US "We are f***ed": Democrats despair over Biden debate performance

From CNN's Kasie Hunt
24 min ago


Biden speaks during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday. John Nowak/CNN

Democrats are despairing over President Joe Biden’s debate performance Thursday night, a showing so halting some even privately raised questions about whether he should remain the party’s nominee.

Biden appeared onstage with a soft, halting voice and an open-mouthed, staring look. He struggled to finish thoughts at points, and ceded ground on issues like abortion where Democrats have an edge.

It took just minutes for Democrats to realize how bad it was becoming.

“Biden looks and sounds terrible. He’s incoherent,” one Democrat who spent time working in the Biden administration said.

“Horrific,” said another Democratic operative.

And one Democrat who’s worked on campaigns up and down the ballot said simply: “We are f***ed.”

The looming question as the debate came to a close was almost existential: Should someone else top the Democratic ticket?

“It’s hard to argue that Biden should be our nominee,” said an operative who’s worked on campaigns at all levels for over a decade.

This debate was historic for many reasons, but not least because it is taking place before each man is formally nominated at their respective conventions. The Democratic National Convention is set to convene August 19 in Chicago.

Democrats have spent much of the past year handwringing about Biden’s chances of beating Trump in an election many view as an existential one that will decide the very survival of American democracy. But Biden himself was determined to be the one to take on Trump, at one point even saying directly: “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running.”

No serious Democratic challengers stepped up to run against Biden, and at this point in the campaign he’d have to decide to step aside if Democrats were to pick another nominee. If Biden did withdraw, the Democratic nomination would be decided on the floor.

Democrats were even talking about who it might be instead: “If I was Gavin (Newsom) or Gretchen (Whitmer), I’d be making calls tonight,” one said.

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[Cuckoman]

So, is the media going to go back and revise their explanation of what happened at the recent G7 meeting now?

 

[CaddestSlown]

Yeah, no, Jill was outright lying to his face and giving him moral support like he was a 3 year old at a dance recital. Don't get it twisted, she was patronizing him like you would a grandpa who doesn't know where he is.

"You answered every question right, you did so good!"

Embarrassing.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

He might not have a cold next time.

At the rate his brain is melting, there might not even be a next time.

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

Okay so you are just trolling. Glad we cleared that up. Since that is so obviously not true its a pretty big tell.

One of their key post-debate go-to spins is that Trump was dodging questions. She was awkwardly trying to say Biden didn't dodge, to puff him up for the audience. Every one of these events has the most cringe people in politics present, like at the conventions. Retarded, cringe, pandering talking points are par for the course.

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

global thermonuclear war. In that case, there’s no real USA left. Seems a high price to avoid 4 years of lame duck trump

You forget. These people are actually insane and evil. There is no price too high for the dyed in the wool progressives. They think Trump is gonna holocaust everyone who isn't white and christian. So what's a few hundred thousand dead in nuclear fire if the evil drumfler doesn't get reelected. It's a small price to pay to keep the poor heckin pedarinos and niggarinos from dying.

 

[CircuSphere]

She wasn't condescending to him, she was condescending to the audience. Political rallies are shows not personal conversations.

Which is why he has that "Big boy Joe gets daaah ice creeeeam!" look on his fucking face while he stares AT JILL! Instead of the "Alright, alright, it wasn't that good, thank you but hold your applause" expression/body language toward the crowd that a serious candidate would have, regardless of performance.

We aren't electing him president of the Palm Groves Senior Center Gardening Club, this is the presidency!

 

[CaddestSlown]

Which is why he has that "Big boy Joe gets daaah ice creeeeam!"

Speaking of getting ice cream, if you really wanted Joe to drop out of the race, it would be to bribe him with a lifetime supply (a few more months if we're being generous) of ice cream. His carnal, instinctual, and genuine love of ice cream probably has more of a place in his rotted brain than his presidency at this point.

It would be more cost effective than killing him and trying to cover it up. A more humane way to treat our elders that are publicly abused for the whole world to see.

 

[TETRABAX]

Yes, exactly, he is always like this aside from when he isn't.

I believe the discriminating factor is whether or not a teleprompter is present

 

[CircuSphere]

At the rate his brain is melting, there might not even be a next time.

Seriously this. He has maybe 2 years left on earth and they aren't going to be good ones. Mark my words, if they 'Fortify' him into office again he will die before the term runs up.

 

[Nate Higgers]

Somebody’s organised. Those blm protests didn’t sort themselves out. Whether that’s the dems or not I don’t know.
I’m not sure that thinking it’s chaos makes me feel better or worse about it all tbh. I guess better but cornered animals are dangerous. I want America to get its act together because your politics affects us all.

I thought the BLM “protests” just stopped because the weather changed. I was under the impression it’s common burger lore that the lefties and the negroes are more prone to riot and burn things down during the warmer season when it’s not as inhospitable to be running around outside at night.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I thought the BLM “protests” just stopped because the weather changed. I was under the impression it’s common burger lore that the lefties and the negroes are more prone to riot and burn things down during the warmer season when it’s not as inhospitable to be running around outside at night.

"Long hot summer" is a saying for a reason.

 

[Nate Higgers]

I was reading an article by some Jew in Tablet Magazine this weekend who was interviewing RFK Jr and it really did drive home to me that point that’s been repeated ITT and on the farms for dozens of times over the last several years now.

It really sucks that we don’t have any non-geriatric people who are qualified and viable presidential candidates anymore. The last “young guy” we got was a closeted homosexual black guy.

 

[CaddestSlown]

It really sucks that we don’t have any non-geriatric people who are qualified and viable presidential candidates anymore.

If they repealed the stupid "35 and over" condition then we'd probably have more energetic and acute people not blocked off from a leadership position because of boomer bias.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

If they repealed the stupid "35 and over" condition then we'd probably have more energetic and acute people not blocked off from a leadership position because of boomer bias.

This would open the possibility of a zoomer president in my lifetime. I ask you to desist immediatly.

 

[CircuSphere]

If they repealed the stupid "35 and over" condition then we'd probably have more energetic and acute people not blocked off from a leadership position because of boomer bias.

I could get into platitudes about age and wisdom but what the 35+ rule actually does is ensure that anyone appointed to lead the system is dependent on and invested in it. It prevents some young revolutionary type from crashing and burning the ship for the lulz. The problem is not the 35+ limit it is that the age celling (and in the case of congress term limits) is missing. An 80 year old career politician has about as much vested interest in keeping the system healthy as a 19 year old commie revolutionary.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

You forget. These people are actually insane and evil. There is no price too high for the dyed in the wool progressives. They think Trump is gonna holocaust everyone who isn't white and christian. So what's a few hundred thousand dead in nuclear fire if the evil drumfler doesn't get reelected. It's a small price to pay to keep the poor heckin pedarinos and niggarinos from dying.

They've also spent the last two and a half years gaslighting themselves into believing that a "limited" nuclear war with Russia wouldn't actually be that bad, how effective can vatnigger nukes really be anyways?

 

[That Chris Guy]

Oh absolutely I saw tons of people on reddit and Twitter posting pre debate about how Biden was going to swagger up to the podium and destroy Trump with facts and logic.

This is what happens when you vote purely out of brand loyalty rather than any actual interest in the politics you're deciding on. Anyone who has paid any small amount of attention to Biden over the last 4 years and isn't a drooling, gibbering reject from Idiocracy would've already noticed that he has all the hallmarks of a dementia patient. It was plain to see, but all they cared about was voting blue and hating Trump, so they ignored it to the point where it now (finally) cannot be excused.

 

[Betonhaus]

They've also spent the last two and a half years gaslighting themselves into believing that a "limited" nuclear war with Russia wouldn't actually be that bad, how effective can vatnigger nukes really be anyways?

Well for starters they probably have been maintained for the past 40 years and mostly work. Britain recently test fired two of the nukes they got from America and both were duds. No other test fired have taken place.

 

[Kosher Dill]

A lot of talk about what wake-up drugs they were trying to use on Sleepy Joe, but I'm thinking there were no drugs at all. Just an ancient, decrepit man who has good days and bad days, nursing homes are full of them. I'm guessing the handlers got optimistic because Biden had a few good days in a row during debate prep, and sent him on out for what turned out to be quite a bad day.

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

They've also spent the last two and a half years gaslighting themselves into believing that a "limited" nuclear war with Russia wouldn't actually be that bad, how effective can vatnigger nukes really be anyways?

They've spent the better part of a decade brainwashing themselves into a false reality. They can't comprehend that when the nukes do fly major population centers and military installations are going to be hit first and hardest. they're gonna be the ones dying in the attacks not billy-bob and his cousins in the middle of nowhere Arkansas. I wonder if even that would be enough to wake them up.