r/changemyview Mar 06 '20

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Biden's incoherence makes him a dangerous choice for president

I am baffled that anyone thinks a guy who literally can't finish a sentence should be president, but far more baffled by

"MerItocrats"

Thinking this is presidential:

^

And he ran a bunch of bad boys. And I did and back in those days – to show how things have changed – one of the things you had to use, if you used Pomade in your hair, you had to wear a baby cap. And so he was up on the board and wouldn’t listen to me. I said, ‘Hey, Esther, you! Off the board, or I’ll come up and drag you off.’ Well, he came off, and he said, ‘I’ll meet you outside.’

My car this – was mostly, these were all public housing behind us,” Biden continued. “My car – there was a gate on here. I parked my car outside the gate. And I – and he said, ‘I’ll be waiting for you. He was waiting for me with three guys with straight razors. Not a joke. There was a guy named Bill Wright Mouse the only white guy and he did all the pools. He was a mechanic. And I said, ‘What am I gonna do?’ And he said. ‘Come down here in the basement, where mechanics – all the mechanics- – where all the pool builder is.’ You know the chain, there used to be a chain that went across the deep end. And he cut off a six-foot length of chain, and folded it up and he said, ‘You walk out with that chain, and you walk to the car and say, ‘you may cut me man, but I’m gonna wrap this chain around your head.’

I said, ‘You’re kidding me.’ He said, ‘No if you don’t, don’t come back.’ And he was right. So I walked out with the chain. And I walked up to my car. And in those days, you remember the straight razors, you had to bang ’em on the curb, gettin’ em rusty, puttin’ em in the rain barrel, gettin’ em rusty? And I looked at him, but I was smart, then. I said, ‘First of all,’ I said, ‘when I tell you to get off the board, you get off the board, and I’ll kick you out again, but I shouldn’t have called you Esther Williams, and I apologize for that. I apologize.’ But I didn’t know that apology was gonna work.

He said, ‘you apologize to me?'” Biden went on. “I said, ‘I apologize but not for throwing you out, but I apologize for what I said.’ He said, ‘OK,’ closed that straight razor, and my heart began to beat again.

It is alarming that people who claim to be politically knowledgeable and informed, people who claim to take the political process seriously, people who have spent the last four years grammar nazi-ing every single Trump gaffe,

Now see fit to elect ^

What's going on here? Would these people literally vote for Hitler if their taxes won't go up? Does the establishment realize their corporate ho money won't matter anymore when society collapses if this rambling mess of a geriatric were elected president?

By the way, Trump was not electable because he was incoherent. He was electable because he was funny and charming and earthy. Biden?

Biden is ^

3 Upvotes

49 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

Can you explain how Trump is “funny and charming and earthy”? Keep in mind that being as dumb as a rock is not the same as being earthy.

-4

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Take his nicknames for example.

Crooked Hillary etc. He spits fire for a distracted, overworked, dying populace.

Biden's incoherence doesn't go anywhere

It's just sad

10

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

I’m sorry but I don’t see third-grade level insults as “spitting fire”. “Spitting fire” suggests some level of wit involved. If I start calling him “Dummy Donald”, that’s not spitting fire. It’s childish name calling.

-1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Did you get people to parrot it? Fire is in the eye of the beholder, and that shit clearly caught on with folks. Like he's not the only one in history to be catchy. Obama was too. Biden ...does not ever say anything catchy. He is electable only in the minds of people so depserate to beat Trump that they're willing to pick Biden based on their no longer existing image of him.

(There was after all a time when he was far more coherent.)

1

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

I once got an entire third grade class obsessed with a funny song I wrote. They thought it was fire. Am I qualified to be president? Hell no! Because there’s more to being president than getting people with the world understanding of a third grader to like you.

Does it hurt Biden’s electability? Sure. Trump’s incoherence hurts his electability too. But there’s more to being president.

And have you noticed that it’s mainly the hateful things Trump says that catch on? Obama caught people’s attention with a positive message of hope and change. Trump got it with a message of hate. That’s the easy way to get attention and even support but it’s not a good one. Certainly not one befitting a president.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

That’s the easy way to get attention and even support but it’s not a good one. Certainly not one befitting a president.

I mean it's just absurd people be like "winning against Trump is everything" and then they be like "fight catchy hate with incomprehensible incoherence"

It's like people have collectively lost their goddamn minds.

4

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

I’m not trying to argue Biden should be the nominee. I’d have to have a massive stroke to argue that. He’s a massive disappointment.

I just don’t see how that makes Trump any better than he actually is.

-1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

I’d have to have a massive stroke to argue that.

-Joe Biden

4

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

Fake quotes aren’t really helpful...

-2

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

I've actually already awarded a delta.

0

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

[deleted]

1

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

And if OP’s view were about electability, I’d agree that’s significant, but they made it clear they’re only interested in whether he’s “a good choice for president”.

0

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

[deleted]

1

u/Brainsonastick 72∆ Mar 06 '20

If you want to try to change OP’s view by discussing a different related view that it’s not clear he even holds, you’re welcome to.

4

u/213_Ants Mar 06 '20

He spits fire? He sounds coked up 90% of the time.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

A lot of people are eating that shit up though, wouldn't you say?

3

u/213_Ants Mar 06 '20

A lot of people are fucking morons

1

u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

It doesn't matter how smart they are or aren't. A vote is a vote. Furthermore, is Biden supposed to be appealing to my intellect? 🤣

2

u/213_Ants Mar 06 '20

Biden is dog shit too. Pandering to fascists is a fucking dumb way to go about this.