Today In Biden Land

[TitoFan]

It won't be Hunter Biden that causes Biden to lose, it'll be the media's coverage of Biden and his various issues versus how they cover Trump.

If Hunter Biden was squeaky clean or at least reasonably guiltless... there would be no media coverage of him and his dad, now would there.

It's all down to context. The vast majority of Americans don't pay nearly as much attention to politics as we do. They get a lot of their news from word of mouth and their freinds on social media or whatever. A lot of people only watch the news while they're doing something else, eating or whatever. I don't watch any media but whatever coverage the Hunter Biden issues are getting should be put in context. What happens is that the media show Trump's various issues and Biden's Hunter/age issues and give them fairly equal seriousness.

Only proves my point even further. The dumbing down of America on full display. People are only too happy to grab onto snippets of what they think is trustworthy news. Social media wannabes are the new journalists. Loudmouths like Trump get legions of Minions groveling after their every thickheaded word (just look at a few examples on this forum). So Hunter's indiscretions (and I claim no more inside knowledge of the details than anybody else can) are wonderful fodder for the Trumpeteers. Whereas Biden's age is not some social media construct. It's a reality. IMHO, being well into your 80's while President is just not good policy. You and I have certainly disagreed on what it takes to identify new candidates. But none of that changes the fact that Biden's quickly becoming too old to effectively hold onto the reins of what might still qualify as the most powerful nation in the world.

Even if every word they said about Joe Biden being involved with Hunter is true, and it isn't*, there's no comparison to Trump. I'm not talking about the coup attempt or the various other indictments, I'm talking about graft and grift while in office. Trump uniquely among presidents refused to divest himself of business interests when he became prez. He was running a business that suddenly for the first time went international and had loads of foreign governments and businesses paying him money.

You know this. I know this. But the hordes of mindless Minions that follow Trump like the Pied Piper either don't know this... or know it but don't care. I don't know which is worse.


Trump finished off a process that was already occurring in U.S. society. The dumbing down, polarization, the need for instant information without the background, the importance placed on social media "experts", etc, etc, etc. All of these became incredibly and instantly magnified under Trump. Trump brought out the worst in people... and laughed all the way to the bank. What to call a (cough) President who calls other nations "shithole countries"? What to call a President that generalizes a whole nation as being "rapists and criminals"? What to call a President that makes fun of a disabled person and then lies about it? What to call a President that claims to want to "drain the swamp" and then proceeds to hire nothing but "yes men"? What to call a President who claims to know more about (fill in the blank) than anyone else?

No MAGA fans give a shit about Trump's profiting off the Presidency (him or his family). They just embrace the "us vs. them" mentality that Trump has so gleefully put forth.

So what continues to piss me off is how easily many things about Biden have played into MAGA Minion hands.