How do you mean? Like, you don’t actually think campaign aids said these things?

Not sure what flogging a narrative really means

Sorry, you’re right. The original person you responded to was pushing back against someone saying

Ask yourself why the question on every MSM article is about bidens age instead of trumps pedophilia, then you’ll see why we like to blame the media

He’s definitely a rapist, no doubt about that. Appreciate you linking the case, too. But just because his being on Epsteins flight logs isn’t blowing up in the same way Biden getting pressured out of his campaign is blowing up, doesn’t mean the media is trying to get Trump elected. They’re advancing their own interests, for sure, and those interests are inherently capitalistic, but to say or infer this push to replace Biden is originating as a right wing media campaign to get Trump elected is just nonsense to me.

Dude, just because someone thinks another Democrat has a better chance at beating Trump doesn’t mean they are a “both sider.” Nor does it automatically make them an idiot. That is just reductive and dismissive on your part.

No one is saying Biden is just as bad as Trump, or Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. We’re saying Biden doesn’t have a chance at beating Trump and we need a stronger candidate.

They’ve got a candidate that can literally be criminally charged and it won’t matter. We’ve got a candidate who voter will stay home for because he’s old. That’s a huge problem.

Exactly, we all know Trump has said lots of pedophilic things, but unfortunately there is no hard proof ( yet – I’m fairly convinced there is some, out there), so a prosecution couldn’t really do anything.

But it doesn’t matter at the end of the day. The dudes a convicted felon. It doesn’t affect his electability. Yeah, the news should report on it. But they can’t call him a pedophile outright, and anything short of that just bleeds into the rest of the unsavoury reports about Trump for the past 10 years. Republicans just don’t care, or believe its all some Democratic plot or some shit.

Meanwhile, pressure from Biden’s own party for him to step away from the nomination? That shit is wild (in terms of news story), it’s legitimate, and it will get clicks. Any self-interested news organization is going to report on that, because it’s what is going on, and it is juicy.

Pandoras box has been opened, Democrats can’t just ask voters to shut their eyes and ignore the drama. Something needs to be done. Joe Biden has tried to alleviate the pressure, but it didn’t stick. We’ll have to see what happens at his new conference today, if it isn’t him stepping down, already.

Because that’s what Democrats in Congress are talking about? Because that conversation has historical and political implications for Democrats? Because donors are dropping support for Biden daily? That shit is pretty important news when it bears weight on who is going to be the Democratic nominee. How could they not run those stories? That’s not to say the mainstream media is some completely benign institution, or that it isn’t going to go against it’s own interests (ie, profit, or making money in general), or that every article about this situation has been warranted (like, any that call for people to not vote or vote third party are definitely in service of Trump’s campaign). It absolutely serves corporate interests, which align with its own, for the most part.

But Trump being a convicted felon and yet-to-be-convicted pedophile has zero implications for Republicans and, evidently, his chance of winning the election. His electability isn’t tied to his morals. We learned this in 2016. Whereas some Democrats have standards, some have fears of their own electability if they double down on Biden, and others believe that sending Biden against Trump is political suicide for the Democratic party. I’m not sure how any of that is the media’s fault.

As all should

Yeah I’m just an absolute idiot, that is what’s going on with that comment lmao. You’re right

Still, if you are comfortable with where Biden’s campaign is at this point, if you’re confident that he can win given his current approval and polls…you’re at least lot more confident than me, and a lot more confident than many democratic lawmakers

Approval ratings at the end of first term:

• Harry S. Truman: 32%
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: 59%
• Lyndon B. Johnson: 49%
• Richard Nixon: 24%
• Gerald Ford: 53%
• Jimmy Carter: 34%
• Ronald Reagan: 63%
• George Bush: 56%
• William J. Clinton: 66%
• George W. Bush: 34%
• Barack Obama: 59%
• Donald Trump: 34%
• Joe Biden: 36%

Idk dude, of the four below 40%, 3 of them did not see a second term.

Sources:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/final-presidential-job-approval-ratings

Edit: Anyone upvoting this comment is now cursed by my stupidity

Difference is, no republican cares if Trump is mentally fit to be president, nor will being mentally unfit cause him to lose the election.

Democrats and Biden on the other hand…

I believe the meme should say “approval rating at 35%”

Edit: the OP corrected me below

Don’t listen to these people who call you some sort of Russian bot. They want to shut their eyes and pretend like nothing is wrong, while we are on the verge of an authoritarian Trump presidency.

Edit: for the record, if Joe Biden is the nominee, you still gotta vote for him. I’m not saying otherwise

There was effectively no primary – no legitimate other candidate was on the ballot in my state – because they fed us the impression that Biden was totally fine cognitively.

And then the debate happened. There was no realistic way anybody but Joe Biden came out of this primary, and I think that in itself is pretty anti-democratic.

Not that any of it matters in the end, because Biden is not going to step aside and I don’t think Democrats have the power to push him to the side.

Still has a hidden card or two? Sounds pretty absurd to me. Honestly – and I don’t want to sound like a dick, so I really do apologize – but this comment sounds like a deluded sports fan in denial that their team is not going to make it out of the playoffs.

I don’t think the ship sailed if so many top Democrats and donors called for him to step aside. Evidently they didn’t think the ship had sailed yet, so I’m apt to believe them more than a superfan.

But right now, it’s looking like the snowball did not gain enough momentum to become an avalanche, and Biden will still be the candidate in all likelihood.

Would you cancel a trip with your family that was already booked, that your mom completely planned out each activity in depth, that you already paid for, that you’ve been looking forward to, collectively, for over a year, because you found out you’d be contributing to a systemic problem for a week day?

You just might be a better person than me, at the end of the day.

I wasn’t sure whether hotels had already been booked or whether they cheaped out, that’s why I worded it like that. Could be.

No no you’re good, I didn’t take it that way. I think saying “next time” instead of “you should have” is a good way to help people realize that what they are doing might be destructive, without condemning them to the eternal pits of hell, so I appreciate you saying it that way.

I didn’t plan the trip myself, and I think there was some reason or another they chose AirBNB instead of a hotel. But yeah, if I ever do a trip like this again (unlikely), fuck an AirBNB

I’m going to Barcelona this week on a family trip. We’re staying in an AirBnb for a day. I think they’ve got a legitimate cause to spray people like me, who pretty much across the board don’t realize how much their privilege hurts regular working people.

Yeah, I agree, although I suspect both of us are wrong rather than neither of us being wrong haha

Gotcha about the ad buys though. We’ll just have to see what happens I guess. Bottom line though, vote blue no matter who.