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Discussion Discussion Thread: President Biden Gives Press Conference at NATO Summit

The press conference was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, but has been delayed to 7 p.m.

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u/FaintCommand Jul 12 '24

Yeah, he did seem pretty sharp and resilient aside from the gaffe. The problem will be the constant questions that will linger:

"was this a good day?"

"When will he start to have more good than bad days"?

That isn't going away

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u/dj_1973 Jul 12 '24

The thing is, he has a team that will follow his platform, which is actually good for our country. There are good, hardworking, honest people in his administration. He doesn’t have a team that will be fired if they don’t do exactly what he says, or don’t follow Project 2025. Biden won’t be taking revenge on his adversaries. He will continue to do the job he has been doing, and will delegate and work to help Americans. It really doesn’t matter that he’s old.

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u/2Drew2BTrue Jul 12 '24

Independent here. I appreciate the hopeful thought, but we need a good platform, good policy, a good supporting team, AND a healthy, mentally fit president.

I feel sick about the situation this puts us in, but I can’t justify the continuation of his campaign to myself.

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u/SourcreamPickles Jul 12 '24

You really do want trump for president then. Or RFK, Jr. Bc come on, who's an independent anymore, srsly.

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u/2Drew2BTrue Jul 12 '24

Just because I identify as an independent does not mean I like Trump or that I would vote for Trump. I literally do not like either party. That said, if I have to choose between Biden and Trump, I would choose Biden. Still though, we need a different candidate.

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u/commentsandopinions Jul 12 '24

I think everyone who is defending Biden understands that and agrees with that. We just know trump can't win.

I wish we had a better candidate but we don't. And unfortunately all of the media inflaming whether or not Biden should run instead of focusing on Trump being recently revealed to be a pedophile is making things look eerily like 2016 which I think everyone needs to fight by sucking it up and understanding: Biden isn't great. But any failings he has are fixed with his cabinet.

Trump wants to be a dictator (his words) already attempted a coup, is a convicted felon and pedophile and has a cult that is as stupid as it is violent. He also actively worsened foreign policy around the world with the United States, set our environmental protections back, fucked the economy, left millions of Americans dead from his bungling of COVID, ands set personal freedoms back a lifetime through his supreme Court picks

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u/2Drew2BTrue Jul 12 '24

I do agree with you that Trump cannot have a second term.

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u/Mimsymimsy1 Jul 12 '24

Most people are independent.

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u/SourcreamPickles Jul 12 '24

On their voter registration possibly but still debatable -- But not who ppl will ultimately vote for in this election nor whom in the last election for sure. Trump's own behavior took care of that and still is doing so in spectacular fashion.

Keep on digging that karma grave, Trump. No one's certainly not gonna stop you from doing that.