Joe Biden confuses Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996

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Joe Biden confuses Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996
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A senile grandpa vs a wannabe dictator. America: you’re fucked.

I'll take a competent grandpa with a lifetime of relevant experience who's slipping a bit, but has a great team supporting him and who yields consist, positive results over a Christo-fascist dictator who aims to dismantle democracy entirely.

I'd prefer a younger progressive to Biden, but youth isn't a guarantee of quality. Bobert, empty G, Gaetz, or Biden? You can throw that youth argument in the trash (Trumpster fire?)

That anyone seems to think Trump and Biden are even remotely close that you have to split hairs is laughable and shows exactly how effective and alive propaganda is.

I would too. But as you are saying it, it’s more let’s not let Trump win than I want Biden to be my president. Trump can move a lot of people, while Biden is just not Trump.

Voters need to be motivated to get Biden elected, that’s why I’m scared of what’s to come. If Trump wins, the world is going to shit.

shows exactly how effective and alive propaganda is.

yes, your comment really does. The whole point is to give you an illusion of choice, and you're lapping it up, while they keep the systems that oppress us all chugging along uninterrupted. You really showed them!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230803021951/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic

https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

Trump wouldn't even know the name Francois Mitterrand. He would not even know he was president long before Macron. Or where France is.

I take the grandpa that sometimes has those name hick-ups then the grandpa with the swastika armlet.

I am not for the US so it does not apply to me… but yes I would also take Biden. He is still ok I guess. The problem is that 5 years down the pipe he’s shape will deteriorate even further.

The US has had a puppet presidency at least twice that I can remember: Woodrow Wilson after his stroke, and Reagan when he went senile in office.

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sometimes has those name hick-ups

I like that you interpreted it as hick-ups, as if it were a mistake/fuck-up made by a hick, lol

As a hick, I assure you he ain't. He just acts folksy like so many other politicians.

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A senile grandpa vs a senile grandpa wannabe dictator.

They are 3 years apart in age, that's nothing at that point in life.

That’s not how being senile works. There are people that are 95 years old and still sharp. I know a guy who was fucked up as hell when he was 70.

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