There are a number of American voters who thought Biden was too old to be President but who would have preferred him over the Black woman candidate. I'm just saying that median Americans are stupid and awful.
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This is why I still think Biden could have won. Americans are more racist and misogynistic than they are ageist.
may 9, 2025, 6:05 pm • 6 0 • view
YOU DONT KNOW … Ok. Well maybe you do.
may 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 0 • view
A part of me now understands why Monarchies lasted so long in history. People are born stupid, it takes a colosal effort at a national and personal level to overcome that. Even then it’s not a perfect solution.
may 9, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
The irony being that a low info electorate is specifically enabled by a successful admin that provides comfort and excess. This is probably democracy's biggest flaw.
may 9, 2025, 7:00 pm • 4 0 • view
Americans are all about aesthetics. A borderline illiterate people who cannot use logic or reason and work backwards from imagery and feelings.
may 9, 2025, 6:03 pm • 53 4 • view
Shoe, you know this stuff is going to be used against you in negative attack ads, right?
may 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Dammit
may 9, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
America is, IMO, on track to become the first "post-literate" society in the history of the human race.
may 9, 2025, 6:05 pm • 18 4 • view
Wooohooo!! Progress!!
may 9, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
At my work today I heard someone say they were amazed someone else has read 5 books this year.
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
I read 10 books in January.
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
What scared me, and I can't find the statistics now, was the percentage of people who had not read a single book, at all, in the past year. It was far higher than I expected.
may 9, 2025, 6:14 pm • 3 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:23 pm • 3 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. Although, I would like to rerun the experiment and give her more time and no David Plouffe.
may 9, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, though I'm not convinced the rest of the world is really that much better. They just have different memes.
may 9, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I do not think Biden or Harris could have won. They had about the same chance of winning and the low infos and new voters broke for Trump. Harris maxed out too. I don't believe more runway would have helped her or if Biden has stepped aside any length of time earlier. But it's just a guess
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 41 1 • view
Dens did better than any other incumbent party in 2024, the world over. If "better than anyone else in the world" wasn't good enough, maybe just maybe there were other factors in play.
may 9, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
No incumbent government in the west survived their elections in 2024. They only started surviving elections after Trump won.
may 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 14 3 • view
That Trump barely campaigned and still won on the strength (?!?!?!??) of his first presidential term makes it really hard for me to believe anything the Democrats could have done would’ve mattered (found an Obama 2.0 I guess?)
may 9, 2025, 7:02 pm • 11 0 • view
Honestly I feel like not campaigning helped Trump. The media stepped up its efforts to sanewash him, people could project their beliefs onto him, everyone forgot how much they hated him.
may 9, 2025, 7:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah and as others have said, it was a worldwide backlash on inflation. Dems actually fared better by many measures.
may 9, 2025, 7:06 pm • 12 0 • view
So dumb. Backlash against a concept.
may 9, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So many people voted for Trump checks. I’ve literally heard like five people tell me this about family or themselves
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 23 1 • view
This should really be disqualifying.
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 8 0 • view
If we just accept half of Americans are dumb and selfish, it all makes sense
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 9 0 • view
Ha, I'm dumb and selfish too, but not malicious. Maybe that's the dividing line?
may 10, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
When they send us Trump voters they’re not sending their best
may 9, 2025, 7:13 pm • 4 0 • view
even as they whined about inflation!!! makes me wanna die
may 9, 2025, 7:19 pm • 8 0 • view
Or whined about waste fraud and abuse. Or about socialism. Or about government handouts.
may 9, 2025, 7:22 pm • 4 0 • view
They cannot think linearly.
may 9, 2025, 7:20 pm • 7 0 • view
Or abstractly!
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 3 0 • view
lbr they don’t think period
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
yeah it’s scary lol. Midwestern brain is very focused on “doing” and “working” and their day to day life of doing and working. They don’t like to think outside of that often. Southerners are just, well….
may 9, 2025, 7:23 pm • 4 0 • view
many Americans are very fucking bored
may 9, 2025, 7:20 pm • 4 0 • view
He barely campaigned, but the media worked overtime for him.
may 9, 2025, 7:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Sadly true, we are a bad people
may 9, 2025, 6:04 pm • 5 0 • view
I think we're aesthetically-challenged as well. It's not aesthetic appreciation that makes a baby watch something shiny. I can't think of a more precise word, though.
may 9, 2025, 6:44 pm • 2 0 • view
We may be doomed. Electing Trump twice is a stark symptom of terminal national illness.
may 10, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
I have yet to learn anything redeeming about the median voter
may 9, 2025, 6:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Woman hating has def become a thing in the US in the last decade too.
may 9, 2025, 6:06 pm • 4 0 • view
It sucks but its true, a white guy would have won probably
may 9, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I just think its darkly hilarious to be sitting here, in May 2025, Trump re-elected and going on television daily to say frankly demented things about international trade, to spent actual bytes and little posts talking about how Biden's mental health was disqualifying
may 9, 2025, 6:24 pm • 60 6 • view
It's all downstream of "Democrats need to *earn* my vote, otherwise I'll go with the objectively worse Republicans, because they are the natural state of the universe."
may 9, 2025, 6:31 pm • 5 0 • view
Was Biden too old? yeah totally. But the other option at the time was a guy who was also too old and also unqualified in like 7 other ways!
may 9, 2025, 6:27 pm • 11 0 • view
ALso, like, Democrats did the fix! Remember!? They swapped out old Biden and put young vibrant Kamala Harris up there and everyone who was so sure about it brayed about how brilliant a move it was and how it was going to win and posted smug about THEIR candidate not being old-brained. Congrats.
may 9, 2025, 6:28 pm • 14 1 • view
I still think the switch was good because I liked her better as a candidate.
may 9, 2025, 6:30 pm • 5 0 • view
She was better looking, better spoken, kinder, smarter, more experienced in government. I think she should have spent more time reminding voters of 45's dishonesty and incompetence.
may 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I didn't, and I felt robbed by the party, and I felt like my vote and voice was meaningless compared to journos at the Times and fucking Obama and Pelosi walking out the door, and I'll be bitter about it a long time
may 9, 2025, 6:31 pm • 8 0 • view
Completely fair!
may 9, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I was going to vote for absolutely whoever was on the ticket and also had no impact on the switch.
may 9, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I think it's really important that Obama and Pelosi also had no faith in Harris, pushed the blitz primary idea, and therefore cut Harris off at the knees before she even started.
may 9, 2025, 6:46 pm • 8 0 • view
Right. It was really an all or nothing thing. Part of why I didn't want them to switch (irrespective of my personal preference) was that I wasn't confident we'd get a completely unified push.
may 9, 2025, 6:48 pm • 7 0 • view
It ended up looking more unified than I expected. I felt pretty hopeful at the time. But it was absolutely the case that the media did not let up on Harris.
may 9, 2025, 6:51 pm • 9 0 • view
It was actually crushing to me than that level of unity didn’t matter in the end, it was a lot more than I expected. Trump hardly campaigned and it didn’t matter.
may 9, 2025, 6:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Biden, of course, also shares a lot of the blame for keeping Harris sidelined during the administration precisely *because* he did not want people to look to her as a successor.
may 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 5 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:48 pm • 13 1 • view
I'll never forget sitting next to a couple of Bros, about 2 weeks before the 2016 election, and they were both agreeing with each other that "I'm voting for Trump, he'll shake things up" "Shake things up" - that was the sum total of their political calculus.
may 9, 2025, 6:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Remember when media people insisted switching Biden out would allow the focus to fall on Trump’s age and mental fitness??? I do
may 9, 2025, 6:33 pm • 9 1 • view
Like of all of the things that it turns out the electorate doesn't give a fucking shit about, like obviously and provably, but they still treat it like it was an insurmountable electoral obstacle. Ridiculous.
may 9, 2025, 6:24 pm • 30 2 • view
Yeah, I mean, the press wasn't letting Biden move on. In the same way they made a big deal out of Walz forgetting which month in 1989 he was in China. Or that Harris was okay with banning straws in the 2020 primary. Just a total ratfuck by the press.
may 9, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump went on national TV and said "they're eating the cats and dogs. I saw it on the tv" and it wasn't even revisited once by the press. Fills me with incandescent rage when I think about it.
may 9, 2025, 6:28 pm • 5 0 • view
I see no difference, morally, between them and Stephen Miller.
may 9, 2025, 6:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I would be much more willing to accept it if they just said the truth, which is, Biden's mental degredation was too much -for me- to vote for him, because that is actually, obivously, what is going on there
may 9, 2025, 6:27 pm • 16 0 • view
Personal $0.02: I think that a small but statistically significant percentage of the potentially gettable electorate was never going to vote for Harris because of her gender and her race, and I think those people deserve whatever fate awaits them in the Trump administration.
may 9, 2025, 6:51 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m not sure why people take Biden’s statement as egotistical. Frankly, he’s not wrong. He could(?) have won. Would it have been close, yes. But Americans are sexists, racists aholes. So yeah, his stmt was direct. But, I understood it. Ppl just want to be mad. Gives something to direct anger at.
may 9, 2025, 6:12 pm • 4 0 • view