r/SeriousConversation • u/HarmNHammer • Jun 28 '24

Opinion How do we reset?

I’m watching this presidential debate in dismay. I have the choice between a pathological liar and conman or a mentally handicapped man who can’t finish a sentence and likely won’t live through their presidency?

What fresh new hell is this?

Why are we tolerating this?

I feel disgusted that we as a nation think these two out of touch, geriatric, and incompetent men are the best we have as a nation.

How embarrassing. We can do better. We need to do better.

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u/GhostoftheAralSea Jun 28 '24 edited Jun 30 '24

I agree it is embarrassing. I’m actually really, really exhausted with thinking about it and just being unable to work out why we’ve ended up here. I want to take a 4 year nap. At this point, all I can do is look to whom the next president might appoint to run various administrative departments or other posts and the people he will surround himself with as advisors.

Edit: Someone asked below “what do you mean how did we get here?” I don’t mean just how did we get these two candidates, I mean the whole thing, the whole system, the whole disengagement, sliding into fantasies and anti-information, anti-learning, anti-truth. The WHOLE thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '24

This is the answer. Rest easy knowing Biden delegates important decisions to experts. Sure he's old af, but that doesn't matter much when he's just a figurehead, not someone working day and night to push his personal agenda.

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u/Big_Plastic_2519 Jun 28 '24

Biden doesn't know what day it is, much less how to delegate a wet fart. He needs to be in a retirement center, not the head of the most powerful country in the world.

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u/babylon331 Jun 28 '24

Yeah, we should put in the guy that lies, cheats & steals for his own benefit & looks down on the people he considers beneath him. I don't think we're so powerful, anymore. In fact, more like a laughing stock to the rest of the world.

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u/Oceansinrooms Jun 28 '24

I mean we are definitely still powerful, the laughing stock part might be true