Joe Biden's gaffe comes as numerous Democrats have abandoned his campaign by calling for him to step aside.
  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
    483·
    4 months ago

    This is honestly the stupidest media frenzy I’ve seen in a long time. They were talking about Putin. He went back to the mic and corrected himself: “He’s fighting to beat Putin, President Zelenskyy!” and Zelenskyy rolled with it.

    This is literally top news on all serious news sites. 🙄There’s no mention of what Zelenskyy said afterward or anything else. It’s even more idiotic than the “Dean Scream”.

    These news outlets are literally just click bait now, and they want anything to be a scandal no matter how small.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      25·
      4 months ago

      And the democrats can’t produce a candidate that’s not gaff prone? What a sorry state of affairs.

      • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        4 months ago

        Who cares if he says the wrong name occasionally? At least he usually corrects himself unlike Trump

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
          21·
          4 months ago

          I honestly wouldn’t care if he wasn’t applying for what is arguably the most important job in the world and I think the “still better than Trump” argument is just setting an extremely low bar.

          I don’t think knowing the difference between Zelensky and Putin is a big ask.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        So you’re voting for the rapist cuz only one of them can get to 270…see how your logic completely falls apart when you realize you have no other choice.

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
          11·
          4 months ago

          I’m not voting for either. I’m not American. I’m just concerned with the shit state of America’s shit choice of candidates for president because of how it affects the rest of the world.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      16·
      4 months ago

      Lemmy: “Trumps a raving lunatic so let’s pretend this is OK and that this is the best candidate that the party can put forward”.

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
      10·
      4 months ago

      And the GOP is low-key planning another one right now, openly discussing it… yet, this is all the media can talk about.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Trump being a raving lunatic doesn’t make it OK to not find a candidate that doesn’t belong in a care home.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        31·
        4 months ago

        No but it does make it ok to vote for Biden. You people act like the administration would be drastically different of Kamala won instead of Biden…get a fucking clue …it would be the same ppl behind the scenes.

  • daryashkoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    4 months ago

    Call me when Biden threatens to withhold military aid unless Zelensky makes up shit about Biden’s political enemies.

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
    17·
    4 months ago

    I have real concerns about Biden’s competency (though don’t get me wrong; I’m voting for whomever the “not Trump” option is), but I have swapped names (or nouns in general) in sentences more times that I care to think about; my mind and mouth aren’t always working at the same speed and it happens sometimes.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      14·
      4 months ago

      You’re not applying for the arguably the most important job in the world. I think “better than Trump tho” is an extremely low bar and actually rather depressing.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    182·
    4 months ago

    Sheesh. You know none of this would be a big deal in isolation, but there is so much pressure on him right now to be perfect after the debate. I don’t really care whether he stays or goes except insofar as it makes it easier or harder to take on Trump, but ordinary human mistakes have taken on a new importance and the more he makes the more the pressure will mount.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
      33·
      4 months ago

      Copium. I hate Trump but this is absolute basics when it comes to world politics.

      It was a huge gaff.

  • GreenBottles@lemmy.world
    111·
    4 months ago

    I care about this about as much as I care about my mother forgetting what day my birthday is (she always gets it a day off) and this has happened since she was in her 30’s… can we focus on things that matter please?

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
      19·
      4 months ago

      Sorry to hear that your mother doesn’t respect her own child enough to make an effort to remember their birthday (calendars have existed for a good long while now). And I fail to see how that excuses a political caste disrespecting its voters by offering a geriatric buffoon and a senile grandpa as the only viable candidates in the election for the highest office in the land.

        • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          On every smartphone, for example.

          Looks like a lot of folks are in a downvoting mood today. Folks who cannot muster any counterpoints to my statements. 🙄

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    4 months ago

    I found a Livestream…

    They’re playing old speeches and they jumped from the 2008 Palin debate to yesterday’s NATO speech…

    Which I guess is better than running his old stuff right up to the live stuff. But it was just so fucking jarring. I don’t know how people can say age isn’t effecting him.

    He’s just staring down at a podium and reading a piece of paper.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        4 months ago

        I get most people don’t remember him at his peak in the 80s, but Obama wasn’t that long ago. Even then, he sounded like a functional adult.

        His press conference was supposed to start at 6:30 I thought, then it said 6:55 at one point…

        It’s 7:07 and he’s still not out.

        I had to switch streams and now it’s just running recent reports on him to kill time, but they’re all bad because there’s no good news…

        I don’t know what’s going on but he needs to get on camera asap.