Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.

Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasnā€™t joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Bidenā€™s age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.

And after McConnellā€™s second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his ā€œfriendā€ sounded like ā€œhis old selfā€ and that such episodes are a ā€œpart of his recoveryā€ from a fall and a concussion this year.

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    Are we white washing Biden now cause heā€™s a democrat? I thought we agreed not to do that shit.

    Read the book ā€œchasing the screamā€ about the drug war and the police militarization that came with it. Biden used his anecdotal experience about drugs to shove the drug war further down Americaā€™s throat, no matter who it killed or destroyed. Heā€™s a republican in any other free nation, but in the u.s conservatives are Democrats and psychos are Republicans. The lesser of two evils, thatā€™s all he is.

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      There are levels of evil, my dude. Donā€™t throw the baby out with the bath water. Learn nuance. No one wants Biden but to say he is exactly McConnell is inaccurate. Biden is obviously 3 layers of hell above McConnell. Not everything is a binary and there are gray areas. If we waited around for the perfect candidate before we decided on who should run things, we would wait forever in a hell scape because that person doesnā€™t exist. Take what you can and strive towards making things better instead of just saying ā€œwell, everyone is some form of bad so it doesnā€™t matter who we haveā€.

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        The problem is that youā€™re putting Biden on a pedestal while putting McConnell in the gutter. You have to realize theyā€™re on the same level, thatā€™s why theyā€™re so friendly. If I had a co worker who was an evil piece of shit like McConnell I would avoid him like the plague. The fact that theyā€™re buddies is telling, and shows you that the images of themselves theyā€™re putting forward to us is just a game for them. When the cameras are off, theyā€™re hanging out at the same places with the same people.

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          Literally no one is putting Biden on a pedestal. We all know they are garbage people. Thatā€™s not news. I donā€™t know what youā€™re reading, but itā€™s not what Iā€™m saying at all. Biden is a piece of shit, of course. But McConnell is a boiling pot of diarrhea infested with super Ebola. They are literally not the same level of evil. Saying so is ridiculous to a point where I canā€™t take anything you say seriously. Itā€™s like saying Zuko and Iroh were the same person in the first season of Avatar: the Last Airbender. I reiterate you are missing the nuance of it all with statements like yours.

          Disclaimer: I in no way want to compare those two shitholes to Zuko and Iroh in actuality, just using them as an example of two wildly different people working within the same system.

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            I looked at that guys post history that youā€™re responding to, and it reads like post stuffing to hide this screed he has all over this thread that democrats put Biden on a pedestal. I think thereā€™s something fishy with him.