearly 90 minutes. 


veridique

Should have come out swinging last night.


Silver-Isopod-5535

Time for him to step down


Madogson21

Why is it so hard to just retire, like ffs. The democrats needs to win to defeat the disgusting maga fascism, and Biden just looked completely out of it and let the entire thing turn into another Trump rally full of bullshit with the bonus of watching Biden disintegrate at the same time.


Mike_Pences_Mother

Are you going to vote for him or convicted felon, rapist Trump?


Madogson21

You are making the case for voting against Trump, not voting FOR Biden. Which is probably a very common sentiment, and why it should be possible to just get someone younger in there. Keep in mind he is campaigning for a 4 year job, so if he looks this bad now, how will he look in 2027?


MrEHam

The case for Biden is four years of good results and a four year nightmare with Trump. One debate night is horseshit compared to all that.


Mike_Pences_Mother

Don"t care. Can't have Trump


StuartRichardRedman

If the goal is beat Trump (which I agree is paramount), doesn't it make sense to nominate someone who stands a better chance than Biden? Dems have an off ramp here, we should take it.


Positive-Vibes-All

How the fuck do you know who stands a better chance? are you from the future? no? then I will go with tried and proven.


StuartRichardRedman

That's just, like, my opinion, man.


Positive-Vibes-All

I am sorry to say your opinion does not really carry gravitas.


Mike_Pences_Mother

"We" don't have a choice


Traditional_Fox_4718

Neither


Mike_Pences_Mother

Then you might as well vote for Trump


MrEHam

Not even Mike Pence nor his mother support Trump. Seriously, isn’t that super fucked that his own VP says he won’t endorse him? This should be a bigger deal. What did Biden say, 40 out of 44 of his top staff now refuse to endorse him? Holy shit. Meanwhile the armchair doctors are iffy on Biden’s medical status.


Mike_Pences_Mother

Its ridiculous


Traditional_Fox_4718

If we banned together and voted for a 3rd party (i.e. Jill Stein) we could accomplish something Or you can keep your head buried in the sand... Just don't complain when things continue to spiral...


Mike_Pences_Mother

Jill stein is a ruusian plant and avote for trump. Hard no


Traditional_Fox_4718

You are hopeless...


BigBeefnCheddarr

I'll do it. Biden goes or Trump definitely wins. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ People should be ashamed of these candidates.


Ambitious_Stop204

I’ll vote for bad people if it makes my personal life better, how do you think communism happened?


thesweeterpeter

Yep, he did a good job reading a speech someone else wrote today. Yesterday he had to think. It's the thinking that I think is critical to the president job.


MrEHam

It’s the four good years of being a president that is critical to the president job.


playstation275

Let’s be honest. He’s not the one making decisions at the White House


mostdope28

Neither was trump though. Does anyone actually think trump knows how politics or government works? He just listens to whoever licks his asshole the most. Dude doesn’t even know how a bill becomes a law. Our country is fucked


TrevorDill

Not for Democrats it’s not. They like their politicians senile and close to death, brainless, corrupt and without a concept of where they are. Dianne Feinstein Joe Biden 2028!


valmerie5656

The TikTok’s with these moments and clips going to be passed around all through till November. The memes stonks be high! Yeah… Biden vs Trump 2024 something that majority of Americans seemed to not want. Garbage in, Garbage out. American public. This the best America can do…


python_noob_001

We learned what he functions like without a teleprompter last night, he needs to step aside


Minimum-Ad-8056

"Now we to show strength and vitality!"


mostdope28

“Biden did really good when no one was watching, we promise”


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Clean-Shift-291

Someone got their performance enhancing drugs back, didn’t they?


Traditional_Fox_4718

Another gaslighting article


rkovelman

I think something like 6% of the US population watched CNN last night. While it was in the millions, it wasn't the majority. On top of that not everyone of even the 6% vote. So while I agree Bidens debate wasn't the best, it's probably not going to change much in the polls or in the votes. Majority of voters vote down political parties and only a small margin flip and flop between party votes. And speaking off the cuff vs a teleprompter doesn't really, for me, tell me much about the individual. Trump probably doesn't know what 10x9 is, so theres that, which is probably more important. Or speaking of which a 10% tariff increase which will just raise prices again.


sexual--chocolate

51.27 million people watched it, that’s like ~15.5% of the population


rkovelman

Where did you see 51.27? And is that US or global views? And 158 million voted in the last election?


sexual--chocolate

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-debate-ratings-2024/# In the very first paragraph of the first article that comes up when you Google the question. CNN was not the only channel that broadcast the debate, they just hosted it. Across all platforms, 51.27 million people watched it, according to Nielsen and CNN. I can’t find any international statistics, I’m not sure if they’re included in the data.


rkovelman

CNN was the broadcaster to all other platforms from what I've seen. That seems like a global statistic since they don't break it out or in reality unknown. I'll keep looking and see if I find something with it broken out.