This was the election where Biden seemed to have actually turned the whole election around in his VP debate with Paul Ryan. Obama did pretty shitty in his first match-up with Romney, just really put in a poor performance, then Biden came in and it was like a kick in the butt, he virtually walked all over Ryan.
Pretty sure it's alien dyson spheres all the way down, that's the only logical explanation here.
A Planescape area/sidequest, just make it so far out there and weird, but let it have almost nothing to do with the main plotline. You find some random portal that dumps you there and it's just this weird sort of thing you get into that you never talk about again afterwards.
Yeah, I mean, nevermind all the pending criminal charges and evidence of incompetence from Trump's 4 years in office where we had weekly "infrastructure week" failures, a constant stream of garbage tweets parading as "official Presidential communications", and egregious power grabs by the Executive branch. Trump said all his same BS in a more convincing-sounding voice during last night's debate and the guy with a known stuttering issue just didn't have a strong-sounding voice, that's all the convincing I needed. Biden is just so old, I literally can't tell them apart !
Wouldn't want people learning from history, now would we? How else are we supposed to repeat it?
Why don't YOU go ahead and write me up a 2-page essay on why Trump isn't planning a dictatorship, cite your sources. That's essentially what you're asking me to do and it's guaranteed you'll give a short, flippant remark that doesn't actually address any of the issues brought up, basically wasting my time. It'll be a bunch of whataboutism, gaslighting, misdirection, and BS, that's the standard MO.
I can waste my time going through that exercise, but it's pretty clear to any thinking person that that's what the plan is on the Republican side, just look at the words, rhetoric and actions they've been taking for the past 10+ years. Otherwise, you're maliciously asking me to go through the mental effort of writing up an attack on Trump that you've already decided to ignore and/or counter with some feeble bad faith argument. You're a waste of my time and everybody else's.
Biden is well past his prime, had a shitty performance last night, hate his record on Israel, but I’m still voting for him because he’s not Trump and I’d prefer that our representative democracy continued. Moving to a braindead, functionally illiterate dictatorship just seems like an all-around worse move in every respect. Not sure about his chances, but whatever, there’s not really any other alternative at this point.
If/when they screw up gmail, I’m blacklisting Google for good, that’s gonna be such a goddamn pain to disentangle myself from.
That’s pretty much been the playbook since day one, just shotgun blasts complete bullshit left and right, it’s the equivalent of verbal chaff. Misdirect, confuse, and trip up the opponent so that they have to waste time refuting your BS than actually talking about the facts.
I’m voting for Biden still bc Trump is a piece of shit, but Biden is coming off old and weak in this debate. Trump is lying his ass off about everything and not getting called out on any of it, and because he’s spouting so much of it so quickly rapid-fire, it’s obfuscating and confusing the issues.
prompt: "generate an image of Patrick Bateman as Batman"
Copilot: "create a picture of Marvel's Fantastic Four in Leonardo's the Last Supper painting"
alternates:
Part of these past two elections feels like it's just the hubris of the top candidates, unable to bow out or allow anyone else to stand in for them. 2016 was Clinton psyching herself up to be The First Female President and thinking that Trump was a joke (most of us did see him as a joke candidate and that'd it'd be a cakewalk). I think in Biden's case, he didn't see any other strong mainstream Dem contenders and felt he was the best shot the Dems had at beating Trump. They seem to completely ignore their progressive wing and just assume they need a centrist candidate to have a hope of winning. I just wish he'd change his VP pick, Harris is just dead weight. He needs to shake-up his campaign and pick Stacy Abrams or something (though obviously this didn't work for McCain/Palin).