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I was worried he’d fuck it up but Biden killed it last night.
President Biden spoke to Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) after the State of the Union address:
NADLER: Nobody’s gonna talk about cognitively impaired now!
BIDEN: I kinda wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired.
Absolutely hilarious, did he actually say this? Lmao
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1765947902805897242?s=19
Don't we all?
That's because the anti-Biden propaganda coming from Russian bots & alt-right astro-turfing is effective.
The astro-turfers are everywhere (including the fediverse) , and a ton of them present themselves as "concern trolls" since it's a little harder to identify them that way.
I recently asked a "I'll never vote for Biden" person here on Lemmy why, what goal does that accomplish? And boy oh boy, their answers were flacid, goal-post-shifting non-sequiturs. I never replied but someone else took up the torch, and I've never seen a conversation more like 2015 gamergate anti-feminists. Just garbage after distraction after red herring.
I'll never vote for Biden because I'd have to move to the United States to vote in the elections he's running in, and fuck that.
There were a lot of people on lemmy complaining about his age and senility just a coupe weeks ago...
Thank goodness SCOTUS just ruled presidents are against the law. Wouldn’t want Biden to go to jail over the killing before the election.
It's just words, and they mean nothing. The state of the union is the ruling class' best take on kabuki theater. He's a genocidal maniac.
Do you ever write out a comment, read it back, and think "nah, too edgy"?
He's got a point...Do we want Palestine to be smoking craters or a pice of glass...that's our choices.
Rather be edgy than let the sophist's slick words draped in patriotism and liberalism distract me from a horrific monstrosity that has left over 30,000 people dead - mostly women and children.
I swear in 10 years, once the backside to fascism has seriously taken root, the libs in this comment section will still be hooting and hollering over these empty words in the State of The Union - all the while doing every mental gymnastic possible such that they don't have to question capitalism. Enjoy the backside.
Free Palestine
So that's a "no" then.
It was a speech... were you expecting him to set up an octagon and wrestle Netanyahu?
What are your thoughts on the floating harbor that's being set up?
But it's just words!
Man, I remember when I was 14.