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It'd be nice if there was one on a less ideologically-homogeneous subreddit than that. I'm a great big auld lefty on the vast majority of issues, but the groupthink over there is too strong for my liking.
If you don't agree with the talking points, you get banned.
Edit: Even if you agree with them in general, you get banned for contradicting talking points.
There is no such thing as unmoderated discussion on reddit. I've been banned from subs that specifically say they never moderate comments outside of spam
Literally got banned for citing the Jefferson library to prove that Jefferson had said something. "Being combative with a moderator".
Someone didn't like being proven wrong.
I hate to say it but I’m pretty sure if Biden hadn’t performed so poorly the front page would be full of debate content. It’s so quiet because Reddit is heavily biased towards progressives and tonight we don’t have a whole lot to celebrate.
He came alive a little in the second half but unless you can see through Trumps blatant lies it looked like a pretty definitive victory for Trump tonight. More reason to make sure to vote in November, don’t become disheartened.
You can't blame moderators for wanting to halt discussion of the biggest political story of the day?? Why, because it didn't go favorably for their candidate? Of course you can blame them, if honest self-reflection and discussion was not verboten, the Democrats and their supporters would not be in this hole the have dug for themselves now.
It's because Biden performed horribly lol. No one on reddit wants to even discuss the debate after that. Trump was his typical bullshitting self but Biden is very clearly degraded severely, meanwhile reddit has been trying to make it seem like Trump was the one degrading for the past several months. So that's why yall aren't seeing anything about the debate lol
Biden didnt need to be great, just good. I knew he wouldn't be sharp, but I was expecting something similar to the state of the union or slightly less.
When he started to speak...I immediately wanted the DNC to figure a way to switch candidates. His tone, his mumbling, his cough, loosing his train of thought. I was shocked he was this bad. Shocked. Even if it's an off day, he can't have days like this is he's brokering a peace deal, or negotiating, or commanding the military during an attack.
Yes, we'd be better off with a Biden admin instead of a Trump admin. But let's get real, Biden won't win looking like this.
Just watching him old man shuffle to the podium was painful. The DNC are out of their fucking minds going for a 2nd Biden term instead of looking for a replacement.
The DNC has made questionable choices in this century. When you aspire to oppose from the middle to preserve the status quo, you're apparently not inspired.
That a man who silenced Anita Hill so he could play footsie with Strom Thurmond should have been ineligible for the top of the ticket.
Because the DNC and Center-Right Democratic Party leadership is fully aware that a 2024 Democratic Primary probably would have resulted in a Bernie Sanders victory for the Nomination. Bernie came in a relatively close second place in 2016 and 2020 (about 46% of the votes), and a 2024 Primary would have no groomed DNC favorite on the level of a Hillary or a Biden. Just Kamala. Who had to drop out months before the voting even started in 2020 and came in 5th place in her own home state of California (which Bernie won by double digits over Biden in 2020). The DNC views Bernie Sanders as equivalent to or worse than Trump. Just look at a lot of the Moderate and Conservative Democrats' animus against The Squad or Jamaal Bowman.
They frequently compare Progressives, AOC, and Bernie to MAGA. They would rather take a gamble on stretching Biden past the snapping point to get him a 2nd term and heavily risk losing to Trump than Sanders becoming President. Bernie is a threat to the interests of the Democratic Party's corporate donors. Trump isn't. Fascists are still a friend of Capital and the wealthy. Social Democrats and Socialists aren't.
In the state of the union - he was going off a prompter and did fine. He clearly cannot handle someone else hitting him with new information and forcing him to be quick on his feet. He is slow, and even at the state of the union, his only flubs happened when Marjorie Taylor Greene piped up - another situation where he had to be quick on his feet.
A debate was doomed to be a disaster, I've been pointing out how slow he is even to my most blindly pro establishment friends. It's just that after tonight, they finally believe me. Even I didn't expect it to be this catastrophic though.
He was speaking so quickly and robotically, like he was rushing through a list of talking points.
Absolute deathknell when he confusedly said that he beat medicare.
Trump was lying relentlessly yet somehow came across as more mentally there.
Between the 2 of them probably the worst presidential debate in memory. Just shocking what we have to pick from.
Yeah, depressingly, horrifyingly bad. Trump kind of just let Biden do himself in while he lied relentlessly. But Biden was too out of it to really hit him on the lies.
I’m not shocked at all. The evidence has been there for a while. What I’m shocked at is that two geriatric patients can get into the president seat in the USA! I don’t think they are representative of the best of anything. From an outside perspective I don’t want trump again…but Biden is lost in the wind. If you start singing a lullaby he’d be asleep! Surely America has something better to offer. Just to clarify still Biden over trump but that’s saying something about the state of affairs.
I listened to a post debate analysis on the radio and the commentators mentioned that the Biden camp was coming out right after the debate ended saying he struggled because he had a cold. One of the commentators say “Well then his camp should have said that 6 hours before the debate, not 5 minutes after it finished.” They’ll come up with any excuse.
Spray some steroid down his throat for Pete’s sake. When I heard he spent last weekend practicing at Ft David, knew we were lost. You don’t practice with facts against Trump.
I'm 9 months sober and fighting for my life right now not to call in sick for tomorrow and Doordash 2 handles of the cheapest 120 proof swill money can buy
I'm safe for now, it's 1am now and I doubt any liquor store would deliver at this hour. Gonna distract myself with Stargate, drink a gallon of ginger tea, and try to avoid doom-scrolling
It’s embarrassing. No presidents above 60 allowed. I want a person who’s 45.
I’m watching two toddlers argue. One is a crazy felon nazi and one doesn’t know where he is.
Why are these our choices???
Still voting Biden. I can’t have hate win.
The fact that two presidential candidates were arguing over golf scores is a loss for the country. What's worse is that Trump was rolling his eyes over Biden's score when it's been made pretty clear Trump's not all that great at golf either
Fuck man, can you imagine if the USA had younger candidates that had sound minds and could actually talk about their policies and plans instead of stumbling around and attacking one another?
We are truly fucked.
No one could. It’s astounding. Trump even took the opportunity to say “I don’t know what he just said, he doesn’t even know what he just said.” Right after Biden finished mumbling something. Damn that was fucking funny.
WHAT I'VE BEEN SCREAMING. It's like they want the government to self-implode and watch it burn from their secret bunkers congratulating each other on a good Armageddon.
Constitution needs some edits and amendments. Age limit should be one of them. Convicted felonies another. Things evolve, countries included. Time for some changes.
If by “as expected” you mean Trump being high energy spouting lies all over the place while Biden looking and sounding like he’s on deaths door, then yeah.
It’s crazy that Trump sounds more coherent when he speaks. He may speak bullshit but it has been a minute since I watched him speak complete sentences. Biden memory lapses with some questions is weird.
Joe: "I'm all h-h-h-h-hopped up on, on ya know, on a situation where, mountain dew!"
I'm going to go drink a lot. And vote for Biden on November as long as he has a fucking pulse
I mean…. Even if you WANT to spin it, how do you spin that debate to not make Biden look absolutely fucking terrible? The conservative side has been SCREAMING that Biden has dementia. This debate is not exactly the best evidence that they are wrong….
He was like this during the last election. When they debated I had no clue what the hell he was talking about with trailing off and rambling. Why are we all acting like this is a new thing? Guy should have never been nominated as president elect.
Agree to this? It’s a debate for the President of the United States. The suggestion that he didn’t have to do this and that would somehow be better for the country is absurd.
Yes honestly it's good for everyone to see. To see that neither of them should be president. Unfortunately I doubt that is an option no matter how much I'd like it to be.
But the fact that the key takeaway from all of this is that trump is bad and biden is old... does not look good in regards to election outcome.
Still I don't get why anyone in this country thinks a 78 year old and an 81 year old should be running this country. Nobody is free from the effects of aging.
They can, but the DNC has a tradition of “don’t challenge the incumbent” so unless Joe steps down, it’s unlikely. I think they need to change both headliners on their ticket. Joe did not look good tonight so a vote for him is a seemingly likely to be a vote for his VP to take over at some point. It’s been a while since I’ve checked but I believe Kamala is even less popular than Joe so that won’t help their case.
On the other side, Trump had much better presentation, but did his usual thing of trying to pass off easily verifiable falsehoods as truth. One of the analysts that was on right after the debate made a good point, it’s shaping up to be an election where one candidate shouldn’t be president, and the other candidate can’t be president.
I personally think we need an old timey open convention where delegates horse trade on candidates.
I watched a documentary on the primary in i think 1928, and it took like 4-5 days in the sweltering heat, and the frontrunners both left the convention on the second day, and by the end everyone settled on a dark horse candidate who wasn't in the running, it was cool. I hate the primary system we have, and candidates being decided by 3 states on the early ballots, and the media playing an outsized role in who is and isnt a "legitimate" candidate.
Worlds not like that anymore and the DNC is absolutely not like that. Remember like or hate him Trump won his primaries, even the GOP higher ups didn’t want him in 2016 but he won. DNC made sure Hillary won while thanking you for your suggestion.
Yes. Technically the convention delegates in August can nominate someone else from the floor and several rounds of votes can be done before the magic number of delegates for a nomination is reached.
After tonight, this is my hope.
Could we just get a presidential candidate of the CURRENT generation, please? You know, someone who is 45-55 years old? Is this too much to ask for?
I am in my mid 30s and my entire life felt like the Boomer generation REFUSING to give the steering wheel to the next generation. I see this at work, in politics, even in families where parents treat their sons and daughters like they were toddlers.
At the same time, this older generation is completely overwhelmed and incompetent in the face of the challenges of the modern world and technologies.
RETIRE AND LET US TAKE THE WHEEL
This is RBG and Dianne Feinstein all over again. The Weekend at Bernie's act is up because it's gotten so bad the body has gone into rigor mortis and is too stiff to believably move around anymore.
I mean it’s sad that we have to base the outcome on “energy”. Biden is sticking to the facts and keeping his head, just sounding old as fuck.
Trump is just lying enthusiastically. And not answering half the questions, changing the subject constantly. To me, that speaks more about how he can’t handle complex issues or focusing at all
Why are you shocked though? We've seen him like this for quite a while now. It feels like a lot of you refused to accept it before or haven't really followed him.
Liberals on reddit have been in denial about this for awhile now. They don't realize "anyone other than Trump" isn't the winning strategy they think it is.
If the secret sauce is stuttering and whispering, he clearly chugged the whole thing. And I say that as a blue as fuck voter.
If the GOP had someone even remotely competent running, this would be a wash.
This did not age well in hindsight, lol. Kudos to his marketing team, but this man has no clue what's going on. And I say that as someone who does not want Trump to win.
Democrats really screwed the pooch. If they ran anyone under the age of 60 they would have easily beat Trump.
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he shoulda had two
I think maybe he forgot to actually drink it based on his fucking performance.
You shouldn’t be surprised after watching him address the media the last 3.5 years
Don’t know where else to ask but is there no megathread for the debate? Seems like crickets on Reddit at the moment.
There’s a live thread on r/politics
That thread broke right at the first commercial break lol
It'd be nice if there was one on a less ideologically-homogeneous subreddit than that. I'm a great big auld lefty on the vast majority of issues, but the groupthink over there is too strong for my liking.
If you don't agree with the talking points, you get banned. Edit: Even if you agree with them in general, you get banned for contradicting talking points.
That subreddit is compromised AF lmao.
If I was a betting man I'd bet that most political subreddits are compromised
My friend all of reddit is compromised. We need to stop looking at it like trolling and the cyber warfare it is.
New comments are getting delayed by at least 15 minutes right now. There seriously needs to be an open forum for discussion somewhere on this platform
There is no such thing as unmoderated discussion on reddit. I've been banned from subs that specifically say they never moderate comments outside of spam
heavily censored thread
New comments seemed delayed 15-30 minutes. Pretty useless megathread.
Honestly, all of r/politics comment is not functional
I cant even see the comments wth
The most useless subreddit known to man unless you want a particular echo chamber haha
U mean the entire website?
Thank you!
Don't thank him yet, its going horribly
Fuck /r/politics
Literally got banned for citing the Jefferson library to prove that Jefferson had said something. "Being combative with a moderator". Someone didn't like being proven wrong.
Yea the mods are biased losers over there. No neutrality...
Dont be so harsh, low light in mama's basement and huge responsibility of walking others dogs is more stress than they could handle.
It’s sad that such a neutrally named sub is so biased.
And horribly boring. Every comment thread has just one line jabs with no discussion on every post.
I think that is the point sadly. Have you seen r/pics?
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Right? I was wondering the same thing. But I honestly can’t blame the moderators for not wanting to deal with that dumpster fire.
It is so bad.
Can't imagine someone actively trying to seek it out. "Where's the forest fire I'd like to get right in the middle of it."
I hate to say it but I’m pretty sure if Biden hadn’t performed so poorly the front page would be full of debate content. It’s so quiet because Reddit is heavily biased towards progressives and tonight we don’t have a whole lot to celebrate. He came alive a little in the second half but unless you can see through Trumps blatant lies it looked like a pretty definitive victory for Trump tonight. More reason to make sure to vote in November, don’t become disheartened.
You can't blame moderators for wanting to halt discussion of the biggest political story of the day?? Why, because it didn't go favorably for their candidate? Of course you can blame them, if honest self-reflection and discussion was not verboten, the Democrats and their supporters would not be in this hole the have dug for themselves now.
It's because Biden performed horribly lol. No one on reddit wants to even discuss the debate after that. Trump was his typical bullshitting self but Biden is very clearly degraded severely, meanwhile reddit has been trying to make it seem like Trump was the one degrading for the past several months. So that's why yall aren't seeing anything about the debate lol
It’s kind of worthless tbh. People just saying the same thing over and over “These are our candidates?!” like it’s a genius take.
Looks like the stuff is working great. He sounds like he’d lose an argument with a mannequin right now.
So fucking cooked lol
This debate is so fucking embarrassing
I can't believe the US will pick a president that is unable to hold a debate, pathetic, both of them
At this point we're not voting for a presidential candidate. We're voting for a cabinet.
Always have been 🔫
No, YOU'RE the worst president in the history of the world.
Other country’s gotta be looking at this and wondering how pathetic we look putting these guys up as the “best we had” to represent the US
I don’t think it’s working lol
I knew it was going to go like this... but holy fuck,.
Very likely the worst debate performance of any presidential candidate. That was beyond anything I expected.
The worst you’ve seen so far lol, we have a few more before November
Just one slated for September
Biden didnt need to be great, just good. I knew he wouldn't be sharp, but I was expecting something similar to the state of the union or slightly less. When he started to speak...I immediately wanted the DNC to figure a way to switch candidates. His tone, his mumbling, his cough, loosing his train of thought. I was shocked he was this bad. Shocked. Even if it's an off day, he can't have days like this is he's brokering a peace deal, or negotiating, or commanding the military during an attack. Yes, we'd be better off with a Biden admin instead of a Trump admin. But let's get real, Biden won't win looking like this.
Just watching him old man shuffle to the podium was painful. The DNC are out of their fucking minds going for a 2nd Biden term instead of looking for a replacement.
The DNC has made questionable choices in this century. When you aspire to oppose from the middle to preserve the status quo, you're apparently not inspired. That a man who silenced Anita Hill so he could play footsie with Strom Thurmond should have been ineligible for the top of the ticket.
Because the DNC and Center-Right Democratic Party leadership is fully aware that a 2024 Democratic Primary probably would have resulted in a Bernie Sanders victory for the Nomination. Bernie came in a relatively close second place in 2016 and 2020 (about 46% of the votes), and a 2024 Primary would have no groomed DNC favorite on the level of a Hillary or a Biden. Just Kamala. Who had to drop out months before the voting even started in 2020 and came in 5th place in her own home state of California (which Bernie won by double digits over Biden in 2020). The DNC views Bernie Sanders as equivalent to or worse than Trump. Just look at a lot of the Moderate and Conservative Democrats' animus against The Squad or Jamaal Bowman. They frequently compare Progressives, AOC, and Bernie to MAGA. They would rather take a gamble on stretching Biden past the snapping point to get him a 2nd term and heavily risk losing to Trump than Sanders becoming President. Bernie is a threat to the interests of the Democratic Party's corporate donors. Trump isn't. Fascists are still a friend of Capital and the wealthy. Social Democrats and Socialists aren't.
In the state of the union - he was going off a prompter and did fine. He clearly cannot handle someone else hitting him with new information and forcing him to be quick on his feet. He is slow, and even at the state of the union, his only flubs happened when Marjorie Taylor Greene piped up - another situation where he had to be quick on his feet. A debate was doomed to be a disaster, I've been pointing out how slow he is even to my most blindly pro establishment friends. It's just that after tonight, they finally believe me. Even I didn't expect it to be this catastrophic though.
He was speaking so quickly and robotically, like he was rushing through a list of talking points. Absolute deathknell when he confusedly said that he beat medicare. Trump was lying relentlessly yet somehow came across as more mentally there. Between the 2 of them probably the worst presidential debate in memory. Just shocking what we have to pick from.
Yeah, depressingly, horrifyingly bad. Trump kind of just let Biden do himself in while he lied relentlessly. But Biden was too out of it to really hit him on the lies.
I’m not shocked at all. The evidence has been there for a while. What I’m shocked at is that two geriatric patients can get into the president seat in the USA! I don’t think they are representative of the best of anything. From an outside perspective I don’t want trump again…but Biden is lost in the wind. If you start singing a lullaby he’d be asleep! Surely America has something better to offer. Just to clarify still Biden over trump but that’s saying something about the state of affairs.
Things already citing people saying he has a cold.
I listened to a post debate analysis on the radio and the commentators mentioned that the Biden camp was coming out right after the debate ended saying he struggled because he had a cold. One of the commentators say “Well then his camp should have said that 6 hours before the debate, not 5 minutes after it finished.” They’ll come up with any excuse.
Every year South Park gets more and more accurate. This is simply pathetic from both sides.
I always said I’d vote for a vegetable over Trump…this is the election where I put my money where my mouth is. Fucking yikes.
Spray some steroid down his throat for Pete’s sake. When I heard he spent last weekend practicing at Ft David, knew we were lost. You don’t practice with facts against Trump.
I think he forgot to drink it, holy shit.....
I'm 9 months sober and fighting for my life right now not to call in sick for tomorrow and Doordash 2 handles of the cheapest 120 proof swill money can buy
Stay sober. 9 months is amazing you can do 10 friend. You got this.
I'm safe for now, it's 1am now and I doubt any liquor store would deliver at this hour. Gonna distract myself with Stargate, drink a gallon of ginger tea, and try to avoid doom-scrolling
It’s embarrassing. No presidents above 60 allowed. I want a person who’s 45. I’m watching two toddlers argue. One is a crazy felon nazi and one doesn’t know where he is. Why are these our choices??? Still voting Biden. I can’t have hate win.
Man when Trump called out Biden for arguing over his handicap for acting like a child and Biden's retort was basically no u I died inside.
The fact that two presidential candidates were arguing over golf scores is a loss for the country. What's worse is that Trump was rolling his eyes over Biden's score when it's been made pretty clear Trump's not all that great at golf either
Yeah Americans. It's a choice between senile pensioner and fascist pensioner. I'm sure rest of the world can depend on you picking the lesser evil eh?
He either had too much or not enough, that's for sure
It's like watching a livestream of elder abuse
Two dementia patients fighting over which news channel to watch in the common room of the psych ward. Except it's the future of American government.
8o
they messed up and gave him a downer
Fuck man, can you imagine if the USA had younger candidates that had sound minds and could actually talk about their policies and plans instead of stumbling around and attacking one another? We are truly fucked.
The younger candidates would still attack one another, but they’d do so speaking more clearly that’s for sure.
That’s not allowed I don’t think
The debate right now looking like.  I'm going with Statler being Biden and Waldorf being Trump.
I was really hoping instead of a debate the moderators just hand each of them a jump rope.
I literally cannot understand what Joe Biden is saying.
No one could. It’s astounding. Trump even took the opportunity to say “I don’t know what he just said, he doesn’t even know what he just said.” Right after Biden finished mumbling something. Damn that was fucking funny.
ah fuck is the debate happening? and it's going........as expected?
No, worse. Biden looks nothing like he did at the SotU or even in the 2020 debate.
He looks worse than my 90 y.o. granddad after a second stroke. All the charisma of a dead fish on a beach.
Yep, all one is doing is lying and the other sounds really confused. We are truly fucked.
Worse, but in a very mellow and sad way
It's wild both parties decided to run these two back again. Two people like 40-55 could be fun. Hell get saucy and try out a 36 year old!
WHAT I'VE BEEN SCREAMING. It's like they want the government to self-implode and watch it burn from their secret bunkers congratulating each other on a good Armageddon. Constitution needs some edits and amendments. Age limit should be one of them. Convicted felonies another. Things evolve, countries included. Time for some changes.
Pretty much. Biden is a poor public speaker and Trump is rambling about his big economy and dodging questions about Russia.
Yeah, Trump is a pompous dick and Biden can’t complete two sentences in a row.
If by “as expected” you mean Trump being high energy spouting lies all over the place while Biden looking and sounding like he’s on deaths door, then yeah.
I mean, yeah? This is 100% what I expected. It's painful, but not surprising
Should have boofed it
I feel bad for him. This is elder abuse for real.
It’s crazy that Trump sounds more coherent when he speaks. He may speak bullshit but it has been a minute since I watched him speak complete sentences. Biden memory lapses with some questions is weird.
Biden is fucking up the delivery, while Trump is hardcore lying
This aged like milk
Worse honestly
Aged like Biden
That’s what was in the can
Maybe the can has spoiled milk or not enough brain boosters.
He sounds on stage as if he shotgunned quite of few of these before the debate.
Joe: "I'm all h-h-h-h-hopped up on, on ya know, on a situation where, mountain dew!" I'm going to go drink a lot. And vote for Biden on November as long as he has a fucking pulse
Requirements for my vote - Not Trump - Pulse (optional)
If Biden is like this now what do you think it’s going to be like in two or three years. Thanks CNN you played it just right.
Even the commenters on CNN were all like fuck
I mean…. Even if you WANT to spin it, how do you spin that debate to not make Biden look absolutely fucking terrible? The conservative side has been SCREAMING that Biden has dementia. This debate is not exactly the best evidence that they are wrong….
He was like this during the last election. When they debated I had no clue what the hell he was talking about with trailing off and rambling. Why are we all acting like this is a new thing? Guy should have never been nominated as president elect.
Damn even CNN is giving up on Biden in air. Idk what happens now. Do the Dems go for someone else in the primary?
Hopefully, but not in reality. Just like how they rode that Hillary train over the cliff, they will keep riding the Biden choo-choo!
No because they scheduled their convention after the date when the name on the ballots is finalised.
We are so fucked.
Dude, like how does it get to this point? Both of them are just embarrassing
This was a HUGE mistake to agree to this. I don’t know who was close to Biden that thought this would help him win wavering votes.
Agree to this? It’s a debate for the President of the United States. The suggestion that he didn’t have to do this and that would somehow be better for the country is absurd.
Yes honestly it's good for everyone to see. To see that neither of them should be president. Unfortunately I doubt that is an option no matter how much I'd like it to be. But the fact that the key takeaway from all of this is that trump is bad and biden is old... does not look good in regards to election outcome. Still I don't get why anyone in this country thinks a 78 year old and an 81 year old should be running this country. Nobody is free from the effects of aging.
Hiding from debates wouldn’t look good either. He’s in a lose/lose situation.
He's president lmao he has no choice
Can the DNC still nominate someone else? ( serious question )
They can, but the DNC has a tradition of “don’t challenge the incumbent” so unless Joe steps down, it’s unlikely. I think they need to change both headliners on their ticket. Joe did not look good tonight so a vote for him is a seemingly likely to be a vote for his VP to take over at some point. It’s been a while since I’ve checked but I believe Kamala is even less popular than Joe so that won’t help their case. On the other side, Trump had much better presentation, but did his usual thing of trying to pass off easily verifiable falsehoods as truth. One of the analysts that was on right after the debate made a good point, it’s shaping up to be an election where one candidate shouldn’t be president, and the other candidate can’t be president.
I personally think we need an old timey open convention where delegates horse trade on candidates. I watched a documentary on the primary in i think 1928, and it took like 4-5 days in the sweltering heat, and the frontrunners both left the convention on the second day, and by the end everyone settled on a dark horse candidate who wasn't in the running, it was cool. I hate the primary system we have, and candidates being decided by 3 states on the early ballots, and the media playing an outsized role in who is and isnt a "legitimate" candidate.
Worlds not like that anymore and the DNC is absolutely not like that. Remember like or hate him Trump won his primaries, even the GOP higher ups didn’t want him in 2016 but he won. DNC made sure Hillary won while thanking you for your suggestion.
“One candidate can’t be President and the other shouldn’t be president.” That is the single best summary of this election that I have heard.
A couple of Biden's own supporters on the CNN panel suggested this
Yes. Technically the convention delegates in August can nominate someone else from the floor and several rounds of votes can be done before the magic number of delegates for a nomination is reached. After tonight, this is my hope.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS IN THAT CAN?!
80 years.
Fentanyl
Must have given him the presidential dose
These can’t be our only two options 🤦♂️
Giant douche vs turd sandwich sequel 7? 10?
Could we just get a presidential candidate of the CURRENT generation, please? You know, someone who is 45-55 years old? Is this too much to ask for? I am in my mid 30s and my entire life felt like the Boomer generation REFUSING to give the steering wheel to the next generation. I see this at work, in politics, even in families where parents treat their sons and daughters like they were toddlers. At the same time, this older generation is completely overwhelmed and incompetent in the face of the challenges of the modern world and technologies. RETIRE AND LET US TAKE THE WHEEL
Right. I want to see someone just above the age requirement. Literally someone 35-45. Just to see what it's like for the country
Damn how much alcohol was in it? He’s absolutely incomprehensible on stage. Mumblefest
Bros been cooked this whole debate man
Biden sounds likes going to die after this debate lol, holy shit the DNC should not have agreed to
When the moderator says he's only got 30 seconds left, it's ambiguous whether they mean time left in his answer or his mortal coil.
It was the DNC’s idea to have this debate, believe it or not!
They fucked Bernie TWICE for this fucking garbage fire
The DNC is a joke, has been one since they screwed Bernie
They always have been. I mean for god sake they though Hillary was going to win an election when half of her own party dislike her.
Well, I’m sure it was before that but at least some of us figured it out then. Most figuring it out tonight.
Photos taken right before disaster*
r/lastimages
it's a drink that makes you slowly die live on cnn
This didn’t age well.
Honestly amazed they were able to keep the charade up to their base for as long as they did.
This is RBG and Dianne Feinstein all over again. The Weekend at Bernie's act is up because it's gotten so bad the body has gone into rigor mortis and is too stiff to believably move around anymore.
I don't think they gave him enough secret sauce for the debate. The guy is slurring every sentence.
Doesn’t look like it’s working for him 😅
lol if he had that before this debate you couldn’t pay me to drink it
He mixed it up with the can that has NyQuil in it. I mean, he needs to have a come to Jesus moment and drop out and let someone else run
Maybe he should have had some of hunters crack before it
Watching the debate live— the free world is fucked
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked” - George Carlin
This is not going well for Biden.
I mean it’s sad that we have to base the outcome on “energy”. Biden is sticking to the facts and keeping his head, just sounding old as fuck. Trump is just lying enthusiastically. And not answering half the questions, changing the subject constantly. To me, that speaks more about how he can’t handle complex issues or focusing at all
Yeah, saying he was rated the best president ever was shocking to actually hear him say with a straight face.
I think they are gonna be recalling that drink.
The man never drank a duff in his life
I'd also like to express my fondness for that particular beer
Boo!
Has NO idea what’s going on.
It didn’t work.
This aged so poorly so fast
I'm just shocked at what I witnessed tonight. It doesn't matter what WE think, it's the undecided voters that matter, and tonight was devastating.
Why are you shocked though? We've seen him like this for quite a while now. It feels like a lot of you refused to accept it before or haven't really followed him.
Liberals on reddit have been in denial about this for awhile now. They don't realize "anyone other than Trump" isn't the winning strategy they think it is.
If the secret sauce is stuttering and whispering, he clearly chugged the whole thing. And I say that as a blue as fuck voter. If the GOP had someone even remotely competent running, this would be a wash.
It is decidedly caffeine free
He maybe should have drank it lol.
Wish we had better options
I knew this debate would be a shit show but it has blown those expectations out of the water. Why did Biden talk about his golf handicap...?
Trump is lying, but Joe can barely speak and looks awful. This is horrific.
Too bad that not a fucking bottle of cough syrup w/ codeine.
Well we know it isn't caffeinated
Bro did they put chamomile tea in that can?
Lost in the sauce
Would this account for his disaster of a performance?
He doesn’t know what he’s holding.
Poor guy. The imbeciles running this administration (it’s obviously not him) must think we’re all stupid.
most awake he looked all night.
This is what a dying empire looks like.
I hate living through historical events! I just wanna grill, for God's sake!
This did not age well in hindsight, lol. Kudos to his marketing team, but this man has no clue what's going on. And I say that as someone who does not want Trump to win. Democrats really screwed the pooch. If they ran anyone under the age of 60 they would have easily beat Trump.
"That's my name!" he was heard saying.
Biden isn't fit to be president.
I’d ask for a refund
This photo is going to haunt us for the remainder of the republic.
So, about 15 minutes.
He looks so old
lol zero malarkey
He slipped one in about twenty minutes in
I think it was expired
Why is he inside one of those back of the truck tool boxes?