The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
Rolling into the oval office at 11, zoning out for the intelligence briefing, whining until they let him wander away and watch fox. That was Trump every damn day
"every problem" to include hurricanes
just in case anyone forgot he wanted to nuke a hurricane, turning a large damaging storm into a large damaging radioactive storm
And his briefings had to include either a picture of him or his name plastered all over the paper. He wanted pictures not words and all on one page. What a leader!! 🙄
That was also so he could bill the federal government an exorbitant rate for the Secret Service who had to stay on his property. But yeah the laziness too.
and the insanity/projection of his ragging on Obama for golfing and his swearing up & down he'd work nonstop
did even the most gullible kool-aid drinker believe that?
Trump's philosophy is that the impact of just saying/doing something to help you in the moment is greater than any accountability for it later. Trump's mentor was mob lawyer Roy Cohn--you just commit crimes and bribe the jury later or whatever.
I think it's more that dem voters actually expect basic competence from their elected officials... Repub voters are happy as long as "the woke" are made miserable, regardless of if it actively makes their own lives measurably worse
This. The modern Trump GOP voter only cares about leaders looking as if they have the will to hurt people and punish them. Nothing else matters. Also, the media uses the excuse that Trump's antics are "old news" but Biden having to ever sleep is "new news" and should be talked about more.
10-to-4 would double the effort he put in last time (when, in all likelihood, he was healthier than he is now).
So more like 12-3!
bsky.app/profile/robp...
That undercounts it!
He spent NINE HOURS A DAY "tweeting, phoning friends and watching television.
Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — typically the daily work of being president — consumed barely more than three hours of his day."
www.politico.com/story/2018/1...
People have never held Trump to the same standards that they hold Democrats.
They never will. I am not sure that could be forced. It would be awesome if it could.
Yes, the Stevens, Miller and Bannon, Mnuchin and Jared the son-in-law and his wife Ivanka loved selling off democracy piece by piece and are eager to get their old jobs back to continue their work to make America fascist for their benefit.
It’s amazing that he got away with repeatedly publishing a daily schedule that just said “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”
Common complaint from liberals about George W was going to bed early, especially after Clinton, who regularly stayed up into the early hours of the morning.
George W. Bush had daily naptime in his schedule when he was Governor of Texas — he was in his early 50s, and his job was mostly photo ops. What are we doing here?
As much as we need to do a lot of work to rebuild the Republic, we even more badly need to rebuild journalism from the ground up.
It's almost like people who want the Democrats to win want a candidate who is miles better than Trump instead of just going "But Trump does all these bad things so we have to accept a subpar candidate" like you're five years old asking why other kids get to do the things that are bad for them.
We did this already. Yes rules are different for the Dem candidate. We told you, asked for better. We were chided, marginalized, taken out (the ‘strategic’ weakness of committed moral virtue cannot be overstated). Biden is a weakass candidate still, RealDemCorp has nothing better to offer. You lose.
He looked fucking rested after leaving Office. THAT should have had alarm bells ringing; the position of POTUS eats people alive and spits out withered husks.
But the thing is, that was also *bad*. If Biden did what Trump did, (I hope) people would correctly see that he wasn't fulfilling the duties of the presidency. The frustration you're feeling is that Trump's fans don't *care*, but everyone else does.
They remember.
The media establishment is actively trying to end the republic. Why the billionaires are doing it is obvious (tax cuts to keep more money they'll never be able to spend).
Why the media minions are playing along is still very unclear.
Why do you think "slightly better than 45" is all Americans deserve, or will be sufficient to save US democracy?
DNC corporatists are just fascists with crocodile tears, part a billion.
It’s not that the press didn’t care. It’s that Trump was (and remains) such a non-stop avalanche of scandal and unfitness that he exhausted everyone’s emotional capacity for surprise.
