“Oh but Biden—“
Is not Trump. That’s how you end the sentence in the reality in which we live.
It sucks and we need to change it, but your choices are the Damp Waffle Administration or Project 2025. That’s it. Sorry.
Agreed, I think this concedes something very untrue about Thursday night's debate, and that when you look past the delivery, Biden promised young voters most of what they have been asking for, the way they said they want it asked (hoarseness and stutter aside)
I liveblogged the debate and the winner was very clearly Biden, because he was debating, not performing. The current problem is optics, as in that respect, Biden failed at his job of presenting “POTUS = KICKASS SUPERHERO”
Head cold won this round.
I think it is very bad strategy and oblivious to what fascism *is* to concede that we should hold this conversation entirely on the terms of aesthetics. Governance by optics is bad, it is what fascism promises, and you should kick "optics" narratives like they owe you money
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly
But I’m talking about living in the reality of a two-party system in which a fraction of citizens watched the debate, a fraction of that read the transcript, & the rest get their news from memes and soundbites
Optics is advertising, and Biden’s job was to sell himself
You aren't agreeing with your whole heart, or any of it, if your point at the end is to do the opposite, but I understand why it feels necessary to soften that
