rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

Love how ILX is ever-ready to call people out on racist bullshit unless that person is a politician they happen to like.

Pretending to be Indigenous for more than two decades is egregious and totally offensive, and the only reason it didn’t ruin her career is because popular wisdom doesn’t consider Indigenous people as still-existing, and thus Indigenous concerns can be completely disregarded. If she had been pretending to be Jewish for all those years, many on ILX would be up in arms, and rightly so.

But she wasn't "pretending"; she believed she did have Indigenous heritage because that's what her family had told her. (And her DNA test revealed that the family story wasn't entirely baseless.) We can argue about how she chose to wield this claim during her career, but it's disingenuous to suggest that it was outright fraud.

(argh I can't believe we are having this conversation in 2024, I regret taking the bait)

feel like my eyes just rolled into the back of my head

feel like my eyes just rolled into the back of my head

You're not the only one.

i cannot think of anybody who is IT, but as a former warren canvasser, i feel fine saying she is NOT going to be the candidate. that's even more than ok. i wish someone besides biden were, and as importantly, that he or his team had any idea or inclination to have made that done. here we are.

now keep warren's name off of your FILTHY FUCKING TABLE. that's joeks more about me, not you tabes, sorry, and i appreciate your sincerity and clarity.

even after the in joke apology that feels wrong table. i am never funny.

all good Hunt3r.

From a pure electability POV, I used to think Warren would have done better leaning into a "sensible conservative" image, but now I think she should have gone more "macho man randy savage."

well pretty much every candidate would see points go up if they cut things like a wrestling promo.

Biden could bill himself as The Flying Corpse

His social media team did score a lot of points co-opting Dark Brandon which is a wrestling moniker if there ever was one

That is true— his social media team is doing okay

and his own comment about "memory is bad enough to call on you" was pretty live tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrOo59LCas

Re: Warren, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - regardless of what you think of it - was something she created, worked hard on, ran, and believed in. So saying she believed in nothing isn't fair.

The indigenous ancestry thing seems like a simple mistake, based on family lore. Not evidence of malice, but a sin of omission (i.e., not looking further into how actual native folks view and conceive of their ancestry.

Despite her flaws she might have been okay if given a chance. As it happens, almost no one did. So it goes.

xp: oh man, the only thing I remember from that era is Obama struggling to straight-face "do you smell what Ba-Rack is cooking?"

re: warren, and also hillary -- they both struck me as essentially small-c conservative in temperament and background so I always thought they should have more crossover appeal with (R) voters, but that never panned out.

Oof Hillary has the same dead-eyed "I've buried my soul in a volcano pit to do this horseshit" look Bob Saget had every week on America's Funniest Home Videos.

xp i was a bernie supporter but warren would have been an excellent president.

i don't think she was knowingly lying about being indigenous. i used to think i was part norwegian and it later turned out i wasn't.

there is no way to replace biden at this point with a candidate that seems legitimate to the voters. it's too late for a primary contest. this is a big problem because biden is definitely senile.

I supported Sanders in 2016, Warren in 2020, then realized her white-lady appeal wasn't going anywhere.

she was right about a lot of things. she has insight into the deep problems in our economy and our political system. it's absurd that someone like that ran, and we ended up with biden as president. he seems like a nice man, but my god this recent press conference.

people who are saying it wasn't that bad are in denial. biden seems like a nice guy but he sounds way older than 81.

the notion that one of these guys is functionally younger than the other one is so fucking delusional. literally any 16 year old person on the planet with two functional arms could beat either of these guys to death. neither of them could run four city blocks without dying. both of them are old, old men, and that's fine, I hope to be one too one day, and you know what I won't be asking you to do when I get there? take me seriously as a person who ought to have a lot of power. we're not the first country to be incredibly ridiculous about this, but with this discussion we are making our bid for being the most ridiculous. it's one thing to install guys ten years past retirement age as premier because you have a weird ass meritocracy. it's another to split hairs about which old ass man is marginally less out-of-it. and yet all my commie buds are carrying water for the trump campaign, senile old biden, yessir he's practically a vegetable, blah fucking blah.

they are old ass men who should sit down, both of them.

biden seems like a nice guy but he sounds way older than 81.

love this btw. can you tell me what an 81 year old sounds like and how this is different from how a 76 year old sounds, or an 84 year old

where did i say that trump sounded better? i have higher expectations for democrats

I'm only 81
But my mind is older

love this btw. can you tell me what an 81 year old sounds like and how this is different from how a 76 year old sounds, or an 84 year old

people of an extremely advanced age tend to move differently and speak differently than people who are just senior citizens. not always. some people have early onset dementia, and we have all known, like, extremely spry octogenarians. biden isn't one of them.

neither is mr. person man camera, and the framing that Biden is somehow more feeble-minded than trump is absurd.

right but trump still swaggers like an asshole which feels “strong” and biden chooses his words, which feels “weak”. this would be true regardless of their ages, but the age thing just accentuates it

scared to vote, scared to run
aint no such thing as halfway octogenarians

Thank u octo

Err anvil.

her white-lady appeal wasn't going anywhere.

but her “old smart school teacher” vibe terrified ex jocks and shitheels ervrywhar. nuff bout that.

I guess a lot of candidate viability is just “identifying highly phobic types/groups and nullifying them.” left or right. distracti them? demoralize them? cleverly buy them?

don’t argue with them, or try to out energize them w your adherents. that cannot work ha.

so applied here, biden bought some by being old and white. and some richies by representing credit and corps in delaware. and maybe pocs by standing next to obama for a minute. and some by having a kid in military.

president infinite venn diagram, with an outlier non-overlap of “elective democracy” losers.

Probably the most relatable things about Biden are forgetting stuff and having an addict kid

hmm yeah, addict kid, kamala vp. wheels inside of wheels venning venning dancing and dancing.

right but trump still swaggers like an asshole which feels “strong” and biden chooses his words, which feels “weak”. this would be true regardless of their ages, but the age thing just accentuates it

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:21 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

trump is also senile. he mixed up nikki haley and nancy pelosi, and not just the names. he criticized nikki haley, while running against her, for being in charge of capital security on january 6.

however, comparing him and biden is apples and oranges. biden is an ordinary man who is old. trump is an unhinged lunatic who acts nothing like a normal person in any way.

like, yesterday trump said that as president he would encourage russia to invade nato members if they don't pay their fair share. i guess it was a "joke"? in any case, the way he presents himself is not in any way comparable to anyone else in public life.

biden is an ordinary man who is old. trump is an unhinged lunatic who acts nothing like a normal person in any way.

ha this is actually exactly the choice.

Just a man
Just an
Ordinary man
Just trying to get by

I have faith America would elect this version over the orange heel if he would just rock the sunglasses and embrace the persona:
https://www.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732

Just a reminder Trump’s dad lived to 90-something with dementia.

trump is also senile. he mixed up nikki haley and nancy pelosi, and not just the names. he criticized nikki haley, while running against her, for being in charge of capital security on january 6.

― treeship., Sunday, February 11, 2024 1:05 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Trump's brain damage isn't really an issue for the GOP because the GOP is a brain damaged party. I mean "thanks Obama" is still a meme people use in 2024 because the GOP rode it so fucking hard when he was in charge. and this was before Trump even started running (though he was spreading the birther shit at this point). everything was his fault, then it became Hillary's fault, now it's all on Joe. they don't really give a shit because mentally they are basically children, where you blame your little sister for everything that you fucked up. Trump is just the natural extension of this and that's why he gets away with it. he's dumb as shit and gets everything wrong but that is exactly in line with the people who vote GOP.

Why we should just kill off old people (read: anyone over 60)

Never let live anyone over thirty.

I present you with Samuel Moyn, teacher at Yale, fountain of wisdom, and the author of the piece unperson linked:

https://granta.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sam-Moyn.jpg

Looks like your average male ILXer in his late '30s.

Flaky quasi-democracy designed to maintain the privilege of the privileged forever behind the smallest conceivable range of dissent is just doing what it's meant to do, but sure the problem is "old people"

xp - Obviously we should treat his opinions with all the deep respect we normally grant to any newly arrived mid-30s ilxor.

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