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Biden closes gap on Trump but third-party candidates pose danger, polls show
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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Your assertion was that
Silence7 pointed out that Biden's State of the Union showed that the 3 years older man had a lot more virility than Trump showed in his Criminal trial.
So, your point of Biden being an old geezer that couldn't keep his eyes open, let alone actually articulate himself, is at odds with the facts here, and Silence7 is pointing this truth out to ... well, not you, who I suspect has a closed mind who benefits from leftie voters being peeled off from Joe Biden, but at least to people who read you and think the 81 year old is too damn old and let this stupid ear-worm get into their head. Sorry it doesn't serve your purposes to have people pointing out to you that the dementia patient is the OTHER guy in this election and Biden is spry for being 81 years old, but them's the facts, and you go to debates with the facts you have, not the ones you wish you had. ;)
Oh I'm not writing for the trolls — I'm writing for bystanders to make the point of how awful the trolls are.
Yeah if America was just honest about the political douloploly then merely being better than the worst option would be a valid strategy.
Unfortunately these pesky third parties seem to provide a better option to part of voterbase, and sadly the poor Democrats still have to compete with them too instead of just settling on being the least mediocre. So sad, so evil.