You decided who to vote for because of celebrity endorsements? yikes.

You already knew this about pretty much everyone.

I’m genuinely surprised by this.

At most I thought it was gossip for the bored (e.g. “did you hear Kim K is voting for BLAH BLAH BLAH?? She’s right, yellow-tailed Californian sea urchins are people too this is like so important you guys BLAH BLAH BLAH”).

People really vote based on what celebrities think? Why?

Sarcasm detected.

You can flip a coin and pick the better choice 50% of the time. That's still a better methodology than following celebrity advice.

That they might align at times with a better decision does not imply they made a logical decision. In many instances they were making emotional appeals, if I recall correctly.

Also, it's to hard to imagine that any of the other Democrat candidates for president could have fared worse than Biden. Bloomberg or Bernie, I think could have done a better job so far. The others were a bit green and likely unprepared for global events, but even so, could one imagine them dong any worse? There is a fair chance they could have done better.

> Bloomberg or Bernie, I think could have done a better job so far.

Assuming they had been capable of winning against Trump in the first place.

Why would a senile man who can barely talk straight have a better chance against Trump?

If the democrats didn't fear Bernie and would've pushed him as much and as ruthlessly as they did Biden I'm pretty sure he would've won as well

> a senile man who can barely talk straight

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart..."

“THE BEST genes. Everybody says so. You can ask… Ask Jean. She’ll tell you. Jean, aren’t you always saying that? See?

So like I was saying we need to drill closer to home and then you save the environment.”

Trump spoke like Eudora Welty on amphetamines. It was all over the place, garden-path on uppers; Biden can't seem to properly read off a teleprompter. Any of the other Democrat candidates would represent the presidency better, I think.

HN loves to assume that if someone bashes a Democrat then they’re big Trump fans. I don’t know GP and I don’t know which way he/she leans politically, but I wouldn’t think that their post should be read as “compared to Trump, Biden is….”

You can bash Trump's off-the-cuff speaking style all you want, but Joe Biden is actually senile. There's no comparison.

The alternative _was_ a celebrity.

May as well just cut out the middle man.

Funny how people seem to forget that.

Funny how people seem to bring it up as if it matters. He was President for four years, so he's got an actual record to be judged on. The fact that he had his own reality TV show before that is irrelevant.

This was not the case in 2016.

Well, it's 2022.

You're right. We've gone from "This guy's only claim to fame is being born rich and starring in a reality TV show, he's probably not going to be a very good president" to "We had 4 years of this guy as president and he sucked big time".