President Joe Biden’s dismal showing at the CNN presidential debate against former President Donald Trump resonated around the world, with foreign diplomats expressing shock and concern while raising questions about the implications for a consequential US election that could upend the foreign policy status-quo should Trump be reelected.

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      4 months ago

      I am buoyed by the unanimity of the downvotes

      I actually think it’s 100% true that Biden did a shitty job at the debate, exposing in painfully vivid fashion some flaws we already knew he had. On the other hand, so did Trump. And it’s weird that one side of that equation is getting such a shriekingly loud level of coverage and the other side is getting more or less nothing.

      The couple of polls on 538 since the debate apparently show not much change in people’s sentiment (certainly not any kind of catastrophe that the news is trying to create with its self fulfilling prophecy coverage).

      Keep posting the bullshit guys. I won’t say it won’t work, but at least from what I’ve seen people are mostly downvoting it when it is getting posted here.

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    From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/06/29/european-allies-democrats-replace-biden-stop-trump

    The Telegraph has also spoken to Tory cabinet ministers who have similar concerns”.

    One Cabinet minister told The Telegraph: “It is pretty f—---- scary that those are the best two [candidates] the world’s most powerful nation with a population of 350 million can come up with.”

    These are the geniuses that put forward Truss and Johnson.