Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasn’t joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Biden’s age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
And after McConnell’s second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his “friend” sounded like “his old self” and that such episodes are a “part of his recovery” from a fall and a concussion this year.
This would be devastating if conservatives cared at all about hypocrisy or logical consistency.
how? people vote for the seniors to lead no matter what letter their name starts with or what color their shirt is
but there was noone else on the ballet but the other person with a different name and color would win if we do not vote for this person
Obama and Biden had someone chained to chair for eight hours because she wanted to be on the same debate floor as the demopublicans Biden still got votes https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala
Attacking somebody else for something they do themselves has never been an issue for them before now.
You have to have a sense of irony for that to be true, and conservatives tend to lack a sense of irony.
They also don’t care about hypocrisy. So shit like this doesn’t phase them one bit, yet MSM still hasn’t gotten the memo lol.
Trumps age complicate republican attacks on bidens age…
Its supporting evidence to me. Neither should be in office.
No it doesn’t, because the same people complaining about Biden are usually masters of doublethink anyway.
complicate attacks on Biden’s age
Do they, though? For that to be true, the following would also have to be true:
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The people mad about Hunter Biden making money on his dad’s name would also be mad about Trump’s kids doing that
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The people mad about Obama taking vacations (or golfing) while in office would also have been mad when Trump took more vacation time and golfed more
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The people mad about Clinton lying about a blowjob would also be mad about Trump’s infidelity and lying
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etc.
I’m going with: it doesn’t complicate anything. They don’t care about their people living up to the standards they demand others live up to, the point for them is that double-standards are a feature, not a bug.
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They’re both too old! And McConnell is a rhino who secretly is best friends with Nacy Pelosi and senator Feinstein. They all sit around together on the weekends babbling, freezing, forgetting where they are and pooping their pants like little babies.
That’s because they’re both the same person. Biden is as conservative as you get, his hands are soiled with the blood of innocent people that the drug war and police militarization has killed, things both McConnell and Biden have been behind for a long time.
They are not the same person and both sides are not the same. McConnell had a big part in turning the Supreme Court into a right wing tool to oppress women’s rights, worker rights, and the rights of minorities like the LGBTQ.
Biden wouldn’t have done that. Biden has helped people with his presidency. Is Biden too old. Yes, yea he is. But to say they are the same is just wrong.
Both sides are not the same.
Are we white washing Biden now cause he’s a democrat? I thought we agreed not to do that shit.
Read the book “chasing the scream” about the drug war and the police militarization that came with it. Biden used his anecdotal experience about drugs to shove the drug war further down America’s throat, no matter who it killed or destroyed. He’s a republican in any other free nation, but in the u.s conservatives are Democrats and psychos are Republicans. The lesser of two evils, that’s all he is.
There are levels of evil, my dude. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Learn nuance. No one wants Biden but to say he is exactly McConnell is inaccurate. Biden is obviously 3 layers of hell above McConnell. Not everything is a binary and there are gray areas. If we waited around for the perfect candidate before we decided on who should run things, we would wait forever in a hell scape because that person doesn’t exist. Take what you can and strive towards making things better instead of just saying “well, everyone is some form of bad so it doesn’t matter who we have”.
The problem is that you’re putting Biden on a pedestal while putting McConnell in the gutter. You have to realize they’re on the same level, that’s why they’re so friendly. If I had a co worker who was an evil piece of shit like McConnell I would avoid him like the plague. The fact that they’re buddies is telling, and shows you that the images of themselves they’re putting forward to us is just a game for them. When the cameras are off, they’re hanging out at the same places with the same people.
Literally no one is putting Biden on a pedestal. We all know they are garbage people. That’s not news. I don’t know what you’re reading, but it’s not what I’m saying at all. Biden is a piece of shit, of course. But McConnell is a boiling pot of diarrhea infested with super Ebola. They are literally not the same level of evil. Saying so is ridiculous to a point where I can’t take anything you say seriously. It’s like saying Zuko and Iroh were the same person in the first season of Avatar: the Last Airbender. I reiterate you are missing the nuance of it all with statements like yours.
Disclaimer: I in no way want to compare those two shitholes to Zuko and Iroh in actuality, just using them as an example of two wildly different people working within the same system.
I looked at that guys post history that you’re responding to, and it reads like post stuffing to hide this screed he has all over this thread that democrats put Biden on a pedestal. I think there’s something fishy with him.
Because MAGA is a cult and they need to pretend Dems worship Biden like they do that sack of shit Trump.
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There are at least 2 other democrats in the running that could beat Trump that are polling >10%, but the DNC won’t allow debates. If the DNC believed in Biden, they should allow debates to show all of us that he’s competent.
Who are those 2?
I’m assuming they are talking about Kennedy and Williamson. Which are absolute batshit insane people that have no chance at beating trump. They say a lot of progressive stuff that sounds great but then you find out the crystal healthcare program and that anti semitism
Yeah RFK is a joke and is bankrolled by the far right. Republicans like him more than Dems. Calling him a serious contender is a joke and a half.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rfk-jr-democrat-republican-primary-favorability/
Dnc has been entirely fucked since they froze out Bernie. That’s why Trump won.
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Yeah bruh, I’ll take Brandon over any traitor republican.
I’ll take my neighbors over any rich ass hole.
Why do Democrats keep entertaining the notion that rank hypocrisy will ever be a dealbreaker for Republicans? They have decades of evidence to the contrary.
See also: finally, this heinous act will make Republicans see the light and abandon the assholes manipulating them!
Because Democrats have absolutely no idea who they are dealing with. They have never understood just what the GOP is and what their goals are. They reject all evidence as anomaly that can simply be handwaved away with “we have to vote”.
No they don’t.
It’s incredible how fucking stupid news media is, huh?
And that’s the problem. People aren’t well informed because of their sources. Media literacy/ skepticism/ critical thinking should be taught throughout our education. But that would transform the whole system , so it won’t. If you know how to do it, pass it on.
These are people that have mastered doublethink, there is absolutely no such complication for people inside the GOP bubble. For everyone else, yeah, it’s one more minor bit of hypocrisy, but it’s not even a thing for the bleach-koolaid drinkers.
