• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    There were people googling “did Biden drop out” on election day. His name on the ballot might have been enough.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      Because he hid in a closet for four years, so him dropping out and not campaigning any more wasn’t a noticable difference.

      Seriously, he did a tiny fraction of public appearances, press conferences, anything, that any other president in the modern era.

      The only times we really heard from when he was shuffling from a vehicle into a building, a building into a vehicle, or rare occurrences of one vehicle to another

      That’s not an opinion, it’s quantifiable fact.

      And as we’ve found out in the last week, that was because his age had been an issue for a long time, and he just couldn’t handle stuff like that.

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        18 hours ago

        This was a massive failure of the media to not even attempt to hold a president accountable for lack of presence. If anyone needed more proof the fourth estate is dead, they got it.

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          17 hours ago

          Chris Clizza is probably the single person we could blame it on. And while it took him too long, he did release a YouTube video the other day apologizing for doing with Biden’s age what rightwing media does with pretty much everything about Republicans…

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQKveT8Bzo

          It’s just he’s mostly saying it now because CNN fired him. When he was cashing their checks he didn’t “notice” that he was spreading propaganda.