75 points

Not well enough to run a campaign against Trump, but totally fine to keep running the Great Satan.

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Tbh, the administrative state kind of runs itself. The president sets a direction, but if the president just went poof and nobody replaced him, the offices under him have enough independence and competent (not to be conflated with moral or ethical) people in them that they’d just keep ticking right along.

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49 points

Literally lmao

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15 points

If the throne stopped working though the imperium would collapse instantly, whereas if Biden died nobody would notice unless someone announced it

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Kind of like how my boss goes on a 6 week vacation at the busiest time of year and the company keeps on rolling.

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damn sounds like a good time for me to ransack his house

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28 points

After the debate, everyone in the administration was bragging about Biden being alert from 10am-4pm. It just shows that he’s been minimally involved for years.

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25 points

Yes. There haven’t been any full cabinet meetings since last year, and Biden hasn’t met with the House Democratic caucus since 2021.

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If I were in such a position as to report directly to the president (inshallah I never find myself so corrupted in spirit to find myself in such a den of thieves) I feel comfortable using my gut instinct instead of having him decide between the red option or the blue option.

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62 points

It’s probably the case that Biden’s flubs are getting a lot less attention now.

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25 points

Can I get you restate that in written language? I’m guessing that means “no shit”, but I really have no idea if that’s what you meant.

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40 points

I think it translates to, whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy etc.

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38 points

Don’t forget we’ve already had 8 years of Dick Cheney/Karl Rove and Rummy running the country while Curious George was continuing “story time” like a deer in the headlights as a terrorist attack exploded the World Trade Center.

We all pretty calloused now.

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52 points

Haha everything is fine haha! He’s totally competent to stay in office for the rest of his term haha. Hey, look over there! [Disappear in a puff of smoke]

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32 points

He can be a puppet executive. He can’t be a puppet nominee. Not sure what is so difficult about this.

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How do we even know if everything’s normal? Tbh I think Kamala will do worse than a sundowning Biden. I think she’s going to get wrecked

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We’ll see. Donny lost his magic touch judging by his lack of posting power, and Kamala is both Not Trump and not a shambling corpse. Biden deciding to not run is also a signal to the donor class that she’s willing to play ball

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Kamala looks different. Instead of being a geriatric white man with ancient views she she is a young (for Washington) non-white woman with abhorrent views. In a society as superficial as the American that change in aesthetics could be enough to feel like a meaningful change and convince enough people to vote.

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Tbh I think Kamala will do worse than a sundowning Biden.

Whys that? Seems normies are more excited for a girl boss story than voting in a dinosaur

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She might do ok, but she has a history of not actually being very good at campaigning. She’s just kind of an awkward person with a tin ear for politics. She’s clearly more comfortable arguing a case than doing a stump speech

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9 points

Lanyards are more excited. Normal people either functionally don’t know who Kamala is or just don’t care.

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Normal people didn’t like Biden or Trump, and now they’re just relieved they have someone new. She’ll probably win on that alone.

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Normies do not like women dude esp a black one. Like, for all the idpol crap Dems say about Hillary not being elected because she’s a girl, it’s fucking true. This country runs on image, and idpol, politics is a glorified influencer competition. Let’s be real.

Normies don’t know the difference between NAFTA or NATO, they don’t know about Hillary’s war crimes motherfucker. Your average voter for a presidential candidate doesn’t know much aside from each candidates profile pic

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