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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by mschuster91 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:02PM (#41028597)
> That said, it's infuriating when you have an opponent that can literally say whatever he wants however unintelligible it may be and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said.

Yeah, just three days ago, praising Hannibal Lecter, or remember "covfefe" from a few years back? Or the QAnon bunch where some people managed to assemble millions of people [1] by essentially doing "tea leaves predictions" on Trump speeches?

There is no equivalent to that level of derangedness on the Democrat side, not even close.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-mil...

Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by Izkata on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:27PM (#41028827)
Is this satire? A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.

Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by gcanyon on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:38PM (#41029419)
And Trump referred to running against Obama, and confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. It happens.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by mschuster91 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:51PM (#41029031)
> A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

That one was a response to "and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said", because that is precisely what QAnon was/is: a bunch of people poring over Trump speeches and every tiny utterance of anyone in his circle to find "hidden meanings" like alleged raids on "pedos".

> Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.

He misspeaks and needs to correct himself. Yes. That's completely undeniable.

But hell, listen to a Trump speech and to a Biden speech. Trump is just a plain stream-of-consciousness braindump all the time, Biden at least generally manages to stick to the prompt.

Unfortunately, Trump has what I call the "entertainer instinct": he knows exactly and most especially instinctively how to entertain masses, how to make pictures and quotes. The best example is him getting shot - 99.999% of people would have fled, he raises his fist and yells "fight".

And in a political climate where it's not facts but pure and utter showmanship that wins an election, that's a problem.